Jude Dibia is one of the emerging literary voices from Africa. His fiction explores hitherto forbidden themes of sexuality, sexual identity and abuse in African literature. Jude is the winner of the 2007 Ken Saro-Wiwa Prose Prize and the author of three novels. He works for an aviation logistics company as General Manager and lives in Lekki, Lagos.

Blackbird

Blackbird is a captivating tale of Maya and her husband Omoniyi's suffering. Set in Lagos, it clearly depicts the fine line between the lives of the rich and the poor and portrays the vicious cycle of poverty, desperation, crime and eventual death. It is a novel that entertains, informs and sometimes amuses. It explores emotions of love, jealousy, pride and a sense of duty, and investigates perceptions of beauty and talent.

Category: Fiction
Rights Available: World (excluding Nigeria)

Walking with Shadows

Ebele Njoko had survived a forlorn and poignant childhood, concealing a secret he could not explain and craving the love and approval of his parents. Years later, he reinvents himself and is now known and respected as Adrian Njoko, father, husband, brother and mentor. One phone call and his life as he knows it is changed forever. In coming to terms with his dark secret Adrian is forced to choose between keeping his family or accepting a life of possible loneliness and rejection.

Walking with Shadows is a bold, ambitious attack on many of the staples of homophobic politics in Africa. Dibia handles questions of self-identification and its symbolic burdens with considerable sensitivity.

Category: Fiction
Rights Available: World (excluding Nigeria)