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Book Synopsis The Extinction of Menai by : Chuma Nwokolo
Download or read book The Extinction of Menai written by Chuma Nwokolo and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1980s, a pharmaceutical company administers an unethical drug trial to residents of the Niger Delta village of Kreektown. When children die as a result of the trial, the dominoes of language extinction and cultural collapse begin to topple. Decades later the end looms for the Menai people. Continents-apart twin brothers separated at birth, an excommunicated daughter living an urbane life with her doctor husband, and an infamous vigilante are among the indelible characters whose lives are shaped by this collective tragedy. Not least of these is the spiritual leader Mata Nimito, who retraces his people’s ancient migration on his quest to preserve the soul of the Menai and resolve the consequences of a centuries-old betrayal. In The Extinction of Menai, Chuma Nwokolo moves across time and continents to deliver a story that speaks to urgent contemporary concerns. He confronts power relations between large corporations and small communities, corporate lobbies and governments, and big pharma and consumers, all expressed through the competing narratives that record the life and death of a civilization.In a novel of stunning scope, Chuma Nwokolo moves across time and place to deliver a story that speaks to urgent contemporary concerns. His characters’ indelible voices offer perspectives that are simultaneously global, political, and intimately human.
Book Synopsis The Wolf at Number 4 by : Ayo Tamakloe-Garr
Download or read book The Wolf at Number 4 written by Ayo Tamakloe-Garr and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-10 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desire Mensah, a disgraced schoolteacher in her thirties, sees moving to sleepy little Cape Coast, Ghana, as her chance to get away from a shameful secret not buried deeply enough. And maybe, just maybe, she will find the love she craves and the husband her mother craves for her. But in Cape Coast, the past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past. That’s the kind of thing Wolfgang “Wolf” Ofori would say. Everyone says the eleven-year-old is a genius—eccentric though he is—and is bound to win Wonderkids, a quiz competition ordinarily for high school students. Wolf and Desire form a strange friendship, even as their mutual understanding both precipitates and reinforces the downfall of each. Before long, their struggles to exist in a world that dehumanizes and then throws the first stone whip up a perfect storm, with deadly consequences. Debut novelist Ayo Tamakloe-Garr drew inspiration from works such as A Streetcar Named Desire and Frankenstein to create The Wolf at Number 4, a story set in 1990s Ghana. The result is a chilling and funny gothic tale that will disarm readers even as it forces them to confront whether the wolves around us are born or made.
Book Synopsis Staging the Amistad by : Charlie Haffner
Download or read book Staging the Amistad written by Charlie Haffner and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staging the Amistad collects in print for the first time plays about the Amistad slave revolt by three of Sierra Leone’s most influential playwrights of the latter decades of the twentieth century: Charlie Haffner, Yulisa Amadu “Pat” Maddy, and Raymond E. D. de’Souza George. Until the late 1980s, when the first of these plays was performed, the 1839 shipboard slave rebellion and the return of its victors to their homes in what is modern-day Sierra Leone had been an unrecognized chapter in the country’s history. The plays recast the tale of heroism, survival, and resistance to tyranny as a distinctly Sierra Leonean story, emphasizing the agency of its African protagonists. For this reason, Haffner, Maddy, and de’Souza George counterbalance the better-known American representations of the rebellion, which center on American characters and American political and cultural concerns. The first public performances of these plays constituted a watershed moment. Written and staged immediately before and after the start of Sierra Leone’s decade-long conflict, they brought the Amistad rebellion to public consciousness. Furthermore, their turn to a uniquely Sierra Leonean history of heroic resistance to tyranny highlights the persistent faith in nation-state nationalism and the dreams of decolonization.
Book Synopsis Writer's Market 2020 by : Robert Lee Brewer
Download or read book Writer's Market 2020 written by Robert Lee Brewer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published! Want to get published and paid for your writing? Let Writer's Market 2020 guide you through the process with thousands of publishing opportunities for writers, including listings for book publishers, consumer and trade magazines, contests and awards, and literary agents—as well as new playwriting and screenwriting sections. These listings feature contact and submission information to help writers get their work published. Beyond the listings, you'll find articles devoted to the business and promotion of writing. Discover 20 literary agents actively seeking writers and their writing, how to develop an author brand, and overlooked funds for writers. This edition also includes the ever-popular pay-rate chart and book publisher subject index! You also gain access to: • Lists of professional writing organizations • Sample query letters • How to land a six-figure book deal
Download or read book Fine Boys written by Eghosa Imasuen and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A coming-of-age tale told from the perspective of Nigeria’s Generation X, caught amid the throes of a nascent pro-democracy movement, demoralizing corruption, and campus violence. Ewaen is a Nigerian teenager, bored at home in Warri and eager to flee from his parents’ unhappy marriage and incessant quarreling. When Ewaen is admitted to the University of Benin, he makes new friends who, like him, are excited about their newfound independence. They hang out in parking lots, trading gibes in pidgin and English and discovering the pleasures that freedom affords them. But when university strikes begin and ruthlessly violent confraternities unleash mayhem on their campus, Ewaen and his new friends must learn to adapt—or risk becoming the confras' next unwilling recruits. In his trademark witty, colloquial style, critically acclaimed author Eghosa Imasuen presents everyday Nigerian life against the backdrop of the pro-democracy riots of the 1980s and 1990s, the lost hopes of June 12 (Nigeria’s Democracy Day), and the terror of the Abacha years. Fine Boys is a chronicle of time, not just in Nigeria, but also for its budding post-Biafran generation.
