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Web of lies
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Beverley Naidoo |
When Nigerian refugee Femi becomes involved with a dangerous gang, he finds himself lying to his family and in danger of legal trouble that could ruin their chances of gaining asylum in England. |
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Happiness, like water
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Chinelo Okparanta |
Short stories. Here are Nigerian women at home and transplanted to the United States, building lives out of longing and hope, faith and doubt, the struggle to stay and the mandate to leave, the burde… |
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Streetwise
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Chris Freeman |
"Ex-cop Joseph Soyinka made many enemies fighting corruption but refused to be intimidated - until his wife was killed and his life destroyed. Now he lives with his young son in the anonymous safety … |
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Shifting Allegiances
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Amaka Lily |
If you had told Deka in 2005, as she sat on a plane bound for America, that she would one day wish to be in Nigeria, she would have spat in your face. Nigeria had been hell for her. She lived in a on… |
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Frozen contract
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Bill Rogers |
When Premiership star Sunday Okowu-Bello is found dead, in chilling circumstances, DCI Tom Caton knows this case is going to be anything but straightforward. And with three security guards missing th… |
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The other side of truth
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Beverley Naidoo |
Will the truth harm them — or save them?When Nigeria's corrupt military government kills their mother, twelve-year-old Sade and her brother Femi think their lives are over. Out of fear for their safe… |
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Little Bee
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Chris Cleave |
A haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers--one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London. |
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At her majesty's request
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Walter Dean Myers |
Biography of the African princess saved from execution and taken to England where Queen Victoria oversaw her upbringing and where she lived for a time before marrying an African missionary. |
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