Bitter Leafing Woman by Karen King-Aribisala

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Title: Bitter Leafing Woman

Author: Karen King-Aribisala

Genre: Short Stories

Format: Paperback

Book Dimension: 6 x 9

Number of Pages: 196

Publication Year: 2017

Publisher: Malthouse Press

ISBN: 9789789597208

Available at: Booksellers and Bookstores nationwide

Short Description: Set in Nigeria, Bitter Leafing Woman relates the experiences of Woman as she chews the bitter leaves of patriarchal oppression in a bid to transform them into gender balanced sweetness. Here Woman becomes a symbol of the oppressed; of women and men alike.

The style of writing ranges from plain prose as in The Edi Kai Ikong War, magical realism as in World of the Fat/Thin House, the social satire of The Bone Eater,  the densely poetic and symbolic Broken Plate and the biblical imbued style of Bitter Leafing Woman who, finding herself drowning in the soup of gender oppression for forty years, attempts to murder her Deacon fiancé.

In this collection we become involved with serious issues of conflicts, which nevertheless we try to treat with sardonic humour and insight.

Category: Women’s Fiction, Magical Realism, Satire

 

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In The Long Run by Chukwuebuka Amaechi

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Title: In The Long Run

Author: Chukwuebuka Amaechi

Genre: Drama

Format: Paperback

Book Dimension: 5.5 x 8.5

Number of Pages: 63

Publication Year: June 20, 2018

Publisher: Fasmen Communications

ISBN: 9789785594973

Available at: Abia State University Bookshop, Owerri

Short Description: In the Long Run is a contemporary drama of the struggle Ibe passes through in his quest to further his education and the effects of unpreparedness. Akpo on the other hand, loses his life due to peer mingling nonchalance as Ibe is unfortunately implicated.

Category: Satire

 

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In The Name Of Our Father by Olukorede S. Yishau

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Title: In The Name Of Our Father

Author: Olukorede S. Yishau

Genre: Fiction

Format: Paperback

Book Dimension: 5.5 x 8.5

Number of Pages: 228

Publication Year: April 11, 2018

Publisher:  Parrésia Publishers Ltd

ISBN: 978-1724961631

Available at: Amazon Stores, Konga

Short Description: The desire to become a novelist suddenly seizes Justus Omoeko. He wants another title other than a journalist for which thousands know him. He is soon inspired by the story of a popular prophet in town and decides to write a thriller out of the dark patch that is the life of this renowned man of God, who has the Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Force, General Sani Idoti, as one of his clients.Prophet T.C. Jeremiah hits the jackpot when the military usurper in power recruits him to help ensure his longevity in office. Money begins to fall into his accounts as though he has a cash tree at the back of his house. But, the more money he makes, his family falls apart. He performs miracles. Yet, his ex-prostitute wife finds it hard to conceive.

Category: Thriller, Suspense, Satire

 

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My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

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Title: My Sister, The Serial Killer

Author: Oyinkan Braithwaite

Genre: Fiction

Format: Paperback

Book Dimension: 5.5 x 8.5

Number of Pages: 240

Publication Year: November 20, 2018

Publisher: Anchor

ISBN: 9780525564201

Available at: Amazon Stores, Random House

Short Description: Korede’s sister Ayoola is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola’s third boyfriend in a row is dead, stabbed through the heart with Ayoola’s knife. Korede’s practicality is the sisters’ saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood (bleach, bleach, and more bleach), the best way to move a body (wrap it in sheets like a mummy), and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures to Instagram when she should be mourning her “missing” boyfriend. Not that she gets any credit.

Korede has long been in love with a kind, handsome doctor at the hospital where she works. She dreams of the day when he will realize that she’s exactly what he needs. But when he asks Korede for Ayoola’s phone number, she must reckon with what her sister has become and how far she’s willing to go to protect her.

