Download or read book Traveler s Guide to Living in Nigeria written by Patrick Keku and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Poetry captures the very essence of a woman.The way she sees things with her minds eye. This book will give the reader a peek into the Secret Place. (A Woman's Heart)
Download or read book African Cities Driving the NEPAD Initiative written by and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 2006 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) was conceived to address the current challenges facing the African continent. Issues such as the escalating poverty levels, underdevelopment and the continued marginalisation of Africa needed a new radical intervention, spearheaded by African leaders, to develop a new Vision that would guarantee Africa's Renewal. However, it has become self-evident that for NEPAD to succeed, it cannot afford to ignore the rapid rate of urbanization of Africa, and its impact on the quality of life of the urban poor. Over the recent years, UN-HABITAT has embarked on a lobbying campaign at all levels to promote this idea laying a particular emphasis on the role of African Mayors in this context. The NEPAD Cities Programme of UN-HABITAT is a major component of this campaign aiming to address the NEPAD objectives from a different perspective. It was formulated as a means of achieving a quick win for the NEPAD and ground its ideals to the community level through the municipalities and urban centres.
Download or read book THE BEST OF YOU written by Joseph Aigbojie Etute and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You were born to be the best of you; otherwise, you wouldn't have been born at all. Your Creator has more important things to do than creating wasted humans that will fail Him in accomplishing the best He had set for them and had prepared for them even before the foundation of the world. To now see that in today's world only less than 10 percent of us actually attain the best of us not only saddens me, but it creates in me a heavy burden and an agonizing pain far beyond the one that any word can describe. I am a work in progress myself. I have messed up so much and failed so many times that I have even stopped counting. This book narrates all the areas of my life where I have failed and what I would have done differently to bring out the best of me. This book gives you all the practical ways of becoming the best of you. It is a ten-volume series designed and written to help you become the best, and nothing but the best.
Download or read book Coconut written by Florence Ọlájídé and published by Thread. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Why am I not white like everybody else?’ Nan came and sat on the edge of my bed. ‘What do you mean?’ A tender finger brushed against my cheek. ‘Well, everyone in this house is white. Why am I Black?’ A generation of Nigerian children were born in Britain in the fifties and sixties, privately fostered by white families, then taken to Nigeria by their parents. Coconut is the story of one of those children. 1963, North London. Nan fosters one-year-old Florence Ọlájídé and calls her ‘Ann.’ Florence adores her foster mother more than anything but Nan, and the children around her, all have white skin and she can’t help but feel different. Then, four years later, after a weekend visit to her birth parents, Florence never returns to Nan. Two months after, sandwiched between her mother and father plus her three siblings, six-year-old Florence steps off a ship in Lagos to the fierce heat of the African sun. Swapping the lovely, comfortable bed in her room at Nan’s for a mat on the floor of the living room in her new home, Florence finds herself struggling to adjust. She wants to embrace her cultural heritage but doesn’t speak Yoruba and knows nothing of the customs. Clashes with her grandmother, Mama, the matriarch of the family, result in frequent beatings. Torn between her early childhood experiences and the expectations of her African culture, she begins to question who she is. Nigerian, British, both? Florence’s story is an unputdownable tale of loss and loneliness, surviving poverty, maltreatment and fighting to get an education. Most of all, it’s a moving, uplifting and inspiring account of one woman’s self-determination to discover who she is and find her way to a place she can call home. Perfect for fans of Lemn Sissay’s My Name is Why and Tara Westover’s Educated. Audiobook narrated by Adjoa Andoh and featured on the Graham Norton Bookclub What readers are saying about Coconut: ‘Wow, how do I even do this book justice… I absolutely loved this… I would recommend this book to everyone… important and powerful… completely captivating and fascinating… stunning.’ Sibzzreads ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Heart-breaking… eye-opening… heart-warming… I couldn't recommend this enough… fantastic!’ NetGalley reviewer ‘Extraordinarily moving...a stunning read, beautifully written with searing honesty and humor.’ Abi Daré, international bestselling author of The Girl with the Louding Voice ‘One of the best non-fiction books I have read…Amazing.’ NetGalley reviewer ‘I sped through it as I could not put it down.’ Goodreads reviewer ‘Remarkable…with grace, wit, insight and not a little heartbreak.’ Adjoa Andoh, actress and star of Netflix series Bridgerton ‘Incredible… There were places I was shocked; places I was saddened; places I was amazed, and places where I laughed… Florence is now right up there at the top of my mental list of 'inspirational people'. NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I found myself completely immersed from the start! Florence writes with honesty, beauty and courage…delving deeply into some of the most important issues of our times.’ Christy Lefteri, international bestselling author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo ‘A piece of poetic resilience, Coconut is an integral intervention in our understanding of race, identity and belonging.’ David Lammy ‘Fascinating, emotional and enlightening… I felt myself rooting for Florence all the way… captivating. Highly recommended.’ Karen King
Download or read book Confessions of A Gay Globetrotter written by Johnson O'Toole and published by Authors On Line Ltd. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A candid, humerous and often moving account of one man's secret life of homosexuality in a era when to be 'gay' risked not only being a social outcast but imprisonment if caught. The author's exploits and search for sexual happiness and expression start as a child on the Indian sub-continent, move on to his family's return to an austere post-war Britain, an unhappy and perhaps unjust dismissal from a promising army career in the Far East, through to the realisation that normal family life was never going to be an attainable goal in his global search for romantic bliss. From the shores of West Africa, where he finds true love, to Australia and the flesh pots of the Middle East, this a true human interest story of our time told with passion, humour and pathos. A real insight into a way of life that had to be secreted from the world for most of the author's life.
