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Travel Guides &
Maps
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Other Books &
Novels
Travel Guides
Nigeria 2nd (Bradt Travel Guide Nigeria)-
(Paperback) by Lizzie Williams (Author)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
Experience the mind-boggling
chaos of Lagos, the traditional durbars, Benin bronzes and walled cities, and
enjoy its single greatest quality – the warm generosity of 140 million
people. Details of getting around, by bush taxi, rail, car or on foot, together
with accommodations options, wildlife watching and activities, are balanced by
a wealth of background information, from history (of a country dating back
thousands of years) and geography to culture and the environment.
The Rough Guide to West Africa 5 - 2008- (Paperback)
Author Richard Trillo
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
covering the 15 visitable
countries from Mauritania to Cameroon in fifty percent more detail than its
only competitor. Each chapter of the Rough Guide includes thoroughly researched
hotel and restaurant listings, sections on everything from food and language to
media and sport, and thoughtful background on the environment, culture,
history, politics and music .
West
Africa
(Maps Worldwide)
Published by Lonely Planet
Publications Series - Country/Regional Guides
This guide covers travel in
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d'Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea,
Guinea Bissau Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone
and Togo. Now revised, it features an expanded 32-page section on the region's
culture and birdlife. Listings of places to stay and eat are included for all
budgets and there is comprehensive coverage of contemporary and traditional
music. Language sections and a glossary are also included.
Nigeria (Travel Reference Map)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
Map of the country and
portions of its neighbors with elevations shown by color changes. Legend
locates international and district boundaries; border crossings; settlements
from major cities to walled villages; roads (with distances in kilometers) from
freeways to minor roads and tracks; railways; ferries; airports and airfields;
rivers, streams, swamps, and other hydrography; gasoline; medical facilities;
mines; oil wells; campsites and lodging; national parks and reserves; points of
interest; archaeological sites; museums; pottery; caves; beaches; golf.
History & Politics
Nigeria
Foreign Policy And Government Guide
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
Country Review, Nigeria 1999/2000
(amazon.com) - USA
by Robert C. Kelly (Editor), Debra
Ewing (Editor), Stanton Doyle (Editor), Denise Youngblood (Editor)
concise, up-to-date sources for political and economic information
Nigeria Industrial And Business Directory
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by USA International Business
Publications (Author)
Set in Nigeria nine hundred years ago, this
well-researched first novel marks the coming of age of Layo, a twelve-year-old
Yoruba girl, who very much wants to become a potter. The book contains
delightful girlish secrets, friendships, romance, and mystery, as well as
details of the customs of an ancient culture known for bronze and terra cotta
work. Readers will identify with the universality of Layo's feelings.
- (Copyright © 1994 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.)
Illusions of Power : Nigeria in Transition
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Julius Omozuanvbo
Ihonvbere, Timothy M. Shaw (Editor), juliu Ihonvbere
This volume provides
the most holistic and contemporary account of the traumas, dialects and
dynamics of Nigeria's distinctive political economy. With an analysis located
in Nigeria's pre-colonial, colonial and neo-colonial history, the authors
examine the dynamics of the various pre-capitalist communities of modern day
Nigeria emphasizing the autonomy, creativity and alignments of social and
political forces in the processes of market consolidation, state and class
formation
Historical Archaeology in Nigeria
(amazon.com) - USA
by Kit W. Wesler (Editor), P.
Allsworth-Jones (Editor)
The papers in this volume represent the most
recent findings by scholars who are committed to melding written history, oral
tradition, and archaeological data into a dynamic understanding of the coast of
Lagos State, through the Yoruba island once dominated by Oyo and Ibadan, to
Benin City, seat of the great pre-colonial empire; north to Zungeru, seat of
colonial administration under Lord Lugard, and the Jos Plateau, homeland of the
ron people; and south again to the Niger Delta, where the Nigerian people first
began their historic interaction with Portuguese explorers.
Crippled Giant : Nigeria Since Independence
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Eghosa E. Osaghae
The Dance of Death : Nigerian History and
Christopher Okigbo's Poetry
(amazon.com) - USA
by Dubem Okafor
This book
represents a definitive re-reading of Okigbo's poetry and a foregrounding of
its importance as prophecy and warning to Nigerians (nay, Africans!) and the
misrulers of Nigeria against continued national misdirection.
Adjusted Lives : Stories of Structural Adjustments
(African Writers Library)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Fidelis Odun Balogun
The Advance of African Capital : The Growth
of Nigerian Private Enterprise
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Tom Forrest
Provides
an extensive account of medium- and large-scale African business. Examines the
growth of private enterprise in Nigeria from the colonial period to the
present, and gives profiles of the country's key entrepreneurs. Covers the
various forms of capital accumulation and sectional advances in trade,
transport, manufacture, agriculture, finance, and other sources. Includes
discussion on shifts in power and policy, relations with foreign capital, and
attitudes towards private business and the state. (Annotation copyright
Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.)
