Christmas In Lagos

Author : Sharon Abimbola Salu
Publisher : Sharon Abimbola Salu
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781734654707

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Christmas in Lagos by Sharon Abimbola Salu Pdf

A delightful and charming story celebrating Christmas in Lagos, a modern West African city. This picture book explores the sights and sounds of Lagos at Christmas through the eyes and words of a little Nigerian girl writing a Christmas journal. A cold, dry wind blew in from the Sahara desert and into Ranti's room It is ten days to Christmas, and also the last day of school. Ranti, a six year old girl who lives in the West African city of Lagos, Nigeria, sits in class and listens to her classmates describe all the exciting, far-away places they will visit during the Christmas holidays. Many of them will travel abroad for Christmas with their families. Ranti feels left out, and believes that her Christmas will be the most boring Christmas ever because she will be spending it in the city where she lives: Lagos. Because there is no snow in Lagos, she won't go ice skating or build a frosty snowman. However, with the encouragement of her class teacher, Miss Ani, Ranti starts a Christmas journal where she details all the amazing things that take place in the city of Lagos during Christmas. Although there is no snow in Lagos, and no tower to visit, Ranti develops a newfound appreciation for Lagos, and discovers all the exciting reasons that make Christmas in Lagos so special. Children will learn that you don't need to travel to exotic places to enjoy Christmas in your own town, city or village. Children will also learn the value of keeping a daily journal or diary. This picture book is a celebration of all the wonderful things that make Christmas special in Lagos. Readers of all ages will love following Ranti's journey through her Christmas diary, as she takes us through Lagos at Christmastime. It is also a celebration of all the things that make a Nigerian Christmas truly special, including Christmas concerts and Christmas carols in Nigerian languages. Perfect for read-alouds and storytime. Recommended for 4 - 8 year old children, preschoolers, kindergaten kids, toddlers and readers of all ages.

Author : Sharon Abimbola Salu
Publisher : Sharon Abimbola Salu
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:6610000262359

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Easter in Lagos by Sharon Abimbola Salu Pdf

A colorful holiday picture book, which captures the festivities, traditions, and excitement of Easter in Lagos, a modern African city. It's Easter Sunday in Lagos. People are excited and celebrating. But Eyitomi misses her Grandma. In a heartfelt letter, she gives her grandmother Seven Reasons Why She Should Spend her Next Easter in Lagos. But Mummy and Daddy have a surprise of their own. Readers of all ages will love reading a little girl's account of what makes Easter in Lagos truly special. Follow the events of Holy Week, including Easter Thursday and Good Friday, up till the grand finale: Easter Sunday or Resurrection Sunday. There is also a reference to Palm Sunday, which is celebrated the week before Easter Sunday. This storybook celebrates the enduring bonds of love between grandparents and grandchildren and shows how people connect with family during special holidays. Children will discover the joy of letter writing as a way of connecting with family especially during special holidays and will be inspired to write letters of their own. Don't miss Christmas in Lagos, the first book in the Nigerian Holidays series of picture books, by the same author with vibrant artwork by the same illustrator. Perfect for preschoolers, kindergarten children, toddlers, early readers.

Author : Sharon Abimbola Salu
Publisher : Sharon Abimbola Salu
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : PKEY:6610000262373

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The Journey of a Thousand Naira Note: Part Two by Sharon Abimbola Salu Pdf

The Journey continues in Part 2 of this African Graphic Novel Adventure Series! In the second part of THE JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND NAIRA NOTE, the one thousand Naira note continues its colorful and exciting travels through the lives of ordinary Nigerians. Money ushers in new beginnings, solves problems and even restores hope. From lovers to university students to traders, the thousand Naira note is a silent witness to the changes and daily triumphs that often go unnoticed and uncelebrated. Each chapter explores the role money plays in love and relationships, marriage, education, politics, trade, and commerce. This is a glimpse into the Nigerian experience through the eyes of the highest denomination: one thousand Naira.

