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‘Nearly all the Men in Lagos are Mad’, Damilare’s first published work, is 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. 12/16
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Anuri’s stepmother, Ophelia, is the ultimate ‘mumfluencer’. Throughout Anuri’s childhood, she catalogued every minute, milestone and carefully curated family outing on social media, cultivating a devoted—and sizeable—following.
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“The Voyage ot Saints” - a tale of deep love told by a man of the seas.
Out December 14th from Masobe Books.
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We announce the acquisition of Emmanuel Iduma's forthcoming title - I AM STILL WITH YOU, a deeply moving, lyrical journey through the author’s homeland of Nigeria,in search of the truth about his disappeared uncle and the history of a war that shaped him,his family, and a nation.
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COVER REVEAL 🚨🚨🚨
Aima and Kalu are a longtime couple who have just split. When Kalu, reeling from his loss, visits a sex party hosted by his best friend, Ahmed, he makes a decision that will plunge them all into chaos, brutally upending their lives.
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BREAKING: Masobe Books to Publish Kenyan writer Troy Onyango’s debut collection of short stories “For What Are Butterflies Without Their Wings” 🦋.
@TroyOnyango
At Masobe Books, we bring you the cream of African literature😎
#MasobeBooks
#LetUsRead
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COVER REVEAL!
Ghostroots is a debut collection of twelve dazzling stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos. Aguda’s stories unfold against a spectral cityscape where the everyday business of living-
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COVER REVEAL🥁🥁🥁
Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again. It’s been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she’s almost a new person now—an artist with her own studio and sharing a brownstone apartment with her ride-or-die best friend,
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Half Portraits Under Water is a collection of ten loosely interlinked stories that explore love, loss, and the interconnected nature of human experiences.
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COVER REVEAL 🚨🚨🚨
When his younger brother disappears as the country explodes in civil war, Kunle must set out on an impossible rescue mission.
Kunle’s search for his brother becomes a journey of atonement that will see him conscripted into the breakaway Biafran army…
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Fa’iza Mohammed was brought up to be a good and obedient daughter, the bearer of her family’s honour and virtue. When she left Abuja for university in Canada, armed with her mother’s words of caution, her father’s faith in her, and under the escort of her older brother,
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COVER REVEAL 🥁🥁🥁
In Makoko, the floating slum off mainland Lagos, nineteen-year-old Baby yearns for an existence where she can escape the future her father has planned for her. With opportunities scarce, Baby jumps at the chance to join a newly launched drone-mapping project,
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🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
When We Were Fireflies, a book by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, has been longlisted for the 2024 edition of the prestigious Dublin Literary Award💫💃🏾
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COVER REVEAL!
Idera’s world crumbles when her husband, Demola, dies. As she battles with this reality, she is met with a shocking discovery. A woman appears at her door with a child in hand—Demola’s son.
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BREAKING NEWS!🚨🚨
Masobe Books is set to publish the award winning author, Chika Unigwe's forthcoming novel, THE MIDDLE DAUGHTER, a lush, powerful tale of family and sisterhood;…
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Let us go back to the days of humble beginnings, to a time when you cheered us on as a new face in the literary industry.
These are some of our first set of releases and you made sure we got all the encouragement we needed to aspire to even bigger things.
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Here we go again…
COVER REVEAL!
Black Ghosts is the travel memoir of a Nigerian woman in China exploring the lives of African economic migrants in the bustling People's Republic.
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COVER REVEAL
The Mystic of Small Dreams chronicles the movement of migrants as they navigate borders both internal and external. At the heart of these poems of vulnerability and sharp intelligence, the poet himself is the perpetual migrant embarked on forced journeys…
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COVER REVEAL!
The Incredible Dreams of Garba Dakaskus is a philosophical quest through time in search of a book with obscure origins which might contain the secrets of the alphabet and offer the reader a divine glimpse behind the veil that shrouds our plane of existence.
