Download or read book Tosin s Story written by Onyinye Ough and published by Onyinye Ough. This book was released on 2019-11-03 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tosin is a young journalist, determined to write about issues that affect the poor. When a nearby building collapses, killing many local residents, Tosin is determined to uncover the truth. Can she expose the corruption and cover-up before more buildings collapse? Written by Onyinye Ough, author of ‘Emeka’s Money’ and ‘Halima’s Vote’, this book is a modern parable about the impact of corruption in journalism. It teaches children aged 9 to 14 how corruption undermines the coverage of important issues. It also shows how investigative journalists with integrity and courage can make a difference. It aims to encourage young people to turn away from a culture of ‘brown envelopes’, and be willing to speak out to make a difference.
Download or read book Everything Good Will Come written by Sefi Atta and published by Interlink Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything Good Will Come introduces an important new voice in contemporary fiction. With insight and a lyrical wisdom, Nigerian-born Sefi Atta has written a powerful and eloquent story set in her African homeland. It is 1971, a year after the Biafran War, and Nigeria is under military rule—though the politics of the state matter less than those of her home to Enitan Taiwo, an eleven-year-old girl tired of waiting for school to start. Will her mother, who has become deeply religious since the death of Enitan’s brother, allow her friendship with the new girl next door, the brash and beautiful Sheri Bakare? This novel charts the fate of these two African girls; one who is prepared to manipulate the traditional system and one who attempts to defy it. Written in the voice of Enitan, the novel traces this unusual friendship into their adult lives, against the backdrop of tragedy, family strife, and a war-torn Nigeria. In the end, Everything Good Will Come is Enitan’s story; one of a fiercely intelligent, strong young woman coming of age in a culture that still insists on feminine submission. Enitan bucks the familial and political systems until she is confronted with the one desire too precious to forfeit in the name of personal freedom: her desire for a child. Everything Good Will Come evokes the sights and smells of Africa while imparting a wise and universal story of love, friendship, prejudice, survival, politics, and the cost of divided loyalties.
Download or read book The Secret Lives of Baba Segi s Wives written by Lola Shoneyin and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-12-06 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coming soon to Netflix When Baba Segi awoke with a bellyache for the sixth day in a row, he knew it was time to do something drastic about his fourth wife's childlessness. To the dismay of her ambitious mother, Bolanle marries into a polygamous family, where she is the fourth wife of a rich, rotund patriarch, Baba Segi. She is a graduate and therefore a great prize, but even graduates must produce children and her husband's persistent bellyache is a sign that things are not as they should be. She only wants to escape to a quiet life, but the others disapprove of the newest, youngest, cleverest addition to the family. Treated with respect by her husband, she is viewed with suspicion by her seniors - who fear she may unlock their well-guarded secret. Through the voices of Baba Segi and his four wives, Lola Shoneyin weaves a vibrant story of love, secrets and a family like every other - happy and unhappy, truthful and not, sometimes kind, sometimes competitive, always bound by blood, and the past.
Download or read book The Tortoise the Dog and the Farmer written by and published by Dareaders House. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A common feature in most African folklore, especially children's folk tales, is the trickster. The trickster is a cunning character that uses its natural intelligence to play tricks on others or break the rules. The trickster takes many forms, with the most common being human, sprit, or animal. In many west African tales, the tortoise is greatly featured as the trickster. The tales of the tortoise usually serve as a warning against immorality. The Sisi Tosin Tortoise series, brings back to life a classic oral tradition that has been passed down from generation to generation with vivid illustrations. The adventures of the trickster tortoise will equally amuse and teach children.
Download or read book A Frontier Knight A Story of Early Texan Border Life written by Amy Ella Blanchard and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE sun was shining gloriously across level sweeps of blue-grass meadow-land, and sending its beams through the windows of a plain, substantial, country house, where it made squares of brightness on the whitewashed walls, sharply outlining the shadows, and touching to gold the fair hair of a girl who sat motionless on a low stool near the window. She was thinking intently and did not heed the entrance of an older girl who glanced at her with a smile and began to busy herself about the room. Finally the girl at the window gave a deep sigh and stretched her hands above her head. “Oh, is it dinner time, Christine?” she said. “Very near,” was the reply. “What a brown study you were in, Alison; you must have been miles away.” “And so I was. I must decide, you know.” “Yes, I do know.” There was a serious note in Christine’s voice. “And have you decided?” she asked after a pause. “Yes.” The girl arose and came to where her sister stood. She laid her hands on the shoulders of the other and looked steadfastly into the clear eyes. “I am going with you and John,” she said. “There are just the three of us, and I cannot be separated from you, even though I have this home for always, mine at Aunt Miranda’s death and all its comforts while I live here. I have thought it over. I have thought of the days which will go by all alike; everything just so, all cut and dried; up at such an hour every morning; hot rolls for breakfast on Wednesdays and Saturdays, cold bread on Mondays. Every chair set at exactly such an angle, Aunt Miranda always with her hair parted precisely, Uncle Brown with his whiskers curled in just such a fashion, never a hair out of place; never any excitement; once a month the minister and his wife to dinner; once a year a day in
Download or read book All story Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1937-08-07 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book And I Don t Want to Live This Life written by Deborah Spungen and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Honest and moving . . . Her painful tale is engrossing.”—Washington Post Book World For most of us, it was just another horrible headline. But for Deborah Spungen, the mother of Nancy, who was stabbed to death at the Chelsea Hotel, it was both a relief and a tragedy. Here is the incredible story of an infant who never stopped screaming, a toddler who attacked people, a teenager addicted to drugs, violence, and easy sex, a daughter completely out of control—who almost destroyed her parents’ marriage and the happiness of the rest of her family.
