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Aghaleladia Treasure
Stella is used to getting away with doing almost nothing. But when she is sent to spend some time at her uncle’s house, things suddenly become different. Her cousins have a strange way of doing things, and Stella soon finds herself caught in an experience she never expected. Will her stay at her uncle’s house change her forever?
Julie
A young woman discovers that love can appear when she least expects it. But when an unexpected secret threatens their relationship, she must choose between holding on to the person she loves and protecting her heart.
Miraculous
Ifeoma: The Girl Life Forgot is an emotional story of love, hardship, destiny, and second chances. ❤️ Ifeoma, a poor girl with a painful past, crosses paths with Daniel, a wealthy young man who changes her life before leaving for years. When fate brings them together again, love, secrets, family expectations, and heartbreak threaten to keep two hearts apart. 📖❤️
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When two university students are unexpectedly assigned to share the same room, neither expects their new living arrangement to become complicated. At first, they are just roommates—sharing meals, jokes, secrets, and the occasional argument. But as they spend more time together, an unexpected attraction begins to grow. Soon, friendship starts turning into something deeper. But with campus gossip, jealousy, misunderstandings, family problems, and feelings they are both afraid to admit, their relationship is put to the test. Can two roommates turn their unexpected crush into real love, or will their feelings destroy the friendship they worked so hard to build?
Richard Croft
West Africa, 1720s. The Atlantic slave trade is at its peak - and the grief it produces doesn't disappear. It accumulates. Condenses. Builds bodies. They are called Eaters. Creatures born from suffering that was never witnessed, never mourned, never answered. And they are multiplying faster than the Hunters trained to kill them can keep up. For every Eater destroyed, three more form on the coast. Beneath the Atlantic - assembled from two hundred years of the drowned, the thrown overboard, the ones who jumped - something vast is nearly awake. The only weapon against what's coming is truth, spoken out loud, with witnesses present. The question is whether anyone will survive long enough to speak it.
Veeart
Compound Child by Aribatise Temiloluwa She grew up behind a black gate her father painted every harmattan season, safe from everything except the ordinary business of learning how to be around people. No scandal ever touched her. No single bad night. What she carried instead was quieter than that: eighteen years inside a compound that gave her discipline, faith, and protection, but never once let her practice the small, unremarkable art of walking into a room and staying in it. By the time she reached university, then work, then her thirties, she noticed the cost showing up in places no one had warned her about, the invitations that stopped coming, the friendships other people seemed to grow without effort, the promotions that went to louder, easier voices. Compound Child is a tender, unflinching look at what gets left out when protection becomes the whole of love, and what it takes, even late, to learn the things a locked gate never taught.
Weirdo 💙💙
Same routine. Same procedures. Same result. Yet, zero satisfaction. Zero acknowledgement. Life just keeps repeating with nothing new. It isn’t getting better. It never does. Zainab is a young, promising Nigerian graduate. Talent, purpose, and a degree in her hands. Three years after NYSC, there’s nothing to show for it. People call her “promising” but she can’t see anything promising about herself. Not after her boss promised her a promotion, then sold it to the highest bidder. Yet he still calls her a promising youth. Every morning is a repeat: clock in, smile, survive, clock out. The cycle is safe. It’s also killing her slowly. She tells herself she wants more , impact, growth, respect, but more means risk. And risk means losing the only job she claims to hate. Has she gotten so used to the loop that leaving feels scarier than staying? But what happens when something shifts? Something small, but impossible to ignore. One thing that breaks the whole routine and gives a completely different result. How will Zainab handle this part of her life? Not being able to let go because things might change beyond control, beyond routine. Will she take her chance at a better life, or will the fear of “what if it doesn’t work out" keep holding her back?
Vindex_Writes
Ngozi spent her twenties praying for the right man. When Odinaka came into her life in her early thirties, she believed God had finally answered her. He was everything she had asked for — attentive, kind, and loving. But the man she married behind closed doors was not the man the world saw. What followed were four years of silence, pain, and survival. Four years of walking on eggshells in her own home, cut off from everyone she loved, with no voice and no way out. Flagged is the story of what happens when a woman disappears inside her own marriage — and what it takes to bring her back.
