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The White Man's Gift to Okoro

Author : Nkemakolam OMEODU
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781792884788
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book The White Man's Gift to Okoro written by Nkemakolam OMEODU and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the white men came to Okoro, the Okoros weren't consulted. Little wonder then for the signs of unacceptability and depression which were boldly etched on the faces of the Okoros. Lack of understanding of those signs made the white people to work harder and be more persuasive in order that their coming to Okoro would not turn out to be a journey in futility.The substitution of Okoro's culture with the white people's culture brought premature deaths among the Okoro's owing to the emergence of evil, sickness, diseases, dishonesty and lack of respect and trust that emanated from the white people's culture. Even the death of Ameka was in connection with the white man's school he attended.The black people were taught to neglect their own culture; they made the Okoros believe that the black culture was satanic and culture of a past era that deserved not to be taught in school. Struggling against this strange gift from the white man, Ndubuisi sought to defend the culture of Okoro. Would he succeed?Nkemakolam Njovuenwu Omeodu, Esq. hails from Rivers State of Nigeria. He is a Legal practitioner based in Port Harcourt. He is a moral writer who attaches little value to artificiality. He has written the following books: African Girl Child, The Way to Churchyard, The Agony of a Modern Generation, The Pauper's Tales, The Mastery of Civic Education: A Nigerian Perspective.

Reluctant Pilgrim

Author : Enuma Okoro
Publisher : Upper Room Books
ISBN 13 : 1935205153
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Reluctant Pilgrim written by Enuma Okoro and published by Upper Room Books. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist in the "Best Books 2010" Awards "This is one of those books that you read and then have to sit back or curl up in a ball and 'be still and know.' In these honest, tear-stained pages are clear signs that there is a 'Hound of Heaven' hunting us down—this Spirit that is stalking us with love, winking at us with miracles, tickling us with grace, subverting everything that could destroy us, and whispering in our ears that we are truly beloved." —Shane Claiborne Author, activist, recovering sinner Love God, but not so sure about church? If you've ever had doubts or felt the gnawing need to examine your interior life, you'll find a trustworthy companion in Enuma Okoro, a purse-shopping, tea-sipping, shaky follower of Jesus who wouldn't mind meeting a guy who loves God and has decent hair. But after her father's unexpected death, her grief seems to morph into the panicky feeling that God wants something more from her, like maybe becoming a nun. As she seeks to unravel those feelings, Okoro takes us back to the places that formed her, from her first years in church at a parish in Queens, New York, to her years in West Africa where she collected crucifixes along with Richie Rich comic books, to her studies in Europe and the United States. Part Augustine, part Jane Austen with a side of Anne Lamott, Okoro attempts to reconcile her theological understanding of God's call to community with her painful and disappointing experiences of community in churches where she often felt invisible, pigeonholed, or out of place. At turns snarky and luminous, laugh-out-loud funny and vulnerably poignant, Reluctant Pilgrim is the no-holds-barred account of a woman who prays to savor God's goodness and never be satisfied. It is a daring, insightful, and deeply moving field guide for the curious, the confused, and the convicted.

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.

The Dust Must Settle

Author : Obinna Ozoigbo
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452087946
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Dust Must Settle written by Obinna Ozoigbo and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-12-10 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A particlar family unit in West Africa disintegrates after the turn of the nineteenth century. But this family, at the dawning of the twenty-first century, against all odds, is restored . . . In a bid to escape his father's tyranny in Arochukwu, Uzo Ogbonna elopes to far-away Calabar with his heartthrob, Ivuaku. But, while living among the Efiks, he is murdered by his best Efik friend, never to set eyes on his motherless triplet children. His life as an Anglophile pays off, finally; a young Welsh missionary in Calabar, Mary-Ann, takes ill and sails with the now orphaned triplets to England in 1923 as toddlers. Tracing their ancestral home in Africa, some years after, would have been a lot easier if Mary-Ann had not died, and if these triplets had not been separated within the ambit of the British Adoption Act. The "machinery" set in motion for the coming together of these triplets seventy-nine years after is skillfully narrated by the author in the Book Two and Book Three of this captivating family saga that spans four generations . . .

Swallow

Author : Sefi Atta
Publisher : Interlink Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1623710073
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Swallow written by Sefi Atta and published by Interlink Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1980s in Lagos, the government’s War Against Indiscipline and austerity measures are in full swing. A succession of unfortunate events leads Tolani, a bank secretary, to be persuaded by her roommate Rose to consider drug trafficking as a way to make a living. Tolani’s subsequent struggle with temptation forces her to reconsider her morality—and that of her mother Arike’s—as she embarks on a turbulent journey of self-discovery.

