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  • Bonfo
    Rotimi Ogunjobi
    Ibadan, 1965. Nigeria is young, ambitious and changing fast-and so are its women.Abeni Adewale has spent years earning respect in a corporate world dominated by men. When she rises to become Managing Director of Oduwa Trading Company, it should be the proudest moment of her life. Instead, success forces her to confront uncomfortable truths about her marriage, respectability, de...
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    21,73 €

  • Two Dogs
    Rotimi Ogunjobi
    Lucky and Bonzo may live next door to each other, but they inhabit entirely different worlds.Lucky is a hungry, neglected mongrel whose unreliable owner frequently disappears without leaving him food. Bonzo is a pampered, highly educated bulldog who boasts of his pedigree, advanced certificates, international travels and superior place in canine society. Their conversations acr...
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    9,03 €

  • Roach Rage
    Rotimi Ogunjobi
    Antonio 'Tony' Padillo has dealt with demanding kitchen shifts, Atlanta traffic, difficult customers, tight budgets, and the ordinary irritations of married life. But nothing prepares him for the enemy that takes over his apartment on Buford Highway.Cockroaches.At first, Tony treats the infestation like any other household problem. He sprays, fogs, seals cracks, sets traps, and...
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    15,51 €

  • Brain Surgery on the Highway
    Rotimi Ogunjobi
    From the crowded streets of Lagos to the unpredictable corners of London, Brain Surgery on the Highway and Other Manic Expressions presents eleven darkly comic stories about ordinary people trapped in extraordinarily absurd situations.A man who believes he can read minds encounters the disturbing thoughts of passengers on a Lagos bus. A newly ordained pastor confronts his crimi...
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    11,00 €

  • Lottery Luck
    Rotimi Ogunjobi
    Denrele Gabriel has done everything right. He graduates with a first-class degree, loves a sensible woman named Deborah, and expects a bright future. Instead, he finds himself unemployed, penniless, behind on his rent, and rapidly losing both his dignity and his hope.Then, at the lowest point of his life, Denrele buys a lottery ticket - and wins a staggering fortune.Suddenly tr...
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    9,34 €

  • The Amala Renaissance
    Rotimi Ogunjobi
    When Akin Alegongo’s furniture business collapses, his wife Damilola transforms her struggling beauty salon into an amala restaurant. Her cooking quickly draws crowds, but Akin’s extraordinary gift for publicity turns a promising family business into something nobody expected.Soon, Amala Boutique becomes Amala Temple, complete with membership cards, ceremonial robes, inverted c...
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    10,82 €

  • Balance Due
    Rotimi Ogunjobi
    At sixty-seven, retired history teacher Alfred Ackron expects aging to bring slower mornings, family visits, and time to write the story of his mother’s people. Instead, he finds himself surrounded by medical bills, insurance portals, retirement advisers, senior-living seminars, targeted advertisements, and polished strangers eager to sell him 'peace of mind.'Then Alfred discov...
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    18,76 €

  • The Slow Leaving
    Rotimi Ogunjobi
    Marcus Reed has spent his life doing what was expected of him - working long hours, paying the bills, and keeping his struggling family afloat in their cramped Bronx apartment. Then one morning, he wakes to find that something has gone terribly wrong.His body is changing.At first, Marcus believes he can fight it. But as the mysterious transformation deepens, he loses his job, h...
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    10,40 €

  • The Warlock of Eremare
    Rotimi Ogunjobi
    Several weeks after Akogun and his companions vanish beyond the eastern hills, the city of Eremare is left uneasy, divided, and uncertain of its own future. Hatiba, once the nameless boy brought into the city by strangers, has grown into a watchful young guardian under the guidance of the wise Iragbeje. But the peace of Eremare is fragile, and beneath its familiar markets, hall...
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    18,75 €

  • Somber City
    Rotimi Ogunjobi
    Coming of age in a Nigeria alive with music, politics, ambition, friendship, and restless possibility, Femi 'Flash' Falashe moves from the strict boarding-school lawns of Ibadan to the electric freedom of university life in Lagos with wit, hope, and the companionship of unforgettable friends-George, the anxious loyalist, and James Peregrino, the brilliant, rebellious musician w...
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    19,46 €

  • The Oracle of Alpayda
    Rotimi Ogunjobi
    When the Great Oracle of Alpayda delivers a chilling prophecy, the fate of an entire kingdom rests upon an impossible quest. The only hope lies in obtaining the fruit of the legendary Tree of Wisdom-a tree said to grow near the mysterious realm known only as the Afterlife.Chosen to lead the expedition is Akogun, the Brave Warrior, a veteran of deadly campaigns and perilous jour...
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    14,38 €

