From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution - a number one international best seller - that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human".

One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one - Homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us?

Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically acclaimed New York Times best seller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.

Over the past century, humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but as Harari explains in his trademark style - thorough yet riveting - famine, plague, and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists, and criminals put together. 

Homo Deus

Aisha represents a people who have been forced to flee their homes as a result of armed conflict in North-East Nigeria. This book chronicles real-life stories of people displaced from Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States in 2014 who now live in the Area 1 IDP Camp, Durumi, Abuja. 
It describes their escape from conflict and the hazardous journey to the Internally Displaced Persons Camp in Abuja. But what happens now that they find themselves living in a camp, miles away from home? What happens to these people who have lost loved ones and properties and have no one to call family? Do we consider the mental health effects on people who have experienced traumatic circumstances that keep playing back in their minds - the death of loved ones, and women who were left to bury the dead? How do we rebuild their lives and restore dignity? How do we communicate to them that their dreams are still valid? How do we ensure that they are able to rise above their current situation because there is great potential in every one of them? 
This book aims to educate and create awareness on the plight of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), who are victims of the BokoHaram Insurgency in North-East Nigeria. It also highlights solutions around different aspects of displacement including coordinated camp management systems, mental health support, and economic empowerment. 
I had a home, friends, family, education and a community – one day, all of that changed. 

My Name is Aisha

Acclaimed novelist Helon Habila, who grew up in northern Nigeria, returned to Chibok and gained intimate access to the families of the kidnapped to offer a devastating account of a tragedy that stunned the world. With compassion and a deep understanding of the historical context, Habila tells the stories of the girls and the anguish of their parents; chronicles the rise of Boko Haram and the Nigerian government's inept response; and captures the indifference of the media and the international community whose attention has long moved on.
Employing a fiction writer's sensibility and a journalist's curiosity, The Chibok Girls provides poignant portraits of everyday Nigerians whose lives have been transformed by extremist forces. Habila illuminates the long history of colonialism-and unmasks cultural and religious dynamics-that gave rise to the conflicts that have ravaged the region to this day.

The Chibok Girls

In this book you will discover: 
1. Africans brought civilization to Europe 
2. Africa is the cradle of the world civilization 
3. Africans built the ancient Egypt 
4. Ethiopia the first civilization in the world 
5. How African brought civilization to Asia 
6. Africa''s influence on the world''s main religions 
7. Africans influence on the roman emperor 
8. Africans influence in the medieval Europe 
9. Africans influence on the modern Europe 
10. Africans influence on Christianity


How Africans brought civilization to Europe: Discover the phenomenal role of Africans on all continents

In Scotland she was afraid of a cow, but in Africa she was not afraid of anything. Here is a heroine whose bravery any boy or girl may be proud to imitate… human lives were scarified to the gods by the demon-worshiping natives. Slaves were killed or ill treated as a matter of course. Children were neglected. There was only one thing that could change that region – and that was what Mary Slessor brought with her – the light of the gospel….So much happened to her that was interesting that you should read the whole story of her life for yourselves…in order to really understand the bravery of Mary Slessor. She is one of the great missionary heroines, and by her devotion, her beautiful Christianity, her courage, her unselfishness, her love for others, she transformed a region of terrible wickedness into a place of love and beauty.

The White Queen of Okoyong

WINNER – JOHN AVERY AWARD, THE ANDRE SIMON FOOD & DRINK BOOK AWARDS 2016 “One of the most enduring myths on the Nigerian Femme Fatale -  mammy-water, 'winch' or husband-snatcher -  has to do with the cooking of fish stew … A woman can do what she likes with a man when she knows how to satisfy his appetite for food.” Longthroat Memoirs presents a sumptuous menu of essays about Nigerian food, lovingly presented by the nation's top epicurean writer. As well as a mouth-watering appraisal of the cultural politics and erotics of Nigerian cuisine, it is also a series of love letters to the Nigerian palate. From innovations in soup, fish as aphrodisiac and the powerful seductions of the yam, Longthroat Memoirs examines the complexities, the peculiarities, the meticulousness, and the tactility of Nigerian food. Nigeria has a strong culture of oral storytelling, of myth creation, of imaginative traversing of worlds. Longthroat Memoirs collates some of those stories into an irresistible soup-pot, expressed in the flawless love language of appetite and nourishment. 

Longthroat Memoirs

The memoir focuses on the writer’s experiences while living and working in the Middle East (Saudi Arabia and Kuwait) for 23 years. According to Professor Akpata, “After working in the Middle East for 23 years, I returned to my country, Nigeria in 2011. In conversation with friends at home and abroad, a topic that invariably came up
was about my experiences in the Middle East.

