Download or read book Veronica My Daughter and Other Onitsha Market Plays and Stories written by Ogali A. Ogali and published by Three Continents. This book was released on 1980 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of work by the Nigerian-born writer Ogali, includes short fiction, plays, and journalistic essays. Written in English, the pieces remain rooted in the traditional values of Ogali's native culture. Common to many of them is a strong humanism and a critique of Western individualism.
Download or read book An African Popular Literature written by Emmanuel Obiechina and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1973-07-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1973 text was the first detailed study of that phenomenon of the African literary scene, Onitsha market literature. Pen names and pamphlet titles adopted by Onitsha authors have often been the subject of amused comment, but it took a long time for Onitsha writing to be recognised for what it is: a genuinely popular literature, unique on Africa, written in English by Africans for an exclusively African audience. What are the origins of this literature? Why did it start in Onitsha? Why do certain themes recur? Where have the writer acquired their unconventional attitudes to love, marriage, sex? What influences have shaped the robust and unorthodox language they use? Dr Obiechina answers these questions and asks what we can learn from the Onitsha authors about social change in Nigeria - how do they attempt to reconcile the traditional rural community and the aggressive individualistic urban society with alien values?
Download or read book Arrest My Son written by Ogali A. Ogali and published by Fourth Dimension Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mazi Ogaranya makes money from government and private contracts. As a registered government contractor and member of a political party, he collects 'mobilisation fees' and then abandons the contracts. He also owns several companies employing beautiful girls permanently at his disposal, and has several wives. But his life is disrupted when one of these wives turns out to be a witch, and one of his sons, a thief in his own right. Ogali is one of the most prolific, versatile and successful popular writers in Nigeria. His works include: My Daughter (of Onitsha Market Literature Fame); Coal City; and The Juju Priest.
Download or read book Veronica My Daughter written by Ogali A. Ogali and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A drama intended to amuse the Reader. Chief Jombo--Veronica's Father and Chief Bassy have been represented as 'illitrate hence their low stant dard of English"--Page 2.
Download or read book Cowries and Kobos written by Kirsten Holst Petersen and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book COVID 19 written by Labeodan, Helen A. and published by University of Bamberg Press. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "COVID-19 has, like other crises, thrown into relief social injustices and gendered inequalities. BiAS 31/ ERA 8 offers theological responses to and reflections on the COVID-19 outbreak and pandemic. All are by African scholars and authors; some are academic, some experiential, and others creative or impressionistic in tone. Reflecting the ethos and commitment of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians ("The Circle") to nurture and promote the publications by and about African women and men committed to social justice and positive change, this issue contains the writings of some established but, predominantly, of emerging theologians. For some contributors, this is their first publication in an international series."
Download or read book Prayers to Survive Wars that Last written by Eze, Chielozona and published by Cissus World Press. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In this meditative and quietly lyrical approach, Chielozona Eze marks himself in this new African poetics not as a voice of easy protest, not as the voice of a bombast and rhetorical turn, but as the voice of an African poet in the twenty-first century trying to make sense of all the hunger, anger, war, loss, and desecration that has haunted his life and the lives of many Africans but remains always poised on that tender grace, that ease of dance, that transubstantiation that works an alchemy that is not about the outcome but always about the struggle, the engagement, and the terms thereof.” Chris Abani, Board of Trustee Professor of English, Northwestern University “This collection is a fitting memorial to a war still unatoned for and its accompanying sense of bereavement and lack of closure. In tune with a pervasive sense of loss and quiet recollection, the poems are meditative, packing a punch in their ambling profundity; Chielozona Eze does not blame; he speaks of introspection and love.” Amatoritsero Ede, Publisher & Managing Editor, Maple Tree Literary Supplement
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Download or read book Vengeful Creditor written by Chinua Achebe and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection Mrs. Emenike resents that her husband drives a Mercedes while she is relegated the “noisy Fiat,” and she loathes the words “free primary education,” a new government initiative for which three of her servants have abandoned her. But, when the program is recalled, ten-year-old Vero, whose hopes of going to school have been dashed, is Mrs. Emenike’s next willing recruit—young, innocent, and desperate to do anything and everything she must to earn an education. In this masterful story by “the father of Nigerian writing,” Chinua Achebe portrays the devastating injustice done to young women by government corruption and wealth inequality. Selected from Achebe’s much-lauded collection of short fiction, Girls at War. An ebook short.
