An Orchestra of Minorities

• Author : Chigozie Obioma
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 03 January 2019

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 From the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel, The Fishermen FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2019 'Obioma is truly the heir to Chinua Achebe' New York Times 'A major new African writer' Salman Rushdie 'A profoundly humane epic love story' Booker Prize Judges 2019 A young farmer named Chinonso prevents a woman from falling to her death. Bonded by this strange night on the bridge, he and Ndali fall in love, but it is a mismatch according to

• Author : Chigozie Obioma
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 23 October 2018

A heartbreaking story about a Nigerian poultry farmer who sacrifices everything to win the woman he loves, by Man Booker Finalist and author of The Fishermen, Chigozie Obioma. "It is more than a superb and tragic novel; it's a historical treasure."-Boston Globe Set on the outskirts of Umuahia, Nigeria and narrated by a chi, or guardian spirit, An Orchestra of Minorities tells the story of Chinonso, a young poultry farmer whose soul is ignited when he sees a woman

• Author : Chigozie Obioma
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 June 2023

-- The Fishermen, Set on the outskirts of Umuahia, Nigeria and narrated by a chi, Bonded by this night on the bridge, Chinonso and Ndali fall in love. But Ndali is from a wealthy family and struggles to imagine a future near a chicken coop. When her family objects to the union because he is uneducated, Chinonso sells most of his possessions to attend a college in Cyprus. But when he arrives he discovers there is no place at the

• Author : Chigozie Obioma
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 June 2023

• Author : Peter Obidike
• Publisher : iUniverse
• Release : 23 July 2020

The life of a public servant’s kid in Aladinma, a quiet neighboorhood in Imo state’s capital city of Owerri in Nigeria. As expected from a religious and hardworking family, the kid imbibes the family values and grows with the resilience needed to navigate the changing times from analogue to a digital age. In all his learnings though, nothing prepared him for the fight brewing inside a Dallas courtroom in a US federal criminal trial against a copyright thief

• Author : Merritt Moseley
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 31 August 2021

In this book, Merritt Moseley offers a brief history of the Booker Prize since 1992. With a short chapter covering each year, we follow the change in criteria, the highs and lows, short lists, winners, and controversies of the Booker Prize. The book also functions as an example of literary criticism for each of the books involved, analyzing the judging process and the winning books. Exploring themes such as literary vs. popular fiction, the role of Postcolonial work in what began

• Author : Toyin Falola,Mohammed Bashir Salau
• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
• Release : 06 December 2021

This handbook places emphasis on modern/contemporary times, and offers relevant sophisticated and comprehensive overviews. It aims to emphasize the religious, economic, political, cultural and social connections between Africa and the rest of the world and features comparisons as well as an interdisciplinary approach in order to examine the place of Africa in global history. "This book makes an important contribution to the discussion on the place of Africa in the world and of the world in Africa. An outstanding

• Author : Samuel Fury Childs Daly
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 27 August 2020

An accessible study demonstrating how the conditions of the Nigerian Civil War paved the way for the country's long experience of crime.

• Author : Maurice Ashley Agbaw-Ebai,Matthew Levering
• Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Release : 27 December 2021

This book engages the theology of Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI in dialogue with African Catholic theological concerns and challenges. After an Introduction by Matthew Levering arguing that African Catholic theology is an important resource for the whole Church, the book contains ten chapters by African and non-African Catholic theologians. Paulinus Odozor investigates whether and, if so, how the God of Jesus Christ stands in continuity with the God known to African Traditional Religions. Paul Ọlátúbọsún À

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 June 1978

• Author : Amy Absher
• Publisher : University of Michigan Press
• Release : 16 June 2014

An exploration of the history of African American musicians in Chicago during the mid-20th century

• Author : Craig L. Frisby
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 06 February 2013

"Dr. Frisby focuses a bright light on issues that often remainobscured in a fog of polemics, deeply held convictions, and genuineconcern for the plight of minority students. Meeting thePsychoeducational Needs of Minority Students cuts through thisfog with intense, sharp, clear thinking and data-drivenconclusions." —Jeffrey P. Braden, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Dean ofthe College of Humanities and Social Sciences, North Carolina StateUniversity "Going beyond superficial 'feel good' or 'feel bad' ideologiesto probe what really makes a difference in meeting the

• Author : David Ingleby
• Publisher : Maklu
• Release : 07 June 2023

Vol. 1 examines how much is known about migrant and ethnic minority health and where the barriers to scientific progress lie. Vol. 2 is concerned with the changes that are needed to improve the matching of health services to the needs of these groups.

• Author : American University (Washington, D.C.). Cultural Information Analysis Center
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 June 1966

• Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 June 1982