Download or read book Bridge to Haven written by Francine Rivers and published by Tyndale House Pub. This book was released on 2014 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having been abandoned as a newborn and found and raised by Pastor Ezekiel Freeman in the small California town of Haven, Abra Matthews feels like she doesn't belong and at the age of seventeen runs off to Hollywood, becoming starlet Lena Scott.
Download or read book The Smart Money Woman written by Arese Ugwu and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Zuri. She’s living a fabulous life. Great car, gorgeous apartment, well paid job. Meet Zuri. Broken down car, an apartment she cant afford, a job she’s about to lose. What’s a broke girl to do? With each chapter of The Smart Money Woman comes a Smart Money Lesson, there to help you work your way up the financial ladder.
Download or read book My Story written by Tosin Kolawole Olalere and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Children of Blood and Bone written by Tomi Adeyemi and published by Henry Holt Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zľie Adebola remembers when the soil of Ors̐ha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zľie's Reaper mother summoned forth souls.
Download or read book Nigeria s Soldiers of Fortune written by Max Siollun and published by Hurst & Company. This book was released on 2019 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mini-history of a nation's life told in the stories of three protagonists
Download or read book Halima s Vote written by Onyinye Ough and published by Onyinye Ough. This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Halima’s village was forgotten by government, with no schools, clinics or clean water. At election time, politicians would come with small gifts of cash or bags of rice in order to win the votes of the villagers. Halima was a hardworking woman but also very timid. Until one day something bad happened to her village that made Halima determined to stand-up for the rights of her people. ‘Halima’s vote’ is a modern parable about the impact of vote buying in Nigeria. Written by Onyinye Ough, author of ‘Emeka’s Money’, this book aims to teach children aged 6 to 12 about the power of voting and the damage caused by corruption in elections. The book aims to encourage a new generation of leaders to change how things are done on the continent. It also shows the vital role that women can play in the fight against corruption across Africa.
Download or read book Nights of the Creaking Bed written by Toni Kan and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colorful characters involved in affecting dramas underlie this memorable collection that explores corruption, religious intolerance, gratuitous violence and the importance of joy.
Download or read book Doctor Who At Childhood s End written by Sophie Aldred and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Past or future, which path do you choose? Past, present and future collide as the Thirteenth Doctor meets classic Doctor Who companion Ace – in the first epic novel from the woman who played her, Sophie Aldred. Once, a girl called Ace travelled the universe with the Doctor – until, in the wake of a terrible tragedy they parted company. Decades later, she is known as Dorothy McShane, the reclusive millionaire philanthropist who heads global organisation A Charitable Earth. And Dorothy is haunted by terrible nightmares, vivid dreams that begin just as scores of young runaways are vanishing from the dark alleyways of London. Could the disappearances be linked to sightings of sinister creatures lurking in the city shadows? Why has an alien satellite entered a secret orbit around the Moon? Investigating the satellite with Ryan, Graham and Yaz, the Doctor is thrown together with Ace once more. Together they must unravel a malevolent plot that will cost thousands of lives. But can the Doctor atone for her past incarnation’s behaviour – and how much must Ace sacrifice to win victory not only for herself, but for the Earth?
Download or read book Journey to the South written by Annie Hawes and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-07-07 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Annie got together with Ciccio, his Calabrian family have spoken of their homeland as an earthly paradise, of wild nights dancing the tarantella, of almond milk sold fresh from roadside stalls, of honey cakes and amaro made from wild liquorice roots... Now, at last, Annie and Ciccio are travelling down to see the ancestral home and extended family for themselves, along with a bunch of vocal and lively de Gilios who don't want to miss out on the fun. Will everything Annie has learnt in her years among the Ligurians stand her in good stead among the Calabresi? Or is she in for another steep learning curve in the intricacies of Italian rural life?
Download or read book Stay with Me written by Ayobami Adebayo and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Powerfully magnetic. . . . In the lineage of great works by Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. . . . A thoroughly contemporary—and deeply moving—portrait of a marriage.” —The New York Times Book Review Ilesa, Nigeria. Ever since they first met and fell in love at university, Yejide and Akin have agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage—after consulting fertility doctors and healers, and trying strange teas and unlikely cures—Yejide is still not pregnant. She assumes she still has time—until her in-laws arrive on her doorstep with a young woman they introduce as Akin’s second wife. Furious, shocked, and livid with jealousy, Yejide knows the only way to save her marriage is to get pregnant. Which, finally, she does—but at a cost far greater than she could have dared to imagine. The unforgettable story of a marriage as seen through the eyes of both husband and wife, Stay With Me asks how much we can sacrifice for the sake of family. A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Chicago Tribune, BuzzFeed, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Post, Southern Living, The Skimm A 2017 BEA Buzz Panel Selection A Belletrist Book-of-the-Month A Sarah Jessica Parker Book Club Selection Shortlisted for the 2017 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize and the 9mobile Prize for Literature Longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize
