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Stages of Life
In Africa, Chidi Udo is born under the most tragic of circumstances. His mother doesnt survive his birth, but he does have his father to care for him. He grows to be a young man and does well in school but soon loses his father, too. Due to this further tragedy, he is deprived of the opportunity for the university education he so desires. Chidi eventually works as an apprentice for a greedy salesman, who starves and mistreats him. He runs away, forced to live independently and even journey to far off America. One day, young Chidi returns to his birth village of Umueze as a self-made man, respected by alland, yet, the balance of life continues to tip back and forth. Stages of Life is arranged in endearing, enlightening episodes, punctuated by African folk wisdom, customs, and beliefs. Chidis life experiences are laid bare for all to see and to decide whether the stages of life are fair, cruel, strange, or beautiful. Chidi Udo is an amalgam of all the triumphs, tragedies, and traditions he has experienced as his life swings like a pendulum.
Stages of Life
In Africa, Chidi Udo is born under the most tragic of circumstance. His mother doesn't survive his birth, but he does have his fother to care for him. He grows to be a young man and does well in school but soon loses his father, too. Due to his father's tragedy, he is deprived of the opportunity for the university education he so desired.
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Interface Between Igbo Theology and Christianity
Interface between Igbo Theology and Christianity is a timely book that provides new scholarly thinking concerning the convergence of Christianity and Igbo Traditional Religion taking place in the Igbo culture area. This book, a fruit of multidisciplinary conversation among Igbo scholars and Igbophiles, offers concepts, themes, issues, and case studies with deep ethnographic details, some of which do not exist anywhere else in print. It is a major statement of how modern Igbo scholars, social scientists, philosophers, theologians, liturgists, and active pastors and parish priests, understand the intersection of Igbo Traditional Religion and Christianity in postcolonial Nigeria. The editors an...
Afropolitan Horizons
Introduction. Nigerian Connections -- Palm Wine, Amos Tutuola, and a Literary Gatekeeper -- Bahia-Lagos-Ouidah: Mariana's Story -- Igbo Life, Past and Present: Three Views -- Inland, Upriver with the Empire: Borrioboola-Gha -- The City, according to Ekwensi . . . and Onuzo -- Points of Cultural Geography: Ibadan . . . Enugu, Onitsha, Nsukka -- Been-To: Dreams, Disappointments, Departures, and Returns -- Dateline Lagos: Reporting on Nigeria to the World -- Death in Lagos -- Tai Solarin: On Colonial Power, Schools, Work Ethic, Religion, and the Press -- Wole Soyinka, Leo Frobenius, and the Ori Olokun -- A Voice from the Purdah: Baba of Karo -- Bauchi: The Academic and the Imam -- Railtown Writers -- Nigeria at War -- America Observed: With Nigerian Eyes -- Transatlantic Shuttle -- Sojourners from Black Britain -- Oyotunji Village, South Carolina: Reverse Afropolitanism.
The Literary Griot
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Nigeria Year Book
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Conspiracy of Silence
Nigeria is rife with divisions, particularly between Christians and Muslims. Both groups aim at converting others, and so they are in direct conflict with each other. The bitterness came to a head when Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian, succeeded his former boss, Musa Yar’Adua, upon his death. Jonathan would serve as president from 2010 to 2015. The northern oligarchy was infuriated because they depended on rent and patronage, which they knew would not be feasible under a Christian president. They employed every tactic they could to destabilize his regime, and in 2015, he lost the presidential election to the former military head of state, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. In this book, the author lays ...
SOCCER WORLD 2011/12
SOCCER WORLD 2011/12 contiene i profili di circa 400 formazioni con anagrafica di oltre 16.000 calciatori distribuiti in 30 campionati tra europei, nord-sudamericani ed asiatici aggiornati alla stagione 2011/12. I dati societari di tutti i club presenti, gli organici delle squadre minuziosamente aggiornati, le disposizioni in campo dei giocatori e tutti i principali movimenti di calciomercato, sono il punto di forza della pubblicazione. La completa analisi statistica della stagione internazionale 2010/11 grazie ai tabellini con i marcatori di tutte le partite giocate unita alle classifiche di Prima e Seconda Divisione di ogni campionato, promozioni e retrocessioni, le coppe nazionali, le presenze e le reti di tutti i giocatori e le statistiche delle ultime 10 stagioni per ogni campionato e le coppe internazionali rendono il tutto qualcosa di completo ed unico nel suo genere. Il tutto contribuisce a rendere questo volume forse il più originale per quanto concerne le squadre di calcio.
