A selection of Nigerian Fiction books at Tarbiyah Books Plus, Abuja. Nigeria’s leading retailer of audio books and other products.
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Knit: The Lost Girl Paperback-by Yaseer Abdullahi
₦5,500New revelations soon befall the readers only to leave them wondering yet again, was Taylor alive or not? And if he was, where could he possibly have vanished to?With a captivating mash-up of fantasy, action, romance and mystery, the lost girls so much to the table with a newly imagined world waiting to be explored.
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Knit: The Male Connoisseur By Yaseer Abdullahi
₦3,500Taylor wakes up in a hospital with no memory of how he ended up there. He and his mysterious uncle who went to take him home on the day he was discharged got attacked by an even more mysterious ax-wielding stranger. He later began to have unusual dreams that hurt him physically, searching for answers, he went to his aunt who told him something that opened a new strange part of his life.
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The Sokoto Caliphate -by Murray Last
₦10,500The Sokoto Caliphate was a West African Empire that became a part of northern Nigeria. It was founded by the charismatic Fulani Islamic scholar and political leader Usman dan Fodio upon his conquer of the Hausa people. Usman dan Fodio created a unified political and economic polity while promulgating a reformist Islamic movement meant to correct syncretic, lax, or superficially Islamic practices in the region.
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Overcoming Boko Haram: Faith, Society & Islamic Radicalization in Northern Nigeria – by Professor Abdul Raufu Mustapha
₦20,000It is now more than a decade since the violent Islamic group Boko Haram launched its reign of terror across northern Nigeria, claiming more than 27,000 lives and displacing over 2 million people. While its territorial gains have largely been recaptured, the insurgency rages on, devastating communities across vast stretches of the north-east and disrupting governance, livelihoods and food security, as well as posing a security risk to Niger, Chad and Cameroon.
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Sects & Social Disorder: Muslim Identities & Conflict in Northern Nigeria – by Professor Abdul Raufu Mustapha
₦10,500Nigerian society has long been perceived as divided along religious lines, between Muslims and Christians, but alongside this there is an equally important polarization within the Muslim population in beliefs, rituals and sectarian allegiance. This book highlights the crucial issue of intra-Muslim pluralism and conflict in Nigeria.
Conflicting interpretations of texts and contexts have led to fragmentation within northern Nigerian Islam, and differentIslamic sects have often resorted to violence against each other in pursuit of ‘the right path’. -
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A Person Of Heft – by Bolaji Olatunde
₦6,000It is 2015. Nigeria has a new president who has promised change and prosperity for Nigerians. Tomi Makinde is a young Nigerian professional woman struggling to get a foothold in corporate Nigeria. As her marketing career grows, she finds herself catapulted fast to unexpected heights due to a chance encounter. As she climbs the corporate ladder, she contends with intense power play and betrayal. Despite her professional success, she is haunted by the memories of her parent’s failed marriage, she is afraid of letting her guard down to allow love in.
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Hang No Clothes Here – by Bolaji Olatunde
₦4,000John Braimoh, an assistant superintendent of the Nigerian police, becomes involved in a seemingly noble cause corruption case—the killing of five apparently deviant youths in Abuja, a situation in which his closest friend and colleague, and four other officers are deeply embroiled.
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Sacking The Potter – by Bolaji Olatunde
₦1,800Michael Owoyemi is about to close a multi-million dollar business deal on behalf of his demanding employer. On a Monday morning scheduled for the closure of the deal, Biola Owoyemi, his usually reserved wife, physically restrains him from leaving their Ibadan home, insisting that he must stay at home to protect her and their first and only child, their two-month-old son, from unnamed forces keen on snatching their child away from them.
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Verity of Old by Chio Zoe
₦4,000Nyx had finally begun to find her place at Dalfeira, but when Cecily stumbled into her life with a piece of information Nyx needed, everything changed.
Now Nyx – a wanted criminal – must return to the place she was held captive and tortured, and attempt another daring rescue. But when the eradication of magic wielders becomes blatant and a missing detail of her past comes to light, the stakes are suddenly raised.
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The Concubine Paperback- by Elechi Amadi
₦1,700Amadi’s masterpiece of African literature captures village life and practices not yet touched by the white man. The novel’s beautiful, hardworking protagonist, Ihouma, is admired by all in her village. Yet those who express their love for her meet with mysterious tragedy, leaving her devastated. This enticing odyssey, where exemplary attributes go unrewarded and the boundaries between myth and reality are muted, outwits readers with unexpected twists that make them want to keep turning the page.
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An Abundance of Scorpions by Hadiza Isma El-Rufai
₦4,000Following a horrific tragedy, Tambay leaves Kano for Accra to live with her brother, Aminu. Sadly, her dream of a new beginning is dashed when she can no longer endure the indignity she suffers at the hands of her brother’s new wife.
Tambaya returns to northern Nigeria and soon finds work as a matron in an orphanage, under the watchful eye of the ruthless Miss Scholastica. Just when she begins to settle into her new life, an unexpected visit threatens to destroy everything she has worked so hard to build. -
Chronicles of the Happiest People on Earth
₦15,000After decades of jousting with the powers that be and living to tell the tale, Wole Soyinka has returned to his roots: storytelling. And thought it’s been nearly 40 years after his last work of prose fiction, Wole Soyinka proves with this novel that he has lost none of his story-telling chops!
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Dreams and Assorted Nightmares By Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
₦4,000Zango is both setting and spectre for ‘Dreams and Assorted Nightmares By Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’, a collection of interconnecting short stories which explore the spaces between life and death and beyond.
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Aviara By Othuke Ominiabohs
₦4,500Aviara By Othuke Ominiabohs explores the complex balance between science and spirituality, fate and ancestry, within the labyrinth of one man’s unravelling reality.
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Odufa
₦4,500When Anthony Mukoro discovers he cannot father a child, his whole world comes crashing. In a desperate bid to sire an heir, he plunges into the reckless life of a pleasure-seeking libertine. But everything changes when he meets and falls head over heels in love with Odufa, a beautiful young girl with a past. Their coming together is fraught with obstacles and challenges that pits them against everything; from tradition to stereotyped beliefs. But nothing is as it seems as they both get entangled in a love affair so intense and toxic, it quickly begins to spiral out of control.
In his debut novel, Ominiabohs graphically chronicles the entire gamut of emotional experiences of a tumultuous affair of young lover’s. A page-turner.