“Some of them have found it astonishing that I was able to survive in Arab countries for that length of time, considering the quaint stories that they had heard about the region. Others have been curious and wanted tips on life in the Middle East, in case they emigrate, or needed to advise others who had similar plans. Hence, I decided to write this memoir.”
The first chapter of Sand, Sun and Surprises, describes the author’s professional background, while the second chapter deals with the social impact of the collapse of the Nigerian economy following the fall in the world price of crude oil in the 1980s, how the bleak economic situation resulted in massive devaluation of the naira and consequently, a steep decline in the purchasing power of Nigerians. Hence, the middle class who had skills that were marketable outside Nigeria started to emigrate.

Sand, Sun and Suprises

African Traditional Religion (ATR) is the indigenous religion practiced by Africans before the advent of Islam and Christianity. As these foreign religions were introduced to Nigeria, the early missionaries in their quest to eradicate African Traditional Religion and to impose the foreign religion on the indigenous people devised many ways to put ATR to extinct. These includes expedition, derogatory names as well as describing  it as something evil which ought to not to be practiced  by Africans. Thus, it seems that ATR has gone to extinct and is no more influential in our society.  This book  shows how ATR will survive despite the presence of foreign religions (Islam and Christianity) in Nigeria.  In an attempt to examine the influences of  foreign religions on the indigenous religion in Nigeria, it was discovered that foreign religions with  their various  cultures  to Nigeria  have both positive and negative influences on ATR. With these influences on ATR it seems that ATR will go to extinction but it will not  because  in matters of deeper things of life such as birth, festival, marriage, customs and death, Nigerians  have remained  largely followers of indigenous religion. Therefore, ATR will continue to thrive and influence Nigerians despite the presence of Islam and Christianity.

The Survival of African Traditional Religion

“City Woman” is a wakeup call to everyone to stand against injustice and anomalies in the community. An appreciation note to every prominent woman on a mission to end the subjugation that has long overstayed. This book is a must read for everyone, most especially females that are not only planning to be recognized within the sub-category of women-history but part of all of history. A worthy read for women that want to end up like threads that altered the puzzled pattern of history for everyone.

City Woman

Ignis: Nigeria’s Journey through Fire is a creative and meticulous attempt by the Author to narrate the Nigerian story. As fire can be warmly comforting so can it be ferociously destructive.
Nigeria has seen both comfort and challenging sides of nationhood. Rufai Oseni makes attempt, through this book, to create stability in the face of the destabilizing tendencies currently bedevilling Nigeria.

IGNIS: Nigeria's Journey Through Fire

This book provides important aspects of African diasporic experiences, covering the mass movement of Africans to Asia, Europe, and United States of America, the resistance to the epistemic violence caused by slavery and slave revolts, and the survival of African culture in the Diaspora. The book also explores the role of arts in fostering development as well as the influence of slavery and religion on Africans. Given the contradictions that continue to define African experiences in the global capitalist system, the book offers some alternative points of departure.
Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba is a Senior Lecturer and the Coordinator of the Research cluster on Innovation and Developmental Regionalism at the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa. He obtained his PhD in Political Science with specialization in International Political Economy of Trade from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, where he is a tenured Faculty member. Oloruntoba is the author of Regionalism and Integration in Africa: EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements and Euro-Nigeria Relations, and co-editor of Regenerating Africa: Bringing African Solutions to African Problems and the forthcoming Palgrave Handbook on African Politics, Governance and Development. Oloruntoba received the 2016 Wangari Maathai Award for Innovative Research Leadership at the University of Texas in Austin.

Africa and Its Diaspora: History, Identities and Economy

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.

Weird Picture

Highlife is the only music in this country that has stood and will continue to stand the test of time.' - Victor Olaiya
As West Africa's oldest form of popular music, highlife was the soundtrack of the independence era. Its influence still resonates today. Highlife Giants is an intimate portrait of the pioneering artistes of West Africa's music scene from the 1920s onwards. It contains interviews with stars such as E.T Mensah, Kofo Ghanaba, King Bruce, Bobby Benson, Victor Uwaifo, and Ignace De Souza revealing priceless behind-the-scenes moments such as Louis Armstrong giving Eddie Okonta a trumpet with a golden mouthpiece after seeing him perform. Highlife Giants charts the development of this rich and varied popular form which is hugely influential on contemporary West African music from Afrobeat to hiplife. Blending European and African-American styles with traditional African patterns, highlife music contributed to the development of post-independence national identity in both Ghana and Nigeria. As such, highlife remains crucial in generating social commentary, protest and contributing to the formation of a pan-African musical identity. For those who lived through the era, Highlife Giants will be a compendium that invokes treasured memories. For their children and grandchildren, this book will inspire an interest in the rich musical history of West Africa

Highlife Giants

How could he have known sneaking into her bed would haunt him after three years?
A menacing looking Azuka had growled and snarled at him in his dreams. When he could no longer endure the nightmares, twenty-six-year-old Cheta had left his room and sat outside.

