Songs of enchantment
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297 pages Ben Okri, winner of the 1991 Booker Prize for The Famished Road, now gives us Songs of Enchantment, and it is hard to imagine a more gloriously written novel. Azaro, the spririt-child, is a reluctant traveler in the realities of this world. In this moving story of love…
Sozaboy : a novel in rotten English
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188 pages ; 20 cm "Sozaboy describes the fortunes of a young naive recruit in the Nigerian Civil War: from the first proud days of recruitment to the disillusionment, confusion and horror that follows. The author's use of 'rotten English'--a mixture of Nigerian pidgin English, br…
Things fall apart
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209 pages ; 21 cm First published in 1958, this novel tells the story of Okonkwo, the leader of an Igbo (Ibo) community who is banished for accidentally killing a clansman. The novel covers the seven years of his exile to his return, providing an inside view of the intrusion of w…
Thus ruled Emir Abbas : selected cases from the records of the Emir of Kano's Judicial Council
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xx, 285 p. : 24 cm Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-204)
The Yoruba artist : new theoretical perspectives on African arts
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ix, 275 pages : 29 cm "The cultural legacy of the Yoruba people of Nigeria and Benin is one of Africa's oldest and richest, extending for more than nine centuries. Among the most prized achievements of African art are the naturalistic terracotta sculptures produced for the royal…
Ethnicity and democracy in Africa : intervening variables
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55 pages ; 23 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages 49-55)
The world court : image, mission, and mandate
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29 pages ; 21 cm Includes bibliographical references
Mental health and disease in Africa
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xiv, 330 pages ; 22 cm This book is written from the African experience. It starts with the examination of mental health development in the process of growing up from childhood, through adulthood, to old age, followed by consideration of patterns of mental disease in Africa. It a…
The poetry of Wole Soyinka
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-136) and index
Sand dunes and windblows
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Urban management and urban violence in Africa : proceedings, International Symposium on Urban Management and Urban Violence in Africa, Ibadan 7-11 November 1994
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2 v. : 24 cm Includes bibliographical references
MUSIC_VIDEO_4U SADE By Your Side / Sweetest Taboo / Soldier Of Love
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SADE By Your Side / Sweetest Taboo Sade was born in Ibada Nigeria and was brought up in England from the age of four. She studied at School Of ART in London and gained modest recognition as a fashion designer and part-time model before joining the band Pride in the early 1980s. A…
DTIC ADA421943: Prolonged Wars: A Post-Nuclear Challenge
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This book was conceived on the battlefields of Vietnam, where the term Vietnam became more than a geopolitical or cultural designation and came to denote a phenomenon. Vietnam is today a euphemism for getting mired in a war, for getting bogged down, for being drawn into a quagmir…
DTIC ADA501445: Military Assistance in Sub-Saharan Africa
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On street comers in Abidjan one can see people of all ages begging for food or money. Some are missing limbs, the result of violence of ethnic or civil war, or of disease. Some are deformed from polio. Along the Niger River people from Mali to Nigeria drink from the same dirty ri…
ERIC ED367221: Baccalaureate Origins of Education Doctorates around the World.
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This study focused on which countries (besides the United States) produced the most doctorates in the education field, based on data provided by the National Research Council. The study combined the baccalaureate origins of education doctorates with the rankings of countries, and…
ERIC ED368914: Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education 1994 Conference Papers. Annual Conference (10th, Arlington, Virginia, March 24-26, 1994).
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Selected papers are as follows: "Member Perceptions of the Association for International Agricultural & Extension Education" (Eaton et al.); "Historical Review of U.S. Involvement in International Agricultural Education between World War II and Enactment of Title XII" (Thuemmel,…
ERIC ED375629: The Semantic Contribution of Complementizers and Complementation Type: The Case of Bolanci "na."
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A discussion of Bolanci (also Bole or Bolewa), a West Chadic language spoken in northeastern Nigeria, focuses on one component of the system of complementation, the form "na." This form has an inherent semantic capable of influencing the meaning of sentences in which it is embedd…
ERIC ED375640: Emai Verbal and Preverbal Tone: Preliminaries.
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A study of Emai, an Edoid language of south-central Nigeria, focuses on the system of constraints governing tonal processes. Specifically, it examines the ways in which general processes of low tone raising and high tone lowering are realized in domains constructed by verbs and b…
ERIC ED375664: Profile of the Language Situation: Idoma.
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A discussion of the situation of Idoma, a Nigerian language, begins with different accounts of the language's origin, referring to both local legend and cosmology. It then proceeds to a review of modern linguists' efforts, since 1927, to classify the language. A statistical overv…
ERIC ED375678: On the Asymmetry of Serial Verbs in the Edo Language.
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The serial verb construction (SVC) in Edo (Bini), a language spoken in Nigeria, is examined, and an analysis that systematically characterizes the notion of functional relationship of verbs within these constructions is proposed. It is argued that the verbs in series are sensitiv…
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