PAY THE XENOFOBIE 5 MILLION RANDS

245pp., paperback, WAA Stellenbosch Uitgewer, No Place, 2026

ISBN: 9781066600007

Political thriller

When a mysterious five-million-rand bounty fuels xenophobic violence across Pretoria Nyamile Baloyi, carrying information worth killing for, fights to stay alive long enough to expose the people determined to profit from division.

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 Home Affairs. 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.