Books that speak from the margins to the mainstream.

Love Is Not Enough

One Man’s Journey From Poverty to Purpose and Everything Marriage Taught Me Along the Way

A memoir

A candid, courageous memoir that explores love, loss, migration, and what it means to build a life across cultures and continents. Written in a dual voice that weaves personal testimony with academic insight, this is an unflinching account of a life lived on the margins of multiple worlds — and the courage it takes to step into the light. Dr Ajibade’s debut memoir is at once deeply personal and universally resonant.

Paperback ISBN

978-1-0667613-2-6

eBook ISBN

978-1-0667613-3-3

Suffocating in Plain Sight

Understanding Toxic Relationships, Cultural Silence, and the Courage to Leave

A vital, compassionate guide to recognising and escaping toxic relationships — particularly within cultural contexts where silence is expected and leaving is stigmatised. Drawing on clinical expertise, cultural insight, and lived experience, this book gives language to experiences that are often invisible, and courage to those who need it most. Essential reading for survivors, practitioners, and anyone who has ever felt trapped by love.

Paperback ISBN

978-1-0667613-4-0

eBook ISBN

978-1-0667613-5-7

Beyond Patronage

Race-Conscious Mentorship in Nursing and Healthcare

A groundbreaking examination of mentorship in nursing and healthcare through the lens of race. This book challenges the patronising, performative forms of mentorship that too often pass for support in predominantly white institutions, and makes the case for culturally informed, race-conscious approaches that genuinely advance the careers and wellbeing of racially minoritised nurses and healthcare professionals. Essential reading for mentors, managers, and anyone responsible for workforce development in the NHS and beyond.

Paperback ISBN

978-1-0667613-0-2

eBook ISBN

978-1-0667613-1-9

Decolonising Nursing and Higher Education

From Diversity Rhetoric to Structural Transformation

The most comprehensive and challenging examination of race, coloniality, and power in UK nursing and higher education yet written. Drawing on critical race theory, decolonial thought, and the author’s five-year programme of empirical scholarship, this book moves far beyond the diversity rhetoric that has dominated institutional discourse for decades — and makes an uncompromising case for structural transformation. Essential for anyone serious about what decolonising higher education actually requires in practice.

Paperback ISBN

978-1-0667613-6-4

eBook ISBN

978-1-0667613-7-1

The Situational Application Framework

Building Belonging with LEGO® Serious Play® in Healthcare Education

A rigorous, field-tested methodology for using LEGO® Serious Play® not as a facilitation exercise but as a legitimate qualitative research tool — one capable of surfacing belonging, voice, and transition in ways that conventional interviews routinely miss. Drawing on over a decade of doctoral and published research, the book sets out a four-principle framework alongside a full evidence base and a complete practical guide to running a session.

Paperback ISBN

978-1-9190771-4-7

eBook ISBN

978-1-9190771-3-0

Beyond the Silence

Understanding Mental Health in Racialised Minority Communities: From Inequality to Culturally Responsive Care

A rigorous account of why racialised minority communities continue to experience poorer mental health outcomes despite decades of policy commitment to equality. Drawing on research, clinical practice, policy analysis, and lived experience across nineteen chapters, Dr Ajibade traces the structural racism, institutional inequity, and policy-practice gaps that shape outcomes across the UK and beyond, and introduces two original frameworks — the CARE Model and the SILENCE Framework — for culturally responsive practice. For mental health practitioners, nurse educators, and policymakers.

Paperback ISBN

978-1-9190771-6-1

eBook ISBN

978-1-9190771-7-8

Beyond the Tithe

Rethinking Giving in the New Covenant

A close, verse-by-verse re-examination of tithing that asks what these Old and New Testament passages actually meant to their original audience. Drawing on decades of pastoral experience and his own personal story of hardship, Pastor Dr Ajibade challenges the assumption that tithing is a New Covenant command, examines why Jesus rarely mentioned it, and confronts the misquoted verses and manufactured giving categories that have displaced the sermon in many churches. For pastors, church leaders, and believers rethinking what Scripture actually teaches about giving.

Paperback ISBN

978-1-9190770-6-2

eBook ISBN

978-1-9190770-7-9

Faith on Its Feet

Prayer, Obedience, and the Courage to Act

A gentle but firm case that prayer was never meant to replace obedience but to prepare us for it. Drawing on scripture from Moses, Joshua, and Nehemiah alongside years of pastoral and clinical experience, Pastor Dr Ajibade names the quiet ways sincere faith can stall — fear disguised as patience, denial disguised as prayer — and walks readers across fourteen chapters through marriage, finances, health, and church life. For believers who pray faithfully yet feel stuck, and the pastors who counsel them.

Paperback ISBN

978-1-9190770-0-0

eBook ISBN

978-1-9190770-1-7

Invisible in Care

Race, Ageing, and the Fight for Dignity in the Care Home System

Drawing on original research into lived experience, decision making, and access among Black and South Asian older adults, this book examines why racially minoritised elders remain among the least visible groups within the UK care home system. It traces the earned mistrust of the Windrush generation, a policy-practice gap that leaves good intentions unfunded, and the everyday absence of culturally safe food, language, and dignity in residential care. For nursing, social work, gerontology, and public health practitioners, commissioners, CQC inspectors, and care home managers.

Paperback ISBN

978-1-9190771-2-3

eBook ISBN

978-1-9190771-3-0

Love Beyond Borders

Three Families, One Journey to Britain

Three Nigerian families building a life in modern Britain anchor this novel of sold businesses, stolen wages, and the particular loneliness of loving a country from three thousand miles away. Inspired by the real, documented experiences of the Nigerian diaspora in the UK, it asks what migration costs a family in money, marriage, and power, and what it can still give back. For readers of immigrant family sagas and stories of love tested by distance.

Paperback ISBN

978-1-9190770-4-8

eBook ISBN

978-1-9190770-5-5

Prepared Through the Fire, Woke Up to the Crown

Before the Covenant

The prequel to Pastor Dr Ajibade’s testimony of his covenant walk with God, telling for the first time the childhood and early adulthood that quietly prepared the ground for everything that followed — a sibling buried at eleven, a name refused against a father’s wishes, a death encounter at eight that opened a lifetime of spiritual sensitivity. Each chapter pairs a Bible verse with a hard-won lesson, building toward the conviction that spiritual warfare is not an ending but a forming. For readers walking through hardship who need assurance.

Paperback ISBN

978-1-9190770-2-4

eBook ISBN

978-1-9190770-3-1

The Marriage Blueprint

Building Strong Marriages Through Biblical Truth and Practical Wisdom

Walking couples chapter by chapter through the seven pillars of a Christ-centred marriage — covenant, character, communication, friendship, conflict, grace, intimacy, mission, stewardship, and legacy — this book is the foundation of The Master Builder Framework™, a marriage-strengthening system developed by Pastor Dr Ajibade from more than three decades of pastoral ministry and clinical mental health expertise. Twelve chapters combine theological depth with a Blueprint Workshop, reflection questions, and a Marriage Blueprint Covenant. For engaged and married couples at any stage.

Paperback ISBN

978-1-9190770-8-6

eBook ISBN

978-1-9190770-9-3

The Marriage Blueprint Workbook

Building Strong Marriages Through Biblical Truth and Practical Wisdom

The companion workbook to The Marriage Blueprint — a guided journal, workshop, and action plan that walks couples through the Master Builder Framework one pillar at a time. Across twelve modules matching the companion book chapter for chapter, couples pray together, reflect honestly, and build practical habits, using tools including a Marriage Health Assessment, Annual Marriage Review, Marriage Covenant, and Family Vision Planner. Ideal for married and engaged couples, premarital counselling, church small groups, and marriage mentoring.

Paperback ISBN

978-1-9190771-0-9

When the Devil Made a Covenant

How It Happened in the Spirit Before It Happened in the Flesh

A testimony of twenty-five years inside a marriage bound by a covenant made without his knowledge — a stillbirth that defied medical timing, a midnight warning that saved his life, a son who vanished with no memory of where he had been. Pastor Dr Ajibade, a mental health nursing academic and ordained pastor, tells this story with the rare honesty of a man unafraid to name what happened, alongside the clinical understanding of a professional unwilling to abandon reason. For readers navigating faith and mental health.

Paperback ISBN

978-1-0667613-8-8

eBook ISBN

978-1-0667613-9-5