• Viral Load

    Kayode Oguntebi’s Viral Load is a poignant narrative of various discourses, of the simple and predominant things that make up the trajectory of the African post-colonial experience.  Tunde Lewu, a young Nigerian from a rather challenging middle class reaches a breach in his expectations when he realises that he has HIV from forgotten escapades, but this story isn’t only about Tunde Lewu. It is a story that intercepts the realities of military incursion into politics, the involvement of the western powers in contributing to the paragraphs of aid and the establishment of social organisation.

    Lewu is only a character who navigates and engages other characters in the global sphere that are looking for answers to personal, social and economic preponderances. The health of the protagonist in Viral Load is subtly linked to the health of Africa. The health of a family shattered into specks of darkest brilliance props up unpalatable dissatisfaction that transcends the present and morphs into the novel’s future. This makes the author attempt a new proposition for a plot of this nature while retaining a flow from flashbacks and imaginations.

    Kayode Oguntebi’s debut novel is full of promise. His futuristic narrative of what Africa would be when Africa leaders turn their paradigms towards improving the lives of the people. What you will find in the Viral Load is the cosmopolitan Africa capable of engaging the rest of the world as it presents its own cultural solutions packaged in a more acceptable, and verifiable quality.

    Viral Load

    48.00
  • 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

    75.00
  • Vaults of Secrets

    In one story, a conscience takes it upon itself to keep prodding its principal until she tells the truth about the paternity of her four children. In another story, a woman cannot live with the result of her promiscuous lifestyle. In the title story, Vault of Secrets, a man has a special gift of walking into places at the most inopportune times. In another story, a woman facing the death penalty relives the story of a friend who has already suffered the same fate. In yet another prison story, a man comes to terms with his complicity in activism gone wrong.

    The stories in this collection flirt with the limits of freedom and bondage, they are a means with which Olukorede Yishau examines the nature of man and his ability to choose; more so man’s ability to live with the choice he has made.

  • Son of Man

    OUR MEN…A university graduate in desperate need of a job. A father’s vengeance for a dead son. A young pragmatic man humbled by the horrors of incarceration. An old man’s dying gift to a generation. A journalist’s courage in a notorious military government. A youth corper’s temperance of religion, love and survival

    …THEIR STORIES.

    From the quiet town of Umuahia to the creeks of Bonny Island, the sweltering plains of Jos to the bustling hub of Lagos, these Nigerian men have a story to tell. Stories of life, love, family, happiness, sorrow, pestilence and death—situations faced every day in their lives. Armed with objectivity, some find peace with their resolutions, while some face dire consequences with prices to pay; with their freedom, or worst yet, their lives.

    Son of Man

    48.00
  • Domestication of Munachi

    On a hot Sunday afternoon years ago……Two sisters walk in on their father’s sexual liaison with the family’s hired help which leaves them both scarred in different ways.

    Years later…

    Unable to bear the thought of marriage to a man she barely knows, the younger and more adventurous one, Munachi, runs away from home on the eve of her traditional marriage, unwittingly resurrecting a long buried feud between her religious mother and eccentric aunty. This conflict leaves a door open for the family’s destruction.

    The Domestication of Munachi is a novel about the unnecessary pressure on women to take on life partners, regardless of who these partners are and the psychological impacts seen through the stories of two sets of sisters—Munachi and Nkechi versus Chimuanya and Elizabeth.

  • Night Dancer

    Night Dancer is set in Nigeria and tells the story of Mma and her stubborn mother, Ezi. Ezi’s unexpected death leads Mma to learn about her mother’s past and rethink the resentment and contempt she has held for her mother her whole life. Mma resents her mother who likes to say things twice like ‘dance-dance’and ‘happy-happy’ and won’t let Mma know wnaything about her father.

    Written in three parts, Chika Unigwe tells a beautiful story about what happens, why it happens and why everything is the way it is, and what happens thereafter.

    Night Dancer

    56.00
  • Love Quote, Oxygen for Life

    What do you know about love? How do you picture it? Can you describe it in a sentence? Never mind ! Love Quotes provides answers,  Refresh your memory, and update your love tank. The word and action of love is what frees us of all the pain of life. Love must be painted well as the hero who holds us from falling but rather captivate us to fall for it which is the safest place to fall.
    
    Falling in love is the best feelings you can ever feel when you fall but sometimes unable to explain. Love Quotes will give you the words,  the ways to Express love without missing the aroma of excitement. Try Love Quotes today and see love in a new light.
  • Essential New Foundation English for Junior High Schools

    This book, New Foundation English, covers all aspects of the English Language programme at Junior High School level.

    It treats all the essential items of the English Language course that the student needs to know and study.

    The book is designed to give the student the opportunity and material he needs to prepare adequately for the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the areas of Essay Writing, Comprehension, the Objective Test and Literature.

    There is a step-by-step discussion of the essential components of the BECE English Language Paper. The Literature Section especially has been given great emphasis.

    The book also contains a number of questions for trial in all the sections. The Essential New Foundation English is user-friendly as it has been written in a language that is easy to understand. The student will therefore find the book very useful.

    Note: The Pronoun ‘He’ has been used in this book as the Universal Gender to refer to both male and female students.

  • High Tide in Hawaii (Magic Tree House, #28)

    Age Range: 6+ years

    Catch the wave!

    That’s what Jack and Annie do when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to a Hawaiian island of long ago. They learn how to surf and have a great time—until strange things start happening. Jack and Annie soon discover the cause: A tidal wave is headed their way! Can they help save their new friends in time?

     

  • Twister on Tuesday (Magic Tree House, #23)

    Age Range: 6+ years

    An adventure to blow you away!

    That’s what Jack and Annie get when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the 1870s. They land on the prairie near a one-room schoolhouse, where they meet a teenage schoolteacher, some cool kids, and one big, scary bully. But the biggest and scariest thing is yet to come!

     

  • Revolutionary War on Wednesday (Magic Tree House, #22)

    Age Range: 6+ years

    It is a dark and snowy night when the Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie back to colonial times. General George Washington is about to lead his army in a sneak attack against their enemy. But now a terrible weather is making the great general question his plans. Can Jack and Annie keep history on track? The fate of the country rests in their hands!

     

  • Dingoes at Dinnertime (Magic Tree House, #20)

    Age Range: 6+ years

    The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system!

    Wildfire! That’s what Jack and Annie are up against when they are whisked away to the land of Australia. And they’re not alone! Jack and Annie must help a baby kangaroo and a koala escape from a fire-filled forest. Will they be able to rescue the animals in time?

     

  • Tonight on the Titanic (Magic Tree House, #17)

    Age Range: 6+ years

    Jack and Annie are in for an exciting, scary, and sad adventure when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the decks of the “Titanic.” Is there anything they can do to help the ill-fated ship? Will they be able to save anyone? Will they be able to save themselves?

     

Main Menu