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Author: Arit Abolade
Publisher:
Published: 2018-08-15
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9781718117198
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHer life takes an interesting turn when a naive teenage girl Ojevwe from New-York street on Udu road is shown an unusual kindness by a wheelbarrow boy, Ochuko at Igbudu market, Warri. There is something unsettling about their first meeting but God's purpose is revealed as they both journey through unexpected events in their lives. Was God intending this for good?
Author: Christie Watson
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Published: 2011-05-10
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 159051467X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 2011 Costa First Novel Award When their mother catches their father with another woman, twelve year-old Blessing and her fourteen-year-old brother, Ezikiel, are forced to leave their comfortable home in Lagos for a village in the Niger Delta, to live with their mother’s family. Without running water or electricity, Warri is at first a nightmare for Blessing. Her mother is gone all day and works suspiciously late into the night to pay the children’s school fees. Her brother, once a promising student, seems to be falling increasingly under the influence of the local group of violent teenage boys calling themselves Freedom Fighters. Her grandfather, a kind if misguided man, is trying on Islam as his new religion of choice, and is even considering the possibility of bringing in a second wife. But Blessing’s grandmother, wise and practical, soon becomes a beloved mentor, teaching Blessing the ways of the midwife in rural Nigeria. Blessing is exposed to the horrors of genital mutilation and the devastation wrought on the environment by British and American oil companies. As Warri comes to feel like home, Blessing becomes increasingly aware of the threats to its safety, both from its unshakable but dangerous traditions and the relentless carelessness of the modern world. Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away is the witty and beautifully written story of one family’s attempt to survive a new life they could never have imagined, struggling to find a deeper sense of identity along the way.
Author: Sunny Awhefeada
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2018-06-14
Total Pages: 523
ISBN-13: 9785739937
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfessor Darah turned seventy on Wednesday November 22, 2017 and to celebrate his very productive career, his colleagues and many of those he has mentored thought it appropriate to mark his official exit from the university in a dignified way by commissioning for publication, in the now acceptable festschrift tradition, the highly compelling and outstanding collection of essays titled: Scholarship and Commitment: Essays in Honour of G.G. Darah. The book is a ground-breaking collection of essays; some are couched as tributes to the ebullient celebrant, there are others on more serious discourses in the areas of literary theories and criticism, language and linguistics, popular literature and politics, the African woman, identity and contemporary realities, oral literature, the news media and cultural studies. The essays, on their own, attest to the vivacity and liveliness as well as the encouraging state of health of publishing in the Nigerian academia, which in this collection alone, parades forty-two essays in different fields or discourses.
Author: Arua Okereke
Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
Published: 2018-02-14
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1489714170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArua Okereke shares his personal account of the Nigeria-Biafra civil war, which ended in 1970, in this inspirational and informative autobiography. While there have been numerous accounts of the war, they have largely been written by governmental participants, military leaders, or academic historians, but this autobiography explains what the war did to everyday men and women. As a private in the Biafran Army and later an orderly to the second-in-command in the Biafran Army, a glorified military name for a servant, the author was involved in the war directly and indirectly. As a fresh child recruit with no battle experience, Okereke had no way of knowing the danger he would face. He did not realize how much he needed to prepare for battle emotionally, psychologically, and physically or how the war would continue to affect him long after it ended. Devastated with the outcome of the war, the author had to cope with the dashed hope of a free Biafra as well as the desertion of his hero, the Peoples General, Odumegwu Ojukwu. Find out how he picked up the pieces of a broken life in The Generals Orderly.
Author: Edward S. Sorenson
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2021-11-09
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis novel tells the story of Sid and his sister, Keira Warri. The novel follows the career of Sid Warri. Sid sets out at 16 to win a fortune in the region of wide spaces, and to search for his father, who is the lost squatter. His father in the family's rosier days owned the big run where Sid goes to seek employment. Will Sid find his father?
