Ogadinma

Author : Ukamaka Olisakwe
Publisher : Black Spot Books
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781911648178

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Ogadinma by Ukamaka Olisakwe Pdf

Ogadinma Or, Everything Will be All Right is a tale of departure, loss and adaptation; of mothers whose experience at the hands of controlling men leave them with burdens they find too much to bear. After an unwanted pregnancy leaves her exiled from her family in Kano, thwarting her plans to go to university, seventeen-year-old Ogadinma is sent to her aunt's in Lagos. When a whirlwind romance with an older man descends into indignity, she is forced to channel her strength and resourcefulness to escape a fate that appears all but inevitable. A feminist classic in the making, Ukamaka Olisakwe's sophomore novel introduces a heroine for whom it is impossible not to root and announces the author as a gifted chronicler of the patriarchal experience. Illuminates a fascinating time in Nigeria's recent past, as the novel's heroine struggles against the shackles of a Church-dominated patriarchal society amid rising political turmoil · Written by a rising star of Nigeria's vibrant literature scene, a finalist for the 2019 Brittle Paper Award for Creative Nonfiction and established screenwriter · An exquisitely written bildungsroman that will appeal equally to readers of literary fiction and a new adult audience

Author : Yejide Kilanko
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143183990

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Daughters Who Walk This Path by Yejide Kilanko Pdf

Daughters Who Walk This Path depicts the dramatic coming of age of Morayo, a spirited and intelligent girl growing up in 1980s Ibadan who is thrust into a web of oppressive silence woven by the adults around her. It's a legacy of silence many women in Morayo's family share. Only Aunty Morenike-once protected by her own mother-provides Morayo with a safe home, and a sense of female community which sustains Morayo as she grows into a young woman in bustling, politically charged, often violent Nigeria.

Author : Kingsley Adrian Banks
Publisher : K. A. Banks
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798725786958

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Adamma by Kingsley Adrian Banks Pdf

Adamma is a dazzling beauty and Nigeria's biggest female musician. She has clawed her way to the top through sheer talent, uncommon drive and a shocking ability to adapt to people's musical needs. And, she intends to stay at the top no matter what. Obinna Obiekwe is a tycoon and a known playboy, the Casanova of fashionable Lagos society. He loves women, and he spends money on them recklessly. Years ago, he had met Adamma, and now he wants to be back in her life. However, she has kept a deep, devastating secret away from him...a secret he discovers and intends to break her with. He never forgets, he never lets go, and he has Adamma in his sights. He is rich, handsome and powerful, and he wants her to pay. A heartbreaking, emotional saga, so begins the thrilling, exotic story of Adamma, the woman everyone thinks is living the big dream, but whose life is a living nightmare. In the lush playgrounds of Lagos’s high brow areas, the saga of her life plays out, with a bitter past rearing its head at all turns, and a desperate future waiting for her everywhere she turns.

Author : Chigbo A. Ugwuoke
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1517774721

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Ogadimma by Chigbo A. Ugwuoke Pdf

Ogadi's life always seemed to take a turn for the worse. Born in Umuneke, a remote African village to a drunkard father and forced to live with Onome, a wicked stepmother, Ogadi thought life couldn't be worse. She quickly found out how wrong she was when she was plucked out of Umuneke and thrown into the city. Amidst the painful feelings of bitterness, suffering, sorrow, poverty, blackmail and joyful celebration, the author evolves the mysteries surrounding poor Ogadi's miserable life.

Author : Ahmad Danny Ramadan
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780889711242

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The Clothesline Swing by Ahmad Danny Ramadan Pdf

The Clothesline Swing is a journey through the troublesome aftermath of the Arab Spring. A former Syrian refugee himself, Ramadan unveils an enthralling tale of courage that weaves through the mountains of Syria, the valleys of Lebanon, the encircling seas of Turkey, the heat of Egypt and finally, the hope of a new home in Canada. Inspired by One Thousand and One Nights, The Clothesline Swing tells the epic story of two lovers anchored to the memory of a dying Syria. One is a Hakawati, a storyteller, keeping life in forward motion by relaying remembered fables to his dying partner. Each night he weaves stories of his childhood in Damascus, of the cruelty he has endured for his sexuality, of leaving home, of war, of his fated meeting with his lover. Meanwhile Death himself, in his dark cloak, shares the house with the two men, eavesdropping on their secrets as he awaits their final undoing.

Author : Abi Daré
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524746087

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The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré Pdf

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK! “Brave, fresh . . . unforgettable.”—The New York Times Book Review “A celebration of girls who dare to dream.”—Imbolo Mbue, author of Behold the Dreamers (Oprah’s Book Club pick) Shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and recommended by The New York Times, Marie Claire, Vogue, Essence, PopSugar, Daily Mail, Electric Literature, Red, Stylist, Daily Kos, Library Journal, The Everygirl, and Read It Forward! The unforgettable, inspiring story of a teenage girl growing up in a rural Nigerian village who longs to get an education so that she can find her “louding voice” and speak up for herself, The Girl with the Louding Voice is a simultaneously heartbreaking and triumphant tale about the power of fighting for your dreams. Despite the seemingly insurmountable obstacles in her path, Adunni never loses sight of her goal of escaping the life of poverty she was born into so that she can build the future she chooses for herself – and help other girls like her do the same. Her spirited determination to find joy and hope in even the most difficult circumstances imaginable will “break your heart and then put it back together again” (Jenna Bush Hager on The Today Show) even as Adunni shows us how one courageous young girl can inspire us all to reach for our dreams…and maybe even change the world.

