In 1907, an African porter working for a British hunter starts cataloguing ogres of East Africa with the help of a woman informant. When she reveals she is an ogre herself, he must decide if he can help her fulfill her destiny.

In colonial Angola, a Herero woman torn between her family and her oppressive white husband finds herself accused of disloyalty on all sides. Despite significant sacrifice, disaster ensues when she tries to honor both commitments.

When a young girl from Lagos goes to live with her uncle in Accra, she witnesses the sexual affairs of those around her and becomes herself enveloped in scandal and assault.

A troupe of graverobbing Nigerian children weave together rich tales of their deceased victims set in America, a place full of villains.

A southern Nigerian woman lives through the colonial invasion of white Europeans, losing her son to assimilation and indoctrination that leads him to view her and her culture as savages. Decades later, her granddaughter, a historian, seeks to reclaim her past.

A stubborn, lower-class woman holds on to the hope that an ancient horse will awaken for her. Its transcendent power provides a refuge amid family troubles and threats from an invading people called the feverborn.

The child of two American expatriates in modern Zambia walks through a party, discovering the secret life that servants lead when she isn’t looking.

A young orphaned girl seeks to escape her tribal world and the expectations of her aunts by locating the forbidden magic within her.

While college student Isobelle is staying with her Congolese immigrant uncle over summer break, she hears strange sounds coming from the room that used to belong to her now missing cousin. Behind that door lie a rotting corpse, a vengeful spirit, and dark family secrets Isobelle’s uncle thought he left behind in Congo.

As a member of a 1950's West Indies African/Indian family steeped in superstitious tradition, a teenage boy has four encounters with a spirit that comes to collect the dead, with the last taking someone he loves dearly.