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Beyond the Stream
0₦8,863.50Beuta the son of a voodoo priest and a graduate of artificial intelligence plays both ends against the middle breaking the middle and fouling the end. Craft changes to witchcraft and the owl begins to hoot where the dove used to coo, the hyena to howl where the antelope used to bleat and the vulture to hiss where the egret used to squeal.
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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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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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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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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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Sick
0₦4,649.45Finding himself in a huge fortune with nothing to do, Felipe decides to travel round the world to places sick things are happening. When he is done, he knows the world is truly a sick place – a sick place without a cure.
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Broke
0₦6,204.45Nyaan commits the taboo of calling her husband by his name. She is required to cleanse the land and appease the gods. She cooks the food she is to appease the gods only for someone to steal and eat what she cooked. All hell is let loose over this taboo only for someone to urinate on the sacred gourd the people were to swear by to fish out the culprit who stole and ate the food of the gods. By this last taboo, the freedom and impunity bred by the religion of Yahweh as the people of Chidadan refer to Christianity, have done their worst. Agan comes to the rescue but it is too late. Chidadan is broke and remains broke.
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The Dark Star North
0₦6,204.45Pristine and unpolluted, the earth is the green star north to spirit beings in Kenon two planets away from the earth. When the earth gets polluted and defiled losing its green colour that improves the sights of spirit beings in Kenon, the earth turns dark and is now called the dark star north by the spirit beings. When spirit beings led by Jerol set out to stop pollution and degradation of the earth by humans, it seems catastrophe is let loose and there is no hope of recovery for the earth – the dark star north.
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Slates and Bowls
0₦6,204.45Born into a poor, polygamous home with many children his father cannot cater for, Mujahid ended up in a madrasa with a slate and bowl. Inspired to jihad by Gazali his madrasa teacher, Mujahid formed Lakum-Hakum, a jihadist group that turns slates to swords and bowls to receptacles for collecting blood. Lakum-Hakum takes Jeddere through channels of bloodletting which claim the mentor of a violent protégé; through canals of abduction and rape which frayed the patience and tolerance of the world.
