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Shatter the Destroyer
The debut novel from Nigerian author Henri Eyo, Shatter the Destroyer is a provocative thriller that is as informative as it is captivating. Judas Toro is a fraudulent business tycoon who enters politics to amass even more wealth at the expense of the Nigerian people. However his ambitions begin to get out of hand when he put his own interests above those of the nation's. Eventually Toro's reckless attitude leads to his activities straying from being merely corrupt to violent. Using his cruiser as a mobile base of operations, the would-be politician carries out a series of criminal atrocities in Nigerian territorial waters. To put a stop to Toro's terrorist activities, the Commissioner of Police dispatches Sanayak Ambo, a point man for the National Intelligence Agency (NIA). Assigned to the Joint Task Force, Ambo is charged with stopping the vicious cycle that's been set in motion by the terrorist Toro. However Ambo quickly realizes that he will need to call on all of his experience and expertise in order to successfully carry out operation Shatter the Destroyer.
The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean Since 1950
The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 examines the institutional and social peculiarities that make fiction produced in Africa and the Atlantic World since 1950 important to the history of the novel in English.
Anglophone African Detective Fiction 1940-2020
Providing a survey of Anglophone African detective fiction, from the late 1940s to the present day, this study traces its history both as a literary form and a mode of critical exploration of the fraught sovereignties of the African state and its citizens. Since the late 1940s, African writers including Cyprian Ekwensi, Arthur Maimane, Adaora Lily Ulasi, Hilary Ng'weno, Unity Dow, Parker Bilal, and Angela Makholwa have published over 200 murder mysteries, police procedurals, spy thrillers, and other fictional narratives of investigation and discovery in English-language newspapers, magazines, and novels. Distributed widely across the continent's diverse cultural and political geographies, th...
Wealth and Power
Hogan, who had been eavesdropping behind the door, landed a direct punch to the attacker’s face, flattening his nostrils. The impact sent the man back into the room he had just left. Hogan took a step into the room, closing the door behind him with a kick. He then threw a volley of punches into the man’s face, dislodging his jawbone. Suddenly a bullet pierced the window and shattered the dresser mirror. Crime-fighter Hogan Ambo dove for cover with his pistol he calls ‘Betola’ in hand. “You’d better stay where you are. Lie flat on the floor,” he ordered Shade Mayfield as more gunfire erupted and bullets showered the room. Roger lay dead in Shade’s hotel suite. A bullet had pen...
Giant Strides
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Designs of Destruction
How historical preservation efforts to protect architectural monuments arose in the twentieth century. The twentieth century was highly destructive, but from its landscapes of ruins was born a new architectural type: the cultural monument. In the wake of World War I, an international movement arose which aimed to protect architectural monuments in large numbers, and regardless of style, hoping not only to keep them safe from future conflicts but also to make them worthy of protection from more quotidian forms of destruction. An evolving group—including architects, intellectuals, art historians, archaeologists, curators, and lawyers—grew out of the new diplomacy of the League of Nations. ...
Transforming Vòdún
Transforming Vòdún examines how musicians from the West African Republic of Benin transform Benin’s cultural traditions, especially the ancestral spiritual practice of vòdún and its musical repertoires, as part of the process of healing postcolonial trauma through music and ritual. Based on fieldwork in Benin, France, and New York City, Sarah Politz uses historical ethnography, music analysis, and participant observation to examine three case studies of brass band and jazz musicians from Benin. The multi-sited nature of this study highlights the importance of mobility, and diasporic connections in musicians’ professional lives, while grounding these connections in the particularities of the African continent, its histories, its people, and its present.
Microcavities
Rapid development of microfabrication and assembly of nanostructures has opened up many opportunities to miniaturize structures that confine light, producing unusual and extremely interesting optical properties. This book addresses the large variety of optical phenomena taking place in confined solid state structures: microcavities. Realisations include planar and pillar microcavities, whispering gallery modes, and photonic crystals. The microcavities represent a unique laboratory for quantum optics and photonics. They exhibit a number of beautiful effects including lasing, superfluidity, superradiance, entanglement etc. Written by four practitioners strongly involved in experiments and theories of microcavities, it is addressed to any interested reader having a general physical background, but in particular to undergraduate and graduate students at physics faculties.
