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Looking for Transwonderland

Author : Noo Saro-Wiwa
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 159376491X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Looking for Transwonderland written by Noo Saro-Wiwa and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Looking for Transwonderland

Author : Noo Saro-Wiwa
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1847085520
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Looking for Transwonderland written by Noo Saro-Wiwa and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England but spent her childhood summers in Nigeria - a country she considered an unglamorous parallel universe, devoid of all creature comforts. After her father, activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, was murdered there in 1995, Noo rarely returned to the land of her birth. More than a decade later, she decided to come to terms with Nigeria. From the exuberant chaos of Lagos, to the calm beauty of the eastern mountains; the eccentricity of a Nigerian dog show to the empty Transwonderland Amusement Park, Noo combines travelogue with an exploration of corruption, identity and religion. Looking for Transwonderland is the first major non-fiction narrative of modern Nigeria; an engaging portrait of a country whose beauty and variety few of us will experience, depicted with wit and insight by a refreshing new voice in contemporary travel writing.

Travelling While Black

Author : Nanjala Nyabola
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 178738523X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Travelling While Black written by Nanjala Nyabola and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it feel like to move through a world designed to limit and exclude you? What are the joys and pains of holidays for people of colour, when guidebooks are never written with them in mind? How are black lives today impacted by the othering legacy of colonial cultures and policies? What can travel tell us about our sense of self, of home, of belonging and identity? Why has the world order become hostile to human mobility, as old as humanity itself, when more people are on the move than ever? Nanjala Nyabola is constantly exploring the world, working with migrants and confronting complex realities challenging common assumptions - both hers and others'. From Nepal to Botswana, Sicily to Haiti, New York to Nairobi, her sharp, humane essays ask tough questions and offer surprising, deeply shocking and sometimes funny answers. It is time we saw the world through her eyes.

You Must Set Forth at Dawn

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307432904
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book You Must Set Forth at Dawn written by Wole Soyinka and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka now follows his modern classic Ake: The Years of Childhood with an equally important chronicle of his turbulent life as an adult in (and in exile from) his beloved, beleaguered homeland. In the tough, humane, and lyrical language that has typified his plays and novels, Soyinka captures the indomitable spirit of Nigeria itself by bringing to life the friends and family who bolstered and inspired him, and by describing the pioneering theater works that defied censure and tradition. Soyinka not only recounts his exile and the terrible reign of General Sani Abacha, but shares vivid memories and playful anecdotes–including his improbable friendship with a prominent Nigerian businessman and the time he smuggled a frozen wildcat into America so that his students could experience a proper Nigerian barbecue. More than a major figure in the world of literature, Wole Soyinka is a courageous voice for human rights, democracy, and freedom. You Must Set Forth at Dawn is an intimate chronicle of his thrilling public life, a meditation on justice and tyranny, and a mesmerizing testament to a ravaged yet hopeful land.

Black Sunset

Author : Clancy Sigal
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1593766572
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Black Sunset written by Clancy Sigal and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This a hilarious memoir of Clancy Sigal’s escapades as a young Hollywood agent on the Sunset Strip, peddling writers and actors in a blacklist-crazed “golden age” movie industry of the 1950s. Atom bomb tests light up the night sky, and everyone is either naming names or getting named in the McCarthy witch hunt. By day a fast-talking salesman, at night he’s the point person of a small circle of anarchistic oddballs. He’s dogged by two FBI agents who want to be set up with starlets and have a screen test. They trail him as he goes from studio to studio hustling clients like Humphrey Bogart, Donna Reed, Jack Palance, Peter Lorre and Stanwyck. Barred from a studio he brazenly uses a bolt cutter to break through the chainlink fence to make a deal. Black Sunset’s riproaring ribald style belongs to a hardboiled school that includes Elmore Leonard and Raymond Chandler. He is one of the few remaining witnesses and reporters of this absurd and terrifying time.

African Migration Narratives

Author : Cajetan Iheka
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1648250068
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book African Migration Narratives written by Cajetan Iheka and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2024-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the representations of migration in African literature, film, and other visual media, with an eye to the stylistic features of these works as well as their contributions to debates on migration

Girls Who Travel

Author : Nicole Trilivas
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698196651
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Girls Who Travel written by Nicole Trilivas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious, deftly written debut novel about a woman whose wanderlust is about to show her that sometimes you don’t have to travel very far to become the person you want to be… There are many reasons women shouldn’t travel alone. But as foul-mouthed, sweet-toothed Kika Shores knows, there are many more reasons why they should. After all, most women want a lot more out of life than just having fun. Kika, for one, wants to experience the world. But ever since she returned from her yearlong backpacking tour, she’s been steeped in misery, battling rush hour with all the other suits. Getting back on the road is all she wants. So when she’s offered a nanny job in London – the land of Cadbury Cream Eggs – she’s happy at the prospect of going back overseas and getting paid for it. But as she’s about to discover, the most exhilarating adventures can happen when you stay in one place… Wise, witty, and hilarious, Girls Who Travel is an unforgettable novel about the highs and lows of getting what you want—and how it’s the things you least expect that can change your life.

