Masobe Books, a Lagos-based publishing house, has announced release dates of its eight titles in 2020.
These include Chimeka Garricks’s ‘A Broken Peoples Playlist,’ set to be released on March 30. A collection of short stories inspired by songs, it is described in the synopsis as “a mosaic of stories about living, loving and hurting through very familiar sounds, in very familiar ways and finding healing in the most unlikely places.”
Michael Afenfia’s ‘The Mechanics of Yenagoa’ due out on March 31 takes readers on a ride with Ebinimi, star mechanic of Kalakala Street, a man with a hapless knack for getting in and out of trouble.
‘Odufa: A Lover’s Tale’ by Othuke Ominiabohs hits bookshelves on April 9. It tells the story of Anthony Mukoro who, discovering he cannot father a child, plunges into the reckless life of a pleasure-seeking libertine.
On June 30, Ukamaka Olisakwe’s ‘Ogadinma,’ described as a modern feminist classic-in-the-making, will be unveiled.
This will be followed by Angel Patricks Amegbe’s debut novel ‘The Days of Silence’ due out on July 8. Its synopsis reads in part: “Osasé has a secret she cannot share. Not even with her two sisters and mother, as they all battle to cope with the complexities of sisterhood, the fragile balances in mother-daughter relationships, and the deep scars of marriages gone awry.”
In the same month, on July 13, award-winning author Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s ‘Dreams and Assorted Nightmares’ will hit the shelves.
TJ Benson’s ‘The Madhouse’ and Ominiabohs’s third novel ‘Aviara’ will be released in October 12 and 19 consecutively. In the former, a house brings two unique people in the unlikeliest of chances and leads to the unfolding of Nigeria’s history. The latter, a sequel to ‘Odufa,’ follows the story of twenty-five-year-old Anthony Mukoro who returns from the city, to his hometown in Aviara to die.
Masobe Books and Logistics Limited was founded in April 2018 to encourage reading and be a major player in the African publishing industry.
