Ideas that orient.
Literature that reclaims.
Coordinates Press is an independent publishing imprint founded to cultivate rigorous African socio-cultural criticism, intellectual nonfiction, and transformative literature. We publish works that interrogate inherited templates and map authentic pathways for African thought, institutional sovereignty, and generational ambition.
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The Borrowed Map
Navigating Faith, Ambition, and the Foreign Scripts of Modern Africa
By Olayiwola “Layi” Kola-Seriki
An urgent, forensic examination of contemporary African elite achievement. Drawing from three decades within corporate boardrooms, indigenous fintech, and global transit corridors, the author audits the inherited socio-religious and post-colonial templates that govern modern African ambition—and asks what it takes to build a life on one's own coordinates.
Why Coordinates?
A map can be borrowed, but true coordinates must be calibrated from where you stand. In an era dominated by imported blueprints, Coordinates Press champions books that help modern African thinkers determine their own bearings.
The Active Insider
We do not publish from ivory towers. We champion thinkers and practitioners who write from deep inside the very economic, theological, and institutional machinery they critique.
Intellectual Autonomy
We challenge the unexamined assumption that African legitimacy must always be underwritten by foreign institutions. Our catalogue seeks foundational clarity, not external validation.
Books That Outlast
We reject transient social discourse and trend-driven publishing. We engineer books with deep structural durability, meant to sit on shelves and shape generations of readers for decades.
Olayiwola “Layi” Kola-Seriki
Author · Chief Financial Officer · Fellow, CITN & FCMC
Layi established Coordinates Press to provide an independent institutional vehicle for intellectual literature that bridges corporate reality, theological inquiry, and African cultural critique. He serves as Chief Financial Officer in Nigeria's indigenous fintech sector and is the founding author of the imprint.
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