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COVER REVEAL
This stunning new collection of stories investigates the rapidly changing role of technology and belief in our lives as we search for meaning, for knowledge, for justice; constantly converging on our future selves.
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When Obiefuna’s father witnesses an intimate moment between his teenage son and the family’s apprentice, newly arrived from the nearby village, he banishes Obiefuna to a Christian boarding school marked by strict hierarchy and routine, devastating violence.
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In these beautiful stories that straddle the breadth of Kenya,
@TroyOnyango
’s characters navigate the daily lived experiences that shape them, as they learn to cobble together an existence alongside a society with rules that do not quite fit.
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Our family has GROOOWWWWNNNN!
…but we are a big tent and we want more!!😤😤😤
So here is a reminder that our 2024 submission window will open on February 1st. So dust that manuscript and you might just be the next face we are putting up😎
We are Masobe!
#LetUsRead
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We are excited to welcome Akwaeke Emezi and Onyi Nwabineli into the Masobe Books family. The acquisitions are in line with our vision to bring you, our readers, the best African literature has to offer. Cover reveals and book release dates will be announced shortly.
#MasobeNews
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As the curtains of 2023 draw to a close, we can’t help but look back at all our releases this year. What a ride it has been! These books have been portals to other worlds.
Thank you for reading, for reposting, for liking and for cheering us on.
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If you are not tired yet, we are not too. So here goes another…
COVER REVEAL! 😁
Lost Ark Dreaming, is a post-climate disaster novella for fans of ‘Snowpiercer’ and ‘The Platform’ that take us back to the Lagos coast but 80 years into the future,
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Kenyan author
@TroyOnyango
’s “For What Are Butterflies Without Their Wings” has a quickening pulse and pages crackling with sharp observations and gentle revelations about solitude, loneliness, connection, loss, love, and the infinite intricacies of daily human life.
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BREAKING: We are thrilled to announce forthcoming titles from Chigozie Obioma and Chioma Okereke.
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@EziomaKalu
250 retweets of this tweet and a copy of “The List” will be on its way to you😎
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Happy birthday Chimeka. We wish you the very best as you start another journey round the sun. Do have a blast!
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Chigozie Obioma was born in Akure, Nigeria. His two previous novels, The Fishermen and An Orchestra of Minorities, were both finalist for the Booker Prize. His novels have won the inaugural FT/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Award for Fiction,
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BREAKING NEWS!
Masobe Books is thrilled to publish Ghostroots, ’Pemi Aguda’s debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos, where characters vie for freedom from ancestral ties. These stories reveal starkly different facets of Lagos, grounded in reality,
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Our manuscript submission window opens at the beginning of February and closes in March every year, giving you a chance to turn that dream into reality through Masobe Books.
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Masobe Books Limited presents, “Edge of Here” by
@kelechnekoff
- A COVER REVEAL!
✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
Enter a world very close to our own...
One in which technology can allow you to explore an alternate love-life with a stranger.
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*Middle aged man, wearing a “Let Us Read” teeshirt walks on stage*
*Goes straight to the podium*
*Adjusts teleprompter….adjusts reading glasses…grabs mic*
*Clears throat…and begins*
In 2022 we set out with just one mission - to wow!!
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’Pemi Aguda is an MFA graduate from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. A MacDowell fellow, her writing has been published in Granta, Ploughshares, Zoetrope, and more, and been awarded O. Henry Prizes for Short Fiction, a Nommo Award and
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One of our missions at Masobe is to give Nigerian/African writers, home or abroad, a platform to share the beauty of their art with you.
We found them (because someone we know, who knows someone they know, told us their manuscripts is sizzling so we went hunting)…
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Meet Emmanuel Iduma, a writer and lawyer.
In 2019 his book A Stranger’s Pose was longlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and in 2022 he was a recipient of the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize.
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BREAKING: We are excited to announce forthcoming titles from Fatima Bala and Olukorede S. Yishau.