Category: Women’s fiction, Young Adult, Satire

 

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This Side of the Dead by Isaac Attah Ogezi

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Title: This Side of the Dead

Author: Isaac Attah Ogezi

Genre: Drama

Format: Paperback

Book Dimension: 5.0 x 7.5

Number of Pages: 181

Publication Year: 2018

Publisher: Old Press (PEA & Associates)

ISBN: 978-9789545346

Available at: Booksellers Ltd, Abuja, Citi Plaza, Area 11, Garki and No. 34, Ankpa Road, Makurdi, 08035933577

Short Description: Mr. Ogezi’s new play examines the fears, struggles and triumphs of the downtrodden in a class-restive society. With deft utilization of stage resources and verisimilitude, humanity is depicted with telling imaginative empathy in a ghoulish dramatization that embeds reality in fiction.

This Side of the Dead mirrors the class tensions inherent in a third-world country and their attendant consequences. It is about the lives of two brothers caught in the vortex of a soulless world. Michael, an expelled final-year law student on asylum at his elder brother’s construction site home, unwittingly manages to attract love from Susan, an American-born daughter of a Nigerian Cabinet Minister. Unfortunately, his ambivalence to this love does not suffice in stopping the huge price which the poor must pay for crashing the party of the rich and the powerful.

 

Category: Satire, Naturalism

 

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Our Son the Minister by Paul Ugbede

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Title: Our Son the Minister

Author: Paul Ugbede

Genre: Fiction

Format: Paperback & eBook

File Size (eBook): 165KB

Book Dimension (Paperback): 4.8 x 6.8

Number of Pages: 149

Publication Year: November, 2017

Publisher: Paperworth Books

ISBN: 978-978-956-351-7

Available at: Quintessence, Glendora Bookshop, Patabah Bookshop, Terra Kulture Bookshop, P.A.G.E Book Connoisseurs Bookstores, Lagos; The Booksellers Bookshop, Cassava Republic Bookshop, Abuja; Bookville World Bookshop, Chapters Bookshop, Port Harcourt; The Booksellers Bookshop, Ibadan; The Booksellers Bookshop, Abeokuta; Boldoz Bookstores, Uyo; and online on Amazon, iBooks, and Roving Heights.

Short Description: ‘‘You see, back there in my room, I was doing some deep thinking. I asked myself ‘Makoji, how best can you serve your people without destroying all you stand for?’ I thought and thought and then the answer came, in a flash, and that is what I am about to share with you, I have decided to turn down the ministerial appointment.’’

It is a few hours to the swearing in of ministerial nominees and everyone thinks Dr. Makoji Ejembi has lost his mind, as they search for an urgent cure for him – Our Son the Minister.

This is the winning play from the maiden edition of Beeta Playwright Competition organised by Beeta Universal Arts Foundation. It is a satire of the Nigerian situation and highlights societal culpability in making bad leaders.

 

Category: Drama, Satire

 

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Authentic Mama by Olunosen Louisa Ibhaze

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Title: Authentic Mama

Author: Olunosen Louisa Ibhaze

Genre: Fiction

Format: Paperback & eBook

File Size (eBook): 171p/899KB

Book Dimension (Paperback): 5.8 x 9

Number of Pages: 181

Publication Year: July 2017

Publisher: Paperworth Books

ISBN: 978-978-9563500

Available at: Quintessence, Glendora Bookshop, Patabah Bookshop, Terra Kulture Bookshop, P.A.G.E Book Connoisseurs Bookstores, Lagos; The Booksellers Bookshop, Cassava Republic Bookshop, Abuja; Bookville World Bookshop, Chapters Bookshop, Port Harcourt; The Booksellers Bookshop, Ibadan; The Booksellers Bookshop, Abeokuta; Boldoz Bookstores, Uyo; and online on Amazon, iBooks, and Roving Heights.

Short Description: Paulina Omoregbe aka Iye Baby rules the night life of Nimbe town from her beer parlour with her magic touch and society connections. In spite of the constant dramas from fighting wives and jealous friends, she has succeeded in creating a good life for herself as a socialite and the President of the Imose Sisters Association of Accomplished and Distinguished Ladies.

Her life is however thrown into commotion when a business deal goes bad, ushering her on to a downward spiral of confusion, disappointment and disaster. Can she overcome these challenges as she once did and create a new and better life for herself? This is a hilarious satire chronicling the lives of local mistresses and their hustle. This book will make you laugh and shake your head at the ridiculous reality of some people.

 

Category: Satire

 

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