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When Nkem, an economics students at Heineken University, moves back to Nigeria from the United States after many months of ASUU strike in his country, a melodramatic war with Dr Okoye his beer- obsessed lecturer begins. The alcoholic has slept with Chioma, the boy's girlfriend, in exchange for good grades, Cabin biscuits and bread. And infuriatingly, the bread is not buttered, according to the painter called Ifenna who's Nkem's effeminate room...

Yamtarawala, the Warrior King is a historical drama that revisits the socio-political convulsions in 16th century Kanem-Bornu Empire, where leadership tussle by two princes led to the breaking away of the elder son, Yamtarawala, with72 loyalists, in search of a new empire in Nigeria to dominate. With historical echoes in ancient Yemen and north African civilisations, the tragic play, which captures the intrigues of traditional warfare and the ...

Nollywood actor, Uche Mbadiegwu leaves his Surulere neighborhood in Lagos, to Bandra in Mumbai to join Bollywood, so he could make it big, hoping to play exceptional roles. Like a flash, Periwinkle appears in his life and changes everything. Tired of living in a pigsty, Efemena want to live a life of independence, but there is more to being a Nigerian in Mumbai - a constant escape from the Indian police and narcotics agents. This novel is...

Over most of the course of an award-laden 10-years in Journalism, David Hundeyin has dedicated himself to telling Nigeria's most forbidden stories in a uniquely ferocious voice that has earned him a huge following and a long list of powerful enemies. This 1-man mission to peel back decades of necrosis in Nigerian journalism has made him contemporary Nigeria's most recognisable journalist as well as one of its most controversial personalities.

When a struggling Nigerian writer accepts an offer to help a prospective benefactor locate an estranged son, he does not realize that the seemingly easy task would lure him deep into a web of conspiracies played by a ruthless cult leader, a vengeful retired hit man, and a sly fellow, all brought together by a kidnap-for-ransom deal gone sour.

The Lake Goddess came to be Flora Nwapa's last novel, yet possibly her most important one, as it restores African culture and spirituality. "Nwapa's message is clear: she-Ona/Ogbuide/woman-may have many children, but she also independently succeeds in her own life, and she is a source of healing and inspiration to all human beings suffering from the ills and madness of modern society worldwide. The goddess whom Nwapa invoked finally reemerges ...

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A young Haitian, Jean Claude, loses his parents in the earthquake that shattered Port-au-Prince in 2010. He is taken to an orphanage in France - a place that will shatter his memory. Then, he finds his way to the University of Oxford, Where he is arrested for trying to read at Weston Library. What is his crime in life? Nwelue's unusual character explores problems affecting Africa, childhood memories, religion, colonialism. There's infusion of...

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My dearest Sibling in Diaspora, I'm writing you these letters from Africa, a place described as a jungle by Pink people. It was from there that your great-grandfathers and mothers were shipped away to lands culturally different from theirs. They were forced into outfits that were strange to them. They were made to live in a different climate, against their will They were mullioned, decorated and a new life festered on them. A very different l...

Rajaswamy Rajagopalan, a Tamil Brahmin essayist is totally in love and happy with his East Nigerian Christian wife, Eunice Onwubiko. But there is a threat to their nine year-old marriage.On a trip to Nigeria from India, David, their only son travels in dreams with an albino dwarf, Nfanfa. A brain illness develops in David and this (alongside the mass deportation of Indians from Nigeria) sets the two families, Rajagopalan and Onwubiko crashing ...

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An ambitious young banker's stable but uninteresting life is disrupted when he comes across a book of fiction. recounting torrid experiences he lived through as an undergraduate. The banker is Peter Idenala, the writer is Neta Okoye. the girl who broke his heart six years before. When the book brings them together, these former lovers are forced to confront the violence of their past, Peter bears a physical scar from those years. Netas scars a...

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Born in the rural town of Ezeoke, South East Nigeria, Onyeka, a defiantly ambitious boy would drop out of the university to embrace a life of fame and infamy. Excitingly deviant and creatively rebellious, his journey towards self discovery would see him cross paths with elites and legendary figures, both at home and abroad. His struggles are messy and controversy trails his every step. He chases his goals with ruthlessness of a wildling, and m...

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