biographies christopher international inspirational

books:

Scams & Swindles: Phishing, Spoofing, ID Theft, Nigerian Advance Schemes Investment Frauds: How to Recognize ...

4 reviews

Silver Lake Publishing, 2006

An excellent and pragmatic book-advice that should not go unheeded
There is a well-known wise saying, Caveat Emptor, which is the Latin for Buyer Beware. In other words, when purchasing goods or services it is essential that the buyer take all precautions in examining the item or services they are purchasing. The editors of the Silver Lake Publishers have produced an excellent and pragmatic book, Scams & Swindles: How to Recognize and Avoid Internet Era ...

Dark Storm Rising (Indigo: Sensuous Love Stories)

2 reviews
Chinelu Moore

Genesis Press, 1996

A book to remember
As an avid reader, for me, the mark of a good book is how long the story lines stays with me. I read this book several years ago and, yes, the story is vivid in my memory. I keep looking for a new book from this author!

Home and Exile

5 reviews
Chinua Achebe

Anchor, 2001

Long Live our blessed Statesman and elder
Long live the proud son of Africa and our respected statesman. Achebe the honest and truthful dispenser of both sides of the story. Colonial griots (to borrow Achebe's words) such as Elspeth Huxley and other apologists have for too long been left alone to justify the dispossession of precious lands and cultures. Until the proud son of Africa made them eat their own words and exposed them for ...

Surviving in Biafra: The Story of the Nigerian Civil War

8 reviews
Alfred Obiora Uzokwe

AuthorHouse, 2003

A Political Book Told Honestly
I loved this book because it is similar to reading a personal diary or journal left by a child. It is honest and funny,sad and poignant. The author, Mr. Uzokwe, doesn't speak as an authoritarian or an analyst. He simply tells the story of what he saw, felt and experienced as a child living in a war torn world. This includes some sorrow but also reminds us of the naiveté and life as usual ...

A Squatter's Tale (African Writers Series)

4 reviews
Ike Oguine

Heinemann, 2000

An African Rake's Progress in Foreign Parts
A humourous and painfully accurate account of the sojourn of Obi, a former undergraduate playboy and yuppie Lagos financier who lives on the fast lane as the Nigerian economy caves in, forcing him into exile as an immigrant in recession-racked early 1990s America. Temporarily reduced to minimum wage employment, Obi's sojourn in the San Franscisco Bay Area transverses the faux glitter world of ...

The Untold Story of a Nigerian Royal Family: The Urhobo Ruling Clan of Okpe Kingdom

9 reviews
Joseph O Asagba

iUniverse, Inc., 2005

Honst And Strongly Recommended---by victor vann. vann@yahoo.com
What a wonderful story Dr.Asagba had told.The stories in the book speaks powerfully to us today about war,human rights,religious freedom and the devastation of oil exploitation in Nigeria oil states.And a fascinating story about how Sir.Ralph Moor,a British colonist succeded in turning public opinion against slavery and in making it illegal in Nigeria in 1901. Victor Vann.

A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt: An African Memoir

7 reviews
Toyin Omoyeni Falola

University of Michigan Press, 2005

Listening to the elders
Growing up in Nigeria in the years around independence provides good material for a personal memoir. These must have been extraordinary times, full of hope and expectation for the emerging new country. For a growing teenager though, the issues were closer to home. Falola, well known scholar of African history, has used his personal experiences to create a rich innovative kind of memoir that ...

The Autobiography of Nicholas Said: A Native of Bornou, Eastern Soudan, Central Africa

2 reviews
Nicholas Said

Journal of Islam in America, 2001

Appreciation
It introduces us to the life of a talented, ambitious and well educated man. This is an inspirational journey of an African and of an American. You will not be able to put this book down.

Why the Sky Is Far Away: A Nigerian Folktale

4 reviews
Mary-Joan Gerson

Joy St Books, 1992

good for kids without their realizing it
I find myself struggling to get my daughter to eat foods good for her body and read books good for her mind. This book accomplished what I wanted -- it teaches about a different culture, taking care of the environment, and how greed leads to punishment. It did this with an entertaining story and beautiful pictures, fully deserving it's prominent place on my daughter's bookshelf.

The King of Limbo and Other Stories (Sewanee Writers' Series)

5 reviews
Adrianne Harun

Overlook Hardcover, 2001

STORIES PENNED WITH PRECISION, GRACE AND STYLE
This debut collection of short stories bodes well for the author's future and our reading pleasure, as Harun writes with precision, grace, and style. Nonetheless, taken as a whole, these ten tales seem oddly disjointed, vignettes gathered from hither and yon. Individually they are minute works of art, penned with perception and imagination. "Lukudi," the opening story, features Natife, a ...

