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The Men Who Wrestle with God
THE MEN WHO WRESTLE WITH GOD is written in Nigerian setting and reveals what powers and desires can do to man. To Satisfy their desires, four chiefs of Aneile Kingdom: Ebiloma, Abalaka, Ocheja and Idachaba conspire among themselves to displace the Supreme Heavenly Powers and dethrone King Onuchowgu, the annointed one. The Chiefs seek the collaboration of Ogecha, the Chief Priest of the Kingdom and the battle line is now drawn. It is humanity versus divinity; mortals against the immortals; the terrestrial against the celestial and the physical against the metaphysical! Aneile is boiling in calamity. Innocent women, children and youth are dying. Famine, diseases, evil, oppression and injustice now torment the land, yet the chiefs are adamant to wrestle with the powers from the above. They are sure of nothing short of victory. Can any opponent be underestimated in a battle? Will the order of things still remain the same at the end of the battle? Is it going to be the case of a dog wagging the tail or the tail wagging the dog at the end? The world has never in history recorded a battle as awe-striking as this!
The Tongue of Silence
The Tongue of silence, a thrilling play that is based on the exigencies of a people confronted with daily living. Displaying a very deep knowledge of the traditional and modern legal system, Aminu Kayode Alilu's mental landscape oozes the wetlands of drama – fertile with the underpinning of thought. He feeds his readers with hooks of metaphors as the conveyor belts of ideas and the native touches of modern African proverbs such as:"the onions may not have teeth to bite like a viper or cane to flog like a masquerade, yet it can bring tears to the eyes… / Odegbami is a serpent wearing the cardigan of a chameleon / a man who goes about with hairs nourished with honey in the territory of barren bees invites tragedy to his face / a wise he-goat does not trust the handshake of a butcher… The rivers of words, well etched and penetrated by the silence of profundity in The Tongue of Silence give a voice to Alilu as an African playwright. The play not only entertains the general reader, but also provides a full engagement to literary critics as well as serves the academic purpose at both secondary and tertiary levels. Prof. Sola Owonibi
Cry of Orphans
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Major C.K. Nzeogwu
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Teaching Confucianism
Even the most casual observer of Chinese society is aware of the tremendous significance of Confucianism as a linchpin of both ancient and modern Chinese identity. Furthermore, the Confucian tradition has exercised enormous influence over the values and institutions of the other cultures of East Asia, an influence that continues to be important in the global Asian diaspora. If forecasters are correct in labeling the 21st century 'the Chinese century,' teachers and scholars of religious studies and theology will be called upon to illuminate the history, character, and role of Confucianism as a religious tradition in Chinese and Chinese-influenced societies. The essays in this volume will addr...
Monkey King
"A retelling of the classic Chinese novel, Journey to the West, where the Monkey King embarks on a grand quest to deliver Buddhist scriptures"--
The Ghost Festival in Medieval China
Largely unstudied until now, the religious festivals that attracted Chinese people from all walks of life provide the most instructive examples of the interaction between Chinese forms of social life and the Indian tradition of Buddhism. Stephen Teiser examines one of the most important of such annual celebrations. He provides a comprehensive interpretation of the festivities of the seventh lunar month, in which laypeople presented offerings to Buddhist monks to gain salvation for their ancestors. Teiser uncovers a wide range of sources, many translated or analyzed for the first time in any language, to demonstrate how the symbolism, rituals, and mythology of the ghost festival pervaded the social landscape of medieval China.
Plant Anatomy
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Chief Segun Olusola
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