Contents: 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 NIGSummary: "This revelatory, award-winning debut feature from co-directors (and twin brothers) Arie and Chuko Esiri is a heartrending and hopeful portrait of everyday human endurance in Lagos, Nigeria. Shot on richly textured 16 mm film and infused with the spirit of neorealism, Eyimofe (This Is My Dream) traces the journeys of two distantly connected strangers--Mofe (Jude Akuwudike), an electrician...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN EYICole, Teju.
Summary: "Visiting Lagos after many years away, Teju Cole's unnamed narrator rediscovers his hometown as both a foreigner and a local. A young writer uncertain of what he wants to say, the man moves through tableaus of life in one of the most dynamic cities in the world: he hears the muezzin's call to prayer in the early morning light, and listens to John Coltrane during the late afternoon heat. He...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLEjaita, Diana
Summary: Two cousins--one in Lagos, Nigeria, and the other in Milan, Italy--have different lives, but they share a dream of meeting and being together.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rise x Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE EJASummary: "... 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 WAKContents: 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 NIGAtinuke
Summary: Presents three tales of an endearing and enduring character, Tola, who lives in an apartment in the busy city of Lagos, Nigeria, with her sister, brother and grandmommy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ATICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ATIAbraham, Tola Rotimi
Summary: "Twin sisters Bibike and Ariyike are enjoying a relatively comfortable life in Lagos in 1996. Then their mother loses her job due to political strife, and the family, facing poverty, becomes drawn into the New Church, an institution led by a charismatic pastor who is not shy about worshipping earthly wealth. Soon Bibike and Ariyike's father wagers the family home on a "sure bet" that evaporates...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABRVarious
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 CALBeer, Daniel
Summary: "The House of the Dead is a history of Siberia with a focus on the last four tsars (1801-1917). Daniel Beer explores the massive penal colony that became an incubator for the radicalism of revolutionaries who would one day rule Russia"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 BEEContents: Okin omo ni = The king of the children (I.K. Dairo) -- Maa Jo (King Sunny Ade & his African Beats) -- Funky hi-life (C.K. Mann) -- Asiko (Tony Allen) -- Neribalankina (Captain Yaba) -- Fuji shuffle (Adewale Ayuba) -- Bra ohoho (E.K. Nyame) -- Joromi ; Monkey Yanga (Sir Victor Uwaifo) -- Day by day (E.T. Mensah) -- Matutu Mirika (Eric Agyeman) -- Oyolima (Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe) -- Fakye Me...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: World Music Network 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ROUOyelana, 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 OYEContents: Nwantinti/Die die (Ify Jerry Krusade) -- Rough rider (instrumental) (the Hygrades) -- Deiyo deiyo (Akpuwunlobi) (the Hykkers) -- Wrinkar experience (Soundway) -- Breakthrough (the Funkees) -- Mr. Bull Dog (original 45 version) (the Mebusas) -- Don't take me for a ride (Foundars 15) -- Eti ufok (Ceejebs) -- Yem efe (Tony Grey Super 7) -- Akwa kayi ji bia nuwa (the Identicals) -- Blacky Joe...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Soundway 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN WORContents: Make you no mind / (Ebo Taylor) -- Zeal Anata / (Zeal Onyia) -- Love Vibration / (Nicono Teles) -- Oba mimo olorun ayo / (Ojo Balingo) -- Looking out for you / (The Mandators) -- Thina Dekula / (Lumingu Puati (Zorro)) -- Amanfoo / (Dytomite Starlite Band of Ghana) -- You're my solution / (Eric Kol) -- For the love of money / (Zack and Geebah) -- Super Star / (Tony Sarfo & his Funki Afrobisi) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN TABAllen, Tony
Contents: Moody boy -- Bad roads -- Cruising -- On fire -- Woro dance -- Tony's blues -- Wolf eats wolf -- Cool cats -- Push and pull -- Ewajo -- Life is beautiful.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ALLKuti, Femi.
Summary: Olufela Olufemi Anikulapo Kuti popularly known as Femi Kuti, is a Nigerian musician and the eldest son of afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Label Maison 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KUTKuti, Femi
Contents: Africa will be great again -- Best to live on the good side -- One people one world -- Na their way be that -- How many -- Evil people -- Equal opportunity -- E get as e be -- Corruption na stealing -- Dem don come again -- Dem militarize democracy -- The way our lives go.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KUTAtinuke
Summary: "In ordinary times, Tola lives in an apartment in Lagos, Nigeria, with her clever sister, Moji; her sporty brother, Dapo; and bossy Grandmommy. Tola is so happy! But news of a new virus--and a lockdown, too--sends Moji away in one direction and Dapo in another. Then, when Grandmommy can no longer go out to work, Tola goes instead. She works for the wealthy Diamond family and makes new friends...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ATIChude-Sokei, Louis Onuorah
Summary: "The astonishing journey of a bright, utterly displaced boy, from the short-lived African nation of Biafra, to Jamaica, to the harshest streets of Los Angeles--a fierce and funny memoir that adds fascinating depth to the coming-to-America story"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHUDE-SOKEI, LOUIS ONUORAH CHUSomi
Contents: First kiss : Eko oni baje -- Love juju #1 -- Lady revisited (featuring Angelique Kidjo) -- Ankara Sundays -- Ginger me slowly -- When rivers cry (featuring Common) -- Brown round things -- The story of Monkey -- Akobi : first born s(u)n -- Two dollar day -- Still your girl -- Four.One.Nine -- Love Nwantinti (featuring In His Image) -- Four African women -- Hearts & swag -- Love juju #2 -- Last...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: OKeh 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ SOMContents: Psychedelic baby (Fubura Sekibo) -- Shango oba onina (Black's' Zenith) -- Ttobiroko (Ogbele) (Twins Seven - Seven and his Golden Cabretas) -- Ibi awo Iyi' (The Professional Seagulls Dance Band of Port Harcourt) -- Omohupa (The Otarus) -- The Lords prayer (The Don Isaac Ezekiel Combination) -- Agboyabahpa (James Etamobe & His All Weather Band) -- Onwu Dinjo (The People Star) -- Joka dubu (Bola...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Soundway Records Ltd. 2010
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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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ben Bosah Books 2017
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.669 BOSContents: Africa is my root / (Osayomore Joseph and the Creative Seven) (6:48) -- Ta gha hunsimwen / (Akaba Man & the Nigie Rockets) (6:02) -- Popular side / (Akaba Man and the African Pride) (7:24) -- Iranm Iran (5:30) ; Sakpaide no 2 (6:26) / (Sir Victor Uwaifo and his Titibits) -- Ta ghi rare / (Akaba Man & the Nigie Rockets) (7:19) -- My name is money / (Osayomore Joseph) (4:50) -- Ogbov omwan /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN EDOWalters, Vanessa
Summary: "Nicole Oruwari has the perfect life: a handsome husband; a palatial house in the heart of glittering Lagos, Nigeria; and a glamorous group of friends. She left gloomy London and a troubled family past behind for sunny, moneyed Lagos, becoming part of the Nigerwives--a community of foreign women married to Nigerian men. But when Nicole disappears without a trace after a boat trip, the cracks...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023