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1	Half of a Yellow Sun more books like this by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 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 $8.48! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Things Fall Apart more books like this by Chinua Achebe 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 $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Thing Around Your Neck more books like this by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 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 $14.38! new only from $14.38! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Famished Road more books like this by Ben Okri 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 $4.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Joys of Motherhood more books like this by Buchi Emecheta 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 $5.96! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Diffusion of Innovations more books like this by Everett M. Rogers 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 $1.99! new only from $22.40! \| signed copies
7	Death and the Kings Horseman more books like this by Wole Soyinka 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 $6.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	No Longer at Ease more books like this by Chinua Achebe 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 $4.86! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Graceland more books like this by Christopher Abani 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 $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Anthills of the Savannah more books like this by Chinua Achebe 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 $1.99! new only from $8.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Palm-Wine Drinkard; And, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts more books like this by Amos Tutuola 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 $5.24! new only from $10.18! \| SVS
12 view cover	Arrow of God more books like this by Chinua Achebe add to wishlist Ezeulu, the chief priest of Ulu, has rivals in the tribe, in the white government and even in his own family. Surrounded by trouble, he adopts an increasingly cosmic view of events - surely in the battle of the dieties, he is merely an arrow in the bow of his God? see all copies from $2.47! 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 add to wishlist As Minister for Culture, the Honourable M. A. Nanga is 'a man of the people', as cynical as he is charming, and a roguish opportunist. At first, the contrast between Nanga and Odili, a former pupil who is visiting the ministry, appears huge. But in the 'eat-and-let-eat' atmosphere, Odili's idealism soon collides with his lusts - and the two men's ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $7.81! \| first editions \| SVS
14	Fever: The Hunt for a New Killer Virus more books like this by John G Fuller add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey more books like this by Randy J Sparks add to wishlist In 1767, two "princes" of a ruling family in the port of Old Calabar, on the slave coast of Africa, were ambushed and captured by English slavers. The princes, Little Ephraim Robin John and Ancona Robin Robin John, were themselves slave traders who were betrayed by African competitors - and so began their own extraordinary odyssey of enslavement. ... see all copies from $6.45! new only from $8.59! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England more books like this by Walter Dean Myers 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
17 view cover	Astonishing the Gods more books like this by Ben Okri add to wishlist This is a story for all ages, set in a time and place best known to lovers of fairytales and myths. It is a modern fable, a way of understanding who we are now and how our search for identity affects our perceptions and actions, shot through with the gentle magic of Ben Okri's imaginative prose. 'Astonishing the Gods is properly worked and exact, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Second-Class Citizen more books like this by Buchi Emecheta 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 $4.64! new only from $8.15! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis more books like this by Wole Soyinka 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
20 view cover	The Icarus Girl more books like this by Helen Oyeyemi 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
21 view cover	The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness more books like this by Wole Soyinka 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 $6.68! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Collected Plays: Volume 1 more books like this by Wole Soyinka add to wishlist The Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka has been hailed as 'one of the finest poetic playwrights who have ever written in English' (Martin Esslin) and 'a writer of genius' (Irish Times). The five plays in this collection are linked by their concern with the spiritual and the social, with belief and ritual as integrating forces for social cohesion. A ... see all copies from $2.20! new only from $11.90! \| SVS
23 view cover	Onitsha more books like this by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio add to wishlist Onitsha tells the story of Fintan, a youth who travels to Africa in 1948 with his Italian mother to join the English father he has never met. Fintan is initially enchanted by the exotic world he discovers in Onitsha, a bustling city prominently situated on the eastern bank of the Niger River. But gradually he comes to recognize the intolerance and ... see all copies from $3.52! new only from $3.52! \| SVS
24 view cover	The bride price more books like this by Buchi Emecheta 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
25 view cover	History of Nigeria more books like this by Toyin Falola 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 $13.96! new only from $13.96! \| first editions \| SVS

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