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Half of a Yellow Sun
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
From the award-winning author of "Purple Hibiscus" comes this masterly, haunting new novel, in which Adichie recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria during the 1960s.
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Things Fall Apart
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Chinua Achebe
Things do indeed fall apart in the mid-20th-century world of West Africa when the British colonize the country, disrupting the ancient ways of life that have provided meaning and structure for the inhabitants of a rural Ibo village. The hero of the story is Okonwo, a revered community leader and the character Achebe frequently uses as a kind of ...
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The Thing Around Your Neck
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In her most intimate and seamlessly crafted work to date, award-winning author Adichie turns her penetrating eye not only on Nigeria but on America as well, in 12 dazzling stories that explore the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the U.S.
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Famished Road
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Ben Okri
In the slums of an African city, a child named Azaro has cheated on his pact with the spirit world. Meanwhile, his impoverished family must struggle to survive in the real world under British colonial rule.
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The Palm-Wine Drinkard; And, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
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Amos Tutuola
When Amos Tutuola's first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, appeared in 1952, it aroused exceptional worldwide interest. Drawing on the West African Yoruba oral folktale tradition, Tutuola described the odyssey of a devoted palm-wine drinker through a nightmare of fantastic adventure. Since then, The Palm-Wine Drinkard has been translated into more ...
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The Joys of Motherhood
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Buchi Emecheta
Nnu Ego is a woman who gives all her energy, money and everything she has to raising her children - leaving her little time to make friends.
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No Longer at Ease
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Chinua Achebe
This early novel portrays the frustrations and disillusions of Obi Okonkwo, a young African educated abroad who tries to hold on to his traditional tribal culture when is encounters the corrupt ruling bureaucracy of his newly-independent country.
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Death and the Kings Horseman
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Wole Soyinka
In the traditional Nigerian village where this play is set, custom demands that the King's chief horseman accompany his ruler into the afterlife by committing suicide when the King dies. When the King in this play dies, his horseman is relieved when he is barred from his traditional role by the colonial powers that have taken control of his ...
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Anthills of the Savannah
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Chinua Achebe
ANTHILLS OF THE SAVANNAH is a novel about politics in the fictional West African nation of Kanga--a place very much like late 20th-century Nigeria. The military installs an officer as dictator of the country, who gradually becomes more paranoid and despotic until, eventually, he suspects even his oldest friends of disloyalty. Achebe's satiric ...
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History of Nigeria
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Toyin Falola
Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and the world's eighth largest oil producer, but its success has been undermined in recent decades by ethnic and religious conflict, political instability, rampant official corruption and an ailing economy. Toyin Falola, a leading historian intimately acquainted with the region, and Matthew Heaton, who has ...
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Graceland
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Christopher Abani
The first novel by an award-winning Nigerian poet, GRACELAND is about an Elvis impersonator in Lagos whose only way out of his hopeless life with an abusive father is the streets. As he navigates through the Nigerian underclass and faces imprisonment and torture, all that sustains him is his great love for Elvis, American movies, reggae, and rock- ...
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Arrow of God
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Chinua Achebe
In Achebe's poignant novel, a father-son conflict parallels the conflict between tradition and change in Nigeria. The "arrow of god" is the high priest representing the god Ulu who watched over the destiny of an Ibo village--a man so mired in the past that, faced with change, he sinks into madness.
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A man of the people
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Chinua Achebe
A story of vanity and political corruption in modern Africa. The central figure is Chief Nanga, an opportunistic demagogue who seizes power in a newly-independent British colony and proceeds to stifle opposition to his regime. The narrator, a former pupil of Nanga's, becomes a leader of the opposition party.
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At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England
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Walter Dean Myers
Biography of the African princess saved from execution and taken to England where Queen Victoria oversaw her upbringing and where she lived for a time before marrying an African missionary.
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The bride price
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Buchi Emecheta
"Oxford Bookworms" offer students at all levels the opportunity to extend their reading and appreciation of English. There are six stages, taking students from elementary to advanced level. At the lower stages, many of the texts have been specially written for the series, to provide elementary and lower-intermediate students with an introduction ...
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The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness
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Wole Soyinka
Nigerian writer Soyinka, the first Nobel laureate (1986) from black Africa, reflects on the state of the continent at the end of the 20th century, as Africans try to come to terms with their past and to clarify their relationship to the rest of the world. The book is based on three lectures Soyinka delivered at the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at ...
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Diffusion of Innovations
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Everett M. Rogers
At the heart of DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS is Rogers' basic belief in the "innovation/adoption" cycle, detailing the time line in which products new to the market lag before wide adoption. While early adopters will always exist, Rogers contends, the broad success of a product is tied less to its innovation and more to other people's acceptance of it ...
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Second-Class Citizen
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Buchi Emecheta
The titles in the "Textplus" series, designed to reflect the changing nature of English Literature at advanced post-GCSE level, offer the complete text with a specially commissioned introduction and compact background notes placing the work in historical and critical context. Together, these components are intended to open up the text for students ...
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The Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria
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William Russell Bascom
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The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis
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Wole Soyinka
On November 10, 1995, the Nigerian military government under General Sani Abacha executed dissident writer Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight other activists, and the international community reacted with outrage. The response was quick, decisive, and nearly unanimous: Nigeria is an outcast in the global village. The events that led up to Saro-Wiwa's ...
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Fever: The Hunt for a New Killer Virus
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John G Fuller
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Stars of the New Curfew
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Ben Okri
This collection of short stories is set in Nigeria and reflects the mad, exotic and often dangerous chaos which reigns there. They include jumbled up voodoo stories, stories of shanty towns and of men from the villages seeking their fortunes in the streets and filthy gutters of the new towns.
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The Icarus Girl
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Helen Oyeyemi
Written when the author, Helen Oyeyemi, was 18, THE ICARUS GIRL is about young Jess Harrison, who has a Nigerian mother and a British father. Jess is bright and unhappy, feeling torn between two worlds, but she finds some solace in the invention of an imaginary friend named TillyTilly--who turns out to be a very bad influence. This extraordinary ...
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Collected Plays: Volume 2
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Wole Soyinka
'"The Lion and the Jewel" alone is enough to establish Nigeria as the most fertile new source of English-speaking drama since Synge's discovery of the Western Isles.' - "The Times". The ironic development and consequences of 'progress' may be traced through both the themes and the tone of the works included in this second volume of Wole Soyinka's ...
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The Slave Girl
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Buchi Emecheta
On the death of her parents, an young Ibo girl's greedy brother sells her to a wealthy relative and she must learn to live the life of a slave. She clings to her sense of identity, determined to be free one day. This novel, by a Nigerian-born author, won the Jock Campbell "New Statesman" Award.
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