The African Lookbook

Author : Catherine E. McKinley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620403544
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The African Lookbook written by Catherine E. McKinley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the African Photobook of the Year Award A Choice Outstanding Title of the Year A USA Today "Must-Read for Black History Month" An NPR "Goats and Soda" Editors' Pick A BookRiot Favorite Nonfiction Book of the Year An unprecedented visual history of African women told in striking and subversive historical photographs-featuring an Introduction by Edwidge Danticat and a Foreword by Jacqueline Woodson. Most of us grew up with images of African women that were purely anthropological-bright displays of exotica where the deeper personhood seemed tucked away. Or they were chronicles of war and poverty-“poverty porn.” But now, curator Catherine E. McKinley draws on her extensive collection of historical and contemporary photos to present a visual history spanning a hundred-year arc (1870–1970) of what is among the earliest photography on the continent. These images tell a different story of African women: how deeply cosmopolitan and modern they are in their style; how they were able to reclaim the tools of the colonial oppression that threatened their selfhood and livelihoods. Featuring works by celebrated African masters, African studios of local legend, and anonymous artists, The African Lookbook captures the dignity, playfulness, austerity, grandeur, and fantasy-making of African women across centuries. McKinley also features photos by Europeans-most starkly, striking nudes-revealing the relationships between white men and the Black female sitters where, at best, a grave power imbalance lies. It's a bittersweet truth that when there is exploitation there can also be profound resistance expressed in unexpected ways-even if it's only in gazing back. These photos tell the story of how the sewing machine and the camera became powerful tools for women's self-expression, revealing a truly glorious display of everyday beauty.

Reforming the Unreformable

Author : Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262526875
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Reforming the Unreformable written by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A report on development economics in action, by a crucial player in Nigeria's recent reforms. Corrupt, mismanaged, and seemingly hopeless: that's how the international community viewed Nigeria in the early 2000s. Then Nigeria implemented a sweeping set of economic and political changes and began to reform the unreformable. This book tells the story of how a dedicated and politically committed team of reformers set out to fix a series of broken institutions, and in the process repositioned Nigeria's economy in ways that helped create a more diversified springboard for steadier long-term growth. The author, Harvard- and MIT-trained economist Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, currently Nigeria's Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance and formerly Managing Director of the World Bank, played a crucial part in her country's economic reforms. In Nigeria's Debt Management Office, and later as Minister of Finance, she spearheaded negotiations with the Paris Club that led to the wiping out of $30 billion of Nigeria's external debt, 60 percent of which was outright cancellation. Reforming the Unreformable offers an insider's view of those debt negotiations; it also details the fight against corruption and the struggle to implement a series of macroeconomic and structural reforms. This story of development economics in action, written from the front lines of economic reform in Africa, offers a unique perspective on the complex and uncertain global economic environment.

The Whispering Trees

Author : Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
Publisher : Parresia Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789237251
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book The Whispering Trees written by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim and published by Parresia Publishers. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Whispering Trees, award winning writer Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s debut collection of short stories, employs nuance, subtle drama and deadpan humour to capture colourful Nigerian lives. There’s Kyakkyawa, who sparks forbidden thoughts in her father and has a bit of angels and witches in her; there’s the mysterious butterfly girl who just might be a incarnation of Ohikwo’s long dead mother; there’s also a flummoxed white woman caught between two Nigerian brothers and an unfolding scandal, and, of course, the two medicine men of Mazade who battle against their egos, an epidemic and an enigmatic witch.

The Thing Around Your Neck

Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher : Knopf Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307375234
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Thing Around Your Neck written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These twelve dazzling stories from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — the Orange Broadband Prize–winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun — are her most intimate works to date. In these stories Adichie turns her penetrating eye to the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the United States. In “A Private Experience,” a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman, and the young mother at the centre of “Imitation” finds her comfortable life in Philadelphia threatened when she learns that her husband has moved his mistress into their Lagos home. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow and longing, this collection is a resounding confirmation of Adichie’s prodigious literary powers.

Eye of Evil

Author : Joseph Harrington
Publisher : St Martins Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312951757
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Eye of Evil written by Joseph Harrington and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The arrest of survivalist Leonard Lake for shoplifting leads police to a fortified bunker in Northern California, where he and Charles Chitat Ng allegedly imprisoned their victims, used them for forced labor, raped, and killed them, often videotaping the events. Original.

Afropolitan Horizons

Author : Ulf Hannerz
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800733194
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Afropolitan Horizons written by Ulf Hannerz and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-02-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction. Nigerian Connections -- Palm Wine, Amos Tutuola, and a Literary Gatekeeper -- Bahia-Lagos-Ouidah: Mariana's Story -- Igbo Life, Past and Present: Three Views -- Inland, Upriver with the Empire: Borrioboola-Gha -- The City, according to Ekwensi . . . and Onuzo -- Points of Cultural Geography: Ibadan . . . Enugu, Onitsha, Nsukka -- Been-To: Dreams, Disappointments, Departures, and Returns -- Dateline Lagos: Reporting on Nigeria to the World -- Death in Lagos -- Tai Solarin: On Colonial Power, Schools, Work Ethic, Religion, and the Press -- Wole Soyinka, Leo Frobenius, and the Ori Olokun -- A Voice from the Purdah: Baba of Karo -- Bauchi: The Academic and the Imam -- Railtown Writers -- Nigeria at War -- America Observed: With Nigerian Eyes -- Transatlantic Shuttle -- Sojourners from Black Britain -- Oyotunji Village, South Carolina: Reverse Afropolitanism.

