NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Maya Angelou’s classic memoirs have had an enduring impact on American literature and culture. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.

This Modern Library edition contains I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Gather Together in My Name, Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas, The Heart of a Woman, All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes, and A Song Flung Up to Heaven.

When I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was published to widespread acclaim in 1969, Maya Angelou garnered the attention of an international audience with the triumphs and tragedies of her childhood in the American South. This soul-baring memoir launched a six-book epic spanning the sweep of the author’s incredible life. Now, for the first time, all six celebrated and bestselling autobiographies are available in this handsome one-volume edition.

The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump - the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American political history.

Based on dozens of interviews conducted over six years, Green spins the master narrative of the 2016 campaign from its origins in the far fringes of right-wing politics and reality television to its culmination inside Trump's penthouse on election night.  

The shocking elevation of Bannon to head Trump's flagging presidential campaign on August 17, 2016, hit political Washington like a thunderclap and seemed to signal the meltdown of the Republican Party. Bannon was a bomb-throwing pugilist who'd never run a campaign and was despised by Democrats and Republicans alike.

Devil's Bargain

One of Time’s 10 most important nonfiction books of the 20th century.

Experience a bold take on this classic autobiography as it’s performed by Oscar-nominated Laurence Fishburne. 

In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American dream and the inherent racism in a society that denies its non-White citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time. 

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

In Thinking It Out, Engr. Seyi Makinde shares his philosophy about life, principles, values, and orientation, providing insights into his private, business, and political experiences like never before.

Thinking It Out is the story of a man who rose from obscurity to the zenith of his profession and business, despite a humble beginning. Today, his impact on humanity
and his environment speaks volumes, under the banner of his Omituntun brand. This elegant narration, of an eventful and goal-oriented mind, chronicles all there is about Seyi Makinde.

Readers will appreciate the deep thoughts and agitations of a restless, but determined and focused individual, who, with frenetic speed, made a success of his circumstances to become a point of reference for others.

Thinking It Out

The title of First Lady is one that has only fully taken its place in public life in the last thirty years. The role of consort to an elected official is one that has much power to polarise as it does to unify the public.
‘In Her Own Right‘ is an attempt to document what is in fact a public service role beyond the glamour and the pageantry and to portray Abimbola Fashola’s execution of it in all its facets as partner, mother, advocate, ambassador and leader. Her work as First Lady of Lagos State is clear evidence that women working and serving in a collegial way and supporting each other can effect significant social change.

In Her Own Right

Olusegun Obasanjo’s established Africa’s first presidential library with the intention to continue to promote and deepen democratic values in the African continent. This book will take the reader through the sites, archaeological grounds from prehistory, the library and museum, and flora and fauna that characterize the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library Complex. Visitors will learn of the history of Nigeria’s political progress through the lens of his life as a farmer, soldier, public servant and elder statesman, and clear the myths and misconceptions concerning the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The Presidential Library brings Olusegun Obasanjo’s legacy full circle and stands as an inspiration for citizens and youths—from overcoming a difficult childhood, attaining a successful military career, incarceration for his activism, and his emergence as Nigeria’s elective president. In his post-presidency, he continues to pursue initiatives centred on innovation and social development in Nigeria and Africa, with the purpose of improving citizens’ lives, and encouraging home-grown solutions to Africa’s challenges.

This beautifully designed coffee-table book gives the reader a slide show of the highlights of the Presidential Library Complex, and thereby a series of snapshots of the life of Olusegun Obasanjo.

The Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library

Obama’s presidency has suffered the fiercest opposition any administration has had and yet Mr. Obama has managed to lead the ountry to financial recovery, end the senseless war in Iraq, implement universal health-care, put an end to Iran’s nu-clear ambitions The and re-open diplomatic relations with Cuba all the while remake US OBAMA standing in the world. But his Republican opponents believe he is the worst LEGACY president the country has had.

The Obama Legacy

This book came to create awareness as  to what can be achieved by good governance in a state and nation and to immortalize our fallen hero (Prince Abubakar Audu) with lots of interesting facts and inspiring truths, ranging from his birth, early life and education, professional career, political struggles and death.
I trust everyone will have a good time exploring this book

Footpath

Kokori: The Struggle for June 12 is the candid account of Chief Frank Kokori, former General Secretary of The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG). It details the roles he and other individuals played in the quest to re-validate the June 12, 1993 presidential election, which was annulled by Gen. Ibrahim Babangida. The book details, in depth, the events before, during and after the election, up until the incarceration of Chief Kokori as well as the political fall-out which followed.