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When final-year student Ethan meets lively freshman Amara during orientation week, he never expects the cheerful newcomer to change his life. Determined to focus on graduating after a painful heartbreak, Ethan keeps his distance, but Amara's warmth and resilience slowly break through the walls around his heart. As their friendship blossoms into love, jealous classmates, a possessive ex, and long-buried family secrets threaten to destroy everything they've built. With graduation approaching and difficult choices ahead, Ethan and Amara must decide whether their love is strong enough to survive the challenges of campus life—or whether the freshman who stole his heart will become the one he loses forever.
Felix King
An African-Korean college student, Chisom Grace Hwang reluctantly volunteered to be part of an international programme that was to hold in Nigeria, the homeland of a father she barely remembered. Since he disappeared from her life when she was seven, and legally declared dead years after, Grace had no strong foundational knowledge about her African cultural heritage, just living the simple Busan girl life, an elite student of Yonsei University. And when she made the decision to board the plane to Lagos with her luggage packed and ready, she thought all life had to offer was Kimchi and Bibimbap. Welcome to the 3rd Annual Global Heritage Story Project. For the first two weeks of the summer programme, she cried home, longing for the comfort of her sofa in Haeundae, too homesick to appreciate the tropical climate, and vibrant culture that Nigeria offered. But then things changed. what turned to be an activity to build her resumé and perhaps network turned into something life changing. From Lagos to Enugu, and then in the bustling streets of Onitsha, Grace came to realize that when Kimchi met Jollof, she finally found the missing half of herself. She got to learn about her culture, taste dishes that satisfied her buds, attempt to speak her dialect as fluent as she could, connect with her cousins, and relatives. And then she found an answer to a question, she had long forgotten she asked. The very question, that kept her up at night, and of course, no one answered And there she was standing at the greatest turning point of her life, facing a choice she never imagined she would make, continue living the comfortable life she had always known, or follow what could finally lead her to the father the world believed was dead.
Inkhorn
Chief Emmanuel “Manni” Nimley has everything including wealth, power, and the admiration of an entire nation. But when his children begin suffering terrifying supernatural attacks whenever they pursue success, a decades-old secret rises from the depths of the Kru coast. Long ago, Manni traded the destinies of his unborn children for unimaginable riches. Now, the ancient covenant has returned to collect. To save the family he loves, he must sacrifice the one thing money can never buy back his legacy. The Price of Gold is a gripping African supernatural thriller of ambition, betrayal, redemption, and the devastating cost of choosing wealth over blood. Some fortunes make kings. Others demand a price no family should ever have to pay.
Sophia
On a stormy Friday evening in Lagos, Tunde, a 28-year-old commercial bus conductor, boards the last bus heading toward Ikorodu after another exhausting day. Burdened by unpaid rent, his mother's hospital bills, and the responsibility of caring for his younger siblings, he wonders how much longer he can survive. As passengers hurriedly disembark at the final stop, Tunde notices a black leather bag tucked beneath one of the seats. Curious, he opens it and is stunned to find millions of naira in neatly bundled cash, along with documents revealing that the money is intended for an emergency surgery for a little girl suffering from a life-threatening heart condition. For the first time in his life, Tunde holds enough money to solve every problem he has ever faced. No one saw him pick up the bag. No one would suspect him. The night becomes a battle between desperation and conscience. Friends encourage him to keep the money, insisting that fate has finally smiled on him. But every time he imagines spending it, he remembers the face of a child whose life depends on that bag reaching its rightful owner. Determined to do the right thing, Tunde embarks on a frantic search across Lagos before the surgery deadline expires. Along the way, he encounters dishonest people eager to exploit him, unexpected allies who restore his faith in humanity, and difficult choices that test his integrity. When he finally reunites the family with the missing money, he expects nothing in return. Instead, his honesty captures national attention, opening doors to opportunities he never imagined.
