Chronicles Of A Nigerian Woman In America
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| Author | : Patriot Daisy |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 99 |
| Release | : 2014-01-14 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1493146211 |
In our struggle through this fleeting life, what do we consider as our reason for being and doing? This book tries to answer that question. The chronicles of a Nigerian Woman in America presents the daily struggles, triumphs and summation of a human story while in search of the American dream. In the end, she discovers that the human essence is the same, and a glorious one. Discover and be thrilled, do not be left in the darkso that the entire world can come together and sing with one voice, and in unison, in a world where there is no second or third, but one world. If we as grown people never gave a thought to the essence of our lives, we have not intentionally lived. My message to you is, please; let us really now live, like never before, and let us really now love, like there is no tomorrowfor surely, pay day is neigh! Shalome.
| Author | : Dympna Ugwu-Oju |
| Publisher | : Taylor Trade Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 456 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
As a Nigerian Ibo woman living in the United States & raising daughters, the author frequently finds herself in conflict between her native culture & her adoptive culture. Her attempts to resolve this conflict are the basis of a fascinating autobiography.
| Author | : Chinelo Okparanta |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 211 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0544003454 |
A moving debut story collection centered on Nigerian women, as they build lives out of longing and hope, faith and doubt, the struggle to stay and the mandate to leave, and the burden and strength of love.
| Author | : Onyi Nwabineli |
| Publisher | : Harlequin |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 2022-11-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0369719204 |
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • A BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB PICK • A LIBRARYREADS PICK “If you are someone who gravitates toward emotional gut punch reads, allow me to introduce you to this spectacular debut…”—BuzzFeed Here are three things you should know about my husband: He was the great love of my life despite his penchant for going incommunicado. He was, as far as I and everyone else could tell, perfectly happy. Which is significant because… On New Year’s Eve, he died. And here is one thing you should know about me: I found him. Bonus fact: No. I am not okay. Someday, Maybe is a stunning, witty debut novel about a young woman’s emotional journey through unimaginable loss, pulled along by her tight-knit Nigerian family, a posse of friends, and the love and laughter she shared with her husband. “Incisive and witty. I couldn’t put it down.”—Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström, internationally bestselling author of In Every Mirror She's Black “A masterfully woven exposition on love and loss. Nwabineli is magic with words.”—Bolu Babalola, internationally bestselling author of Honey and Spice Don't miss Onyi Nwabineli's next stunning page-turner, ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF, where a former kidfluencer must overcome her toxic family, reclaim her identity and, ultimately, find the freedom to be herself...
| Author | : Nnedi Okorafor |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2017-07-11 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0142420913 |
"Nnedi Okorafor writes glorious futures and fabulous fantasies. Her characters take your heart and squeeze it; her worlds open your mind to new things." -- Neil Gaiman, author of The Graveyard Book and American Gods Affectionately dubbed "the Nigerian Harry Potter," Akata Witch weaves together a heart-pounding tale of magic, mystery, and finding one's place in the world. Perfect for fans of Children of Blood and Bone! Sunny Nwazue lives in Nigeria, but she was born in New York City. Her features are West African, but she's albino. She's a terrific athlete, but can't go out into the sun to play soccer. There seems to be no place where she fits in. And then she discovers something amazing—she is a "free agent" with latent magical power. And she has a lot of catching up to do. Soon she's part of a quartet of magic students, studying the visible and invisible, learning to change reality. But as she’s finding her footing, Sunny and her friends are asked by the magical authorities to help track down a career criminal who knows magic, too. Will their training be enough to help them combat a threat whose powers greatly outnumber theirs? World Fantasy Award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor blends magic and adventure to create a lush world. Her writing has been called “stunning” by The New York Times and her fans include Neil Gaiman, Rick Riordan, John Green, Ursula K. Le Guin, and many more! Raves for Nnedi Okorafor's writing: "There’s more imagination on a page of Nnedi Okorafor’s work than in whole volumes of ordinary fantasy epics." —Ursula K. Le Guin, award-winning author of A Wizard of Earthsea “The most imaginative, gripping, enchanting fantasy novels I have ever read!” —Laurie Halse Anderson, National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Speak "I always loved science fiction, but I didn’t feel I was part of it—until I read first Octavia Butler, and now Nnedi Okorafor." —Whoopi Goldberg "Highly original stuff, episode after amazing episode, full of color, life, and death. Nnedi Okorafor's work is wonderful!" —Diana Wynne Jones, award-winning author of The Chronicles of Chrestomanci "Jam-packed with mythological wonders." —Rick Riordan, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series "Okorafor's imagination is stunning." —The New York Times Book Review
| Author | : Mfoniso Udofia |
| Publisher | : Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 90 |
| Release | : 2018-02-07 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0822237873 |
SOJOURNERS is Part One of the Ufot Cycle, Udofia’s sweeping, nine-part saga which chronicles the triumphs and losses of Abasiama Ufot, a Nigerian immigrant, and her family. Abasiama came to America with high hopes for her arranged marriage and her future, intent on earning a degree and returning to Nigeria. But when her husband is seduced by America, she must choose between the Nigerian or American Dream.
