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History, PoliticsA FATHERLESS PEOPLE
Nigeria is a country of which much is heard and about little is understood. The product of an ambitious amalgamation, in 1914, of three hundred & seventy one ethnic groups in the area of River Niger, with as many languages to form the most populous state in British-Africa (estimated at 170 million people).
The book seeks to make sense of the events in this country of many paradoxes: a land of extreme poverty alongside stupendous wealth; a country where, in the North, Islamists proclaim Western Education to be sin even while elsewhere in the country, the return of and agitation for Biafra secession by a new generation of Igbos in the south east.
A Fatherless People: The Secret Story of How the Nigerians missed the road to the promised land tells the story of Nigeria from its early conceptualization by British colonialists in the aftermath of the abolition of the slave trade, up to the present day.
Biography, HistoryBATTLELINES: ADVENTURES IN JOURNALISM AND POLITICS
It is a chronicle of plots and betrayals, of high-mindedness and pettiness; a documentation of history with revealing insights. It is an unusual account told by an engaging reporter. Racy and exciting, it is a book you will not put down in a hurry.
History, Non-FictionHUBRIS
The Nigerian Army is an institution that has played a pivotal role in the affairs of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. For more than half of the 57 years since Independence, Nigeria was directly ruled by a Military Government, largely composed of army officers, and always headed by one.
History, NovelsTHE REMAINS OF THE DAY
This is Kazuo Ishiguro’s profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the “great gentleman,” Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington’s “greatness,” and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.
History, PoliticsWHY NATIONS FAIL: THE ORIGINS OF POWER, PROSPERITY, AND POVERTY
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
HistoryBASIC HISTORY FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL BOOK 6
This history textbook will help pupil to gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Nigeria’s past and present heroes. It will give pupils the knowledge of the past and how the past relates to the present. The book will also enable pupils to appreciate the basis of unity in Nigeria. Each chapter is concluded with revision questions to access the pupils.
HistoryBASIC HISTORY FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL BOOK 5
This history textbook will help pupil to gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Nigeria’s past and present heroes. It will give pupils the knowledge of the past and how the past relates to the present. The book will also enable pupils to appreciate the basis of unity in Nigeria. Each chapter is concluded with revision questions to access the pupils.
HistoryBASIC HISTORY FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL BOOK 4
This history textbook will help pupil to gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Nigeria’s past and present heroes. It will give pupils the knowledge of the past and how the past relates to the present. The book will also enable pupils to appreciate the basis of unity in Nigeria. Each chapter is concluded with revision questions to access the pupils.
HistoryMY NIGERIA: EARLY HISTORY
This book takes everyone – young and old – on a voyage back into the history of the remarkable and wonderful people called Nigerians. With illustrations, facts and anecdotes about Nigerian ancestors (the people who lived around the Niger River centuries ago), the history of the country is depicted as never before seen.
HistoryMY NIGERIA: THE MAKING OF NIGERIA
This book takes everyone — young and old — on a voyage back into the history of Nigeria. Beginning from Nigerian ancestors, the people who lived and reigned around the Niger River centuries ago, to the creation of Nigeria, its independence and the establishment of its governance, the history of this great country is depicted as never before seen.
HistorySURVIVING BIAFRA: A NIGER WIFE’S STORY
In 1961, Rosina ‘Rose’ Martin married John Umelo, a young Nigerian she met on a London Tube platform, eventually moving to Nigeria with him and their children. As Rose taught Latin in Enugu, they found themselves caught up in Nigeria’s Civil War, which followed the 1967 secession of Eastern Nigeria—now named, Biafra. The family fled to John’s ancestral village, then moved from place to place as the war closed in. When it ended in 1970, up to 2 million had died, most from starvation. Rose (worse off than some, better off than many) had kept notes, capturing the reality of living in Biafra—from excitement in the beginning to despair towards the end.
HistoryOF RUSTS AND GOLD
Of Rusts and Gold (Snippets of History) is a collection of articles on Yoruba cultural and political history, contemporary Nigerian politics as well as the entrepreneurial spirits of early Nigerian traders and industrialists. Without making any judgments, the articles relate the history as it occurred, leaving the readers to discern lessons that could be learnt from the narratives.
