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A Cowrie of Hope

₦1,500.00

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A Husband For Esi Ellua

₦1,500.00

{"id":1940851654705,"title":"A Husband For Esi Ellua","handle":"a-husband-for-esi-elllua","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Husband for Esi Ellua is set in the World War era of Gold Coast (Ghana) and shows the aftermath of family men being drafted into the army.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2019-04-17T11:22:19+01:00","created_at":"2019-04-17T11:22:19+01:00","vendor":"PAGE","type":"African Fiction","tags":[],"price":150000,"price_min":150000,"price_max":150000,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":15215767289905,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"A Husband For Esi Ellua","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":150000,"weight":500,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":""}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2545\/5474\/products\/imagejpg_732014ec-eab1-404e-b9e7-b4ab6a30f5e5.jpg?v=1555496545"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2545\/5474\/products\/imagejpg_732014ec-eab1-404e-b9e7-b4ab6a30f5e5.jpg?v=1555496545","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":2144270614577,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.627,"height":346,"width":217,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2545\/5474\/products\/imagejpg_732014ec-eab1-404e-b9e7-b4ab6a30f5e5.jpg?v=1569412851"},"aspect_ratio":0.627,"height":346,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2545\/5474\/products\/imagejpg_732014ec-eab1-404e-b9e7-b4ab6a30f5e5.jpg?v=1569412851","width":217}],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Husband for Esi Ellua is set in the World War era of Gold Coast (Ghana) and shows the aftermath of family men being drafted into the army.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

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A Long Way Gone

₦4,500.00

{"id":559878832177,"title":"A Long Way Gone","handle":"a-long-way-home","description":"\u003cspan id=\"freeText10469499803641683474\"\u003eThe devastating story of war through the eyes of a child soldier. Beah tells how, at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and became a soldier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life.\u003cbr\u003e“Why did you leave Sierra Leone?”\u003cbr\u003e“Because there is a war.”\u003cbr\u003e“You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?”\u003cbr\u003e“Yes, all the time.”\u003cbr\u003e“Cool.”\u003cbr\u003eI smile a little.\u003cbr\u003e“You should tell us about it sometime.”\u003cbr\u003e“Yes, sometime.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn A Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e","published_at":"2017-12-04T07:57:56+01:00","created_at":"2018-04-06T11:10:02+01:00","vendor":"PAGE","type":"African Fiction","tags":["Ishmael Beah"],"price":450000,"price_min":450000,"price_max":450000,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":7382060073009,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"A Long Way Gone","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":450000,"weight":500,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780007247097"}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2545\/5474\/products\/51GdT104M2L._SX328_BO1_204_203_200.jpg?v=1523009465"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2545\/5474\/products\/51GdT104M2L._SX328_BO1_204_203_200.jpg?v=1523009465","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":936184447025,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.661,"height":499,"width":330,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2545\/5474\/products\/51GdT104M2L._SX328_BO1_204_203_200.jpg?v=1569250411"},"aspect_ratio":0.661,"height":499,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2545\/5474\/products\/51GdT104M2L._SX328_BO1_204_203_200.jpg?v=1569250411","width":330}],"content":"\u003cspan id=\"freeText10469499803641683474\"\u003eThe devastating story of war through the eyes of a child soldier. Beah tells how, at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and became a soldier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life.\u003cbr\u003e“Why did you leave Sierra Leone?”\u003cbr\u003e“Because there is a war.”\u003cbr\u003e“You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?”\u003cbr\u003e“Yes, all the time.”\u003cbr\u003e“Cool.”\u003cbr\u003eI smile a little.\u003cbr\u003e“You should tell us about it sometime.”\u003cbr\u003e“Yes, sometime.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn A Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e"}

