In this study Dulue Mbachu examines Nigeria’s place in global news flow, using foreign news reporting by two Lagos newspapers to illustrate the dependence of local news media on Western news organizations for knowledge of what happens in the rest of the world. It shows that foreign news coverage depends largely on reporting provided by leading Western news agencies. The study found that much of the foreign news was about the United States and leading Western European countries. Even when Nigerian newspapers covered their immediate region of Africa and other non-Western parts of the world, the sources were often the same leading news agencies from the West. The image of the world the newspapers convey to their readers is essentially that created by the dominant Western news agencies. The constructs made by these agencies are not value-free but often correspond to their own interests, that of their countries or the ideologies to which they subscribe in their definition of the world.

The Master's Voice (Nigeria and Global News)

In Fragile States and Crisis of Regionalism in West Africa, Gbara Awanen examines the things holding the region together and the ones impeding its integration. Among other objectives, this book seeks to evaluate the economic (developmental) and security dimensions of regional integration or regionalism in West Africa. The principal aim is to understand the dynamic evolution of ECOWAS from being an economic integration scheme to a regional collective security provider. Some of the questions worthy of careful study include whether ECOWAS increasing preoccupation with security matters reflects a fundamental shift in priorities, or whether this evolution is merely a pragmatic rebalancing act in aid of the Organization’s overarching Treaty goal of economic integration.

Fragile States and the Crisis of Regionalism in West Africa by Gbara Awanen

Surviving the Storms is an engaging portrayal of the impetuous Kuro, an adolescent from a lower middle class family in Port Harcourt of the 1970’s. Having spent part of his boyhood in
the war zone, after the end of the civil war Kuro was rather headstrong at both boarding school and home.

Surviving the Storms By Timi Spiff

A sleeping giant is a bad sight to behold. Nigeria happens to be widely acknowledged as the Giant of Africa. China used to be the apt example of a giant that was fast asleep, which made Napoleon Bonaparte to reportedly quip: “Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world.” Like China, Nigeria has the population and the manpower, but sleeping sickness is the issue at stake. The sixty creative nonfiction pieces published in How Not To Be A Nigerian to mark Nigeria’s 60th independence anniversary should be read as the needed wake-up call to rouse the black giant from sleep.

How Not to Be a Nigerian By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

In Vision Impossible Isidore Emeka Uzoatu captures the climate of fear that envelops an African nation in the iron grip of military dictatorship. Junior Obodo, on the wings of love and fresh out of university, takes the battle to the junta with the one weapon it seemed to detest most: the pen. Of course, like all suspected of standing in the way, Junior is crushed. Or not quite. There is a sublime touch to Uzoatu's prose as the story soars with its hero beyond the stratosphere, transcending mortal existence to outline a new vision of a better society. It is a powerful allegory of the Nigerian condition.

Vision Impossible by Isidore Emeka Uzoatu

A tender coming-of-age story forged in the crucible of Biafra, War Games is a relentlessly candid and unsentimental reconstruction of a halcyon world suddenly shattered by hate, flight and strife. For Basil Chekwubechukwu Odukwe or Cheche, the good life as a rich landlord’s son in northern Nigeria suddenly turns nightmarish as the country descends into civil war.

War Games By Dulue Mbachu

God of Poetry by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu, is a celebration of poetry, wide-ranging in style and themes, revealing the thrilling depths of a rich talent.

God of Poetry

A Peculiar Tragedy is a critical biography of John Pepper Clark, better known as J.P. Clark, one of the foremost of Nigeria’s first generation writers that include the Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka and famous novelist Chinua Achebe. Indeed, they’re often seen as a troika, with Clark sitting at the apex of poetry, Soyinka at that of drama and Achebe prose.In many ways this book is about the relationships that developed among the three, starting from their days in the 1950s at the University College, Ibadan. It’s also a critical analysis of the quantum of work Clark produced over time against their social and political circumstances. Adewale Maja-Pearce dwells on the Nigerian Civil War and the impact it had on the lives and work of the writers as Clark backed the federal forces, Soyinka went to prison for dissent while Achebe joined the secessionist Biafra.

A Peculiar Tragedy By Adewale Maja-Pearce

Billy Bisa's Secrets and Other Stories is the first collection of short stories published by Dulue Mbachu. Eight in number, they were all written within the mid-1980s and the end of the 1990s.

A few of them previously appeared in West Africa, BBC Focus on Africa magazines, Amazon Shorts and some anthologies. Most have never been published before and are making their first appearance in this collection.

In his characteristic style, Mbachu employs humour to take readers through facts of life that should've otherwise made them sad. The stories represent a journey through a Nigeria seen through the eyes of the author. It presents a potpourri of characters including musicians, magicians, policemen, the naive and the cunning, all coming together in a hilarious mix in the world according to Mbachu.The stories are as cathartic as they're entertaining.


Billy Bisa's Secrets and Other Stories

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