This work focuses on the first surge of women’s involvement in criminality in Nigeria in the 1980s and early 1990s, against the backdrop of the so-called ‘home-grown’structural adjustment induced by the militar…

The conflict countries under consideration are Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire and Sierra Leone. Factors considered are the health impacts of armed conflicts and how these are addressed; the health status…

This book provides a comprehensive outline of the principles and concepts of governance in society, the rights and responsibilities of citizens in a development context, and the successes and failures of govern…

Activities common to young children are described and illustrated, with words repeated to help children familiarise themselves with pronunciations and meanings. A boy and a girl run, skip, trip, jump, climb, lo…

Ona and Igwa’s uncle gives them a little monkey, Konko, as a present. Konko is so naughty and he gets the children into so much trouble that their mother says Konko should be taken away. But as he is being take…

Chosen from familiar but almost extinct African folktales, these four animal stories are descriptive, but also introduce children to African beliefs about different animals. Through the stories they learn why t…

The first principle of public health practice is defined as the identification of the root cause or causes of all health problems, from the diseased individual to the effects on that individual of family, socia…

The first principle of public health practice is defined as the identification of the root cause or causes of all health problems, from the diseased individual to the effects on that individual of family, socia…

This is a comparative study of two literary movements: the ‘Harlem Renaissance’and négritude, and an effort to revaluate some the existing scholarship on the two movements. The work addresses both the factual …

In important respects, this book represents an independent approach to Yoruba grammar. It attempts to present the Yoruba language as it really is, rather than as seen largely from the perspective of other langu…

Based upon the nineteenth century standard work on the Yoruba language, and first ever English-Yoruba, Yoruba-English dictionary, this new edition has been revised and enlarged considerably. The dictionary cont…

Originally published to meet the need for a practical dictionary both for native Hausa speakers and for those wishing to learn or improve their knowledge of the language, the dictionary has remained in demand s…

The study is concerned with preserving and transmitting indigenous culture: the traditional family, modes of social and economic organisation, religious life and moral education; the spread of western education…

Satirist and chronicler of the many-faceted world of education in Nigeria, the author is one of Nigeria’s foremost writers. In this novel, he tells of Obuechina, the only brother of six older sisters, prize pup…

In the fictional country of Kato, a successful and much-loved academic, Jungu, comes face to face with academic colonialism in the guise of American economic aid to the poor African country. Highly qualified Af…

As one of Nigeria’s top writers, the author is concerned with the condition of his country. In this novel he tells, with humour, a human story set in the tragedy of the Biafran war. Fatima is fleeing the enemy …

From the begining of her life eighteen year-old Belinda has struggled hard against the immorality, oppressions and crime prevalent in the Nigerian society in which she lives. Her mother dead and her father a dr…

This play satirises the decay in the university system in Nigeria as symptomatic of larger social ills: prostitution, religious zeal and cultism, corruption and social injustice. 14,95$ 11,95£ format : 2…

The Bikoroa Plays is a major of cycle of three plays, The Boat, The Return Home and Full Circle that were first staged in 1981 at the University of Lagos and the National Theatre of Nigeria. The Boat is a prose…

In the first play, The Man who Walked Away, a principled and sensitive young man who has served a multi-national company for decades, is ‘retrenched’, with severe consequences for his self-respect and his famil…