Kokori: The Struggle for June 12

The name M.T. Mbu is synonymous with dedication, transparency, accountability and honesty. In Nigeria today, I cannot think of someone else who will engender greater respect or affection across ethnic nationalities and ideological barriers. He had a brilliant intellect, and clarity of thought and expression. He was very diligent and self-disciplined. He exhibited the highest integrity and honesty in his conduct when on official or personal dealings. He demonstrated fairness and straightforwardness in dealing with others and great loyalty and dedication to friends. He believed that good "good manners disarm antagonism and enlist sympathy." M.T was a true Nigerian patriot.

Dignity in Service

I am not that OLD yet but ran a political campaign to unseat an incumbent and occupy the Oke-Ogun Constituency seat in the Kwara State House of Assembly.
You don’t get to see 30-year-old people contesting for political office in Nigeria. I have done it, though unsuccessful and here is my story.
Stepping Out gives an account of some of the experiences of a young professional that decided to walk an uncharted path of partisan politics. It also gives recommendations on some of the major reforms that Nigerian political parties need to go through to ensure inclusiveness of the younger population in the political process.
And lastly, there is a part that talks specifically on what is required of you if you ever decide to run for any political office at any level whatsoever.
If you ever want to get involved in politics – contesting for a political office or supporting candidates for office – this is a book you must read!

Stepping Out

May I Have This Dance tells the courageous and moving story of Connie Manse Ngcaba, who grew up in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, where she became a nurse, community figurehead and a leading voice of dissent against the apartheid regime. Her sense of justice and morality, and her compassion for those around her, brought her into frequent conflict with the government, culminating in her being detained for a year without trial at the age of 57. It is also the story of the strength of family ties, and the triumph of Connieís love for her husband and children.

May I Have This Dance

From beginning to the end, Nigerian Public Discourse is a poignant insider's dissection of Nigeria's hydra-headed socio-political situation. Through courageous and radical intellectual analyses, the author questions the collective dissemination of myth garnished as facts in the discourse of national enterprise, a misadventure that has negatively impacted national development. Thus, the author aims at reframing national discourses away from misconceived narratives and nebulous data brandishing in order to engender national growth and development.

Nigerian Public Discourse

The book “Governor Yahaya Bello Through the Cases: A Compendium of Historic Electoral Challenges and Victory” as authored by Barrister Emmanuel Omeiza Shadrach is revealing, enriching, and timely. The electoral challenges include law suits from the fellow aspirants within the APC and other political parties and political complexity in Kogi state.


Governor Yahaya Bello Through the Cases

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

In December 1965, in a smoke-filled hotel room in Morocco, South African journalist Terry Bell accepted a challenge: to paddle a kayak from London to Tangier. At the time, Terry and his wife Barbara were living as political exiles in London. By August 1967, they agreed it was time to get back to Africa. But they decided to up the ante. Their plan: paddle 11 000 kilometres from England to Dar es Salaam in a 5-metre glass fibre kayak.

A Hat a Kayak and Dreams of Dar

As I look back, I am happy that I have lived for so longî. It is a happiness shared by many: family members, friends and colleagues. Cephas Msipaís memoirs take us back to his birth in Zvishavane in 1931, and they reflect a life dedicated to the welfare of others and the development of his country. Following secondary education at Dadaya Mission, he worked as a teacher in Zvishavane and Kwekwe, where he was active in the Rhodesian African Teachers Association, before moving to Harare in 1958. It was a time of rising nationalism in the capital, and following the banning of the African National Congresss and its successor, the National Democratic Party, Msipa was a founding member of ZAPU, the Zimbabwean African Peopleís Union. Thus began an engagement with national politics that would last until he was in his late seventies, furthering his education as a political detainee and, after independence had been won, serving as a deputy minister, minister and provincial governor. The narrative of his life follows the arc of Zimbabweís history, and embraces the people and events that have shaped it. Beyond that, it is the story of a gentle, humorous, committed man who enjoyed a long and loving marriage and continues to fill his retirement with philanthropy and wide-ranging friendships.†

