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Out Of StockIgba-Boi – Repositioning the Igbo Apprenticeship System
Igba-boi: Repositioning the Igbo Apprenticeship System highlights the entrepreneurial exploits of the Igbos of south-eastern Nigeria. Despite the globalisation-accentuated influence of western business culture, the Igbos have sustained their indigenous business system undergirded by an ingenious apprenticeship system, Igba-boi. This apprenticeship system has existed in the Igboland for decades as an important heritage, embedded in cultural norms and values passed down for generations. The authors argue that the unique framework and rules of operation of this viable socioeconomic empowerment model will, if well-positioned, make significant contributions to the advancement of the boi/Nwa-boi (apprentice), the Oga (Master), the community (Ndi-Igbo) and the achievement of the country’s overall developmental goals.
Case studies of prominent and successful Igbo people in business feature in the book to illuminate our understanding of the system:
• President and Chairman, Coscharis Group – Application of Design Thinking to Igba-boi Business Model leading to extraordinary business success
• Chairman, E. Sunny Vespa International – Disruption of Motorcycle Engine Technology, key lessons and success story
• Chairman and Chief Executive, Chisco Group – Building an Empire on Integrity & Authenticity
• Chairman, Legacy Motors – Apprenticeship, Ndi-Igbos and ASPAMDA Market, Lagos
A timely, easy-to-read, valuable resource and reference text for scholars, practitioners and regulators interested in institutionalising a sustainable business model in Africa based on a tested indigenous apprenticeship system. -
The Law Is An Ass
₦5,000.00They say fiction is an extension of the factual. Niran Adedokun’s The Law is an Ass, features nine short stories that seem like fictional manifestations of the concerns in his second book, The Danfo Driver in All of Us. In this collection, Niran continues his jeremiad about Nigeria, with stories about sexual shenanigans (both real and imagined), corruption, poverty and deprivation as well as a heady cocktail of other problems that beset a third world country like Nigeria. These stories, told in simple but gripping prose, will hold you in thrall like the tale of the Ancient Mariner.
– Toni Kan, author, The Carnivorous City
These stories have tricky plots, appearing simple and linear in design with seductive and elegant prose. Line after line, paragraph after paragraph, we grow to love the protagonists.
– Jahman Anikulapo, former Arts Editor and Editor of The Guardian on Sunday
The author leads you from randomness to some unexpected cataclysmic event in his stories. One minute you are innocently traipsing through the gullies of life and the next thing, Nigeria happens to you. The stories are like short films, vivid and captivating.
– Mildred Okwo, filmmaker and writer
Niran’s stories are populated by characters who are our neighbours, our friends, our colleagues and members of our family. He offers us an entertaining and educative read that is vivid, engaging and throbbing.
– Olukorede Yisha, author, In The Name of our Father and Secret Vaults
They say fiction is an extension of the factual. Niran Adedokun’s The Law is an Ass, features nine short stories that seem like fictional manifestations of the concerns in his second book, The Danfo Driver in All of Us. In this collection, Niran continues his jeremiad about Nigeria, with stories about sexual shenanigans (both real and imagined), corruption, poverty and deprivation as well as a heady cocktail of other problems that beset a third world country like Nigeria. These stories, told in simple but gripping prose, will hold you in thrall like the tale of the Ancient Mariner.
– Toni Kan, author, The Carnivorous City
These stories have tricky plots, appearing simple and linear in design with seductive and elegant prose. Line after line, paragraph after paragraph, we grow to love the protagonists.
– Jahman Anikulapo, former Arts Editor and Editor of The Guardian on Sunday
The author leads you from randomness to some unexpected cataclysmic event in his stories. One minute you are innocently traipsing through the gullies of life and the next thing, Nigeria happens to you. The stories are like short films, vivid and captivating.
– Mildred Okwo, filmmaker and writer
Niran’s stories are populated by characters who are our neighbours, our friends, our colleagues and members of our family. He offers us an entertaining and educative read that is vivid, engaging and throbbing.
– Olukorede Yisha, author, In The Name of our Father and Secret Vaults
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A Stranger in Their Midst
₦5,000.00Charles E. Archibong was elevated to the bench of the Federal High Court of Nigeria in 2002—the primary superintending forum of Nigeria’s federal system, with jurisdiction over the executive activity of the federal government and all its agencies.
This book details matters that came before Archibong during his time as a Federal Judge. His characteristic approach to adjudication was a decided bent toward speedy conclusion of proceedings before him. These cases ranged from the abduction of a sitting state governor, the recall of the Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, a trial of activists of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), to pushing through trial a civil claim against federal authorities over publication of an air accident report, oil magnates and communication czars tangling with their creditors. The stories are told with the skill and pathos of an excellent writer.
