The Bride Price
 The Bride Price: The Bride Price is both an easy and enlightening read. Buchi Emecheta deftly captures the girl's adolescent fragility and power as she struggles to carve out her identity amongst the dictates of patriarchy, which her mother upholds to [... more]
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Ake: The Years of Childhood
Amazon.com Review: When he was 4 years old, spurred by insatiable curiosity and the beat of a marching drum, Wole Soyinka slipped silently through the gate of his parents' yard and followed a police band to a distant village. This was his first journey [... more]
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Collected Plays: Volume 1 (Includes a Dance of the ...
A Dance of the Forests: Although I was introduced to this book because of an english assignment, I became entranced by the book by the first 10 pages. And although it is confusing at times, and a teacher explaining the story as you go along is a [... more]
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The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of ...
Amazon.com Review: Ravaged by the most brutal dictatorship in its history, Nigeria is at a crossroads. While General Abacha's regime generates the very chaos it claims to be controlling, the country's institutions and moral fiber are disintegrating. [... more]
$19.99
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Collected Plays 2
A Dance of the Forests: Although I was introduced to this book because of an english assignment, I became entranced by the book by the first 10 pages. And although it is confusing at times, and a teacher explaining the story as you go along is a [... more]
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The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness (W.E.B. Du ...
Amazon.com Review: When a book begins with a statement such as "In the 1992 presidential elections, it would appear that the United States stood a reasonable chance of acquiring a new president in the person of a certain Mr. David Duke," a [... more]
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GraceLand: A Novel
Great Book: Graceland was an amazingly dark story of what is going on in urban Africa. Book I was brilliant and the characters were unforgettable. The story moves back and forth between urban Lagos and a small village where Elvis and his family spent his [... more]
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Death and the King's Horseman: A Play
One Great Writer: At a university seminar in the US recently, Prof. Soyinka was asked to respond to charges by certain critics that his writing wasn't 'African' enough. He responded, saying "The people who say these things, I refer to as neo- [... more]
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Things Fall Apart: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: One of Chinua Achebe's many achievements in his acclaimed first novel, Things Fall Apart, is his relentlessly unsentimental rendering of Nigerian tribal life before and after the coming of colonialism. First published in 1958, just two [... more]
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Arrow of God
Achebe's Arrow: Like Chinua Achebe's first novel (Things Fall Apart), Arrow of God takes us back to the traditional village culture of the Igbo nation in Western Nigeria, tracing its destruction under British colonial rule. Once again, too, the story [... more]
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A Man of the People
Perhaps Achebe's Best: I loved "Things Fall Apart", and it was what got me to fall in love with African literature in the first place-and download a list of Africa's 100 greatest works of literature in order to try to feed my passion! (I'm not [... more]
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Girls at War
Great stories by a master writer: This is an impressive collection of short stories that covers a twenty-year period of Achebe's writing. They also cover a period of history in his native Nigeria that spans from the late colonial period to the Biafran [... more]
$12.95
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