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The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis by Wole Soyinka Publisher Comments On November 10, 1995, the Nigerian military government under General Sani Abacha executed dissident writer Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight other activists, and the international community reacted with outrage. From the Geneva based International... (read more) List Price $26.25 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Politics of Bones: Dr. Owens Wiwa and the Struggle for Nigeria's Oil by Timothy J Hunt Publisher Comments The gripping story of a peoples battle against a corrupt government and a powerful oil company. On November 10, 1995, Nigerias military dictatorship executed nine environmental activists. Among them was Ken Saro-Wiwa, the charismatic spokesman of the... (read more) List Price $36.99 Your price: $7.48 Used - Hardcover
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A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria by Daniel Jordan Smith Publisher Comments "By all measurements Nigeria, richly endowed with natural and human resources and the United States' fifth largest source of imported oil, should be one of the most prosperous of the world's developing countries. Instead it is one of the poorest. No one... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir by Wole Soyinka Publisher Comments The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka now follows his modern classic Ake: The Years of Childhood with an equally important chronicle of his turbulent life as an... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Ethnic Militias and the Threat to Democracy in Post-Transition Nigeria: Research Report 127 by Osita Agbu Publisher Comments The democratic opening presented by Nigeria's successful transition to civil rule (June 1998 to May 1999) unleashed a host of hitherto repressed or dormant political forces. Unfortunately, it has become increasingly difficult to differentiate between... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Nigeria: Struggle for Stability & Status by Stephen Wright Publisher Comments For almost three decades, oil has provided Nigeria with earnings surpassing most other African countries. Such good fortune, in combination with other resources, including a population of nearly 100 million, has contributed to a national sense of... (read more) List Price $58.50 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe by Nwando Achebe Publisher Comments Nwando Achebe presents the fascinating history of an Igbo woman, AhebiUgbabe, who became king in colonial Nigeria. Ugbabe was exiled from Igboland, becamea prostitute, traveled widely, and learned to speak many languages. She became aclose companion of... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $16.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man by Vincent Carretta Publisher Comments This definitive biography tells the story of the former slave Olaudah Equiano (1745?-97), who in his day was the English-speaking worlds most renowned person of African descent. Equianos greatest legacy is his classic 1789 autobiography, The Interesting... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights, and Oil in the Niger Delta by Ike Okanta Publisher Comments In 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa, a writer, political activist, and leader of the Niger Delta's Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), was summarily executed by Nigeria's brutal military junta. MOSOP was formed out of a final, desperate need to... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son's Journey to Understand His Father's Legacy by Ken Wiwa Synopsis In late 1995, the little-known Ogoni region in Nigeria became a fable for our times. Ken Saro-Wiwa, a renowned poet and environmentalist, was campaigning to protect his Ogoni people against the encroachments of Shell Oil and a brutal dictatorship. He was... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Climate of Fear (05 Edition) by Soyinka Publisher Comments In this new book developed from the prestigious Reith Lectures, Nobel Prize—winning author Wole Soyinka, a courageous advocate for human rights around the world, considers fear as the dominant theme in world politics. Decades ago, the idea of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Cloth That Does Not Die: The Meaning of Cloth in Bunu Social Life by Elisha P Renne Book News Annotation Renne (public and international affairs, Princeton U.) describes the role of handwoven cloth as a symbol of social relations and as a way to mark critical junctures in an individual's life among the Bunu Yoruba people of central Nigeria. She examines... (read more) List Price $56.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Nigeria by Marce Okehie Offoha Synopsis An unprecedented survey of the diverse ethnic groups that make up Nigeria, exploring the nature and nuances of the diverse culture.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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This House Has Fallen: Midnight in Nigeria by Karl Maier Book News Annotation It has become a clich that Nigeria is the most corrupt nation in Africa, even in the world a nation receiving billions of petrodollars while 90 percent of the populace slogs through poverty thick as oil; a country so shot through by repeated military... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis by Wole Soyinka Publisher Comments On November 10, 1995, the Nigerian military government under General Sani Abacha executed dissident writer Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight other activists, and the international community reacted with outrage. From the Geneva based International... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Gods of Noonday: A White Girl's African Life by Elaine Neil Orr List Price $16.25 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Cloth That Does Not Die: The Meaning of Cloth in Bnú Social Life by Elisha P. Renne TOC Foreword / Annette Weiner -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Water, Spirits, and Plain White Cloth -- 3. Cloth as Medicine -- 4. Why Bunu Brides Wear Black -- 5. The Cloths of Hunters and Chiefs -- 6. What Bunu Men Wove -- 7. The Decline of Handweaving in Bunu... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $39.94 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Multinationals, the State, & Control of Nigerian Economy by Thomas J Biersteker List Price $12.50 Your price: $2.40 Used - Trade Paper
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Nigerian Perspectives: An Historical Anthology by Thomas Hodgkin Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Nigerian Legal System by T Olawalr Elias Your price: $5.00 Used - Hardcover
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