• Waning Strength of Government: Essays on Nigerian Governance

    In Waning Strength of Government, Obaze draws on twenty-three of his various speeches, policy briefs, lectures and op-eds, to render exploratory essays that dissect some common patterns and trajectories that point anthetically to factors and conducts, which ought to constitute the strength of government, but don’t.  In so doing, he unmasks the prevailing weaknesses and waning strength of government – the attendant consequences, and their prevalence and implications for Nigeria.

    Such developments, with the attendant reversals, some nondescript and some dramatic, but replete with absence of resilience, leads the author to assert that democracy, “once characterized as probably the greatest expansion of freedom,” has come under assault from within its ranks, as shifts in geopolitics combine with ascendancy of non-state actors to undercut democracy.  Cognizant of the suggestion that the democratic system as conceptualized, has not just worked as expected, but is rather dysfunctional, the author asserts that nowhere is this consideration more evident and concrete than in Africa, Nigeria included.

    Waning Strength of Government piggybacks on the assertion that Nigeria’s “democracy is in reverse gear” and “the story is that of regrets and missteps.” Obaze employs an inquiry and excursion model using the flipside of McGeorge Bundy’s 1968 seminal book, The Strength of Government, to analyze leadership, political and governance challenges that continue to dog Nigeria’s nascent democracy.  The essays in this volume, which are clustered into four groupings; democratic imperatives; domestic development challenges; foreign policy dimensions and leadership and governance, explore some Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT), as well as general challenges and uncertain aspects of Nigeria’s affected democracy.

    In this very important work on Nigerian contemporary politics, leadership and dilemmas confronting the nation, the point is made severally, and vehemently too, that the strength of government is not about military capacity or use of force; but about the upholding the rule of law, consolidating democratic institutions and entrenching the social contract between the government and the governed.

  • The Ga Picture Alphabet (Ga)

    A is for Akpakpa, B is for Baa…

    Ga is the beautiful, poetic language that lent the word kwashiokor to global medical vocabulary.

    Working alongside Peruvian illustrator Avril Filomeno, renowned Ghanaian novelist and poet, Nii Ayikwei Parkes has created a playful universe in which the pictures tell a story as you learn the letters of the Ga alphabet.

    Simple and fun, this one-of-a-kind book gives children the basics needed to master this musical language of West Africa.

    Bonus: This picture book includes a colourful glossary with Ewe, Dagbani and Akan as well as French and English translations for all the words!

  • Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

    This is the spiritual journey of a boy who follows his heart and goes through various lives to finally understand what it means to be enlightened. He experiences life as a pious brahmin, a Samana, a rich merchant, a lover, and an ordinary ferryman, to a father. Nether a practitioner nor a devotee, Siddhartha comes to blend in with the world, resonating with the rhythms of nature, bending the reader’s ear down to hear answers from the river…

    Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

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  • The Marriage House: God’s Blueprint for a Secure and Happy Marriage

    The Marriage House covers love, sex, culture, God, money, work and conflict and is a definitive resource on how to build a happy and secure marriage. Taking a comprehensive and scripture-based approach, weighty matters are tackled in an easy-to-read style, lightly peppered with humor. The chapters are packed full of practical advice, personal experience, radical suggestions and helpful stories.

    The Marriage house reveals God’s blueprint for marriage, making it a must-read for men and women of all ages. Whether you are married, preparing for marriage, searching for a spouse or a supporter of marriage, this powerful book will unlock the secrets of a successful “Marriage House”.

  • Heal the Hood

    Hatima Parker is an African-American teenage girl living on the mean streets of South Central Los Angeles. Life in the hood is always tough but life produces more obstacles when an African-American man named Rodney King is beaten by the LAPD and an African-American teenage girl named Latasha Harlins is murdered by a Korean woman.

    Hatima has dreams of becoming a Marine and an Africanist and her goals cause her to question the world she lives in. She’s not sure if she wants to pursue a career with the US Armed Forces as that could easily lead to a career in law enforcement. She also finds herself connecting the teachings of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, the Black Panthers, Marcus Garvey, Frederick Douglass, Nelson Mandela, and other black leaders to the incidents of racism she witnesses in her world in order to see if their many ways to change the status quo were effective and still are.

    Hatima also starts a relationship with a Korean teenage boy named Joshua Yang. But since racial tensions are high between African-Americans and Korean-Americans, there are many people against the biracial couple being together.

    Hatima learns the world is far from perfect and throughout 1991 and 1992 she learns how to take a stand against a world that often chooses hatred over love.

