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The White Man's Gift to Okoro

The White Man's Gift to Okoro
Author: Nkemakolam OMEODU
Publisher:
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2019-01-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781792884788

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Before the white men came to Okoro, the Okoros weren't consulted. Little wonder then for the signs of unacceptability and depression which were boldly etched on the faces of the Okoros. Lack of understanding of those signs made the white people to work harder and be more persuasive in order that their coming to Okoro would not turn out to be a journey in futility.The substitution of Okoro's culture with the white people's culture brought premature deaths among the Okoro's owing to the emergence of evil, sickness, diseases, dishonesty and lack of respect and trust that emanated from the white people's culture. Even the death of Ameka was in connection with the white man's school he attended.The black people were taught to neglect their own culture; they made the Okoros believe that the black culture was satanic and culture of a past era that deserved not to be taught in school. Struggling against this strange gift from the white man, Ndubuisi sought to defend the culture of Okoro. Would he succeed?Nkemakolam Njovuenwu Omeodu, Esq. hails from Rivers State of Nigeria. He is a Legal practitioner based in Port Harcourt. He is a moral writer who attaches little value to artificiality. He has written the following books: African Girl Child, The Way to Churchyard, The Agony of a Modern Generation, The Pauper's Tales, The Mastery of Civic Education: A Nigerian Perspective.


Reluctant Pilgrim

Reluctant Pilgrim
Author: Enuma Okoro
Publisher: Upper Room Books
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2010-10-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1935205153

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Finalist in the "Best Books 2010" Awards "This is one of those books that you read and then have to sit back or curl up in a ball and 'be still and know.' In these honest, tear-stained pages are clear signs that there is a 'Hound of Heaven' hunting us down—this Spirit that is stalking us with love, winking at us with miracles, tickling us with grace, subverting everything that could destroy us, and whispering in our ears that we are truly beloved." —Shane Claiborne Author, activist, recovering sinner Love God, but not so sure about church? If you've ever had doubts or felt the gnawing need to examine your interior life, you'll find a trustworthy companion in Enuma Okoro, a purse-shopping, tea-sipping, shaky follower of Jesus who wouldn't mind meeting a guy who loves God and has decent hair. But after her father's unexpected death, her grief seems to morph into the panicky feeling that God wants something more from her, like maybe becoming a nun. As she seeks to unravel those feelings, Okoro takes us back to the places that formed her, from her first years in church at a parish in Queens, New York, to her years in West Africa where she collected crucifixes along with Richie Rich comic books, to her studies in Europe and the United States. Part Augustine, part Jane Austen with a side of Anne Lamott, Okoro attempts to reconcile her theological understanding of God's call to community with her painful and disappointing experiences of community in churches where she often felt invisible, pigeonholed, or out of place. At turns snarky and luminous, laugh-out-loud funny and vulnerably poignant, Reluctant Pilgrim is the no-holds-barred account of a woman who prays to savor God's goodness and never be satisfied. It is a daring, insightful, and deeply moving field guide for the curious, the confused, and the convicted.


Another Man's War

Another Man's War
Author: Barnaby Phillips
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2014-09-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1780745230

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In December 1941 the Japanese invaded Burma. For the British, the longest land campaign of the Second World War had begun. 100,000 African soldiers were taken from Britain’s colonies to fight the Japanese in the Burmese jungles. They performed heroically in one of the most brutal theatres of war, yet their contribution has been largely ignored. Isaac Fadoyebo was one of those ‘Burma Boys’. At the age of sixteen he ran away from his Nigerian village to join the British Army. Sent to Burma, he was attacked and left for dead in the jungle by the Japanese. Sheltered by courageous local rice farmers, Isaac spent nine months in hiding before his eventual rescue. He returned to Nigeria a hero, but his story was soon forgotten. Barnaby Phillips travelled to Nigeria and Burma in search of Isaac, the family who saved his life, and the legacy of an Empire. Another Man’s War is Isaac’s story.


The Dust Must Settle

The Dust Must Settle
Author: Obinna Ozoigbo
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 601
Release: 2010-12-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1452087946

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A particlar family unit in West Africa disintegrates after the turn of the nineteenth century. But this family, at the dawning of the twenty-first century, against all odds, is restored . . . In a bid to escape his father's tyranny in Arochukwu, Uzo Ogbonna elopes to far-away Calabar with his heartthrob, Ivuaku. But, while living among the Efiks, he is murdered by his best Efik friend, never to set eyes on his motherless triplet children. His life as an Anglophile pays off, finally; a young Welsh missionary in Calabar, Mary-Ann, takes ill and sails with the now orphaned triplets to England in 1923 as toddlers. Tracing their ancestral home in Africa, some years after, would have been a lot easier if Mary-Ann had not died, and if these triplets had not been separated within the ambit of the British Adoption Act. The "machinery" set in motion for the coming together of these triplets seventy-nine years after is skillfully narrated by the author in the Book Two and Book Three of this captivating family saga that spans four generations . . .


