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15-year-old Itohan is a strikingly tall and beautiful Bini maiden.
She is as strong as an ox and has superior fighting skills. When
she is rejected from Princess Uyi's leopard army for indiscipline,
she forms the Young Amazons - an elite fighting squad of five
maidens. What thrills the girls have as they go to foil a virgin
sacrifice
Peter is obsessed with what he heard as a little boy about why
sardines packed in tins don't have heads. Little does he know that
there is a bigger problem awaiting him with the fish tail on his
table.
"Not everything is what we think it is," Lady Strange tells the
newsmen at Mero's Bar. They know she is about to launch into a
spellbinding story and they are all ears. But the lady has
something more than a story for them. That's why she is Lady
Strange...
Lovinia lives in a high-rise luxury apartment far from the Maroko
shantytown of her origins, but she wakes up one morning to discover
she is in chains. She must escape her chains or be doomed to the
fate of her father who was ruined by the shackles of destructive
cultural beliefs...
Toju and Tosan, two seven-year-old friends, are able to travel to
Bible times, using the time caps Toju's scientist father invented.
In this adventure, they wonder if animals speak to humans but
humans can't understand. Who better to ask than Balaam's donkey
which once spoke in a human voice? What fun they have as they
travel back in time to question Balaam's donkey
The parable of the grain of wheat that must die to live eludes
short-story writer Caponte for years. Then in his hunt for ironies
he comes across the strangest of stories in Ghana - and
understanding explodes on him.
University girl Ada thinks the easiest way to get a rich boyfriend
is to get the right car lift. Ah, but the right car lift may not be
so right after all...
The streets are aboil with youths on the rampage, divided along
ethnic lines. The thunder of death and destruction rumbles. Only
one man, they say, can bring peace. He is called Snake. Can it be
true? Can anything good come out of a snake? Or is it all a myth?
They call him Snake...
A PhD student and his professor father delve into the subject of
human trafficking, hoping to annul their dark past. But their
darkness turns into a living nightmare. "It is with aplomb and
admirable courage that this play indicts modern society for its
carelessness over human trafficking as over sexual deviancy."
-Truth in Literature
This is a book which anyone engaged in forming companies will find
useful. It sets out the main objects of 225 companies in a manner
that lends itself to ready use in preparing the requisite documents
for incorporating a company.
Misan and Etemi find themselves on the savage streets of Lagos
hawking pure-water and oranges. They experience the horrors of the
hawking madness. Or is it not madness? Have the children not gone
mad? Surprises await
Two young orphans, Jolomi and Temi, are forced by their wicked aunt
to work as traffic jam kids, hawking pure-water and oranges on the
savage streets of Lagos. All hope seems lost - until two little
monkeys, Bintu and Binta, show up
The crabs must stop pulling each other down and cooperate, if they
hope to escape from the Man's basket at Crab Beach. Can they do
this, or will they keep up their mindless selfishness and end up as
crab soup? The clock is ticking and the cooking pot is on the boil
Tosan Tetsola, a young university lecturer, sets out to research
the topic "Literature in the City." He almost loses his life in the
process but comes away with the conviction that all things work
together for good. Is this true? His friend Caponte doesn't think
so. Until something most extraordinary happens...
This novella gives a glimpse of some of the difficulties facing the
full-time creative writer. Wolves snarl on all sides of Jolomi, and
there is only one friend in sight - but he turns out to be the most
ferocious wolf of all.
When a ravishing schoolmate takes a romantic interest in a
fifteen-year-old church boy, the boy decides that it is time to
enjoy his life. But will dating the voluptuous Salome really bring
enjoyment? Will it?
Mofe scoffs at the idea that his obsession with the female hair
could be used by unseen enemies to ensnare him. Then he meets
Syreeta - and nothing is as it once was And at such great cost
Gbade is determined to get revenge on Linda for dumping him, so he
joins the Club of Vengeance - a cult in his school. Vengeance is
the Lord's, his mother warns, but Gbade is adamant. Will he succeed
in exacting revenge? Or is he treading the path of doom?
Aunt Kemi believes that nine-year-old Yemisi and six-year-old Bolu
are better off hawking on the streets as traffic jam kids than
being in school. But Yemisi devises an unusual way of educating
herself and her brother - and the tables are turned on Aunt Kemi.
In this delightful one-act play, hard work is set against the
enterprising spirit to determine the more desirable quality. But as
Ken and Tam spar, we see that not everything in this two-hander is
as it appears to be.
Poor pregnant Egha is the victim of a repugnant tradition in an age
when society idolizes culture. Persecution snarls all around. Is
she doomed? But all is not what it seems.
Amaka is crazy about going to Dubai and her chance comes to go but
there is a catch - she must be of good behaviour. But can any
fifteen-year-old be well behaved when she is crazy about a boy who
sees no reason to be of good behaviour?
Things started going wrong for brilliant Shettima when he decided
he needed to have a girlfriend. Sybil comes into his life, and
along comes trouble - and a strange man A man who spells more
trouble than Shettima could ever have imagined
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