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  • Onipe to 'London'

    The Story of an Onipe Village Boy in Lagos, the ‘London’ of Every Nigerian.

    by Olujide Agboola ...
    Olujide Agboola was born in Onipe, a village in the Oluyole local council of Oyo State, Nigeria, in the early sixties. he attended Prospect High School, Abanla in the same local council He later trained as a graphic artist at The Polytechnic, Ibadan. He did his NYSC programme in the old Bendel State. Worked as graphic artist and later as cartoonist and rose to the level of an assistant editor. He ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Every Day Is for the Thief

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  • Houses in Africa

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  • You Must Set Forth at Dawn

    A Memoir

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    The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka now follows his modern classic Ake: The Years of Childhood with an equally important chronicle of his turbulent life as an adult in (and in exile from) his beloved, beleaguered homeland.In the tough, humane, and lyrical language that has typified his plays and novels, ... Read more

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  • Looking for Transwonderland

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  • 10 Years of the Caine Prize for African Writing

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    Celebrating ten years of the leading literary prize for African fiction (dubbed "The African Booker"), 10 Years of the Caine Prize brings together the ten winning stories along with a story each from the four African winners of the Booker Prize: Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, and Ben Okri.The ten winners:Leila Aboulela for The MuseumHelon Habila for Love PoemsBinyavanga Wainaina for ... Read more

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    MY FIRST COUP D'ETAT is a literary nonfiction account that charts the coming of age of John Dramani Mahama in Ghana during the dismal post-independence "lost decades" of Africa. He was seven years old when rumors of that first coup reached his boarding school in Accra. His father was suddenly missing. "It is sometimes incorrectly referred to in texts as a bloodless coup, yet it was anything but," ... Read more

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