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26aby Diana EvansISBN 0060821825 (0-06-082182-5)
Softcover, Perennial
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Ake: The Years of Childhoodby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0679725407 (0-679-72540-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa By Truck, Bus, Boat, And Camelby Jeffrey TaylerISBN 061833467X (0-618-33467-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Anthills of the Savannahby Chinua AchebeISBN 0385260458 (0-385-26045-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anthills of the Savannah'Book summary:Achebe writes about the political and social problems facing newly independent African states.
Anthills of the Savannah transports the reader to the West African country of Kangan, a fictional Nigeria, in the wake of a revolutionary coup that overthrew a dictator. Achebe discusses the strict balance of power that must be maintained in order to sustain a democracy, and the fine the line that is tread between leader and dictator. [via]More editions of Anthills of the Savannah:
- Anthills of the Savannah: ISBN 0385016646 (0-385-01664-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Anthills of the Savannah: ISBN 0434006041 (0-434-00604-1)
Hardcover, Heinemann - Anthills of the Savannah: ISBN 0435905392 (0-435-90539-2)
Hardcover, Heinemann - Anthills of the Savannah: ISBN 0385260458 (0-385-26045-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- Anthills of the Savannah: ISBN 0385016646 (0-385-01664-6)
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Arrow of Godby Chinua AchebeISBN 0385014805 (0-385-01480-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arrow of God'Book summary:Set in the Ibo heartland of eastern Nigeria, one of Africa's best-known writers describes the conflict between old and new in its most poignant aspect: the personal struggle between father and son. [via]
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Beasts Of No Nationby Uzodinma IwealaISBN 0719567521 (0-7195-6752-1)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Collected Playsby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0192811363 (0-19-281136-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Plays'Book summary:'"The Lion and the Jewel" alone is enough to establish Nigeria as the most fertile new source of English-speaking drama since Synge's discovery of the Western Isles.' - "The Times". The ironic development and consequences of 'progress' may be traced through both the themes and the tone of the works included in this second volume of Wole Soyinka's plays. "The Lion and the Jewel" shows an ineffectual assault on past tradition soundly defeated. In "Kongi's Harvest", however, the pretensions of Kongi's regime are also fatal. The denouement points the way forward. "The Two Brother Jero" plays pursue that way, the comic 'propheteering' of the earlier play giving way to the sardonic reality of "Jero's Metamorphosis". "Madmen and Specialists", Soyinka's most pessimistic play, concerns the physical, mental, and moral destruction of modern civil war. [via]
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Death and the King's Horsemanby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0393322998 (0-393-32299-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death and the Kings Horseman'Book summary:This norton critical edition of death and the king's horseman is the only student edition available in the united states. Based on events that took place in 1946 in the ancient yoruban city of oyo, soyinka's acclaimed and powerful play addresses classic issues of cultural conflict, tragic decision-making, and the psychological mindsets of individuals and groups. The text of the play is accompanied by an introduction and explanatory annotations for the many allusions to traditional nigerian myth and culture."backgrounds and sources" helps readers understand death and the king's horseman's traditional african contexts and the role of theater in african culture. Included are a map of yoruba-land, discussions of yoruban religious beliefs and cultural traditions, soyinka on the various forms that theater has taken in african culture in order to survive, and anthony appiah on soyinka's struggle with the problem of african identity in the creation of death and the king's horseman. Commentary on the play as both a theatrical production and a classroom text is provided by gerald moore, tanure ojaide, and martin rohmer. "criticism" collects nine major essays on the play and the difficulties it presents to readers. Contributors include d. S. Izevbaye, eldred durosimi jones, henry louis gates jr., biodun jeyifo, wole soyinka, joan hepburn, adebayo williams, david richards, and olakunle george. A chronology and selected bibliography are also included [via]
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- Death and the King's Horseman: ISBN 0393977617 (0-393-97761-7)
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Softcover, Methuen Publishing Limited - Death and the King's Horseman: ISBN 0413695506 (0-413-69550-6)
Softcover, Methuen Publishing Limited - Death and the Kings Horseman: ISBN 0374522103 (0-374-52210-3)
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- Death and the King's Horseman: ISBN 0393977617 (0-393-97761-7)