Author : Saheed Aderinto
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780821447680

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Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa by Saheed Aderinto Pdf

With this multispecies study of animals as instrumentalities of the colonial state in Nigeria, Saheed Aderinto argues that animals, like humans, were colonial subjects in Africa. Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa broadens the historiography of animal studies by putting a diverse array of species (dogs, horses, livestock, and wildlife) into a single analytical framework for understanding colonialism in Nigeria and Africa as a whole. From his study of animals with unequal political, economic, social, and intellectual capabilities, Aderinto establishes that the core dichotomies of human colonial subjecthood—indispensable yet disposable, good and bad, violent but peaceful, saintly and lawless—were also embedded in the identities of Nigeria’s animal inhabitants. If class, religion, ethnicity, location, and attitude toward imperialism determined the pattern of relations between human Nigerians and the colonial government, then species, habitat, material value, threat, and biological and psychological characteristics (among other traits) shaped imperial perspectives on animal Nigerians. Conceptually sophisticated and intellectually engaging, Aderinto’s thesis challenges readers to rethink what constitutes history and to recognize that human agency and narrative are not the only makers of the past.

Author : Samson Shobayo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798636398400

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Christmas in Calabar by Samson Shobayo Pdf

A two weeks family trip by road from Lagos the Center of Excellence in Nigeria to Calabar The People's Paradise for Christmas, stopping along the way to experience the tourist attractions in the cities of Benin kingdom, Owerri the Eastern heartland and crowning it with the Coal city of Enugu on the way back. A wonderful family experience like never experienced.

Author : Tilawan
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781477219140

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The More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same by Tilawan Pdf

The book - as I waka for Naija: The More Things Change, the More they Remain the Same and The Adventures of SST, is a collection of positive comedy stories and inspirational excerpts to entertain and motivate the reader as he reads through. It involves fictional characters; events and deals on the common happenings in the complex but interesting country Nigeria fondly called Naija by some of its citizens which are portrayed in some areas of the book as Namuland.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
ISBN : IND:30000129684969

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State by Anonim Pdf

Author : Luke Onyekakeyah
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 731 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781477277799

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The Crawling Giant by Luke Onyekakeyah Pdf

The Nigerian condition has been the subject of conversation among writers, policymakers, and market men and women. There is no where the subject is not broached or discussed and often solutions are proffered, from the rational to the mundane. This is to be applauded because a culture of debate is to be preferred to silence as it is a national asset. Indeed, it is the duty of the ruling elite within the state sphere to distil the feedback from the citizenry and turn it into an outcome that is healthy for the polity.

Author : Franklin Uba Okeafor
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595261031

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Blind Horizon by Franklin Uba Okeafor Pdf

A novel of the trauma of total memory loss, of the power of friendship and the other frontiers of love. Highlights several relevant aberrations of present day Nigeria. Some themes include the fate of fatal accident victims who are generally allowed to die, the question of hospitality to strangers, the rights of sickle cell sufferers, and the mental anguish of political activism--page 4 of cover.

Author : Tilawan
Publisher : Author House
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-17
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781477230336

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The New Adventures of Sst by Tilawan Pdf

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR WHAT WILL KEEP YOU LAUGHING ALL THROUGH, THEN YOU HAVE FOUND IT IN THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SST.... TWENTY GREAT STORIES OF THE ADVENTURES OF ONE MAN.... A GOOD COLLECTION OF COMEDY AND SUSPENSE

Author : George Packer
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1429935812

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Interesting Times by George Packer Pdf

The 2013 National Book Award Winner A New York Times Bestseller Throughout his career as a journalist, George Packer has always been attuned to the voices and stories of individuals caught up in the big ideas and events of contemporary history. Interesting Times unites brilliant investigative pieces such as "Betrayed," about Iraqi interpreters, with personal essays and detailed narratives of travels through war zones and failed states. Spanning a decade that includes the September 11, 2001 attacks and the election of Barack Obama, Packer brings insight and passion to his accounts of the war on terror, Iraq, political writers, and the 2008 election. Across these varied subjects a few key themes recur: the temptations and dangers of idealism; the moral complexities of war and politics; the American capacity for self-blinding and self-renewal. Whether exploring American policies in the wake of September 11, tracking a used T-shirt from New York to Uganda, or describing the ambivalent response in Appalachia to Obama, these essays hold a mirror up to our own troubled times and showcase Packer's unmistakable perspective, which is at once both wide-angled and humane.

