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The Fisher Boy
Kwaku, always vague about his unusual past, opens up about his beginnings as an orphan and fishing slave that overcomes those difficult circumstances.
In his life, he encountered the most evil in people but also the good. His indomitable spirit and faith in the Supreme Being allowed him to achieve the impossible. You will experience despair, anger, joy, and inspiration through Kwaku’s story.₵24.00The Fisher Boy
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Our Ancestories Bookset: Idia of the Benin Kingdom, Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba Plus Coloring & Activity Books (4 books)
Age Range: 4 – 12 years
- Children’s Africana Book Awards (CABA) – 2021 Winner – Best Books for Young Children
- Wishing Shelf Book Award – 2020 Finalist
- Kidsshelf Book Cover Award -2020 Winner
- Eric Hoffer Award – Honourable Mention (Children’s Category) First Horizon Finalist Grand Prize Short List
The complete set of the Our Ancestories books. Our picture books as well as accompanying workbooks on Queen Idia and Njinga. These are stories of hope and courage that show every young girl is capable of greatness.
There is a deep divide between the truth of African history and the common understanding of it. Our Ancestories Bookset helps to bridge this gap through various means including stories about two African female leaders and accompanying activity and colouring books.
This set includes:
Idia of the Benin Kingdom (Our Ancestories)
Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba (Our Ancestories)
Idia of the Benin Kingdom: Coloring and Activity Book (Our Ancestories)
Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba: Coloring and Activity Book (Our Ancestories)
Our Ancestories’ vision is to nudge the world towards a point where:
- There is an avid learning culture for African history.
- People of African descent are at least as exposed to African history as we are to Western history.
- Africans look more to our history as we pave a way for the future.
- Legends that make up African history are mainstream and are introduced to children across the globe.
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The Temptation and Other Stories
Vincent was only nine years old when it happened. His friend, Mickey, always had money on him. Where did he get the money from?
One day, Vincent saw his sister’s bag in the room. What was in that bag? Maybe there was money in that bag! That was when the temptation started.
This story, like the others in this book, has a lot of lessons to teach us about the kinds of friends we need to have.
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Solace
Solace was a happy child until her mother died. She was left in the care of her heartless step-mother and unsympathetic biological father. She grew up searching for love in all the wrong places, which landed her into a lot of trouble.
She was easily manipulated by men because she was denied the love and affection of her father when she was a child. She ended up being the concubine of a married man. Although her business innovations turned her into a very rich woman, her wealth was not able to release her from her bondages.
For without the Supreme One, how can one truly be free?
₵24.00Solace
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Queen of Sorrow
In the great kingdom of Adeborm a beautiful princess is born to occupy the throne . . . But an old prophecy must be fulfilled—the princess dies on her sixth birthday. Will the queen ever occupy the throne?
₵18.00Queen of Sorrow
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Sick Village
The Dumasi Hospital was full of people. Many people in the village were sick. They didn’t know why. Some months later, the health inspectors visited the village once again after reading a newspaper report. The “Sick Village” has now turned into the “New Village”. What caused the great transformation?
₵18.00Sick Village
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Old Vulture and the Rainbow
A terrible storm is coming. Old Vulture’s life is in danger, as he stands high on the silk cotton tree. Little birds come to warn him of the impending danger. Will his life be spared? Or will he forfeit his life to the storm?
₵15.00Old Vulture and the Rainbow
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Danger in Town
The chief called a meeting at Tongu. Something terrible was happening in the town, and everybody’s life was in serious danger.
A deadly disease had hit the town and there was need to live carefully₵18.00Danger in Town
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Birago and Grandmother
Birago loses her parents early in life. She lives with her grandmother in her parents’ house. But her grandmother too passes away, and an aunt moves in to stay with her. Later, the aunt tries to sell the house, but her long-forgotten uncle returns from abroad and everything changes.
₵18.00Birago and Grandmother
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Rose and the Burma Sky
A gripping and intimate historical novel of a black soldier’s experience in the Second World War – a rare and moving tale of love and sacrifice.
One war, one soldier, one enduring love
1939: In a village in south-east Nigeria on the brink of the Second World War, young Obi watches from a mango tree as a colonial army jeep speeds by, filled with soldiers laughing and shouting, their buttons shining in the sun. To Obi, their promise of a smart uniform and regular wages is hard to resist, especially as he has his sweetheart Rose to impress and a family to support.
