African Stories

A pacifist with a war god trapped in her bones must decide between stirring her demons or watching her allies and enemies unite against her. ***** When Queen Nomvula finds herself threatened by a reckless prince, she's cornered into navigating a battle that will devastate the region, and her clan, should it escalate. Worse, someone knows about her deadly secret, and where its bloody trail eventually ends. Staying ahead of her enemies means risking her land, her values, and even her children, all while keeping the war god inside her from takings matters into its own hands.

When Levi asks Marlise to help him babysit his son after his wife walks out on him, he never expects to fall in love with her or perhaps he's been in love with her right from childhood and he was just looking for an excuse to be closer to her. When he tells his family his plans to marry Marlise, that's when hell breaks loose and he realises how much of his life has been planned already by his mother and that includes who he is to marry... Now, he's torn between duty and love. Mutandas don't marry for love. They marry for duty. A woman who will suit his social status is what he needs and its not Marlise. Marlise is determined to make Levi and his family pay

Naledi had plans: a university scholarship, independence, and a life outside her family's shadow. But at twenty-four, her future shatters when her beloved older sister, Zola, dies suddenly, leaving behind a grief-stricken husband and two young children. In this powerful South African story of sacrifice and resilience, Naledi must ask herself: How can she build a true marriage with a man who is still shackled to a ghost, when the very foundation of their union is an act of loss?

In the misty highlands of the fictional kingdom of Kinzana, a struggling writer named Makoba is consumed by poisonous envy for Faraha Nzubeli-a brilliant novelist who has achieved the fame and adoration he has always craved. Driven mad by jealousy, Makoba kidnaps her and imprisons her in his basement for three years, forcing her to write story after story that he then submits to the Nobel Prize under his own name. But when the truth unfolds on the day she wins literature's highest honor, she vanishes into the rain, leaving her captor alone on his knees in an empty street. A haunting fable about creativity, madness, envy, and the ancient wisdom that no one truly rises by pushing another down.

Some men are broken by pressure. Others are forged by it. But what happens when the pressure never stops? In the streets of Nairobi, survival is not a choice - it is a daily war fought in silence. Kael Mwangi is twenty-three, ambitious, and drowning. Not in water. In debt, in expectation, in a system that was never built for people like him. He had a plan. He had a blueprint. Then life happened. What begins as an ordinary struggle quietly mutates into something darker - a chain of decisions made in desperation, each one reasonable in the moment, each one pulling him deeper into a world he cannot name out loud. A world where money moves without paper trails. Where loyalty is currency. Where the wrong handshake can cost you everything. He didn't choose this life. This life chose him. As debts multiply and trusted faces begin to wear unfamiliar expressions, Kael realizes the most dangerous thing in his world is not the enemies in front of him - it is the man he is slowly becoming. Every step forward tightens the trap. Every choice rewrites who he is. And somewhere between the first compromise and the last, he must answer the question that will define him: How far would you go - if going back was no longer an option? The Billion-Shilling Blueprint is a raw, psychological thriller about ambition forged in fire, morality tested by hunger, and the invisible war every young African fights alone - between who they were raised to be, and who the world is forcing them to become. The blueprint was supposed to be his salvation. It became his confession.

"I'm not having a good feeling about this project at all." she said as she watched the flames in the lantern dance. "What if project fishers of men doesn't mean winning souls for Christ, what if it means harvesting us?" ____________________________________________ Sixteen year old Ogechi has a lot to worry about from neglection to rejection, she didn't need the extra baggage of her teacher's constant flirt. When an announcement is made about a project trip for the CRS students in ss2 and the same teacher flirting with her is in charge, she knows that this is not just a project but also a means for him to have his way with her and that means she has to be extra careful and always be in the midst of her classmates. But when strange things begins to happen and her classmates starts getting missing and then turns up dead in the most gruesome way. She discovers that there is something sinister going on and maybe the teacher is the least of her problems. She has to survive and find her way out of the village before she becomes the next victim. Cover made by Eddy6222

At Community Secondary School, Amagu, drama isn't just in the classroom - it's everywhere. Tochi swore she'd never fall for any boy, but Kaima, the proud senior prefect, has a way of testing her temper. Ifunanya is trying to heal from a breakup that still stings, while Obianuju is too blind to see the boy who's been in love with her all along. Between gossip, rivalry, and late-afternoon tutorials, friendships will crack, hearts will collide, and love will spark in the most unexpected corners. "Teens, love, and the beautiful chaos in between." Explore!!,to see how paths crossed..

