Featured Books
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Ambivalent Encounters
By James Yeku
In Ambivalent Encounters and Other Essays, James Yeku? speaks powerfully from his personal experiences as a writer and academic living outside a homeland he sometimes recaptures through his poetry and scholarship.
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Imagination’s Many Rooms
$ 21.99By Amatoritsero Ede
Nonfiction/Memoir | Paperback | ISBN: 9781777688493
Imagination’s Many Rooms is a well-crafted collection of bristling essays on different but related subjects. Partly socio-political and literary commentary, partly a young poet’s reminiscences and encounters with global literary and cultural icons, the individual pieces are thematically grouped into sections in an organic anthology. It is written in a highly arresting style, with two of the pieces being essayistic conversations with a dead Canadian writer and a dead Nigerian scholar-poet respectively.
These essays first appeared in the Maple Tree Literary Supplement (MTLS) literary journal in slightly different forms as editorials for specific editions of the Ezine. The essay, “The Example of Mandela” is anthologized as “The Peaceful “Trouble!” in Mandela: Tributes to a Global Icon (Falola 2014).
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Wish Maker
$ 24.99By Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike
Juvenile Fiction (Chapter Book) | Hardcover | ISBN: 9781738699377
Ebele wishes he and his widowed mother would have a memorable Christmas with lots of presents. With his mother barely able to afford food and his friends mocking him, Ebele is afraid that he might not get any presents at all. When a strange man comes to town, Ebele opens his heart and home reluctantly. In return, the stranger teaches him there is more to Christmas than just gifts and that kindness is a virtue rewarded by great fortune.
WISH MAKER tells the story of Ebele, a 9-year-old boy whose widowed mother can’t afford to grant his wish for a bicycle. His friends cannot wait to show off their Christmas presents to Ebele, and they delight in making fun of him because he and his mother are poor. Unable to stand their taunting, Ebele considers hiding indoors during Christmas but meets a quirky, annoying, smelly stranger who claims to be an angel. The stranger, however, makes him realize his wish could come true only if they went fishing in the river where his father died. WISH MAKER is a blend of magic and realism set during Christmas week in a riverine village in southeast Nigeria. By turns sad and funny, it explores themes such as peer pressure, fear, kindness, hope, courage, and friendship.
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A Place Beyond The Heart
$ 25.99By Ireh Iyioha
Fiction/Short Stories | Paperback | ISBN: 9781738699339
A Place Beyond the Heart is a collection of short stories exploring issues at the intersection of war and love, terror and (dis)order, as well as identity, gender, and sexuality. The stories capture the lives of people facing personal, societal and transcultural challenges that define, transform, and ultimately create shifts in the way they see and experience the world. These transformations—uplifting, heartrending and sometimes rebellious—unfold in diverse contexts where love, acceptance and tenderness find expression in the most difficult settings, including battlefields, war-ravaged towns, a jailhouse and intangible rooms in a future world.
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Don’t Answer When They Call Your Name
$ 19.99By Ukamaka Olisakwe
YA Fiction | Paperback | ISBN: 9781738699322 | Pages: 144
When the streams suddenly run dry in Ani Mmadu, the people know it is time to atone for a sin that goes back to the very beginning of their world, the consequence of the rebellion of one woman against the all-powerful and unforgiving, jealous god. To avert this catastrophe and for the waters to flow and nourish the farms again, the people must send a child of Aja, chosen by the Oracle, into the Forest of Iniquity, to atone for that great sin. It falls on young Adanne to save her people this time. But the Ajas sent into the dreaded forest tend never to return. Is Adanne the long-awaited one who will buck the trend and end the suffering of her people? This is an extraordinary novel bursting with kaleidoscopic worlds and beings. It is a feat of the imagination from a born storyteller.
