HOME AFFAIRS

200pp., paperback, Bayan Street Books, No Place, 2026

ISBN: 9781066600090

Lethabo Khumalo, a Home Affairs official in Pietermaritzburg and mother of three, trades her integrity for survival when a new lover draws her into a web of corruption that promises relief from the quiet depression of unpaid bills and leaking roofs - only to discover the cost of moral compromise when it might be too late.

"Compulsively readable. Nwelue has a gift for storytelling that seamlessly resonates with the problems of our time." - Niq Mhlongo, author of For You, I'd Steal a Goat

Onyeka Nwelue (b. 1988) is a Nigerian writer and filmmaker. His recent works of fiction include Murder in Orania, The Nigerian Mafia: Johannesburg, Lord of the Shacks and Pay the Xenophobie 5 Million Rand. His book, Hip-Hop is Only for Children, won the 2015 Creative Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the 2015 Nigerian Writers’ Awards. He adapted his novella, Island of Happiness, into an Igbo language film, Agwaetiti Obiụtọ, and won Best Feature Film by a Director at the 2018 Newark International Film Festival. His crime thriller, The Strangers of Braamfontein, won the 2021 Crime Fiction Lovers Award and ANA Prize for Prose Fiction. Currently he lives in Mexico.