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Coming to a big screen near you😎
l Do Not Come To You By Chance, the novel, is available from , Medplus Pharmacy outlets, and leading bookstores near you across Nigeria.
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On this Women’s Day, we are thrilled to reveal the stunning cover for 'The Middle Daughter' by
@chikaunigwe
, a powerful tale that examines the struggles of being a woman in a patriarchal society, explores issues of feminism and gender, and the dynamics of family relationships.
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COVER REVEAL!
Set in a country where being gay is punishable by law, ‘These Letters End in Tears’ is the heart-wrenching forbidden love story of a Christian girl with a rebellious heart and a Muslim girl leading a double life.
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Masobe is excited to announce that we will be publishing Rosanna Amaka's
ROSE AND THE BURMA SKY in February 2023.
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Book release update!
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, acclaimed author and 2016 NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature winner’s sophomore book “Dreams and Assorted Nightmares, a collection of short stories, will be released by Masobe Books in July, 2020
#LetUsRead
#MasobeBooks
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COVER REVEAL🥁🥁🥁
Prince Kosoko’s life as a spare who would never sit on the throne as the Oba of Lagos comes with undeniable perks. Like boat loads of slaves docking on the busiest trading coast on the West African shoreline and the baskets laden with cowries, gold,..
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It is time again - to begin the journey towards fulfilling your dreams of getting published! The Masobe Books submissions window opens in 48 hours.
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Celebrity author
@TJBenson_
😎, will grace the cover of the next edition of Masobe Quarterly.
Coming out soon.
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COVER REVEAL!⚡️⚡️⚡️
Coming to Bookstores this August.
Able God works for low pay at a four-star hotel where he must flash his “toothpaste-white smile” for wealthy guests. When not tending to the hotel’s over privileged clientele, he muses over self-help books…
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Chikwe Ihekweazu is an infectious disease epidemiologist and public health leader with over twenty-five years of experience in senior leadership roles at the World Health Organisation, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, the South African National Institute for…
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BREAKING: Masobe Books to publish forthcoming titles from Romeo Oriogun (The Mystic of Small Dreams), Star Zahra (Girls and the Silhouette of Form), and Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún (Èṣù at the Library). Cover release and specific release dates will be announced shortly.
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We are back again, this time to add color to your new week as Masobe Books introduces - “When We Were Fireflies”, a book by
@Abbakar_himself
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Dear Masobe readers, we have some updates for you…
These are the revised dates for forthcoming releases in May 2024:
1. Ghostroots by
@PemiAguda
- 15th May
2. Everything is not Enough by
@LolaAkinmade
- 20th May
3. After the End by
@YishauOlukorede
- 23rd May
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The brilliant second novel from the acclaimed author of In Every Mirror She’s Black follows three women as they try to navigate life, love, prejudice and privilege in Stockholm.
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COVER REVEAL!
“In Star’s poetry collection, conciseness is the law that rules and dominates her verses with martial-like precision.
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Coming soon from Masobe Books.
It is 1931 when two sisters arrive in Bousaada bursting with dreams of becoming successful dancers. But the city, occupied by the ruthless French colonial army, changes their lives forever.
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A very big thank you to all the book lovers who turned up (in Lagos, PH, and Abuja) and made the book reading sessions for BLESSINGS by Chukwuebuka Ibeh a carnival. We had a blast! Lets do it again soon, shall we!
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One more time, for those who did not see it before and for people just returning from hiatus...meet our authors - Adaobi Nwaubuani,
@TJBenson_
,
@MichaelAfenfia
,
@MrGarricks
,
@iamhappyblacky
,
@Ohmstonweth
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Masobe Books is stoked to announce the impending release of one of Nigeria’s most anticipated writers of the moment, Ukamaka Olisakwe’s book - Ogadinma🔥
The book will be available in store and online in Nigeria from June, 2020.
#Masobebooks
#LetUsRead
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Ukamaka Olisakwe returns with a Young Adult novel - “Don’t Answer When They Call Your Name”.