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Destination Biafraby Buchi EmechetaISBN 0435909924 (0-435-90992-4)
Softcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Destination Biafra'Book summary:This novel dramatizes the painful birth of the republic of Biafra in the late 1960s. [via]
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Efuruby Flora NwapaISBN 0435900269 (0-435-90026-9)
Softcover, Heinemann
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The Famished Roadby Ben OkriISBN 0385425139 (0-385-42513-9)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Famished Road'Book summary:You have never read a novel like this one. Winner of the 1991 Booker Prize for fiction, The Famished Road tells the story of Azaro, a spirit-child. Though spirit-children rarely stay long in the painful world of the living, when Azaro is born he chooses to fight death: "I wanted," he says, "to make happy the bruised face of the woman who would become my mother." Survival in his chaotic African village is a struggle, though. Azaro and his family must contend with hunger, disease, and violence, as well as the boy's spirit-companions, who are constantly trying to trick him back into their world. Okri fills his tale with unforgettable images and characters: the bereaved policeman and his wife, who try to adopt Azaro and dress him in their dead son's clothes; the photographer who documents life in the village and displays his pictures in a cabinet by the roadside; Madame Koto, "plump as a mighty fruit," who runs the local bar; the King of the Road, who gets hungrier the more he eats.
At the heart of this hypnotic novel are the mysteries of love and human survival. "It is more difficult to love than to die," says Azaro's father, and indeed, it is love that brings real sharpness to suffering here. As the story moves toward its climax, Azaro must face the consequences of choosing to live, of choosing to walk the road of hunger rather than return to the benign land of spirits. The Famished Road is worth reading for its last line alone, which must be one of the most devastating endings in contemporary literature (but don't skip ahead). --R. Ellis [via]
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For Women and the Nation: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti of Nigeriaby Cheryl Johnson-Odim, Nina Emma MbaISBN 0252066138 (0-252-06613-8)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'For Women and the Nation: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti of Nigeria'Book summary:Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was a Nigerian feminist who fought for suffrage and equal rights for her countrywomen long before the second wave of the women's movement in the United States. She also joined the struggle for Nigerian independence as an activist in the anticolonial movement. "For Women and the Nation" is the story of this courageous woman, one of a handful of full-length biographies of African women activists. It will be welcomed by students of women's studies, African history, and biography, as well as by opponents of the Nigerian military regime that has held one of her sons, Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti, in solitary confinement since August 1995. Cheryl Johnson-Odim, chair and associate professor of history at Loyola University in Chicago, is coeditor of "Expanding the Boundaries of Women's History". Nina Emma MBA, senior lecturer in history at the University of Lagos, Nigeria, is the author of "Nigerian Women Mobilized" and "Ayo Rosijc". [via]
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Gracelandby Chris AbaniISBN 0374165890 (0-374-16589-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Graceland'Book summary:In this dazzling debut by a singular new talent, the sprawling, swampy, cacophonous city of Lagos, Nigeria, provides the backdrop to the story of Elvis, a teenage Elvis impersonator hoping to make his way out of the ghetto. Broke, beset by floods, and beatings by his alcoholic father, and with no job opportunities in sight, Elvis is tempted by a life of crime. Thus begins his odyssey into the dangerous underworld of Lagos, guided by his friend Redemption and accompanied by a restless hybrid of voices including The King of Beggars, Sunday, Innocent and Comfort. Ultimately, young Elvis, drenched in reggae and jazz, and besotted with American film heroes and images, must find his way to a GraceLand of his own. Nuanced, lyrical, and pitch perfect, Abani has created a remarkable story of a son and his father, and an examination of postcolonial Nigeria where the trappings of American culture reign supreme.[via]More editions of Graceland:
Gracelandby Not AvailableISBN 0312425287 (0-312-42528-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Half of a Yellow Sunby Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieISBN 1400095204 (1-4000-9520-4)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Half of a Yellow Sun'Book summary:A masterly, haunting new novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe, Half of a Yellow Sun re-creates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafras impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria in the 1960s, and the chilling violence that followed.
