A selection of books by Nigerian authors at Tarbiyah Books Plus, the leading Islamic Bookshop in Abuja, Nigeria
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The Delinquent (Pacesetters) By Mohammed Sule
₦2,000Alhaji Abubakar’s household does follow the traditional pattern established in the settlement of Alaika. Although, as wealthy and as respected a figure as his neighbors, he has only one wife, Ramatu, and only one child, Sale.
As his son grows into rebellious manhood, the structure of Abubakar’s life is shaken and he has reason to fear not only for Sale’s future but for the fate of his whole family and way of life.
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For Better For Worse By Osman Pius Conteh
₦2,000The love between Makalay and Yankuba is fiery and unpredictable. Yankuba has also caught the attention of the unscrupulous village priest. Can the two young people thwart Pa Adekali and manage to live their lives for better, or worse.
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Circle of Betrayal (Pacesetters) By James Irungu
₦2,000Could Wahomeh, the man who saved Njeri’s father from ruin and then became guardian to his orphaned children, really be a cheat after all? Njeri cannot bring herself to believe it in spite of the sinister events which pile up the suspicion against him. When the realization of the strength of her feelings for Wahomeh dawns, Njeri is faced with an agonizing choice.
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The Lost Generation By James Irungu
₦2,000Country-bred Mbatha and Rabeka are childhood sweethearts and seemed destined for each other. Illness takes Rabeka to hospital in Nairobi, and while she is recuperating she meets the sophisticated Mawa with dramatic consequences for all of them.
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To Have And To Hold Shelley Davidow
₦2,000To the modern, freedom-loving Phindile it seemed impossible that anyone, least of all a man, could make her compromise her independence. But then she had not reckoned with the determination of the lizard-like Mr. Takawira or the charms of the persistent Kudzi.
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Forgive Me Maryam (Pacesetters)
₦2,000For Khaleel, life is a dream come true. He heads a multi-million naira business, has a pretty, faithful wife and a beautiful daughter, and associates with everyone who is everyone in town. But when Bilkisu, the stunningly attractive girl he loved, and lost, when they were both students, comes back into his life with a marriage proposal, Khaleel has to act. Maryam’s sudden, suspicious, death could be the answer to his problems — or is it the beginning of worse ones?
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The Camera Never Lies
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One marriage. So many secrets. Can a camera that captures those secrets, exposing them through pictures, save the marriage or send it crashing into the sea?Kelly Whitely is at the height of her career, selling the latest miracle drug to doctors and pharmacies across the country. But concerns about the side effects have her longing for the day when she can quit her high-paying job and really focus on saving her marriage and teenage daughter. She keeps trying to talk to her husband, Daniel, about it, but every time she brings it up, he retreats further and further away from her.
Daniel Whitely is a successful marriage counselor and bestselling author, yet secrets from the past have created a chasm between him and Kelly. To make matters worse, the deadline for his second book has come and gone, and he still hasn’t written a single word. But he doesn’t dare tell anyone, not even his wife.
When Daniel inherits an old camera from his grandfather, he notices an inscription on the bottom: “No matter what you think you might see, the camera never lies.”
Daniel begins using the camera, but every time he develops his photos, they threaten to reveal secrets. Secrets about his own career, but also secrets about those around him, including Kelly. With each click of the camera, he risks exposure as a fraud, but if he doesn’t face the truths the photos reveal, what will happen to his marriage? To his family?
A standalone short novel
Approximately 60,000 words
Includes discussion questions, perfect for book clubs
Praise for The Camera Never Lies**:**“In his intriguing novel, The Camera Never Lies, David Rawlings challenges us to wonder what our photographs would look like if our souls, not our faces, were captured by the lens. This fascinating story will capture your imagination and your heart.”—Rachel Hauck, New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Dress
“The camera never lies, and neither does this gripping story about unearthing our deepest secrets in the most fantastical of ways. A message relatable to us all, bottled in an adventure we all love to read.”—Melissa Ferguson, author of The Dating Charade
“A thought-provoking look at the real price that secrets extract—not just from the person keeping them, but from their loved ones, too. You’ll close this story and be compelled to examine your own life . . . and also look at those around you and wonder, ‘Who else looks like they have it all together but is drowning on the inside?'”—Jessica Kate, author of Love and Other Mistakes
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Harvest Of Love By Sam Aryeetey
₦2,000Naki and Padi are deeply in love and long to marry. Naki, however, must first go through the Dipo rites of initiation. Any girl who has been unchaste knows what the punishment has to be: banishment forever. Naki is pregnant – can she deceive the High Priest and keep the man she loves? Is there any future for their unborn child?
