The Ebitare Book House

16/01/2026

Unbury Our Dead With Song by Mukoma wa Ngugi is about a journalist, John Thandi Manfredi, investigating the Ethiopian "Tizita" (blues) music scene in Nairobi, focusing on four musicians—The Diva, The Corporal, The Taliban Man, and Miriam—whose layered lives, secrets, and immense personal losses (war, grief) are revealed as he follows them back to Ethiopia, exploring themes of memory, beauty, and the soul of African music.

16/01/2026

Lagos Sugar Baby, by Ebere Joy Ekekwe, is a collection of seven interconnected short stories exploring love, ambition, desire, and survival in the bustling Nigerian city of Lagos, focusing on the complex dynamics, societal pressures, and harsh realities, including the "sugar baby" lifestyle, faced by various characters as they navigate challenges and pursue dreams, offering raw, honest, and sometimes heartbreaking perspectives on life and relationships.

16/01/2026

Little rot follows the story of five friends in the corrupt, elite underworld of New Lagos, Nigeria, after a breakup between Aima and Kalu triggers a chaotic weekend of s*x parties, violence, murder, and desperate attempts to escape dangerous threats, intertwining their lives with visiting s*x workers Ola and Souraya as they confront societal pressures and their own buried truths.

16/01/2026

The Parlour Wife, by Foluso Agbaje, is historical fiction set in 1940s Lagos, following young Kehinde, who sacrifices her dream of writing for an arranged marriage to a wealthy man, Mr. Ogunjobi, becoming a "parlour wife" defined by societal status, not domestic labor, while secretly joining the market women's fight against colonial policies, revealing themes of female agency, tradition vs. modernity, and finding one's voice amidst patriarchal expectations and WWII's impact.

16/01/2026

Spanning Lagos, Liverpool, Ile-Ife, and London, After the End, traces the journeys of four intertwined lives as they navigate personal growth, betrayal, forgiveness, and unforgiving pasts. And eventually, they will realise that death is not quite the end they thought it was.

16/01/2026

Water Baby, by Chioma Okereke, is a coming-of-age novel about 19-year-old Baby in Makoko, a floating slum in Lagos, Nigeria, who dreams of escaping a traditional life of early marriage and selling fish, instead pursuing opportunities in an environmental drone-mapping project; a viral video of her work leads to unexpected global attention, forcing her to choose between life beyond the lagoon and her beloved community. The story powerfully blends personal aspirations with themes of climate change, community resilience, and social justice in an underserved area.

16/01/2026

His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie follows Afi Tekple, a young Ghanaian seamstress who enters an arranged marriage with wealthy Elikem Ganyo, but he sends a stand-in to their wedding and is in love with another woman, tasking Afi with winning him over; however, Afi finds independence in the city of Accra, embracing fashion school and new friendships, ultimately discovering her own path away from the stifling expectations of her marriage and societal roles, becoming empowered through self-discovery.

16/01/2026

Sanya by Oyin Olugbile

"Sanya" can refer to several things, but most prominently to Oyin Olugbile's novel about a powerful young woman in a fantasy world, a character in an Indian TV show about a helpful but indecisive teen, or a Chinese coastal city known for its beaches. The novel follows Sànyà, who discovers her extraordinary powers linked to a dark prophecy, forcing her to fight for her destiny and her family amidst Yoruba mythology.

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