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A Place Beyond The Heart
$ 25.99By Ireh Iyioha
Fiction/Short Stories | Paperback | ISBN: 9781738699339
A Place Beyond the Heart is a collection of short stories exploring issues at the intersection of war and love, terror and (dis)order, as well as identity, gender, and sexuality. The stories capture the lives of people facing personal, societal and transcultural challenges that define, transform, and ultimately create shifts in the way they see and experience the world. These transformations—uplifting, heartrending and sometimes rebellious—unfold in diverse contexts where love, acceptance and tenderness find expression in the most difficult settings, including battlefields, war-ravaged towns, a jailhouse and intangible rooms in a future world.
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African Urban Echoes
$ 22.99By Jide Salawu
Edited By Rasaq Malik
For more than two decades, poetry anthologies in African literature have navigated the shared world of African identity or living in the continent of Africa without capturing comprehensively the lifeworld of African cities. African Urban Echoes is a gathering of poets, including notable Canadian poets such as Jumoke Verissimo, Uchechukwu Umezurike, James Yeku and the Griffin Poetry Prize winner, Tolu Oloruntoba, that seek to contribute to the echoes of resistance, hope, and anxieties all produced simultaneously by African urban centers in their polyvalences and unique characters. -
Ambivalent Encounters
By James Yeku
In Ambivalent Encounters and Other Essays, James Yeku? speaks powerfully from his personal experiences as a writer and academic living outside a homeland he sometimes recaptures through his poetry and scholarship.
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Believers and Hustlers
By Sylva Nze Ifedigbo
Fiction | Paperback | ISBN: 978-1777688486 | Pages: 330
Lagos megachurch Pastor, Nicholas Adejuwon is a very ambitious man desperate to erase a past that has scarred his mind. His beautiful wife Nkechi has reasons to secretly snoop on him following a series of indiscretions that threaten their marriage and superstardom. When Nkechi uncovers some scandalous secrets, she turns to Ifenna, a young journalist turned blogger who has a history with her husband, to make them public, changing her reality as she knew it in the process…
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By His Grace: An Anthology of Awesome Testimonies
$ 23.99 Available August 15, 2025.By Sydney Ukonu
Published by: Griots Lounge Publishing Canada
Imprint: Griots Lounge Publishing
In what appears to be masterfully written, this second edition of the bestseller is a showcase of the prowess of the author and his strong reign over his history. By His Grace: An Anthology of Awesome…
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Dear Algorithm
$ 25.99 Available April 1, 2025.By Michael Afenfia
Two sisters living in two different cities, one in Port Harcourt, Nigeria and the other in Saskatoon, Canada have big announcements to make to their parents about marriage and finding love. While the older sister, Mondi appeared unsure of where she stood between convention and what she desired, her younger sister Yola was all set for an extreme adventure that threatened to tear their family apart.
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Don’t Answer When They Call Your Name
$ 19.99By Ukamaka Olisakwe
YA Fiction | Paperback | ISBN: 9781738699322 | Pages: 144
When the streams suddenly run dry in Ani Mmadu, the people know it is time to atone for a sin that goes back to the very beginning of their world, the consequence of the rebellion of one woman against the all-powerful and unforgiving, jealous god. To avert this catastrophe and for the waters to flow and nourish the farms again, the people must send a child of Aja, chosen by the Oracle, into the Forest of Iniquity, to atone for that great sin. It falls on young Adanne to save her people this time. But the Ajas sent into the dreaded forest tend never to return. Is Adanne the long-awaited one who will buck the trend and end the suffering of her people? This is an extraordinary novel bursting with kaleidoscopic worlds and beings. It is a feat of the imagination from a born storyteller.
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Double Wahala, Double Trouble
$ 24.95by Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike
Fiction/Short Stories | Paperback | ISBN: 9781777688400 | Pages: 202
A woman chops off her finger to demonstrate her fidelity to her lover. A mother loses her mind upon discovering that her husband has left her and their only child. An artist seeks to unravel why his neighbour’s face enchants him. A passenger on a bus acts as an emissary of death. Meet some of the characters in Double Wahala Double Trouble, a collection of eleven stories by the award-winning poet, short story writer, children’s novelist, and literary scholar. In this stunning collection, Umezurike lures the reader into a journey of the absurd and the grisly to show us men and women struggling to live, desire, love, and thrive against the eddy of troubles in their world.
