Kiru Taye

This has been on the cards for a while. But my grandmother's passing gave me the kick up the backside I needed to make this happen. So it's official. The next step in my love for telling African stories is here. Say hello to Love Africa Press. Love Africa Press is a publisher that celebrates all things African in romantic fiction. We are a digital-first publisher utilising ground-breaking technology platforms like Okadabooks to bring love stories written by Africans to Africa

A weird thing happens to my imagination during this time of the year. It becomes overly active which means that I have several stories vying to be told all at the same time and I have to work hard in focusing on just one. Unlike other people who tend to write fluffy holiday stories around this time of the year, stories I write in December tend to be intense. For example, I wrote Riding Rebel around Dec/Jan. And who can forget Bound to Ransom, probably the most intense story I

Dear Reader, I wrote a book. Scratch that. I've written over 20 books. Earlier this year I wrote the first part of Freddie's story and published it in April. For those of you not familiar with this character: Freddie is a character in the Essien book series. He was first mentioned in Felix Essien's story, Keeping Secrets. But became a major secondary character in Tony's story, Riding Rebel. While I wrote Riding Rebel back in 2014, Freddie stood out. His background was a myste