Nigerian writer & media storyteller
Writer · Broadcaster · African Storyteller
TopeLizbeth is the creative and media brand of Tope Stephen — a Nigerian writer and media storyteller whose work moves between fiction, journalism, broadcasting, African affairs, culture and entrepreneurship. Satire that bites, fantasy that builds worlds, and reporting that refuses the easy headline.
“Tell the truth. Build worlds. Ask difficult questions. Preserve memory. Leave Africa more deeply understood than you found it.”
Featured books
Titles spanning Lagos satire, secondary-world fantasy and contemporary stories about women, family and inheritance.
Satire
When Akin is killed in a hit-and-run by a senator's son, his family expects grief. Instead, they discover that even his corpse belongs to the system. His body is withheld, his organs are sold, and his family's fight to recover him becomes a battle against a government that has weaponised poverty to control its people. As Taiwo, Kehinde, Tola and Abeke are pushed into roles they never imagined, survival begins to demand resistance.
Manuscript / unpublished
Satire
When carpenter Tunde falls into a Lagos gutter while escaping a rampaging cow, he emerges with an extraordinary gift: glimpses of the future. A viral video transforms him into the “Gutter Cowboy,” drawing pastors, politicians, gamblers and influencers eager to exploit his newfound fame. Amid Lagos's poverty, chaos and opportunism, Tunde must decide what to do with a power that could change his life — or make him another commodity.
Manuscript / unpublished
Fantasy
Florian Riven Ashveil was born to rule the most powerful werewolf pack, destined to become its Ultimate Luna. But ten years in the human world have given her a life and freedom she refuses to surrender. Then her silent Guardian, Dodge Rikeon, touches her — and a forbidden bond awakens. With war approaching and duty demanding obedience, Florian must choose between the destiny written in her blood and the love she was never supposed to have.
Full book on Payhip · Excerpts on Inkitt & Wattpad
Contemporary
Dr. Abiodun Onifade has faced more than her share of obstacles, expectations and circumstances designed to define her before she can define herself. But she refuses to surrender her identity to the roles others have chosen for her. Through setbacks and difficult choices, she fights to determine her own path, become her own person and build a life on her own terms.
Manuscript / unpublished
Contemporary
Six years after Caden Ashwell disappears, he is found alive — but without the memories of the years he lost and living under another name. His return disrupts the family his wife, Grace, built in his absence while reopening questions surrounding his disappearance and the theft of Aegis Grid. As old loyalties, marriages and identities are tested, Caden must confront a life that continued without him — and the question of where he truly belongs.
Manuscript / forthcoming
About TopeLizbeth
Tope Stephen writes fiction and reports on the continent she lives in. Across satire, fantasy and contemporary fiction, journalism, broadcasting and business, the through-line is the same: African life told with precision, humour and refusal of the flattened version.
TopeLizbeth gathers that body of work in one place — the books, the broadcasting, In-Depth Africa, the journal and the ventures.
In-Depth Africa
A media platform exploring African people, society, culture, current affairs, ideas and issues with the time and care they deserve.
The lives behind the statistics — who is affected, and what they say about it.
What Africans make, read, watch, argue about and pass on.
Context first: how a story came to be, not only that it happened.
Latest journal
Essays, commentary and behind-the-stories notes.
Nothing is published here yet. Rather than fill the page, it waits — the first entries will appear under Africa, Writing, Media, Culture, Opinion and Behind the Stories.
Broadcasting & media
Broadcast and media work sits alongside the writing — presenting, interviewing, producing and shaping stories for audiences who want the whole picture.
To supplyBroadcast credits, stations, programmes and roles — supply the verified list and it will be laid out as a credits column here.
Ventures
Entrepreneurship is part of the same instinct: make the thing, and make it well.
Food & agriculture
Nigeria’s own tomato powder: 100% dehydrated Nigerian plum tomatoes, with no preservatives, artificial colours, anti-caking agents or salt.
Sourced from Plateau, Kano and Kaduna, then slowly dehydrated and milled for stews, soups, jollof rice, sauces and marinades.
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Contact
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