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Author : Mike C. Atkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Yet More Nigerian Tales of the Colonial Era written by Mike C. Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mike C. Atkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book More Nigerian Tales of the Colonial Era written by Mike C. Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101595981
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book There Was a Country written by Chinua Achebe and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 352 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.
Author : Peter Cunliffe-Jones
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0230112609
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book My Nigeria written by Peter Cunliffe-Jones and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His nineteenth-century cousin, paddled ashore by slaves, twisted the arms of tribal chiefs to sign away their territorial rights in the oil-rich Niger Delta. Sixty years later, his grandfather helped craft Nigeria's constitution and negotiate its independence, the first of its kind in Africa. Four decades later, Peter Cunliffe-Jones arrived as a journalist in the capital, Lagos, just as military rule ended, to face the country his family had a hand in shaping.Part family memoir, part history, My Nigeria is a piercing look at the colonial legacy of an emerging power in Africa. Marshalling his deep knowledge of the nation's economic, political, and historic forces, Cunliffe-Jones surveys its colonial past and explains why British rule led to collapse at independence. He also takes an unflinching look at the complicated country today, from email hoaxes and political corruption to the vast natural resources that make it one of the most powerful African nations; from life in Lagos's virtually unknown and exclusive neighborhoods to the violent conflicts between the numerous tribes that make up this populous African nation. As Nigeria celebrates five decades of independence, this is a timely and personal look at a captivating country that has yet to achieve its great potential.
Author : Elphinstone Dayrell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395539637
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky written by Elphinstone Dayrell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1968 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sun and Moon must leave their earthly home after Sun invites the Sea to visit.
Author : Mike C. Atkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Nigerian Tales of the Colonial Era written by Mike C. Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0385474547
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)
Download or read book Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.
Author : Nwando Achebe
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253222486
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)
Download or read book The Female King of Colonial Nigeria written by Nwando Achebe and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-21 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While providing critical perspectives on women, gender, sex and sexuality, and the colonial encounter, she considers how it was possible for this woman to take on the office and responsibilities of a traditionally male role.
Author : Okey Ndibe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789788457831
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (578 download)
Download or read book Never Look an American in the Eye written by Okey Ndibe and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Okey Ndibe's funny, charming, and penetrating memoir tells of his move from Nigeria to America, where he came to edit the influential--but forever teetering on the verge of insolvency--African Commentary magazine. It recounts stories of Ndibe's relationships with Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and other literary figures; examines the differences between Nigerian and American etiquette and politics; recalls an incident of racial profiling just 13 days after he arrived in the US, in which he was mistaken for a bank robber; considers American stereotypes about Africa (and vice-versa); and juxtaposes African folk tales with Wall Street trickery. All these stories and more come together in a generous, encompassing book about the making of a writer and a new American."--Back cover.
Author : Elphinstone Dayrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa written by Elphinstone Dayrell and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Judith A. Byfield
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821446908
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Great Upheaval written by Judith A. Byfield and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This social and intellectual history of women’s political activism in postwar Nigeria reveals the importance of gender to the study of nationalism and poses new questions about Nigeria’s colonial past and independent future. In the years following World War II, the women of Abeokuta, Nigeria, staged a successful tax revolt that led to the formation first of the Abeokuta Women’s Union and then of Nigeria’s first national women’s organization, the Nigerian Women’s Union, in 1949. These organizations became central to a new political vision, a way for women across Nigeria to define their interests, desires, and needs while fulfilling the obligations and responsibilities of citizenship. In The Great Upheaval, Judith A. Byfield has crafted a finely textured social and intellectual history of gender and nation making that not only tells a story of women’s postwar activism but also grounds it in a nuanced account of the complex tax system that generated the “upheaval.” Byfield captures the dynamism of women’s political engagement in Nigeria’s postwar period and illuminates the centrality of gender to the study of nationalism. She thus offers new lines of inquiry into the late colonial era and its consequences for the future Nigerian state. Ultimately, she challenges readers to problematize the collapse of her female subjects' greatest aspiration, universal franchise, when the country achieved independence in 1960.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book African Research & Documentation written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Max Siollun
Publisher : Hurst & Company
ISBN 13 : 9781911723264
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (232 download)
Download or read book What Britain Did to Nigeria written by Max Siollun and published by Hurst & Company. This book was released on 2024-04-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory account of British imperialism's shameful impact on Africa's most populous state.
Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139472038
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book A History of Nigeria written by Toyin Falola and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-24 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and the world's eighth largest oil producer, but its success has been undermined in recent decades by ethnic and religious conflict, political instability, rampant official corruption and an ailing economy. Toyin Falola, a leading historian intimately acquainted with the region, and Matthew Heaton, who has worked extensively on African science and culture, combine their expertise to explain the context to Nigeria's recent troubles through an exploration of its pre-colonial and colonial past, and its journey from independence to statehood. By examining key themes such as colonialism, religion, slavery, nationalism and the economy, the authors show how Nigeria's history has been swayed by the vicissitudes of the world around it, and how Nigerians have adapted to meet these challenges. This book offers a unique portrayal of a resilient people living in a country with immense, but unrealized, potential.
Author : Okey Ndibe
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1616957611
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (169 download)
Download or read book Never Look an American in the Eye written by Okey Ndibe and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Foreign Gods, Inc. and Arrows of Rain tells his own immigrant’s tale, where what is lost in translation is often as hilarious as it is harrowing. Okey Ndibe’s funny, charming, and penetrating memoir tells of his move from Nigeria to America, where he came to edit the influential—but forever teetering on the verge of insolvency—African Commentary magazine. It recounts stories of Ndibe’s relationships with Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and other literary figures; examines the differences between Nigerian and American etiquette and politics; recalls an incident of racial profiling just thirteen days after he arrived in the US, in which he was mistaken for a bank robber; considers American stereotypes about Africa (and vice-versa); and juxtaposes African folk tales with Wall Street trickery. All these stories and more come together in a generous, encompassing book about the making of a writer and a new American.
Author : Ken Post
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521085038
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)
Download or read book The Price of Liberty written by Ken Post and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1973-01-25 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account of de-colonialization in Nigeria as seen through the eyes of a Nigerian political leader who was closely involved in the process. This book is therefore partly a biography of a man, Adegoke Adelabu; much more though, it tells in a highly personal and intriguing way how a Nigerian politician operated in the last years of colonial rule. The story of Adelabu's life is an interesting one. He is an example of one of the 'new men' who led African nations to independence in the fifties and sixties. His family was not closely connected with the traditional chieftainships of his native city, Ibadan, but he was sufficiently well placed to take advantage of such secondary school education as was available to African boys in the thirties. After a number of vicissitudes, involving abortive careers as a government official, working for one of the big British trading concerns and on his own account, Adelabu found his role as a popular leader and 'boss' of Ibadan politics.
Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 0307272907
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Education of a British-Protected Child written by Chinua Achebe and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the greatest writers of the modern era, an intimate and essential collection of personal essays on home, identity, and colonialism Chinua Achebe’s characteristically eloquent and nuanced voice is everywhere present in these seventeen beautifully written pieces. From a vivid portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria to considerations on the African-American Diaspora, from a glimpse into his extraordinary family life and his thoughts on the potent symbolism of President Obama’s elections—this charmingly personal, intellectually disciplined, and steadfastly wise collection is an indispensable addition to the remarkable Achebe oeuvre.