Agriculture and
Modernity in Nigeria: A Historical and Contemporary Survey of the Igbo
Experience
(amazon.com) - USA
by Jude C. Aguwa, U.D. Anyanwu
Contributed articles on various cultural, historic, technological, policy
and scientific issues involved in transforming agricuture in South Eastern
Nigeria from a broader global and national perspective. This is the first of a
projected Igbo Studies Series ecompassing religion, politics, education and
popular culture, among others
Slow Death for
Slavery : The Course of Abolition in Northern Nigeria, 1897-1936
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
(African Studies Series, No
76)
This book examines the decline of slavery in Northern Nigeria during
the first forty years of colonial rule. Rather than emancipate slaves, the
state abolished the legal status of slavery, encouraging them to buy their
freedom. Since many were unable to do so, slavery was not abolished until 1936.
Capitalism and Nationalism at the End of
Empire : State and Business in Decolonizing Egypt, Nigeria, and Kenya,
1945-1963
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Robert L. Tignor
Robert Tignor's new study of the decolonization experiences of Egypt, Nigeria,
and Kenya elucidates the major factors that led to the transfer of power from
British to African hands in these three territories.
Islamic Reform and Political Change in Northern
Nigeria (Series in Islam and Society in Africa)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Roman Loimeier
People & Culture
African Oracles in 10 Minutes (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by R. T. Kaser
For more
than 1,000 years the Yoruba tribe of Nigeria have planned their lives and love
through a unique fortune-telling system (Midwest Book Review)
Architectures of Nigeria : Architectures of the
Hausa and Yoruba Peoples and of the Many Peoples Between Tradition and
Modernisation
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Kevin Carroll
The Arts of the Hausa; An Aspect of Ilamic Culture
in Northern Nigeria (amazon.com) - USA
by David Heathcote
The Broken Hoe : Cultural Reconfiguration in Biase
Southeast Nigeria (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by David Uru Iyam
Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in
Nigeria (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Marcellina Ulunma
Okehie-Offoha (Editor), Matthew N.O. Sadiku (Editor)
History of Juju Music; A History of an African
Popular Music from Nigeria (amazon.com) - USA
by T. Ajayi Thomas
Nigeria : One Nation, Many Cultures (Exploring
Cultures of the World) (amazon.com) - USA
by Hassan Adeeb, Bonnetta Adeeb
(Contributor)
A fast-moving and informative survey of Nigeria and its
diverse cultures touches on the country's history, geography, and people. The
book also discusses the traditions in art, education, and storytelling that
continue to be honored in Nigeria today. Most of the color photographs are
clear. (Copyright © 1996 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.)
Kingdoms of the Yoruba (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Robert Sydney Smith
The Religion of the Yorubas (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by J. Olumide Lucas
New Traditions from Nigeria : Seven Artists of the
Nsukka Group (amazon.com) - USA
by Simon Ottenberg, Isidore
Okpewho
In response to political and social upheaval, University of
Nigeria artists have turned to the obscure Igbo culture. Drawing on extensive
interviews with the artists, and analyzing their art and writings,
anthropologist Simon Ottenberg shows how the artists have used the symbols of a
little-studied tradition to celebrate their culture and create visual
commentaries on their country. 78 color, 115 b&w illustrations .
Igbo-English English-Igbo Dictionary and
Phrasebook
Amazon (USA) - Amazon (UK)
Igbo-English
Dictionary
Amazon (USA) - Amazon (UK)
Igbo Basic
Course
Amazon (USA) - Amazon (UK)
Igbo and the
Tradition of Politics
Amazon (USA) - Amazon (UK)
Other Books
& Novels
The African
Mask
(amazon.com) - USA
by Janet E. Rupert
Set in
Nigeria nine hundred years ago, this well-researched first novel marks the
coming of age of Layo, a twelve-year-old Yoruba girl, who very much wants to
become a potter. The book contains delightful girlish secrets, friendships,
romance, and mystery, as well as details of the customs of an ancient culture
known for bronze and terra cotta work. Readers will identify with the
universality of Layo's feelings. - (Copyright © 1994 The Horn Book,
Inc. All rights reserved.)
Chinua Achebe
: A Biography
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Ezenwa Ohaeto,
Ezenwa-Ohaeto
Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is the
most widely read African novel. Since its publication in 1958, it has become a
classic, often compared to Greek and Shakespearean tragedies. Ezenwo-Ohaeto's
biography is the first comprehensive account of this major writer's life to
date--and places Achebe's life and work in the context of African history. 25
photos .
Africa Woman Palava : The
Nigerian Novel
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Women (Women in Culture and
Society) by Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi, Catharine R. Stimpson
Ogunyemi uses
the novels to trace a Nigerian women's literary tradition that reflects an
ideology centered on children and community. Of prime importance is the
paradoxical Mammywata figure, the independent, childless mother, who serves as
a basis for the postcolonial woman in the novels and in society at large.
Ogunyemi tracks this figure through many permutations, from matriarch to
writer, her multiple personalities reflecting competing loyalties. This
sustained critical study counters prevailing "masculinist" theories of black
literature in a powerful narrative of the Nigerian world.
African Designs of the Congo, Nigeria, the Cameroons and
the Guinea Coast
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
(International Design Library,
Collected Edition) by Caren Caraway
Arrow of
God
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Chinua Achebe
Set in
the Ibo heartland of eastern Nigeria, one of Africa's best-known writers
describes the conflict between old and new in its most poignant aspect: the
personal struggle between father and son.
A Man
of the People
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Chinua Achebe
By the
renowned author of Things Fall Apart, this novel foreshadows the Nigerian coups
of 1966 and shows the color and vivacity as well as the violence and corruption
of a society making its own way between the two worlds.
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