That night, he had wished for the protective cover of a moonless night. Instead, a full moon, as Mama would say, swept the ground. He should have known the countless stars, which winked at him, were not in camaraderie. The night’s brightness should have deterred him, but no; the dog beckoned by death, does not perceive the smell of excreta...

Cheta

On December 31 1787, the HMS Bounty, a small sailing vessel embarked from Spithead Harbor, England bound for Tahiti. Her mission was sponsored by the Royal Society in London and aimed at picking up breadfruit plants and fruit from Tahiti and conveying them to the West Indies, where it was hoped they would take root and become a commercial crop.

The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S Bounty

“On the road to Cairo one may see twenty groups exactly like that of the Holy Family in the pictures of the Flight into Egypt; with only one difference. The man is riding on the ass.” “The real mistake of the Muslims is something much more modern in its application than any particular passing persecution of Christians as such. It lay in the very fact that they did think they had a simpler and saner sort of Christianity, as do many modern Christians. They thought it could be made universal merely by being made uninteresting. Now a man preaching what he thinks is a platitude is far more intolerant than a man preaching what he admits is a paradox. It was exactly because it seemed self-evident, to Muslims as to Bolshevists, that their simple creed was suited to everybody, that they wished in that particular sweeping fashion to impose it on everybody.” 

The New Jerusalem

Aspects of Colonial Tanzanian History is a collection of essays that examines the lives and experiences of both colonizers and the colonized during colonial rule in what is today known as Tanzania. Dr. Mbogoni examines a range of topics hitherto unexplored by scholars of Tanzania history, namely: excessive alcohol consumption (the sundowners); adultery and violence among the colonial officials; attitudes to inter-racial sexual liaisons especially between Europeans and Africans; game-poaching; European settler vigilantism; radio broadcasting; film production and the nature of Arab slavery in Zanzibar. A particularly noteworthy case related to European vigilantism is examined: the trial of Oldus Elishira, a Maasai, for the murder of a European settler farmer in 1955. The victim, Harold M. Stuchbery, was speared to death when he attempted to ìarrestî a group of Maasai young men who were passing through his farm. The event highlighted the differences in the concepts of justice held by Maasai and the imported justice systems from the colonizers. It also raised vexing questions about the colonial judgeís acquittal of Oldus Elishira, while the Maasai who should have been satisfied with that decision decided to take it upon themselves to mete out an appropriate punishment to Elshira instead of total acquittal, and to compensate Mrs. Stuchbery for the death of her husband by giving her a number of heads of cattle.

Aspects of Colonial Tanzania History

Becoming Zimbabwe is the first comprehensive history of Zimbabwe, spanning the years from 850 to 2008. In 1997, the then Secretary General of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, Morgan Tsvangirai, expressed the need for a 'more open and critical process of writing history in Zimbabwe. ...The history of a nation-in-the-making should not be reduced to a selective heroic tradition, but should be a tolerant and continuing process of questioning and re-examination.' Becoming Zimbabwe tracks the idea of national belonging and citizenship and explores the nature of state rule, the changing contours of the political economy, and the regional and international dimensions of the country's history. In their Introduction, Brian Raftopoulos and Alois Mlambo enlarge on these themes, and Gerald Mazarire's opening chapter sets the pre-colonial background. Sabelo Ndlovu tracks the history up to WW11, and Alois Mlambo reviews developments in the settler economy and the emergence of nationalism leading to UDI in 1965. The politics and economics of the UDI period, and the subsequent war of liberation, are covered by Joesph Mtisi, Munyaradzi Nyakudya and Teresa Barnes. After independence in 1980, Zimbabwe enjoyed a period of buoyancy and hope. James Muzondidya's chapter details the transition 'from buoyancy to crisis', and Brian Raftopoulos concludes the book with an analysis of the decade-long crisis and the global political agreement which followed.

