Akachi
Adimora-Ezeigbo, Professor of English at the University of Lagos, lecturer, writer, novelist, critic, and essayist,
is the recipient of the NLNG prize for children’s literature. Her books include Roses and Bullets and Trafficked,
a novel. Prof. Ezeigbo has travelled extensively in Africa, Europe and other parts of the world. Her short story, “Ritual
Lament,” was published by Klamidas in its 1993 book of short stories, Through Laughter & Tears. Appraising
that story, the anthology’s editor, Duve Nakolisa, observes: “Here, the prison is essentially feminine, but so
are the gate-keepers. In this story, realism stands arrant feminism on its head as the heroine finds her ultimate saviours
not among the women of the community but largely among its men. But then the story also shows that without men’s tacit
support, many an injustice against women cannot be sustained. Adimora-Ezeigbo’s admirable control of her matter, reinforced
by precise use of language, lures one to note that with her fiction doesn’t have to shy too far away from fact to be
self sustaining.”
Dr.
Bukar Usman has published 10 books with Klamidas Communications Ltd. His publications cut across various genres –
literature, autobiography, essays, public administration, and children books. Technocrat, creative writer, essayist, public
policy icon, man of culture, and quiet philanthropist, Dr Usman hails from Biu in Nigeria’s Borno state. Since retiring
in 1999 from a glorious civil service career, culminating in his appointment as a director-general in the presidency, Dr.
Usman has devoted his time to researching and writing on African oratures. He has a dedicated interest in the preservation
of Africa’s folktale traditions and has published about 20 folkloric books, most of which are in the Hausa language.
He is the editor of Klamidas Classic Folktales series under which his The Bride Without Scars & Other Stories,
The Stick of Fortune, and Girls in Search of Husbands have been published. Leveraging on his interest in
the socio-cultural development of traditional African societies, he is currently writing a historical book on his native Biu
town.
Points of Interest
Which goal do you score first?
Goals
originating from the same vision are what Duve Nakolisa calls cognate goals. To determine the hierarchy by which such goals
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The Secrets
of Happiness
Are some people happy by nature?
Researchers have found that well-being is strongly influenced by enduring characteristics of the individual. In a 10-year
study, they found that, regardless of whether their marital status, job, or residence had changed, people with a happy disposition
in 1973 were still happy in 1983.There are four traits of happy people: (Click here to continue)
Detoxifying
Nigeria's toxic assets...
One of Nigeria's foremost bankers,
Chief Dennis Odife, faults the bill for an act to establish Nigeria's Asset Management Company. It's "another
name for a bail out of the same assets which only recently we all described as ‘toxic assets'. The first question
is whether ‘toxic assets' can or should qualify for a bailout by the Government without first being ‘detoxified'?"
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What women
want from men
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know the answer to the question, "what do women want?" but maybe that's because he hadn't read this perfect
gift for a man desiring to pamper his woman. The book is What Women Want, What Men Need to Know
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Not as simple
as A-B-C
Livescience.com's Christopher Wanjek reports
that "Studies showing the negative or null effects of vitamins supplements are so common. Doctors in Australia provided
nearly 1,900 pregnant women with either supplements of vitamins C and E or a placebo to see whether the vitamins would lower
the risk of developing high blood pressure during pregnancy. It didn't work. (Read article)
Why Africa
must re-brand
Nigerian author Dr. Bukar Usman thinks Obama's
affection for truly democratic African states should prod the rest to re-examine their acts. "With or without American
employment of the triple mechanism of military might, diplomacy and developmental aid, in their quest to shape societies elsewhere...it
remains true that Africa holds its destiny in its hands." And the time, he says, has come for Africa to re-brand itself.
(Read this article)
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