With astonishing empathy and the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of the decade. Thirteen-year-old Ugwu is employed as a houseboy for a university professor full of revolutionary zeal. Olanna is the professors beautiful mistress, who has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos for a dusty university town and the charisma of her new lover. And Richard is a shy young Englishman in thrall to Olannas twin sister, an enigmatic figure who refuses to belong to anyone. As Nigerian troops advance and the three must run for their lives, their ideals are severely tested, as are their loyalties to one another.
Epic, ambitious, and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a remarkable novel about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and raceand the ways in which love can complicate them all. Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise and the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place, bringing us one of the most powerful, dramatic, and intensely emotional pictures of modern Africa that we have ever had. [via]More editions of Half of a Yellow Sun:
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Home and Exileby Chinua AchebeISBN 0385721331 (0-385-72133-1)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Home and Exile'Book summary:Based on three lectures distinguished Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe gave at Harvard University in 1998, this short but trenchant work does not pretend to be a full-fledged autobiography. Instead, Achebe makes forceful use of his personal experiences to examine the political nature of culture. Born in 1930, the son of a Christian convert, young Achebe received a privileged colonial education and "was entranced by the far-away and long-ago worlds of the stories [in English books like Treasure Island and Ivanhoe], so different from the stories of my home and childhood." Yet he and fellow university students indignantly rejected Anglo-Irishman Joyce Cary's highly praised novel Mister Johnson, which bore no resemblance to their knowledge of Nigerian life. This encounter "call[ed] into question my childhood assumption of the innocence of stories," Achebe comments, using scathing assessments of white Kenyan writer Elspeth Huxley and Indian/Caribbean expatriate V.S. Naipaul to remind us that all literature reflects its creators' beliefs and prejudices. Achebe is not an enemy of Western culture; he merely asserts Africans' right to their own perspective and their own art, as exemplified in works like his groundbreaking 1958 novel, Things Fall Apart. Though blunt, his argument is tempered by humor and a passionate belief in "the curative power of stories." --Wendy Smith [via]
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The Icarus Girlby Helen OyeyemiISBN 140007875X (1-4000-7875-X)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Icarus Girl'Book summary:The Icarus Girl is an astonishing achievement. Sunday Telegraph (London)
Jessamy Jess Harrison is eight years old. Sensitive, whimsical, possessed of an extraordinary and powerful imagination, she spends hours writing haiku, reading Shakespeare, or simply hiding in the dark warmth of the airing cupboard. As the child of an English father and a Nigerian mother, Jess just cant shake off the feeling of being alone wherever she goes, and the other kids in her class are wary of her tendency to succumb to terrified fits of screaming. Believing that a change from her English environment might be the perfect antidote to Jesss alarming mood swings, her parents whisk her off to Nigeria for the first time where she meets her mothers familyincluding her formidable grandfather.
Jesss adjustment to Nigeria is only beginning when she encounters Titiola, or TillyTilly, a ragged little girl her own age. To Jess, it seems that, at last, she has found someone who will understand her. But gradually, TillyTillys visits become more disturbing, making Jess start to realize that she doesnt know who TillyTilly is at all.
