Audiobooks narrated by Dele Ogundiran

"A brilliant fantasy debut steeped in Yoruban mythology from Nigerian-born author Ponle Oluwole, featuring a strong female protagonist who comes of age while fighting the old gods. In Ayé, spirits roam freely, gods rule through riddles, and every word spoken can shape the world. Set in a world forged by powerful deities known as Orisa, Àyànmó follows Iniola, a teenage girl searching for purpose in a life clouded by sealed memories and hidden truths. To unravel the mystery of her past, Iniola dives into a war against cultists trying to bring about the descent of their deranged deity. To find her life's purpose, Iniola must challenge the very forces that bind her, and humanity's fate, to a divine design. Àyànmó draws from the depths of Yoruba mythology to weave a tale of power, purpose, and destiny. Begin the journey with Ìb?`r?`, the first book in the dark, epic trilogy where fate is never what it seems."

Ponle Oluwole (Author), Dele Ogundiran (Narrator)

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Bitter Honey: Discover your favourite new book club read

"Bloomsbury presents Bitter Honey by Lola Akinmade Akerstrom, read by Dele Ogundiran and Palmira Koukkari Mbenga. Two women. Four decades. A lifetime of secrets. 1978: A scholarship draws Nancy from Gambia’s warmth into Sweden’s winter. When her friendship with charismatic scholar Lars blossoms into something more, she thinks she may have finally found her place. But there’s more to Lars than his charming persona, and Nancy is about to discover the danger of being drawn into his world… 2006: Tina has had her taste of fame as the nation’s Eurovision pop princess. But beneath her glittery façade, Tina is desperate to discover who she really is. Her mother, Nancy, seems desperate to keep the past under wraps, but will an unexpected figure help open the door? Spanning four decades and three continents, Bitter Honey is a story of mothers, daughters, and the importance of carving your own path. P 2025 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC C 2023 Lola Akinmade Akerstrom"

Lola Akinmade Akerstrom (Author), Dele Ogundiran, Palmira Koukkari Mbenga (Narrator)

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Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction

"From an award-winning team of editors comes an anthology of thirty-two original stories showcasing the breadth of fantasy and science fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora. A group of cabinet ministers queries a supercomputer containing the minds of the country’s ancestors. A child robot on a dying planet uncovers signs of fragile new life. A descendant of a rain goddess inherits her grandmother’s ability to change her appearance—and perhaps the world. Created in the legacy of the seminal, award-winning anthology series Dark Matter, Africa Risen celebrates the vibrancy, diversity, and reach of African and AfroDiasporic science fiction and fantasy and reaffirms that Africa is not rising—it’s already here."

Sheree Renee Thomas (Author), Amin El Gamal, Dele Ogundiran, Jamie Lincoln Smith, Kim Staunton, Tamika Katon-Donegal, Tony Tambi (Narrator)

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Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep: Ghost Stories

"A collection of short stories moving through time and place, exploring the spaces where we haunt each other and ourselves through our choices, our institutions, and our dreams. Adam Soto, author of the debut novel This Weightless World, which Robin Sloan called “the social novel for the 21st century,” returns with Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep. In the title story, a one-armed Harlem Hellfighter goes in search of his specially altered military uniform while Influenza ravages Philadelphia. In “Sleepy Things,” a man is bound to the bedside of his comatose girlfriend who haunts his mother’s dreams. In “Wren & Riley,” a couple travels to Wyoming to visit a childhood friend who killed her abusive husband. And in “The Vegetable Church,” a pair of Syrian sisters, refugees of the civil war, find themselves at a crossroads in the home of their European hosts while their dead father whispers to them words of comfort and guidance. The stories in Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep, strange and unsettling, explore the quiet spaces where the living and the dead alike haunt one another through their choices, dreams, and institutions."

Adam Soto (Author), Arnell Powell, Christopher Salazar, Dele Ogundiran, Jeed Saddy, Marisol Ramirez, Shridhar Solanki (Narrator)

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Incomplete Solutions

"An elderly woman in early 22nd-century Lagos is called in to help test the artificial intelligence built from her genius mother’s mind, but all is not as it seems in the Nommo Award–winning story “The Regression Test”. Exiled from Earth for a crime of passion, a young man must learn to survive a barely habitable prison planet and come to peace with his past in “Polaris”. “Wednesday’s Story”, nominated for the 2018 Caine Prize, is at once a retelling of nursery rhymes and folklore and a meta-fictional meditation on the mechanics, art and power of storytelling. In the novella “Incompleteness Theories”, an international team, led by a Nigerian physicist, try to invent teleportation technology with haunting, unforeseen results. From the bustling streets of Lagos to the icy moons of Jupiter, this debut collection of twenty stories from the vivid imagination of the award-winning Wole Talabi explores what it means to be human in a world of accelerating technology, diverse beliefs, and unlimited potential, from a uniquely Nigerian perspective."

Wole Talabi (Author), Dele Ogundiran, Greta Jung, Tony Tambi (Narrator)

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Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa

"dis • rup • tion/d?s'r?p.??n/ [noun] Disturbance or problems which interrupt an event, activity, or process. This genre-spanning anthology explores the many ways that we grow, adapt, and survive in the face of our ever-changing global realities. In these evocative, often prescient, stories, new and emerging writers from across Africa investigate many of the pressing issues of our time: climate change, pandemics, social upheaval, surveillance, and more. From a post-apocalyptic African village in Innocent Ilo’s “Before We Die Unwritten,” to space colonization in Alithnayn Abdulkareem’s “Static,” to a mother’s attempt to save her infant from a dust storm in Mbozi Haimbe’s “Shelter,” Disruption illuminates change around and within, and our infallible capacity for hope amidst disaster. Facing our shared anxieties head on, these authors scrutinize assumptions and invent worlds that combine the fantastical with the probable, the colonial with the dystopian, and the intrepid with the powerless, in stories recognizing our collective future and our disparate present."

Alithnayn Abdulkareem, Doreen Anyango, Edwin Okolo, Genna Gardini, Idza Luhumyo, Innocent Ilo, Jacob M'hango, Julia Smuts Louw, Kanyinsola Olorunnisola, Kevin Mogotsi, Liam Brickhill, Macsmart Ojiludu, Masiyaleti Mbewe, Mbozi Haimbe, Melusi Nkomo, Nadia Ahidjo-Iya, Najwa Bin Shatwan, Nicholas Dawn, Philisiwe Twijnstra, Victor Forna, Yefon Isabelle (Author), Ariyan Kassam, Dele Ogundiran, Tony Tambi (Narrator)

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Finding Love Again

"For performance poet, radio broadcaster and recently jilted bride Kambi, the serene Obudu Mountain Resort is the perfect place to finish her poetry collection and heal her broken heart. But along comes Beba, the gorgeous, olive-skinned man from her past, who had rescued her from an attack several years ago. Back then, they came close to having a relationship but Kambi had pushed him away. In the lush mountain setting, can Kambi resist Beba's charms and keep up the pretence of being his fake fiancée in order to help him in his quest to find his mother? Or will a phony engagement be the key for Kambi to begin Finding Love Again?"

Chioma Iwunze Ibiam (Author), Dele Ogundiran (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Dele Ogundiran

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