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Born on a Tuesday

A Novel

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"A Nigerian bildungsroman featuring Dantala, a street kid thrust calamitously into the arms of a gentle sheikh, who thereafter faces Islamic extremism." — O, The Oprah Magazine, "10 Titles to Pick Up Now"Winner of the 2017 Betty Trask PrizeA Finalist for the Nigeria Prize for LiteratureNominated for 2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy AwardAn Indies Introduce SelectionAn Amazon Best Book of the Mon... ... Read more

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"A Nigerian bildungsroman featuring Dantala, a street kid thrust calamitously into the arms of a gentle sheikh, who thereafter faces Islamic extremism." — O, The Oprah Magazine, "10 Titles to Pick Up Now"Winner of the 2017 Betty Trask PrizeA Finalist for the Nigeria Prize for LiteratureNominated for 2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy AwardAn Indies Introduce SelectionAn Amazon Best Book of the Mon...
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Becoming Nigerian: A Guide

A Guide

by Elnathan John ...

Be(com)ing Nigerian: A Guide is a satirical collection that takes a searing look at how different forms of power are abused, negotiated and performed both in the private and public realm.Through attempting to satirise those who abuse privilege or power, it recognises that power can be found everywhere: in politics, business, religious institutions and in homes. From the exploration of religious ... Read more

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Be(com)ing Nigerian: A Guide is a satirical collection that takes a searing look at how different forms of power are abused, negotiated and performed both in the private and public realm.Through attempting to satirise those who abuse privilege or power, it recognises that power can be found everywhere: in politics, business, religious institutions and in homes. From the exploration of religious
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Being and Belonging

Safe House Short Story Singles Bundle

by Elnathan John, Bongani Kona, Msingi Sasis, Sarita Ranchod, Barbara Wanjala ...

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction, Safe House brings together works from Africa's contemporary literary greats. In a collection that ranges from travel writing and memoir to reportage and meditative essays, editor Ellah Wakatama Allfrey has brought together some of the most talented writers of ... Read more

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Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction, Safe House brings together works from Africa's contemporary literary greats. In a collection that ranges from travel writing and memoir to reportage and meditative essays, editor Ellah Wakatama Allfrey has brought together some of the most talented writers of
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The Keepers of Secrets

Safe House Short Story Singles

by Elnathan John ...

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction, Safe House brings together works from Africa's contemporary literary greats. In a collection that ranges from travel writing and memoir to reportage and meditative essays, editor Ellah Wakatama Allfrey has brought together some of the most talented writers of ... Read more

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Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction, Safe House brings together works from Africa's contemporary literary greats. In a collection that ranges from travel writing and memoir to reportage and meditative essays, editor Ellah Wakatama Allfrey has brought together some of the most talented writers of
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On Ajayi Crowther Street

by Elnathan John ...

On the noisy Ajayi Crowther Street in Lagos, neighbours gather to gossip, discuss noise complaints, and faithfully head to church each Sunday. But beneath the surface lies a hidden world of clandestine love affairs, spiritual quackery and hypocrisy that threatens to destroy the community from within.On Ajayi Crowther Street peels back the curtains on the lives of Pastor Akpoborie and his family, ... Read more

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On the noisy Ajayi Crowther Street in Lagos, neighbours gather to gossip, discuss noise complaints, and faithfully head to church each Sunday. But beneath the surface lies a hidden world of clandestine love affairs, spiritual quackery and hypocrisy that threatens to destroy the community from within.On Ajayi Crowther Street peels back the curtains on the lives of Pastor Akpoborie and his family,
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Lusaka Punk and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2015

by Segun Afolabi, Elnathan John, F. T. Kola, Masande Ntshanga, Namwali Serpell ...

Now in its sixteenth year, the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa’s leading literary prize, and is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere. This collection collects the five 2015 shortlisted stories, along with stories written at the Caine Prize Writers’ Workshop, which took place in April 2015. ... Read more

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Now in its sixteenth year, the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa’s leading literary prize, and is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere. This collection collects the five 2015 shortlisted stories, along with stories written at the Caine Prize Writers’ Workshop, which took place in April 2015.
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Formation

The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation

by Fola Fagbule, Feyi Fawehinmi ...

Narrated by Elnathan John ...

