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War Games (Excerpts)
Grandpa always did his best to please us, just as Mama always did her best to please him. She gave himfrom the meals she cooked and he gave us one farm produce or the other, and every other day a livechicken. I later discovered that the chickens came from his numerous clients for Grandpa was Read more
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The New Gong Children’s Series
The Tortoise and Other Animals By Chuks L. Emele The Tortoise and Other Animals by Chuks L. Emele is the first of a children’s series launched by The New Gong Publishers to help combat the dearth of the African perspective in the stories to which children, our children, are exposed in their early formative years. Read more
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Surviving the Storms (Excerpts)
1 THE CEMETERY The cemetery was deserted as Kuro walked through it on his way to see his friend in the adjacent waterside during a short school holiday. So much awe about the cemetery in this city. Even those who pass through it as a short cut to and from their mud and wood and Read more
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Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa (Excerpts)
3 Nobody knows exactly what happened on that bloody Saturday, May 21, 1994 because no proper police investigation was conducted and no forensic evidence was offered at the subsequent Tribunal. According to the unremittingly antagonistic prosecution witnesses, itseems that the chiefs were holding a meeting in the palace of His Royal Highness, Chief James Bagia, Read more
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The Plan of Creation in African Tradition
(The Igbo Example) By Nze Ezeoforkire C. Ezenwa From the time European nations conquered Africa, they went on to condemn everything about the cultures they subjugated. Their religion was dismissed as mere paganism and their way of life was abhorred as subhuman. The effects of this so-called “civilising mission” are still being felt today and Read more
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A Peculiar Tragedy
(J P Clark-Bekederemo and the Beginning of Modern Nigerian Literature in English} By Adewale Maja-Pearce A Peculiar Tragedy is a critical biography of poet and playwright John Pepper Clark, better known as JP Clark, who along with Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka (all schoolmates at Nigeria’s University if Ibadan in the 1950s) were among the Read more
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