The Man Who Rained

The Man Who Rained
Author: Ali Shaw
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0857897985

From the author of the stunning debut novel The Girl with Glass Feet comes another magical story of love, discovery, and nature When Elsa's father is killed in a tornado, all she wants is to escape—from New York, her job, her boyfriend—to somewhere new, anonymous, set apart. For some years she has been haunted by a sight once seen from an airplane: a tiny, isolated settlement called Thunderstown. Thunderstown has received many a pilgrim, and young Elsa becomes its latest, drawn to this weather-ravaged backwater, this place rendered otherworldly by the superstitions of its denizens. In Thunderstown, they say, the weather can come to life, and when Elsa meets Finn Munro, an outcast living in the mountains above the town, she wonders whether she has witnessed just that. For Finn has an incredible secret: he has a thunderstorm inside of him. Not everyone in town wants happiness for Elsa and Finn. As events turn against them, can they weather the tempest—can they survive at all? This work of lyrical, mercurial magic and imagination is a modern-day fable about the elements of love.

A Will in the Wind

A Will in the Wind
Author: Jadesola Babatola
Publisher:
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2008
Genre: Ado Ekiti (Nigeria)
ISBN: 9789783830844

Muhammadu Buhari

Muhammadu Buhari
Author: John N. Paden
Publisher: Roaring Forties Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2016-11-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1938901681

This authorized biography of the current president of Nigeria provides an up-close look at the life of a major ally of the West in the fight against terrorism, poverty, and corruption. The book covers Buhari’s early life and education, his military career, and his brief stint as military of state before he was deposed in a coup. A beacon for democracy in Africa, Buhari is the only Nigerian opposition candidate to be elected to the presidency. The book examines the first year of his presidency, looking at the immense security, economic, and political challenges he faces and the bold moves he is making to tackle them with support at home and abroad.

Annual Report

Annual Report
Author: Raw Materials Research and Development Council (Nigeria)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2009
Genre: Industries
ISBN:

Group Farming

Group Farming
Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher: Paris
Total Pages: 66
Release: 1971
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

The Accidental Public Servant

The Accidental Public Servant
Author: Nasir Ahmed El-Rufai
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 714
Release: 2013-05-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9788431461

This is a story of Nigeria, told from the inside. After a successful career in the private sector, Nasir El-Rufai rose to the top ranks of Nigeria's political hierarchy, serving first as the privatization czar at the Bureau for Public Enterprises and then as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja under former President Olesegun Obasanjo. In this tell-all memoir, El-Rufai reflects on a life in public service to Nigeria, the enormous challenges faced by the country, and what can be done while calling on a new generation of leaders to take the country back from the brink of destruction. The shocking revelations disclosed by El-Rufai about the formation of the current leadership and the actions of prominent statesmen make this memoir required reading for anyone seeking to understand the dynamics of power politics in Africa's most populous nation.

Fashion as Communication

Fashion as Communication
Author: Malcolm Barnard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1136412972

What kinds of things do fashion and clothing say about us? What does it mean to wear Gap or Gaultier, Milletts or Moschino? Are there any real differences between Hip-Hop style and Punk anti-styles? In this fully revised and updated edition, Malcolm Barnard introduces fashion and clothing as ways of communicating and challenging class, gender, sexual and social identities. Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches from Barthes and Baudrillard to Marxist, psychoanalytic and feminist theory, Barnard addresses the ambivalent status of fashion in contemporary culture.