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Seen through the eyes of Owoicho, a television presenter seeking a better life for himself and his family, Leave My Bones in Saskatoon spans two cultures and continents. It is honest, heartfelt and enlightening. The story begins with good news from Owoicho. He cannot wait to tell his family that their permanent residency application to Canada was successful. But while he was in Abuja, happy about this breakthrough, somewhere in the outskirts o...

Sons of the East intricately lays bare the dark underbelly of polygamy in an Igbo family in south eastern Nigeria. Beyond the brazen show of material opulence through international businesses, importations, master-apprentice relationships, grandeur titles, lurks the beast of jealousy, chauvinism, covetousness, sibling rivalry and sheer hatred. Zona, the dismal first son is frantic about being the only king installed in the Okonkwo kingdom, yet...

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A Place Beyond The Heart is a collection of short stories exploring issues at the intersection of war and love, terror and disorder, as well as identity, gender, and sexuality. Each story captures the lives of people facing personal, societal and transcultural challenges. The settings are diverse, ranging from a battlefield, a jailhouse, a TV interview room, a café, an airport, a room that becomes a ?burial space?, and intangible rooms in time...

The generational debate in Nigerian poetry has been shaped by the interventions of such anthologies as Voices from the Fringes (1988), edited by Harry Garuba, Poets in their Youth (1988), edited Uche Nduka and Ositadinma Ike, Gems Out of Africa: A Wake Anthology of 100 Nigerian Poets (1998), edited by Eddie Ayo-Ojo, Obafemi Obadare and Mac Amarere, and Camouflage: Best of Contemporary Nigerian Writing (2006) edited by Nduka Otiono and Odoh Die...

Ebele wishes more than anything to make Christmas with his widowed mother memorable with lots of gifts. With his mother barely able to afford food and the harsh ridicule of his friends, Ebele is disheartened. When a strange man comes to town, the boy opens his heart and home reluctantly. In return, the stranger teaches him there is more to Christmas than just gifts, and that kindness is a virtue rewarded by great fortune.

When the streams suddenly run dry in Ani Mmadu, the people know it is time to atone for a sin that goes back to the very beginning of their world, the consequence of the rebellion of one woman against the all-powerful and unforgiving, jealous god. To avert this catastrophe and for the waters to flow and nourish the farms again, the people must send a child of Aja, chosen by the Oracle, into the Forest of Iniquity, to atone for that great sin. ...

This wonderful picture book for children and adults alike introduces the complex world of autoimmune diseases in a compassionate and easy-to-learn way.The book features a touching story of all the ways a child can help a mother who has an illness. You'll be swept away by the charming and heartwarming rhymes about the moments shared by a helpful son to an ill mother. The story begins with the son who teaches the readers about autoimmune disease...

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Held Back by Nothing Means Never Saying Never follows the life of Steven Hendry, a boy born with cerebral palsy. It follows his journey from premature birth to the present day. Steven is not a hero. He is actually a mirror image of many persons living with a disability.The book provides families of children with disabilities insight into the numerous setbacks their child may experience. It provides real-life, day-to-day situations experienced,...

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Hey Child, my name is Summer Okibe, a Ph.D. Student at the University of Victoria whose research is on Indigenous Law, Indigenous Spirituality, Aboriginal Rights and Governance. I am a Master of Laws graduate from the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. I'm excited to simplify the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) for you. You are special and you deserve to know that the Indigenous People aro...

Lagos megachurch Pastor, Nicholas Adejuwon is a very ambitious man desperate to erase a past that has scarred his mind. His beautiful wife Nkechi has reasons to secretly snoop on him following a series of indiscretions that threaten their marriage and superstardom. When Nkechi uncovers some scandalous secretes, she turns to Ifenna, a young journalist turned blogger who has history with her husband, to make them public, changing her reality as ...

Teardrops on the Weser navigates a geographical river that runs through northwestern Germany, but also an autobiographical river that's sourced in the Niger River Delta of Amatoritsero Ede's native Nigeria. Thus, his river of letters-of type versus stereotype, which is sectioned alphabetically, echoes African-American poet Langston Hughes' "The Negro Speaks of Rivers, " but also shouts out to German poet Rainer Maria Rilke and the martyred, Ni...