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The Bottom of Another Tale
Fun, humour, the extraordinary and everything beautiful! The Bottom of another Tale is a collection of 26 captivating short stories that capture different aspects to contemporary African life in simple but beautiful language that would leave a lasting impression on readers. ...a rare blend of legends and maxims... Engaging, the tales are short, crisp and pregnant, with diverse messages. -Tubal Rabbi Cain, multiple award winning poet ...a writer's attempt to tread the thin line between dreams and reality...an ingenious departure from the norm. -Maria Ajima, literary scholar and award winning writer Agema's stories are peopled by unforgiven men, gods and demons. They are delivered with a cando...
Diaries of a Dead African
Diaries of a Dead African is a merciless comedy that explores the life-threatening situations of three protagonists, the farmer Meme Jumai and his two sons - Abel (failed writer) and Calamatus (aspiring conman). Meme's wife has left him with the bulk of his barn. He has a few tubers to last until harvest. Can he stretch it? Will his friends and relatives help out? Calamatus' break has finally come after an apprenticeship to a con-artist. Can he survive wealth as readily as he did, poverty? Finally Abel's manuscripts are attracting attention, but not, as he discovers, for their literary value... his fondest dreams were on the verge of realisation, yet his father had died at 50 and his brother at 25. How to outlive them both, without fleeing the very opportunities he had craved all his life... www.diariesofadeadafrican.info
The Beatification of Area Boy
Set in Nigeria, amid the scenes of everyday racketeering and general disquiet, the police try to clear the area of undesirables, as a traditional wedding between two illustrious and ambitious families is about to take place. This play is by Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka.
The Markas
This anthology is an outcome of literary writers’ reaction to the Boko Haram insurgency in the north-eastern part of Nigeria. Lives therein have not only been extensively disrupted by the group’s violent tactics and the mind-numbing levels of physical destruction and thousands of deaths, but also in the dislocation of millions of people, with most of them seeking refuge in urban centres, especially Maiduguri, for safety. These refugees, classified as Internally Displaced Persons and in camps guarded by Nigerian soldiers, have received worldwide attention. Writers in the affected areas and elsewhere in Nigeria have responded in their poetry, short stories, and non-fiction some of which are collected here.
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Melancholia
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Home Equals Holes
Whether from our heart's home, lasting or lost love, wrecking work or weather...somehow, every one of us is an exile. This collection encloses in verse the tale of our journey; an interaction with life, hearts, home and holes. Come on home; it only gets better. "Sueddie's poetry is preciously profound. There aren't many poets of this generation whose art possess such depth of themes; such sophistication of diction." - Reward Nsirim, author of Fresh Air and other stories Su'eddie Vershima Agema lives in Makurdi and Abuja, Nigeria. He blogs at http: //sueddie.wordpress.com, @sueddieagema on twitter.
Homeland and Other Poems
Homeland and Other Poems, Ogaga Ifowodo's first collection of poems, employs the idiom of stubborn hope and healing laughter to explore childhood lore, the pains and pleasure of existence, political heroism, villainy, love and tenderness. It is distinguished by a refreshing use of metaphor and an assuredness of expression.
The Sahara Testaments
This volume of poetry, the third by the poet, explores the immensity and range of the Sahara desert as a metonymy. It won the Nigeria Prize for Literature in the year 2013 and was described by the panel of judges as 'encyclopedic'. In a wide ranging exploration of the quatrain, the poetry in this volume tests Shelley's assertion that poetry is both center and circumference.
