Jagua Nana's Daughter

Jagua Nana's Daughter PDF Author: Cyprian Ekwensi
Publisher: Spectrum Books Limited
ISBN: 9789782460431
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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From one of Africa's foremost novelists and master story-teller, this is a sequel to Ekwensi's best-selling Jagua Nana. The story centres around the heroine's traumatic search for her real mother. All the intracacies of family life and relationships are woven into the story, and Liza finds both her mother and a partner.

Jagua Nana's Daughter

Jagua Nana's Daughter PDF Author: Cyprian Ekwensi
Publisher: Spectrum Books Limited
ISBN: 9789782460431
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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Book Description
From one of Africa's foremost novelists and master story-teller, this is a sequel to Ekwensi's best-selling Jagua Nana. The story centres around the heroine's traumatic search for her real mother. All the intracacies of family life and relationships are woven into the story, and Liza finds both her mother and a partner.

Jagua Nana's Daughter

Jagua Nana's Daughter PDF Author: Cyprian Ekwensi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Looking for Transwonderland

Looking for Transwonderland PDF Author: Noo Saro-Wiwa
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 159376491X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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A “remarkable chronicle” of a journey back to this West African nation after years of exile (The New York Times Book Review). Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to visit her father in Nigeria—a country she viewed as an annoying parallel universe where she had to relinquish all her creature comforts and sense of individuality. After her father, activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, was killed there, she didn’t return for several years. Then she decided to come to terms with the country her father given his life for. Traveling from the exuberant chaos of Lagos to the calm beauty of the eastern mountains; from the eccentricity of a Nigerian dog show to the decrepit kitsch of the Transwonderland Amusement Park, she explores Nigerian Christianity, delves into the country’s history of slavery, examines the corrupting effect of oil, and ponders the huge success of Nollywood. She finds the country as exasperating as ever, and frequently despairs at the corruption and inefficiency she encounters. But she also discovers that it is far more beautiful and varied than she had ever imagined, with its captivating thick tropical rain forest and ancient palaces and monuments—and most engagingly and entertainingly, its unforgettable people. “The author allows her love-hate relationship with Nigeria to flavor this thoughtful travel journal, lending it irony, wit and frankness.” —Kirkus Reviews

The Dust Must Settle

The Dust Must Settle PDF Author: Obinna Ozoigbo
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1452087946
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 601

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A particlar family unit in West Africa disintegrates after the turn of the nineteenth century. But this family, at the dawning of the twenty-first century, against all odds, is restored . . . In a bid to escape his father's tyranny in Arochukwu, Uzo Ogbonna elopes to far-away Calabar with his heartthrob, Ivuaku. But, while living among the Efiks, he is murdered by his best Efik friend, never to set eyes on his motherless triplet children. His life as an Anglophile pays off, finally; a young Welsh missionary in Calabar, Mary-Ann, takes ill and sails with the now orphaned triplets to England in 1923 as toddlers. Tracing their ancestral home in Africa, some years after, would have been a lot easier if Mary-Ann had not died, and if these triplets had not been separated within the ambit of the British Adoption Act. The "machinery" set in motion for the coming together of these triplets seventy-nine years after is skillfully narrated by the author in the Book Two and Book Three of this captivating family saga that spans four generations . . .

Burning Grass

Burning Grass PDF Author: Cyprian Ekwensi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Iska

Iska PDF Author: Cyprian Ekwensi
Publisher: Spectrum Books Limited
ISBN: 9789782462725
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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A novel from the pen of one of Africa's foremost writers. Iska tellsthe story of a Nigerian girl from a simple village background who goes tothe city and joins the smart literary and political world. Conflict ensues about her relationship with an unscrupulous politician. The mood and atmosphere of Nigeria are evoked in the settings of the village, the fashionable world of Lagos, and the dark ceremonies of a religious sect. The girl is a symbol of the wind which blows strongly through Africa, destroying the old and preparing for the new.

The Drummer Boy

The Drummer Boy PDF Author: Cyprian Ekwensi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789780813635
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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African Delights

African Delights PDF Author: Siphiwo Mahala
Publisher: Jacana Media
ISBN: 1431402516
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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The suit continued -- The dress that fed the suit : Zukiswa Wanner -- The lost suit -- White encounters -- Bhontsi's toe -- Hunger -- The truth -- The other truth -- So many truths -- The queen of the highlanders -- African delights -- The best of African delights -- Afterword: Ten years of writing.

Afropolitan Horizons

Afropolitan Horizons PDF Author: Ulf Hannerz
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1800733194
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Introduction. Nigerian Connections -- Palm Wine, Amos Tutuola, and a Literary Gatekeeper -- Bahia-Lagos-Ouidah: Mariana's Story -- Igbo Life, Past and Present: Three Views -- Inland, Upriver with the Empire: Borrioboola-Gha -- The City, according to Ekwensi . . . and Onuzo -- Points of Cultural Geography: Ibadan . . . Enugu, Onitsha, Nsukka -- Been-To: Dreams, Disappointments, Departures, and Returns -- Dateline Lagos: Reporting on Nigeria to the World -- Death in Lagos -- Tai Solarin: On Colonial Power, Schools, Work Ethic, Religion, and the Press -- Wole Soyinka, Leo Frobenius, and the Ori Olokun -- A Voice from the Purdah: Baba of Karo -- Bauchi: The Academic and the Imam -- Railtown Writers -- Nigeria at War -- America Observed: With Nigerian Eyes -- Transatlantic Shuttle -- Sojourners from Black Britain -- Oyotunji Village, South Carolina: Reverse Afropolitanism.

Happiness, Like Water

Happiness, Like Water PDF Author: Chinelo Okparanta
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544003454
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211

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A moving debut story collection centered on Nigerian women, as they build lives out of longing and hope, faith and doubt, the struggle to stay and the mandate to leave, and the burden and strength of love.