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Shakara
SHAKARA: DANCE-HALL QUEEN Shakara is 17 years-old and a school drop-out, who can no longer stand her poor mother with her ?born-again?
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The Lovers
The Loverscollects Head’s short fiction of the 1960s and 70s, written mainly in Serowe, Botswana, and depicting the lives and loves of African village people pre- and post-independence. An earlier selection called Tales of Tenderness and Power was published in the Heinemann African Writers Series in 1990, but this expanded and updated volume adds many previously unavailable stories collected here for the first time. Anthology favourites like her breakthrough ‘The Woman from America’ and ‘The Prisoner who Wore Glasses’ are included, leading up to the first complete text of her much translated title story.
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Intimate encounter
The worksheets, exercises, and personal inventories in this book will help couples gain a better understanding of each other’s deepest feelings and needs, with a view towards achieving new closeness.
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Odufa: A Lovers Tale
When Anthony Mukoro discovers he cannot father a child, his whole world comes crashing.
In the arms of a new crush, Odufa, a beautiful girl with a past, he finds the strength to face his fears and live again despite the whirlwind that threatens to devour the union.
But nothing is as it seems as they plunge into the bowels of this serpentine romance which alters their lives forever.
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The government inspector
The Government Inspector, which satirises a corrupt society was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest play in the Russian language and is still widely studied in schools and universities: "I resolved to gather into one heap everything that was bad in Russia which I was aware of at that time, all the injustices being perpetrated in those places, and in those circumstances that especially cried out for justice, and tried to hold them all up to ridicule, at one fell swoop." (Nikolai Gogol)
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The sahara testaments
It contains potent rhetoric and satire on topical issues and personalities, ranging from Africa?s blood diamonds and inflation in Nigeria.
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Clinical blues
Clinical Blues is a moveable feast of ideas, recollections, aspirations and apparitions of desire in the collective but submerged consciousness of the new Africa. Dami Ajayi, on the basis of this collection follows in a great tradition of medical doctors who were writers, and is also able to catch the inflections of Anglo-American modernisms ? his poems resonate with Eliot?s arch wit and startling images and phrasing.
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Dear kelechi
Dear Kelechi is a novella in epistolary form. It is a long letter written by a woman to her estranged childhood friend who is now mentally unwell.
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Chasing facades
A gripping story of betrayal, rage and the facades we put up to hide our true selves.
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Thread of gold beads
Amelia, daughter of the last independent King of Danhom?, King Gb?hanzin, is the apple of her father?s eye, loved beyond measure by her mother, and overprotected by her siblings. She searches for her place within the palace amidst conspirators and traitors to the Kingdom.
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The whispering trees
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.
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Neighbours – The Story Of A Murder
Set in three households in Maputo, this is the story of how a South African conspiracy to infiltrate and destabilize Mozambique creates tragedy for ordinary people. It weaves together present events and past memories in the drama of a few short hours.
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The Her Story Porject
The HerStory Project is a stirring kaleidoscope of 33 exemplary women from different backgrounds, temperaments, passions, and achievements. The stories of these women – drawn from Botswana, Ghana, Ethiopia, Jamaica, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, and Zimbabwe – challenge and move beyond long-held traditions of gender discrimination and cultural inhibitions to reveal individuals whose determination and self-belief have had tremendous impact on their livelihoods, communities, and nations. These narratives redefine and delineate the contours of women’s empowerment and leadership in African communities, broadening the discourse to include the transformative power of the individual and her society.
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Night dancer
Mma has just buried her mother, and now she is alone.
She has been left everything.
But she’s also inherited her mother’s bad name.
A bold, brash woman, the only thing her mother refused to discuss was her past. Why did she flee her family and bring her daughter to a new town when she was a baby? What was she escaping from?
Abandoned now, Mma has no knowledge of her father or her family – but she is desperate to find out.
Night Dancer is a powerful and moving novel about the relationship between mothers and daughters, about the bonds of family, about knowing when to fulfil your duty, and when you must be brave enough not to.
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My life has a price
“My heart is pounding against my chest. I am having a hard time breathing and a hard time thinking. I cross the terrace. One step, one small step. Then another tiny step. Now I am on the lawn. The grass is cold and wet under my bare feet. A gust of wind pastes my green sweatshirt against my body. My long grey skirt sticks to my legs like the skin of a rhinoceros. My heart tells me to run, to run as fast as my legs can carry me, with all my might. But I can’t..
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Indigo
The arrival of a second wife causes a woman to reassess her marriage… Another faces up to tough choices in the wake of a military coup… A heroine from history lights the path for a modern girl on the road to Jenwi… A picture on a wall tells its own poignant story of sacrifice… A former cultist must confront an unspoken secret in his family…
From Nigeria to the Diaspora, joy, sadness, anxieties and triumphs fill the canvas with lush, vivid colours. Themes of loss and longing, past and present, home and away, mysticism and modernity, trauma and healing, truth and lies, masculinity and a woman?s place ? all are deftly explored in this mesmerising, sometimes devastating collection of short stories.₦2,000