​Prince Mwanza Hachibambo has a volatile gift, a destructive weave of Mwari that could level a city if he loses control. His parents' solution? Keep him locked in a gilded cage. ​While Mwanza is hidden away, the Kingdom of Valon rots from the outside in. A looming global conflict simmers on the northern borders, and millions of desperate refugees from the dead planet Earth are sparking unrest in the capital. Worse still, something ancient and dark from Jrod's past has followed the Earthers through the rift. ​Mwanza's forced isolation shatters when a violent train robbery drags him into a conspiracy reaching the highest levels of power. Teaming up with a crew of unlikely allies from the gritty Earth District, the overlooked prince is thrust into a shadowy war across multiple worlds. To survive, Mwanza must finally unleash the power he has been taught to fear and prove that the legacy of the Conquering Sun will not set on his watch.

YADDAH is a five episode serialized fiction about a Lagos fashion designer, the man she loved, and everything she survived that nobody knew about. This story contains mature themes, including sexual assault, infant death, psychological abuse, and blackmail. Please read with that in mind. Episodes drop every two days starting today. Welcome to Cinco Veinte.

An Omni-Core explosion tore their lives apart, leaving three brothers with highly unstable, lethal powers. No ready-made superhero suits. No mentors left alive. Just raw engineering instincts and a thirty-day deadline before their cells burn out from the inside. To survive the corporate forces of Aether Corp and solve the mystery of their family's murder, Zane, Kaiser, and Axel must flee into the neon-shadowed backstreets of near-future Accra. If they want to live, they can't just suit up-they have to scavenge, adapt, and build their own destiny from scratch. Welcome to the garage-tech cyberpunk progression epic. It's time to build.

❝In a world of games, lies and death, only those with heart made of bone can survive.❞ ≈☬≈ The Prime Minister is dead, The fight for the apex seat in the Confederacy has begun. In a game of Grand ministers and Generals, Ladies and Lords, Courts and Chambers, Clergies and Magicians, six teenagers make an alliance, one which was doomed from the start yet it's the only hope of all those who live beyond the Metropolitan, from the Deadwater coast in the South to the Frozen mountains in the North to the Desert oases in the East. A Marksman framed for assassination. A girl who was never meant to be. A stupid aristocrat who want justice for his assassinated Father. A wimpy sage who can destroy the world. A revenge-thirst merchant who can make talk with the dead. A Djinn creature seeking adventure and fulfilling a dying wish. ≈☬≈ GAMES OF THRONES meet SIX OF CROWS with a dash of A WINNER'S CURSE. Started: October 10, 2024. Finished: ..... Current word count : 13,595 words. © Akinjiola Anuoluwa (CreatorYah) 2024 - 2189) Cover design by Me.

Aimi is reborn and tries to survive in the Ancient Benin Kingdom An AfroFantasy Story.

𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻. 𝘢·​𝘵𝘵𝘪·​𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦 | ˈ𝘢-𝘵ə-ˌ𝘵ü𝘥 ⤷ 𝒂 𝒔𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒓 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒕𝒚𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏'𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒓 𝙚.𝙜. 𝐈'𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥. 𝐈'𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭, 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭? 𝐈'𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞. ➛ 𝚆𝙾𝙽𝚈𝙾𝚄𝙽𝙶 (𝙸𝚅𝙴) ✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦ [oc!global girlgroup] Once upon a time, there were 7 young women with different personalities, backgrounds, hobbies, and styles. But they have 1 dream... To be an idol. On May 20, 2025, news spread worldwide that BLACKPINK Jennie's self-founded label, OA (ODDATELIER), introduced the first global girl group. The world is never ready for these 7 girls with hearts of princesses to shine bright as stars. They call them... GEMSTELLA. 📊: 📝 𝐓𝐎𝐏 𝟐𝟎 ✨🏆✨ #1 boysworldelana #1 edencupid #1 gemstella #1 globalgirlgroup #1 liliabuckingham #1 maitreyiramakrishnan #1 ocgroup #1 oddatelier #1 sadiesoverall #1 triplesmayu #2 filipina #2 inakigodoy #2 puertorican #3 binimaloi #3 blackpinkjennie #5 attitude #5 japanese #7 british #10 african #12 seoul 📖: 11 • 22 • 2025 📘: 💭 ✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦ 📢: All the credits belong to the rightful owner except GEMSTELLA's storyline

