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Dictionary of African Biography

Dictionary of African Biography
Author: Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
Publisher:
Total Pages: 3382
Release: 2012-02-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0195382072

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From the Pharaohs to Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa's history. Unprecedented in scale, DAB covers the whole continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatsheput of Egypt (1490-1468 BC) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (243-183 BC), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1909-1972), Miriam Makeba and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (1918 -).


The Famished Road

The Famished Road
Author: Ben Okri
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2015-03-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 144813854X

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Journey between the land of the Living and the spirit world in this magical Booker Prize-winning novel 'So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use' Azaro, is a spirit child, who in many traditions of Nigeria exists between life and death. Born into a difficult world, Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Despite belonging to a spirit world made of enchantment, where there is no suffering, Azaro chooses to stay in the land of the Living: to feel it, endure it, know it and love it. This is his story. 'In a magnificent feat of sustained imaginative writing, Okri spins a tale that is epic and intimate at the same time. The Famished Road rekindled my sense of wonder. It made me, at age 50, look at the world through the wide eyes of a child' Michael Palin 'This is a book to generate apostles. People will be moved and, with stars in their eyes, will pass on the word' Time Out 'Ben Okri is incapable of writing a boring sentence' Independent on Sunday


Starbook

Starbook
Author: Ben Okri
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2008-11-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1407022555

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Starbook tells the tale of a prince and a maiden in a mythical land where a golden age is ending. Their fragile story considers the important questions we all face, exploring creativity, wisdom, suffering and transcendence in a time when imagination still ruled the world. A magnificent achievement and a modern-day parable, Starbook offers a vision of life far greater than ourselves.


Mental Fight

Mental Fight
Author: Ben Okri
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2023-10-10
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1635422914

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An epic poem touching on issues of racism, intolerance, and environmental destruction, from the Booker Prize–winning author. There is much to celebrate in the human journey so far—art in all its forms, advances made in the fields of technology and medicine, and for many of us, the miracle of freedom. But there is also much to regret—racism, intolerance, the destruction of our environment, the reality and the legacy of slavery. In this long, sustained consideration of the state we find ourselves in, Ben Okri invokes the past to explain the present, and sings out a message of hope. The future is still ours to make. This epic poem, an anthem for the twenty-first century, first appeared in The Times in January 1999. Its message could hardly be more relevant to our present condition. Discover this revised edition of an inspiring and extraordinarily tender work.


Flowers and Shadows

Flowers and Shadows
Author: Ben Okri
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1989
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780582035362

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Set in the hustle of Lagos, a series of disturbing events strip the young Jeffia Okwe of his innocence and reveal the ruthlessness of his own father. The tragic climax of the tale leaves Jeffia cleansed of the sins of his father, ready for adult life and optimistic about the future.


Incidents At The Shrine

Incidents At The Shrine
Author: Ben Okri
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 103
Release: 2015-03-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1446433897

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Incidents at the Shrine is the first collection of stories by the author of 1991 Booker Prize-winning novel, The Famished Road. Whether the subject is a child's eye view of the Nigerian Civil War, Lagos and the spirit world or dispossession in a decaying British inner city, Okri's lyrical, poetic and humorous prose recreates the known and the unknown world with startling power.


Stars Of The New Curfew

Stars Of The New Curfew
Author: Ben Okri
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2015-03-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1448138531

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To enter the world of Ben Okri's stories is to surrender to a new reality. Set in the chaotic streets of Lagos and the jungle heart of Nigeria, all the laws of cause and effect, fact and fiction, are suspended. It is a world where the lives of the powerless veer terrifyingly close to nightmare. In rich, lyrical, almost hallucinatory prose Ben Okri guides us through the fabulous and the mundane, the serene and the randomly violent. The unrelenting Nigerian heat and the implacable darkness of the black-out and the military curfew are the backdrops for his characters each finding their own ways to survive. We witness their dogged resistance to impotence, their unquenchable humour and their insistence on the possibility of love in the face of terror. Written with the lucid clarity and logic of dream, Stars of the New Curfew is a book of visionary imagination.


Music: A Mathematical Offering

Music: A Mathematical Offering
Author: Dave Benson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2007
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0521853877

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This book explores the interaction between music and mathematics including harmony, symmetry, digital music and perception of sound.