Longlist

Yellow Means Stay is a collection of enthralling, sad, humorous, and heart-touching love stories from across Africa and the black diaspora. It features new and award-winning writers from across the African continent and beyond. The stories are a dynamic blend of the poetic and narrative, the spousal and familial, the suggestive and explicit, the dramatic and measured, the straight and queer, the sad and humorous, the past and future, life and afterlife. Through its pages, readers enter the world of African literature, love, and romance.

The Hope, The Prayer, The Anthem, is a collection of short stories on identity, love, hope, and self-discovery. Told by rising and award-winning writers from across the African continent and beyond, the stories are a rich blend of suspense, humour, drama, and romance.

Rain Dance is a collection of enthralling short stories on spirituality, identity, and self-discovery. The stories are told by rising and award-winning writers from across the African continent and beyond, and capture rich themes of love, race, and taboo.

The Dogs and the Baboons explores the near total absence of human rights protection in Nigeria and canvasses for a "human rights revolution" as the starting point to reforming the country. It is written in an informal style and makes a conscious effort to jettison formality in favour of a light-hearted and conversational style of writing. It mixes humour, street language, legal experiences, and news reports, in covering a breadth of subjects. In the main, it covers the observance of a variety of recognised human rights, borrowing from the author's experiences as a lawyer in one of the country's leading law firms and the son of one of the country's leading activists. The book discusses ingrained practices and topics such as mob violence, police brutality, servitude, religious intolerance, poverty, and corruption amongst others, explaining how a national human rights acculturation could curtail and ultimately eradicate these challenges.