WITH LOVE FROM CALABAR

With love, from the city that gives you everything and takes everything.

Bolu Badmus didn't go to Calabar to find love. He went to hustle.

As leader of a crew of Yoruba, Akwa Ibom and Ghanaian block moulders contracted to build an Army estate in Ikot Ansa, Bolu expects hard labour, not heartbreak. But when Army Headquarters delays funding, his men are left stranded - hungry, broke, and at the mercy of soldiers.

In Calabar, everyone has a survival strategy. Some find lovers. Some find palm wine. Some find God.

Bolu finds Nifemi.

But Calabar love comes with a price. The city is whispered to be sweet and treacherous, where relationships built on lust crash and where old ethnic wounds run deep. After two failed romances, Bolu, an Egba man from Agege, Lagos, falls for Nifemi Famoriyo, an Ekiti girl whose family has sworn she will never marry a Yoruba man from Ogun State.

What follows is a four-year saga of proposals at Lovers' Anchor Park, pregnancies, family banishment, a mother-in-law who refuses to give up, and two children - Ifedayo and Folakemi - born in the limbo between two families who refuse to eat from the same bowl.

Can love survive tribe, distance, pride, and poverty?

With Love From Calabar is a rich, authentic Nigerian contemporary romance and literary fiction novel that captures the real voice of the Nigerian hustler - funny, defiant, vulnerable, and fiercely hopeful.

This book is for you if you love:
• Raw, street-smart Nigerian fiction in the tradition of contemporary African storytelling • Inter-tribal and cross-cultural romance - Yoruba meets Ekiti in Cross River • Stories of artisan life, Army estates, construction sites, and real Naija hustle • Family drama where tradition clashes with a woman's choice • A happy ending earned with tears, laughter, and two rain-blessed weddings
From the author of hustler tales and everyday Lagos stories, a novel about work, wandering, and coming home.