Unabridged

13 hours 27 min

What do you get when dare-devil jihadists, mad English missionaries and proud, stubborn, warring natives meet in a clash? Nigeria.Formation: The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation tracks the unlikely series of events and characters that turned a collection of disparate nations into a British colony in 1914. But the story of Nigeria’s formation begins much earlier, in 1804 when the ... Read more

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What do you get when dare-devil jihadists, mad English missionaries and proud, stubborn, warring natives meet in a clash? Nigeria.Formation: The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation tracks the unlikely series of events and characters that turned a collection of disparate nations into a British colony in 1914. But the story of Nigeria’s formation begins much earlier, in 1804 when the
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Becoming Nigerian

A Guide

by Elnathan John ...

Narrated by Elnathan John ...

Unabridged

3 hours 59 min

In Be(com)ing Nigerian: A Guide, Elnathan John provides an affecting, unrestrained and satirical guide to theNigerians you will meet at home and abroad, or on your way to hell and to heaven. It is a searing look at how poweris performed, negotiated and abused in private and in public; in politics, business, religious institutions and in homes.From the exploration of religious hypocrisy to ... Read more

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In Be(com)ing Nigerian: A Guide, Elnathan John provides an affecting, unrestrained and satirical guide to theNigerians you will meet at home and abroad, or on your way to hell and to heaven. It is a searing look at how poweris performed, negotiated and abused in private and in public; in politics, business, religious institutions and in homes.From the exploration of religious hypocrisy to
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Unbury Our Dead with Song

by Mukoma Wa Ngugi ...

Narrated by Elnathan John ...

Unabridged

7 hours 23 min

A love letter to music, beauty, and imaginationIn the seedy ABC boxing club in Nairobi, four musicians—The Diva, The Corporal, The Taliban Man, and Miriam—gather for a competition to see who can perform the best Tizita. Listening from the audience is Kenyan tabloid journalistJohn Thando Manfredi, whose own life makes him vulnerable to the Tizita.Desperate to learn more, he follows the musicians ... Read more

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A love letter to music, beauty, and imaginationIn the seedy ABC boxing club in Nairobi, four musicians—The Diva, The Corporal, The Taliban Man, and Miriam—gather for a competition to see who can perform the best Tizita. Listening from the audience is Kenyan tabloid journalistJohn Thando Manfredi, whose own life makes him vulnerable to the Tizita.Desperate to learn more, he follows the musicians
... Read more
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Caged Ocean Dub

by Dare Segun Falowo ...

Narrated by Elnathan John ...

Unabridged

9 hours 37 min

There are dragons in Lagos and witches who wear their sons’ skins, while a cabal of otherworldly beings are collecting intelligent life forms in the depths of the universe.This collection features some of Falowo’s most notable previously published stories alongside new tales of magic and terror. “Inspired by real events and/or emotional states and fuelled by a love of indigenous cosmologies and ... Read more

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There are dragons in Lagos and witches who wear their sons’ skins, while a cabal of otherworldly beings are collecting intelligent life forms in the depths of the universe.This collection features some of Falowo’s most notable previously published stories alongside new tales of magic and terror. “Inspired by real events and/or emotional states and fuelled by a love of indigenous cosmologies and
... Read more
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New York, My Village

by Uwem Akpan ...

Narrated by Elnathan John ...

Unabridged

15 hours 49 min

Exuberant storytelling full of wry comedy, dark history, and devastating satire—by the celebrated and original author of an Oprah’s Book Club selection, Say You’re One of Them.From a suspiciously cheap Hell’s Kitchen walk-up, Nigerian editor and winner of a Toni Morrison Publishing Fellowship Ekong Udousoro is about to begin the opportunity of a lifetime: to learn the ins and outs of the ... Read more

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Exuberant storytelling full of wry comedy, dark history, and devastating satire—by the celebrated and original author of an Oprah’s Book Club selection, Say You’re One of Them.From a suspiciously cheap Hell’s Kitchen walk-up, Nigerian editor and winner of a Toni Morrison Publishing Fellowship Ekong Udousoro is about to begin the opportunity of a lifetime: to learn the ins and outs of the
... Read more
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Born on a Tuesday

by Elnathan John ...

Narrated by Corey Allen ...

Unabridged

7 hours 41 min

From two-time Caine Prize finalist Elnathan John, a dynamic young voice from Nigeria, Born on a Tuesday is a stirring, starkly rendered first novel about a young boy struggling to find his place in a society that is fracturing along religious and political lines.In far northwestern Nigeria, Dantala lives among a gang of street boys who sleep under a kuka tree. During the election, the boys are ... Read more

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From two-time Caine Prize finalist Elnathan John, a dynamic young voice from Nigeria, Born on a Tuesday is a stirring, starkly rendered first novel about a young boy struggling to find his place in a society that is fracturing along religious and political lines.In far northwestern Nigeria, Dantala lives among a gang of street boys who sleep under a kuka tree. During the election, the boys are
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