[Karl Maier]This House Has Fallen: Nigeria in Crisis (Paperback) ...A journey into contemporary Africa's most powerful and most corrupt nation. To understand Africa, one must understand Nigeria, and few Americans understand Nigeria better than Karl Maier. This House Has Fallen is a bracing and disturbing report on t... Add to Cart
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[Gbenga Sesan]In My Own Words ...In this book, the author offers both an autobiographical reflection and a collection of his presentations. They take us through a journey of desire, personal courage and the will to grab the moment, whenever opportunity knocks. That trait is in sh... Add to Cart
In this book, the author offers both an autobiographical reflection and a collection of his presentations. They take us through a journey of desire, personal courage and the will to grab the moment, whenever opportunity knocks. That trait is in sh
[WOLE SOYINKA]INTERVENTIONS VI: Nigeria The Nightmare Scenario. ..."...the old guard thought they could maintain the status quo through theft, greed, repression, murder, lies and neglect of the poor who made up over seventy percent of the population. The older generation of military and civilian politicians were pol... Add to Cart
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[WOLE SOYINKA]SALUTATIONS TO THE GUT ...Wole Soyinka’s witty and whimsical celebration of Yoruba cuisine and gastronomy, written over forty years ago, is here presented in an attractive new package with appropriate illustrations.... Add to Cart
[WOLE SOYINKA]THE SEVEN SIGN POSTS OF EXISTENCE:Knowledge, Honour, Justice and Other Virtues ...... Add to Cart
[WOLE SOYINKA]AKE: The Childhood Years. ...A classic of African autobiography, indeed a classic of chilhood memoirs wherever and whenever produced.... Add to Cart
[BEN OKRI]STARBOOK: A Magical Tale of Love And Regeneration. ...“There is no telling when, and how, in what atrocious circumstances that aren’t what they seem, or in what wonderful moment that conceals the seeds of tragedy, there is no telling when and how the trickster god is working. Perhaps even now he is work... Add to Cart
[DAYO FORSTER]READING THE CEILING ...Reading the ceiling’ is a must read for any woman that has walked the walk of indecision. This novel opens up with an eighteen years old protagonist, Ayodele, a Gambian teenager, who has to decide which of the young men in her life to give her virgin... Add to Cart
[DEJI HAASTRUP]A RICH ENABLING SILENCE ...Deji Haastrup’s collection of essays, titled A Rich, Enabling Silence, is the sequel to his much praised 1992 collection, Eavesdropping, which Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka unreservedly proclaimed as “light, urbane reading, product of gentle wit and me... Add to Cart
[BIYI BANDELE]BURMA BOY:A Story of The Adventures of War and its Consequences. ...It's winter 1944 and the Second World War is entering its most crucial stage. A few months ago, Ali Banana was apprenticed to a whip-wielding blacksmith in his rural hometown; now he's behind enemy lines, trekking through the Burmese jungle, a privat... Add to Cart
[SEGUN AFOLABI]A LIFE ELSEWHERE ...An impressive debut collection of stories of Diaspora; of people making their lives in new lands, of the universal need to establish family and identity in a world where the boundaries of geography, culture and language are increasingly fluid. ... Add to Cart
[KAINE AGARY]YELLOW-YELLOW ...Zilayefa, a young girl of Greek and Nigerian parentage, leaves her rustic existence and the protective grip of her mother in the village, in search of a better life in the city. With a recommendation from her church pastor, she is taken in and catere... Add to Cart
[CHRIS ABANI]BECOMING ABIGAIL ...Abani follows up GraceLand, his PEN/Faulkner Award–winning boy's coming-of-age novel, with a searing girl's coming-of-age novella in which a troubled Nigerian teen is threatened with becoming human trade. Abigail's mother died giving birth to her, le... Add to Cart
[CHINUA ACHEBE]HOPES AND IMPEDIMENTS:Selected Essays. ...Because the Nigerian novelist Achebe usually writes in English, his essays are informed by a sense of encounter between Africa and Europe. In this collection Achebe attacks patronizing Western views of African culture with gusto. Focusing on the role... Add to Cart
[CHINUA ACHEBE]Girls at War and Other Stories ...This collection of short stories includes three set in the Biafran war. ... Add to Cart