Book Synopsis The Actual True Story of Ahmed and Zarga by : Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Download or read book The Actual True Story of Ahmed and Zarga written by Mohamedou Ould Slahi and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic story of a Bedouin family’s survival and legacy amid their changing world in the unforgiving Sahara Desert. Ahmed is a camel herder, as his father was before him and as his young son Abdullahi will be after him. The days of Ahmed and the other families in their nomadic freeg are ruled by the rhythms of changing seasons, the needs of his beloved camel herd, and the rich legends and stories that link his life to centuries of tradition. But Ahmed’s world is threatened—by the French colonizers just beyond the horizon, the urbanization of the modern world, and a drought more deadly than any his people have known. At first, Ahmed attempts to ignore these forces by concentrating on the ancient routines of herding life. But these routines are broken when a precious camel named Zarga goes missing. Saddling his trusted Laamesh, praying at the appointed hours, and singing the songs of his fathers for strength, Ahmed sets off to recover Zarga on a perilous journey that will bring him face to face with the best and the worst of humanity and test every facet of his Bedouin desert survival skills.
Book Synopsis The Cape Cod Bicycle War by : Billy Kahora
Download or read book The Cape Cod Bicycle War written by Billy Kahora and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of the realistic worlds Billy Kahora brings us in the short stories and novella that make up The Cape Cod Bicycle War and Other Stories explores the tensions and transitions of characters moving between youthful folly and a precarious adulthood. In the title story, immigrant workers with varying ambitions work at a Wendy’s in wintry Cape Cod. Sharing one house, they must also share, or rather compete for, bicycles—crucial transportation—which are in short supply. In other stories, a young man caught between a broken family and political violence befriends an aged gorilla in a Nairobi zoo; a pastor struggles to come to terms with the arrest of his brother, who is suspected of terrorism; and a dissolute bank employee on a serious bender returns to work to face a review board. The Cape Cod Bicycle War and Other Stories is Billy Kahora’s long-awaited debut collection. Stories in this volume have appeared in Granta and McSweeney’s and have been shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing.
Book Synopsis Diaries of a Dead African by : Chuma Nwokolo
Download or read book Diaries of a Dead African written by Chuma Nwokolo and published by Gwandustan. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diaries of a Dead African is a merciless comedy that explores the life-threatening situations of three protagonists, the farmer Meme Jumai and his two sons - Abel (failed writer) and Calamatus (aspiring conman). Meme's wife has left him with the bulk of his barn. He has a few tubers to last until harvest. Can he stretch it? Will his friends and relatives help out? Calamatus' break has finally come after an apprenticeship to a con-artist. Can he survive wealth as readily as he did, poverty? Finally Abel's manuscripts are attracting attention, but not, as he discovers, for their literary value... his fondest dreams were on the verge of realisation, yet his father had died at 50 and his brother at 25. How to outlive them both, without fleeing the very opportunities he had craved all his life... www.diariesofadeadafrican.info
Book Synopsis The First Prince of Wales? by : Sean Davies
Download or read book The First Prince of Wales? written by Sean Davies and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book on one of Wales’s greatest leaders, arguably ‘first prince of Wales’, Bleddyn ap Cynfyn. Bleddyn was at the heart of the tumultuous events that forged Britain in the cauldron of Norman aggression, and his reign offers an important new perspective on the events of 1066 and beyond. He was a leader who used alliances on the wider British scale as he strove to recreate the fledgling kingdom of Wales that had been built and ruled by his brother, though outside pressures and internal intrigues meant his successors would compete ultimately for a principality.
Book Synopsis The Ghost of Sani Abacha by : Chuma Nwokolo
Download or read book The Ghost of Sani Abacha written by Chuma Nwokolo and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A harassed servant plots his grim revenge (A History of Human Servitude)... Sheri puts a potential boyfriend to the test (Man Rating)... Phiri contends for his civil service career (The Fall of Phiri Bombai)...and a politician in his finest hour finds himself possessed by a begoggled demon (The Ghost of Sani Abacha)...26 stories of life and love in the aftermath of autocracy, delivered with wit and insight by one of Africa's most incisive writers.
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Book Synopsis The Cambrian mirror, or North Wales tourist by : Edward Parry
Download or read book The Cambrian mirror, or North Wales tourist written by Edward Parry and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Parry's Railway Companion from Chester to Holyhead: together with some account of the stupendous railway works by : Edward Parry (Of Chester)
Download or read book Parry's Railway Companion from Chester to Holyhead: together with some account of the stupendous railway works written by Edward Parry (Of Chester) and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Railway Companion from Chester to Holyhead ... to which is Added the Tourist's Guide to Dublin and Its Environs by : Edward Parry
Download or read book The Railway Companion from Chester to Holyhead ... to which is Added the Tourist's Guide to Dublin and Its Environs written by Edward Parry and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cambrian Mirror, Or a New Tourist Companion Through North Wales ... Third Edition by : Edward Parry (of Chester.)
Download or read book Cambrian Mirror, Or a New Tourist Companion Through North Wales ... Third Edition written by Edward Parry (of Chester.) and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cambrian Mirror, or North Wales Tourist by : Edward Parry (Of Chester)
Download or read book The Cambrian Mirror, or North Wales Tourist written by Edward Parry (Of Chester) and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis World Atlas of Seagrasses by : Frederick T. Short
Download or read book World Atlas of Seagrasses written by Frederick T. Short and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seagrasses are a vital and widespread but often overlooked coastal marine habitat. This volume provides a global survey of their distribution and conservation status.
