Download or read book Batolica written by Femi Olugbile and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bearing Witness written by Wendy Griswold and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greed, frustrated love, traffic jams, infertility, politics, polygamy. These--together with depictions of traditional village life and the impact of colonialism made familiar to Western readers through Chinua Achebe's writing--are the stuff of Nigerian fiction. Bearing Witness examines this varied content and the determined people who, against all odds, write, publish, sell, and read novels in Africa's most populous nation. Drawing on interviews with Nigeria's writers, publishers, booksellers, and readers, surveys, and a careful reading of close to 500 Nigerian novels--from lightweight romances to literary masterpieces--Wendy Griswold explores how global cultural flows and local conflicts meet in the production and reception of fiction. She argues that Nigerian readers and writers form a reading class that unabashedly believes in progress, rationality, and the slow-but-inevitable rise of a reading culture. But they do so within a society that does not support their assumptions and does not trust literature, making them modernists in a country that is simultaneously premodern and postmodern. Without privacy, reliable electricity, political freedom, or even social toleration of bookworms, these Nigerians write and read political satires, formula romances, war stories, complex gender fiction, blood-and-sex crime capers, nostalgic portraits of village life, and profound explorations of how decent people get by amid urban chaos. Bearing Witness is an inventive and moving work of cultural sociology that may be the most comprehensive sociological analysis of a literary system ever written.
Download or read book Stars of the Long Night written by Tanure Ojaide and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the Niger Delta this novel tells the tale of a women's struggle for equality in a traditional patriachal society. Against the backdrop of a once-in-a-generation festival at which the one chosen by the gods performs the dance of "the mother mask", Ojaide weaves a tale of suspense while at the same time displaying the traditions and religious beliefs that define the Niger Delta.
Download or read book African Literature Today written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shackles of Freedom written by Ike, Onyeka and published by Malthouse Press. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the dark days of the military and a mafia seizes the life of a nation crippling it down. A fight for the soul of the nation is waged with patriots ready to let it all out but time seems to have a joker of its own waiting…With the thrill and dangers of the time, this is the story of that fight zoomed in through the eyes of a soldier willing to give his all.
Download or read book The Carioca File written by Bode Sowande and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2009 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Carioca File, Bode Sowande explores one of the might-have-beens of contemporary Nigerian history. What would have happened had Biafran troops succeeded in taking Lagos after their overnight lightning occupation of the midwest region? Furthermore what would have happen they achieved their aim of creating a socialist regime in a rabidly capitalist and populous African country? Dr Bode Sowande is a dramatist and playwright who has taught at the University of Ibadan in the Department of Theatre Arts before retiring into his won dance and theatre company Odu Themes.
Download or read book Emperors of Salvation written by Hope O. Eghagha and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2009 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An idealistic lawyer is assassinated for standing up for truth and justice...Fear, treachery, betrayal and terror permeate the lives of the emperors of salvation at the mercy of the poisonous fangs of the nations redeemers. This is a captivating narration of forces at play when a young generation dream dreams in a developing country as every member of an ever-burgeoning elite is on the make. Dr Hope Eghagha is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of Lagos.
Download or read book CONCEPTS OF SOCIAL SCIENTISTS AND GREAT THINKERS written by Andreas Sofroniou and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, CONCEPTS OF SOCIAL SCIENTISTS AND GREAT THINKERS, encompasses nine titles of different subjects and their issues, namely: PSYCHOLOGY, CONCEPTS OF BEHAVIOUR, PSYCHOLOGY OF CHILD CULTURE, PSYCHOTHERAPY, CONCEPTS OF TREATMENT, FREUDIAN ANALYSIS, JUNGIAN SYNTHESIS, SOCIOLOGY, CONCEPTS OF GROUP BEHAVIOUR, PHILOLOGY, CONCEPTS OF EUROPEAN LITERATURE, SOCIAL SCIENCES, CONCEPTS OF BRANCHES AND RELATIONSHIPS, PHILOSOPHY FOR HUMAN BEHAVIOUR. As such, the author attempts to bring together the concepts and thoughts of social scientists and the values of philosophical endea
Download or read book Matters of the Moment written by Tanure Ojaide and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2009 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalist Dede Daro returns from the United States, where he had taken a graduate degree at one of the universities. Dede's return is the buzz of Warri, with the elders proclaiming they had expected him to go far. In contrast to Dede's triumphant return, Franka, who experienced some dire deprivations in early life, and whose sense of judgement seems to have been marred by the blight of poverty, makes questionable decisions. Her marriage to Dede ended in a bitter divorce, and while Dede meets another woman, Furu, with whom he was to know some kind of plenitude of his spirit, Franka descends from one fruitless relationship to another until she ends up in the bed of General Ogiso, the semi-literate and murderous military president of the country.
Download or read book Social Sciences and Philology written by Andreas Sofroniou and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-07 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tome consists of three books which deal with Social Sciences, Philology and their various branches pertaining to the study of human society and social relationships. The disciplines encompassed are: anthropology, demography, economics, geography, political science, psychology, sociology, philology, epistemology, and philosophy. In the case of philology, the book includes the literary contributions of the main European countries from the ancient times through to the current geographical and political divisions. The countries included in the write-up are: Portugal, Spain, France, Britain, Germany, Italy, and Greece. Also included in this write-up are the subjects of history, education, and law, as these disciplines are regarded by many as social sciences.
Download or read book PHILOLOGY CONCEPTS OF EUROPEAN LITERATURE written by Andreas Sofroniou and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Footprints written by Abubakar Gimba and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told through the eyes and experiences of two families, the contemporary state of affairs in Nigeria is dissected, contrasting social existence and political practices under civilian and military regimes.
Download or read book I Remember Syl Other Stories written by Valentine Umelo and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2009 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I remember Syl and Other Stories is a collection of dark stories set in West Africa. Valentine Umelo won the BBC African Performance Playwriting competition in 2002 with his radio play 'Knight in Shining Armour'. He also won a UNESCO residency award for his short story writing at the Ranieri Civetelli Institute in Umbra, Italy in 2006.
Download or read book Monopoly Problems in Regulated Industries written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 5 and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 14. pt. 1/v.1: Examines the ocean freight industry antitrust law exemptions on an individual case basis to determine levels of domestic noncompetitive shipping activities caused by the dual rate system used for conference and nonconference carriers. Includes submitted correspondence and statistics on shipping companies' operations (p. 186-1014). Hearing was held in NYC; pt. 1/v.2: Continuation of hearings on antitrust law exemptions in the ocean freight industry. Includes submitted correspondence and statistics on shipping companies' operation; pt. 1/v.4: Continuation of hearings examining monopoly within federally regulated industries. Focuses on the ocean freight industry and the need for additional regulation of federally chartered steamship conference rates and independent shippers rates. Includes numerous statistical insertions on shipping company operations; pt. 1/v.5: Continuation of hearings on purported shipping industry monopolistic practices; pt. 2/v.1: Continuation of hearings on antitrust problems in the ocean freight industry; pt. 2/v.2: Continuation of hearings on monopoly problems in the ocean freight shipping industry; pt. 3/v.1: Committee Serial No. 10. Continuation of investigation into allegations of antitrust violations by the ocean freight industry through use of secret gentlemen's agreements, discriminatory anticompetitive practices, and violations of conference agreements; pt. 3/v.2: Continuation of investigation into ocean freight shipping industry anticompetitive practices.
Download or read book Tomorrow Left Us Yesterday written by Tayo Olafioye and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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