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Author: Stanley EDOKPOLO Publisher: ISBN: 9781520566177 Category : Languages : en Pages : 365
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When Adanne, the great dancer of Umuofia-agu, becomes pregnant, the secret resolve becomes abortion. But she dreams that the child is going to be great, perhaps a President of Nigeria.When the child is born unto her, a son is not given, but a daughter. Can a girl child grow to become the President of Nigeria? In the Queen of Umuofia-agu Funmilaya, Tessy, Jane and Christian tell us how their friend, Azima, rose from suffering and survival to success and significance.
Author: Stanley EDOKPOLO Publisher: ISBN: 9781520566177 Category : Languages : en Pages : 365
Book Description
When Adanne, the great dancer of Umuofia-agu, becomes pregnant, the secret resolve becomes abortion. But she dreams that the child is going to be great, perhaps a President of Nigeria.When the child is born unto her, a son is not given, but a daughter. Can a girl child grow to become the President of Nigeria? In the Queen of Umuofia-agu Funmilaya, Tessy, Jane and Christian tell us how their friend, Azima, rose from suffering and survival to success and significance.
Author: Chinua Achebe Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0385474547 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 226
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“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.
Author: Ulf Hannerz Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 1800733194 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 236
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Introduction. Nigerian Connections -- Palm Wine, Amos Tutuola, and a Literary Gatekeeper -- Bahia-Lagos-Ouidah: Mariana's Story -- Igbo Life, Past and Present: Three Views -- Inland, Upriver with the Empire: Borrioboola-Gha -- The City, according to Ekwensi . . . and Onuzo -- Points of Cultural Geography: Ibadan . . . Enugu, Onitsha, Nsukka -- Been-To: Dreams, Disappointments, Departures, and Returns -- Dateline Lagos: Reporting on Nigeria to the World -- Death in Lagos -- Tai Solarin: On Colonial Power, Schools, Work Ethic, Religion, and the Press -- Wole Soyinka, Leo Frobenius, and the Ori Olokun -- A Voice from the Purdah: Baba of Karo -- Bauchi: The Academic and the Imam -- Railtown Writers -- Nigeria at War -- America Observed: With Nigerian Eyes -- Transatlantic Shuttle -- Sojourners from Black Britain -- Oyotunji Village, South Carolina: Reverse Afropolitanism.
Author: Oche Onazi Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9400775377 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 297
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The book is a collection of essays, which aim to situate African legal theory in the context of the myriad of contemporary global challenges; from the prevalence of war to the misery of poverty and disease to the crises of the environment. Apart from being problems that have an indelible African mark on them, a common theme that runs throughout the essays in this book is that African legal theory has been excluded, under-explored or under-theorised in the search for solutions to such contemporary problems. The essays make a modest attempt to reverse this trend. The contributors investigate and introduce readers to the key issues, questions, concepts, impulses and problems that underpin the idea of African legal theory. They outline the potential offered by African legal theory and open up its key concepts and impulses for critical scrutiny. This is done in order to develop a better understanding of the extent to which African legal theory can contribute to discourses seeking to address some of the challenges that confront African and non-African societies alike.
Author: Theodore 1908-1963 Roethke Publisher: Hassell Street Press ISBN: 9781013879487 Category : Languages : en Pages : 72
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Author: Victor Chikezie Uchendu Publisher: New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 144
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"Examines the Igbo social system and view of the world. Covers their contact with European culture and the warfare that raged within the Igbo borders."--Textbooks.com viewed Dec. 8, 2020.
Author: Manju Kapur Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1480484504 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 228
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Set against the tumult of the 1947 Partition, Manju Kapur’s acclaimed first novel captures a life torn between family, desire, and love The one thing I had wanted was not to be like my mother. Virmati is the eldest of eleven children, born to a respectable family in Amritsar. Her world is shaken when she falls in love with a married man. Charismatic Harish is a respected professor and her family’s tenant. Virmati takes up with Harish and finds herself living alongside his first wife. Set in Amritsar and Lahore and narrated by Virmati and her daughter, Ida, a divorcée on a quest to understand and connect with her departed mother, Difficult Daughters is a stunning tale of motherhood, love, and finding one’s identity in a nation struggling to discover its own. Winner of the 1999 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best first book (Eurasia Region) and shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award in India.
Author: Stanley EDOKPOLO
Author: Stanley EDOKPOLO
Author: Chinua Achebe
Author: Emmanuel M. P. Edeh
Author: Ulf Hannerz
Author: Oche Onazi
Author: John Anenechukwu Umeh
Author: Theodore 1908-1963 Roethke
Author: Victor Chikezie Uchendu
Author: Christopher Okeke Tagbo Ugwu
Author: Manju Kapur