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Emergent Themes and Methods in African Studies honors one of Nigeria's...
Olufunmilayo Ransome-Kuti made history in so many ways. She led the...
Man is a contradiction, a complex being, and a unique animal... One side...
Now with an all-new bonus chapter - in the bestselling The Kennedy...
Kokori: The Struggle for June 12 is the candid account of Chief Frank...
A timely, powerful and provocative study of the tensions between...
This is an ode to human survival and revival. The author deployed...
In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans....
The Bright Continent definitely disapproves the still prevalent depiction of Africa as a ‘dark, hopeless continent.’
A masterly, haunting novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as “the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe,” Half of a Yellow Sun recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria, and the chilling violence that followed.
Why Not? Citizenship, State Capture, Creeping Fascism and Criminal Hijack of Politics in Nigeria the response to the question, ‘Why bother’, which is posed by those who believe that criminal capture of political parties in Nigeria is complete and that those outside the league of cult members, 419ers and conmen have no chance of breaking in.
Here’s a fascinating account of highlights of Olusegun Osoba’s life story. From his boyish pranks in the railway town of Osogbo, to the inner city of Lagos, where he attended secondary school and began his career as a journalist, to his sojourn in Ilorin and Ibadan, it is a journey driven by vision and enterprise.
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.
A compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community against the forces of change.
Nelson Mandela stands out as one of the most admired political figures of the twentieth century. It was his leadership and moral courage above all that helped to deliver a peaceful end to apartheid in South Africa after years of racial division and violence and to establish a fledgling democracy there.
Here, collected for the first time in Everyman’s Library, are the three internationally acclaimed classic novels that comprise what has come to be known as Chinua Achebe’s “African Trilogy.”
In 1997, Tony Blair won the biggest Labour victory in history to sweep the party to power and end eighteen years of Conservative government. He remains the only living Labour leader to have won a general election.
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States.
Collier has spent a lifetime working to end global poverty. In The Bottom Billion, he offers real hope for solving one of the great humanitarian crises facing the world today.
Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration.