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Author : Ken Saro-Wiwa
Publisher : Saros International Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Basi and Company written by Ken Saro-Wiwa and published by Saros International Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ken Saro-Wiwa
Publisher : Three Continents
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Basi and Company written by Ken Saro-Wiwa and published by Three Continents. This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basi and Company was the first book of the hugely successful Nigerian comedy television series, which at its peak was watched by an estimated 30 million Nigerians. The New York Times described the show as 'Nigeria's hottest comedy show, [that] seems to have struck a chord because it lampoons modern Nigeria's get-rich-quick mentality'. Basi is an exceptional man, in keeping with the best traditions of tricksters in Yoruba folklore, satirising the get-rich-quick mentality. The author translated the folktale into a contemporary idiom, believing that this format accorded better with African narrative methods.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900449071X
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Telling Stories written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is a highly comprehensive assessment of the postcolonial short story since the thirty-six contributions cover most geographical areas concerned. Another important feature is that it deals not only with exclusive practitioners of the genre (Mansfield, Munro), but also with well-known novelists (Achebe, Armah, Atwood, Carey, Rushdie), so that stimulating comparisons are suggested between shorter and longer works by the same authors. In addition, the volume is of interest for the study of aspects of orality (dialect, dance rhythms, circularity and trickster figure for instance) and of the more or less conflictual relationships between the individual (character or implied author) and the community. Furthermore, the marginalized status of women emerges as another major theme, both as regards the past for white women settlers, or the present for urbanized characters, primarily in Africa and India. The reader will also have the rare pleasure of discovering Janice Kulik Keefer's “Fox,” her version of what she calls in her commentary “displaced autobiography’” or “creative non-fiction.” Lastly, an extensive bibliography on the postcolonial short story opens up further possibilities for research.
Author : Kavita Basi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1631524909
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Room 23 written by Kavita Basi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kavita Basi had a wonderful life—a job she enjoyed, a wonderful family, and seemingly perfect health. Then an unexpected event took place and turned her entire world upside down. In Room 23, Basi chronicles her time suffering from a subarachnoid hemorrhage—bleeding in the area of the skull surrounding the brain. With this diagnosis, Basi went from being healthy and happy to battling a condition with a 50 percent mortality rate. Following her challenging journey through near death and recovery, this memoir takes an exciting, interactive approach, using QR codes within the chapters so readers can transport themselves to the timeline of what Basi was doing at each moment of her experience, either linking to an Instagram post or video blog—bringing her struggles, and ultimate triumph, alive. 10% of profits will be donated to the Brain & Spine Foundation .
Author : Ken Saro-Wiwa
Publisher : Saros International Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mr. B written by Ken Saro-Wiwa and published by Saros International Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Novel for children relates the adventure of Mr B - the hero whose exploits have been made into the popular Nigerian television series "Basi and Company".
Author : J.Timothy Hunt
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551992639
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Bones written by J.Timothy Hunt and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On November 10, 1995, Nigeria’s military dictatorship executed nine environmental activists. Among them was Ken Saro-Wiwa, the charismatic spokesman of the Ogoni people, whose land in the fertile Niger River delta has been grotesquely polluted by the Royal Dutch Shell Corporation. During Ken’s incarceration, his brother, Dr. Owens Wiwa, fought valiantly to save his life. When his quest failed, Owens narrowly escaped Nigeria with his life, first to London, and then to Toronto. His story is a heart-stopping saga of personal courage and official corruption, of individual selflessness and corporate greed.
Author : Ken Saro-Wiwa
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book A Month and a Day written by Ken Saro-Wiwa and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1995 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moving last memoir of the outspoken critic of the Nigerian regime and international oil companies he held responsible for the destruction of his homeland-who lost his life in the campaign for the basic rights fo the Ogoni people of Nigeria.
Author : Raoul Granqvist
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042001602
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Preserving the Landscape of Imagination written by Raoul Granqvist and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1997 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Craig W. McLuckie
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780894108839
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Ken Saro-Wiwa written by Craig W. McLuckie and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The authors examine Saro-Wiwa's literary output both in terms of literary criticism and within a political framework. They give equal attention to his more public roles, including public reaction within Nigeria to his work."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Kathleen Basi
Publisher : Crooked Lane Books
ISBN 13 : 164385691X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (438 download)
Download or read book A Song for the Road written by Kathleen Basi and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cheryl Strayed's Wild meets Katherine Center's How to Walk Away in Kathleen Basi's debut novel about an unconventional road trip and what it means to honor the ones we love. It's one year after the death of her husband and twin teenagers, and Miriam Tedesco has lost faith in humanity and herself. When a bouquet of flowers that her husband always sends on their anniversary shows up at her workplace, she completely unravels. With the help of her best friend, she realizes that it's time to pick up the pieces and begin to move on. Step one is not even cleaning out her family's possessions, but just taking inventory starting with her daughter's room. But when she opens her daughter's computer, she stumbles across a program her daughter has created detailing an automated cross-country road trip, for her and her husband to take as soon-to-be empty nesters. Seeing and hearing the video clips of her kids embedded in the program, Miriam is determined to take this trip for her children. Armed with her husband's guitar, her daughter's cello, and her son's unfinished piano sonata, she embarks on a musical pilgrimage to grieve the family she fears she never loved enough. Along the way she meets a young, pregnant hitchhiker named Dicey, whose boisterous and spunky attitude reminds Miriam of her own daughter. Tornadoes, impromptu concerts, and an unlikely friendship...whether she's prepared for it or not, Miriam's world is coming back to life. But as she struggles to keep her focus on the reason she set out on this journey, she has to confront the possibility that the best way to honor her family may be to accept the truths she never wanted to face. Hopeful, honest, and tender, A Song for the Road is about courage, vulnerability, and forgiveness, even of yourself, when it really matters.
Author : Ken Saro-Wiwa
Publisher : Saros International Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781870716093
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Four Farcical Plays written by Ken Saro-Wiwa and published by Saros International Publishers. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection consists of four one-act farces for the stage. The Transistor Radio won a prize at the Nigerian Festival of the Arts in 1972, and also won a prize and was broadcast on the BBC's African Theatre programme. It has been broadcast also in Norway and Yugoslavia. Adapted for Nigerian television, it was the firstepisode of the highly successful television series "Basi and Company".Bride by Return has also been adapted for radio and broadcast by theBBC; The Wheel is a searing political portrayal of corruption inNigerian society; and Madam No Go Quench Again is a treatment of theclassical story of the phoenix, rendered in Nigerian pidgin English. Theplays marry social concern to a language of communication aimed at thebroadest possible public.
Author : Kevin Roberts
Publisher : powerHouse Books
ISBN 13 : 1576875342
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (768 download)
Download or read book Lovemarks written by Kevin Roberts and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ideas move mountains, especially in turbulent times. Lovemarks is the product of the fertile-iconoclast mind of Kevin Roberts, CEO Worldwide of Saatchi & Saatchi. Roberts argues vociferously, and with a ton of data to support him, that traditional branding practices have become stultified. What’s needed are customer Love affairs. Roberts lays out his grand scheme for mystery, magic, sensuality, and the like in his gloriously designed book Lovemarks.” —Tom Peters Tom Peters, one of the most influential business thinkers of all time, described the first edition of Lovemarks: the future beyond brands as “brilliant.” He also announced it as the “Best Business Book” published in the first five years of this century. Now translated into fourteen languages, with more than 150,000 copies in print, Lovemarks is back in a revised edition featuring a new chapter on the peculiarly human experience of shopping. The new chapter, "Diamonds in the Mine," is an insightful collection of ideas for producers and consumers, for owners of small stores and operators of superstores. So forget making lists! Shopping, says Kevin Roberts, is an emotional event. With this as a starting point, he looks at the history of shopping and how it has changed so dramatically over the last ten years. Using the Lovemark elements of Mystery, Sensuality, and Intimacy, Roberts delves into the secrets of success that can be used to create the ultimate shopping experience.
Author : Matthew H. Brown
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478021500
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Indirect Subjects written by Matthew H. Brown and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Indirect Subjects, Matthew H. Brown analyzes the content of the prolific Nigerian film industry's mostly direct-to-video movies alongside local practices of production and circulation to show how screen media play spatial roles in global power relations. Scrutinizing the deep structural and aesthetic relationship between Nollywood, as the industry is known, and Nigerian state television, Brown tracks how several Nollywood films, in ways similar to both state television programs and colonial cinema productions, invite local spectators to experience liberal capitalism not only as a form of exploitation but as a set of expectations about the future. This mode of address, which Brown refers to as “periliberalism,” sustains global power imbalances by locating viewers within liberalism but distancing them from its processes and benefits. Locating the wellspring of this hypocrisy in the British Empire's practice of indirect rule, Brown contends that culture industries like Nollywood can sustain capitalism by isolating ordinary African people, whose labor and consumption fuel it, from its exclusive privileges.
Author : Wumi Raji
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3825818411
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Long Dreams in Short Chapters written by Wumi Raji and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2009 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with, in the main, the whole question of the transformation of the identities of the different peoples of postcolonial Africa. Even so, it is clear that the issues raised would resonate clearly in similar contexts in other parts of the world. Long Dreams in Short Chapters is a remarkable achievement, a brilliant and magisterial remapping of the African text in its literary, cultural, and political dimensions. Author Wumi Raji's globalist and transnational sensitivities make this book an effortless unpacking of the complexities of the African literary process and it is a landmark contribution to African thought.
Author : William Griffith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Posthumous Papers Bequeathed to the Honorable the East India Company, and Printed by Order of the Government of Bengal: On the higher cryptogamous plants written by William Griffith and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christine Matzke
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042021683
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Of Minstrelsy and Masks written by Christine Matzke and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is dedicated to a distinguished scholar and writer who for a quarter of a century wrote consistently on African literature and the arts and was a major voice in Nigerian literary circles. Ezenwa-Ohaeto made a mark in contemporary Nigerian poetry by committing pidgin to written form and, by so doing, introducing different creative patterns. He also saw himself as a 'minstrel', as someone who wanted to read, express and enact his work before an audience. First and foremost, however, Ezenwa-Ohaeto was someone who 'un-masked' ideas and meanings hidden in the folds of literary works and made them available to an international academic public. With his outstanding work on Chinua Achebe, he influenced the reception of African literary biography. His networks and connections were extensive and wide-ranging, and they are partly reflected in the essays, creative writing and personal notes assembled in this volume. In their various modes and expressions, the contributions included here constitute a tribute to Ezenwa-Ohaeto's many talents and achievements. As an extension of Ezenwa-Ohaeto's legacy, they expand on various aspects of minstrelsy and the un/masking of texts in a Nigerian and broader African context. The book is divided into six sections. "In Memoriam" contains personal tributes by long-standing colleagues, mentors and friends. "Poetry and Fiction" collects the voices of three generations of Nigerian writing from the 1960s to the present day, followed by poetic and pictorial insights into the domestic and social life of the scholar and family man. Section Four comprises two interviews, while Sections Five and Six are devoted to critical evaluations of Ezenwa-Ohaeto's work and to contemporary perspectives on Nigerian literature respectively.
Author : William Griffith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Posthumous Papers Bequeathed to the Honorable the East India Company: Monocotyledonous plants written by William Griffith and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
