A selection of books by Nigerian authors at Tarbiyah Books Plus, the leading Islamic Bookshop in Abuja, Nigeria
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Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
₦3,500NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Half of a Yellow Sun—the story of two Nigerians making their way in the U.S. and the UK, raising universal questions of race, belonging, the overseas experience for the African diaspora, and the search for identity and a home.
Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time.
Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria, and reignite their passion—for each other and for their homeland.
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Purple Hibiscus: A Novel Paperback – April 17, 2012 by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Author)
₦3,000From the award-winning, bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists—a dazzling story collection filled with “indelible characters who jump off the page and into your head and heart” (USA Today).
In these twelve riveting stories, the award-winning Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explores the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, these stories map, with Adichie’s signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and the deeply human struggle to reconcile them.
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The Thing Around Your Neck Paperback – June 1, 2010 by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Author)
₦2,500In these twelve riveting stories, the award-winning Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explores the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, these stories map, with Adichie’s signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and the deeply human struggle to reconcile them.
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
₦2,000Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe’s critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa’s cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man’s futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order.
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THE PATHS THAT TAKE US – Aliyu Baba-Ari
₦7,000The Paths That Take Us explores the root of insurgency in Nigeria and the damage it has caused society while unveiling the average Nigerian child’s struggle to make their own choices—when they cannot earn the support of their parents—in pursuit of their purpose in life.
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Africa’s gold mine: A guide to winning customers in its unstructured market by Dr. Uchenna Uzo
₦3,000A timely and needed book on the quirks of African consumers. Find insights and a structured approach that help you understand markets and consumer behaviour on the continent.
“A structured approach for brands to tackle an unstructured market. Uzo manages to combine practical, down-to-earth advice with ambitious, aspirational goals for brands who want to succeed in the most promising continent in the world.” – Inigo Gallo, Marketing Professor, IESE Business School, Barcelona
“Africa’s Goldmine is a must read for everyone who wants to understand markets and consumer behavior in Africa. Uchenna Uzo brings out new insights and defies myths that are relevant for business and everyone who has a desire to really understand Africa.” -Johanna Mair, Professor of Organization, Strategy & Leadership, Hertie School, Academic Editor, Stanford Social Innovation Review
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Beyond Loss and Grief: The Story of Kikaose Ebiye-Onyibe, a Survivor’s Manual for Coping with the Loss of a Child- by Magnus Onyibe
₦3,500Mr Onyibe shares his family’s journey of grief, pain, acceptance, and eventual celebration of life. This is in the hope that this book can shed light on the path of other families who will experience loss so that they do not grope.
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I Am Because We Are: An African Mother’s Fight for the Soul of a Nation- by Chidiogo Akunyili-Parr
₦6,500I Am Because We Are illuminates the role of kinship, family, and the individual’s place in society, while revealing a life of courage, how community shaped it, and the web of humanity that binds us.
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Becoming President Of Nigeria: A Citizen’s Guide- by Magnus Onyibe
₦8,500The 357-page book chronicles the evolution of political leadership in Nigeria and outlines the turning points in the nation’s checkered political history. With keen eyes on the ethnic and religious sensitivities responsible for the mutual suspicion of one another by the multiple ethnic nationalities that make up the country, the author shines light on how Nigeria is practising zero-sum politics via the rotation of presidential power between the north and south, an agreement that has inadvertently been undermining the unity of the country and is responsible for the lack of real socioeconomic progress even as it is fuelling ethno-religious disharmony in Nigeria.
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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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A PROFILE IN COURAGE – by Major General Paul Tarfa
₦8,000A Profile of Courage is the memoir of Paul Chabri Tarfa, retired Major General of the Nigerian Army. In lucid prose, he recounts his upbringing in Garkida, his choice of a career in the Army, his role in frustrating the January 15th, 1966 coup at the Federal Guards, Lagos, and his active participation in the military through the Civil War, coups and counter-coups until his retirement in 1988. Revised in view of restating his truth to today’s Nigeria,
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THE TRAGEDY OF VICTORY – by Brigadier General Godwin Alabi-Isama
₦7,500The Tragedy of Victory: On-the-Spot Account of the Nigeria-Biafra War in the Atlantic Theatre is a detailed chronological narrative of the war that lasted from July 6, 1967, to January 15, 1970. With about 500 photographs and maps, the book dwarfs all other previous publications on this subject matter in terms of depth of facts, coverage and accuracy.