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Kola Onadipe was born in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun state, Nigeria.He was born into a polygamous family and was the second son of his mother. Onadipe studied law at the University of London in 1949 and later opened a law firm with his close friend Abraham Adesanya.
University Press plc (UPPLC) is Nigeria's largest indigenous book publisher. It was founded as the Nigerian branch of the British Oxford University Press [1] in 1949 with the name Oxford University Press (OUP), Nigeria. At incorporation [2] as a public liability company in 1978, the company's name was changed to University Press Limited. [3]
The story follows Ralia, a girl whose mother is blind, and whose father's back is broken. She goes missing in the forest while arranging firewood and is taken in by an old witch who offers her accommodation in return for her singing voice. Fews days later, Ralia runs away from the witch's house and is taken in by a hunter and his family.
Chike and the River is a children's story by Chinua Achebe.It was first published in South Africa in the year 1966 by Cambridge University Press, [1] with illustrations by Prue Theobalds, and was the first of several children's stories Achebe would write.
Ify: The second protagonist of the novel. An ethnically Nigerian scientific genius who is saved from being killed and raised by Onyii in the war girls' camp. Daren: The main antagonist of the novel. A celebrated Nigerian general who captures Ify from the Biafrans and assimilates her into Nigerian life. Leads the Nigerian war effort against the ...
Ohio University Press. ISBN 978-0-89680-266-7. Ogunyemi, Chikwenye Okonjo (2007). Juju Fission: Women’s Alternative Fictions from the Sahara, the Kalahari, and the Oases In-Between. Peter Lang. ISBN 978-1-4331-0089-5. Ogunyemi, Chikwenye Okonjo (1996). Africa wo/man palava: The Nigerian novel by women. University of Chicago Press. ISBN ...
The Chibok Girls styled as The Chibok Girls: The Boko Haram Kidnappings and Islamist Militancy in Nigeria is a 2016 non-fiction social novel by Nigerian author Helon Habila. The novel was developed due to 2014 kidnaping of 276 Chibok school girls from age 16 to 18 by the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram .
Lola won the PEN Award in America [6] as well as the Ken Saro-Wiwa Award for prose in Nigeria. [7] She was also on the list for the Orange Prize in the UK for her debut novel, The Secret of Baba Segi's Wives, in 2010. [8] She lives in Lagos, Nigeria, where she runs the annual Aké Arts and Book Festival. [9]