Billie James' inheritance isn't much: a little money and a shack in the Mississippi Delta. The house once belonged to her father, a renowned black poet who died unexpectedly when Billie was four years old. Though Billie was there when the accident happened, she has no memory of that day - and she ha..
When Ajala is not escaping an assassination attempt and dodging the bullets of eager security agents around the Duke of Edinburgh in Sydney, he is crashing his scooter, amid a hail of gunfire, through a border between Jordan and Israel—or he is cutting through security to shake the hands of Nikita K..
Furo Wariboko – born and bred in Lagos – wakes up on the morning of his job interview to discover he has turned into a white man. As he hits the city streets running, still reeling from his new-found condition, Furo is amazed to find the dead ends of his life wondrously open out before him.As a whit..
Olanna is a smart, strong and athletic 9-year-old girl who was trained by her dad to be the best warrior in West Africa. One evening, she got lost in a deep, dark forest with no help in sight. Follow her story and find out how she overcame obstacles to achieve greatness.This book is a tribute to the..
Princess Arabella thinks her room is boring. So she decides she’s going to do something about that – all by herself.She mixes up some paints and in no time at all her room looks fabulous.The latest book about the popular little Princess Arabella, with fun information about mixing colours. ..
Sunny Nwazue is back in this gripping sequel to Nnedi Okorafor’s What Sunny Saw in the Flames.Sunny has settled into life at the Leopard Society, with friends Orlu, Chichi and Sasha. Her magic powers continue to grow under the tutelage of her mentor Sugar Cream, as Sunny studies her strange Nsi..
Three very different men struggle with thoughts of belonging, loss, identity and love as they attempt to find a place for themselves in Britain. The Maestro, a depressed, quixotic character, sinks out of the real world into the fantastic world of literature. The Magistrate tries to create new memori..
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart has been translated into over 70 languages and yet there is no authoritative Igbo translation, Achebe’s mother tongue. In the course of answering why African literature remains trapped in an English language metaphysical empire, Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ’’s&nb..
The yearnings of a young and restless orphan are ignited when an enigmatic drifter named Bros returns to Gulu Station from Rome, laden with gifts and the allure of other places. The orphan longs for escape too, for life to have meaning and so the whole village can look up to him.When soldiers from t..
Za! magazine published its debut issue titled the “Juju Issue” on July 7. The issue focuses on different kinds of spirituality in Northern and North-central Nigeria apart from the more visible Abrahamic religions.Za! is published by Za! Publications, a company founded by writer a..
Za! Magazine with this special issue which marks the 40th anniversary of the forced removal of Ghanaian citizens from Nigeria and the legacy known as 'Ghana Must Go'. Artists from both countries revisit the events that led up to the 1983 event and think about the question, does the current enmity be..
The Rituals issue of za! publications offers vibrant paintings from the gifted Adoum Oumarou who shows us the rituals of everyday Northern Cameroon. Surely those who have visited Northern Nigeria would find them pleasantly familiar...