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The Mad Professor of Zwigwi
0₦17,089.45Prof. Philjez is not the everyday professor. His mind passes the world through a logical calculus and comes out with quaint theorems. His eyes views life through a cosmic geometry, and he formulates shocking hypothesis.
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WAY THE LEMMING WAY
0₦6,204.45Tanbee the lemming would not believe in the prophecies of Tinugu all lemmings believe in and will not pay court to the king. The tyranny of the unthinking majority over the thinking minority begins to chant: kill him, kill him. What happens next leaves faith and tradition dancing naked in the market square.
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My Headmaster
0₦3,576.50A pupil of a primary school in a backwater African village tells the story of his enigmatic and inspiring headmaster with verve and touching simplicity. From the headmaster’s refined manners and cultivated appearance to his father-figure image that inspires discipline in his pupils, Bamai the protagonist of this moving story full of homespun wisdom, living anecdotes and pastoral allegories, provokes a nostalgia and reminiscence of a lost past and innocence we all strive to regain – a lost past and innocence this epic tale gives an opportunity to live again.
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The Heart of Jacob
0₦3,576.50Jacob as a moneylender and pig merchant prospers by taking advantage of other people’s misfortunes. But when he seeks to exploit the famine afflicting his village Tounga by lending money to the poor villagers with high interests, he does not reckon with a sacrilege his pigs would commit that will give the people an opportunity to feast on his own misfortune. When this happens, community gives way to individual desires, and the stomach dictates to the head what it should think and believe in. Reason bends to absurdity and custom bows to bizarre novelty. Life explodes into a sinister mess that points to only one outcome: Jacob’s and society’s ultimate ruin.
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Little Francis
0₦4,649.45Something bad happens that leads Little Francis to eavesdropping. Walking the nights snooping on houses, Little ears into a plot he foils and sets in motion a process that rehabilitates veterans and recovers a nation.
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ASHES
0₦3,576.50Balwang eats the leaves of the emilli shrub when he is swooning with hunger. The leaves not only take away his hunger, they energize him. Obsessed with finding the shrub and turning it into an article of trade, the money-monger abandons everything to look for the shrub in the jungle where his life is overtaken by a whirlwind he never comes out of.
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Farewell to Peace
0₦3,576.50Belaru loses his parents to death and becomes an orphan at the age of seven. He blames free trade for his parents’ death. If the textile company his father was working had not been killed by free trade, his father wouldn’t have lost his job. If his father had not lost his job, he wouldn’t have died. If his father had not died, his mother wouldn’t have become heartbroken and died soon thereafter. From a deep sense of injustice, Belaru later launches a blistering war against an international economic order that operates by the rules of might is right. For Belaru and his Tendu-Purgers, it is farewell to peace for the world if developed nations insist on perpetuating might is right.
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Tales of the Rubbles
0₦7,619.50Rilee a journalist tells the story of the Cozien-Minli war in a way no one could. By her tongue, rubbles of the war find voice to tell the agony of the war with haunting images that wake people at midnight in nightmares.
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MAKING SENSE OF NONSENSE
0₦7,883.85Japhet the son of a priest and a lawyer sets out to make sense of religion, law, war, politics, economics and a myriad of other issues, but ends up where he began his journey.
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Dance of the giants
0₦9,438.85Kaljenteh is outside the understanding of his people who he said knowledge of the universe is outside. For years, the astronomer and evolutionist, talks about how evolution created the earth and other planets and how it would end the planets it created, but few people hearken or even understand what he is saying.
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The Deportee
0₦4,649.45Deported from Russia after thirty years of Sojourn, ill-treated by relations in Nigeria, Morgan the deportee goes mad leaving behind many unasked as unanswered questions.
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Idiotic
0₦7,759.45Kailee starts out as one obsessed with science and technology only to be let down by the duo he sees as the pathway to the heaven of the earth. When this happens, Kailee turns against science and technology in a blistering campaign that exposes the dark side of science and technology; in a campaign that lands him in court that consumes him as persecuted; in a court the persecutor realizes the persecuted has been fighting for him as for everyone and everything on earth.
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The Devil’s Reply to my Letter
0₦6,204.45Born 24th Sept. 1965, Kyuka Lilymjok hails from Bafai-Kanai. He is a professor of law and lectures at the Faculty of Law at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Other published novels of the author include: Gods of my Fathers, Lost to the Wind, Ebelebe, The Butcher’s Wife, Return of the Oracle, and Other Short Stories.
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The Old Woman and th…
0₦6,204.45Teka stumbles on the old woman and the birds in the forest. He is mystified by both into thoughts and beliefs hitherto weird to him.
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Ebelebe
0₦4,649.45Petutu returns from the war with messages for the widow of a slain comrade. He is kidnapped to a shack kidnappers send chilling messages to relations of their captives. In the sky however, doves also bear messages that make Petutu glow with happiness.
