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Madagali
24-year-old Bukar Salisu, a Nigerian-Liberian, is caught between two young damsels: Safiya, the crafty daughter of a 'repentant' Boko Haram leader and the curly haired Liberian Nurse-in-Training, Jewel, whom Bukar meets in Monrovia while there to spend his sick leave with his maternal family.
Both will come to find out that Bukar is a rafto - an impotent man, due to an injury he sustained from a .45 Caliber bullet at the war front.
Set in the North East of contemporary Nigeria, Madagali pays a fundamental attention to the pathetic nature of Nigeria's prolonged fight against the dreaded Boko Haram insurgents, and it follows a complex dilemma of love.a
Deportee: A novel by Ikenna Okeh
After spending two years living in Cyprus, Anayo, a Nigerian immigrant, is being deported back home, broke, stranded and without any savings to his name. Back in Nigeria he daily deals with the stigma associated with being a deportee even as he begins to re-assess everything that he had regarded as home, friendship, valid fears, love and community. With each new day in Nigeria comes new reve- lations, and nothing appears to be what he had thought them to be. This is a typical story of the hopes and expectations that sustain the drive for transcontinental migration in Africa, and one that depicts parts of the many realities that young African immigrants are confronted with.
The James Currey Anthology
Onyeka Nwelue: A Troubled Life
Born in the rural town of Ezeoke, South East Nigeria, Onyeka, a defiantly ambitious boy would drop out of the university to embrace a life of fame and infamy. Excitingly deviant and creatively rebellious, his journey towards self discovery would see him cross paths with elites and legendary figures, both at home and abroad. His struggles are messy and controversy trails his every step. He chases his goals with ruthlessness of a wildling, and most times he steps on many toes unwittingly. His obsession with power, deep and unrelenting will see him rise to Olympian heights and fall to abysmal chasms.
A Banquet for Pigs and Vultures
PROFESSOR MAGNUS NWOKEKE is dead.
Perceived as arrogant, proud and inaccessible, he is now in
the Land of the Dead, watching people, busy, preparing a
funeral party for him, in the Land of the Living.
He belongs to the Anglican Church in his village, Ezeoke
Nsu, so there is a Vigil, by the Umuokpu, a powerful clan
group made up of the families' first daughters, who are
seen singing at the back of the compound while having tea
and eating bread.
From the Other Side, Professor NWOKEKE can't stop
them, but he grins and whines and cringes.
Harmattan
Harmattan is a novel about a young Nigerian emigrant Uhunoma who, after a couple of years spent strayed across the Old Continent in search of a better life, ends up in a German prison somewhere in Bavaria for not having valid documents required for staying in the territory of the EU. In prison, she meets women from around the world, each carrying their own burden of remorse, bitterness and frustration with being imprisoned.
The Peace Symphony
Let us begin at the beginning. I met Peace Anyiam-Osigwe when I was sixteen. But she met me when I was already two years old. I had met her on the page of ThisDay. Someone had interviewed her and she was talking about her life in England and the Africa Movie Academy Awards. She looked calm, mild and charming in the pictures they had put there. There was something intimidating about her, though: her background. I tried to envy her. I tried to hate her. I felt she was an opportunist. That she had everything flowing for her. I felt she didn’t bother so much like I did. I wanted to know why most people were blessed than the others. It was until the year we started communicating that I realised that there are certain things one doesn’t need to know. That successful men and women see hell before getting to heaven. Sometimes, it doesn’t make sense wen we only tell the good sides of the stories to where we are today. Maybe, I was quick enough to conclude that her life was completely rosy, that she got everything that she wanted. That even by a snap of the finger, she could command anyone to believe in her dreams and aspirations. All these things I realized as soon as I pushed hard to know her. For some that I spoke to she was inaccessible, distant and unreachable and each time I heard people say that, I would burst into hysterical laughter. To them, they were being realistic and here I was, talking so much already about a woman I ‘barley’ knew. Knowing my kind of person, I didn’t need to know here for ages before understanding her.
The Lake Goddess
The Lake Goddess came to be Flora Nwapa's last novel, yet possibly her most important one, as it restores African culture and spirituality. "Nwapa's message is clear: she-Ona/Ogbuide/woman-may have many children, but she also independently succeeds in her own life, and she is a source of healing and inspiration to all human beings suffering from the ills and madness of modern society worldwide. The goddess whom Nwapa invoked finally reemerges in her original glory in The Lake Goddess to brighten women's path. Her powers and mysteries shine, once again, despite the onslaught of foreign powers and their religions, when Nwapa accounts for the destructive forces of globalization and for attempts to push Uhammiri's children into the abyss of derangement, to rob the deity of her benevolence, and to deny her people both children and wealth. Yet, when the lake goddess finally appears with her image fully restored in Nwapa's last novel, the messenger, who invoked her, has left the land, crossed the river, and joined her ancestors to live on.
Yahoo! Yahoo! by Ikenna Okeh- ebook
The Great Igbo Caste System: Drawing ...
For many years, Igbo people have had their traditions debated over, creating a misunderstanding of its cosmological foundation - particularly, it's class system, described by the British as 'caste system.'
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‎After years at Oxford and Cambridge universities, as an academic visitor, Onyeka Nwelue has captured the igbo art and mythology in this ground breaking world, so well researched.
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