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1	Half of a Yellow Sun more books like this by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie $9.31 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $8.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Things Fall Apart more books like this by Chinua Achebe $1.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.96! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Thing Around Your Neck more books like this by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie $18.00 (new hardcover, see detail) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $14.90! new only from $14.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Famished Road more books like this by Ben Okri $2.49 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.77! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Palm-Wine Drinkard; And, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts more books like this by Amos Tutuola $6.00 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $5.94! new only from $10.18! \| SVS
6	The Joys of Motherhood more books like this by Buchi Emecheta $1.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.71! \| first editions \| SVS
7	No Longer at Ease more books like this by Chinua Achebe $1.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Death and the Kings Horseman more books like this by Wole Soyinka $2.19 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Anthills of the Savannah more books like this by Chinua Achebe $4.50 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $2.25! new only from $8.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	History of Nigeria more books like this by Toyin Falola $14.87 (new softcover, see detail) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $13.55! new only from $14.87! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Graceland more books like this by Christopher Abani $1.99 (new softcover, see detail) add to wishlist 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- ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Arrow of God more books like this by Chinua Achebe $4.95 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $3.48! new only from $8.14! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	A man of the people more books like this by Chinua Achebe $3.49 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $2.35! new only from $7.81! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England more books like this by Walter Dean Myers $1.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The bride price more books like this by Buchi Emecheta $3.11 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist "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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.60! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness more books like this by Wole Soyinka $1.99 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Diffusion of Innovations more books like this by Everett M. Rogers $4.95 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $2.93! new only from $28.09! \| signed copies
18 view cover	Second-Class Citizen more books like this by Buchi Emecheta $8.00 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.15! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria more books like this by William Russell Bascom $10.00 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $3.00! new only from $50.24! \| first editions
20 view cover	The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis more books like this by Wole Soyinka $3.00 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.54! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21	Fever: The Hunt for a New Killer Virus more books like this by John G Fuller $1.99 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Stars of the New Curfew more books like this by Ben Okri $1.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.35! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	The Icarus Girl more books like this by Helen Oyeyemi $1.99 (new softcover, see detail) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Collected Plays: Volume 2 more books like this by Wole Soyinka $4.55 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist '"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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| first editions
25 view cover	The Slave Girl more books like this by Buchi Emecheta $2.25 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $2.20! new only from $11.17! \| first editions \| SVS

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