Contents: We have it in Africa -- Oba Adele -- The wind in a frolic (Nigerian Union Rhythm Group) -- Iku Koni Payin -- Ibikunle Alakija (Ayinde Bakare & his Meranda Orchestra) -- Omo Laso -- Calabar-O -- Emi Wa Wa Lowo Re -- Iwa d'Arekere -- Ominira -- The memorial of Chief J.K. Randle (Nigerian Union Rhythm Group) -- Mofi Ajobi Seyin -- Unity ; Oratido Soso (Nigerian Union Rhythm Group) -- Ayami -- Oba...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Honest Jons Records 2006
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/WORLDBEAT LONOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: The drama takes place in a small Nigerian town during a violent and unexpected storm. A Nigerian-American woman named Chioma answers a knock at her door and is horrified to see a boy with a severe head wound standing at her doorstep. He reaches for her, and his touch burns like fire. Something is very wrong. Haunted and hunted, Chioma must embrace her heritage in order to survive. John Jennings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 OKOGeorge, Elizabeth
Summary: When a police detective is taken off life support after falling into a coma, only an autopsy reveals the murderous act that precipitated her death. She'd been working on a special task force within North London's Nigerian community, and Acting Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley is assigned to the case, which has far-reaching cultural associations that have nothing to do with life as he...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GEODaniel, Mary-Alice
Summary: "Mary-Alice Daniel's family moved from West Africa to England when she was a very young girl, leaving behind the vivid culture of her native land in the Nigerian savanna. They arrived to a blanched, cold world of prim suburbs and unfamiliar customs. So began her family's series of travels across three continents in search of places of belonging. A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing ventures...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DANIEL, MARY-ALICE DANAdichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Summary: "A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Cole, Teju
Summary: "A weekend spent antiquing is shadowed by the colonial atrocities that occurred on that land. A walk at dusk is interrupted by casual racism. A loving marriage is riven by mysterious tensions. And a remarkable cascade of voices speak out from a pulsing metropolis. Tunde, the man at the center of this novel, reflects on the places and times of his life, from his West African upbringing to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: E ma muu obun se aya (I.K. Dairo & His Blue Spots) -- Ariwo (Chris Ajilo and His Cubanos) -- Aye wa a kale (I.K. Dairo and His Ink Spots) -- Baby I tire (Charles Iwegbue and his group) -- Iba awon agba (Haruna Ishola and His Group) -- Chukwu Fulu m n'anya (E.C. Arinze) -- Cool cats invitation (Victor Ola-Lya and His Cool Cats) -- Iyawo Ile (Ganiyu Kale and His Guinea Mambo) -- Freedom highlife...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Soul Jazz Records 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN NIGOmotoni, Aleema
Summary: "Within the walls of Wodebury Hall, an elite boarding school in the English countryside, reputation is everything. But aspiring photographer Iyanu is more comfortable observing things safely from behind her camera. For Iyanu’s estranged cousin, Kitan, life seems perfect. She has money, beauty, and friends like queen bee Heather. But as a Nigerian girl in a school as white and insular as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OMOContents: Oni suru (Odeyemi) (5:27) -- Sickness (Prince Nico Mbarga & Rocafil Jazz) (7:40) -- Black precious colour (Felixson Ngasia & the Survivals) (7:11) -- Africa (Sina Bakare) (5:31) -- Special secret of baby (Saxon Lee & the Shadows International) (8:45) -- Obonogbozu (Osayomore Joseph & the Creative 7) (6:50) -- Onuma dimnobi (International Brothers Band) (8:10) -- Kinuye (Don Bruce & the Angels)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN NIGBosah, Chukwuemeka
Summary: In this collection of art, artists' statements, and essays by and about 75 Nigerian women artists, Bosah reveals a rich diversity in the media, techniques, iconography, and ideas of established and emerging visual artists. Whether reputable installation sculptors, painters, digital photographers, textile designers, or performing artists in Nigeria and the global Nigerian diaspora, or emerging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ben Bosah Books 2017
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.669 BOSOkporo, Edafe
Summary: "A poignant, moving memoir and urgent call to action for immigration justice by a Nigerian asylee and global gay rights and immigration activist Edafe Okporo. On the eve of Edafe Okporo's twenty-sixth birthday, he was awoken to a violent mob outside his window in Abuja, Nigeria. The mob threatened his life after discovering the secret Edafe had been hiding for years -- that he is a gay man....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OKPORO, EDAFE OKPSummary: "... Nigeria descended into Civil War in the 1967. The rock scene that developed during the following three years of bloodshed and destruction would come to heal the country."--Back cover of accompanying book.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN WAKBlackburn, Lizzie Damilola