Things reach a climax when Justice Archibong collides with senior lawyers engaged on behalf of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to conduct a major criminal trial, and about the same time the Judge gets caught in the crossfire of feuding political bigwigs litigating for the control of party political structures. These conflicts will lead to the premature termination of his judicial career.
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My Life and Times
₦6,000.00His Eminence Dr. Sunday Mbang, CON was born in Idua, Eket in August 1936. He emerged as the head of the Methodist Church of Nigeria at a most difficult time when Nigeria was controlled by the military. He was elected the head of all the Christians in Nigeria, a position he held for eight years.
His memoir is the story of his journey from his home town to the head of Nigerian Christiandom.
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PSST…JUST SAYING: Musings of an Exasperated Woman
₦4,500.00 – ₦5,000.00In Psst… Just Saying, Obafunke draws readers out of their comfort zone into her orbit without apologising for her viewpoint. Her central argument is that cultural norms evolve and exist for reasons that ensure their survival in the Zeitgeist.
These deeply personal and emotional poignant essays present the writer’s concerns about modernism, culture, respect and life. They make for a read that is in turns deadly serious, outrageously funny and profoundly honest.
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The Morning After (Paperback Only)
₦3,500.00The Morning After: A Guide for Media Reporting and Prevention of Suicide in Nigeria is an insightful book on how to handle a major mental health problem hardly discussed in Nigeria—suicide. With chilling statistics and anecdotal references, Olufemi Oluwatayo and Martins Ifijeh reveal that there is an urgent need for sensitivity in the way suicides are reported in Nigeria, and they proffer solutions on how to prevent this silent public health challenge. The Morning After is a major work that should provoke a serious conversation on why many Nigerians are now taking their own lives.
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Out Of StockThe Waiting Room
₦5,000.00Nkechi, Yeni, and Tale all want the same thing: children of their own. But with each passing year, their dreams turn into nightmares of a future they never anticipated. Infertility is the unwanted guest in their homes, mocking all their efforts and feeding on their misery.
But these three women are fighters. They will not stop or back down – no power is too heavy and no strangeness too unacceptable in their quest.
The Waiting Room is a place of unusual strength and courage.
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The Millennial Employee
₦4,500.00With the popular assumption that entrepreneurship is the best career path for young people to take comes the corollary that young people now believe in the questionable maxim: you cannot fulfill your purpose if you do not start a business.
However, in this remarkable debut, career expert, Wunmi Adelusi, demonstrates that paid employment is a viable and sustainable way to succeed in life. She draws examples from scripture, such as Joseph’s rise from slave to prime minister in Egypt, from popular real-life examples, and from her own life.
The author, in step-by-step analyses, shows millennials the rules to follow when trying to build a successful career. She gives insight on how to make your work count and how to leverage mentors and networking.
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Out Of StockNative Tales
₦2,500.00In Olamidé Adams’ Native Tales: A Collection of Short Stories, a spinster in Iliya must dance bare in the market square to save the king from dying; an unlikely but kind young boy got mysterious strength, during a wrestling bout, to defeat and crush the pride of a feared wrestler in Agbor; a drummer learnt to take care of his magical talking drum and together, they saved the land of Ibadan from a dispute that almost divided the kingdom; a young and brave girl in the land of Igbeyinadun journeyed where no man had succeeded in quest of a remedy to heal her sick mother and one of two childhood friends from Esanogbogun remained faithful to their years-long-amity unlike the other who was selfish and eventually got paid in his own coin. All these stories resonate the value that hallmarks heroes, selflessness in service to others.
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Out Of StockA-Files
₦5,000.00Nita’s (almost) perfect world has just been turned on its slightly ruffled but otherwise happy head. Now, not only does she have to endure living with Adesuwa, the world’s most overbearing sister, she has to go to school with her as well!
Will Nita succeed at finding a place for herself at her new school or will she be totally blotted out by Adesuwa’s (totally ridiculous) popularity?
A-Files is the first in a series of middle-grade children’s books by Victoria Afe Inegbedion. It follows the lives of teen sisters Nita and Adesuwa as they navigate life, school and family.
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Winning With Wisdom
₦3,500.00Winning with Wisdom is a collection of poems that are deep and soul lifting. In the pages of this book, you will understand the healing power of God, read about His benevolence and ask deep questions about debacles happening around the world. Victor Uwakwe outdid himself on this one.
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Out Of StockThe Danfo Driver in All of Us
₦3,500.00The Danfo Driver in All of Us is a collection of newspaper commentaries on the state of the nation by Niran Adedokun. This collection of essays discusses subject matters like domestic violence, corrupt politicians, the corruption in Nigerian churches and hypocrisy of pastors, the recklessness of danfo drivers, maternal mortality among others. This collection aims to make us reflect on ourselves as Nigerians and check if we are indeed different from the Danfo Driver.