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Dealers In Death By Victor Thorpe
₦2,000A grisly trade in kidnapped children leads Paul Okoro into the net of a chillingly cruel villain with a taste for the bizarre – black widow spiders. Paul finds himself in deadly danger with no apparent way out. Can Aimie, his wife or any of his friends find him and his baby son in time?
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The Native Authority
₦6,000The Native Authority System in Northern Nigeria 1950 – 70 : A Study in Political Relations with Particular Reference to the Zaria Native Authority.
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The Intricacies of Wealth: A Nigerian Perspective
₦25,000Money has become an important component of our contemporary world. Its intricate nature makes it a difficult topic to dissect. That’s why it is utterly important to understand it, understand your relationship with it, learn how to manage it better and learn how to control it and not allow it to control you. In this book, Muhammad explored the intricacies of money and by extension wealth, especially contextualizing it to Nigeria’s challenging economic reality. The challenge of living in an economy like Nigeria with copious predicaments ranging from low-paying jobs to high inflation, volatile exchange rates, and unstable macroeconomic variables, all make building wealth almost insurmountable.
Nevertheless, this book offers useful and practical tips towards wealth building. The book will take you through the journey of understanding the various macroeconomic variables, and how they trickle down to you as an individual and the country at large. I am not assuring you that by the end of the book, you will have learnt how to become wealthy. It is not a magic book on how to become wealthy. But you would learn some things that can be of great help. -
The 32 Unbreakable Laws of Money and Success: Transform Your Life and Unlock Your Unlimited Potential
₦7,000How to develop a growth mindset, with practical tools to reach your financial goals from the self-development expert and bestselling author of Eat that Frog!
Discover the 32 laws that have helped self-made millionaires with successful goal setting, time management, money saving, and financial investments.
Legendary author and motivational speaker Brian Tracy returns with a series of 32 immutable laws, each one key to developing a mindset necessary for success—while also delivering practical, proven methods and techniques to double and even triple your income.
Spread across a structured two-part framework, this book supplies readers the laws that helped Tracy and other self-made millionaires achieve their success. Inside, you’ll learn:
32 foundational laws necessary for a growth mindset
Step-by-step processes for putting the laws into practice
How to move past self-limiting beliefs
A time-tested system for setting and attaining goals
Strategies for saving money and investing in your future
And moreAchieving financial freedom can seem daunting. But by using the lessons and exercises contained in this book, you too can harness the laws of money and success to reach your full potential.
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Nigeria Against the IMF
₦7,000Thirty-years after Yusufu Bala Usman published the book Nigeria Against the IMF: The Home Market Strategy, the analysis and conclusions of the book have remained so relevant to the current situation in Nigeria. Forty years after the World Bank/IMF influence on policy came to the forefront, the country is still struggling with the same challenges. The adoption of IMF conditionalities has not transformed the lives of most of the Nigerian people. Nigeria is today almost at the bottom of the world poverty index despite its massive natural resources and the ingenuity of her people. Fully enmeshed in the neo-liberal paradigm which the World Bank/IMF and other international lending agencies virtually imposed on the country in the 1980s, the economic condition of a large segment of Nigerians remains untouched by economic progress, not much better than when the book was first published. ‘The failure of the current structure to bring a substantial number of people out of poverty is inherent in the system. The continued marginalization of the Nigerian people is a direct result of the nature and structure of the Nigerian economy incorporated into a globalization process in which it has remained uncompetitive. Western-style capitalism has not created the wealth for the majority of Nigerians as its proponents have always insisted that it could. There are alternatives and Nigeria should interrogate them.’
