'Through original interviews, a smart use of source material, and a wonderfully easy-going style, Blumenthal gives a full portrait of Jobs ...This is a smart book about a smart subject by a smart writer' - Ilene Cooper, American Library JournalInventor. Visionary. Genius. Dropout. Adopted. Steve Jobs was the founder of Apple, and he was all of these things.
In the fictional country of Madia, a prostitute runs into the sea and drowns. The last man who spoke to her, the 'madman' Bukuru, is arrested and charged with murder. In court, Bukuru, representing himself, counters the charges with bombshell allegations.
This is a detailed meta-narrative for anyone who genuinely desires to understand the history of Nigeria.
This landmark reference work emphasizes Yoruba history, geography and demography, language and linguistics, literature, philosophy, religion, and art.
Africa is edging closer to fulfilling her staggering potential. 'Reclaiming Hope' outlines the imperatives for this emerging generation.
Gender, Culture and Development in Africa interrogates ways in which gender, culture, and development in the African context reinforce, shape, and reshape one another.
This innovative anthology presents an interdisciplinary approach to Yorùbá culture and customs.
The essays in this volume provide a framework for understanding contemporary Nigeria’s pains and gains.
This volume combines conceptual and empirical methodology to connect the administrative dots between the dynamics of democratic governance and the imperatives of development in Nigeria.
The book is the truth about the worrisome circumstances Nigeria finds itself.
White Chief, Black Lords explores the tensions and contradictions between the British colonial civilizing mission and the practice of indirect rule. 177 pages Hard Cover
Supported with personal letters and pictures, Olusegun Obasanjo, Nzeogwu’s close friend and confidant, provides a penetrating and detailed account of the lie of the one of the most enigmatic names in Nigeria’s history.
Ironsi was Nigeria’s first military Head of State. He was killed in Ibadan in the July 1966 counter coup led my northern officers. In this edition entitled Ironsi, Chuks Iloegbunam goes beyond the individual level and the web of intrigues that cost General Aguiyi-Ironis his life.
Why We Struck tells the story of the first military intervention in Nigerian politics. The coup that took place on January 15, 1966, was conceived and planned together by Majors Nzeogwu, Ifeajuna and Ademoyega. The execution of the plan had a lightning effect, and the coup provoked a reaction within the first hours of its commencement, opening the...
The Brigadier’s Daughter is a deeply personal and powerful memoir by Solape Ademulegun, the daughter of Brigadier Samuel Ademulegun, a high-ranking officer killed during the January 15, 1966 coup in Nigeria.
Nigeria:The Birth of Africa’s Greatest Country chronicles the social political events of colonial and immediate post-colonial Nigeria as recorded by Drum, the popular monthly magazine of those times.
This book is essentially the Olusegun Obasanjo’s account of his command of the 3 Marine Commando Division and the story of the end of the Nigerian Civil War.
My Watch is more than the story of the Obasanjo presidency told by the man himself. It is a memoir of a lifetime spent in service to country, of a man who has been destined with the watch, with the vigilance, with the responsibility to his people to speak up and speak out.
The Travails of Democracy and the Rule of Law is the second book of three under the general title Adventures in Power by Chief Obafemi Awolowo.
This House of Oduduwa Must Not Fall represents a quest to share the ultimate eye-opening journey to the root of the problems of (the geographical entity called) Nigeria.
The book contains essays written by four generations of Nigerian scholars. It is the first to examine the historical, political, economic and comparative dimensions of attempts by the military to restructure the Nigerian federation.