Download or read book Oyibos written by Gus Udo and published by Gus Udo. This book was released on 2011-08-22 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vivid memoir offers a fascinating glimpse into the modern-day life of a West African emigrant who embarks on an extraordinary half-century journey to England and America. An intelligent, poignant, and ultimately inspiring account of how unforeseen circumstances can change lives dramatically.
Download or read book Oyibos Memoirs of Culture Shock written by Gus Udo and published by Gus Udo. This book was released on 2011-08-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vivid memoir offers a fascinating glimpse into the modern-day life of a West African emigrant who embarks on an extraordinary half-century journey to England and America. An intelligent, poignant, and ultimately inspiring account of how unforeseen circumstances can change lives dramatically.
Download or read book Tilted Billion Dollar Blind Spot written by Gus Udo and published by Gus Udo. This book was released on 2024-06-14 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling book, you, I, and countless others emerge as collateral damage in a system where the repercussions are not only costly but deeply personal. It unfolds as a narrative of deception and betrayal, where The American Dream collides with the harsh reality of inequality and greed. The book exposes how a venture capital system intended to foster innovation transformed into a hotbed for hubris, unveiling a multibillion-dollar financial scandal rife with recklessness, unscrupulous characters, prominent figures, and troubling practices of pattern-matching.
Download or read book Collected Essays written by Gus Udo and published by Gus Udo. This book was released on 2024-09-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witty and thought-provoking collection, “Collected Essays” takes the reader on a journey through recent times and across multiple continents. This daring anthology explores topics ranging from gym memberships to the epistemology of knowledge and the intersection of religion and space travel. It challenges injustice and hypocrisy in essays like 'Windrush,' while 'Single Dad' reveals life's subtle colors and vibrant shades. Vivid and, at times, deeply moving, it provokes thoughts on family, love, work, and death. A must-read for the curious, it serves as both a perfect introduction to and a comprehensive showcase of the author’s work.
Download or read book American Boy Nigerian Girl written by Robert F Prather and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Prather, a young American, goes through culture shock when he travels to Nigeria, alone, on a quest to marry his bride. The adventure that ensues is filled with excitement and danger as well as a spirit of giving unlike anything Prather has ever experienced. Prather struggles with communication barriers, illness and internal conflict as he experiences stark contradictions to the images of poverty and unrest in Africa constantly portrayed in Western media. He falls in love not only with his bride and her family, but with a new culture, new food, new music and a new way of thinking. Ultimately, he realizes that his bride has done something for him that no other woman could--she has reconnected him with his roots. American Boy, Nigerian Girl is a story of love, discovery and healing that spans three continents and exposes the very human side of West African life in a heartwarming and humorous way.
Download or read book A Cultural Shock written by Maria A. Williams and published by . This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of a Young African written by Kabir Kreem-Bello and published by . This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the young Kabir as he adapts to life in London after emigrating from his home in Nigeria. This warm, spirited and emotionally lively memoir comes to life through a series of intercutting memories and flashbacks. Share this young African's experiences of pleasant and unpleasant surprises, his struggles, cultural shocks and many moments or realisations. He deals with his journey through adolescence in London by remembering the experiences from his childhood in Nigeria. Enjoy his colourful and entertaining anecdotes as he attempts to define himself and the world around him. Find out how he adapts to his ever-changing environment and strange new world through comparison of the new culture and that which he left behind.
Download or read book The Plimsoll Line written by Gus Udo and published by Gus Udo. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE PLIMSOLL LINE: Collected Essays and Tales of Love and Other Subjects, a thoroughly entertaining and well written collection of essays and tales. The book is reflective of the author's unique vantage point and his keen sense of humor and satire. This is the author's second book, his first was: Oyibos: Memoirs of Culture Shock.
Download or read book Never Look an American in the Eye written by Okey Ndibe and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Foreign Gods, Inc. and Arrows of Rain tells his own immigrant’s tale, where what is lost in translation is often as hilarious as it is harrowing. Okey Ndibe’s funny, charming, and penetrating memoir tells of his move from Nigeria to America, where he came to edit the influential—but forever teetering on the verge of insolvency—African Commentary magazine. It recounts stories of Ndibe’s relationships with Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and other literary figures; examines the differences between Nigerian and American etiquette and politics; recalls an incident of racial profiling just thirteen days after he arrived in the US, in which he was mistaken for a bank robber; considers American stereotypes about Africa (and vice-versa); and juxtaposes African folk tales with Wall Street trickery. All these stories and more come together in a generous, encompassing book about the making of a writer and a new American.