HistoryARTS OF BEING YORUBA
There is a culturally significant way of being Yoruba that is expressed through dress, greetings, and celebrations no matter where in the world they take place. Adeleke Adeeko documents Yoruba patterns of behavior and articulates a philosophy of how to he Yoruba in this innovative study. As he focuses on historical writings, 1111 divination practices, the use of proverbs in contemporary speech, photography, gendered ideas of dressing well, and the formalities of ceremony and speech at celebratory occasions, Adeeko contends that being Yoruba is indeed an art and Yoruba-ness a dynamic phenomenon that responds to cultural shifts as Yoruba people inhabit an increasingly globalized world.
Biography, HistoryCULTURAL MODERNITY IN A COLONIZED WORLD
This book is about the intellectual life and times of Chief Isaac Oluwole Delano, a cultural icon who significantly shaped Yoruba Studies. It examines the contributions of Chief Delano through a careful interrogation of his many records, letters, documents and over a dozen publications, spanning from 1937 through to 1973. He covered biographies, history and religion, all under the rubric of what may be referred to as Historical-Anthropology.
HistoryMY NIGERIA: PEOPLE, PLACES AND CULTURE
Take your child on an exciting journey of Nigeria! With over 100 pages of captivating images and information, discover the people, places and culture of this beautiful land.
Welcome to Nigeria
The People of Nigeria
The Foods of Nigeria
Places in Nigeria
Nigerian Life
Nigerian Pride
General Reading, HistoryA GOOD AFRICAN STORY
In A Good African Story, as Andrew Rugasira recounts the very personal story of his company and the challenges that he has faced – and overcome – as an African entrepreneur, he provides a tantalizing glimpse of what Africa could be, and argues that trade has achieved what years of aid have failed to deliver.
This is a book about Africa taking its destiny in its own hands, and dictating the terms of its own future.
Educational Books, History, PrimaryBasic History for Primary School Book 3
This history textbook will help pupil to gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Nigeria’s past and present heroes. It will give pupils the knowledge of the past and how the past relates to the present. The book will also enable pupils to appreciate the basis of unity in Nigeria. Each chapter is concluded with revision questions to access the pupils.
Educational Books, HistoryBasic History for Primary School Book 2
This history textbook will help pupil to gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Nigeria’s past and present heroes. It will give pupils the knowledge of the past and how the past relates to the present. The book will also enable pupils to appreciate the basis of unity in Nigeria. Each chapter is concluded with revision questions to access the pupils.
History, Junior SecondaryBasic History for Primary Schools Book 1
This history textbook will help pupil to gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Nigeria’s past and present heroes. It will give pupils the knowledge of the past and how the past relates to the present. The book will also enable pupils to appreciate the basis of unity in Nigeria. Each chapter is concluded with revision questions to access the pupils.
General Reading, History, Strategic Management, Teaching ResourcesThe Ideological Evolution of Human Resource Management: A Critical Look into HRM Research and Practices
This book is a pioneering work that maps out the ideological evolution of HRM research and practices, with a particular focus on our contemporary era of multinational corporations.
Culture, General Reading, History, TertiaryThe Development of Socialism, Social Democracy and Communism: Historical, Political and Socioeconomic Perspectives
This book examines how socioeconomic and institutional factors shaped the development of Socialism and its two contending variants of Social Democracy and Communism, investigating why each of these factions enjoyed varying levels of popularity in different societies between 1840 and 1945.
Culture, General Reading, Geography, HistoryCore-Periphery Patterns Across the European Union: Case Studies and Lessons From Eastern and Southern Europe
The EMU debt crisis that emerged in 2010 has identified a group of Southern countries, especially Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy, as low performers exhibiting several serious macroeconomic imbalances, and it has also highlighted that EU integration experienced by Eastern European countries (especially the latter-comers to EU) was not accompanied by a rapid process of real convergence.