Author : Martha Flowers Wallen
Publisher : Author House
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781468511703

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Amy's Family by Martha Flowers Wallen Pdf

This coming of age story is told through the eyes of the author’s daughter, Amy, who is five years old when the book begins. She lives with her family in Thibodaux, Louisiana. Amy knows her family will move sooner or later because of her dad’s work. But her dad’s transfer to a small town in northeast Nevada is a daunting prospect for the entire family after spending so many years in the warm, temperate climate of the friendly Cajun country. The move to Nevada begins a journey for Amy and her family that will take them to Nigeria, Peru, Bolivia, and finally, to a small town in Oklahoma. As Amy learns about new and different cultures, she develops tolerance for the differences and a more perceptive attitude toward other people of the world. When her older brother and sister go away to school in Switzerland, she’s suddenly thrust into the life of an only child. On her journey toward adulthood, she encounters the usual hardships and disappointments of growing up, along with amazing adventures travelling in foreign lands. She learns to take the problems in stride and enjoy the adventure. Her experiences are amusing, exciting, some very sweet, a few a bit scary, and all fun to read.

Author : Jessica Harrison
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241396711

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The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories by Jessica Harrison Pdf

The perfect gift this Christmas season: a generous selection of some of the greatest festive stories of all time This is a collection of the most magical, moving, chilling and surprising Christmas stories from around the world, taking us from frozen Nordic woods to glittering Paris, a New York speakeasy to an English country house, bustling Lagos to midnight mass in Rio, and even outer space. Here are classic tales from writers including Truman Capote, Shirley Jackson, Dylan Thomas, Saki and Chekhov, as well as little-known treasures such as Italo Calvino's wry sideways look at Christmas consumerism, Wolfdietrich Schnurre's story of festive ingenuity in Berlin, Selma Lagerlof's enchanted forest in Sweden, and Irène Nemerovsky's dark family portrait. Featuring santas, ghosts, trolls, unexpected guests, curmudgeons and miracles, here is Christmas as imagined by some of the greatest short story writers of all time.

Author : Gideon Chuka Nwoko
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798887938011

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The Sojourner by Gideon Chuka Nwoko Pdf

At the dawn of a precarious post-civil war Nigeria, Jeffrey Igwe and JoeBoy Amanze, chummiest of Igbo pals from the eastern region of the country, surmised that opportunities for them to soar in their lives' dreams weren't guaranteed in an already rife, tribal, and nepotistic society, shrewdly skewed against the Igbos, who were tacitly deemed a bellicose race of people for allegedly igniting the heap of cinders and embers that eventually erupted into a full-scale tribal bloodbath between the Igbos and the Hausa, albeit the Igbos only audaciously fought the Hausa, the federal troops, to counter their subjugation and defend their people, dignity, and ancestral homeland in a civil war that raged from 1967-1970. Gritty, fearless, ambitious, and contrarian, Jeffrey Igwe, who fought and survived the civil pogrom as a Biafran army captain, sought the recourse of JoeBoy Amanze as he transitioned from his ancestral provenance of Amaku to the metropolitan city of Lagos for the very first time. The two chums eventually migrated to Dallas, Texas, where their lives as the years wore on took a dramatic turn, precipitated by avarice, machismo ego, love, passion, and a trail of bloodcurdling family betrayals, unforeseen maledictions, and tragedies. The Sojourner is a historical romance, an emotion-laden, riveting, gripping, humorous, and erotic narrative of love lost and an enduring love found, such as Gavanka Garfunkel, a stunningly gorgeous, burgeoning, sultry jazz crooner, which culminated in a moon shot at the American dream that wound up shaping diametric destinies for the bosom friends in the United States, destinies that eventually, as the years wore on, made an impact on their extended menage back in Nigeria, in London, England, and in Rennes-le-Chateau, Southern France. The saga continues to unfurl in this seven-book series to be published in the near future.

Author : Sir William M.N. Geary
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136963018

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Nigeria Under British Rule (1927) by Sir William M.N. Geary Pdf

First Published in 1965. This book recounts Nigeria under British rule and is dedicated by the author to Mr Joseph Chamberlain who was Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1895 to 1903. It includes the areas of Lagos and the Niger coast as revenue generators, the Niger Delta Protectorate, the Royal Niger Company, and Amalgamated Nigeria from 1914.