Helen Oyeyemi draws on Nigerian mythology to present a strikingly original variation on a classic literary theme: the existence of "doubles," both real and spiritual, who play havoc with our perceptions and our lives. Lyrical, haunting, and compelling, The Icarus Girl is a story of twins and ghosts, of a little girl growing up between cultures and colors. It heralds the arrival of a remarkable new talent. [via] -
Iduby Flora NwapaISBN 0435900560 (0-435-90056-0)
Softcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Idu'Book summary:Set in a Nigerian town, this book tells the story of a woman's desire for children. [via]
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In the Shadow of a Saint : A Son's Journey to Understand His Father's Legacyby Ken WiwaISBN 1586420259 (1-58642-025-9)
Hardcover, Steerforth Press
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Interpretersby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0435900765 (0-435-90076-5)
Softcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Interpreters'Book summary:The Nobel Laureate's first novel spotlights a small circle of young Nigerian intellectuals living in Lagos. [via]
Isara : A Voyage Around Essayby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0679732462 (0-679-73246-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Joys of Motherhoodby Buchi EmechetaISBN 043590972X (0-435-90972-X)
Softcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Joys of Motherhood'Book summary:"A rich, multilayered work of fiction, full of drama and written with deceptive simplicity."Essence
Nnu Ego, a hard-working, optimistic Ibo woman, remains fiercely determined to save her children from the devastation of war, the erosion of village life, and the breakdown of tradition. [via] 
Life Turns Man up and Down : High Life, Useful Advice, and Mad English: African Market Literatureby Kurt ThometzISBN 0679450211 (0-679-45021-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Lion and the Jewelby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0199110832 (0-19-911083-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lion and the Jewel'Book summary:This is one of the best-known plays by Africa's major dramatist, Wole Soyinka. It is set in the Yoruba village of Ilunjinle. The main characters are Sidi (the Jewel), 'a true village belle' and Baroka (the Lion), the crafty and powerful Bale of the village, Lakunle, the young teacher, influenced by western ways, and Sadiku, the eldest of Baroka's wives. How the Lion hunts the Jewel is the theme of this ribald comedy. [via]
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The Man Diedby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0374521271 (0-374-52127-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Man Died:Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinkaby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0060139722 (0-06-013972-2)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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A Man of the Peopleby Chinua AchebeISBN 0385086164 (0-385-08616-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Man of the People'Book summary:By the renowned author of Things Fall Apart, this novel foreshadows the Nigerian coups of 1966 and shows the color and vivacity as well as the violence and corruption of a society making its own way between the two worlds. [via]
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Mister Johnsonby Joyce CaryISBN 0822207648 (0-8222-0764-8)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mister Johnson'Book summary:A temporary clerk, still on probation, Mister Johnson has been in Fada, Nigeria, for six months and is already in debt. Undaunted, he not only entertains on the grandest scale with drums and smuggled gin, but also intends to pay a small fortune for a wife. [via]
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- Mister Johnson: ISBN 0809436116 (0-8094-3611-6)
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Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Mister Johnson: ISBN 0811211746 (0-8112-1174-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Mister Johnson: ISBN 0809436108 (0-8094-3610-8)
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- Mister Johnson: ISBN 0809436116 (0-8094-3611-6)
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My Life in the Bush of Ghostsby Amos TutuolaISBN 0802131050 (0-8021-3105-0)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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No Longer at Easeby Chinua AchebeISBN 0385474555 (0-385-47455-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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No Longer at Easeby John Milne, Chinua AchebeISBN 043527225X (0-435-27225-X)
Softcover, Heinemann
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One Is Enoughby Flora NwapaISBN 0865433224 (0-86543-322-4)
Hardcover, Africa World Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Is Enough'Book summary:From the back cover: "After six years of happy, though childless, marriage, Amaka ... is shattered to discover that her husband plans to take another wife---a woman who has already borne him two sons in secret. She makes a brave decision. Rather than stay in the comfort and security of her marital home, she will go to Lagos and try to make a fresh start in life [and] becomes involved with a Catholic priest. ... "Should she take another husband and find respectability, or should she decide that 'one is enough'?" [via]
The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisisby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0195119215 (0-19-511921-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Palm-Wine Drinkardby Amos TutuolaISBN 0802150489 (0-8021-5048-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Townby Amos TutuolaISBN 0394621689 (0-394-62168-9)
Softcover, Grove Press
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The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghostsby Amos TutuolaISBN 0802133630 (0-8021-3363-0)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts'Book summary:When Amos Tutuola's first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, appeared in 1952, it aroused exceptional worldwide interest. Drawing on the West African Yoruba oral folktale tradition, Tutuola described the odyssey of a devoted palm-wine drinker through a nightmare of fantastic adventure. Since then, The Palm-Wine Drinkard has been translated into more than 15 languages and has come to be regarded as a masterwork of one of Africa's most influential writers. Tutuola's second novel, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, recounts the fate of mortals who stray into the world of ghosts, the heart of the tropical forest. Here, as every hunter and traveler knows, mortals venture at great peril, and it is here that a small boy is left alone.[via]More editions of The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts:
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Purple Hibiscusby Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieISBN 1400076943 (1-4000-7694-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Purple Hibiscus'Book summary:Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missionary school. They're completely shielded from the troubles of the world. Yet, as Kambili reveals in her tender-voiced account, things are less perfect than they appear. Although her Papa is generous and well respected, he is fanatically religious and tyrannical at homea home that is silent and suffocating.