Author : Elizabeth Chakrabarty
Publisher : Black Spot Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781911648239

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Lessons in Love and Other Crimes by Elizabeth Chakrabarty Pdf

'One of the most gripping and powerful books I've ever read; I feel so represented as a queer, brown woman.' — Nikita Gill An innovative hybrid of auto-fiction, crime fiction and critical race memoir, this multi-layered yet compulsively readable novel is inspired by the author´s real and extended experience of serious racial harassment, as well as exploring her search for justice and for love“/P> **Shortlisted for the Polari Prize 2022** **Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2022** Tesya has reasons to feel hopeful after leaving her last job, where she was subjected to a series of anonymous hate crimes. Now she is back home in London to start a new lecturing position, and has begun an exciting, if tumultuous, love affair with the enigmatic Holly. But this idyllic new start quickly sours. Tesya finds herself victimized again at work by an unknown assailant, who subjects her to an insidious, sustained race hate crime. As her paranoia mounts, Tesya finds herself yearning for the most elemental of desires: love, acceptance, and sanctuary. Her assailant, meanwhile, is recording his manifesto and plotting his next steps. Inspired by the author's personal experiences of hate crime and bookended with essays which contextualize the story within a lifetime of microaggressions, Lessons in Love and Other Crimes is a heartbreaking, hopeful, and compulsively readable novel about the most quotidian of crimes. 'A story you won't be able to get out of your head.' — Cosmopolitan

Author : Sefi Atta
Publisher : Interlink Publishing
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781623710163

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Everything Good Will Come by Sefi Atta Pdf

Everything Good Will Come introduces an important new voice in contemporary fiction. With insight and a lyrical wisdom, Nigerian-born Sefi Atta has written a powerful and eloquent story set in her African homeland. It is 1971, a year after the Biafran War, and Nigeria is under military rule—though the politics of the state matter less than those of her home to Enitan Taiwo, an eleven-year-old girl tired of waiting for school to start. Will her mother, who has become deeply religious since the death of Enitan’s brother, allow her friendship with the new girl next door, the brash and beautiful Sheri Bakare? This novel charts the fate of these two African girls; one who is prepared to manipulate the traditional system and one who attempts to defy it. Written in the voice of Enitan, the novel traces this unusual friendship into their adult lives, against the backdrop of tragedy, family strife, and a war-torn Nigeria. In the end, Everything Good Will Come is Enitan’s story; one of a fiercely intelligent, strong young woman coming of age in a culture that still insists on feminine submission. Enitan bucks the familial and political systems until she is confronted with the one desire too precious to forfeit in the name of personal freedom: her desire for a child. Everything Good Will Come evokes the sights and smells of Africa while imparting a wise and universal story of love, friendship, prejudice, survival, politics, and the cost of divided loyalties.

Author : Dr. Kemdi C. Opara
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781642141276

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The Man and His Destiny by Dr. Kemdi C. Opara Pdf

Destiny calls many people around the world to do great things and make a difference in their communities, countries, and societies. In Nigeria, destiny set its eyes on an orphan boy called Amajuoyi. After leaving home in the wake of abuse by his father's other family, Amajuoyi is found by a palm-wine tapper named Nkwuzor, who makes him his son and raises him to be an honorable man. But the road to greatness isn't always smooth, and Amajuoyi encounters several bitter and disheartening challenges along the way. But in the end-with faith, forgiveness, and perseverance-he finally achieves the great honor that destiny has prepared for him all along.

Author : Erhu Kome Yellow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1916154611

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Dawsk by Erhu Kome Yellow Pdf

A demon hunter, a witch incarnate and a shape-shifter; a messed up trio in an even messier love triangle.

Author : Sun Chi Okereke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : UCAL:B3799978

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Echoes in the Dark by Sun Chi Okereke Pdf

Author : KOLA. TUBOSUN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0993550231

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EDWARDSVILLE BY HEART. by KOLA. TUBOSUN Pdf

Author : Orji A. Orji
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781483498898

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Tears Like Rivers by Orji A. Orji Pdf

Ogbeyialu was not born like every other person. Sequel, she had no person in this world except Ade and she was the only person in Ade's life. Her birth placed her on the lowest social stratum. She was an evening flower and their peculiar world made Ade give her the nod to run his life. Fate brought Ade to Col. Kalu, one of the Biafran leaders. Circumstances and the meeting conspired and forced him to research on the Nigeria Biafra War for his degree project. Lilly, a head turner with brains, was from a rich and powerful family. Many men with muscles wanted her hand in marriage but she would not look their way. She wanted Ade but he did not want her and did not want to get near her. He had nothing, as a result, was not yet ready for marriage. Lilly's father was dangerous. Ade's background made him weak and vulnerable but her uncle and foster father, Joe Onuma, was a Biafran captain and had a truckload of the war stories. Research apart, Lilly would give Ade what he did not have.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 958 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : STANFORD:36105082830444

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Political Leadership Handbook and Who's who by Anonim Pdf

Author : Davis Chukwuemeka Nwanze
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : African fiction (english)
ISBN : IND:30000115650651

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The Swinging Pendulum by Davis Chukwuemeka Nwanze Pdf