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Nigeria: Books for Children and Young Adults,
Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 16 books in this booklist
£12.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911115595 | ISBN 10: 1911115596
“We decided to put together this collection of thirty narratives to correct the invisibility, the confusion, the caricaturising and the writing out of history.” This stirring and intimate collection brings together 30 unique narratives t ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780995516236 | ISBN 10: 0995516235
From Victoria Island, Lagos to Brooklyn, U.S.A. to Accra, Ghana to Paris, France; from across the Diaspora to the heart of the African continent, in this memoir Nigerian journalist Chike Frankie Edozien offers a highly personal series of contemporary ... more
View book details£21.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781620972571 | ISBN 10: 1620972573
Former Boko Haram captives tell their terrifying and heartbreaking stories to a leading European journalist. "Over a six-year insurgency, Boko Haram has forced two million Nigerians from their homes, with upwards of one million refugees in Maidugu ... more
View book details£13.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781408708958 | ISBN 10: 1408708957
A Gift from Darkness is the harrowing yet inspirational story of a young, pregnant Nigerian girl and the hell she endured for the sake of her unborn child when she was kidnapped by Boko Haram. When Patience Ibrahim's husband died, she feare ... more
View book details£6.00 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780241980897 | ISBN 10: 0241980895
An urgent Penguin Special investigating the 2014 mass-kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls by the world's deadliest terrorists. On 14th April 2014, 276 girls disappeared from a secondary school in northern Nigeria, kidnapped by the world's deadlies ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784535537 | ISBN 10: 1784535532
An insurgency in Nigeria by the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has left thousands dead, shaken Africa's biggest country and worried the world. Yet it remains a mysterious - almost unknowable - organisation. rough exhaustive on-the-ground reporti ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784082567 | ISBN 10: 1784082562
From Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri: twelve of his most controversial non-fiction pieces form this collection on the theme of freedom. Ranging from the personal to the analytical, covering subjects such as art, politics, storytelling and creat ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780241959206 | ISBN 10: 0241959209
Chinua Achebe, the author of Things Fall Apart, is a writer whose moral courage and storytelling gifts have left an enduring stamp on world literature. There Was a Country is his long-awaited account of coming of age during the defining experience of ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781847083319 | ISBN 10: 1847083315
Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to Nigeria - a country she viewed as an annoying parallel universe where she had to relinquish all her creature comforts and sense of individuality. Then her father, activ ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781848858404 | ISBN 10: 184885840x
Nigeria is a country where petroleum prices and polio are both booming, where small villages challenge giant oil companies, and scooter drivers run their own mini-state. The oil-rich Delta region at the heart of it all is, as Peel shows us, a trouble ... more
View book details£22.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780253222480 | ISBN 10: 0253222486
An Igbo woman becomes king at a time of extraordinary change in Africa. Nwando Achebe presents the fascinating history of an Igbo woman, Ahebi Ugbabe, who became king in colonial Nigeria. Ugbabe was exiled from Igboland, became a prostit ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780141043616 | ISBN 10: 014104361x
The pieces here span reflections on personal and collective identity, on home and family, on literature, language and politics, and on Achebe's lifelong attempt to reclaim the definition of 'Africa' for its own authorship. For the first ... more
View book details£115.00 hardback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780415981491 | ISBN 10: 0415981492
In the 1990s, Nigeria, like several countries in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America, underwent transition programs to return the country to democracy. Nigerias democratization in the 1990s was a civil and international movement to free N ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780954702359 | ISBN 10: 0954702352
"Many people still remember how they felt when Ken Saro-Wiwa was judicially murdered. Some of us have spent the period trying to forget, as a strategy to mask our pain..."(Ken Wiwa, from a speech at the Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa Commemoration, London ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780253217189 | ISBN 10: 0253217180
A lively study of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, one of Africa's most popular and controversial musicians. The flamboyant originator of the 'Afrobeat' sound and self-proclaimed voice of the voiceless, Fela used music, sharp-tongued lyrics and derisive humour ... more
View book details£28.00 paperback (1990) - ISBN 13: 9780226874654 | ISBN 10: 0226874656
Now internationally know through the recordings of King Sunny Ade and His African Beats, Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey and his Inter-Reformers Band, Segun Adewale, and others, juju music has been produced for more than 50 years by the Yoruba people o ... more
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