Author: Eghosa Imasuen
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2021-09-28
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 0821447432
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA coming-of-age tale told from the perspective of Nigeria’s Generation X, caught amid the throes of a nascent pro-democracy movement, demoralizing corruption, and campus violence. Ewaen is a Nigerian teenager, bored at home in Warri and eager to flee from his parents’ unhappy marriage and incessant quarreling. When Ewaen is admitted to the University of Benin, he makes new friends who, like him, are excited about their newfound independence. They hang out in parking lots, trading gibes in pidgin and English and discovering the pleasures that freedom affords them. But when university strikes begin and ruthlessly violent confraternities unleash mayhem on their campus, Ewaen and his new friends must learn to adapt—or risk becoming the confras' next unwilling recruits. In his trademark witty, colloquial style, critically acclaimed author Eghosa Imasuen presents everyday Nigerian life against the backdrop of the pro-democracy riots of the 1980s and 1990s, the lost hopes of June 12 (Nigeria’s Democracy Day), and the terror of the Abacha years. Fine Boys is a chronicle of time, not just in Nigeria, but also for its budding post-Biafran generation.
Author: Andrew Eseimokumo Oki
Publisher:
Published: 2019-01-04
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781791687236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the wake of violent outbursts over the creation of a new local government area by the then military regime, two warring tribes, the Ijaws and the Itsekiris with an age-old ax to grind come head to head in a bloody and brutal battle for land ownership throwing a once peaceful and lovable city into chaos. Set in March of 1997 in the war-torn city of Warri, Nigeria, BONFIRES OF THE GODS tell heartrending fictitious accounts of real-life experiences of people who had suffered great losses during the violent outrage. It tells a story of love and hate, of life and death, and of a quest for survival in one's own homeland.
Author: W J Peaseley
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1921696168
DOWNLOAD EBOOK‘Peasley's description of the events … is informative, compassionate, exciting and at times deeply moving.' —Don Grant, Australian Book Review ‘The intriguing story of [the rescue of an elderly couple believed to be the last Australian nomads] and how they survived alone for the previous 30 years or so in the unrelenting western Gibson Desert region of WA, is fascinating reading.' — Chris Walters, The West Australian ‘This is a most remarkable book about the recovery during the 1977 drought of an ailing Aboriginal nomadic couple, living in desert regions of Western Australia.' — The National Times Warri and Yatungka were believed to be the last of the Mandildjara tribe of desert nomads to live permanently in the traditional way. Their deaths in the late 1970s marked the end of a tribal lifestyle that stretched back more than 30,000 years. The Last of the Nomads tells of an extraordinary journey in search of Warri and Yatungka.
Author: Ojaide, Tanure
Publisher: Cissus World Press
Published: 2019-07-18
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 0997868988
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNobody wants to be a stranger at home, even if one wants to feel at home in an alien country. Celebrated Nigerian author Tanure Ojaide in this memoir recounts his experiences as a Nigerian living and working in the United States. Feeling at home in the United States, but not all the time is coupled with a longing to visit his natal home, as if possessed by the god of nativity, to his home country he goes. Drawn both ways, in a tough tug of war, depending upon where he finds himself—he is caught up in an unending oscillation; now at home and wishing to leave, and soon outside and wishing to be back at home. Often feeling like a stranger no matter how long he has lived and worked in the United States. Not feeling like a stranger he has also refused to blend, wearing materials that make him stand out as an outsider, an African, a Nigerian, a foreigner. There are other differences of beliefs and ideas which do not follow the mainstream, he seems to see things often from different perspective, as a postcolonial fellow, and the others from their metropolitan position of power. He feels he was already formed as a man before his relocation, maybe he is what he is by choice or remain so instinctively.
Author: Ava Ross
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2021-10-28
Total Pages: 258
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHe's hot and he has huge assets, but he irritates the heck out of me. Savvy: A deadly vine is unleashed on our world, scorching everything in its path. The only solution is to pair up with Skydar-a warrior bad boy in major need of a kick in the you know what. He thinks he can settle our rivalry by staking his claim on me...as his fated mate. Skydar: Life would be complete if only Savvy didn't irk me. But the more we're together on a dangerous mission, the more I realize my second heart beats only for her. So all I have to do is save the planet. And convince Savvy she's my fated mate. Craved by an Alien Warlord is Book 5 in the Fated Mates of the Ferlaern Warriors Series. It packs plenty of emotion, adventure, romance, and it features aliens who look and act like aliens. You can find the rest of the series on Amazon.
