Trouble with Nigeria, Paperback - Chinua Achebe

This novel about Nigeria prophesied the 1983 coup.

Reducere. The eminent African novelist and critic, here addresses Nigeria's problems, aiming to challenge the resignation of Nigerians and inspire them to re...

Henry Lawson, V. S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer and Chinua Achebe are respectively Australian, Caribbean, South African and Nigerian, yet they all wri...

This study casts back over Achebe's writing career to assess his considerable contribution to postcolonial writing and criticism, including his Edi...

Reducere. One of the most provocative and original voices in contemporary literature, Chinua Achebe here considers the place of literature and art in our soc...

One of a series of fiction titles for schools. Okonkwo, a man of the Ibo tribe in Nigeria at the end of the last century, is a person of substance,...

Gives us a portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria and inhabiting its 'middle ground', interrogating both the author's happy memories of reading...

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Reducere. "In this powerful illustrated fable for older picture book readers, Achebe, the celebrated Nigerian writer, offers a parable about how power corrup...

Headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu is worshipped by six villages, but finds his authority under threat. He is prepared to do anything to lead h...

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'...The story is the tragedy of Okonkwo, an important man in the Igbo tribe in the days when white men were first appearing on the scene ... a very...

Reducere. Things Fall Apart, tells of a troubled young African whose formal education separates him from his roots and makes him part of a corrupt ruling eli...

Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated President of Kangan. I...

An idealistic young man educated in Britain, Obi returns home to Nigeria for a job in the civil service, but finds himself seduced by backhanders a...

From the renowned author of The African Trilogy, a political satire about an unnamed African country navigating a path between violence and corrupt...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Kalu OgbaaIllustration(s): 13 Halftones, black and white; 13 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of page...

Writer's Letters is a collection of fascinating letters written by great writers, from Dickens to De BeauvoirPublisher: Frances Lincoln Publishers ...

The defining experience of author's life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War. A marriage of history, remembrance, poetry and ...

This book studies culture in terms of myths and how they function to construct the identity of communities. It focuses on myth formation in the fic...

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"When trolls cause trouble in Erik's Viking village, he knows just what to do: make friends with a dragon"--Publisher marketing.

Hollywood publicist Rob Harris chronicles the drama and comedy behind the scenes that eclipse those in front of the camera. It's the story of a fai...

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Reducere. ""The trouble with our state, "" Daniel Berrigan writes in his great poem, ""was not civil disobedience, which in any case was hesitant and rare. ....

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Mickey has been recruited to a top secret band of animal spies. Disaster strikes when someone (or some mole...) robs a bank! While investigating th...

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An invitation to rethink everything you thought you knew from US poet laureate, Billy CollinsPublisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Billy CollinsNumber...

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Welcome to Heartside Bay - for life, love and everything in between... Polly Nelson vowed to never date any of the shallow, self-obsessed boys who ...

Reducere. A fragile peace gives way to conspiracy, betrayal, and rebellion in this sequel to the New York Times bestselling A Little Hatred from epic fantasy...

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Reducere. DescriptionFrom the author of the Wicked Bay series, comes an angsty YA/NA enemies-to-lovers romance. Cocky football players, school rivalry, and t...

Francis Saxover and Diana Brackley, two scientists investigating a rare lichen, discover it has a remarkable property: it retards the aging process...