Download or read book Colonial Systems of Control written by Viviane Saleh-Hanna and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2008-04-18 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering book on prisons in West Africa, Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria is the first comprehensive presentation of life inside a West African prison. Chapters by prisoners inside Kirikiri maximum security prison in Lagos, Nigeria are published alongside chapters by scholars and activists. While prisoners document the daily realities and struggles of life inside a Nigerian prison, scholar and human rights activist Viviane Saleh-Hanna provides historical, political, and academic contexts and analyses of the penal system in Nigeria. The European penal models and institutions imported to Nigeria during colonialism are exposed as intrinsically incoherent with the community-based conflict-resolution principles of most African social structures and justice models. This book presents the realities of imprisonment in Nigeria while contextualizing the colonial legacies that have resulted in the inhumane brutalities that are endured on a daily basis. Keywords: Nigeria, West Africa, penal system, maximum-security prison. Published in English.
Download or read book The Scapegoat written by Nkem Nwankwo and published by Fourth Dimension Publishing Company. This book was released on 1984 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid portrayal of a nation in which corruption pervades, and an exploration of the underside of contemporary Nigerian society. When a solider comes to power, he promises to address the tragedy that is his society, but instead becomes embroiled in the seemingly unendless rotten institutions and ways of operating. Nkem Nwankwo is known as one of the major first generation African literary voices and cultural figures. He is best known for his novel, Danda (1964). The Scapegoat was first published in 1984, and was reissued in 2002.
Download or read book The Juju Priest written by Ogali A. Ogali and published by Fourth Dimension Publishing Company. This book was released on 1978 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian and African Churches battle for supremacy in the Nigerian countryside, affecting morals and families adversely.
Download or read book The Shadow List written by Todd Moss and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cutting-edge novel of international crime and its consequences, from Nigeria to Russia to Washington, from the former deputy assistant secretary of state. We laugh when it pops up in our inbox: the scam letter promising a windfall. We wonder: How does anybody fall for these things? But it is no laughing matter. It is one of the biggest organized crime rackets in the world, it is deadly - and State Department crisis manager Judd Ryker has fallen right into the middle of it. The disappearance of a young American in London sends Ryker into the heart of a corruption scandal in Nigeria, at the same time his CIA agent wife Jessica finds herself chasing a Russian master criminal known as the Bear. Unknown to either of them, they are pulling at two ends of the same lethal thread, a staggeringly vicious enterprise of piracy, extortion, and murder. The world is messy and dangerous, Jessica warns her husband.More dangerous than you know. But he is about to find out.
Download or read book Long Live the Dead written by Marleen de Witte and published by Het Spinhuis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One could expect traditional rituals, centered around the extended family and belief about death and ancestorship, to limit the importance of modern funerals in Asante, Ghana. However, the opposite scenario is taking place. In Asante, technological innovations like mortuaries, mass media, and electronic apparatus have given the funeral new dimensions. This illustrated book describes how the Asante shape and give meaning to burying its dead through creative interaction. The large amount of time, effort, and money that people spend on funerals not only reflect transformations in society, they also offer the Asante people opportunities to work out changing social patterns, differences between cities and villages, lifestyles and cultural preferences. Marleen de Witte is an anthropologist currently working at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research at the University of Amsterdam.
Download or read book When Love Whispers written by Cyprian Ekwensi and published by . This book was released on 194? with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Item written by Ogali A. Ogali and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to be a Nigerian written by Peter Enahoro and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
