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The Thing About Compromise By Maryam Awaisu
₦5,000The Thing About Compromise by Maryam Awaisu, The captivating story of Layla in her bid to pick up the pieces of her shattered dreams and make it whole again…
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Nigeria’s Soldiers of Fortune: The Abacha and Obasanjo Years
₦2,500In the cataclysmic decade that is the focus of this book Nigeria’s Soldiers of Fortune by Max Siollun, Nigeria was subject to several near-death experiences. These began when the country nearly tore itself apart after the northern-led military government annulled the results of a 1993 presidential election won by the southerner Moshood Abiola, and ended with former military ruler General Olusegun Obasanjo being the unlikely conduit of democracy.
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Oil, Politics and Violence: Nigeria’s Military Coup Culture 1966-1976 by Max Siollun
₦2,000Oil, Politics and Violence by Max Siollun. Modern Nigeria cannot be understood without reference to its era of military rule. Military rule and oil wealth effected cataclysmic changes in Nigeria that nearly tore the country apart on several occasions. 40 years after the end of the Nigeria-Biafra civil war, Max Siollun answers the key questions that go to the root of the Nigerian nation:
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The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah
₦2,000The novel The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah is generally a satirical attack on the Ghanaian society during Kwame Nkrumah’s regime and the period immediately after independence in the 1960s.
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Things Fall Apart By Chinua Achebe
₦1,500Things Fall Apart By Chinua Achebe is a story about Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper.
Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show weakness to anyone – even if the only way he can master his feelings is with his fists. When outsiders threaten the traditions of his clan, Okonowo takes violent action. Will the great man’s dangerous pride eventually destroy him?
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Arrow of God By Chinua Achebe
₦2,500Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe is an unforgettable portrayal of the loss of faith, and the downfall of a man in a society forever altered by colonialism. The novel is a meditation on the nature, uses, and responsibility of power and leadership. Ezeulu finds that his authority is increasingly under threat from rivals within his nation and functionaries of the newly established British colonial government. Yet he sees himself as untouchable.
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AWO-Unfinished Greatness By Olufemi Ogunsanwo
₦1,500Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. Chief Obafemi Oyeniyi Awolowo took an interest in his country’s well-being and transformed the economy of Nigeria. AWO Unfinished Greatness presents to us a disciplined, yet stylish man who was dedicated to God and his country. The book AWO-Unfinished Greatness By Olufemi Ogunsanwo covers Awolowo’s career from 1947 to 1987 and answers our most pressing questions: What did Awolowo do for Nigeria? What part did he play in the civil war? What was the cause of the tension between Awolowo and the Igbo people?
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The Last 100 Days of Abacha by Olusegun Adeniyi
₦2,500The Last 100 Days of Abacha by Olusegun Adeniyi is a Political drama in Nigeria under one of Africa’s most corrupt and brutal military dictatorships.
Segun names names, exposes vested interests and places his analysis and critique within the broader optic of making democracy succeed in Nigeria and improving the public’s understanding of important issues” Dick Roberts
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Digital: The New Code of Wealth
₦6,500Omojuwa captures all of these and more as he makes a data-backed argument that digital holds economic prospects for those on the continent willing to explore the power of technology. This power can also be wielded in socio-political contexts. It is being used to take a solid stand for gender justice and has helped to expose corruption at scale.
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America, Their America By JP Clark
₦3,600By JP Clark
This is an account of one programme to make friends for America during the Cold War, which failed with a Parvin Fellow at Princeton, the young JP Clark. The Nigerian poet later went on to enjoy warm hospitality in the United States, returning as a guest of the State Department, Distinguished Fellow at the famous Centre for the Humanities at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and Visiting Professor at Lincoln and Yale. With grants from the Ford Foundation, he also took a tour of theatres from coast to coast, and to help run his own repertory company at home in Lagos.
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Harmattan Haze On An African Spring By Wole Soyinka
₦3,000By Wole Soyinka
In this book Harmattan Haze On An African Spring By Wole Soyinka, Soyinka argues that all claims that Africa has been explored are as premature as news of her imminent demise.A truly illuminating exploration of Africa has yet to take place. It does not pretend to take place even on the pages of this book, being content with retrieving a few grains for germination from the wasteful threshing floor of Africa’s existential totality. -
The Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka
₦3,600The Nobel Prize-winning African writer, Wole Soyinka, was imprisoned without trial by the federal authorities at the start of the Nigerian Civil War. Here he records his arrest and interrogation, the efforts made to incriminate him, and the searing mental effects of solitary confinement.
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Build, Innovate and Grown By Kingsley Moghalu
₦4,000By Kingsley Moghalu
Nigeria today appears rudderless, with no particular direction. Our country has no purposeful destiny that we can say with conviction is our lodestar. Our citizens are increasingly unsure, what being a Nigerian means… This is a fundamental challenge we must overcome, for a nation or a country without a clear worldview simply cannot become a prosperous and powerful one.
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Emerging Africa – How the Global Economy’s ‘Last Frontier’ can Prosper and Matter
₦3,500By Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu (Author)
In this thoughtful and elegantly written book, Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu explodes the myths and conventional wisdoms about Africa’s quest for economic growth in a globalised world with a paradigm-shift perspective on the continent’s future.
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Indigenous Political Structures and Governance in Nigeria
₦1,500Indigenous Political Structures and Governance in Nigeria
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Climate of Fear By Wole Soyinka
₦1,500By Wole Soyinka
In this exceptional book, developed from the 2004 BBC Reith Lectures, Wole Soyinka explores the changing faces of fear; the conflict between power and freedom; the complex motives behind the unthinkable acts of violence; the meaning of human dignity; while comparing the fanaticism of powerful terrorists with the attitude of world leaders, discovering terrifying similarities.