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- Location(s): Nigeria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
A wonderful first person narrative of a Nigerian girl’s impressions of America and the effects of culture shock. Deka has had a difficult life in Nigeria. The most populous nation in Africa suffers from corruption and rampant poverty. She...
- Location(s): Nigeria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Nigerian Civil War
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...
- Location(s): Nigeria, Winston-Salem
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
From the critically acclaimed writer of A Different Sun, a Southern coming-of-age novel that sets three very different young people against the tumultuous years of the American civil rights movement… Tacker Hart left his home in North Carolina as...