The Wedding Party
What happens when you throw in an insecure virgin bride, a reformed playboy groom, two over bearing mothers who can’t stand each other, one philandering husband, a high strung wedding…
Stay with me – Ayobami Adebayo
Set in Nigeria, this novel gives voice to both husband and wife as they tell the story of their marriage–and the forces that threaten to tear it apart. Yejide and…
Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The story of two Nigerians making their way in the U.S. and the UK, raising universal questions of race and belonging, the overseas experience for the African diaspora, and the…
Castle & Castle
A law series that follows the story of a married couple, ‘Remi Castle’ and her husband ‘Tega’ – two lawyers who run a successful practice in Lagos. They met 20…
Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
A non-fiction book that deals with the themes of poverty, the challenges faced by women trying to achieve their aims in life and the struggles they have to undertake to…
Black Moses – Alain Mabanckou
A novel described as “Oliver Twist in 1970s Africa” (Les Inrockuptibles) from “Africa’s Samuel Beckett . . . one of the continent’s greatest living writers” (The Guardian). It’s not easy…
Official Barber Shop Chronicles
Official Barber Shop Chronicles by Inua EllamsPremieres 14 May 2020 Barber Shop Chronicles is Inua Ellams’ smash-hit play about the places where banter can be barbed, and the truth always…
Blood & Water
After crossing paths at a party, a Cape Town teen sets out to prove whether a private-school swimming star is her sister who was abducted at birth. Award-winning South African…
The Rose Petal Beach – Dorothy Koomson
A complex tale of a terrible crime cleverly told by three female narrators. Is it an affair . . . or something much worse? Tami’s husband, Scott, has just been arrested…
The Cape Cod Bicycle War and Other Stories By Billy Kahora
The short stories and novella that make up The Cape Cod Bicycle War and Other Stories explore the tensions and transitions of characters moving between youthful folly and a precarious adulthood. In…
AFRIKATHON 2020
The time is now – sign up to the largest Pan African Hackathon and join the mission to evolve the next generation of learners and inventors in Africa Register here:…