Author: National Library of NigeriaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
A Bibliography of Biographies and Memoirs on Nigeria
Author: National Library of NigeriaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Oral Forms of Nigerian Autobiography and Life Stories
Author: Adetayo AlabiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000428869
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Oral Forms of Nigerian Autobiography and Life Stories discusses the oral life stories and poems that Africans, particularly the Yoruba people, have told about the self and community over hundreds of years. Disproving the Eurocentric argument that Africans didn’t produce stories about themselves, the author showcases a vibrant literary tradition of oral autobiographies in Africa and the diaspora. The oral auto/biographies studied in this book show that stories and poems about individuals and their communities have always existed in various African societies and they were used to record, teach, and document history, culture, tradition, identity, and resistance. Genres covered in the book include the panegyric, witches’ and wizards’ narratives, the epithalamium tradition, the hunter’s chant, and Udje of the Urhobo. Providing an important showcase for oral narrative traditions this book will be of interest to students, scholars, and researchers in African and Africana studies, literature and auto/biographical studies.
A Nigerian Life
Author: Onyemanze EjioguPublisher: Kraft Books Limited
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
A Bibliography of Bibliographies and Memoirs on Nigeria
Author: National Library of Nigeria (LAGOS)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
In His Hands
Author: Biyi AfonjaPublisher: Statco Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
In His Hands. The Autobiography of a Nigerian Village Boy shared The Book of the Year award at the 2007 Annual Nigerian International Book Fair. It details the journey into the world of academia of a village boy who became fatherless at the age of 5. Biyi Afonja is now a retired Professor of Statistics. He was the first and only Nigerian to be elected an honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and has held posts in the UN and was Pro-Chancellor at Ogun State University, Nigeria.
A Bibliography of Bibliographies and Memoirs on Nigeria
Author: National Library of Nigeria (Lagos)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
The Autobiography of an Orange Seller
Author: Ikogho, EricPublisher: Kraft Books
ISBN: 9789181442
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This autobiography relives the lifestyle of a Warri Boy, the typical escapades of a young man going through life with the influence of peer groups, and an ultimate transformation through experiences of self-discovery and a deepening relationship with God.
That We May be One
Author: Jolly Tanko YusufPublisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
There Was a Country
Author: Chinua AchebePublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101595981
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart—a long-awaited memoir of coming of age in a fragile new nation, and its destruction in a tragic civil war For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Decades in the making, There Was a Country is a towering account of one of modern Africa’s most disastrous events, from a writer whose words and courage left an enduring stamp on world literature. A marriage of history and memoir, vivid firsthand observation and decades of research and reflection, There Was a Country is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe’s place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age.
My Watch
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9789785316339
Category : Heads of state
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The first of a three-volume memoir, My Watch - Early Life and Military, this exquisitely narrated memoir, in turns intensely personal and broadly nationalistic and international, completes a trilogy of autobiographies-My Command, Not My Will, and My Watch-from Olusegun Obasanjo, former President of Nigeria and sojourner of Nigerian and world history -- The second of a three-volume memoir, My Watch - Political and Public Affairs, this exquisitely narrated memoir, in turns intensely personal and broadly nationalistic and international, completes a trilogy of autobiographies-My Command, Not My Will, and My Watch-from Olusegun Obasanjo, former President of Nigeria and sojourner of Nigerian and world history -- The third of a three-volume memoir, My Watch - Now and Then, this exquisitely narrated memoir, in turns intensely personal and broadly nationalistic and international, completes a trilogy of autobiographies-My Command, Not My Will, and My Watch-from Olusegun Obasanjo, former President of Nigeria and sojourner of Nigerian and world history.