Ogadinma
Ogadinma

Author: Ukamaka Olisakwe

Publisher: Black Spot Books

Published: 2020-09-10

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1911648179

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Ogadinma Or, Everything Will be All Right is a tale of departure, loss and adaptation; of mothers whose experience at the hands of controlling men leave them with burdens they find too much to bear. After an unwanted pregnancy leaves her exiled from her family in Kano, thwarting her plans to go to university, seventeen-year-old Ogadinma is sent to her aunt's in Lagos. When a whirlwind romance with an older man descends into indignity, she is forced to channel her strength and resourcefulness to escape a fate that appears all but inevitable. A feminist classic in the making, Ukamaka Olisakwe's sophomore novel introduces a heroine for whom it is impossible not to root and announces the author as a gifted chronicler of the patriarchal experience. Illuminates a fascinating time in Nigeria's recent past, as the novel's heroine struggles against the shackles of a Church-dominated patriarchal society amid rising political turmoil · Written by a rising star of Nigeria's vibrant literature scene, a finalist for the 2019 Brittle Paper Award for Creative Nonfiction and established screenwriter · An exquisitely written bildungsroman that will appeal equally to readers of literary fiction and a new adult audience

Ogadimma
Ogadimma

Author: Chigbo A. Ugwuoke

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2015-10-11

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9781517774721

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Ogadi's life always seemed to take a turn for the worse. Born in Umuneke, a remote African village to a drunkard father and forced to live with Onome, a wicked stepmother, Ogadi thought life couldn't be worse. She quickly found out how wrong she was when she was plucked out of Umuneke and thrown into the city. Amidst the painful feelings of bitterness, suffering, sorrow, poverty, blackmail and joyful celebration, the author evolves the mysteries surrounding poor Ogadi's miserable life.

Adamma
Adamma

Author: Kingsley Adrian Banks

Publisher: K. A. Banks

Published: 2021-03-18

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13:

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Adamma is a dazzling beauty and Nigeria's biggest female musician. She has clawed her way to the top through sheer talent, uncommon drive and a shocking ability to adapt to people's musical needs. And, she intends to stay at the top no matter what. Obinna Obiekwe is a tycoon and a known playboy, the Casanova of fashionable Lagos society. He loves women, and he spends money on them recklessly. Years ago, he had met Adamma, and now he wants to be back in her life. However, she has kept a deep, devastating secret away from him...a secret he discovers and intends to break her with. He never forgets, he never lets go, and he has Adamma in his sights. He is rich, handsome and powerful, and he wants her to pay. A heartbreaking, emotional saga, so begins the thrilling, exotic story of Adamma, the woman everyone thinks is living the big dream, but whose life is a living nightmare. In the lush playgrounds of Lagos’s high brow areas, the saga of her life plays out, with a bitter past rearing its head at all turns, and a desperate future waiting for her everywhere she turns.

Everything Good Will Come
Everything Good Will Come

Author: Sefi Atta

Publisher: Interlink Publishing

Published: 2012-12-28

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 1623710162

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Everything Good Will Come introduces an important new voice in contemporary fiction. With insight and a lyrical wisdom, Nigerian-born Sefi Atta has written a powerful and eloquent story set in her African homeland. It is 1971, a year after the Biafran War, and Nigeria is under military rule—though the politics of the state matter less than those of her home to Enitan Taiwo, an eleven-year-old girl tired of waiting for school to start. Will her mother, who has become deeply religious since the death of Enitan’s brother, allow her friendship with the new girl next door, the brash and beautiful Sheri Bakare? This novel charts the fate of these two African girls; one who is prepared to manipulate the traditional system and one who attempts to defy it. Written in the voice of Enitan, the novel traces this unusual friendship into their adult lives, against the backdrop of tragedy, family strife, and a war-torn Nigeria. In the end, Everything Good Will Come is Enitan’s story; one of a fiercely intelligent, strong young woman coming of age in a culture that still insists on feminine submission. Enitan bucks the familial and political systems until she is confronted with the one desire too precious to forfeit in the name of personal freedom: her desire for a child. Everything Good Will Come evokes the sights and smells of Africa while imparting a wise and universal story of love, friendship, prejudice, survival, politics, and the cost of divided loyalties.

Tomorrow I Become a Woman
Tomorrow I Become a Woman

Author: Aiwanose Odafen

Publisher:

Published: 2023-03-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781398506145

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'This story of love, loss and resilient female friendship is a definite must read.' Tola Rotimi Abraham, author of Black Sunday 'Aiwanose Odafen's novel has entered popular feminist discourse.' Afrocritik On a Sunday in 1978, Obianuju meets Chigozie at church - the perfect place for an upstanding girl to find a husband. Uju is in her last months studying economics at the University of Lagos; Gozie is a journalist ten years her senior. Crucially, he is Igbo and meets her mother's approval. Months later, they are married, and Uju's life is set on a new course. Over the next two decades, Uju and her friends Adaugo and Chinelo must navigate traumas both personal and political as they learn how to live on their own terms in a traditional society beset by turmoil. Tomorrow I Become a Woman is a nuanced and powerful story of friendship and resilience, set against the backdrop of a fast-changing Nigeria. 'Searing and beautifully rendered.' Koa Beck, author of White Feminism 'Unflinching and cuts to the core.' Chika Unigwe, author of On Black Sisters Street 'An accomplished and emotional triumph.' Louise Beech, author of How To Be Brave

Dawsk
Dawsk

Author: Erhu Kome Yellow

Publisher:

Published: 2019-06-28

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781916154612

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A demon hunter, a witch incarnate and a shape-shifter; a messed up trio in an even messier love triangle.

The Man and His Destiny
The Man and His Destiny

Author: Dr. Kemdi C. Opara

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2018-04-20

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 1642141275

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Destiny calls many people around the world to do great things and make a difference in their communities, countries, and societies. In Nigeria, destiny set its eyes on an orphan boy called Amajuoyi. After leaving home in the wake of abuse by his father's other family, Amajuoyi is found by a palm-wine tapper named Nkwuzor, who makes him his son and raises him to be an honorable man. But the road to greatness isn't always smooth, and Amajuoyi encounters several bitter and disheartening challenges along the way. But in the end-with faith, forgiveness, and perseverance-he finally achieves the great honor that destiny has prepared for him all along.

Tears Like Rivers
Tears Like Rivers

Author: Orji A. Orji

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-09-12

Total Pages: 702

ISBN-13: 1483498891

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Ogbeyialu was not born like every other person. Sequel, she had no person in this world except Ade and she was the only person in Ade's life. Her birth placed her on the lowest social stratum. She was an evening flower and their peculiar world made Ade give her the nod to run his life. Fate brought Ade to Col. Kalu, one of the Biafran leaders. Circumstances and the meeting conspired and forced him to research on the Nigeria Biafra War for his degree project. Lilly, a head turner with brains, was from a rich and powerful family. Many men with muscles wanted her hand in marriage but she would not look their way. She wanted Ade but he did not want her and did not want to get near her. He had nothing, as a result, was not yet ready for marriage. Lilly's father was dangerous. Ade's background made him weak and vulnerable but her uncle and foster father, Joe Onuma, was a Biafran captain and had a truckload of the war stories. Research apart, Lilly would give Ade what he did not have.