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May 2013 Book Giveaway Competition – Win a Copy of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (By Ishmael Beah)

May 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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Enter our May 2013 book giveaway competition to win a copy of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (By Ishmael Beah). In this gripping memoir, Ishmael Beah tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.

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Princewill C. Okpulor – Author of the Week

April 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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My name is Princewill C. Okpulor I live at Abakaliki in Ebonyi State, Nigeria and I am a Banker by Profession. My desire to become a writer started in 2007 during my national service year. In 2010, I spoke at an orientation program for first year students in the geology department at ESUTECH. It was obvious these students needed resources and reference materials that were not available. So I decided to write a book. Unfortunately, the book is still yet to be published. My first book, Being the Best You Can Be, came out two years later.

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Dan Scheffler

April 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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This week’s author of the week is Dan Scheffler from South Africa — Sheffler was born in Cape Town in 1970 and in spite of travelling widely, still finds himself living there. After hitch hiking from Cape Town to Nairobi, bundu bashing through remote Indonesia, working in the UK and doing jaunts up and down the East and West coasts of Southern Africa for years, he hasn’t managed to find a town that is more fun than the Cape.

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Americanah – A New Book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Pre-order Now and Get 20% off)

April 8, 2013 By 9 Comments
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From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a dazzling new novel: a story of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria who face difficult choices and challenges in the countries they come to call home. Fearless, gripping, at once darkly funny and tender, spanning three continents and numerous lives, “Americanah” is a richly told story set in today’s globalized world: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s most powerful and astonishing novel yet.

Pre-order your copy of Americanah, the latest book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and get 20% off the cover price (Premium club members get 40% off). And if your order totals $50 or more, we’ll throw in free shipping to anywhere in the world to thank you for your awesomeness. Please note that orders will be delivered after May 14, 2013, when the book is officially released

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April 2013 Book Giveaway Competition – Win a Copy of Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria (by Noo Saro-Wiwa)

April 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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For the month of April 2013, we are excited to be giving away two copies of Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria, the debut novel from Noo Saro-Wiwa, daughter of the slain Nigerian writer and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa.

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Remembering Chinua Achebe

March 23, 2013 By 4 Comments
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Death has robbed us of Chinua Achebe – one of the most influential writers of his time. Undoubtedly Africa’s best known writer, Achebe stood for many things. To many, he was the father of African literature – recognized worldwide for his book, Things Fall Apart, the most translated African work of all time, which has sold more than 12 million copies and appeared in over 50 languages.

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Author of the Week – John William Powell

March 10, 2013 By 1 Comment
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I spent 26.5 years (1971-97) working in Ghana, teaching engineering/directing grassroots industrial development projects for the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and Ministry of Industries, Science and Technology, Accra. My wife, Josephine, nee Akom, is Ghanaian and we have one daughter Ohemaa. Although we still own a house in Kumasi, we now live mostly at Witney in Oxfordshire, England.

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Meet Richard Ali – Our Author of the Week…

March 3, 2013 By 4 Comments
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My name is Richard Ali and I am a lawyer and writer. I was called to the Nigerian Bar in 2010. I was born in Kano and grew up in the resort city of Jos, which forms a part of the setting of my debut novel, City of Memories. I currently live in Jos, Nigeria where I co-run a new publishing company called Parrésia Publishers Ltd and practice civil law.

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March 2013 Book Giveaway Competition – Win a Copy of Chinua Achebe’s latest novel, There Was a Country

March 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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Our selection for the month of March is There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra, the recent book released by legendary Nigerian author, Chinua Achebe. Published by the Penguin Press, this long-awaited memoir revisits the Nigeria civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967-1970. The conflict pitted the Nigerian federal government against the breakaway state of Biafra. A marriage of history and memoir, vivid firsthand observation and decades of further research and reflection, There Was a Country is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe’s place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age. Enter this month’s competition for a chance to win a copy of Chinua Achebe’s latest book.

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Ethiopian Writer Tewodros Fekadu On his Remarkable Story of Survival

March 1, 2013 By 4 Comments
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Tewodros Fekadu scraped through his childhood years between relatives’ houses and the streets of Ethiopia. He has since lived in five countries on three continents and is fluent in four languages (Amharic, Tigrinya, Japanese and English). In 2003, he arrived in Australia and resides on the Gold Coast with his wife, Anita, where he is an active member of the community. His book, No One’s Son tells the remarkable story of his life – from his difficult childhood, his struggles through life’s challenges, and eventual migration to Australia. In this month’s interview, he talks to Africa Book Club about his life and work.

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