Author: Chukwuemeka OhukaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Return of Ikenga
Author: Chukwuemeka OhukaLADDER TO GREATNESS- DELUXE EDITION
Author: PRISCILLIA NWANDO ONYEKWELUPublisher: Royal Consortium Press
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Some people were born great, some genealogically inherited greatness, and some human beings right from the wombs had the predestinations of greatness upon their lives. But there are these peculiar sorts of humans who clambered the Ladder to Greatness by their own painstaking and indomitable efforts. This inspirational book, Ladder To Greatness, will titillate your mind, until you propel your way to the acme of Greatness!
Bearing Witness
Author: Wendy GriswoldPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691186308
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Greed, frustrated love, traffic jams, infertility, politics, polygamy. These--together with depictions of traditional village life and the impact of colonialism made familiar to Western readers through Chinua Achebe's writing--are the stuff of Nigerian fiction. Bearing Witness examines this varied content and the determined people who, against all odds, write, publish, sell, and read novels in Africa's most populous nation. Drawing on interviews with Nigeria's writers, publishers, booksellers, and readers, surveys, and a careful reading of close to 500 Nigerian novels--from lightweight romances to literary masterpieces--Wendy Griswold explores how global cultural flows and local conflicts meet in the production and reception of fiction. She argues that Nigerian readers and writers form a reading class that unabashedly believes in progress, rationality, and the slow-but-inevitable rise of a reading culture. But they do so within a society that does not support their assumptions and does not trust literature, making them modernists in a country that is simultaneously premodern and postmodern. Without privacy, reliable electricity, political freedom, or even social toleration of bookworms, these Nigerians write and read political satires, formula romances, war stories, complex gender fiction, blood-and-sex crime capers, nostalgic portraits of village life, and profound explorations of how decent people get by amid urban chaos. Bearing Witness is an inventive and moving work of cultural sociology that may be the most comprehensive sociological analysis of a literary system ever written.
The Young Brides
Author: Olatunde OjomoBlood on the Tide
Author: Neville M. UkoliPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigerian fiction (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Ikenga
Author: Nnedi OkoraforPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593113535
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
An NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR An AMAZON BEST CHILDREN'S BOOK OF 2020 Nnedi Okorafor's acclaimed first novel for middle grade readers introduces a boy who can access super powers with the help of the magical Ikenga. Nnamdi's father was a good chief of police, perhaps the best Kalaria had ever had. He was determined to root out the criminals that had invaded the town. But then he was murdered, and most people believed the Chief of Chiefs, most powerful of the criminals, was responsible. Nnamdi has vowed to avenge his father, but he wonders what a twelve-year-old boy can do. Until a mysterious nighttime meeting, the gift of a magical object that enables super powers, and a charge to use those powers for good changes his life forever. How can he fulfill his mission? How will he learn to control his newfound powers? Award-winning Nnedi Okorafor, acclaimed for her Akata novels, introduces a new and engaging hero in her first novel for middle grade readers set against a richly textured background of contemporary Nigeria.
African Books in Print
Author: The Last Card
Author: Teresa MeniruPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Countdown to Perdition
Author: Muda AtoyebiNothing Need Change
Author: Ngozi EkeziePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description