As the country begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili and Jaja are sent to their aunt, a university professor outside the city, where they discover a life beyond the confines of their fathers authority. Books cram the shelves, curry and nutmeg permeate the air, and their cousins laughter rings throughout the house. When they return home, tensions within the family escalate, and Kambili must find the strength to keep her loved ones together.
Purple Hibiscus is an exquisite novel about the emotional turmoil of adolescence, the powerful bonds of family, and the bright promise of freedom. [via] -
Return to Laughterby Elenore Smith BowenISBN 0385053126 (0-385-05312-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Second-Class Citizenby Buchi EmechetaISBN 0807610666 (0-8076-1066-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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A poignant story of a resourceful Nigerian woman who overcomes strict tribal domination of women and countless setbacks to achieve an independent life for herself and her children. [via] -
Sozaboyby Ken Saro-WiwaISBN 0582236991 (0-582-23699-1)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sozaboy'Book summary:Sozaboy describes the fortunes of a young naive recruit in the Nigerian Civil War: from the first proud days of recruitment to the disillusionment, confusion and horror that follows. The author's use of 'rotten English' - a mixture of Nigerian pidgin English, broken English and idiomatic English - makes this a unique and powerful novel. [via]
A Stone of the Heartby John BradyISBN 1586420291 (1-58642-029-1)
Softcover, Steerforth Pr
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The Sympathetic Undertakerby Biyi Bandele-ThomasISBN 0435905929 (0-435-90592-9)
Softcover, Heinemann
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Things Fall Apartby Chinua AchebeISBN 0072435186 (0-07-243518-6)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Things Fall Apart'Book summary:Things Fall Apart tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and society, traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world. The second, as modern as the first is ancient, concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo's world with the arrival of aggressive European missionaries. These perfectly harmonized twin dramas are informed by an awareness capable of encompassing at once the life of nature, human history, and the mysterious compulsions of the soul. [via]
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- Things Fall Apart: ISBN 0385474547 (0-385-47454-7)
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Softcover, Heinemann - Things Fall Apart: ISBN 0030554381 (0-03-055438-1)
Hardcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston - Things Fall Apart: ISBN 0395775590 (0-395-77559-0)
Hardcover, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin - Things Fall Apart: ISBN 0679446230 (0-679-44623-0)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc - Things Fall Apart: ISBN 0821924125 (0-8219-2412-5)
Hardcover, Emc Pub - Things Fall Apart: ISBN 0435909886 (0-435-90988-6)
Softcover, Heinemann - Things Fall Apart: ISBN 0449208109 (0-449-20810-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - Things Fall Apart: ISBN 0130235016 (0-13-023501-6)
Hardcover, Globe Fearon - Things Fall Apart: ISBN 0435121626 (0-435-12162-6)
Hardcover, Heinemann Educational - Things Fall Apart: ISBN 0679417141 (0-679-41714-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Things Fall Apart: ISBN 0808592777 (0-8085-9277-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Things Fall Apart: ISBN 0072435186 (0-07-243518-6)
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- Things Fall Apart: ISBN 0385474547 (0-385-47454-7)
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Things Fall Apartby Fred HeiserISBN 0595232795 (0-595-23279-5)
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