JOYFID AFRIKA BOOKS
Author: Chimaobi Akachukwu
Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Publisher: Joyfid Afrika
Book Title: African Dark Light
Peter Idenala’s stable but uninteresting life, as an ambitious young banker, is disrupted when he comes across a book, published as fiction, recounting the torrid experiences he lived through during his days in the university. He is shaken because the writer is Neta Okoye, a girl who broke his heart and dumped him six years before. Peter is forced to revisit his past, to relive his once complicated relationship with Neta and the mistakes that marred their years in school; the friendships they found and lost.
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Booktype: ebook on Okadabooks and bambooks
Tag: Fiction
Price: ₦3000.00
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Burning cloud is a story that explores cultural backgrounds, it give you the chance of knowing the world you never knew existed. It depicts the interest of humanitarian involvements that reflects on man’s greed and lust for material gratification. How honesty as a way of life has never been regretful. In spite of Soronnadi’s misfortune, humanity and gods did not abandon her. As paternal orphans and a widow in umuagu-inyi village, Soronnadi, Kwube and Kobia are trapped by her uncles, elders and the tradition of the land after the demise of her father. Her uncle Ikemba, conspired with Ugwa, Dibe, Meme, and Ayah to claim all they had. The elders of Umuagu-inyi supported Ikemba and Misused the tradition to their advantage. Kwube sold Soronnadi out, informed his uncle Ugwa about Soronnadi’s pregnancy, in return, Ugwa promised him to return all their land. Burning cloud is a story of Sorrow, conspiracy, betrayal, hatred, and expectation set in today’s world, clouding the moment to threaten one’s existence.
Book Title: African Dark Light
Author: David Chukwu
Publishe: 2020
Publishe: 2020
Publisher: Joyfid Afrika
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Booktype: ebook on Okadabooks and bambooks
Tag: Fiction
Price: ₦4000.00
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African
Dark Light is a mythological story of a clan in the Igbo tribe of
South-Eastern Nigeria. The book relates the tale of Ikemefuna who
cleaves to the post of chief priest in Arochukwu to preserve his
ancestors’ tradition as demanded by the gods. To secure victory for
Arochukwu over the ferocious war against the Nri clan that claims many
innocent lives, Ikemefuna, sells Iwu – Ogbuefi Anyanku’s son
as a slave. Many years later, Iwu returns to Arochukwu with European
missionaries whom the clan members call the People of Another Body, and
refuse to accept the new religion they promote – Christianity.
Some moons after the Arochukwu clan defeats Nri, the European
missionaries begin to convert souls to the new faith. Many of the law
makers embrace the new religion while others denounce it, distrusting
the intention of the strangers who have another body and serve an unseen
god.
Following long periods of disagreement and condemnation of killing twins and selling people into slavery, the European missionaries assert how the new faith they brought to the clan will put an end to the darkness over the land. For Christianity will unveil a light that will forever guide the Arochukwu inhabitants to heaven.
Ikemefuna starts believing in the promises the European missionaries preach. He begins to cherish his new clothing– a coat, black shoes and a bolt-tie. This admiration prompts him to quit his post as the chief priest and conform to the teachings of the European missionaries, while
dressing like them and learning more about the new religion and the new god.
Ezemmuo – Ikemefuna’s father and the rest of the law makers who denounce the new religion die as traditional jingoists, hanging themselves with unbroken trust in the underworld to give them a good home. Upon the deaths of the devotees, the European missionaries establish a memorial school in Arochukwu to provide its dwellers education. It is in that seminary where Ikemefuna is taught.
Following long periods of disagreement and condemnation of killing twins and selling people into slavery, the European missionaries assert how the new faith they brought to the clan will put an end to the darkness over the land. For Christianity will unveil a light that will forever guide the Arochukwu inhabitants to heaven.
Ikemefuna starts believing in the promises the European missionaries preach. He begins to cherish his new clothing– a coat, black shoes and a bolt-tie. This admiration prompts him to quit his post as the chief priest and conform to the teachings of the European missionaries, while
dressing like them and learning more about the new religion and the new god.
Ezemmuo – Ikemefuna’s father and the rest of the law makers who denounce the new religion die as traditional jingoists, hanging themselves with unbroken trust in the underworld to give them a good home. Upon the deaths of the devotees, the European missionaries establish a memorial school in Arochukwu to provide its dwellers education. It is in that seminary where Ikemefuna is taught.
Book Title: Some Angels Don't See God
Author: Ever Obi
Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Publisher: Parresia publishers
Availability: In Stock
Booktype: Paperback
Tag: Fiction
Price: ₦5500.00
When the book leads him directly to her, they are faced with a difficult decision: Continue with their emotionally-empty lives, independent of each other, or be together again and confront the trail of past misfortunes that binds them. For Neta, accepting Peter again comes with a promise of happiness, but it also carries the risk of uncovering the secrets she has carried throughout her life. Secrets involving a brother she used to sleep with.
Their relationship faces a battle against this past blighted by pain and loss, by youth and stupidity, by unprotected sex and incest, by betrayal and heartbreaks, by manslaughter and suicide.
