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Bandits of the Sahel
Bandits of the Sahel is a historical fiction written by Ademolawa Michael Adedipe to portray the atrocities of terrorist groups in the Sahel region of West Africa. A widespread euphemism permeates many of the gory events perpetrated by the Boko Haram terrorist group. The Boko Haram story is a narration of terrorism, subjugation, and an area on the brink of collapse. Also, in this historical fiction, centrifugal forces ravage a region where patriotism, hopelessness, and gory events are intertwined. The patriotism of a Nigerian surgeon is put to the test when he loses what he cherishes the most to a notorious terrorist group. Endless calamities, greed, and an insatiable quest for power predestine the protagonist to a fatal end. He does not just lose his family; he loses himself. He must stay out or get locked in. He risks it all, and now, he needs to confront the bigots from the Sahel.
Python Dance
Python Dance is a play about a family that overcame tribal conflicts. Amid constant oppression, love wins. A couple's love is put to the test when the husband has to choose between the military and his wife. Growing suspicion and ethnic differences amongst their loved ones propelled the play forward. Also, the play revolves around a true-life story of a historical and illegitimate military assault on an ethnic emancipation group leader. Python Dance was a code name given by the Nigerian military for a brutal mission against those they were supposed to protect. The goal was to eliminate a particular political opponent. The play Python Dance gives the audience a chance to experience the interaction of ordinary citizens, their fear, their aspirations, their needs, and above all, their capacity to love in difficult times.
The Literature and Arts of the Niger Delta
This book examines the depiction of the Delta region of Nigeria through literature and other cultural art forms. The Niger Delta has been thrust into the global limelight due to resource extraction and conflict, but it is also a region with a rich culture, environment, and heritage. The creative imagination of the area’s artists has been fuelled by the area’s pressing concerns of indigenous peoples, minority discourse, environmental degradation, climate change, multinational corporations' greed, dictatorship, and people’s struggle for control of their resources. Taking a holistic approach to the Niger Delta experience, this book showcases artistic responses from literature, visual arts...
African Women Writers and the Politics of Gender
This work examines the work of a group of African women writers who have emerged over the last forty years. While figures such as Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri and Wole Soyinka are likely to be the chief focus of discussions of African writing, female authors have been at the forefront of fictional interrogations of identity formation and history. In the work of authors such as Mariama Bâ (Senegal), Buchi Emecheta (Nigeria), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria), Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe), and Leila Aboulela (Sudan), there is a clear attempt to subvert the tradition of male writing where the female characters are often relegated to the margins of the culture, and confined to the domestic, privat...
Bandits of the Sahel
Bandits of the Sahel is a historical fiction written by Ademolawa Michael Adedipe to portray the atrocities of terrorist groups in the Sahel region of West Africa. A widespread euphemism permeates many of the gory events perpetrated by the Boko Haram terrorist group. The Boko Haram story is a narration of terrorism, subjugation, and an area on the brink of collapse. Also, in this historical fiction, centrifugal forces ravage a region where patriotism, hopelessness, and gory events are intertwined. The patriotism of a Nigerian surgeon is put to the test when he loses what he cherishes the most to a notorious terrorist group. Endless calamities, greed, and an insatiable quest for power predestine the protagonist to a fatal end. He does not just lose his family; he loses himself. He must stay out or get locked in. He risks it all, and now, he needs to confront the bigots from the Sahel.
The Good Cause
Money makes the world go round - corruption The book presents the state of the art in studying the causes of corruption from a comparative perspective. Leading scholars in the field of corruption analysis shed light on the issue of corruption from different theoretical perspectives. Understanding how different theories define, conceptualize, and eventually deduce policy recommendations will amplify our understanding of the complexity of this social phenomenon and illustrate the spectrum of possibilities to deal with it analytically as well as practically.
The Future of Religion
Two prominent philosophers explore the place of religion & belief in contemporary society.
Destination Biafra
Debbie Ogedemgbe joins the army to help her country, but is uncertain whether her English lover, Alan Grey, a military advisor, is concerned with Nigeria or British interests in Africa
Waste Heritage
A new critical edition of the acknowledged best Canadian novel of the 1930s. Irene Baird’s Waste Heritage is a groundbreaking work of Canadian fiction based on the dramatic and violent labour disputes that took place in British Columbia in 1938. The story follows the progress of two friends, Matt Striker, a 23-year-old from Saskatchewan, and his simple-minded companion Eddy, as they travel from Vancouver to Victoria following the occupation of the Vancouver Post Office. Like the unemployed masses that took siege of the Post Office, Matt and Eddy yearn for relief after years of economic depression. Empathetic and tragic, Waste Heritage has been praised as Canada’s Grapes of Wrath and the most important Canadian novel of the 1930s. A new critical apparatus surrounds Baird’s original text, informing the reader of the historical and literary contexts of the work, as well as providing exhaustive textual analysis.
Global Poverty
Around 1.4 billion people presently live in extreme poverty, and yet despite this vast scale, the issue of global poverty had a relatively low international profile until the end of the 20th century. In this important new work, Hulme charts the rise of global poverty as a priority global issue, and its subsequent marginalisation as old themes edged it aside (trade policy and peace-making in regions of geo-political importance) and new issues were added (terrorism, global climate change and access to natural resources). Providing a concise and detailed overview of both the history and the current debates that surround this key issue, the book: outlines how the notion of global poverty eradica...
