A reading group, not a company
A handful of writers swapping chapters in a group chat, frustrated that nowhere felt like home for their voice.
Founded in Lagos, written everywhere
A page
for every
unheard story.
We're building the platform African storytellers were promised and never got — built here, for here, free for everyone.
The Premise
"Every other platform was built for someone else's stories first, and ours second. So we stopped waiting."
Epyso exists because African fiction — Yoruba folklore, Lagos romance, Pan-African fantasy, diaspora drama — kept getting squeezed into platforms designed around a different culture's pacing, slang, and rhythm.
So we built our own stage. No translation required, no paywall between a writer and their first reader, and no algorithm that buries a story just because it doesn't fit a template.
How we got here
Scroll →Stripping it back to basics
No ads blocking the text, no subscription wall, no design borrowed from platforms built for someone else.
First hundred stories go live
Genres nobody else carried — Afro-fantasy, campus drama, folklore retellings — finally had a shelf.
A growing library, still free
Thousands of episodes later, the rule hasn't changed: writers first, readers always, no cost to either.
Built with the community
Every feature we ship comes from a writer or reader who told us what was missing. That won't stop.
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Original stories published
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Episodes live on the platform
₦0
Cost to read, ever
100%
Writer-owned work
What we won't compromise on
Four rulesStories before features
Every line of code on this platform exists to make writing and reading better — nothing gets built just because it's trendy.
African at the core
Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Swahili and every dialect between them — written the way people actually speak.
Fast, even on 3G
No ad networks bloating the page. Pages load quickly whether you're on fibre or a patchy connection.
Writers keep the credit
The work stays yours. We build the shelf; you build the story, and the readers find you because of it — not an algorithm.
Your next favourite story is one click away.
Thousands of episodes, zero cost, written by people who get it.