Download or read book Luck and Happenstance written by Gus Udo and published by Gus Udo. This book was released on 2021-01-13 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving and gripping account of luck and happenstance in the context of the Windrush Scandal. A British immigration scandal that was reported in the UK press in April 2018. The scandal sent shockwaves through the UK government’s Cabinet and forced the Home Secretary to resign. The author tells his own experience through a collection of essays and tales about his life, which was irreversibly altered by the scandal. A thought-provoking and compelling read.
Download or read book Prince Twins Seven Seven written by Henry Glassie and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-02 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated book, part biography and part artist's catalog, addresses tradition and innovation in Prince's art, the development of his personal style, the force of the supernatural in Nigerian life, and the hard times of the immigrant artist in the United States.
Download or read book Afropolitan Horizons written by Ulf Hannerz and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-02-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction. Nigerian Connections -- Palm Wine, Amos Tutuola, and a Literary Gatekeeper -- Bahia-Lagos-Ouidah: Mariana's Story -- Igbo Life, Past and Present: Three Views -- Inland, Upriver with the Empire: Borrioboola-Gha -- The City, according to Ekwensi . . . and Onuzo -- Points of Cultural Geography: Ibadan . . . Enugu, Onitsha, Nsukka -- Been-To: Dreams, Disappointments, Departures, and Returns -- Dateline Lagos: Reporting on Nigeria to the World -- Death in Lagos -- Tai Solarin: On Colonial Power, Schools, Work Ethic, Religion, and the Press -- Wole Soyinka, Leo Frobenius, and the Ori Olokun -- A Voice from the Purdah: Baba of Karo -- Bauchi: The Academic and the Imam -- Railtown Writers -- Nigeria at War -- America Observed: With Nigerian Eyes -- Transatlantic Shuttle -- Sojourners from Black Britain -- Oyotunji Village, South Carolina: Reverse Afropolitanism.
Download or read book Blackass written by A. Igoni Barrett and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Furo Wariboko, a young Nigerian, awakes the morning before a job interview to find that he's been transformed into a white man. In this condition he plunges into the bustle of Lagos to make his fortune. With his red hair, green eyes, and pale skin, it seems he's been completely changed. Well, almost. There is the matter of his family, his accent, his name. Oh, and his black ass. Furo must quickly learn to navigate a world made unfamiliar and deal with those who would use him for their own purposes. Taken in by a young woman called Syreeta and pursued by a writer named Igoni, Furo lands his first-ever job, adopts a new name, and soon finds himself evolving in unanticipated ways. A. Igoni Barrett's Blackass is a fierce comic satire that touches on everything from race to social media while at the same time questioning the values society places on us simply by virtue of the way we look. As he did in Love Is Power, or Something Like That, Barrett brilliantly depicts life in contemporary Nigeria and details the double-dealing and code-switching that are implicit in everyday business. But it's Furo's search for an identity--one deeper than skin--that leads to the final unraveling of his own carefully constructed story.
Download or read book The Thing Around Your Neck written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These twelve dazzling stories from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — the Orange Broadband Prize–winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun — are her most intimate works to date. In these stories Adichie turns her penetrating eye to the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the United States. In “A Private Experience,” a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman, and the young mother at the centre of “Imitation” finds her comfortable life in Philadelphia threatened when she learns that her husband has moved his mistress into their Lagos home. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow and longing, this collection is a resounding confirmation of Adichie’s prodigious literary powers.
Download or read book Arrows of Rain written by Okey Ndibe and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 2000 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Both humorous and poignant, Arrows of Rain dramatises the relationship between an individual and the modern African state.
Download or read book To Cook a Continent written by Nnimmo Bassey and published by Fahamu/Pambazuka. This book was released on 2012 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that the climate crisis confronting the world today is rooted mainly in the wealthy economies’ abuse of fossil fuels, indigenous forests, and global commercial agriculture, this important book investigates how Africa has been exploited and how Africans should respond for the good of all. As it examines the oil industry in Africa and probes the causes of global warming, this record warns of its insidious impacts and explores false solutions. Demonstrating that the issues around natural resource exploitation, corporate profiteering, and climate change must be considered together if the planet is to be saved, the book suggests how Africa can overcome the crises of environment and global warming.
Download or read book Imitation written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” selection from the award-winning, bestselling author Nkem is living a life of wealth and security in America, until she discovers that her husband is keeping a girlfriend back home in Nigeria. In this high-intensity story of passion and the masks we all wear, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of the acclaimed novels Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah and winner of the Orange Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, explores the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States. “Imitation” is a selection from Adichie’s collection The Thing Around Your Neck. An eBook short.
