For readers, writers & the curious

Stories that move the world.

Littory is the library Africa has been writing — a home for digital storytelling, where readers, authors, and book clubs live under one roof.

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“We are building the leading global digital storytelling platform — originating from Africa.”

Africa publishes more than the world reads. Every week, somewhere between Lagos and Nairobi and Accra, a writer finishes a chapter that will never reach a reader because the systems that should carry it never showed up. We built Littory because we got tired of waiting for someone else to.

Littory is a library, a publishing house, a book club, and a payout engine — all under one roof, all in one app. Authors get paid directly, with no middleman in between. Readers pay in cash or coins and find books no other platform is shelving. Book clubs meet in real time, in the chapter you're actually on. The whole thing was designed for the African reading market first; the world comes after.

If you read like reading is what makes you who you are — if you write like you have something to say — we built this for you. We're opening the doors slowly, in batches. Leave us your email below and you'll be first through.

— The Littory team
§ Section II — Five things Littory does well05 chapters
01 — Discover

A library Africa is writing — right now.

Every novel, novella, and serialized chapter being published this month, by authors you've been quietly waiting to find. Curated daily rails. Trending in your city. Hidden voices, surfaced.

  • Editor-curated rails refreshed every morning
  • Trending-near-you, with country & city signals
  • Follow authors — get pinged when they publish
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Ifeoma Bello
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02 — Read

A reading room you can carry.

Distraction-free serif typesetting, drop caps, soft-paper backgrounds. Highlights you can return to. The reading experience African writing deserves — built for long-form attention, not infinite scroll.

  • Beautifully typeset reader, light & dark
  • Highlights, private notes, jump to chapter
  • DRM-protected · works on planes & in tunnels
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Half Of A Yellow Moon · Ch. 4
Chapter Four
The Garden at Dusk

By the time the second rains began, my grandmother had stopped speaking to the radio. She would sit instead at the edge of the courtyard, her hands folded around a tin of palm oil, and listen for the egret in the cassia tree.

What she had heard, she would never tell us. Only that the bird had begun to sing in two voices — one for the harmattan, one for the coming season — and that it would not stop until somebody answered back.

I was eleven the year I tried. I climbed the cassia at midnight with a length of twine and the small clay drum my brother had—

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03 — Belong

Books were always meant to be talked about.

Real-time book clubs per title. Drop into a chapter-four chat at midnight. Run polls, host events, follow members and authors. The social texture of reading — without the algorithmic noise.

  • Real-time chat per book, per chapter
  • Polls, prompts, in-club events & meet-ups
  • Plus & Unlimited members can host their own
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the egret in two voices — I had to put the phone down
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she's writing for our grandmothers honestly
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04 — Earn

A reader pays you, not a label.

Publish a novel, a serial, or a short. Watch a live earnings dashboard — no middlemen, no opaque accounting.

  • Authors get paid directly
  • Live sales feed · daily earnings rollups
  • Set the rhythm — by chapter, by book, your call
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05 — Track

A reading life, kept honest.

Yearly goals you'll actually meet. Daily streaks that don't shame you. Hours read, pages turned, highlights worth keeping. Littory remembers what mattered to you — without turning reading into another to-do.

  • Yearly reading goals & gentle streak nudges
  • Hours, pages, highlights, club activity
  • End-of-year recap, designed for keeping
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§ Section IIIFor the people who write

Authors who chose Littory before Littory was even open.

We've been working with a small group of writers from across the continent during the closed beta. Here is what they told us, mostly unprompted, mostly in voice notes.

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Hadiza MusaKaduna, NG

My first impression of Littory, from the announcement, I was very excited. Seeing a platform center African storytelling from the beginning feels refreshing. It doesn't just feel like another writing app — it feels like a hub where writers can actually grow, connect, and be seen.

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Ummitarrh KadalaAdamawa, NG

I've been obsessed with the idea of one app where African stories live the way they're meant to — oral, vivid, rooted in our context. Most platforms don't feel like home for that, but Littory does. Feels like I walked into a room where everyone already gets it. Glad to be here.

Between Us by U. Kadala
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$direct payouts

straight to your bank, weekly

∞serialize freely

post by chapter or by book — your call

0middlemen

no agents, no imprints, no gatekeepers

§ Section IVThree ways to read

Pay by the book, by the month, or read like there's no tomorrow.

Pay as you readthe coin shelf.
Coin or Cash
Books from 75 to 250 coins

Buy what you want, when you want, in coins. No commitments. Plus monthly bonus on bigger packs.

  • Affordable coin packs
  • Bonus coins on larger packs
  • Coins never expire
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Plusfor the regular reader.
₦2,000/month
₦19,200 yearly · save 20%

A handpicked subscription catalog, no ads, the social tools, and the ability to host your own clubs.

  • Curated subscription catalog (refreshed monthly)
  • No ads, ever
  • Join unlimited book clubs
  • Host up to 3 clubs of your own
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Unlimitedfor the absolutely insatiable.
₦4,000/month
₦38,400 yearly · save 20%

Every book in the subscription catalog. No reading limit. Early access to certain releases. Full social privileges.

  • The entire subscription catalog
  • Early access to select new releases
  • Unlimited clubs to host
  • Priority customer care
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§ Section VThe doors are nearly open

Be there on the first morning we open.

We're letting readers in slowly, in waves, so the writers and clubs have room to breathe. Drop your email below — you'll get exactly one message: an invite, the day Littory unlocks for you.

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