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A Married Woman

₦4,100.00

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A Separation

₦4,800.00

{"id":559891087409,"title":"A Separation","handle":"a-separation-1","description":"\u003cp\u003eA young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: it's time for them to separate. For the moment it's a private matter, a secret between the two of them. As she begins her new life, alone, she gets word that her ex-husband has gone missing in a remote region in the rugged southern Peloponnese. Reluctantly she agrees to go and search for him, still keeping their split to herself. In her heart, she's not even sure if she wants to find him. Adrift in the wild and barren landscape, she traces the failure of their relationship, and finds that she understands less than she thought about the man she used to love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA story of intimacy, infidelity and compassion,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Separation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis about the gulf that divides us from the lives of others and the narratives we create to mask our true emotions. As the narrator reflects upon her love for a man who may never have been what he appeared, Kitamura propels us into the experience of a woman on the brink of catastrophe.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Separation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a riveting masterpiece of absence and presence that will leave the reader astonished, and transfixed.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2017-12-04T07:58:00+01:00","created_at":"2018-04-06T11:55:03+01:00","vendor":"PAGE","type":"African Fiction","tags":["Katie Kitamura"],"price":480000,"price_min":480000,"price_max":480000,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":7382132260913,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"A Separation","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":480000,"weight":500,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780735216655"}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2545\/5474\/products\/30407998.jpg?v=1523012143"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2545\/5474\/products\/30407998.jpg?v=1523012143","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":936200044593,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.672,"height":473,"width":318,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2545\/5474\/products\/30407998.jpg?v=1569250414"},"aspect_ratio":0.672,"height":473,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2545\/5474\/products\/30407998.jpg?v=1569250414","width":318}],"content":"\u003cp\u003eA young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: it's time for them to separate. For the moment it's a private matter, a secret between the two of them. As she begins her new life, alone, she gets word that her ex-husband has gone missing in a remote region in the rugged southern Peloponnese. Reluctantly she agrees to go and search for him, still keeping their split to herself. In her heart, she's not even sure if she wants to find him. Adrift in the wild and barren landscape, she traces the failure of their relationship, and finds that she understands less than she thought about the man she used to love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA story of intimacy, infidelity and compassion,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Separation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis about the gulf that divides us from the lives of others and the narratives we create to mask our true emotions. As the narrator reflects upon her love for a man who may never have been what he appeared, Kitamura propels us into the experience of a woman on the brink of catastrophe.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Separation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a riveting masterpiece of absence and presence that will leave the reader astonished, and transfixed.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

