Download or read book Naija Stories written by Damilola Ashaolu and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series statement from text on last p. of book.
Download or read book Mami Wata written by Oluwagbemiga Ogboro-Cole and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mami Wata - Short Stories in Nigerian Pidgin English seeks to facilitate the use of Pidgin English as a National Language in Nigeria, and to create dialogue among young people in Nigeria. Also, the purpose of producing the work is to provide these young people an opportunity to read and write in a language my generation was deprived of using. Similarly, the subject and the language choice of this book give emphasis on the use of Pidgin English as a language rather than being perceived in the manner linguistic researchers once did. Those researchers relegated it, with respect to other language.
Download or read book African Short Stories Vol 1 written by Ce, Chin and published by Handel Books. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Society of Literary Fellows (Lsi) is the society of creative writers and scholars from African and the world with a critical interest in current developments around modern cultures of indigenous and foreign language expressions. In partnership with Progeny international, the Lsi aims to assess and promote the emergence of works of visionary creative impetus in the genres of modern African fiction, non-fiction and visual arts. 38 stories are included in this anthology.
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 1640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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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 256 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 Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wayo Guy and Other Nigerian Short Stories written by Chima Uchendu and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Bridge at Argenteuil" is a collection of sonnets focusing on the theme of creativity and its importance in our lives. The poems in this second volume center on the topics of painting, art, music, and literature. The title poem explains the poet's reactions to seeing a copy of this Monet painting hanging in her bedroom each morning as she is waking up. The final poem in this volume is the poet's reflections to another Monet painting, "The Cliff Walk At Pourville (1882). Frances Sydnor Tehie was an extraordinarily sensitive and talented poet who relished beauty in everyday life and believed highly in the importance of creativity. Her poems in this volume celebrate the creative spirit in the human experience. She realized that creativity can be found at an early age. This belief is mentioned in her poem, "The Gift Bestowed," in which she reflects on her older sister's interest and talent at sewing from a young age. The poet's belief that creativity should be part of everyone's life can be seen in the poem, "Leave Something Shining". The title of this poem refers to the concept of making a lasting contribution for which one will never be forgotten. In this sense, these poems are indeed a lasting testimonial to the poet's lyrical abilities and devotion to creativity in the fields of art and music. In addition to writing poetry, Frances Sydnor Tehie was also a private piano teacher who deeply loved teaching students to appreciate music from a young age.
Download or read book The Spider King s Daughter written by Chibundu Onuzo and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a Betty Trask Award Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Commonwealth Book Prize Longlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize The Spider King's Daughter is a modern-day Romeo and Juliet set against the backdrop of a changing Lagos, a city torn between tradition and modernity, corruption and truth, love and family loyalty. Seventeen-year-old Abike Johnson is the favourite child of her wealthy father. She lives in a She lives in a sprawling mansion in Lagos, protected by armed guards and ferried everywhere in a huge black jeep. But being her father's favourite comes with uncomfortable duties, and she is often lonely behind the high walls of her house. A world away from Abike's mansion, in the city's slums, lives a seventeen-year-old hawker struggling to make sense of the world. His family lost everything after his father's death and now he runs after cars on the roadside selling ice cream to support his mother and sister. When Abike buys ice cream from the hawker one day, they strike up an unlikely and tentative romance, defying the prejudices of Nigerian society. But as they grow closer, revelations from the past threaten their relationship and both Abike and the hawker must decide where their loyalties lie.
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Short Stories by 16 Nigerian Women written by Toyin Adewale-Gabriel and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 16 Short Stories by Nigerian Women Writers, the third anthology of Nigerian writing to be edited by Toyin Adewale-Gabriel, makes a most important addition to Ishmael Reed Publishing Company's book list. The founder of the association of Women Writers of Nigeria, Toyin Adewale-Gabriel's anthologies have been almost unique in promoting the voices of Nigerian women writers in the literary marketplace. Her second collection, 25 New Nigerian Poets, was published in 2000 by Ishmael Reed Publishing Company to wide acclaim, becoming a best seller on Small Press Distribution's list. The Village Voice Literary Supplement (02/2001) cited the poems as "a heartening response to the silence of the recent past," and the Washington Post (03/10/2002) praised the collection as a "unique experience with pure language magic." Ms. Adewale-Gabriel says the stories in 16 Short Stories by Nigerian Women Writers " have a passion for deep down things, their alluring, humorous or tragic narration revealing the heart of what is the matter with us as a people. They own a humane currency that buys into urgent social and political issues, HIV/AIDS, women abuse, child abuse, adolescent sexuality, infertility, women's participation in democratic politics, levirate, cultural discriminations against the girl child and the Get Rich Quick' syndrome, so seductive for many Nigerians because of the growing poverty of our people." 16 Short Stories by Nigerian Women Writers includes new and established writers. They are: Akachi Adimore-Ezeigbo; Angela Amalonye Nwosu; Sefi Atta; Unoma Azuah; Lynn Chukura; Chinyere Eze-Mbulo; Fatima Usara Hassan-Tom; Biodun Idowu; Karen King-Aribisala; Binta Salma Mohammed; Ifeoma Okoye; Bumni Oyinsan; Ngoizi Razak-Soyebi; Lola Shoneyin; Chika Uniqwe; and Toyin Adewale-Gabriel. Ishmael Reed Publishing Company, an independent small press whose distinguished list of titles includes fiction and poetry works by writing luminaries Boadiba, Victor Hernandez Cruz, William Demby, Sister Goodwin, Colleen McElroy, J.J. Philips, Lorenzo Thomas, Quincy Troupe, and Shawn Wong, has utilized the print-on-demand technology of Xlibris to make this anthology of short fiction by Nigerian writers widely available.
Download or read book News from Home written by Sefi Atta and published by Interlink Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2009 NOMA Award for Publishing in Africa From Zamfara up north to the Niger delta down south, with a finale in Lagos, this collection of stories and a novella respond to and amplify the newspaper headlines in a range of Nigerian voices. Men, women, and children speak out to us from these stories, from immigration centers and police barracks, from street corners and maternity wards. Ghanaian writer Mohammed Naseehu Ali says, Sefi Atta "writes like one who has lived the life of each single character in her dazzling collection of short stories."
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Download or read book Feast Famine and Potluck written by Karen Jennings and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2014-06-14 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling collection from across the African continent and diaspora here SHORT STORY DAY AFRICA has assembled the best nineteen stories from their 2013 competition. Food is at the centre of stories from authors emerging and established, blending the secular, the supernatural, the old and the new in a spectacular celebration of short fiction. Civil wars, evictions, vacations, feasts and romances the stories we bring to our tables that bring us together and tear us apart.