a world torn between a zombie apocalypse and an alien invasion... Humanity was doomed from the moment he opened that briefcase; he found it in his backyard one summer morning, and upon investigation, he and his wife figured that it contained alien nanochips that had the power to upgrade all, a life changing discovery. They use the chips to help turn the world into a better place, but little do they know that these chips themselves have a far sinister goal to accomplish on planet Earth, which is revealed over 30 years later. On the very same day their son was to become CEO of their nanochip company, an apocalypse breaks out caused by these chips. It is now his responsibility to figure out where the chips come from and why they came there in the first place. What he will discover will be something that breaks his spirit as a human being. This is a work of fiction and it contains sensitive themes such as extreme gore and violence, hate speech, racism, gender-based violence, suicidal themes, explicit self-harm, child abuse+neglect, physical abuse and other themes of abuse. Most impressive rankings: #1 Afrofuturism #1 scifi-thriller

In the Lion's Dungeon, Bones Are Rampant is a dark and emotional Ghanaian novel exploring suffering, survival, fear, betrayal, and hope among young people facing harsh realities.

Adaeze was supposed to leave for university this September. She didn't. Now she's sixteen, bald, and sitting on five million naira her father put in an account with her name on it. He won't say why. She already knows. The Guest in the Room is a Lagos story about a girl who refuses to be quiet about the thing that's killing her.

Tola Segun had just come back from a visit to her best friend's house. When she opened the door and went in, she finds her husband, Ola, lying on the floor in a pool of blood. He had clutched onto a bag that was beside him. This was a bag filled with dollar bills- lots of it. She fears being accused of the crime, and takes the bag and runs out of the house immediately. She gets into her car and drives far away from the scene of the crime. With no fixed destination, she stops at a hotel for the night before deciding on where to go. But it is here at the hotel that she discovers a shocking detail about her husband. Now she wants to find out the whole truth. But there are consequences she didn't realize she had to face.

While vacationing in Soufriere, St. Lucia to celebrate her birthday, Meri almost drowns. Instead of dying, she is able to breathe underwater. She discovers she possesses this gift because she is part Wata, a primordial race of water divinities that originated in Africa. As she learns her newfound heritage and powers, she falls for a doctor. When she returns home to America, there are strange occurrences: people that were lost at sea return, sightings of "water people", and mysterious deaths. Meri must learn to balance her inner duality as well as the fragile balance between the vengeful ancestral gods and humanity. Emerge © All Rights Reserved 2021

A very short story about a girl from a poor background where both parents are drinkers ,no sibling, just her and her books, will they provide a wayout for her? will she have finally live her dream life ? find out by reading 📚 😀 ✨️ hope it inspires and even enlightens you, okay God bless you and love youuu

Lydia needed to start afresh. The passing of her mother and younger brother was the final straw that made her leave Nigeria in pursuit of a new life in the United States. Working in one of the biggest consulting firms in America, her new role suddenly lands her in a room full of people she never thought she'd be in. That's when Ashton first laid eyes on Lydia. Wealth was all Ashton knew. Being the firstborn of James & Lea McCarthy, he had everything he wanted. Everything but the role of CEO and Brianna Kennedy was the only person who was in the way of that. Ashton desperately wanted that role and did not care whoever he had to step on to get it. But as they say, nobody wins when the family feuds. They may be different but it doesn't matter when in those differences, they'll need each other the most.