Summary: "Meet Yinka: a 30-something, Oxford educated, British Nigerian woman with a well-paid job, good friends, and a mother whose constant refrain is "Yinka, where is your huzband?" Yinka's Nigerian aunties frequently pray for her delivery from singledom, her girlfriends think she's too traditional (she's saving herself for marriage!), her sister thinks she needs to get over her ex already, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAContents: Free my people (Joni Haastrup) -- You can't change a man (Christy Essien) -- Afrikana disco (Akin Richards & the Executives) -- Nam myoho renge kyo (Tee Mac) -- Greetings (Joni Haastrup) -- Ocheche (Happy song) (Don Bruce and the Angels) -- Get up and dance (Benis Cletin) -- Enoviyin (Colomachi) -- Do the funkro (Joni Haastrup) -- Living everyday (Tee Mac featuring Marjorie Barnes) -- Mr been...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN NIGGeorge, Elizabeth
Summary: "When a police detective is taken off life support after falling into a coma, only an autopsy reveals the murderous act that precipitated her death. She'd been working on a special task force within North London's Nigerian community, and Acting Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley is assigned to the case, which has far-reaching cultural associations that have nothing to do with life as he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GEOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GEOVarious
Contents: Mbre Isong (Intro) / Isadico Dance Band -- Nyong Eyen Unen / Cross River Nationale -- Eyen Erong Nwa / The Visitors -- Akam Itoro Abasi / Mansion -- Akananwan Isong Idung / Monica Isaac -- Top Eyop Odo / Emmanuel Ntia -- Akwa Idim / The Sea Lions -- Suk Usan Idang (Interlude) / Charles Duke -- Eti Eyenekla / Isadico Dance Band -- Akan Anwan Isong Idung / The Doves -- Mma Ama Mbo / Mary Afi...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Comb & Razor 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN CALKhan, Sabba
Summary: "As a second-generation Pakistani immigrant living in East London, Sabba Khan paints a vivid snapshot of contemporary British Asian life and investigates the complex shifts experienced by different generations within immigrant communities, creating an uplifting and universal story that crosses borders and decades. Race, gender, and class are explored in a compelling personal narrative creating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 KHACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KHAN, SABBA KHAAsher, Zain E. (Zain Ejiofor)
Summary: "Living in Brixton and awaiting the return of her husband and young son from Nigeria, Obiajulu Ejiofor received shattering news. There had been a fatal car crash, and one of them was dead. In Where the Children Take Us, Obiajulu's daughter, Zain Asher, tells the story of her family and her mother's deeply personal fight to protect her children from the daily pressures of poverty, crime, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ASHHerbert, Victor
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Chas. K. Harris 1908
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMDrake, Molly
Contents: Happiness(1:50 min) -- Little Weaver Bird(1:51 min) -- Cuckoo Time(1:38 min) -- Love Isn't a Right(2:04 min) -- Dream Your Dreams(1:54 min) -- How Wild the Wind Blows(1:18 min) -- What Can a Song Do to You?(2:29 min) -- I Remember(3:04 min) -- A Sound(1:54 min) -- Ballad(1:57 min) -- Woods in May(1:10 min) -- Night Is My Friend(1:39 min) -- Fine Summer Morning(1:20 min) -- Set Me Free(1:29 min)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bryter Music 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK DRAOshomah, Waziri
Contents: Forgive them oh God (Amin-amin) -- Jealousy -- Alhaji Yesufu Sado managing director -- Omhona-omhona -- Ovini omoekeke Alhaji Inu Umoru -- Okhume ukhaduame -- My luck (feat. Madam Hassanah Waziri and her velvet voice).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN OSHOyelana, Tunji.
Contents: Disc 1: Ojo -- Lisabi Egba -- Ipasan -- Osekere -- Fiya jemi -- Ifa -- Ogun Adubi -- Agba lo de -- Iwo ko lo dami -- Omoba d'eru ri -- Jewele jewele -- To whom it may concern.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Soundway Records 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN OYEOshomah, Waziri.
Contents: Forgive them oh God amin - amin -- Emoi Khakiegwi aghumheile -- Igwegi baba -- Iyuchele opomumhe -- Alhaji yesufu sadu ...et al.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Luaka bop 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN OSHGeter, Hafizah
Summary: "Hafizah Augustus Geter disrupts the myths of America's origins and contemporary America through her experiences as the queer Nigerian-born daughter of a Muslim Nigerian woman and a Black American man from a Southern Baptist family in Jim Crow Alabama. A unique combination of gripping memoir and Afrofuturist thought, The Black Period follows Hafizah on a journey that tells her at every turn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022