Book Title: Nearly All The Men In Lagos Are Mad
Author: Damilare Kuku
Published: 2021
Publisher: Masobe publishers
Availability: In Stock
Booktype: Paperback
Tag: Short Stories
Price: ₦4500.00
A collection of short stories, structured as case-studies, and a form of love letter in solidarity with the women who have survived romantic relationships with men in Lagos….it deftly analyses the various archetypes women are likely to encounter in the dating scene in the city – from serial cheaters, to mummy’s boys, from the ‘fake it till you make it’ adherents to the ones who can’t commit.
This book underscores with wit, humour, wisdom, and sensitivity the perils of trying to find lasting love and companionship in Africa’s craziest city that will prove universal and illuminating.
‘Nearly All the Men in Lagos are Mad’ is a collection of twelve short stories featuring characters with unique voices and stories that represent the diverse class, gender and ethnic melting pot that is Lagos.
There’s a story of a young lady who tries to find her oyibo soulmate on the streets of Lagos; another of a pastor’s wife who defends her husband from an allegation of adultery; a wife takes a knife to her husband’s penis; a night of lust between a rising musician and his Instagram baddie takes an unexpected turn.
From Ikorodu to Yaba, Ilupeju to Victoria Island, the stories underscore with wit, humour, wisdom and sensitivity, the perils of trying to find lasting love and companionship in Africa’s most notorious city that will prove universal and illuminating.
There’s a story behind every hustling, hopeful, striving Lagosian trying to make their way to a better life and Damilare Kuku’s characterisations are brilliant distillations of this recognisable mind-set. Every story is layered; these are people and choices you may recognise in yourself and people you know. Ultimately, these stories will make you laugh, think, feel and remind us all that we are not alone.
Book Title: Love Is Power, Or Something Like That
Author: A. Igoni Barrett
Published: 2021
Publisher: Kachifo Limited
Availability: In Stock
Booktype: Paperback
Tag: Nigerian Stories, Short Stories
Price: ₦3000.00
In these wide-ranging stories, Barrett roams the streets with people from all stations of life. A minor policeman, full of the authority and corruption of his uniform, beats his wife. A family’s fortunes fall from love and wealth to infidelity and poverty as poor choices unfurl over three generations. With humour and tenderness, Barrett introduces us to an utterly modern Nigeria, where desire is a means to an end, and love is a power as real as money.
Book Title: Believers and Hustlers
Author: Sylva Nze Ifedigbo
Published: 2021
Publisher: Parresia publishers
Availability: In Stock
Booktype: Paperback
Tag: Fiction
Price: ₦6000.00
Pastor Nicholas Adejuwon and his beautiful wife Nkechi run Rivers of Joy Church, the rave of the moment Lagos megachurch. When Nkechi decides to investigate her husband's indiscretion, it was merely to satisfy her curiosity. What she unravels is a web of bruising secrets that run deeper than she could have ever imagined, threatening her reality as she knew it.
This is a novel about power and the people who inordinately thirst for it. It explores those blurred lines between truth and falsehood, spirituality and hypocrisy and the ironies that fate deals us at the end of our desperate quests in life.
Book Title: My Mind Is No Longer Here
Author: Sylva Nze Ifedigbo
Published: 2018
Publisher: Parresia publishers
Availability: In Stock
Booktype: Paperback
Tag: Fiction
Price: ₦3500.00
The story unravels from the different points of view of four men—Donatus, Chidi, Osahon and Haruna—who suddenly find their fates tied to a certain consultant named Yinka. Theirs are stories of greed, love, ambition, unfulfilled dreams and the fear of failure.
Book Title: Men Don't Die
Author: Ever Obi
Published: 2019
Publisher: Parresia publishers
Availability: In Stock
Booktype: Paperback
Tag: Fiction
Price: ₦4000.00
In the possession of stolen lucre, Brume Lauva takes a big step and decides to run away from a life he has known for more than a decade; a life of consistent failures, and from a girlfriend that shattered his heart and his last feeble grip on a broken dream. Lagos, he believes, could offer another chance at life, where he could mend his broken heart, and perhaps start to dream again. But en route to his land of promise, a fatal bus crash occurs, and Brume is the only survivor—without a scratch. He flees the scene of the accident and hitchhikes his way to Lagos.
In Lagos, he begins to live again. He gets reconnected to a long-lost friend, with whom he shared dreams in the university. He invests the stolen money and finds love again. He gets all he craved on a plate—money, comfort and something resembling happiness. But there is more to this world—a monumental text that would change his life forever. MEN DON’T DIE is a thought-provoking story of love and money; death and spiritualism. About a man’s personal struggles against the unfairness of life, in search of true happiness.
Book Title: Colours Of Hatred
Author: Obinna Udenwe
Published: 2019
Publisher: Parresia publishers
Availability: In Stock
Booktype: Paperback
Tag: Fiction
Price: ₦4500.00
On her deathbed, Leona seeks forgiveness by confessional. Dastardly as the sin is, it is an act of love, loyalty, disobedience, and perceived fairness. How did she get here, where she, an internationally renowned model, is forced to kill her father-in-law to avenge her mother's death?
