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 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 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.
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Download or read book African Short Stories written by Chinua Achebe and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1987 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories by African writers which deal with life and customs in African society.
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.
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 Children of the Quicksands written by Efua Traoré and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly imagined magical adventure set in West Africa by a prize-winning new voice in children's writing, Children of the Quicksands introduces readers to Yoruba myths and legends while showcasing the wealth of culture, traditions, adventure, joy, pride, and love found in Nigeria. In a remote Nigerian village, thirteen-year-old Simi is desperate to uncover a family secret. Ajao is nothing like Lagos -- no cells phones, no running water or electricity. Not a single human-made sound can be heard at night, just the noise of birds and animals rustling in the dark forest outside. Her witchlike grandmother dispenses advice and herbal medicine to the village, but she's tight lipped about their family history. Something must have happened, but what? Determined to find out, Simi disobeys her grandmother and goes exploring only to find herself sinking in the red quicksand of a forbidden lake and into the strange parallel world that lies beneath. It must have been a dream... right? Wrong. Something isn’t right. Children are disappearing and it’s up to Simi to discover the truth.
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 1990 with total page 1660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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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 2009 with total page 1596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Good Old Days written by Chike Onyemelukwe and published by . This book was released on 2006-12-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interesting novel for general readership, a fiction written in simple prose and based on unfolding real life experiences.
Download or read book Say You re One of Them written by Uwem Akpan and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2008-06-09 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Oprah's Book Club selection: this "electrifying" book (Washington Post) pays tribute to the wisdom and resilience of children even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances. Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay fees in order to attend school. Even when his twelve-year-old sister takes to the streets to raise these meager funds, his dream can't be granted. Food comes first. His family lives in a street shanty in Nairobi, Kenya, but their way of both loving and taking advantage of each other strikes a universal chord. In the second of his stories published in a New Yorker special fiction issue, Akpan takes us far beyond what we thought we knew about the tribal conflict in Rwanda. The story is told by a young girl, who, with her little brother, witnesses the worst possible scenario between parents. They are asked to do the previously unimaginable in order to protect their children. This singular collection will also take the reader inside Nigeria, Benin, and Ethiopia, revealing in beautiful prose the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa. Akpan's voice is a literary miracle, rendering lives of almost unimaginable deprivation and terror into stories that are nothing short of transcendent. One of the best books of the year: Wall Street Journal, People, Bloomberg News, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post Book World, and Entertainment Weekly
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 Library of Congress Subject Headings F O written by Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
