To mark the 1st year anniversary of Liber Book club, Enugu, Nigeria, its members  wrote They Came To Stay- a collection of short stories. Not that they are amateurs , they are closet writers who have attempted to produce a literary work  commensurate with that of their  model authors.

This e-book does not only contain short stories themed around mermaids or mammywater as its fondly called in Nigeria. It also features the summary of Liber Book club discussions and a cross word puzzle game of all the books the members  have read as a group.

It is hoped that you will be moved to read those books too and attempt the crossword puzzle game.

Sylvester AKA Odogwu has been released by his captors and he is having a hard time processing the whole incident and revelation. It also appears that he has a new boss – a face he hoped never to see again in his life.

Written and illustrated by 4-7 Comics Studio

To read 1st issue: Odogwu – Genesis

To read  2nd issue: Odogwu – Paparazzi

Written by Stephen,Felix. N. A comedy which portrays the kind of life decent youths should live and the etiquette’s of a relationship.

2015 budget of Rivers State, Nigeria.

Written in the 1960s by Mrs. Chinwe Akaosa. In this booklet, we view marriage through the eyes of an Igbo married woman. She explains and gives advice on how to  handle a spouse in a traditional or modern Nigerian home of the 1960s era.

In this book, the writer mirrors the Idema community, its poor level of development, and state of economic decadence, caused by the negligence of the Government. The writer also attributes its state to the activities of oil companies that exploit the resources of their host communities and leave them bare-handed to fend-off the fierce beast of poverty and underdevelopment.

Using metaphors and outright allusions, the writer highlights the Niger-Delta struggle, and the richness of a state saddled with perversion and deprivation. The writer also traces the historical pedigree of the NYSC scheme, while emphasising its lofty objectives and x-raying the chasm between these ideals and reality.

This anthology (collated over a 10-year period) is written with the sole aim of  reawakening the diminishing appreciation of poetry and to rekindle its glowing passion. The poems have been carefully selected and arranged into four (4) parts – poems on societal consciousness, love and other emotions, nature and spiritual poems. It contains poems for all aspects of life—spirit, soul and body – making it an ageless book with its true verses built to feed all aspects of our shared humanity. So read, ring, meditate and fill your soul with pleasant melodies.

Ije Odumodu Jere is one of the earliest novels written in Igbo language by Bell-Gam, Leoplod published in 1963 by Longman, London. On one hand, Bell-Gam through intercultural travels of Odumodu, the protagonist, draws attention to the interrelationshp between humans, flora and fauna. On the other hand, he sensitizes humans on the need to respect one another irrespective of differences of colour, race or culture. In a captivating artistic manner, the author shares from an indigenous Igbo perspective useful tips on Education, Engineering, Architecture, Agriculture and Fishery thereby establishing the kind of balance needed for the emergence of a knowledge society.

Sly AKA Odogwu has been captured by an unknown group. What do they want with him? Why the sudden interest in his powers?

Odogwu: Paparazzi is the 2nd issues in the Odogwu series by by FourSeven Comic Studio.

To download issue 1 for free: Odogwu #1

Erimma is an Igbo novel written by J.U.T Nzeako  and translated by Frances W. Pritchett.

Written by Njoku, Nathan. A comedic drama on King Johnson and his wayward wives who plan to kill him and take over his kingdom with the help of their boyfriend/servant, Okoronkwo.

This collection of short stories is the tale of the inhabitants of
Lagos city (Koko city), and their deep struggles to eke a living and
subsist deliberately.

You are loved, Lagosians …

A Book of Three Plays consists of three One-Act plays. The author, Ifedimma Onwugbufor shines light on  girl-child  marriage  through  the dialogues in her one – act plays.

This Thing Called Love:  Memuna’s ready acceptance of Elder Razak, a sixty-year old man, is borne out of frustration induced by her family. This she divulges to them when it is almost late. Was she really ready to be the old man’s bride at 13? Many very young females caught in such web usually make daring decisions in their bid to extricate themselves from the mess. A child will always be a child.

Song of an Owl: Tramples on the ideology of marriages involving two women. This social practice embodies a complication that erodes the 21st century socio-political strata of the Igbo society. Young girls who become pregnant by unwilling males, are mostly married into such circumstances, and the consequence encompasses Ifeoma’s situation when she becomes married to Obiageli solely for procreation. By this arrangement, Ifeoma is robbed of her future as her ambition and survival are dependent on her subservience to her female ‘husband’; and most probably, on the goodwill of the inappropriate or undesirable men who are brought to copulate with her by her female ‘husband’.

My Lane and Yours: Tells the story of superstition of Maami who visits her only granddaughter, Toke Douglas and her young husband, Boma Douglas in Lagos. Toke had been delivered of a new baby and Maami’s one month stay with the Douglases is disrupted by Maami’s constant meddling which wears the new couple out.

“Whether or not you have the power in your hands, matter little if control isn’t yours”

F.L.U.X is  a fictional story delving in the  Nigerian politics  and military arm. This story   focuses on a special ops unit of the military .

In this issue, Waterloo, join Arthur, Brown and the rest of their squad as they stakeout the famous Niger Delta Mangrove.

Written by Umunna Cyril. Anthony is unfortunate in love.He has loved and lost once but is willing to move on.Agnes comes into his life and this time around,the past is back to bite him once again.

Written by Akuneme Nkem and published in the 1960s. Okondu has a first hand experience with unorthodox medicine and pays the price for it.