Becoming Zimbabwe. A History from the Pre-colonial Period to 2008

In this monograph, the author examines women’s leadership roles in three spheres of influence under women’s control: Omoku, Ime Chi and Omugwo institutions and argues that there were a variety of leadership opportunities open to Igbo women in the past – some of them still exist today and will continue to exist in the years to come – through which they exerted and can still   exert   their   influence   to   ensure   the   well-being   of   their   families   and communities. With  Women and Leadership in Igboland: Omoku, Ime Chi and Omugwo Institutions, the author empowers women with the knowledge that, like their fore mothers, they have a right to hold leadership positions not only in the home but also in the workplace and public space.

Women and Leadership in Igboland

A Platter of Gold is an exciting, epic colonial biography of a nation. How did Nigeria come to be a nation?

This is a story of Nigeria's history as well as the history of Nigeria s story.

The other story!


A Platter Of Gold: ‘MAKING NIGERIA’ 1906 – 1960

Living for a higher purpose is a book on finding your purpose and thriving within Public Service in Nigeria. The book details Mrs. Titilola Vivour-Adeniyi's journey towards ending Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) in Lagos State, the commercial and human capital of Nigeria. 

The book chronicles how to effect change in the society through the public service, and also how to fight for relevance and recognition by adding value to governmental 's quest in fulfilling her part of the social contract with citizens. It details how to run a citizen's focused government unit, which insights on how to start small but establish a significant positive impact by helping survivors on the journey towards recovery and holding perpetrators of SGBV accountable.

It is a story of tenacity, empathy, survival, and renewed hope in Nigeria's public sector.

Living for a Higher Purpose

A Brutal State of Affairs analyses the transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe and challenges Rhodesian mythology. The story of the BSAP, where white and black officers were forced into a situation not of their own making, is critically examined. The liberation war in Rhodesia might never have happened but for the ascendency of the Rhodesian Front, prevailing racist attitudes, and the rise of white nationalists who thought their cause just. Blinded by nationalist fervour and the reassuring words of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and army commanders, the Smith government disregarded the advice of its intelligence services to reach a settlement before it was too late. By 1979, the Rhodesians were staring into the abyss, and the war was drawing to a close. Salisbury was virtually encircled, and guerrilla numbers continued to grow. A Brutal State of Affairs examines the Rhodesian legacy, the remarkable parallels of history, and suggests that Smith’s Rhodesian template for rule has, in many instances, been assiduously applied by Mugabe and his successors.

A Brutal State of Affairs. The Rise and Fall of Rhodesia

This book demonstrates the place of womenís movements during a defining period of contemporary Zimbabwe. The government of Robert Mugabe may have been as firmly in power in 2000 as it was in 1995, but the intervening years saw severe economic crisis, mass strikes and protests, the start of land occupations, intervention in the war in the DRC, and the rise of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change. Shereen Essof shows how Zimbabwean women crafted responses to these and other events, and aimed for a feminist agenda that would prioritise the interests of the rural and urban poor. Rejecting both the strictures of patriarchy and the orthodoxies of established feminism, she demands that Zimbabweís women be heard in their own voices and in their own contexts. In doing so she writes a book that combines scholarly integrity with a wild, joyous cry for liberation.

SheMurenga: The Zimbabwean Women's Movement 1995-2000

Do the erstwhile colonial settlers ñ who, unlike in most other parts of the postcolonial world, have decided in large numbers to make the country their permanent home ñ deserve equal recognition as members of the emergent nation?í South Africa has been reeling under the recent blows of an apparent resurgence of crude public manifestations of racism and a hardening of attitudes on both sides of the racial divide. To probe this topic as it relates to white South Africans, Afrikaans and Afrikaners, MISTRA, in partnership with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) and the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS), convened a round-table discussion. The discourse was rigorous. This volume comprises the varied and thought-provoking presentations from that event, including a keynote address by former president Kgalema Motlanthe, inputs from Melissa Steyn, Andries Nel, Mary Burton, Christi van der Westhuizen, Lynette Steenveld, Bobby Godsell, Dirk Hermann (of Solidarity), Ernst Roets (of Afriforum), Xhanti Payi, Mathatha Tsedu, Pieter Duvenage, Hein Willemse and Nico Koopman, and closing remarks by Achille Mbembe and Mathews Phosa. It deals with a range of issues around ëwhitenessí in general and delves into the place of Afrikaners and the Afrikaans language in democratic South Africa, demonstrating that there is no homogeneity of views on these topics among white South Africans overall and Afrikaners in particular. In fact, in these pages, one finds a multifaceted effort to scrub energetically at the boundaries that apartheid imposed on all South Africans in different ways.

