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Youth and pornography
by Ugwuegbu, Denis Chima E and B.U. Eke, eds
Lagos: Federal Government Printer, 1989. Paperback. xxxiii, 247p., wraps, errata slip tipped in, 7x9.25 inches, very good condition. Focused on porn and its impact in Nigeria. A publication of the National Orientation Movement, Federal Ministry of Information and Culture.
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£24.28
Voyage, and other poems
by Jemie, Onwuchekwa
Ife, Nigeria: P.P.P., 1971. Pamphlet. 28p., stapled wraps, 5.25x8 inches, wraps lightly worn and soiled else very good condition. Jemie received degrees from Harvard and Columbia before returning to Nigeria to co-found the Guardian newspaper, also authoring a number of literary works.
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£14.57
Decorated gourds in north-eastern Nigeria
by Chappel, T. J. H
London and Lagos: Ethnographica and The Nigerian Museum. 1977. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Small nick to top of DJ spine. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 222 pages. Describes the decorative tradition associated with gourds and the social context for their production and...
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£26.46
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African suite [two musical scores: 1st and 2nd Violin]
by Sowande, Fela
London; New York: Chappell and Co. Ltd, 1955. Sheet_music. Two 8.5x11 inch staplebound musical scores, 23 pages each, minor handling wear, for two parts in this suite for strings. Sowande, born in Nigeria and educated in the classical western musical tradition in England, imbued his works with African rhythmic and harmonic influences. He later taught in the United States and is buried in Ohio.
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£16.19
Trade and Imperialism in Southern Nigeria, 1881-1929
by Ofonagoro, W. Ibekwe
New York: NOK Publishers, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. index, xi, 429p. dj. Hardcover. 23cm. Jacket scuffed. Review slip laid in.
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£68.81
Dr. Heinrich Barth's Reiser og Opdagelser i Nord- og Mellem-Afrika
by Barth, Heinrich
Kjobenhavn: Woldike, 1860. Hardcover. Good. 2 vols. plates, folding plan, folding map, 500, 434p. Contemporary quarterbinding. 34cm. Covers rather heavily scuffed. Scattered foxing and wear. Danish text. This appears to be a Danish translation of the shorter two volume German edition published in Gotha in 1859-1860.
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£40.48
Journal of black studies: Volume 2, Number 3, March 1972
by Smith, Arthur L., editor
Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1972. Magazine. pp263-386, publisher's ads, 5.5x8.5 inch coated journal wraps, wraps lightly toned else very good condition. Articles include "Segregation, Community Consciousness, and Black Power,'" Nigeria: The Politics of the First Republic," and "The Tulsa Race War of 1921.
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£9.71
Die Sprache der Hausa: Grammatik, Uebungen und Chrestomathie, sowie hausanisch-deutsches und deutsch-hausanissches Worterverzeichnss
by Marre, Ernst C
Liepzig: Hartleben, n.d.[early 20th century?]. Hardcover. Good. 176p. Original cloth. 17 cm. Modest cover soiling and wear. Some water spots on back cover. Endpapers browned and brittle. No jacket. German text. Series: Die Kunst der Polyglottie, 70.
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£20.24
Satisfying Africa's Food Needs; Food Production and Commercialization in African Agriculture
by Cohen, Ronald, editor
Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1988. Hardcover. xii, 244p., illustrated with a few charts and tables, and a line map of the continent, hardbound in pale grey cloth boards lettered in red. Nice copy, completely sound, clean and unmarked.
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£9.71
Olókun; iwe àtìgbàdégbà ni Àtàtà Yoruba (2 September 1960)
by Akinjógbìn, Adéagbo; editor
Ibadan: Yoruba Historical Research Scheme, 1960. Single issue of the occasional publication; 42p., staplebound wraps, lower right corner bumped, otherwise very good. Poetry and prose in the Yoruba language.
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£40.48
Western State Chieftaincy Declarations: Akure Division
by Western State of Nigeria Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs
Ibadan, Western State of Nigeria: Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, 1970. 31p., stapled wraps, 7 x 9.75 inches, lightly worn, top corner bumped, staples rusted else good condition.
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£12.14
Make Man Talk True: Nigerian Drama in English Since 1970
by Dunton, Chris
London: Hans Zell Publishers, 1992. Hardcover. 215p. First printing. Glossy laminated boards. Hint of fading to spine, a very nice clean copy. New Perspectives on African Literature 5.
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£28.33
. . . let me be, your absent friend: a seduction of innocent minds, collected poems
by Laurel-Smith, Abbey aka Abiodun Oladewa
Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2004. Paperback. vi, 217p., illustrated with small b&w photos of the poet/artist's works, very good first edition vanity press trade paperback in printed gray wraps. Find sincere self-revelatory text and what may be very good artwork (reproduced so poorly one cannot tell). Nigerian poet-artist living in Maine.
