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Soyinka, Wole

Summary: "A towering figure in world literature gives us a tour de force, his first novel in nearly one-half century: a savagely satiric, gleefully irreverent, rollicking, fictional meditation on how power and greed can corrupt the soul of a nation. ("You don't see things the same way when you encounter a voice like that."-Toni Morrison) In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOY

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SOY

Habila, Helon

Summary: On April 14, 2014, 276 girls from the Chibok Secondary School in northern Nigeria were kidnapped by Boko Haram, the world's deadliest terrorist group. Most were never heard from again. Acclaimed Nigerian novelist Helon Habila, who grew up in northern Nigeria, returned to Chibok and gained intimate access to the families of the kidnapped to offer a devastating account of this tragedy that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Global Reports 2016

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Atinuke

Summary: Acclaimed author and storyteller Atinuke reunites with illustrator Onyinye Iwu for a follow-up to their highly acclaimed first chapter book about a little girl with a mighty will and charm to spare. Too Small Tola lives in an apartment with her clever sister, Moji; her big brother, Dapo; and Grandmommy, who is very bossy. In the first of three endearing new adventures, Tola is sized just right...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Products, LLC 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG ATI

Ekwuyasi, Francesca

Summary: "Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tells the interconnected stories of three Nigerian women: Kambirinachi and her twin daughters, Kehinde and Taiye. Kambirinachi believes that she is an Ogbanje, or an Abiku, a non-human spirit that plagues a family with misfortune by being born and then dying in childhood to cause a human mother misery. She has made the unnatural choice of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EKW

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