Set against a background of real events, Colours of Hatred is a complex web of plots detailing a woman's journey from childhood through the fire and anvil of love, loss, betrayal, lust, and duty.
Author: Iwu Jeff
Published: 2020
Publisher: Transconventional Publishers
Availability: In Stock
Booktype: Paperback
Tag: Play
Price: ₦3000.00
Iwu Jeff’s play, Verdict of the Gods is an epic tragedy. It exposes a land in turmoil. But the big question is: can sins of fathers be visited on their children?
The play Verdict of the Gods quarries into the world of traditional leadership responsibility for communal well-being and brings us into contact with yet another lesson that our world has refused to learn.
Book Title: Love In The Eyes Of A Widow
Author: Chi Ndu Efogo
Published: 2019
Publisher: Manpower Publishing House
Availability: In Stock
Booktype: Paperback
Tag: Fiction
Price: ₦4500.00
‘Love in the Eyes of a Widow’- a widow’s tale, is a book which reveals the struggles of an African Woman. The book structurally discusses the sensuality and experience of love. It also critically enumerates our strained tribal relations and tension-Soaked ethnic diversities , and it tells the story of love from an eyewitness ( Spot-on-Perspective) account about a woman who was left with three children to raise single-handedly. The Story comes with developed additional sets and plots alongside the main storyline which is meant to give that avidity to its reading Audience whether a Cursory reader or a Literature Major.
A critical look at the side account of a woman's many personal marital battles and experiences was also revealed in this thought provoking piece. Untimely death stole her love away from her and life made her watch the unfolding drama that followed. The book dialogues the author’s personal opinion and perspective about feminism and Masculinity. It thematically takes the reader on a tour de force about the tensions that diatribes compelled.
The everyday living conditions of a nation whose government sets out to fight poverty but ends up waging a relentless war against poor people! The dominant theme in the book is of tragedy and its Survivors. The book is a woman's tragic account of a love life which connects her deeper and deeper to her very own environment and the beauty of life ( Mmandu) from a personal view point of the author. It offers a counter opinion to feminism and argues equality from a neutrality point of view as a better approach.
Book Title: Oh Son Of Dust
Author: Chi Ndu Efogo
Published: 2020
Publisher: Manpower Publishing House
Availability: In Stock
Booktype: Paperback
Tag: Fiction
Price: ₦6000.00
The novella ”Oh Son Of Dust'', chronicles a thought provoking historical conversation between an older woman and her younger relation, typically a conversation between spirits, which nudges down on the sacred issues that surrounds the ancient humanity of what would be seen as modern day Igbo civilization.
Set in the remodeled remote community of Obosi in new day Anambra State, South Eastern Nigeria.
This book is etched in a deepening dialogue about what one considers a reality, a supernatural experience or superstition. It touches on areas of human existence that most people would not want to entertain, how else can we understand ourselves or who we are if the things that make us a race or a nation of people of consciousness is shied away from or made sacred even for a mere mention or in a modest dialogue.
This book retells the stories about a fictional ancient civilization, a theme which out-models a kingship, a kingdom and a people who had to struggle through a very dark themed world, ostensibly modifying the notion “when darkness befalls a nation the worldly-wise of that nation sleeps on in oblivion, rather unfortunately.
Nne Aku and Ifeyinwa, have as would tourist guides, ushered us into an unseen journey of Mystery, Reincarnation, Spiritism and Traditions.
Dust Thou Art, To Dust Thou Returneth!
Book Title: The Spirit Of Danfo
Author: Ugoji Egbujo
Published: 2022
Publisher: Parresia publishers
Availability: In Stock
Booktype: Paperback
Tag: Fiction
Price: ₦6500.00
The Spirit Of Danfo, a story of class, power, the legacy of civil war, and maverick gods in Nigeria.
In DANFO, Ebulu, a brilliant student, longs to restore his mother, Nkoli, ostracised by the village at his father's death. Ebulu makes a tragic mistake and tempts fate by switching majors from medicine to philosophy. The choice is the first mistake in a chain that imperils his family and his promising career. The gods are saboteurs. Ebulu will learn hard lessons on the streets of Lagos, where the pace is set by the city's pushy, death-defying, and improvisational danfo drivers.
DANFO is an intimate portrait of Nigerian city life, illustrating the resilient kindness and humanity of everyday people like Binta and striving to capture the voice of Lagos--most dialogue is in local patois, including Yoruba and Igbo- while aiming a critique at the city's notorious patronage and corruption.
Book Title: The Son of The House
Author: Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia
Published: 2022
Publisher: Parresia publishers
Availability: In Stock
Booktype: Paperback
Tag: Fiction
Price: ₦5000.00
Julie and Nwabulu – two women who have been abducted – decide to tell each other their stories ‘to pass the time’. while they wait to be ransomed by their loved ones.
In telling their stories, both women find that their lives cross at important junctures. Nwabulu, one-time housemaid and now a successful fashion designer, finds that Julie has the answers to the one ache she has carried in her heart since her late teens. Julie, a septuagenarian who has lived a life of subterfuges – each one bigger than the last, finds that she must now confront her biggest lies.
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