The Connected: Contemporary African Christian Fiction about Mental Health, Identity, Marriage, Family and Love

The Wedding Guest: With his pride on full display, Segun Adetide-Cole, refuses to dismiss the flirtatious allure of a gorgeous lady he meets at his best friend’s wedding. The night with the mystery woman is one Segun could never forget, no matter how hard he tried. A year later, socially anxious and a shell of his former self, Segun is forced to revisit the night of the incident when he sees the woman again at his cousin’s wedding in Lagos. Is there any hope for Segun? Will he ever live up to his name?Sometimes, I Tie Gélé: Sophie Badmus, the overachieving child of a wealthy English woman, Ella Watson, and a proud Yoruba man, Dr Bankole, is on a quest to find where she belongs; is it Chelsea, Peckham or Lagos? She documents her journey to self-discovery in her film, “Sometimes, I Tie Gélé”. But is Sophie ready for what she’ll discover?Centre Stage: Sharon Starr, Nigeria’s biggest AfroPop sensation, has gone missing days before her international tour, and nobody knows where she is. A few months later, when the trending scandal dies down, Sharon is spotted by a fan at the airport, alive and very well, which gets the Nigerian population talking. Everyone wants to know where she’s been, including her husband and manager, NJ The Producer.Oru Mu: At the top of her game, the God-fearing Bola Ifetomi is the person everyone wants to know. Not only is her career thriving, but she’s also been married to the best of the best, Duro Ifetomi, for five years. Bola has a perfect life! But Bola seldom sees her life this way. To Bola, it’s imperfect and incomplete. Like her upbringing, everybody she knows has something she wants, so she questions God, wondering how long she must wait for a lifetime gift. In Yoruba, Oru Mu means “it’s hot”—can Bola withstand the heatwave coming for her? Read more