Whiteness Afrikaans Afrikaners: Addressing Post-Apartheid Legacies, Privileges and Burdens

The history of colonial land alienation, the grievances fuelling the liberation war, and post-independence land reforms have all been grist to the mill of recent scholarship on Zimbabwe. Yet for all that the countryís white farmers have received considerable attention from academics and journalists, the fact that they have always played a dynamic role in cataloguing and representing their own affairs has gone unremarked. It is this crucial dimension that Rory Pilossof explores in The Unbearable Whiteness of Being. His examination of farmersí voices ñ in The Farmer magazine, in memoirs, and in recent interviews ñ reveals continuities as well as breaks in their relationships with land, belonging and race. His focus on the Liberation War, Operation Gukurahundi and the post-2000 land invasions frames a nuanced understanding of how white farmers engaged with the land and its peoples, and the political changes of the past 40 years. The Unbearable Whiteness of Being helps to explain why many of the events in the countryside unfolded in the ways they did.

The Unbearable Whiteness of Being. Farmersí Voices from Zimbabwe

 Zimbabwe's Cultural Heritage won first prize in the Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association Awards in 2006 for Non-fiction: Humanities and Social Sciences. It is a collection of pieces of the culture of the Ndebele, Shona, Tonga, Kalanga, Nambiya, Xhosa and Venda. The book gives the reader an insight into the world view of different peoples, through descriptions of their history and life events such as pregnancy, marriage and death. "...the most enduring book ever on Zimbabwean history. This book will help people change their attitude towards each other in Zimbabwe." - Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association Awards citation

Zimbabwe's Cultural Heritage

When Amin Cajee left South Africa to join the liberation struggle he believed he had volunteered to serve ëa democratic movement dedicated to bringing down an oppressive and racist regimeí. Instead, he writes, in this powerful and courageous memoir, ëI found myself serving a movement that was relentless in exercising power and riddled with corruptioní. Fordsburg Fighter traces an extraordinary physical journey ñ from home in South Africa, to training in Czechoslovakia and the ANCís Kongwa camp in Tanzania to England. The book makes a significant contribution to the hidden history of exile, and documents Cajeeís emotional odyssey from idealism to disillusionment.

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Sapiens

Homo Deus

My Name is Aisha

The Chibok Girls

How Africans brought civilization to Europe: Discover the phenomenal role of Africans on all continents

The White Queen of Okoyong

Longthroat Memoirs

Sand, Sun and Suprises

The Survival of African Traditional Religion

City Woman

IGNIS: Nigeria's Journey Through Fire

Africa and Its Diaspora: History, Identities and Economy

Weird Picture

Highlife Giants

Cheta

The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S Bounty

The New Jerusalem

Aspects of Colonial Tanzania History

Becoming Zimbabwe. A History from the Pre-colonial Period to 2008

Women and Leadership in Igboland

A Platter Of Gold: ‘MAKING NIGERIA’ 1906 – 1960

Living for a Higher Purpose

A Brutal State of Affairs. The Rise and Fall of Rhodesia

SheMurenga: The Zimbabwean Women's Movement 1995-2000

Whiteness Afrikaans Afrikaners: Addressing Post-Apartheid Legacies, Privileges and Burdens

The Unbearable Whiteness of Being. Farmersí Voices from Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe's Cultural Heritage

Fordsburg Fighter. The journey of an MK volunteer

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history

Sapiens

Homo Deus

My Name is Aisha

The Chibok Girls

How Africans brought civilization to Europe: Discover the phenomenal role of Africans on all continents

The White Queen of Okoyong

Longthroat Memoirs

Sand, Sun and Suprises

The Survival of African Traditional Religion

City Woman

IGNIS: Nigeria's Journey Through Fire

Africa and Its Diaspora: History, Identities and Economy

Weird Picture

Highlife Giants

Cheta

The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S Bounty

The New Jerusalem

Aspects of Colonial Tanzania History

Becoming Zimbabwe. A History from the Pre-colonial Period to 2008

Women and Leadership in Igboland

A Platter Of Gold: ‘MAKING NIGERIA’ 1906 – 1960

Living for a Higher Purpose

A Brutal State of Affairs. The Rise and Fall of Rhodesia

SheMurenga: The Zimbabwean Women's Movement 1995-2000

Whiteness Afrikaans Afrikaners: Addressing Post-Apartheid Legacies, Privileges and Burdens

The Unbearable Whiteness of Being. Farmersí Voices from Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe's Cultural Heritage

Fordsburg Fighter. The journey of an MK volunteer