In a world threatened by drought and divine wrath, one young girl must journey into the dangerous Forest of Iniquity to atone for her people's sins and save them from certain doom.
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In these beautiful stories that straddle the breadth of Kenya,
@TroyOnyango
’s characters navigate the daily lived experiences that shape them, as they learn to cobble together an existence alongside a society with rules that do not quite fit.
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A long weekend upon us! 💃🏾🕺🏾
What shall you be reading?🤔
Here are some delicious recommendations from us… you know we always got your back😎
So go forth…enjoyeth and be goodeth dear beloveth😋
All books are available from and bookshops near you.
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We don’t want to brag… okay who are we kidding? We do want to brag. This edition of Masobe Quarterly is our best edition yet. And it’s free - as usual! It comes complimentary with every Masobe Book you buy! So please ask your bookshop keeper for it.
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It’s been an amazing book year. But we aren’t nearly done. Here is a a lineup of what is to come: must-have books that will light up the rest of your year:
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‘People Live Here’ is TJ Benson’s third book and second novel. It follows Kanulia ‘Lia’ Madueke who is in pursuit of a better life for herself and her young son following the harsh economic realities of the fuel subsidy removal crises of January 2012. 5/16
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COVER REVEAL!
A poet in a new city, a linguist at Primark, a native son meeting a familiar deity in a foreign town, in books, in the faces and voices of strangers, on trains, in the histories that intersect with traumas and pleasures, in flirtations at a bank on Euston road,..
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Come work with us at Masobe, we have openings for experienced editors!
If you have 2+ years of related experience, the eye for a good story, impeccable editing skills, and you're based in Lagos, we're looking for you!
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Book cover REVEAL!🔥🔥
Introducing the book cover for the West African edition of RIVER SPIRIT, the spellbinding novel by Leila Aboulela. River Spirit is a tale of love, sacrifice, and independence during the Mahdist War in 19th century Sudan.
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In this sensational, page-turning debut, a high-profile journalist’s world is upended when her fiancé’s name turns up in a viral social media post—a nuanced, exploration of the real-world impact of online life, from award-winning journalist and bestselling author
@yomiadegoke
.
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BREAKING NEWS!
Masobe Books is set to publish three exciting authors: Wole Talabi takes readers on an epic mythic journey of gods, revenge, and a daring heist that spans two worlds in "Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon"; Noo Saro-Wiwa's travel…
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BREAKING NEWS🚨‼️
Masobe Books acquires and is set to publish three exceptional manuscripts: “Free Troubles: A Writer’s Eyes on the World” by Obari Gomba; “The List” by Yomi Adegoke and; “Small by Small: Becoming a Doctor in 1990s Nigeria” by Ike Anya.
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We're not sure which one makes us more excited: Abubakar's infectious smile or our fantastic lineup of releases for the month. What we do know is that we're ready to dance through these September days. 📚✨
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“Masobe Tower of Books”… that is something right? A heap of soon coming deliciousness in one picture🙆🏾♂️🫨🙆🏾♂️
Which of our forthcoming titles are you looking forward to the most?
Tell us in the comment section🙏🏾
#ForthcomingBooks
#Masobe
#LetUsRead
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Nobody else does it like we do: welcome to a world of adventure, magic, romance and drama!
Have a bookfull weekend.
#MasobeBooks
#AfricanLiterature
#MasobeAuthors
#LetUsRead
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Coming Soon to bookstores near you 🍴🍛:
Allow Me to Introduce myself – August 2nd 2024
Convergence Problems – August 26th 2024
Water Baby – July 9th 2024
Fireflies on the Lagoon – October 7th 2024
With Love, Miss Americanah – July 12th 2024
Sand Roses – June 19th 2024
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Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani is a novelist, journalist, essayist, and humorist. Based in Abuja, Nigeria, she is the first contemporary African writer to launch a global career while fully domiciled in her home country.
