Author: Cyprian Ekwensi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Jagua Nana's Daughter
Author: Cyprian Ekwensi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Jagua Nana's Daughter
Author:
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 247
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 247
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The Dust Must Settle
Author: Obinna Ozoigbo
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1452087946
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
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 . . .
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1452087946
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
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 . . .
The Drummer Boy
Author: Cyprian Ekwensi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789780813635
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9789780813635
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Iska
Author: Cyprian Ekwensi
Publisher: Spectrum Books Limited
ISBN: 9789782462725
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Spectrum Books Limited
ISBN: 9789782462725
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
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.
Afropolitan Horizons
Author: Ulf Hannerz
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1800733194
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1800733194
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
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.
African Delights
Author: Siphiwo Mahala
Publisher: Jacana Media
ISBN: 1431402516
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Jacana Media
ISBN: 1431402516
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
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.
Burning Grass
Author: Cyprian Ekwensi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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When a Child is Motherless
Author: Andrew Okogba
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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The Black Mind
Author: Oscar Ronald Dathorne
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452912289
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452912289
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description