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For the Liberation of Nigeria
₦7,000I wish I knew Yusufu Bala Usman better. His stuff is so good; the best kind of lucid, outspoken, demystifying, vigorous, witty, radical writing. Whom among radical pamphleteers does he remind me of? Tom Paine? William Morris? Jamal Al-Din Al Afghani? Ho Chi Minh? Franz Fanon? Something of all of them. He certainly belonged to that honourable and honest tradition. When I first met him, several years ago at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, I was impressed by the depth and range of his historical understanding (he corrected some of my errors in regard to the history of Katsina, helpfully and politely). I did not then sufficiently realize that he was also a perceptive and critical Marxist, a splendid deflater of academic pomposities, a courageous opponent and analyst of the neo-colonial Nigerian state and its ruling class’. Professor Thomas Hodgkins renowned Africanist historian, reviewing For the Liberation of Nigeria, in Race and Class, Spring, 1980.
‘Usman’s method is always bold and serious. He seeks to unearth the roots of the profound crisis of structure and direction facing Africa today. His purpose is to fashion tools for total liberation. ‘Usman searchingly examines among others these questions: petroleum, the state of the nation, hospital fees, national unity, the manipulation of religion, transnational companies, trading-post agents, intermediaries, subservience to America, the constitution and minority report, foreign policy, intellectual robots, Arab-Israeli conflict, Angola, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and the struggle against racist South Africa. For Usman the future lies with the people, their consciousness and their struggle.’ – John La Rose, Founder of New Beacon Books and the George Padmore Institute, London.
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The Historian And Society: Selected Historial Writings Of Yusufu Bala Usman
₦9,000The Historian and Society: Selected Historical Writings of Yusufu Bala Usman compiles some of the most influential and thought-provoking writings of Yusufu Bala Usman, one of Nigeria’s preeminent historians and scholars. This collection provides a comprehensive look at Usman’s scholarly contributions, highlighting his unique perspectives on Nigerian history and his critical approach to historical analysis.
Usman’s work is renowned for its rigorous examination of historical events and its focus on the socio-economic and political dimensions of history. This volume showcases his commitment to uncovering the complexities of Nigeria’s past and offers insights into the broader implications of historical developments on contemporary society.
Key themes covered in the book include:
Historical Methodology: Usman’s approach to historiography and his innovative methods for analyzing historical sources and contexts.
Colonial and Post-Colonial History: Analysis of Nigeria’s colonial legacy and its impact on the post-colonial state, including socio-economic and political changes.
Political Economy: Examination of the economic and political structures of Nigerian societies and how they have evolved over time.
Social Structures: Exploration of traditional and contemporary social structures and their role in shaping historical narratives.
Critical Perspectives: Usman’s critiques of mainstream historical interpretations and his contributions to alternative historical perspectives.
The Historian and Society serves as an essential resource for historians, scholars, and students interested in Nigerian history and historiography. It reflects Yusufu Bala Usman’s profound influence on the field of history and his enduring legacy as a critical thinker and historian. -
The Manipulation of Religion in Nigeria 1977-1987
₦7,000The real basis of the manipulation of religion in Nigeria today is the need to obscure from the people of Nigeria a fundamental aspect of our reality: that is the domination of our political economy by a class of intermediaries who are being increasingly exposed. And this is to enable this class to cover themselves with religious and ethnic disguises in order to further entrench division among our people, slow down their awakening, at any cost; even the unity of our country, for which so much has been sacrificed. – Yusufu Bala Usman, 1987, The Manipulation of Religion in Nigeria 1977-1987.
Nigerians may be the “most religious people on earth”, as a BBC worldwide survey once concluded. However, while the generality of Nigerians express a deep attachment to some form of religious belief, the religiosity of the Nigerian political class is often based on expediency and egocentrism rather than a commitment to the principles of either Christianity or Islam. What is more, citizens have failed to detect, much less react to, the manipulation of religion – with telling consequences on the pattern of elections, the structuring of national security, economic relations and socio-cultural cohesion throughout the country. All the claim to piety is hollow, and has not stopped the political class from political perfidy and massive economic fraud, such that, ironically, the country that is “most religious” is also among the “most corrupt” in the world, as various corruption surveys by Transparency International have shown. – Usman A. Tar, 2020, Foreword to The Manipulation of Religion in Nigeria 1977-1987. ’