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 NIGAdichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Summary: In this essay -- adapted from her TEDx talk of the same name -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning author of Americanah, offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness. Drawing extensively on her own experiences and her understanding of the often masked realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable author's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 ADICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 ADISummary: "... 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: 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 NIGVarious
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 CALContents: 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 NIGThurston, Alexander
Summary: "Drawing on sources in Arabic and Hausa, rare documents, propaganda videos, press reports, and interviews with experts in Nigeria, Cameroon, and Niger, Alexander Thurston sheds new light on Boko Haram's development. He shows that the group, far from being a simple or static terrorist organization, has evolved in its worldview and ideology in reaction to events. Chief among these has been Boko...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 THUOkporo, 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 OKPCampbell, John
Summary: As the "Giant of Africa" Nigeria is home to about twenty percent of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa, serves as Africa's largest producer of oil and natural gas, comprises Africa's largest economy, and represents the cultural center of African literature, film, and music. Yet the country is plagued by problems that keep it from realizing its potential as a world power. Boko Haram, a radical...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966.9 CAMParkinson, Joe
Summary: A definitive account of the rescue mission to free hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls after their kidnapping by Boko Haram describes how a global social media campaign initiated with the Twitter hashtag #BringBackOurGirls prompted a dramatic worldwide intervention.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.325 PARSesay, Isha
Summary: The host of "CNN Newsroom Live" presents a definitive account of Boko Haram's 2014 abduction of two hundred seventy-six Chibok schoolgirls, sharing first-person insights based on the author's escape with twenty-one survivors.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.325 SESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.3250 SESSummary: "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 EYIAtinuke
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 ATIOnyeabor, William.
Contents: Body and soul (10:08) -- Atomic bomb (7:51) -- Good name (10:08) -- Something you'll never forget (10:07) -- Why go to war (9:06) -- Love is blind (7:57) -- Heaven and Hell (4:03) -- Let's fall in love (7:23) -- Fantastic man (6:27).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Luaka Bop 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ONYBosah, 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 BOSSummary: When a doctor is rescued by a Special-Ops unit in the jungle of Nigeria, she refuses to go with them unless they agree to help rescue 70 refugees as well.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Tears 2003Ejaita, 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 EJASoyinka, 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
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SOYSummary: A Nigerian villager is eager to work as a civil servant for the British authorities, including a sympathetic district officer, in the hopes that it will benefit him in the future. Instead, his ambition leads to his tragic downfall. Mister Johnson, based on a 1939 novel by Joyce Cary, is a graceful, heartfelt drama about the limits of idealism, affectingly acted and handsomely shot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MISContents: 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 WORObioma, Chigozie
Summary: "Told from the point of view of nine-year-old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, The Fishermen is the Cain and Abel-esque story of an unforgettable childhood in 1990s Nigeria. When their father has to travel to a distant city for work, the brothers take advantage of his extended absence to skip school and go fishing. At the forbidden nearby river, they encounter a madman who predicts that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBIOnoseta, Rimma
Summary: "Sisters Cheta and Zam's paths to break free of their oppressive home diverge wildly--one moves into an aunt's luxurious home and the other struggles to survive on her wits alone--and when they finally reunite, Zam realizes how far Cheta has fallen, leaving Cheta's fate in Zam's hands."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ONOOshomah, 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 OSHKuti, Fela
Contents: CD 1. Lady (13:50) ; Shakara (13:26) ; Gentleman : edit version (11:00) ; Water no get enemy : edit version (9:50) ; Zombie (12:24) ; Sorrow tears and blood (10:16) ; No agreement. Part 2 (7:53) -- CD 2. Roforofo fight (15:37) ; Shuffering and shmiling. Part 2 (12:20) -- Coffin for head of state. Part 2 (7:53) ; ITT. Part 2 (13:41) ; Army arrangement. Part 2 (17:00) -- O.D.O.O. : edit version...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Barclay 2002