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My Great Love for Jesus Led Me to Islam
₦7,000Description from the publisher: “I learned to love Jesus more than my own parents.” “That is Jesus, the son of Mary the word of truth about which they are in dispute” (Quran 19:34) Jesus has been mentioned by name 25 times in the Quran while Prophet Muhammad has been mentioned by name just five times. Additionally, the nineteenth chapter of the Quran was named after the Virgin “Mary” while there is no chapter in the Quran bearing the name of Prophet Muhammad’s mother, and any of his wives or daughters. It is also noteworthy that Mary is the only woman mentioned by name in the Quran. She is described in the most honorable way as one chosen and favored over all women.
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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. ’
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The Fragile Vessels: Rights & Obligations Between Spouses in Islaam (The Muslim Family Series Book 3)
₦3,000Description from the publisher:
This is one of a 3-book series covering various aspects of marriage according to theauthentic Sunnah. Marriage plays a most central role in the human life, and hasbeen largely discussed by the scholars of Islaam through the ages, resulting innumerous writings and treatises. Some of those writings, mostly by contemporaryscholars, have been translated into English. However, we find them restricted inscope, addressing Muslims who live in predominantly Islaamic countries, or overlookingimportant real issues that have developed under modern civilization. This leaves quitea large gap that needs to be filled for the benefit of the Muslims in English-speakingcountries, and this is what we attempt to fulfill over the span of three books.”Covers the obligations of the two spouses, the wife’s rights, and the husband’s rights.Contains biographies of the Mothers of the Believers, paints a very realisticpicture from the life of the Prophet (pbuh) with his wives, and presents a completediscussion of the hadeeth of Ummar Zar’.
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Minority Report & Draft Constitution for the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1976
₦4,500‘What the masses of our people want, as most of humanity in the modern era, is NOT a coalition of mini unviable states whose human and material resources are at the arbitrary disposal of their separate ethnic and regional notables. Our people need a country, Nigeria, operating at full capacity and unshackled by the thieving activities of a good for nothing ruling class whose only operating agenda is looting the national treasury.’ – Olusegun Osoba, 2018.
‘It seems quite clear that, if their constitution is adopted, far from moving towards national cohesion and democracy Nigeria will become torn with ethnic and religious disunity and sectionalism. Far from providing a basis and framework for the development of national cohesion and democracy, there will be an intensification of the present grossly uneven pattern of underdevelopment, greater capitalist and bureaucratic greed, individualism and chaos. When that happens the Nigerian people will be accused of being too immature and irresponsible for democracy and preparations will be made for consolidating the status quo and ensuring “law and order” through repression and terror. From the individualism, greed, chaos and thuggery of capitalist bureaucrats and politicians we shall move to the indiscipline, chaos, individualism, greed and repression of capitalist bureaucrats and soldiers.’ – Yusufu Bala Usman, For the Liberation of Nigeria, 1979
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What You Do Is Who You Are by Ben Horowitz
₦4,500Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestselling author, combines lessons both from history and from modern organizational practice with practical and often surprising advice to help executives build cultures that can weather both good and bad times.
Ben Horowitz has long been fascinated by history, and particularly by how people behave differently than you’d expect. The time and circumstances in which they were raised often shapes them—yet a few leaders have managed to shape their times. In What You Do Is Who You Are, he turns his attention to a question crucial to every organization: how do you create and sustain the culture you want?
To Horowitz, culture is how a company makes decisions. It is the set of assumptions employees use to resolve everyday problems: should I stay at the Red Roof Inn, or the Four Seasons? Should we discuss the color of this product for five minutes or thirty hours? If culture is not purposeful, it will be an accident or a mistake.
What You Do Is Who You Are explains how to make your culture purposeful by spotlighting four models of leadership and culture-building—the leader of the only successful slave revolt, Haiti’s Toussaint Louverture; the Samurai, who ruled Japan for seven hundred years and shaped modern Japanese culture; Genghis Khan, who built the world’s largest empire; and Shaka Senghor, a man convicted of murder who ran the most formidable prison gang in the yard and ultimately transformed prison culture.
Horowitz connects these leadership examples to modern case-studies, including how Louverture’s cultural techniques were applied (or should have been) by Reed Hastings at Netflix, Travis Kalanick at Uber, and Hillary Clinton, and how Genghis Khan’s vision of cultural inclusiveness has parallels in the work of Don Thompson, the first African-American CEO of McDonalds, and of Maggie Wilderotter, the CEO who led Frontier Communications. Horowitz then offers guidance to help any company understand its own strategy and build a successful culture.
What You Do Is Who You Are is a journey through culture, from ancient to modern. Along the way, it answers a question fundamental to any organization: who are we? How do people talk about us when we’re not around? How do we treat our customers? Are we there for people in a pinch? Can we be trusted?
Who you are is not the values you list on the wall. It’s not what you say in company-wide meeting. It’s not your marketing campaign. It’s not even what you believe. Who you are is what you do. This book aims to help you do the things you need to become the kind of leader you want to be—and others want to follow.