#IDNCTYBC
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This is Bina. She is the author of the bestselling book “Bridges Are For Burning”.
Isn’t she lovely? 🥰
And today is her birthday!!!
Happy birthday Bina. Wishing you the very best, and hope you have a ball as your celebrate today🥳🥳
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PEOPLE LIVE HERE by TJ Benson, out tomorrow 07/06/22, From Masobe Books.
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Happy birthday Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, NLNG Prize winner and owner of a 1000W smile.
Do have a good one today🥳
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BREAKING!: Masobe Books has acquired and is set to publish three stellar works of fiction that embody the secrets of the past, the realities of the present and the promises of the future. They are captivating, layered and a testament to what it means to be human, and African.
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According to the make-believe philosopher and wordsmith, William Shakearrow, and we quote “April May bring us a basket of masterpieces” - and he is not wrong!
Look at what we are cooking for your April & May. It is 🔥
🧺 The Middle Daughter - Apr 6
🧺 Promise Boys - Apr 13
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BREAKING!:
Lagos,12th July, 2024
Masobe announces new release dates for selected forthcoming titles.
We wish to bring to your notice an update on the release dates of some of our much awaited titles.
✨ The Road To The Country - July 24
✨ With Love, Miss Americanah - July 30
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BREAKING!
We are pleased to formally announce that 3 writers have joined the Masobe Books family. These writers share an extraordinary talent and have created works that are phenomenal in scope and in craft.
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Next up from Masobe Books!
The List - Aug 29
Small by Small - Sep 14
Shigidi - Sep 21
Onyeka and the Rise of the Rebels - Sep 27
River Spirit - Oct 6
One Chance Dance - Oct 11
The Bishop’s Prodigal Daughter - Oct 20
The Lies of the Ajungo - Oct 25
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Wednesday Recommendation: "I Do Not Come to You by Chance." Soon to be a major motion picture🎬. Explore the blurred lines between desperation and deception, love and sacrifice, in this electrifying world of email scams.
#IDoNotComeToYouByChance
#MasobeBooks
#LetUsRead
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In the heart of Lagos, Nicole Oruwari had it all: a glamorous life, a perfect marriage, and a circle of elite friends. But when she mysteriously vanishes during a boat trip, her picture-perfect facade begins to crack.
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📚 Coming from Masobe Books this September 🔥
💫Onyeka and the Rise of the Rebels -
@TolaOkogwu
💫Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon -
@WTalabi
💫Small by Small -
@ikeanya
And out Now:
💫The List -
@yomiadegoke
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NOW OUT IN BOOKSTORES EVERYWHERE.
From Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström, international bestselling author of In Every Mirror She’s Black, comes the highly anticipated second novel, focusing on the lives of three…
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Umar Abubakar Sidi is a poet, soldier, aviator, and author of Masobe’s first poetry collection “Like Butterflies Scattered about by Art Rascals.” A helicopter pilot with the Nigerian Navy, he attended the prestigious Nigerian Military School, Zaria and the Nigerian
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Meet Shigidi, the disgruntled nightmare god trapped in the Orisha spirit company, and Nneoma, a secretive succubus with a troubled past. Together, they'll challenge destiny, escape divine shackles, and embark on an electrifying heist across two worlds.
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“I Am Still With You” by Emmanuel Iduma, coming to a bookstore near you from 17/03/23.
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See part of what we have cooked for 2022!
SWALLOW: Efunsetan Aniwura
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BIG NEWS!
Masobe Books is set to publish 3 new books.
1. Ore Agbaje-Williams’ forthcoming novel, THE THREE OF US, a short, sharp, hilarious and addictive debut where tensions between a husband, wife and her best friend bubble – until it all threatens to boil over;
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It is “Cover Story” time again people.
Tell us if we made the right choice, or not, for the cover of Umar Abubakar Sidi’s influential work “The Poet of Dust”. Which design does it for you? A or B?
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