Swallow

Swallow
Author: Sefi Atta
Publisher: Interlink Publishing
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2012-11-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1623710073

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In the 1980s in Lagos, the government’s War Against Indiscipline and austerity measures are in full swing. A succession of unfortunate events leads Tolani, a bank secretary, to be persuaded by her roommate Rose to consider drug trafficking as a way to make a living. Tolani’s subsequent struggle with temptation forces her to reconsider her morality—and that of her mother Arike’s—as she embarks on a turbulent journey of self-discovery.


Reforming the Unreformable

Reforming the Unreformable
Author: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2014-08-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0262526875

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A report on development economics in action, by a crucial player in Nigeria's recent reforms. Corrupt, mismanaged, and seemingly hopeless: that's how the international community viewed Nigeria in the early 2000s. Then Nigeria implemented a sweeping set of economic and political changes and began to reform the unreformable. This book tells the story of how a dedicated and politically committed team of reformers set out to fix a series of broken institutions, and in the process repositioned Nigeria's economy in ways that helped create a more diversified springboard for steadier long-term growth. The author, Harvard- and MIT-trained economist Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, currently Nigeria's Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance and formerly Managing Director of the World Bank, played a crucial part in her country's economic reforms. In Nigeria's Debt Management Office, and later as Minister of Finance, she spearheaded negotiations with the Paris Club that led to the wiping out of $30 billion of Nigeria's external debt, 60 percent of which was outright cancellation. Reforming the Unreformable offers an insider's view of those debt negotiations; it also details the fight against corruption and the struggle to implement a series of macroeconomic and structural reforms. This story of development economics in action, written from the front lines of economic reform in Africa, offers a unique perspective on the complex and uncertain global economic environment.


The Whispering Trees

The Whispering Trees
Author: Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
Publisher: Parresia Publishers
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2012-03-02
Genre: Short stories, Nigerian (English)
ISBN: 9789237251

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The Whispering Trees, award winning writer Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s debut collection of short stories, employs nuance, subtle drama and deadpan humour to capture colourful Nigerian lives. There’s Kyakkyawa, who sparks forbidden thoughts in her father and has a bit of angels and witches in her; there’s the mysterious butterfly girl who just might be a incarnation of Ohikwo’s long dead mother; there’s also a flummoxed white woman caught between two Nigerian brothers and an unfolding scandal, and, of course, the two medicine men of Mazade who battle against their egos, an epidemic and an enigmatic witch.


The African Lookbook

The African Lookbook
Author: Catherine E. McKinley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2021-02-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1620403544

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Winner of the African Photobook of the Year Award A Choice Outstanding Title of the Year A USA Today "Must-Read for Black History Month" An NPR "Goats and Soda" Editors' Pick A BookRiot Favorite Nonfiction Book of the Year An unprecedented visual history of African women told in striking and subversive historical photographs-featuring an Introduction by Edwidge Danticat and a Foreword by Jacqueline Woodson. Most of us grew up with images of African women that were purely anthropological-bright displays of exotica where the deeper personhood seemed tucked away. Or they were chronicles of war and poverty-“poverty porn.” But now, curator Catherine E. McKinley draws on her extensive collection of historical and contemporary photos to present a visual history spanning a hundred-year arc (1870–1970) of what is among the earliest photography on the continent. These images tell a different story of African women: how deeply cosmopolitan and modern they are in their style; how they were able to reclaim the tools of the colonial oppression that threatened their selfhood and livelihoods. Featuring works by celebrated African masters, African studios of local legend, and anonymous artists, The African Lookbook captures the dignity, playfulness, austerity, grandeur, and fantasy-making of African women across centuries. McKinley also features photos by Europeans-most starkly, striking nudes-revealing the relationships between white men and the Black female sitters where, at best, a grave power imbalance lies. It's a bittersweet truth that when there is exploitation there can also be profound resistance expressed in unexpected ways-even if it's only in gazing back. These photos tell the story of how the sewing machine and the camera became powerful tools for women's self-expression, revealing a truly glorious display of everyday beauty.


Eye of Evil

Eye of Evil
Author: Joseph Harrington
Publisher: St Martins Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1993
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780312951757

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The arrest of survivalist Leonard Lake for shoplifting leads police to a fortified bunker in Northern California, where he and Charles Chitat Ng allegedly imprisoned their victims, used them for forced labor, raped, and killed them, often videotaping the events. Original.


The Thing Around Your Neck

The Thing Around Your Neck
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Total Pages: 11
Release: 2010-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307375234

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These twelve dazzling stories from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — the Orange Broadband Prize–winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun — are her most intimate works to date. In these stories Adichie turns her penetrating eye to the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the United States. In “A Private Experience,” a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman, and the young mother at the centre of “Imitation” finds her comfortable life in Philadelphia threatened when she learns that her husband has moved his mistress into their Lagos home. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow and longing, this collection is a resounding confirmation of Adichie’s prodigious literary powers.