Searching for God Knows What

Author : Don Miller
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1418529958
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Searching for God Knows What written by Don Miller and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2010-05-24 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With equal parts wit and wisdom, New York Times bestselling author Donald Miller invites you to reconnect with your faith. Miller shares what he's learned firsthand--that our relationship with God is designed to teach us about redemption, grace, healing, and so much more. Searching for God Knows What weaves together timeless stories and fresh perspectives on the Bible to capture one man's journey to discover an authentic faith that's worth believing. Along the way, Miller poses his own questions about faith, religion, and community, asking: What if the motive behind our theology was relational? What if our value exists because God takes pleasure in us? What if the gospel of Jesus is an invitation to know God? Maybe you're a Christian wondering what faith you signed up for. Or maybe you don't believe anything and are daring someone to show you a genuine example of genuine faith. Somewhere beyond the self-help formulas, fancy marketing, and easy promises, there is a life-changing experience with God waiting for you--it just takes a little bit of searching. Praise for Searching for God Knows What: "Like a shaken snow globe, Donald Miller's newest collection of essays creates a swirl of ideas about the Christian life that eventually crystallize into a lovely landscape...[He] is one of the evangelical book market's most creative writers." --Christianity Today "If you have felt that Jesus is someone you respect and admire--but Christianity is something that repels you--Searching for God Knows What will give you hope that you still can follow Jesus and be part of a church without the trappings of organized religion." --Dan Kimball, author of The Emerging Church and Pastor of Vintage Faith Church, Santa Cruz, CA "For fans of Blue Like Jazz, I doubt you will be disappointed. Donald Miller writes with the wit and vulnerability that you expect. He perfectly illustrates important themes in a genuine and humorous manner...For those who would be reading Miller for the first time, this would be a great start." --Relevant

The Traditional Religion and Its Encounter with Christianity in Achebe's Novels

Author : Emmanuel Meziemadu Okoye
Publisher : Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Traditional Religion and Its Encounter with Christianity in Achebe's Novels written by Emmanuel Meziemadu Okoye and published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The meeting between the Christian faith and the Igbo people's ancestral tradition in Achebe's novels appears as a confrontation between two different religious systems and views: Christianity with its dogmatic claim to announce the absolute truth and Igbo religion with no claim to the absoluteness of its «truths». Achebe's portrayal of the two religions is compared with Igbo ethnography and recent history in order to show that his picture of his people's religion and its encounter with Christianity is authentic.

Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys

Author : Richard Twiss
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830898530
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys written by Richard Twiss and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gospel of Jesus has not always been good news for Native Americans. But despite the far-reaching effects of colonialism, some Natives have forged culturally authentic ways to follow Jesus. In his final work, Richard Twiss surveys the complicated history of Christian missions among Indigenous peoples and voices a hopeful vision of contextual Native Christian faith.

Red Letter Revolution

Author : Shane Claiborne
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN 13 : 1400204186
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Red Letter Revolution written by Shane Claiborne and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2012 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expounds the ideas of Red Letter Christianity, or, following Jesus' words exactly in order to live a better and more faithful life.

Left at the Altar

Author : Kimberley Kennedy
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1418585807
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Left at the Altar written by Kimberley Kennedy and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2009-02-16 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinatingly insightful and hopeful page-turning account of one woman's encounter with ultimate rejection. TV journalist Kimberley Kennedy went from having it all to complete devastation, rejection, and public humiliation when, like a Lifetime movie scenario, her fiance literally left her at the altar. Fortunately, her story did not end at the church. With candor and humor, Kimberley shares the most personal details of her life as she journeys from devastation to a deeper understanding of what happened and how she found not only healing but hope to someday find her Mr. Right. The intimate woman-to-woman inspirational journey includes: Stories of women who were left at the altar How to deal with feelings of anger towards God The little black dress analogy How not to let your rejection define who you become Tools for healing and moving on How to laugh, love again, and return to dating Ultimate insight from men who have been rejectors

Culture and History of Olokoro People

Author : Paul Okamnaonu Nwaogu
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1524512419
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book Culture and History of Olokoro People written by Paul Okamnaonu Nwaogu and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-06-25 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about Olokoro, our community. The account is not comprehensive, but it forms an important beginning (as other accounts before it) in the formal and permanent documentation of the history, culture, and the way of life of our people and their achievements. The community has grown from a point where its government has transformed from a mere disparate village organization to a level where a unified election dominates the process. The community is made up of diverse population with different ideological orientations that should be harnessed for the development of the community. His Royal Highness Eze J. J. Ogbulafor, Uvuoma 1 of Olokoro, took development of the community seriously as well as extolled the culture. The present dispensation of having many Ezes in Olokoro will lead to progress if properly harnessed by all and sundry. My vision for Olokoro in this regard is articulated in my autobiography (Nwaogu 2015.175). Olokoro community belongs to us all, and denizens should feel free to contribute ideas that will move our community forward. Perceptive readers are welcome, and this includes sharing of comments, suggestions, insights that will broaden our minds toward the achievement of a unified, progressive, and respectable community.