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Bivan's House
Talgon a small-time contractor in the West African nation called Bivan's house sets out to be honest in his dealings, but finds himself alone in a sizzling corruption that smears the virtuous as much as the crook. In Bivan's house, the vulture by his opportunism is feasting on the ruins of his preys without pity; the tortoise by his cunning is running faster than the antelope to collect, without remorse, prizes he has not won, and the rat by his thievery is filling his barns with the harvest of the rabbit without regret. Flames of violence, frauds and scams blaze a trail that leaves Talgon wondering how it all began and where it will leave the West African nation called Bivan's house.Born 24th Sept. 1965, Kyuka Lilymjok hails from Bafai-Kanai. He is a professor of law and lectures at the Faculty of Law Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Other published novels of the author include: The Lone Piper and the Birds' Case, Sieged, and Broke.
A Journey of Hell to Heaven
To Diallo, Mali is hell; Europe is heaven. He sets out on his father's camel into the Sahara Desert to go to Europe. His Journey through the Desert is grueling and torturous. When he eventually makes it to Europe, what confronts him makes him wonder whether this is the heaven he undertook a journey of hell for or the hell in Mali overtook him on his way to Europe. Born 24th Sept 1965, Kyuka Lilymjok erstwhile Adamu Kyuka Usman, hails from Bafai-Kanai. He is a professor of law and lectures at the Faculty of Law, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Other published novels of the author include: The Butcher's Wife, The Lord Mammon, The Dark Star North, and The Death of Eternity.
The Heart of Jacob
Jacob prospers as a moneylender and pig merchant by taking advantage of other people’s misfortunes. But when he seeks to exploit the famine afflicting his village Tounga by lending money at high interest rates to poor villagers, he does not reckon what a sacrilege his pigs would commit which give the people an opportunity to feast on his own misfortune. When this happens community gives way to individual desires, and the stomach dictates to the head what it should think and believe in. Reason bends to absurdity and custom bows to bizarre novelty. Life explodes into a sinister mess that points to only one outcome: Jacob and society’s ultimate ruin.
The Mad Professor of Babeldu
Prof. Philjez is not the everyday professor. His mind passes the world through a mystic calculus and comes out with quaint theorems. His eyes views life through a cosmic geometry, and he formulates shocking hypothesis. Speaking more to animals and plants than to human beings, Prof. Philjez takes flight to the world of ideas from which he never returns. You need to be a little mad to read this book.
Hope in Anarchy
Like every child, Ahoka has the right to dream and hope. But he is the son of Solo a poor ex-service man living under a bridge in Beku-city. Because of lack of means, Ahoka finds his dreams and hope betrayed to the mosquitoes of Asabeni Lagoon where he sleeps, the streets of Beku which he roams picking discarded bottles for sale to bottling companies, and the sand of Hacul beach where he fetches seawater for sale.Order has failed the poor of the republic where government is a joke, where judges do not remember justice and police have forgotten they are not armed robbers. Jokulo an anarchist whispers a secret into the ears of the poor, and from then on, hope in the republic is to be found only in anarchy. This is the moving story of the innocence of hope and the tragedy of betrayal.
My Head Master
“I first time I saw the man who became my headmaster was when he rode his motorcycle past our house in Tyosa. He was a huge, dark, hairy man with big eyeballs that looked like they could see through anything and often saw through everything. His eyes were so frightening to me that I always trembled whenever he turned them on me. Not only were the eyeballs big, he had a way of baring them in the most frightening manner when he focused them on you. Older people said his father Akut was nicknamed Akut the owner of frightening eyes for pretty much the same reason. His eyeballs were said to be so big as to scare away birds whenever he entered the forest. Some people said they scared away chicke...
The Butcher’s Wife
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The Poetry of Wole Soyinka
The Nobel Laureate's reputation as a dramatist tends to cloud his poetic achievement, and in modern African literature, poetry lives in the shadow of fiction. The criticism of Soyinka's poetry has so far centred on his themes of individuality and death, his imagery, and on the controversy over his authenticity, obscurity and difficulty. Here, in a new approach, an academic himself and one of the leading younger generation of African poets, discusses critically the voice and viewpoint of the poet with the object of establishing Soyinka's persona. The book covers the personality and world view of the man, as revealed in his poetry.
The Village Tradesman
The story of Mallam Nuhu the village tradesman, is the story of industry and perseverance, the hope and despair of ambition and the hypocrisy of a man's life in society. Inspiring anecdotes and engaging allegories give breath and rhythm to this unusual story. The author by a lively language full of poetic undertones creates a sense of urgent drama and a fascinating atmosphere that is as involving as it is gripping.
Sieged
Looting of public wealth by politicians who behave like headhunters that have felled an elephant creates sieges in Bivan's house from which neither ruler nor ruled, rich nor poor can hope to escape alive or even remain sane! Both God and the Devil are suspects as the welfare of society falls to ruins on the streets... A drunk sings a song that opens the eyes of a political thug to the absurdity of his condition: Looters are plundering his inheritance while he fights beggars over alms... Riots break loose on the streets leaving a trail of blood and death in their wake... A new power equation emerges in which Jamimi a patriotic political leader finds himself in a rain dance with demons that play tunes of hell on their flutes