Where's Stig: Motorsport Madness

Author : Rod Hunt
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448142016
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Where's Stig: Motorsport Madness written by Rod Hunt and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stig, Top Gear's tame racing driver, is off on another adventure, this time following his passion for speed and adrenaline to its natural conclusion - motorsport. Stig has disappeared into the world of racing, and it's your job to find him. Follow Stig as he roams from the stifling heat of the Dakar rally to the redneck heartland of a NASCAR track, or from the nightime drama or Le Mans to the mud-soaked stands of Silverstone for the British Grand Prix. Along the way you'll also find Clarkson, Hammond and May as they indulge in a spot of home-made motorhome racing or Roman rallying, middle-eastern style. The Where's Stig books have taken Top Gear fans by storm - and his latest voyage is the most action packed yet!

Another Man's War

Author : Barnaby Phillips
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1780745230
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Another Man's War written by Barnaby Phillips and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1941 the Japanese invaded Burma. For the British, the longest land campaign of the Second World War had begun. 100,000 African soldiers were taken from Britain’s colonies to fight the Japanese in the Burmese jungles. They performed heroically in one of the most brutal theatres of war, yet their contribution has been largely ignored. Isaac Fadoyebo was one of those ‘Burma Boys’. At the age of sixteen he ran away from his Nigerian village to join the British Army. Sent to Burma, he was attacked and left for dead in the jungle by the Japanese. Sheltered by courageous local rice farmers, Isaac spent nine months in hiding before his eventual rescue. He returned to Nigeria a hero, but his story was soon forgotten. Barnaby Phillips travelled to Nigeria and Burma in search of Isaac, the family who saved his life, and the legacy of an Empire. Another Man’s War is Isaac’s story.

Uncovered!

Author : Alex Okoroji
Publisher : The BRAG Media Company
ISBN 13 : 1982950862
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book Uncovered! written by Alex Okoroji and published by The BRAG Media Company . This book was released on 2018-07-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will YOU Give Yourself The Freedom to UNCOVER The "Next Level" to Your Greatness? It's time to stop hiding your talent, gift, message, and brilliance. Hiding does not serve the world and it doesn't serve you either. In this raw & riveting coming of age memoir, Nigerian Actress, Alex Okoroji takes off the covers and unravels the connection between Truth, Freedom & Greatness... She gets downright NAKED & gritty, unashamed to tell it like it is - illustrating her own powerful journey to reinvention - as she strips down the lies & insecurities, ripping apart her limiting beliefs about love, sex, money, and friendship to reveal her innermost secrets, relationship failures, career hurdles, and the endless self-doubt... Through which she UNCOVERS wisdom, freedom and a new perspective "living in a light bulb of truth" as she NOW knows it - to become the highest expression of confidence, brilliance, talent, and greatness. This is an incredible personal revelation, that will trigger men & women all over the world, to reflect on their own personal journey, unravel their relationship with their beliefs, money, people, and even God, so they can recognize their own truth, experience freedom & uncover their greatness too.

The Atlantic Sound

Author : Caryl Phillips
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307481743
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Atlantic Sound written by Caryl Phillips and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-02-25 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating inquiry into the African Diaspora, Caryl Phillips embarks on a soul-wrenching journey to the three major ports of the transatlantic slave trade. Juxtaposing stories of the past with his own present-day experiences, Phillips combines his remarkable skills as a travel essayist with an astute understanding of history. From an West African businessman's interactions with white Methodists in nineteenth-century Liverpool to an eighteenth-century African minister's complicity in the selling of slaves to a fearless white judge's crusade for racial justice in 1940s Charleston, South Carolina, Phillips reveals the global the impact of being uprooted from one's home through resonant, powerful narratives.

The Passport That Does Not Pass Ports

Author : Isabel Balseiro
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628954086
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book The Passport That Does Not Pass Ports written by Isabel Balseiro and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These seventeen pieces on travel in Africa by leading African authors take readers to places at once homelike and foreign. Against the tropes of travel writing, this book offers the acuity of vision of particular types of travelers. These are travelers whose mother tongue may find the hint of familiarity across otherwise unintelligible languages and for whom a foreign land isn’t necessarily strange; in it they perceive vestiges of the familiar. For them, the act of traveling extends a canvas on which to depict someone else’s reality—a reality never too distant from their own. What makes these writings coalesce is a reflection about the act of being in motion, about reconfiguring place; a consciousness of how geography redirects the focus of one’s gaze and, in turn, how that altered gaze filters inward. Having absorbed the landscape, inhaled the scents, paid heed to accents, and accepted the condition of being out of place, these travelers reconstitute individual consciousness and join a collective sense of existing beyond borders. Place inhabits this renewed sense of self; literature enables its expression. An inviting introduction to travel writing on Africa, The Passport That Does Not Pass Ports is absorbing reading for travelers and students of literature alike.