Years later, when Rose falls pregnant to another man, his heart is shattered. As the Burma Campaign mounts, and Obi is shipped out to fight, he is haunted by the mystery of Rose’s lover. When his identity comes to light, Obi’s devastation leads to a tragic chain of unexpected events.
In Rose and the Burma Sky, Rosanna Amaka weaves together the realities of war, the pain of first love and how following your heart might not always be the best course of action. Its gritty boy’s-eye view brings a spare and impassioned intensity, charging it with universal resonance and power.
₵150.00Rose and the Burma Sky
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The Cabal
Bako Thomas lives a solitary life, a calm centre in an increasingly unstable world. The City outside his apartment is sliding towards a dystopia as a fuel crisis holds citizens to ransom. He is down to his final chance with Avé, his girlfriend of two years, and his relationships with his neighbours, The Law, Gebu and Mimi is fraught with anxiety and tension. When a tragedy forces him to go on the run, he soon finds himself being roped into the murky world of politics and corruption he thought he had left behind for good.
₵125.00The Cabal
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No Be From Hia
A homecoming tale of a family brought together by migration and torn apart by tragedy and secrets. In a search for identity, love and acceptance – two ordinary girls travel from London to Lusaka to Lagos in order to save their family and discover their destiny.
Meet the Ayomides and the Kombes – Zambian-Nigerian-Jamaican powerhouse families brought together during the post-colonial migration of the 1960’s to the UK – and later separated by death, divorce and betrayal. Scattered between London, Lusaka, and Lagos, only the new generation can save this family.
Maggie Ayomide and Bupe Kombe are cousins on either side of the world who couldn’t be more different. Zambian-Nigerian and Zambian-Jamaican, both yearn for their disbanded family to reunite. When Bupe leaves Brixton to go to secondary school in Zambia, she brings light and disorder to Maggie’s world. However, the girls are hindered by dark family secrets such as the mysterious death of their late grandmother, and Maggie’s missing Nigerian father.
From the blazing streets of Brixton riots to multi-party elections in Zambia to glitzy Independence Day celebration and adventurous nightclubs in Lagos, this heartwarming story breathes life into the modern-day result of postcolonial Africa and 20th Century migration as it follows two ordinary girls trying to find their identity and reunite their family.
₵185.00No Be From Hia
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Adisa: A Lost Hope
Age Range: 8 – 12 years
After years of trying to conceive, Mr and Mrs Salifu are blessed with a beautiful and intelligent daughter, Adisa. All is well until she meets the deceitful Ben Brisco who takes her life on a downward turn.
This short story summarises the vulnerability of many young girls and women who are often lured into unhealthy relationships and are trafficked to work under horrible circumstances, sometimes even as sex slaves. The damage done these people is sometimes irreparable and can mar them for life.
The story emphasises the need to educate girls very early on in their development, to be cautious in their love relationships especially with men who may seem too good to be true.
₵20.00Adisa: A Lost Hope
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Saro
On a visit to the coast of Marina, Lagos, Siwoolu and his young family are lured by a traitor to a grand merchant ship where they are captured by slaveholders masquerading as traders. On the way to the new world, they are rescued by abolitionists on a British naval ship and sent to Freetown, a haven for freed slaves.
They settle in their new home, grow their family, and become successful merchants, trading goods between Freetown and Eko. Dotunu, Siwoolu’s wife, falls in love with another man and is caught in a love triangle. But their lives are upended again when they hear that the kingdom has selected the traitor as king. Siwoolu, content with his new life, yet fearful of a curse that lurks in the shadows, refuses to return, but Dotunu is determined to keep the traitor from the throne. She turns to their son, Oșolu, who is running from his own demons, to seize the throne that is rightfully theirs.
Saro is a multigenerational tale of betrayal and restitution, love and war, inspired by true events that will take the reader from the rocky terrain of Abeokuta and the burgeoning city of Lagos to the lion mountains of Freetown and Hastings of Sierra Leone from the 1830s to the 1850s.
₵110.00Saro
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Victims of Circumstance
Victims of Circumstance is based on the Igbo cultural practice of Osu Caste system. In the course of the narrative, the descendants of Ezeako automatically become Osu-outcasts-following the sacrifice of their father, Ezeako, to an oracle of Ogwugwu.
Having assumed this status, the Ezeako children who have now become a village (Umuezeako) are no longer treated as free citizens but rather as social outcasts.
This discrimination culminates in the collapse of the relationship between Ego and Nduka.
₵20.00Victims of Circumstance
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