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The Invention Of Women: Making An African Sense Of Western Gender Discourses
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The Invention Of Women

By Oyeronke Oyewumi ,

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My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
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My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

By Amos Tutuola ,

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Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes
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Loot

By Barnaby Phillips ,

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Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why
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Homo Aestheticus

By Ellen Dissanayake ,

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Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights, and Oil in the Niger Delta
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Where Vultures Feast

By Ike Okonta , Oronto Douglas ,

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These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home
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These Wilds Beyond Our Fences

By Bayo Akomolafe ,

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Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria
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Postcolonial Modernism

By Chika Okeke-Agulu ,

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A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary
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A Month and a Day

By Ken Saro-Wiwa ,

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Muslim Modernity in Postcolonial Nigeria: A Study of the Society for the Removal of Innovation and Reinstatement of Tradition
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Muslim Modernity in Postcolonial Nigeria

By Ousmane Kane ,

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Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria
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Pentecostal Republic

By Ebenezer Obadare ,

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Reforming the Unreformable: Lessons from Nigeria
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Reforming the Unreformable

By Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ,

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On Media Memory: Collective Memory in a New Media Age
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On Media Memory

By Motti Neiger (editor) , Oren Meyers (editor) , Eyal Zandberg (editor)

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The Gods are Not to Blame
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The Gods are Not to Blame

By Ola Rotimi ,

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They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria
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They Eat Our Sweat

By Daniel E. Agbiboa ,

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Stealth Of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy
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Stealth Of Nations

By Robert Neuwirth ,

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The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey
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The Two Princes of Calabar

By Randy J. Sparks ,

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Family Matters: Feminist Concepts in African Philosophy of Culture
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Family Matters

By Nkiru Uwechia Nzegwu ,

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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vasso, the African
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vasso, the African

By Olaudah Equiano ,

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Bring Back Our Girls: The Untold Story of the Global Search for Nigeria's Missing Schoolgirls
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Bring Back Our Girls

By Joe Parkinson , Drew Hinshaw ,

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The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
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The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls

By Mona Eltahawy ,

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A Spell of Good Things
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A Spell of Good Things

By Ayobami Adebayo ,

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Forest of A Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga
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Forest of A Thousand Daemons

By D.O. Fagunwa , Bruce Onobrakpeya (illustrator) , Wole Soyinka (translator)

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The Atoms Of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules Of Grammar
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The Atoms Of Language

By Mark C. Baker ,

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The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
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The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives

By Lola Shoneyin ,

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