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The Secret Of The Ages
₦5,000Joining the ranks of Tarcher’s runaway editions of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, Public Speaking for Success by Dale Carnegie, and The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles, here are three landmark guides to a life of prosperity-now restored to print in beautiful, signature volumes.
– Newly discovered by fans of The Secret, the metaphysical writer Wallace D. Wattles distills the rules of real power and personal achievement in his slender, immensely practical The Science of Being Great-the companion work to The Science of Getting Rich.
– Publisher Robert Collier taught millions of people how to achieve more, attain more, and live more-all by tapping the incredible faculties of the human mind. His leading book, The Secret of the Ages, is available once again in its authoritative, revised edition.
– Businessman Charles F. Haanel made a meticulous study of the “Law of Attraction” in The Master Key System-a step-by-step guide to activating the principle of mental power and a core inspiration behind The Secret.
Each of these volumes features reset and redesigned interiors, rough-front pages, and elegant French flaps, and is published at an affordable price.
Here are the cornerstone works of self-development-perfect for today’s generation of readers.
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Win Win Win by Brian D. Molitor
₦4,000Throughout the world, good organizations have learned to seek win/win outcomes. However, in the near future, the great organizations will be those that go one step further. When managers and employees agree to work together this generates goodwill, increased communication and greater productivity creating a win/win situation. But the benefits certainly don’t stop there. These positives spill over and are “caught” by fellow workers. Morale increases. Job security increases. Customers receive better products or service. All involved achieve success and satisfaction creating a win/win . . . win situation. In this book, readers will learn how to analyze their respective organizations, obtain commitment to shared vision and values and set the course for a better future. Then, they will learn how to develop appropriate leadership for the conditions at hand. Once the leaders are leading, they will learn how to get others to effectively follow and build true teamwork throughout their organization. Leaders will also learn the secrets to solving any problem, how to make decisions quickly and accurately and how to implement action plans that work. Whether applied to a business, hospital, city government or family, the principles and lessons in “Win Win Win” will set the course for a better future.
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Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow
₦3,500From the bestselling author of Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad, and ‘queen of the banging book title’ comes a powerful polyphonic novel about family secrets, judgemental aunties, and Brazilian butt lifts.
Fresh out of university, 20-year-old Témì has a clear plan for her future: she is going to surgically enlarge her backside like all the other Nigerian women, move from Ile-Ife to Lagos, and meet a man who will love her senseless. When she finally finds the courage to tell her mother, older sister, and aunties, at the funeral of her beloved father, her announcement causes an uproar – because in Nigerian families, none of your business is private. Not even if it’s about your bumbum.
But as each of the other women try to cure Témì of what they consider to be insanity, the long-buried secrets that bind and separate them are spilled in the process. In the end, it seems like Témì might be the sanest one sha…
In Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow, Damilare Kuku brings her signature humour, boldness, and compassion to each member of this loveable but exasperating family, whose lives reveal the ways in which a woman’s physical appearance can dictate her life and relationships and showing just how sharp the double-edged sword of beauty can be.
From the bestselling author of Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad, and ‘queen of the banging book title’ comes a powerful polyphonic novel about family secrets, judgemental aunties, and Brazilian butt lifts.Fresh out of university, 20-year-old Témì has a clear plan for her future: she is going to surgically enlarge her backside like all the other Nigerian women, move from Ile-Ife to Lagos, and meet a man who will love her senseless. When she finally finds the courage to tell her mother, older sister, and aunties, at the funeral of her beloved father, her announcement causes an uproar – because in Nigerian families, none of your business is private. Not even if it’s about your bumbum.
But as each of the other women try to cure Témì of what they consider to be insanity, the long-buried secrets that bind and separate them are spilled in the process. In the end, it seems like Témì might be the sanest one sha…
In Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow, Damilare Kuku brings her signature humour, boldness, and compassion to each member of this loveable but exasperating family, whose lives reveal the ways in which a woman’s physical appearance can dictate her life and relationships and showing just how sharp the double-edged sword of beauty can be.
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How To Lead When Not In Charge
₦3,000How to Lead When You’re Not in Charge Study Guide will free you to become the great leader you want to be so you can make a difference right where you are—whether it’s in your workplace, community, or church. Even when you’re not in charge.
Sessions include:
– The Oddity of Leadership
– Lead Yourself
– Choose Positivity
– Think Critically
– Reject Passivity
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Die Empty: Unleash Your Best Work Every Day
₦2,500Synopsis
Most of us live with the stubborn idea that we’ll always have tomorrow. But sooner or later all of our tomorrows will run out. Each day that you postpone the hard work and succumb to the clutter that chokes creativity, discipline, and innovation will result in a net deficit to the world, to your company, and to yourself. Die Empty is a tool for individuals and companies that aren’t willing to put off their best work. Todd Henry explains the forces that keep people in stagnation and introduces a three-part process for tapping into your passion: Excavate: Find the bedrock of your work to discover what drives you. Cultivate: Learn how to develop the curiosity, humility, and persistence that save you from getting stuck in ruts. Resonate: Learn how your unique brilliance can inspire others. Henry shows how to find and sustain your passion and curiosity, even in tough times.