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For The Good Of The Nation: Essays and Perspectives
This collection of essays and interviews is more than just a book; it is (a) ‘tour de force’ which covers a plethora of topics and subjects. Essay sentence and paragraph contains an idea and message to make our country a place where fairness and justice reign. Whether discussing western or islamic philosophy, History and Anthropology of the various peoples in Nigeria, or the divisive injection of ethnicity and religion into our politics, Lamido is brutally frank, thoughtful and logical. – Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, Governor, Kaduna State, Nigeria
₦8,500.00 – ₦12,500.00For The Good Of The Nation: Essays and Perspectives
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Known and Strange Things
A blazingly intelligent first collection of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief.
₦4,000.00Known and Strange Things
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Unravel your Hidden Gems
Unravel your Hidden Gems is a collection of inspirational and motivational essays from the heart of the acclaimed author, Tolu’ A. Akinyemi. Released hot on the heels of Tolu’s first book of poetry, Dead Lions Don’t Roar, this new book is a study on Life, encouraging people to succeed at what they feel is important to their own happiness. Be it private life, business, religion, career, relationships, each part of life is discovered. This mind-altering life manual can be read as a whole or visited in snippets for day to day inspiration. Each essay examines and highlights challenges in life and how to succeed in enjoying life with grace. A self-help study on life with a refreshing difference, the book is a totality of life’s journey reminding us we are here on a temporary basis and that it is our duty to not hide in obscurity but to Unravel Your Hidden Gems before it is too late! Pure Inspiration!
₦3,500.00Unravel your Hidden Gems
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The Danfo Driver in All of Us and Other Essays
The Danfo Driver in all of us and other essays is a compilation of Niran Adedokun’s personal reflections and interventions on a variety of topical national issues in the space of five years between 2013 and 2018 Although a few the articles were published in some other newspapers, most of the articles in this collection were published in The PUNCH and thecable.ng where Adedokun is a weekly columnist. His largely non-partisan pieces advocate for responsible and responsible governance as well as a dutiful and alert citizen. He argues that these are two non-negotiable characteristics of a progressive society and that unless everyone wakes up to their responsibility Nigeria will remain a dream.
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These Times by Nasir El Rufai (Inside)
Volume 2 shows the thoughts of an insider, reflected in the speeches he has delivered as Governor of Kaduna State, taking responsibility for many of the issues on which he had previously commented on how others handled them.
₦10,000.00These Times by Nasir El Rufai (Inside)
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These Times by Nasir El Rufai (Outside)
Volume 1 covers the view from the outside, his newspaper columns as a private citizen analysing the policy choices made by leaders in addressing the challenges of governance.
₦10,000.00These Times by Nasir El Rufai (Outside)
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An Image of Africa [ By (author) Chinua Achebe ]
Beautifully written yet highly controversial, An Image of Africa asserts Achebe’s belief in Joseph Conrad as a ‘bloody racist’ and his conviction that Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness only serves to perpetuate damaging stereotypes of black people. Also included is The Trouble with Nigeria, Achebe’s searing outpouring of his frustrations with his country.
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Africa’s Tarnished Name (Penguin Modern)
Electrifying essays on the history, complexity, diversity of a continent, from the father of modern African literature.
₦1,000.00Africa’s Tarnished Name (Penguin Modern)
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The Chibok Girls: The Boko Haram Kidnappings & Islamic Militancy in Nigeria
Reporting from inside the traumatised and blockaded community of Chibok, Helon Habila tracks down the survivors and the bereaved. Two years after the attack, he bears witness to their stories and to their grief. And moving from the personal to the political, he presents a comprehensive indictment of Boko Haram, tracing the circumstances of their ascent and the terrible fallout of their ongoing presence in Nigeria.
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Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays
One of the most provocative and original voices in contemporary literature, Chinua Achebe here considers the place of literature and art in our society in a collection of essays spanning his best writing and lectures from the last twenty-three years. For Achebe, overcoming goes hand in hand with eradicating the destructive effects of racism and injustice in Western society. He reveals the impediments that still stand in the way of open, equal dialogue between Africans and Europeans, between blacks and whites, but also instills us with hope that they will soon be overcome.
₦5,500.00Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays
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Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
Headscarves and Hymens explodes the myth that we should stand back and watch while women are disempowered and abused in the name of religion.
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Fixing Stereotypes
What follows in this book shall give a window into the consciousness of the
minds housing Nigerian stereotypes. Please be mindful that along the way
the filter of typecasts will cloud your vision. Therefore, through my
narrative based on first-hand experiences, I invite you to get to know what
Nigeria and Nigerians are all about. Remember, oftentimes the reality is far
more attractive and superior than what we dare to acknowledge.₦5,000.00Fixing Stereotypes
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The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
Readers of all political persuasions cannot afford to ignore Murray’s masterfully argued and fiercely provocative book, in which he seeks to inject some sense into the discussion around this generation’s most complicated issues. He ends with an impassioned call for free speech, shared common values and sanity in an age of mass hysteria.
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LONGTHROAT MEMOIRS
Nigeria has a strong culture of oral storytelling, of myth creation, of imaginative traversing of worlds. Longthroat Memoirs collates some of those stories into an irresistible soup-pot, expressed in the flawless love language of appetite and nourishment.
₦5,000.00LONGTHROAT MEMOIRS
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Known and Strange Things
A blazingly intelligent first collection of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief.
₦4,000.00Known and Strange Things
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Unravel your Hidden Gems
Unravel your Hidden Gems is a collection of inspirational and motivational essays from the heart of the acclaimed author, Tolu’ A. Akinyemi. Released hot on the heels of Tolu’s first book of poetry, Dead Lions Don’t Roar, this new book is a study on Life, encouraging people to succeed at what they feel is important to their own happiness. Be it private life, business, religion, career, relationships, each part of life is discovered. This mind-altering life manual can be read as a whole or visited in snippets for day to day inspiration. Each essay examines and highlights challenges in life and how to succeed in enjoying life with grace. A self-help study on life with a refreshing difference, the book is a totality of life’s journey reminding us we are here on a temporary basis and that it is our duty to not hide in obscurity but to Unravel Your Hidden Gems before it is too late! Pure Inspiration!
₦3,500.00Unravel your Hidden Gems
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