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Mass Media
Mass media has become an integral part of the human experience. News travels around the world in a split second affecting people in other countries in untold ways. Although being on top of the news may be good, at least for news junkies, mass media also transmits values or the lack thereof, condenses complex events and thoughts to simplified sound bites and often ignores the essence of an event or story. The selective bibliography gathers the books and magazine literature over the previous ten years while providing access through author, title and subject indexes.
Chinua Achebe
'Achebe is the man who invented African literature because he was able to show, in the structure and language of 'Things Fall Apart', that the future of African writing did not lie in simple imitation of European forms but in the fusion of such forms with oral traditions', says Professor Simon Gikandi of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. This biography of Chinua Achebe captures how his personal characteristics have combined with historical events to produce the man who cleared the frontiers of literature for Africa North America: Indiana U Press; Nigeria: HEBN
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Sambisa
I began Sambisa: A Classic of Intercontinental Poems on June 16 and concluded on October 14, 2014. I was writing a hundred lines per hour. I staggered the writing because of other commitments. I was able to spend fifty hours in all. These lines are written in commemoration of the centenary of Nigeria, existing as a nation, a social wedlock consummated by Lord Lugard, the representative of the dominant culture.
Diamond Sutra Narratives
Contextualizing the sutra within a milieu of intense religious and cultural experimentation, this volume unravels the sudden rise of Diamond Sutra devotion in the Tang dynasty against the backdrop of a range of social, political, and literary activities. Through the translation and exploration of a substantial body of narratives extolling the efficacy of the sutra, it explores the complex social history of lay Buddhism by focusing on how the laity might have conceived of the sutra and devoted themselves to it. Corroborated by various sources, it reveals the cult’s effect on medieval Chinese religiosity in the activities of an empowered laity, who modified and produced parasutraic texts, prompting the monastic establishment to accommodate to the changes they brought about.
Shehu Musa Yar'adua
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Ken Saro Wiwa
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