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£16.19
The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness
by Soyinka, Wole
New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. index, xii, 208p. Original hardcover binding (yellow boards backed in red cloth). dj. 21 cm. INSCRIBED on front free endpaper by Soyinka ("For Yvette Wole Soyinka").
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£48.57
Wand of Noble Wood
by Nzekwu, Onuora
New York: Signet NAL, 1963. Paperback. 142p., very good first mass-market paperback edition in English, pictorial wraps. Originally published in hardcover. First novel by the Nigerian author.
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£8.90
The Niger and the West Sudan or the West African's Notebook. A Vade Mecum containing Hints and Suggestions as to What Is Required by Britons in West Africa, together with Historical and Anthropological Notes, and Easy Hausa Phrases Used in Everyday Conversation
by Tremearne, Arthur John Newman
London: Hodder & Stoughton and Arthur H. Wheeler & Co, 1910. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. [8], 151p. Original black, yellow and green cloth. 23cm. Lacks front free endpaper. Old browning where tape once connected the now almost completely detached title-leaf to thefront pastedown. Text browned. Ex lib. (Oxford's institute of Colonial Studies. Backstrip marred toward bottom where an old label was aggressively removed. An uncommon title.
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£101.19
The Forger's Tale: the search for Odeziaku
by Newell, Stephanie
Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2006. Paperback. xii, 233p., introduction, conclusion, notes, bibliography, index, illustrated with b&w photos & facsimiles, very good first edition, first printing trade paperback stated in pictorial wraps. On Manchester novelist and poet John Moray Stuart-Young known as Odeziaku aka Odoziaku to the Igbo in West Africa where he lived in the Little House of No Regrets with his boy-lover and later manservant and nurse (and that man's wife and children) until his death...
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£20.24
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Somewhere in West Africa; Perhaps Near the Niger River. [our title]
by [Photo Album]
1935. Hardcover. Very Good. 11 good-sized photos in corner mounts, one to a page in a small album. Photos approximately 17 x 11cm. Very Good quality photos. Brief captions inked in bottom margin of all but one of the photos. Thin oblong black tied album. Moderate cover wear. Captions: Along the Niger River; Bridge across the River [not the Niger]; Banana Trees; Grass; Preparing Dinner; Termite Hill, Weaving Mats; Weaving Fencing; Cloth-Weaving; and Music while at Work. The uncaptioned photos shows two...
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£121.42
Sodangi kano (April 8, 1957)
Zaria, Nigeria: the newspaper, 1957. Single issue of the newspaper, 8p., evenly toned, otherwise minor wear. Text in Hausa.
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£16.19
Ten Years' Wanderings among the Ethiopians; With Sketches of the Manners and Customs of the Civilised and Uncivilised Tribes, from Senegal to Gaboon
by Hutchinson, Thomas J
London: Frank Cass, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good. xx, 320p. Red cloth. 22cm. Backstrip slightly faded. No Jacket. Reprint of the London edition of 1861. Travel in and along the coast of West Africa.
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£36.43
Rhythms of Life: Stories of Modern Nigeria
by Adimora-Ezeigbo, Akachi
London: Karnak House, 1992. Paperback. 143p., paperback, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good.
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£20.24
You Must Set Forth at Dawn
by Soyinka, Wole
New York: Random House, 2006. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. frontis, xx, 499p. Original boards. dj. 24 cm. SIGNED by Soyinka (with his scrawl) on title-page. An autobiographical work.
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£40.48
Not Many Mighty: More Stories from the Panyam District, Nigeria
by Cheal, Christine H
London: Sudan United Mission, nd. Pamphlet. 32p., stapled wraps, 5.5 x 8.25 inches, illus. with black and white photos, light wear else very good condition.
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£12.14
The Indomitable Servant
by Mackay, Mercedes
London: Rex Collings. 1978. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Maps to endpapers. 329 pages. Interesting biography of English explorer Richard Landers who who traced the course the Niger river in West Africa in 1829. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£14.81
A Pilgrimage to My Motherland or Reminiscences of a Sojourn among the Egbas and Yorubas of Central Africa. In 1859-60
by Campbell, Robert
London: William John Johnson, 1861. 1st English ed. Hardcover. Fair. double-page map (tipped in along inner edge of page 12), 116p. Original printed boards, rather crudely rebacked with a strip of black leather. 17cm. Cover partially detached at title-page and also rather scuffed. Rear endpaper splitting along hinge. Large piece gone from bottom of front free endpaper which is partially attached to the front pastedown and partially to the title-page. Contents basically sound although lacking the...
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£688.08
