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Change Inducing African and Caribbean Stories

Authentic & Catalytic

Our stories are memoirs of travails on a matutu or ZR as much as they are about the self-doubt of an island girl navigating the New York City subway system for the first time. Our stories embrace the classical languages of colonial powers as much as they embrace Jamaican patois, pidgins, Igbo, Yoruba, Kwéyòl, or the Trinidadian “all yuh”. They are stories of pitching marbles in the sand and playing with coconut bats but they are also stories of moving to new lands with parents who place the weight of legacy on one’s shoulders. Sometimes they address the unattractive and debilitating parts of culture, putting the right issues in the forefront at the right time, and calling for the progress of change.

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We Write for Social Good

The pen spurs change, it brings awareness, it punishes and discourages, it celebrates and empowers. We write for all of these reasons yet we remain mindful that “money answereth all things”. To answer a few things, we’ve committed to setting aside 25 cents USD for each sale of a book published by us. The money will be used to establish Wakonté Fund which will facilitate and support the donation of grants, art projects, literacy and literary projects, as well as school and library building projects across Africa and the Caribbean.

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Wakonté Books Acquires J.B. Bozie’s Genre-Defying Novel, Misfit

Vieux-Fort, Saint Lucia, March 19th, 2025 – Wakonté Books is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Misfit, a masterfully woven,  read more ➝

Wakonté Books Acquires Publishing Rights for Dr. Velon L. John’s Ramblings of a Mind & Pulsations of a Heart

We’re pleased to announce that Wakonté Books has acquired the publishing rights for Dr. Velon L. John’s works Ramblings of  read more ➝