    Heal the Hood

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  • Life Dies

    This is a well-structured and properly explained content which explores the complexities of life and death. Life on earth takes the character of the earth; it revolves and rotates, always changing. Thus, every aspect of life lives and dies; there is nothing permanent.

    Life Dies postulates that since every aspect of life will eventually change, we must live and enjoy any present situation we find ourselves. This book also admonishes us on the need to plan ahead, as detailed content have been explored in this regard.

    In-depth insight has also been given on darkness and the need to overcome such and move into the light destined for us. Life is not sweet at all times, the metaphor in the book’s title has been expanded to provide understanding and impart the reader as well.

    Life Dies

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  • Bad Love (Twenty in 2020)

    Against a backdrop of enigmatic nights scattered with spoken word poetry in London, Venice, Accra and Paris, Ekuah tries to reconcile her personal journey with the love she struggles with for Dee Emeka, a gifted musician who is both passionate and aloof in his treatment of Ekuah. After 18 months together, he disappears from her life, confirming her worst fears about the unstable foundation of their relationship. She attempts to graduate university whilst retreating into herself, searching for new validations and preoccupations from heartbreak.

    Life marches on and Ekuah finds personal fulfilment in her poetry and community work. But when she must choose between her first love, and the promise of a new, unexpected love, in the form of Jay Stanley, can she handle the vulnerability and forgiveness required? Grappling with her examples of love, Ekuah must forge her own path. With an increasingly successful career, she finds herself traveling around the world. When her rise intersects with Dee’s own fame, the two are pushed to reach a final resolution.

  • A Complete Course in Senior High School Oral English (with Audio CD)

    This material shows teachers and students how to recognise and produce the sounds of the English Language with specific attention to sounds that are problematic for speakers of English in West Africa.  The exercises at the end of each level accompanied by some suggested answers helps students to self-evaluate their understanding.

  • Salut Les Amis! A New French Course for Primary Schools (Primary Book 6)

    This series Salut Les Amis is made up of a set of six books written specially for primary schools and beginners in French. Each book is accompanied by a workbook which is:

    • children-centred in approach
    • interesting
    • simple
    • designed to give enough practice
    • easy and captivating
    • colourful
  • Salut Les Amis! A New French Course for Primary Schools (Primary Book 5)

    This series Salut Les Amis is made up of a set of six books written specially for primary schools and beginners in French. Each book is accompanied by a workbook which is:

    • children-centred in approach
    • interesting
    • simple
    • designed to give enough practice
    • easy and captivating
    • colourful
  • Salut, Les Amis! A New French Course for Primary Schools (Primary Book 4)

    This series Salut Les Amis is made up of a set of six books written specially for primary schools and beginners in French. Each book is accompanied by a workbook which is:

    • children-centred in approach
    • interesting
    • simple
    • designed to give enough practice
    • easy and captivating
    • colourful
  • Salut, Les Amis! A New French Course for Primary Schools (Primary Book 3)

    This series Salut Les Amis:

    • aims at making the learning of French easy for children
    • lays a foundation for the study of French
    • contains enough exercises for practice
    • gives the children the opportunity for personal communication
    • contains well-illustrated pages to enhance understanding of basic structures in French
  • Salut, Les Amis! A New French Course for Primary Schools (Primary Book 2)

    This series Salut, Les Amis:

    • aims at making the learning of French easy for children
    • lays a foundation for the study of French
    • contains enough exercises for practice
    • gives the children the opportunity for personal communication
    • contains well-illustrated pages to enhance understanding of basic structures in French
  • Salut, Les Amis! A New French Course for Primary Schools (Primary Book 1)

    This series Salut Les Amis:

    • aims at making the learning of French easy for children
    • lays a strong foundation for the study of French
    • contains enough exercises for practice
    • gives the children the opportunity for personal communication
    • contains well-illustrated pages to enhance understanding of basic structures in French
  • The Secret of the Purple Lake

    The Secret of the Purple Lake is a collection of five interlinked stories that take us from Ghana to Orkney, and from Spain to Norway and Thailand. As a minor character from one story assumes a major role in the next, we meet a fascinating cast, including Imoro the magic elephant, the Walrus Prince, and the Wild Princesses of Rousay. The protagonist of the opening tale, The Fisherman’s Daughter, has to retrieve her dead father’s bones from the bottom of the sea, in order to bring harmony back to her seaside village. In fulfilling her task, she must evade the clutches of The Fish-man of the Purple Lake. The Fish-man, a monstrous creature with the body of a man and the head of a fish, was once a beautiful boy from the Sahel, and has his own story about how he became the Fish-man.

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