Love In Africa
Exciting
Romantic
Unapologetically African
A series of high-stakes thriller suspense-romance books exploring the heartbeat of a continent through the eyes of those who dare to change it.
A thriller-romance where politics and desire collide.
It's Zimbabwe 2001. Sibo's father is arrested on treason charges, she's accused of being a British spy and her passport is confiscated.
A five million dollar bounty on her head forces Sibo to flee Harare. In a country with fuel and food shortages where desperation makes betrayal easy, she forms a fragile alliance with Adam, a white farmer fighting to hold on to his family's legacy.
Together, they must navigate a collapsing country where every choice could be their last, and where the growing intimacy between them becomes as perilous as the forces closing in.
Love in Zimbabwe is a gripping thriller, suspense romance set during Zimbabwe's land reform crisis, a story of political upheaval, racial tensions and the intimate bonds forged under tyranny.
You’ve read books that use Africa as an exotic backdrop but little else, Black female characters who exist to validate someone else’s gaze and romance without grit.
This isn't a typical love story where love solves everything. Love in Zimbabwe is set in a real moment in African history. It's intimate and political at the same time.
A visceral, cinematic thriller that doesn't shy away from the fact that attraction between a Black Zimbabwean woman and a white farmer meant something explosive in that context.
A suspense-romance set inside a collapsing political system, seen through the eyes of a Black woman with agency.
Release: Ebook available July 2026
Pre-order paperback from summer 2026
Genre: Political thriller | Romantic Suspense | Literary Fiction |
Setting: Harare, Zimbabwe - 2001
Themes: Political upheaval, racial tensions, survival, intimacy under threat
Synopsis: When British-Zimbabwean Sibo’s father is arrested for crimes against the state, she becomes a target and hunted by a vengeful officer determined to use her as leverage.
Forced into flight in a country tearing itself apart, Sibo forms an uneasy alliance with Adam Pienaar, a white farmer whose world is also collapsing.
Survival pushes them together. Proximity ignites desire. And in a landscape shaped by paranoia, race, and power, love becomes the most dangerous risk of all.
Each stand alone novel, is set in a different African country, different era and in a moment of upheaval.
But they all share the same commitment to complex female characters, real stakes, and love that is entwined with culture, language and life not separate from it.
Release: Coming in 2027
Genre: International Political Thriller | Suspense Romance | Women's Literary Fiction
Setting: Burkina Faso - present day
Themes: Decolonisation, political resistance, love as revolution
Log line: The Assignment: Eliminate the President. The Complication: Falling for the target. In the heat of a modern revolution, can an assassin choose love over her mission?
Synopsis: A contemporary thriller, suspense romance about a female assassin sent to kill Ibrahim Traore.
What was supposed to be a mission becomes something else entirely when she falls in love with her target and discovers his decolonisation work is worth dying for and living for.
A story about love as resistance, desire as rebellion, and the woman who chooses revolution over survival.
Hi, I'm Afia, I've spent my working life telling stories through camera, sound and with actors on TV shows like Call The Midwife, Coronation Street, as well as short films and the theatre.
This novel carries that same sensibility. It's as visual as a movie, as intense as your favourite TV binge watch and as enjoyable as sitting in the best seat at the theatre.
This is a book from Africa, and for readers who want to feel seen, not explained to. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I loved writing it for you.
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Sibo is running. Her father is arrested, the streets are dangerous, and nothing feels safe. And in the middle of it all, love shows up, messy, urgent, impossible to ignore.
Every choice carries risk. Every moment feels stolen. Love in Zimbabwe is full of tension, laughter, desire, and danger. It’s a story where people live fully, fight for themselves, and find tenderness even when the world is collapsing.
Love in Zimbabwe launches July 2026. Pre-orders for paperback go live Summer 2026.
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