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Download or read book Get Ahead written by Chris Omoijiade and published by ScribeTribe Africa. This book was released on 2024-10-14 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What really is success? What does success mally mean to you! Wealth, health, positive relationships, a good legacy? In Get Ahead, Christopher Omoijiade lays bare through masterful storyelling well researched principles and personal experiences, the undeniable truths that have characterised the subject of success across several centuries, through diverse civilisations, industries, from age-old philosophers to 2166 century outliers. If you've ever wondered what the practical tools to unlock success are, look no further. This book is that master key and will be an invaluable resource and timeless ally Chris shares from a depth of knowledge, wisdom and experience to lay hare the ageless secrets and clues that have enabled people of every race, sex and creed to create their own version of success. He does this in a manner that is differently refreshing and deliberately curated to help you determine what personal succres means and how the sa Riches of Life can be found the routines to be observed and pitfalls to avoid to guarantee you embrace them. Opportunities for success are all around you. Are you ready to take advantage and become successful? It's in your hands, and it's time for you to Get Ahead
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Download or read book They Eat Our Sweat written by Daniel E. Agbiboa and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounts of corruption in Africa and the Global South are generally overly simplistic and macro-oriented, and commonly disconnect everyday (petty) corruption from political (grand) corruption. In contrast to this tendency, They Eat Our Sweat offers a fresh and engaging look at the corruption complex in Africa through a micro analysis of its informal transport sector, where collusion between state and nonstate actors is most rife. Focusing on Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital and Africa's largest city, Daniel Agbiboa investigates the workaday world of road transport operators as refracted through the extortion racket and violence of transport unions acting in complicity with the state. Steeped in an embodied knowledge of Lagos and backed by two years of thorough ethnographic fieldwork, including working as an informal bus conductor, Agbiboa provides an emic perspective on precarious labour, popular agency and the daily pursuit of survival under the shadow of the modern world system. Corruption, Agbiboa argues, is not rooted in Nigerian culture but is shaped by the struggle to get by and get ahead on the fast and slow lanes of Lagos. The pursuit of economic survival compels transport operators to participate in the reproduction of the very transgressive system they denounce. They Eat Our Sweat is not just a book about corruption but also about transportation, politics, and governance in urban Africa.
Download or read book It s Hell on the Coast written by Chris Meier and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reminiscences of expatriate life in Nigeria, West Africa, during the days of the Biafran War. Neither coups d'etat, curfews, capture by rebels, evacuation in a German boat full of beer, nor lack of imported booze and luxuries, placed restrictions on the hedonistic lifestyle enjoyed by many of the several thousand expatriates in the country at the time. [Author bio]Chris (Roberts) Meier lived in Nigeria during the Biafran War, in what was “the most exciting time of my life.” She has lived the past thirty years in Florida and has two grown daughters. Meier still keeps in contact with several old expat friends.
Download or read book Fathers of Nations written by Paul B. Vitta and published by Paul Vitta. This book was released on 2013 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The very best of the world's best researchers have discovered a way to develop Africa: Way Omega. Now Africa's heads of state are at a summit to approve it. If they do, it promises Africa will start developing immediately. Unknown to the summit are aggrieved conspirators plotting to defeat Way Omega and replace it with a rival strategy: Path Alpha. Their path, they say, is the only way. Should the summit still follow Way Omega, or make a U-turn? Fathers of Nations is a satire on contemporary African politics.
Download or read book MUFFLED VIEW written by ANNE ALALIBO and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jenny Rowland discovered she had feelings she could not comprehend, when love, with its muffled view, found its pathway to her at a time and in a place she least expected. Unsure of what the future held for her, it was as though she had found love on a slippery road. Three years later, when she met Richie West again, she resolved to keep hope alive.
Download or read book The Solitary Verses written by Isaac Benjamin and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Solitary Verses are collection of poetry which is written about some spheres of human challenges and the unexplainable issues of the myths in life. The poems are also meant to encourage us that in all the problems that we might face, there is hope if we put our trust in the creator of the universe. This literary work is the first in its series.
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Download or read book An Almanac of Contemporary and Continuum of Jurisprudential Restatements written by 'lai Oshitokunbo Oshisanya and published by Almanac Foundation. This book was released on 2022-07-10 with total page 2492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Compendium of Jurisprudential Annotations of Cases with Treaties, Statutes, Rules and Commentaries