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Fretwire
$ 20.99By Uche Nduka
- Language : English
- Paperback : 106 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1777688469
- ISBN-13 : 978-1777688462
- Item Weight : 1 kg 50 g
- Dimensions : 13.97 x 0.64 x 21.59 cm
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Imagination’s Many Rooms
$ 21.99By Amatoritsero Ede
Nonfiction/Memoir | Paperback | ISBN: 9781777688493
Imagination’s Many Rooms is a well-crafted collection of bristling essays on different but related subjects. Partly socio-political and literary commentary, partly a young poet’s reminiscences and encounters with global literary and cultural icons, the individual pieces are thematically grouped into sections in an organic anthology. It is written in a highly arresting style, with two of the pieces being essayistic conversations with a dead Canadian writer and a dead Nigerian scholar-poet respectively.
These essays first appeared in the Maple Tree Literary Supplement (MTLS) literary journal in slightly different forms as editorials for specific editions of the Ezine. The essay, “The Example of Mandela” is anthologized as “The Peaceful “Trouble!” in Mandela: Tributes to a Global Icon (Falola 2014).
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Leave My Bones In Saskatoon
$ 25.99By Michael Afenfia
Fiction | Paperback | ISBN: 9781777688479 |
Seen through the eyes of Owoicho, a television presenter seeking a better life for himself and his family, Leave My Bones in Saskatoon spans two cultures and continents. It is honest, heartfelt and enlightening. The story begins with good news from Owoicho. He cannot wait to tell his family that their permanent residency application to Canada was successful. But while he was in Abuja, happy about this breakthrough, somewhere in the outskirts of Makurdi, a dark and troubling event threatens to torpedoe all the plans he and his wife, Ene had of moving their family to Saskatoon. We also meet Ochanya, the teenage daughter of Owoicho who has to deal with the twin shock of losing close family and the unavoidable transition from girl to adolescence that pitches her against the people that love and care for her the most. With everything Owoicho and Ochanya have to deal with, do they still make it out to Canada as planned and whose bones are in Saskatoon?
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Sons of the East
$ 27.99By Ifeoma Chinwuba
Fiction | Paperback | ISBN: 9781738699308 | Pages: 396
The seven-year apprenticeship of Jasper Okonkwo has finally ended. He sets up a shop in the bustling city of Lagos, aiming to climb the social circles and be reckoned with. But he has not reckoned with his older brother, the envious, greedy, and malicious Zona, who is hellbent on being the lone star in the Okonkwo household. The agitation of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) for independence erupts. The Nigerian government begins to clamp down mercilessly on the dissidents. It is the opportunity that Zona is waiting for.
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Teardrops on the Weser
$ 20.99By Amatoritsero Ede
Poetry | Paperback | ISBN: 9781777275693 | Pages: 66
A masterful evocation of past wrongs through the lens of a seductively peaceful present. Amatoritsero Ede”s meditative voice seduces us into a voyeuristic trance on a German river bank. Until we are suddenly awakened to the realisation that the “teardrops” are not for the Weser but for the burden of history carried all the way to Africa and beyond. A compelling read.
– Olive Senior
Here”s poetry at its best. Here’s a collection that astounds with the freshness of its imagery and the ripple and flow of its lyricism. Like the river of its title, it runs non-stop through the reader’s mind. This is a collection to return to over and over again.
– Helon Habila, Award-winning, novelist and poet.
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The Rights of Indigenous Peoples Explained
$ 27.99By Summer Okibe
Nonfiction | Hardcover | ISBN: 9781738699315 | Pages: 40
Hey Child, I am excited to simplify the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) for you. You are special and you deserve to know that the Indigenous People around you have rights. You should, at all times, respect and acknowledge their rights.