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Wahala
₦3,000.00Wahala first came to life as a fully-scripted work twenty years ago in my student days at the University of Ibadan. It was a bearded and bespectacled young man’s revolt against conformity, a search for meaning, a toast to love, a damnation of increased fees and draconian policies, a celebration of comradeship over literary banter and beers, a frown at the regimes that treated Nigerians like common denominators in the 90s, an ode to silence, anger and shock at the dramas that just never seemed to end.
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Out Of Stock49 Ways to Get Rid of The Other Woman Without Getting Caught
₦4,000.00 – ₦5,500.0049 Ways to Get Rid of The Other Woman Without Getting Caught is a book that deals with the major issue of infidelity in marriage. The book explores the subject through the lens of a wife, seeking to oust the other woman, an intruder, who is threatening her territory. In the pages, Amaka Chika-Mbonu presents a 49-day programme of warfare, both spiritual and temporal, for all couples, to wrestle with the evil of infidelity and adultery. She uses riveting stories—loosely based on true facts garnered over fifteen years as a marital counsellor, using the enshrined word of God—to teach practical lessons. It contains a chronicle of laws, petitions, and supplications. The tone is militant, violent and aggressive, and as in regular warfare, there will be casualties. It is essentially a manual for spiritual warfare.
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Out Of StockThe Side Hustle Workbook
₦2,500.00The Side Hustle Workbook is for everybody toying with a new idea and looking to make extra cash on the side, especially women, because if more women are empowered, this world will be a better place.
Beginnings can be tough when starting a venture, no matter the size, and this workbook will help you assess your knowledge in essential business areas, marked as “HOT SPOTS”, to equip you. It is designed in an easy and interactive question and answer format, and you can score yourself to determine your strengths and weaknesses. Also use it as a checklist, a growth journal and a business planner to prepare for your business.
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Out Of StockImpostor Alert
₦4,500.00Two women meet on a bus heading for Lagos – one to continue her poor-paying job as a prostitute, and the other to visit a long-distance boyfriend. Both women discover that they share an uncanny resemblance and become fast friends. But before the end of that day, there will be a fatal crash. One woman will die and the other – following a case of mistaken identity – will impersonate her.
Gently navigating the chasm between the lives of the oblivious rich and desperate poor, Impostor Alert! is a finely wrought tale about grief, forgiveness and redemption.
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Imminent River
₦4,500.00A DEATH-DEFYING CONTEST FOR A LIFE-RESTORING FORMULA…
Far deeper than the story of a traditional healer and her feuding children’s search for her ‘life’ formula, Imminent River seamlessly melds a delectably gorgeous love story into a historical family saga, one reminiscent of Alex Haley’s R-o-o-t-s, but in which the search is in the opposite direction, for the ‘shoots’ rather than ‘roots’. This epic spans half a world – from the fetid swamps of West Africa, Europe and North America and Back. The result: an intricate build-up, a breath-taking denouement, a hair-raising resolution. If bookshelves were anthills, they’d rise in standing ovation.
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Out Of StockHashtags
₦3,000.00“Social media offers a unique lens into what tens of millions of Nigerians are thinking and feeling about their lives, their futures and their government. Egbunike drinks deeply from the well of social media and draws forth ethnographic narratives that outline the aspirations and fears of contemporary Nigerians, from ethnic tensions, concerns about the vitality of leadership and hopes for a more open society. #Hashtags offers a glimpse into the world of social media at its liveliest and most energetic, the passions of Nigerians playing out online, 280 characters at a time.” – Ethan Zuckerman, Director, Center for Civic Media, MIT; Associate Professor of the Practice, MIT Media Lab
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Sand, Sun and Surprises
₦5,000.00Part travelogue, part insightful memoir, Sand, Sun and Surprises memorialises the decades that Prof E S Akpata spent living and working as a Nigerian expatriate in oil-rich Middle East. A top scholar in the field of dental surgery, he leaves Nigeria during the recession of the 1980s, to take up, initially, a temporary job in the region, but ends up spending twenty-three years pioneering research and other academic activities in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
Sand, Sun and Surprises demystifies the culture of the Arab world; it is a fascinating take, filled with moments of humour – like the one time when he thinks his car is stolen in Kuwait, and after searching for hours, finds it in the same spot he left it. The author describes a region transformed from harsh desert conditions to gleaming cities made of glass and steel, elegant buildings, and five-star restaurants; changes that seemed to have occurred in an instant.
This is a practical book for those who wish to understand, emigrate or visit the Middle East for work or leisure.
