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Audiobooks. Autobiographies. bibliography Bildungsromans. Biographies. biography Essays. fiction Novels. Romans.Atta, Sefi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATTEkwuyasi, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EKWDaré, Abi
Summary: "A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to get an education so that she can escape and choose her own future. Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a "louding voice"-the ability to speak for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC DAREDaré, Abi
Summary: "A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to get an education so that she can escape and choose her own future. Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a "louding voice"-the ability to speak for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Dare 2020Daniel-Ayoade, Yewande
Summary: "THE LITTLE REGENT begins with a short blurb, offering context on the Yoruba tradition of regency: "Among the Yoruba tribe of West Africa, when a king dies without a son, his daughter will rule until the kingmakers choose a new king. These female rulers are called regents." The story begins when Abioye is declared the temporary ruler of her West African village following her father the king's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DANOkorafor, 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 OKOBosah, 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 BOSAdichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Summary: The author presents a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADICHIE, CHIMAMDA NGOZI ADIAdichie, 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...
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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 ADISoyinka, Wole.
Summary: In The Open Sore of a Continent, Soyinka, whose own Nigerian passport was confiscated by General Abacha in 1994, explores the history and future of Nigeria in a compelling jeremiad that is as intense as it is provocative, learned, and wide-ranging. He deftly explains the shifting dramatic personae of Nigerian history and politics to Westerners unfamiliar with the players and the process,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 882 SOYBanks, Russell
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BANOnomé, Louisa
Summary: Joy Okafor is overwhelmed. Recently divorced, a life coach whose phone won't stop ringing, and ever the dutiful Nigerian daughter, Joy has planned every aspect of her mother's seventieth birthday weekend on her own. As the Okafors slowly begin to arrive, Mama Mary goes to take a nap. But when the grandkids go to wake her, they find that she isn't sleeping after all. Refusing to believe that her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2024
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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 OKPIloh, Candice
Summary: "Ada" means first daughter, means oldest girl, means most pressure. When Ada leaves home for her freshman year at a historical Black college, it's the first time that she's been able to make her own choices. As she stumbles deeper into the world of dance and explores her sexuality, she also begins to wrestle with her past-- her mother's struggle with addiction, her Nigerian father's attempts to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ILOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: YA FIC ILOGeorge, 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: 2022