| Author | : Angelina Ihejirika |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 170 |
| Release | : 2016-06-01 |
| Genre | : Igbo (African people) |
| ISBN | : 9781569024881 |
"A riveting and heartwarming memoir, Escape from Nigeria: A Memoir of Faith, Love and War summons Angelina Ihejirika's childhood in Nigeria, her early quest for an education, marriage, teaching career, uncommon courage and determination in the midst of a vicious civil war, and her eventual and miraculous escape to the United States. It is a love story, full of wisdom, pain and unwavering optimism, a testament to the resilience and ultimate triumph of the human spirit"--Provided by publisher.
| Author | : C. M. Waggoner |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 2019-11-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1984805851 |
A “brilliant and terrifically fun”* debut novel brings an enchanting new voice to fantasy. Onna can write the parameters of a spell faster than any of the young men in her village school. But despite her incredible abilities, she’s denied a place at the nation’s premier arcane academy. Undaunted, she sails to the bustling city-state of Hexos, hoping to find a place at a university where they don’t think there’s anything untoward about providing a woman with a magical education. But as soon as Onna arrives, she’s drawn into the mysterious murder of four trolls. Tsira is a troll who never quite fit into her clan, despite being the leader’s daughter. She decides to strike out on her own and look for work in a human city, but on her way she stumbles upon the body of a half-dead human soldier in the snow. As she slowly nurses him back to health, an unlikely bond forms between them, one that is tested when an unknown mage makes an attempt on Tsira’s life. Soon, unbeknownst to each other, Onna and Tsira both begin devoting their considerable talents to finding out who is targeting trolls, before their homeland is torn apart… *Kat Howard, Alex Award-winning author of An Unkindness of Magicians
| Author | : Andrea Claudia Hoffmann |
| Publisher | : Other Press, LLC |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2018-01-23 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1590518500 |
An NPR Best Book of the Year: “A powerful testimony to resilience and survival” (Kirkus Reviews). A widowed Nigerian women shares her shocking, inspirational account of what she endured to save her unborn child while kidnapped by Boko Haram. When she was 19, Patience Ibrahim's first husband was murdered by Boko Haram, the Islamic fundamentalist terrorist organization based in West Africa. She fled to the safety of her village and remarried several months later. Having prayed for a child for years, Patience is overjoyed when she discovers she is pregnant. But her joy is short-lived: Boko Haram soldiers are at her door. Brutally abducted and forced to convert to Islam, she lives in constant terror of what her kidnappers have in store for her. She finds herself alone in the world and fears her life is over. For 2 months, Patience hides her pregnancy while facing the brutalities meted out by Boko Haram. By the sheer force of her determination to protect her baby, she and her child escape. Now, she has entrusted journalist Andrea C. Hoffmann with her story, a powerful first-person account of Boko Haram's atrocities in Nigeria and Cameroon. A gripping testimony of the terrorist group’s war crimes in Western Africa, A Gift from Darkness poignantly shows the human toll of a crisis that demands attention.
| Author | : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 503 |
| Release | : 2013-05-14 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307962121 |
10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic about star-crossed lovers that explores questions of race and being Black in America—and the search for what it means to call a place home. • From the award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Half of a Yellow Sun • WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR "An expansive, epic love story."—O, The Oprah Magazine One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be Black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post–9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. At once powerful and tender, Americanah is a remarkable novel that is "dazzling…funny and defiant, and simultaneously so wise." —San Francisco Chronicle
