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Romeo Oriogun

Sacrament of Bodies

In this groundbreaking collection of poems, Sacrament of Bodies, Romeo Oriogun fearlessly interrogates how a queer man in Nigeria can heal in a society where everything is designed to prevent such restoration. With honesty, precision, tenderness of detail, and a light touch, Oriogun explores grief and how the body finds survival through migration.

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Romeo Oriogun

The Origin of Butterflies

The Origin of Butterflies was awarded the 2017 Brunel price.

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Jude Idada

Boom Boom

Osaik is an eight-year-old boy. He is charming and has an unusual ability to hear things no one else hears. His world is thrown into disarray when a debilitating disease takes his mother from him.

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Dami Ajayi

Clinical Blues

Clinical Blues is a moveable feast of ideas, recollections, aspirations and apparitions of desire in the collective but submerged consciousness of the new Africa. Dami Ajayi, on the basis of this collection follows in a great tradition of medical doctors who were writers, and is also able to catch the inflections of Anglo-American modernisms

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Obibinii Te Ase

In honor of Ghana’s 60th independence anniversary, we have put together a special anthology to show new writing from Ghana. Inside the anthology are interesting and thought provoking fiction, poetry and an interview.

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My Africa, My City

An Anthology dedicated to telling African Stories about African cities by African writers through short stories, essays, poetry and photography.

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Olubunmi Familolu

Smithereens of Death

Smithereens of Death provides varying continental themes. The writer weaves parody and conflict into unforgettable stories that challenge the reader to see beneath the blurred lines of familiar experiences. In Familoni’s stories,

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Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo

This American Life Sef

America has a way of surprising people who leave other parts of the world to make America home. Whatever their expectations may be, America finds a way to intervene and interpret those expectations. These are the stories of Africans who have made that historic journey and the transformations their lives went through as a result

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Yemi Ajagbe

Morounmubo

Morounmubo explores the harrowing social, physical, mental and psychological abuse suffered by the female gender in a highly patriarchal society. The play highlights the dangers the girl-child goes through at home, in school and the society at large. These abuses often damage the psyche of its victims and gives them a negative perception towards men and life as a whole.

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Osita Obi

Rage of the Sea Lion

Akum is a young man well-groomed in the art of surviving precariously. His will to tackle every odd pitted against him is manifested very early in life when he assumes the role of the breadwinner in his family just after his father's death.

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