This is a very important book that needs a broad readership. First for pointing the way, showing us the possibilities of codifying our customary approaches, and most importantly, embracing what is now the ‘informal’. This is one of the first real attempts by an African in a long while to reclaim ourselves, to really think of an African modernity rooted in the land-won lessons and social processes in our past.
Okey Ndibe’s funny, charming, and penetrating memoir tells of his move from Nigeria to American, where he came to edit the influential-but forever teetering on the verge of Insolvency-African commentary magazine.
It was in this new dark era that our career began, we the second generation of literary dramatists. They enemy this time was no longer from the outside, but part of us. The problem was no longer that of correcting a distorted racist image, but rather, of rescuing our people from internal oppressors.
This is my sixth book and one in which I’ve been a bit more revealing. It should make very interesting reading because it is not a boring rant about economic and financial issues, but interesting dialogues on matters of mostly Nigeria’s sociopsychology and aspects of history. I personally enjoy such discourses better than the drone on the stiff subject of money and how it is made.
I think this is a more important aspect of the development quest of African people because from a systems point of view we should interrogate our lifeviews, our paradigms and of perspectives. Once the sociopsychological aspects are dealt with, development and progress becomes fairly easy and sustainable. The writings here reflect my mindset and perspective which fuses into my understanding of the larger issues towards ensuring that my people attain a better existence in this present world where no nation waits for another.
A selection of participants from 2012 Farafina Trust Creative Writing Workshop come together in this delightful collection of 13 stories that tell of humans and human relationships. ‘ Be Happy’ chronicles a woman’s journey to contentment in a marriage she has settled for. An adolescent is faced with a shoking reality while attending a Catholic boy’s school in ‘A Taste of it’.
In ‘An Autodidact’s Guide to Sex-Ed’ a woman contemplates the right time to introduce her children to sex. Domesytic violence is explored in ‘You Take Me for a Goat’. ‘Ladies Night’ tells of the escapades of a middle-aged married man in the city of Accra.
In this provocative book, Chido Onumah argues that many, if not all, of the problems of Nigeria are rooted in the structure of the country. He makes a case, as he did in his previous books, for the socio-political restructuring of Nigeria.
He contends that the country needs to engage episodic convulsions that threaten its very foundation, including Biafra, June 12, Boko Haram, the “National Question”, citizenship rights, and “militrocracy”.
On Afuwe’s birthday, his godfather, Tortoise, gives him a gift that grants him five wishes. Afuwe’s ultimate wish is to become the greatest animal in the jungle instead of the mouse that he is.
Follow Afuwe on his exciting adventure as he discovers what true greatness is about.
What is impressive about The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born is the way in which it expresses the disillusion and cynicism engendered in Ghana in the last years of Nkrumah, which his fall only seemed to compound.
Its description of the vague existential ennui of his unnamed hero recalls Srtre’s La Nausee.’ West Africa.
In this two-voume compendium, Goke Adegoroye draws from his wealth of experience in governance and public service to deliver invaluable insights on the civil service and its crucial role in governance in Nigeria. A seasoned academic and civil servant, Adegoroye chronicles the history of civil service, from its origins in Imperial China to its establishment in Nigeria in the colonial era.
In this two-voume compendium, Goke Adegoroye draws from his wealth of experience in governance and public service to deliver invaluable insights on the civil service and its crucial role in governance in Nigeria. A seasoned academic and civil servant, Adegoroye chronicles the history of civil service, from its origins in Imperial China to its establishment in Nigeria in the colonial era.
“Only God can save Nigeria, What a Myth” is a master-piece, a revolutionary thought-provoking, compelling and challenging book. The notion that God is going to come down and change Nigeria’s precarious situation is absurd and contrary to any logical reasoning.
While we are singing “ only God vcan save Nigeria”, God is saying only we can fix Nigeria.
This book, Nigeria: Corruption and Opacity in Governance is one of the project activities being implemented by the author under the Anti- corruption and Accountability Project being coordinated by Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) Kano with funding support from MacArthur Foundation, Nigeria.
The articles in this collection address not only the challenges of corruption and opacity in governance but also proffer a pathway for overcoming them.
