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Why Some Animals Are Considered Sacred in African Traditions
Pamilerin
Some animals are considered sacred in african traditions, let's find out.
The ghost under the udara tree
Obi_Ogbuehi
Growing up in the rural hinterlands of Eastern Nigeria, every child knew the tale of a ghost guarding the sweetest udara trees. This is one such tale, a haunting memory from the days of a simple rural childhood.
The mother who wasn’t
Nilla
The Mother Who Wasn’t After years of struggling to become a mother, Emily finally gets pregnant—only to suffer three heartbreaking miscarriages. Giving up on having a child of her own, she pours all her love into her husband’s two daughters, Lily and Sophie. But just when Emily begins to believe she has finally found peace, a secret from Daniel’s past threatens to tear their family apart. A story of loss, love, betrayal, and the beautiful truth that being a mother isn’t always about giving birth.
The Girl Child in the Society
Ms. Collet
The average girl child is full of potential. She is curious, observant, and learns quickly from the world around her. At school, she balances books, friendships, and responsibilities. She asks questions, dreams big, and often carries the weight of expectations from family and society. She faces challenges — sometimes self-doubt, pressure to be "perfect," and limited opportunities. But she also shows resilience. She adapts, supports her friends, and finds creative ways to express herself through art, words, sports, or ideas. More than anything, the average girl child is not just "average." She is a student, a leader in the making, a daughter, and a future decision-maker. With education, encouragement, and equal chances, she can shape her own path and contribute meaningfully to her community.
The Bride Who Was Never Meant to Live
ADEDEJI
“They call it a curse. I call it a lie someone has been protecting for twenty-two years — and I am the price.” When Amara Adeyemi comes home to Ijesun to bury her father, she braces herself for grief, not for the truth that arrives with it: every firstborn daughter in her bloodline has died before her twenty-third birthday for four generations straight. Hers is next. She tells herself it is superstition, the kind of story villages tell to explain bad luck. Then a woman in white starts waiting for her by the river at dusk. Then someone knocks three times on her bedroom door, every night, at the same hour. Then she finds a photograph of herself — taken before she was born. Kelechi, the chief's only son, is the one person in Ijesun who looks at her like she isn't already a ghost. He is also the one person she has been warned, by everyone who loves her, never to trust. As they dig into her family's past together, Amara falls for him one careful inch at a time — even as the truth around her grows teeth. Because the deeper they go, the clearer it becomes: the curse was never written by her family. It was written by his. Some secrets were never meant to survive the truth. Neither, everyone in Ijesun believed, was Amara.
When Amala meets Kimchi
Veeart
Sarah goes to Seoul for a fellowship. She leaves with a Korean grandmother's approval, a new nickname, and a man who thinks jollof rice is dangerous. A light, funny romance about food, distance, and falling in love in two languages.
Stella The Lazy Girl
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?
Compound Child
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.
The Price of Gold
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.
The Bag Beneath Seat 14
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.
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I wish it was longer 🔥🔥🔥 it’s such a captivating read. Way to go Queeneth.
you had me through this story Presh.. well done tho........
I’m terrified for what happens when Emeka walks into that courtroom
If Emeka chooses the uniform over Chidi, I will never forgive him
the synopsis had me.. well done Presh
This book perfectly captures how institutional loyalty can corrupt good people.
Blood vs. Brotherhood. What a brutal choice to make.
So interesting ....
I honestly don't know how Emeka was sleeping at night. Carrying a secret like that must have been a literal nightmare.