In Pursuit of Freedom and Justice: A Memoir

Donato Francesco Mattera has been celebrated as a journalist, editor, writer and poet. He is also acknowledged as one of the foremost activists in the struggle for a democratic South Africa, and helped to found both the Union of Black Journalists, the African Writerís Association and the Congress of South African Writers. Born in 1935 in Western Native Township (now Westbury) across the road from Sophiatown, Mattera can lay claim to an intriguingly diverse lineage: his paternal grandfather was Italian, and he has Tswana, Khoi-Khoi and Xhosa blood in his veins. Yet diversity was hardly being celebrated at that time. In one of apartheidís most infamous actions, the vibrant multicultural Sophiatown was destroyed in 1955 and replaced with the white suburb of Triomf, and the wrenching displacement, can be felt in Matteraís writing. The story of his life in Sophiatown as told in this essay is intricate. Covering Matteraís teenage years from 1948 to 1962 when Sophiatown was bulldozed out of existence, it weaves together both his personal experience and political development. In telling the story of his life as a ìcolouredî teenager, Mattera takes on the ambitious goal of making us recapture the crucial events of the 1950s in Sophiatown, one of the most important decades in the history of black political struggles in South Africa.

Memory is the Weapon

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.

Fordsburg Fighter. The journey of an MK volunteer

Religious conflicts are a common phenomenon across the world today, more so in Northern part of Nigeria. Several books have been written about the cause of religious conflicts in the world and in Northern Nigeria in particular. Books and articles written about the rise of religious conflicts, especially in Northern Nigeria, have insisted that the reasons behind the rise of Islamic fundamentalism or violence in Northern Nigeria are mainly socio-political and socio-economic. This book is a departure from that position and postulates that Islamic radicalism and religious conflicts in Northern Nigeria have their roots in theology or theological indoctrination. This book relentlessly argues that this is the basis for the emergence of Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria. The book argues that Maududi’s ideology or Islamic interpretation is the major influence on the emergence of Islamic radicalism and Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria. 

Boko Haram in Nigeria

When I woke up, I was lying on a sea of money. This particular event affected my orientation about our legal tender and I lost every regard for money.”

“The greatest insult you can haul at me is to call me a thief.”

“It was while working at St. Nicholas Hospital in Lagos that I took the step to go into politics which was largely informed by my desire to heal the world in a bigger theatre.”

“Any situation that tries to increase the dominance of a part of the country for more than is prescribed in the constitution through surreptitious postulation is nonsensical, unacceptable and inimical to the good health and stability of the country.”

A MUST-READ FOR LOVERS OF POLITICAL HISTORY, JOURNALISTS, PUBLIC AFFAIRS ANALYSTS, STUDENTS OF POLITICS AND MASS COMMUNICATION AND ALL THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN A BRIGHT FUTURE FOR THE NIGERIAN NATION AND AFRICA AT LARGE.

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biography & memoir

The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

Devil's Bargain

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Thinking It Out

In Her Own Right

The Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library

The Obama Legacy

Footpath

Kokori: The Struggle for June 12

Dignity in Service

Stepping Out

May I Have This Dance

Nigerian Public Discourse

Governor Yahaya Bello Through the Cases

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

A Hat a Kayak and Dreams of Dar

In Pursuit of Freedom and Justice: A Memoir

Memory is the Weapon

Fordsburg Fighter. The journey of an MK volunteer

Boko Haram in Nigeria

Double Jeopardy: The Doyin Okupe Story

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biography & memoir

The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

Devil's Bargain

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Thinking It Out

In Her Own Right

The Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library

The Obama Legacy

Footpath

Kokori: The Struggle for June 12

Dignity in Service

Stepping Out

May I Have This Dance

Nigerian Public Discourse

Governor Yahaya Bello Through the Cases

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

A Hat a Kayak and Dreams of Dar

In Pursuit of Freedom and Justice: A Memoir

Memory is the Weapon

Fordsburg Fighter. The journey of an MK volunteer

Boko Haram in Nigeria

Double Jeopardy: The Doyin Okupe Story