Africa Wo/Man Palava: The Nigerian Novel by Women (Women in Culture and Society Series)

1 review
Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi

University Of Chicago Press, 1996

The most concise book on Nigerian Woman Writers
This book was exactly what I was looking for. This book took a really good thorough look at the other half of Nigerian novels. The side that is too often neglected: the Women. It went deep and discussed aspects of these novels that non-Nigerians and even Nigerian men are not likely to catch or know.

Second Burial for a Black Prince

1 review
Andrew Nugent

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2006

excellent Irish police procedural
In Dublin Nigerian immigrant Shadrack Nwachukwu dies from the loss of blood caused by the amputation of his leg below the knee. Garda Siochana Murder Squad Inspector Jim Quilligan and Sergeant Molly Power head the investigation. Jim's initial reaction is scorn as he assumes it is another racist murder by some misguided idiot. However, Molly says otherwise as the operation was professionally ...

Ake: The Years of Childhood

16 reviews
Wole Soyinka

Vintage, 1989

A Densely Written, Deeply Evocative Memoir of Childhood
There is a wonderful chapter in Wole Soyinka's "Ake: The Years of Childhood" which can be read as an extended metaphor for growing up or, more specifically, growing up in a small town in western Nigeria and becoming a world-recognized author and Nobel Prize winner. In that chapter Soyinka relates the story of how his older brother first hoisted the then four year old boy up on his shoulders ...

Master Man: A Tall Tale of Nigeria

2 reviews
Aaron Shepard

HarperCollins Publishers, 2000

A Masterful, Well Told Tale
Foolish Shadusa thinks he's the strongest man in the world and orders his wife to call him "master man". But his wise wife warns him: "Quit your foolish boasting. No matter how strong your are, there will always be someone stronger. And watch out, or someday you may meet him." But Shadusa doesn't listen and when he hears that another man in a nearby village also calls himself "master man", ...

The Tales Of Tortoise: Inspirational Stories of Wisdom

2 reviews
Obi Chidebelu-eze

Dove Publishing, Inc., 2005

A Return to Moral Lessons
I love this book for two reasons. First, I get to expose my children to literature from a culture they have never experienced. This book gives me an opportunitiy to teach them cultural awareness and tolerance at a very early age. Second, I get to expose them to universal life lessons and teach them how these lessons bind all of mankind. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Chidebelu-Eze is ...

Basic Currents of Nigerian Foreign Policy

1 review
Mae C. King

Howard University Press, 1996

A diplomatic history of one of the most important nations in Africa
Assuming that the problems of serious ethnic differences inside the country and the tendency to have a kleptocracy rather than a government could be overcome, then Nigeria could emerge as the most powerful nation in Africa. With over 130 million people and vast oil reserves, it is the most populous and potentially wealthiest nation in Africa. Since it achieved independence from Britain in 1960, ...

The Advance of African Capital: The Growth of Nigerian Private Enterprise

1 review
Tom Forrest

University of Virginia Press, 1994

Invaluable digest of Nigeriaýs business activity
Professor Tom Forrest's The Advance of African Capital: The Growth of Nigerian Private Enterprise provides a detailed and extensive account of medium- and large-scale African business. Up-to-date and comprehensive, it examines the growth of private enterprise in Nigeria, giving profiles of the country's key entrepreneurs. Combining ethnographic and historical perspectives, Forrest ...

Poison and Medicine: Ethnicity, Power, and Violence in a Nigerian City, 1966 to 1986

1 review
Douglas A. Anthony

Heinemann, 2002

Clear and insightful
This is a first-rate examination of the complexities that underlie communal violence in Northern Nigeria. Drawing upon skillful fieldwork, Anthony deftly weaves together issues of ethnicity, religion, politics and economic underdevelopment to show that there is no simple explanation or single cause behind this region's all-too-common conflicts. A must-read for anyone interested in ...

On the Court With Hakeem Olajuwon (Matt Christopher Sports Biographies)

1 review
Matt Christopher

Econo-Clad Books, 1999

awesome book
Do you know what professional basketball player has 3 or 4 triple-doubles, won many MVP awards and had one 50 point game?The one and only Hakeem Olajuwon.This book which I rated 9 on a 1-10 scale, is a non-fiction story with facts about his childhood, college, along with his professional career.This Sam Houston gradguate has many exciting facts and stats. Buy it, you'll like it, I promise.

Starquill International proudly presents-- Brian Wizard's Nigerian 419 scam "game over"

1 review
Brian Wizard

Starquill International, 2000

Brian Wizard is a master!
We've all received the e-mails and faxes from Unsolicited parties. An honest banker has come across a massive fortune in an unattended bank account, or a Security Company has an overinvoiced trunk, both filled to the brim with millions of dollars. All they need is a foreign investor to help them get the money out of their country away from the corrupt government officials who are trying to take ...

search for books
autobiography, biographies, christopher, inspirational, international

Impressum / about us