UNTIL THE SHEA TREE

At the age of twelve, Chidi had a name, a mother, and a blue door to return to. A simple fever took it all away in a single morning.

In a village in northern Nigeria, Chidi is an ordinary boy: curious, a dreamer, happy beside his mother and younger brother. But the panic of an outbreak tears him from his family's arms and locks him away in a place where he stops having a name and becomes nothing more than a number.

Chidi is not willing to disappear. He escapes. And sets out, barefoot and alone, on the long journey back home.

On that journey, he meets Baba Jengo, an elderly blind man who knows every path in the country by heart... but can no longer see them. Between them, a pact is born that will change everything:

-You will be my eyes. -And you will be my map.

What follows is an unforgettable journey across rivers, savannas, indifferent cities, and very real dangers. A journey made of hunger and tenderness, of devastating losses and strangers who, against all odds, choose to help without expecting anything in return.

Because this is, above all, a story about the kindness that still survives in the world. About what it means to wait for those we love. And about the question that echoes beneath every page: what is, truly, a home?

Like the shea tree that grows where the land is harshest and still offers shade and nourishment, this novel is born from pain to remind us of something simple yet powerful: we are never entirely alone on our journey.

A luminous fable about resilience, compassion, and the courage to take one more step when no strength remains.

A story that will stay with you long after the final page.

You don't need to see the whole path to begin walking. Only the first step. And then the next.