Masobe Books has just dropped a wave of cover reveals for its upcoming 2026 titles, and we are barely containing our excitement! This mix of poetry and fiction work are on the way between March and June, and the range, ambition, and sheer literary energy on display is a reminder that African publishing is not waiting for anyone’s permission to be extraordinary.

Leading the charge is Adedayo Agarau’s The Years of Blood (18 March), a shattering collection of shattered sonnets that walks the streets of Ibadan between 1998 and the present, where children vanish and mothers learn to live with doors that open onto absence. Hot on its heels is Ogaga Ifowodo’s Why Does God Need a Gun? (19 March), which listens for the voices of stolen schoolgirls and faith-filled daughters silenced by gunfire — a lament and a defiance at once, weaving grief with the fragile light of endurance. Then comes Abdulkareem Baba-Aminu’s Kill The Poet, Save The World! (25 March), electric with Africanfuturist vision, moving through circuitry, spirit, memory, and mutation to insist that raw, uncolonized imagination is the most powerful architect of the future.

Also arriving in March: A Museum of Unfinished Men (20 March), a deeply introspective collection that excavates the devastation of failed fatherhood and inherited silence across generations; The Inventory for Lost Things (23 March), a lyrical sixty-poem meditation on memory, grief, exile, and the tenderness of language that journeys from mourning toward renewal; The Origin of Wounds (24 March), in which Malik renders the lives of children in war-torn homelands, migrants on boats, and the wounds carried from slavery to the present with startling clarity; and Jazz Negotiations (20 March) by Nduka, which moves between Nigeria and the United States in poems described as “a score for survival and tenderness, written with the precision of a tuning fork and the sweep of a symphony.” Two more titles round out the list for later in the year: Alhanislam’s A Poet’s Attempt to Freeze Time (19 June), intimate and unhurried, about love, grief, and the sentences we swallow for the sake of survival, and the novel Rebound (23 June), a Lagos-set romantic page-turner about a sharp-tongued woman, an arrogant billionaire, and sparks neither of them can deny. We will be watching every single one of these land!

Enjoy the full cover reveals below and see more details on masobebooks.com/ng.