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A Squatter's Tale

₦2,000.00

{"id":420221747239,"title":"A Squatter's Tale","handle":"a-squatters-tale","description":"\u003cp\u003eIke Oguine’s brilliant and funny\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0435906550\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;tag=afrbooclu-20\u0026amp;linkCode=as2\u0026amp;camp=1789\u0026amp;creative=390957\u0026amp;creativeASIN=0435906550\"\u003eA Squatter’s Tale\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cimg src=\"\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=afrbooclu-20\u0026amp;l=as2\u0026amp;o=1\u0026amp;a=0435906550\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis about Obi, a young high-flying Nigerian financier who decides to travel to America to seek greener pastures after the finance company he works for suddenly collapses. As a little boy of ten, his mother’s younger brother, Happiness had visited them from America displaying a show of wealth which registered on young Obi’s mind. Little wonder then, that when Obi decides he must leave the country, it is America he chooses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn getting to America, Obi has to stay with Happiness, because his friend ‘Hook’ who was supposed to host him, doesn’t show up at the airport. The Happiness Obi meets is a totally different one from the one that came to show off years earlier in Nigeria. Eventually, unable to take the hard life with Happiness, Obi leaves and goes to stay with Andrew, another friend from his University days. There, Obi gets a job as a security man and meets quite a few funny characters in his job.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMonths after settling down in America, Obi’s friend, Hook – the one who stood him up at the airport, suddenly shows up apologising for his behavior. Hook offers to make it up to Obi by taking him to a club, and getting girls for him. And Obi, happy that his months of celibacy are finally over, is more than happy to take the offer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn getting to the club, Hook excuses himself for an important business meeting, which is the last Obi sees of him. Robo, Obi’s girlfriend in Nigeria later tells him that Hook has suddenly appeared back home in Nigeria. Apparently the CIA was onto him and his gang, and his escape was actually a lucky break.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBack in the US, Obi hooks up with a family friend from home who introduces him to Vivian, a nurse, who has been hurt too many times by men. The friend strongly warns Obi against dating Vivian unless he plans on being serious with her. Despite the fact that he has a girlfriend, Robo, whom he loves dearly, Obi still decides to date Vivian. In turn, Vivian spoils Obi with gifts and attention, which he gobbles up. But when Obi receives a letter from his girlfriend, Robo, telling him that it is all over, he is devastated. Too late, he wakes up to the mediocre existence he has been living since coming to America, even, moreso, when he discovers that Vivian, his new girlfriend is actually married.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the end, Obi decides to move on with his life, and accepts that, like his uncle, Happiness, people change to become what they did not want because of the unfavorable circumstances they find themselves in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0435906550\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;tag=afrbooclu-20\u0026amp;linkCode=as2\u0026amp;camp=1789\u0026amp;creative=390957\u0026amp;creativeASIN=0435906550\"\u003eA Squatter’s Tale\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cimg src=\"\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=afrbooclu-20\u0026amp;l=as2\u0026amp;o=1\u0026amp;a=0435906550\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"\u003e , Oguine humorously exposes the African immigrant experience – the lies that many Africans in America are forced to tell their folks at home in order to save face, and the challenges that they contend with in trying to settle and get accepted into American society. In a sense, as the title suggests, many find themselves, like squatters, caught in the middle – not belonging in either their new world or their old society back home.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2017-12-04T07:57:03+01:00","created_at":"2017-12-04T07:57:03+01:00","vendor":"PAGE","type":"African Fiction","tags":["African Writers Series","Ike Oguine"],"price":200000,"price_min":200000,"price_max":200000,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":6003093241895,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"A Squatter's Tale","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":200000,"weight":400,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"978043590655997804"}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2545\/5474\/products\/SquattersTale_Oguine.jpg?v=1512991970"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2545\/5474\/products\/SquattersTale_Oguine.jpg?v=1512991970","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":817616224305,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.63,"height":300,"width":189,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2545\/5474\/products\/SquattersTale_Oguine.jpg?v=1569197295"},"aspect_ratio":0.63,"height":300,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2545\/5474\/products\/SquattersTale_Oguine.jpg?v=1569197295","width":189}],"content":"\u003cp\u003eIke Oguine’s brilliant and funny\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0435906550\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;tag=afrbooclu-20\u0026amp;linkCode=as2\u0026amp;camp=1789\u0026amp;creative=390957\u0026amp;creativeASIN=0435906550\"\u003eA Squatter’s Tale\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cimg src=\"\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=afrbooclu-20\u0026amp;l=as2\u0026amp;o=1\u0026amp;a=0435906550\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis about Obi, a young high-flying Nigerian financier who decides to travel to America to seek greener pastures after the finance company he works for suddenly collapses. As a little boy of ten, his mother’s younger brother, Happiness had visited them from America displaying a show of wealth which registered on young Obi’s mind. Little wonder then, that when Obi decides he must leave the country, it is America he chooses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn getting to America, Obi has to stay with Happiness, because his friend ‘Hook’ who was supposed to host him, doesn’t show up at the airport. The Happiness Obi meets is a totally different one from the one that came to show off years earlier in Nigeria. Eventually, unable to take the hard life with Happiness, Obi leaves and goes to stay with Andrew, another friend from his University days. There, Obi gets a job as a security man and meets quite a few funny characters in his job.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMonths after settling down in America, Obi’s friend, Hook – the one who stood him up at the airport, suddenly shows up apologising for his behavior. Hook offers to make it up to Obi by taking him to a club, and getting girls for him. And Obi, happy that his months of celibacy are finally over, is more than happy to take the offer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn getting to the club, Hook excuses himself for an important business meeting, which is the last Obi sees of him. Robo, Obi’s girlfriend in Nigeria later tells him that Hook has suddenly appeared back home in Nigeria. Apparently the CIA was onto him and his gang, and his escape was actually a lucky break.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBack in the US, Obi hooks up with a family friend from home who introduces him to Vivian, a nurse, who has been hurt too many times by men. The friend strongly warns Obi against dating Vivian unless he plans on being serious with her. Despite the fact that he has a girlfriend, Robo, whom he loves dearly, Obi still decides to date Vivian. In turn, Vivian spoils Obi with gifts and attention, which he gobbles up. But when Obi receives a letter from his girlfriend, Robo, telling him that it is all over, he is devastated. Too late, he wakes up to the mediocre existence he has been living since coming to America, even, moreso, when he discovers that Vivian, his new girlfriend is actually married.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the end, Obi decides to move on with his life, and accepts that, like his uncle, Happiness, people change to become what they did not want because of the unfavorable circumstances they find themselves in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0435906550\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;tag=afrbooclu-20\u0026amp;linkCode=as2\u0026amp;camp=1789\u0026amp;creative=390957\u0026amp;creativeASIN=0435906550\"\u003eA Squatter’s Tale\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cimg src=\"\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=afrbooclu-20\u0026amp;l=as2\u0026amp;o=1\u0026amp;a=0435906550\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"\u003e , Oguine humorously exposes the African immigrant experience – the lies that many Africans in America are forced to tell their folks at home in order to save face, and the challenges that they contend with in trying to settle and get accepted into American society. In a sense, as the title suggests, many find themselves, like squatters, caught in the middle – not belonging in either their new world or their old society back home.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

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