  • Ananse and the Lizard
    Rotimi Ogunjobi
    Anansi the Spider hears that the king will reward anyone who can discover the secret names of his three daughters. Hoping to win fame and honor, Anansi hides in a mango tree and tricks the princesses into saying their names aloud. But when he asks his trusting friend Lizard to announce the names before the king, the plan quickly goes wrong.As the truth comes out, Anansi learns ...
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    12,41 €

  • The Elephant and the Ungrateful Hare
    Rotimi Ogunjobi
    A kind-hearted elephant sets out on an important journey carrying a bucket of sweet golden honey for his in-laws. Along the way, he meets a small hare stranded beside a rushing river. Feeling sorry for the little creature, the elephant offers him a ride across the water.But the clever hare has other plans.While riding safely on the elephant’s back, the mischievous hare secretly...
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    12,40 €

  • Buje and the Clever Little Man
    Rotimi Ogunjobi
    There lives a beautiful young maiden named Buje whose beauty is admired by everyone in the land. Wealthy merchants, powerful chiefs, and even the king himself try to win her heart with rich gifts and promises of luxury. But Buje proudly rejects them all, believing that no man is worthy of her.Far away from the attention of kings and nobles lives Kundi, a small but clever man kn...
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    12,40 €

  • Ajantala the Strange Child
    Rotimi Ogunjobi
    In a quiet village surrounded by forests and dusty roads, a baby is born unlike any child the world has ever seen. Moments after his birth, he speaks. He walks. He argues with adults. And wherever he goes, confusion and fear soon follow.His name is Ajantala.At first, the villagers think the strange child is simply clever. But as his behavior grows more troubling, celebrations a...
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    12,33 €

  • The Foo-Foo Tree and more Efik Folktales
    Rotimi Ogunjobi
    The Foo-Foo Tree and more Efik Folktales is a selection of folklore thought to have originated from the Efik people . The Efik are native to South East Nigeria even though they were said to have migrated from the Cameroons. Originally the economy of the region which they occupy was based on fishing and trading . This aspect of their daily lives as well as the mortal dread of th...
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    10,24 €

  • King Chameleon and more West African Folktales
    Rotimi Ogunjobi
    King Chameleon and more West African Folktales is a selection of folklore believed to have originated from West Africa and the people who live in the region. West Africa is home to several scores of tribes, languages and dialects. Even though, tribal cords are quite strong and languages may differ markedly even between two communities a few hundred miles apart, it is usual to ...
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    10,22 €

  • somber city
    Rotimi Ogunjobi
    Somber City is an evocative novel of the promise, expectation, and disenchantment of life in contemporary Nigeria, in a dismal perspective of its most populous city, Lagos. The novel illuminates, through a mix of fact and fiction, a seminal moment in modern history: Nigeria’s fervent passage through a period of immense oil wealth in the 1970s to a sudden descent into a cataclys...
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    24,27 €

  • Ajala the Terrible Child and other stories
    Rotimi Ogunjobi
    The story of a boy so terrible that even animals are afraid of him. Everyone in town is afraid of Ajala . In shame his mother took him inside a forest and there abandoned Ajala. He makes friends with some animals but soon they find that Ajala is a very wicked child. The animals run away but Ajala is in hot pursuit. Can the world be saved from Ajala the terrible child ? ...
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    8,61 €

  • Tales of Tambolo
    Rotimi Ogunjobi
    A collection of eleven fictional short stories for children set in a place called Tambolo Town. Tales for education and entertainment. ...
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    10,88 €

  • The Leopard and the Galogalo
    Rotimi Ogunjobi
    In this children’s book a gullible Leopard makes friends with a wily animal called the Galogalo, and suffers great misfortunes in consequence.Leopard makes friends with a crafty and evil animal called Galogalo. Soon after Galogalo eats all of Leopard’s cubs.While trying to take revenge Leopard suffers humiliation and is eventually killed by Galogalo. What happens eventually to ...
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    8,61 €

  • Edidare
    Rotimi Ogunjobi
    A bad country, a bad people, a bad king.Èdìdàré is an epic poem which tells the story of a group of adventurers journeying to a far country, from which they expect to return with the Wisdom Fruit. Led by a warrior called Irinkerindo , they discover a city hidden deep inside the forest. Èdìdàré as this city is known,is a place of indescribable filth. The suffering dwellers hav...
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    11,61 €

  • subversions and manouvers
    rotimi ogunjobi
    'subversions and manouvers' is the third in the evolving anthology series of The Redbridge Review (www.redbridgereview.co.uk) Democratic Publishing Projects. ...
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    17,46 €