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Ladies Calling The Shots
₦5,000.00The new Nigerian Cinema, Nollywood, owes its global admiration in part to its open-arm attention to gender balance. As talented and beautiful faces won audiences over, many female professionals drew attention to the strength and spectacle that endeared this pivotal industry to audiences around the world.
Niran Adedokun’s Ladies Calling the Shots has perhaps drawn the most critical attention to the role of female directors in Nollywood. From Lola Fani-Kayode’s pioneering work to Amaka Igwe’s bold narratives, to the work of Mildred Okwo and Tope Oshin. This book is an ode to the Ladies who call the shots in Nigerian film.
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The Stars Are Ageless
₦7,000.00A young woman who chooses love. A daughter who must repay her mother’s sacrifices. A filmmaker accused of stealing her own creation. A woman held up by faith, family and true friendship when her world is rocked to its very foundation. Omoni Oboli has played as many roles in life as she has on the big screen. But a movie ends and life goes on. The Stars are Ageless presents the true story of the woman hailed as “The Box Office Queen” of Nigerian cinema.
These life experiences shaped Omoni into who she is, and promise that we will see much more from her.
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Out Of StockThe Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library
₦5,000.00The Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library was established to promote democratic values, and is the first of its kind in Africa. Visitors to the library will learn of the history of Nigeria’s through the lens of President Obasanjo’s life as a farmer, soldier, public servant and elder statesman.
President Obasanjo’s continues to pursue initiatives that will improve citizens’ lives, and promote home grown solutions to Africa’s challenges. The Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library brings his legacy and presents his life as an inspiration for citizens and youths— overcoming a difficult childhood, a successful military career, incarceration for his activism, and emergence as Nigeria’s elective president, and his work since leaving office.
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Out Of StockThere Is Always Room
₦2,000.00 – ₦3,000.00There is Always Room is a book of selected wise sayings from the life, writing and philosophy of Olusegun Obasanjo, Executive President of Nigeria 1999 – 2007. In more than 500 quotes, President Obasanjo takes the reader on a journey through the experiences – from his humble beginnings in Ibogun, his time in the military, his career as a farmer, and his exciting political life – that have formed his unique insight and wisdom.
The quotes within this book are presented in five parts – culture and community, humanity, leadership, governance and spirituality. Readers will come away with a clearer understanding of President Obasanjo’s life and work, and find truths that will inspire them to build a strong foundation to live fulfilling lives.
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Out Of StockMaking Africa Work
₦7,500.00Sub-Saharan Africa faces three big inter-related challenges over the next generation. It will double its population to two billion by 2045. By then more than half of Africans will be living in cities. And this group of mostly young people will be connected with each other and the world through mobile devices.
Properly harnessed and planned for, this is a tremendously positive force for change. Without economic growth and jobs, it could prove a political and social catastrophe. Old systems of patronage and muddling through will no longer work because of these population increases. Instead, if leaders want to continue in power, they will have to promote economic growth in a more dynamic manner.
Making Africa Work is a first-hand account and handbook of how to ensure growth beyond commodities and create jobs in the continent.
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Out Of StockThe Pressure Cooker
₦3,500.00“Don’t you know you are a girl?”
Nkiru Olumide-Ojo sets out, in this book, to respond to that question, and in the process, subvert its hidden “restraining” intent. In nine short and eminently readable chapters, The Pressure Cooker offers advice to women in the workplace. Advice that comes from Nkiru’s lived experience—of motherhood, workplace sensibilities, and climbing up that corporate ladder.
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Drumbeats – Proverbs Of Africa
₦5,000.00Proverbs in most African languages are crisp, pithy and condensed means of saying much with few words. Obii Okweluwe has curated a solid collection of wisdom and inspiration from the African continent that are relevant to the custom, tradition, experience and way of life of the people. These idiomatic and at times diplomatic sayings contain moral lessons and advice that touch on all conditions of life.
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Out Of StockFolktales Are Forever
₦2,000.00This volume is the first in a collection of well-researched African folktales put together by Efe Farinre. We follow the usual suspects as they traverse the landscape of our children’s imagination. Tortoise is his mischievous old self. Monkey cannot keep still. Owl is as wise as can be. These tales share the universal lessons of courage, friendship, kindness, and many more that every parent was taught and desires to pass on to their children. The songs in the stories are set to music and will provide additional fun for the musically inclined reader.
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Out Of StockAre You Not A Nigerian?
₦3,000.00This collection of essays chronicles a country’s fourth attempt at democratic governance after many years of military dictatorship. Through his personal experiences and observations, Báyọ̀ Olúpohùndà captures the reality of Nigeria’s socio-political environment at the turn of the millennium, the collapse of dignity in service, and the ubiquitous “Nigerian factor” that creates entitlement. Are You Not A Nigerian? examines the lost opportunities, the disappointment of successive administrations, and the dilemma of a nation at a crossroads.