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Bookset: Pacesetters Series (60 titles)
Relive all the literary jobs of years gone by, by procuring this jumbo set of the famous, now-scarce, Pacesetters Series.
The Pacesetters Series were a collection of 130 novels written by African authors (mostly Nigerian, but there were also Ghanian, Kenyan and South African writers) for an African audience. It was 1977 when Macmillan decided to publish this low-cost paperback series – with publication mainly happening between 1979 and 1988.
They were very popular in the 1980s until the series disappeared in the 1990s. The covers were lovely and unique; a bit garish, and so 1980s with their African pop art, but there’s just something about them and how the colourful images portray what the novel is probably about. They are a testament to their time.
Exact titles will depend on availability.
₵3,500.00₵3,600.00Bookset: Pacesetters Series (60 titles)
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Cherished Dreams (Pacesetters)
Sande has a dream, or is it a nightmare? As a child in Uganda, growing up in a changing and often dangerous world, it is hard to believe in dreams. Sometimes he finds himself grasping them, sometimes they are ruthlessly trampled underfoot. Will he ever realize the dream he cherishes?
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Harvest of Love (Pacesetters)
Naki and Padi are deeply in love and long to marry. Naki, however, must first go through the Dipo rites of initiation. Any girl who has been unchaste knows what the punishment has to be: banishment forever. Naki is pregnant – can she deceive the High Priest and keep the man she loves? Is there any future for their unborn child?
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Secret Blood (Pacesetters)
John Daka, once a detective in the Republic Force, has set up business as a private investigator. Business is slow until a white businessman makes him an offer he can’t refuse. A beautiful woman, Ruth Chandos, is missing, believed kidnapped, and Barton is prepared to pay a lot of money to find her. In the search for Ruth, it seems to Daka that no one is what he or she claims to be. When he finally finds Ruth, Daka also finds trouble of the worse kind.
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Anything for Money (Pacesetters)
Justice Kadara is rich and powerful, but he has a shameful secret. When a gang of petty thieves attack him on the way to the bank, his security is threatened. Little do the thieves realise what it is they have stolen from the Judge…
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Naira Power (Pacesetters)
Naira gives Ramonu power over justice up to a point… When the power fails the consequences for him are horryfing – and witnessed by the girl who has loved him secretly for years.
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Possessed! (Pacesetters)
Every Sunday afternoon Mary, the beautiful, studious daughter of Bishop Quarcoopome is seized by a terrifying and unexplained frenzy. It is as if she has been possessed by the devil. Can the cause be found and Mary be cured? The young psychiatrist who is called in to help her is determined to find a way, for he finds his interest in her more than just professional. The help of the Church, traditional priests and modern medicine are all invoked in a desperate bid to save Mary’s life.
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The Lost Generation (Pacesetters)
Country-bred Mbatha and Rabeka are childhood sweethearts and seemed destined for each other. Illness takes Rabeka to hospital in Nairobi, and while she is recuperating she meets the sophisticated Mawa with dramatic consequences for all of them.
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For Mbatha and Rabeka (Pacesetters)
Country-bred Mbatha and Rabeka are childhood sweethearts and seemed destined for each other. Illness takes Rabeka to hospital in Nairobi, and while she is recuperating she meets the sophisticated Mawa with dramatic consequences for all of them.
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To Have and To Hold (Pacesetters)
To the modern, freedom-loving Phindile it seemed impossible that anyone, least of all a man, could make her compromise her independence. But then she had not reckoned with the determination of the lizard-like Mr Takawira or the charms of the persistent Kudzi.
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Rich Girl, Poor Boy (Pacesetters)
Rich Girl, Poor Boy as the title suggests is the story of a young lady from a wealthy family who falls in love with a man of poor origins. Tokunbo is the only daughter of rich parents. She first meets her future husband Lai, when he climbs into her house and tries to steal some fruit. As fate would have it, they meet again years later at university and fall in love, but Lai already has a girlfriend. This causes some complications. The story has a very sad ending…
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The Hornets’ Nest (Pacesetters)
“I sincerely wish you every success in the rally……..and do be careful.”
With these words echoing in his mind, Itemere set off on the East African Rally: with every twist, another problem arises – winning is the least of his worries!
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A Dream Called September (Pacesetters)
Thinking her dream can never come true, Tasmil reluctantly joins Wayne on his quest to find his ancestral roots. Intrigue deepens with each step they take.
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The Equatorial Assignment (Pacesetters)
The newly appointed Benni Kamba, 009 in the secret service of NISA, risks his life to destroy an international Afro-Mafia organization which is trying to rule all African by planting puppet Presidents in every state. They are led by the megalomaniac Dr Thunder. 009 falls victim to the beautiful Colonel Swipta. His true love is almost forgotten as he penetrates the base from which she and Dr. Thunder operate.
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Sunset at Noon (Pacesetters)
Thula is bitterly disappointed when his father compels him to leave school and become herd boy of the family’s cattle. However, a chance encounter with an old man living in an isolated hut on the hills gives him renewed hope. Knowing he is near to death, the old man tells Thula of a secret hoard of diamonds he has hidden, beneath a cactus grove.
Thula determines to recover the diamonds, to sell them and use the money to further his own education and better his family’s lifestyle. But he has not reckoned with the beautiful and cruel Lindiwe who, learning of the diamonds, decides to take them for herself by fair means or foul.
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