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Author: Gus Udo Publisher: Gus Udo ISBN: 0984045317 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 249
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This vivid memoir offers a fascinating glimpse into the modern-day life of a West African emigrant who embarks on an extraordinary half-century journey to England and America. An intelligent, poignant, and ultimately inspiring account of how unforeseen circumstances can change lives dramatically.
Author: Gus Udo Publisher: Gus Udo ISBN: 0984045317 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 249
Book Description
This vivid memoir offers a fascinating glimpse into the modern-day life of a West African emigrant who embarks on an extraordinary half-century journey to England and America. An intelligent, poignant, and ultimately inspiring account of how unforeseen circumstances can change lives dramatically.
Author: Gus Udo Publisher: Gus Udo ISBN: 0984045309 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
This vivid memoir offers a fascinating glimpse into the modern-day life of a West African emigrant who embarks on an extraordinary half-century journey to England and America. An intelligent, poignant, and ultimately inspiring account of how unforeseen circumstances can change lives dramatically.
Author: Gus Udo Publisher: Gus Udo ISBN: 0984045368 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 112
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In this compelling book, you, I, and countless others emerge as collateral damage in a system where the repercussions are not only costly but deeply personal. It unfolds as a narrative of deception and betrayal, where The American Dream collides with the harsh reality of inequality and greed. The book exposes how a venture capital system intended to foster innovation transformed into a hotbed for hubris, unveiling a multibillion-dollar financial scandal rife with recklessness, unscrupulous characters, prominent figures, and troubling practices of pattern-matching.
Author: Gus Udo Publisher: Gus Udo ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 240
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A witty and thought-provoking collection, “Collected Essays” takes the reader on a journey through recent times and across multiple continents. This daring anthology explores topics ranging from gym memberships to the epistemology of knowledge and the intersection of religion and space travel. It challenges injustice and hypocrisy in essays like 'Windrush,' while 'Single Dad' reveals life's subtle colors and vibrant shades. Vivid and, at times, deeply moving, it provokes thoughts on family, love, work, and death. A must-read for the curious, it serves as both a perfect introduction to and a comprehensive showcase of the author’s work.
Author: Robert F Prather Publisher: ISBN: 9780615291109 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 246
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Robert Prather, a young American, goes through culture shock when he travels to Nigeria, alone, on a quest to marry his bride. The adventure that ensues is filled with excitement and danger as well as a spirit of giving unlike anything Prather has ever experienced. Prather struggles with communication barriers, illness and internal conflict as he experiences stark contradictions to the images of poverty and unrest in Africa constantly portrayed in Western media. He falls in love not only with his bride and her family, but with a new culture, new food, new music and a new way of thinking. Ultimately, he realizes that his bride has done something for him that no other woman could--she has reconnected him with his roots. American Boy, Nigerian Girl is a story of love, discovery and healing that spans three continents and exposes the very human side of West African life in a heartwarming and humorous way.
Author: Kabir Kreem-Bello Publisher: ISBN: 9781781485644 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 282
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Follow the young Kabir as he adapts to life in London after emigrating from his home in Nigeria. This warm, spirited and emotionally lively memoir comes to life through a series of intercutting memories and flashbacks. Share this young African's experiences of pleasant and unpleasant surprises, his struggles, cultural shocks and many moments or realisations. He deals with his journey through adolescence in London by remembering the experiences from his childhood in Nigeria. Enjoy his colourful and entertaining anecdotes as he attempts to define himself and the world around him. Find out how he adapts to his ever-changing environment and strange new world through comparison of the new culture and that which he left behind.
Author: Gus Udo Publisher: Gus Udo ISBN: 9780984045334 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 132
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THE PLIMSOLL LINE: Collected Essays and Tales of Love and Other Subjects, a thoroughly entertaining and well written collection of essays and tales. The book is reflective of the author's unique vantage point and his keen sense of humor and satire. This is the author's second book, his first was: Oyibos: Memoirs of Culture Shock.
Author: Okey Ndibe Publisher: Soho Press ISBN: 1616957611 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 225
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The author of Foreign Gods, Inc. and Arrows of Rain tells his own immigrant’s tale, where what is lost in translation is often as hilarious as it is harrowing. Okey Ndibe’s funny, charming, and penetrating memoir tells of his move from Nigeria to America, where he came to edit the influential—but forever teetering on the verge of insolvency—African Commentary magazine. It recounts stories of Ndibe’s relationships with Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and other literary figures; examines the differences between Nigerian and American etiquette and politics; recalls an incident of racial profiling just thirteen days after he arrived in the US, in which he was mistaken for a bank robber; considers American stereotypes about Africa (and vice-versa); and juxtaposes African folk tales with Wall Street trickery. All these stories and more come together in a generous, encompassing book about the making of a writer and a new American.
Author: Gus Udo Publisher: Gus Udo ISBN: 0984045341 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 138
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A moving and gripping account of luck and happenstance in the context of the Windrush Scandal. A British immigration scandal that was reported in the UK press in April 2018. The scandal sent shockwaves through the UK government’s Cabinet and forced the Home Secretary to resign. The author tells his own experience through a collection of essays and tales about his life, which was irreversibly altered by the scandal. A thought-provoking and compelling read.
Author: Gus Udo
Author: Gus Udo
Author: Gus Udo
Author: Gus Udo
Author: Gus Udo
Author: Robert F Prather
Author: Maria A. Williams
Author: Kabir Kreem-Bello
Author: Gus Udo
Author: Okey Ndibe
Author: Gus Udo