Wattpad has teamed up with National Geographic to wake the world up to the potential impact of single-use plastics. In 500 words or less, we're asking you to share a story-real or fiction-inspired by actual photos of this global issue.

Folk tales and myths serve as a means of handing down traditions and customs from one generation to the next in Africa. For several generations, stories from Africa have traditionally been passed down by word of mouth. Often, after a hard day's work, the adults would gather the children together by moonlight, around a village fire and tell stories. This is traditionally called Tales by Moonlight. Usually the stories are meant to prepare young people for life, and so taught a lesson or moral.

Sheline is a pretty and ambitious young lady married to insecure Moyo. The desire for a journalism degree takes her from Bulawayo to Johannesburg where she lives with an aunt she hardly knows, vowing to keep her marriage while also studying. Bandele is wealthy and influential but he's also a bully. A lothario. Ladies in the neighbourhood, single or married, lust after him or so it seems. Everything that happens in his mansion is news to the community. When Bandele sets eyes on Sheline to be his wife, fireworks spark and the neighbourhood shakes. Will he win her over with his unconventional advances? Will she succumb to the piling pressure? What happens next threatens her degree, her marriage and even her life. But it also reintroduces Bandele to himself in a manner he never saw coming. #WattysNG2020

Ranked #2 in Africa (6/08/18) Ranked #3 in Nigeria (9/08/18) Ranked #6 in Naija (8/08/18) Chikamharida is a girl that has always felt inferior to everyone,her heart has been broken a million times by close friends and even family. She feels like she is not worth living and she suffers from anxiety disorders and depression. She would soon be leaving for college,will she be able to pass through it with that mindset or is this mission just suicidal?...she has always wanted to be remembered in life,can she achieve those dreams? Flaws of an African Girl is book about the stigma and misconceptions related to mental illnesses. "Do you see those sunflowers over there? They look so free and at ease. They bloom in happiness without giving a care about the world. They are so beautiful. You know, I easily get intrigued by nature; it so beautiful. Sometimes, I wish I could be like the birds. They are so free. They are limitless. They are not enslaved or imprisoned to one place. They have freedom to fly and stop wherever they want to. No one can stop them from flying and singing in the morning sun. There is no restriction to life in their world. They thrive in freedom. They have no expectations to live up to; you don't need to live up to any standards, all you need to do is live. As humans, we are not expected to live that way. We grew up in a society where there are standards and norms everyone is expected to follow. There are limits to what we can do and where we can go. Some people are lucky and bypass those norms. Some of us aren't that lucky. Some of us don't have physical freedom, emotional freedom or even spiritual freedom. We are imprisoned by forces around us and forced to do things that we don't want to do but who are we to complain, right? It's the norm of the society." Cover photo by @jane_lausten

Three brothers, Each with a different set of tactics. When a threat arises to their home turf, the brothers must learn to resolve their differences and work together.

Is this any place to raise a family? Hyenas, constant famine, and worse traitors? Kuberi must overcome the challenges of raising a successful family. The horrors of parenthood cloud his dreams. He must take on the roll of king, provider, guardian, and Lord of the Savanna.

The family is back in an action packed 3rd edition. Kuberi is all grown up and ready to leave and start a family, but his overprotective father Jelani haunted by his son who died trying to find a family won't let go of his son. Will Jelani ever let go of his now adult son?

Kuberi is your average teen. Throw in the fact that he has an annoying twin sister and are facing the driest of the dry seasons. Join his family as they encounter hyenas, crocs, rival lions, babies, and fire.

Kuberi and his pride are happy the wet season has arrived, but across the river is Mabaya's pride who want to gain the plentiful side of the Mara. War has been declared...

Jessie Taylor is a lonely shy boy that's been bullied all his life. Working two jobs in hopes to be free of the life he's living now. He usually keeps to himself and doesn't interact well with others. His life has never been easy for him but that all about to change. Jason, Mason and Elyas Walker, names that strike fear into all who have heard of them. The most fearsome, merciless, yet fair rulers. The brothers have lived for a long time and are getting tired of the constant repeat their life has been. They need something to change, they need something new, they need...their mate.