Water Baby
Chioma Okereke
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Length: 400 Pages (Hardcover)
Audiobook: 10 Hours, 29 Minutes
Publication Date: April 11, 2025
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Publisher’s Description
She’s the Pearl of Makoko and the world is her oyster.
In Makoko, the floating slum off mainland Lagos, Nigeria, nineteen-year-old Baby yearns for an existence where she can escape the future her father has planned for her.
With opportunities scarce, Baby jumps at the chance to join a newly launched drone-mapping project, aimed at broadening the visibility of her community.
Then a video of her at work goes viral and Baby finds herself with options she could never have imagined – including the possibility of leaving her birthplace to represent Makoko on the world stage.
But will life beyond the lagoon be everything she’s dreamed of? Or has everything she wants been in front of her all along?
Water Baby by Chioma Okereke is published by Quercus.
About Chioma Okereke
Chioma Okereke was born in Benin City, Nigeria. She started her writing career as a poet and performed throughout Europe and the United States before turning her hand to fiction. Her work has been shortlisted in the Undiscovered Authors Competition 2006,run by Bookforce UK, and in the Daily Telegraph’s ‘Write a Novel in a Year’ Competition in 2007 (Goodreads, 2025).
Read more about Chioma Okereke here.
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