Category: Books
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Author Profile: Adewale Maja-Pearce
Adewale Maja-Pearce tends to describe himself as an Anglo-Nigerian. Born of a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father, Maja-Pearce spent his childhood and teenage years in Lagos before returning to the U.K. for his university education in the 1970s. It was there that his writing career took off with the publication…
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Author Profile: Timi Spiff
Fresh from the prestigious Jackson School of Mass Communications at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Inatimi Spiff in the mid 1980s, Spiff found work as a reporter at the Enugu-based New Outlook newspaper, then as Lagos correspondent for the Kaduna based Today newspaper before joining the Daily Times Group as…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Vision Impossible
By Isidore Emeka Uzoatu In Vision Impossible Isidore Emeka Uzoatu captures the climate of fear that envelops an African nation in the iron grip of military dictatorship. Junior Obodo, on the wings of love and fresh out of university, takes the battle to the junta with the one weapon it…
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Issues in Contemporary Nigerian Art
Edited by Juliet Ezenwa Maja-Pearce Issues in Contemporary Nigerian Art is a survey of modern Nigerian art since the turn of the new millennium. It features contributions from leading Nigerian academics, as well as the artists themselves. It is extensively illustrated throughout. Produced with support from The Ford Foundation, the…
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War Games
By Dulue Mbachu A tender coming-of-age story forged in the crucible of Biafra, War Games is a relentlessly candid and unsentimental reconstruction of a halcyon world suddenly shattered by hate, flight and strife. For Basil Chekwubechukwu Odukwe or Cheche, the good life as a rich landlord’s son in northern Nigeria…
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Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa and Other Essays
By Adewale Maja-Pearce Ken Saro-Wiwa aroused powerful emotions in his life, and his death by hanging on the orders of General Sani Abacha shook the world. The sainthood of Saro-Wiwa has been promoted in much of the media, but some polemical voices assert that he was more sinner than saint.…
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God of Poetry
By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu In God of Poetry, Uzor Maxim Uzoatu succeeds in proving that no subject matter can be spared treatment in verse. From the high to the low, from the mundane to the sublime, Uzoatu teases, taunts and even dares, with the results always agreeable. Even when the…
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