In The Kaduna Genome, acclaimed Nigerian author Chiedu Ndubisi weaves a masterful biopolitical thriller set against the backdrop of Africa's engineered food crisis. When genetically modified seeds from a global agritech firm promise food security in Nigeria's heartland, farmers like Aliyu Garba embrace a future painted in gold. But when the next harvest fails—across multiple districts—questions mount.
Zara Waziri, a bioethics researcher, uncovers the truth behind the sterility trigger embedded in the seed strain—CycleLock—designed to collapse propagation and erase ancestral farming systems. Alongside journalist Edikan Udo and whistleblower Musa Lawal, she races against state cover-ups, ghost firms, and foreign syndicates to expose a plot of silent dispossession: not of crops, but of land, autonomy, and legacy.
From secret summits in Malta to black sites in Nigeria's highlands, from Nairobi's research labs to the ravaged farms of Kaduna and Zaria, The Kaduna Genome follows a resistance that refuses to be coded out of existence. This novel blends high-stakes suspense, investigative realism, and speculative biotechnology in a chillingly plausible future already seeded in the present.
A profound interrogation of food sovereignty, postcolonial control, and biological weaponization disguised as aid, this story is not just fiction—it is a warning.