The Tiger and the Cage

Author : Emma Bolden
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1593767234
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book The Tiger and the Cage written by Emma Bolden and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Susannah Cahalan’s Brain on Fire and Porochista Khakpour’s Sick, this exquisitely wrought debut memoir recounts a lifelong struggle with chronic pain and endometriosis, while speaking more broadly to anyone who’s been told “it’s all in your head” In Catholic grade school, Emma Bolden has a strange experience with a teacher that unleashes a short-lived, persistent coughing spell—something the medical establishment will later use against her as she struggles through chronic pain and fainting spells that coincide with her menstrual cycle. With The Tiger and the Cage, Bolden uses her own experience as the starting point for a journey through the institutional misogyny of Western medicine—from a history of labeling women “hysterical” and parading them as curiosities to a lack of information on causes or cures for endometriosis, despite more than a century of documented cases. Recounting botched surgeries and dire side effects from pharmaceuticals affecting her and countless others, Bolden speaks to the ways people are often failed by the official narratives of institutions meant to protect them. Bolden also interrogates a narrative commonly imposed on menstruating bodies: the expected story arc of marriage and children. She interrogates her body as a painful site she must mentally escape and a countdown she hopes to beat by having a child before a hysterectomy. Only later does she find language and acceptance for her asexality and the life she needs to lead. Through all its gripping, devastating, and beautiful threads, The Tiger and the Cage says what Bolden and so many like her have needed to hear: I see you, and I believe you.

There Was a Country

Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 014312403X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book There Was a Country written by Chinua Achebe and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart—a long-awaited memoir of coming of age in a fragile new nation, and its destruction in a tragic civil war For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Decades in the making, There Was a Country is a towering account of one of modern Africa’s most disastrous events, from a writer whose words and courage left an enduring stamp on world literature. A marriage of history and memoir, vivid firsthand observation and decades of research and reflection, There Was a Country is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe’s place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age.

Dictatorland

Author : Paul Kenyon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784972150
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book Dictatorland written by Paul Kenyon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Financial Times Book of the Year 'Jaw-dropping' Daily Express 'Grimly fascinating' Financial Times 'Humane, timely, accessible and well-researched' Irish Times The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. The austere, incorruptible leader who has shut Eritrea off from the world in a permanent state of war and conscripted every adult into the armed forces. In Equatorial Guinea, the paranoid despot who thought Hitler was the saviour of Africa and waged a relentless campaign of terror against his own people. The Libyan army officer who authored a new work of political philosophy, The Green Book, and lived in a tent with a harem of female soldiers, running his country like a mafia family business. And behind these almost incredible stories of fantastic violence and excess lie the dark secrets of Western greed and complicity, the insatiable taste for chocolate, oil, diamonds and gold that has encouraged dictators to rule with an iron hand, siphoning off their share of the action into mansions in Paris and banks in Zurich and keeping their people in dire poverty.

Growing Up Trans

Author : Lindsay Herriot
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 145983139X
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (598 download)

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Download or read book Growing Up Trans written by Lindsay Herriot and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be young and transgender today? Growing Up Trans shares stories, essays, art and poetry created by trans youth aged 11 to 18. In their own words, the works illustrate the trans experience through childhood, family and daily life, school, their bodies and mental health. Together the collection is a story of the challenges, big and small, of being a young trans person. At the same time, it’s a toolkit for all young people, transgender or not, about what understanding, acceptance and support for the trans community looks like. In addition to the contributed works, there are questions and tips from experts in the field of transgender studies to challenge the reader on how to be a trans ally. Growing Up Trans came out of a series of workshops held in Victoria, British Columbia, to bring together trans youth from across the country with mentors in the community.

Americanah

Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher : Fourth Estate
ISBN 13 : 9780008610517
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Americanah written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and published by Fourth Estate. This book was released on 2023-04-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'A delicious, important novel' The Times 'Alert, alive and gripping' Independent 'Some novels tell a great story and others make you change the way you look at the world. Americanah does both.' Guardian As teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. Ifemelu--beautiful, self-assured--departs for America to study. She suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships and friendships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze--the quiet, thoughtful son of a professor--had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Thirteen years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a writer of an eye-opening blog about race in America. But when Ifemelu returns to Nigeria, and she and Obinze reignite their shared passion--for their homeland and for each other--they will face the toughest decisions of their lives. Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, Americanah is a richly told story of love and expectation set in today's globalized world.