On the 12th of June 1993, a presidential election, adjudged free and fair by an overwhelming majority of observers, took place in Nigeria. A few days later, its results were suspended; and barely a week after, Nigerians were given a new word to add to their vocabulary: ‘annulment’.
What really happened in those tumultuous days between June and November 1993? For the first time ever, the full story, with its intricacies, intrigue and complexities, is told from the perspectives of all its major players, in this full-colour graphic novel.
June 12 1993: Annulment is the second in this multi-volume series.
Freedom and Morality is an ethics oriented book that seeks to embed in the society an appropriate way of going about daily activities, hence, one has the ability to give a distinction as to what is moral or what is not.
This book drives to test the conscience of man, it tends to test his love for liberty in comparison with his conscience, societal values and norms.
At fifteen, Njideka is caught in the deep political turmoil beleaguering Nigeria. When the government arrests and tortures her father following a peaceful protest, he returns home a shadow of himself: a changed man. Njideka’s family begins to break apart under the yoke of a reckless regime. It is story of hardship, abuse, and the resilient spirit of those desperate to the air of freedom.
“With the Eyes of a Goddess, Ukamaka bursts onto the literary scene as a tender, alluring storyteller worthy of a large, devoted readership. Her novel seizes one’s attention from its opening sentence-and never lets go.
This book spans over 16 very interesting and practical chapters to provide the needed understanding of the subject.
The book is a companion for everyone who wants to succeed and excel in life. It is recommended to those who wants to be achievers and contribute to the development of their nation.
The problems relating to the social worth of the woman, her ability to contribute to social development, the political, economic and social roles she is allowed to play, her pains and travails are issues that haunt all societies.
These problems usually arise from the way society sees the woman and the way the woman sees herself.
The profiles of the 29 women celebrated in this volume can easily be multiplied several times over, and this may very well be the first of several times over, and this may very well be first of several follow up volumes.
Nigeria today appears rudderless, with no particular direction…our country has no purposeful destiny that we can say with conviction is our lodestar. Our citizens are increasingly unsure, what being a Nigerian means….
Kingsley Moghalu has been nurturing his political philosophy for many years, while serving his country in the field of banking and finance. At a time of great change and challenge, he now offers a practical and compelling roadmap for achieving Nigeria’s long-slumbering potential.
On democratization, we know that we have not been obeying the rules of the road since we started the walk on the democracy highway on May 29, 1999. Everyday that passes shows that we are unwilling to make our democracy work. We have blatantly abused the ballot. We are angry at dissent.
Aso Rock and the Arrogance of Power is a sequel to NIGERIA’S GHANA-MUST-GO REPUBLIC: HAPPENINGS.
Ezeulu, the chief priest of Ulu, finds his authority is under threat. He has rivals in the tribe, in the white government, and even in his own family.
Surrounded by trouble, he adopts an increasingly cosmic view of events: surely, in the battle of deities, he is merely an arrow in the bow of his God? Armed with such ideas, Ezeulu is prepared to lead his people on, if necessary to destruction and annihilation. The power of the people, however, reasserts itself.
In this insightful, thought-provoking, controversial and philosophical book, Femi Taiwo, argues and analyses, in a forthright and uncompromising manner, what he describes as Africa’s hostility towards modernity and how it affects economic development and socio political transformation.
Africa Rise and Shine lays bare the secrets of Zenith Bank’s success from one of Nigeria’s most respected businessmen. Jim’s inspirational tale of success against all odds is an important lesson of how adversity can always be surmounted.
This book is essential read for anyone that wants to do business in Africa.
Francine redefined Christian fiction-honest, unflinching, powerful, life-changing-demonstrating why storytelling is the most effective way to communicate God’s truth.
Every Christian novelist writing today owes a debt of gratitude to Francine Rivers for lighting the way.
This book accomplishes the vision of the TIV forefathers who cared about TIV history.
Therefore, you, my TIV brothers of this new generation that can read, read this history and tell it to others who cannot; of the things of our ancestor; so that whether they are literate or not, at least they will be able to know something about our forbear who have gone before us.
