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Pride and joy : a novel / by Onomé, Louisa,author.;
"Joy Okafor is overwhelmed. Recently divorced, a life coach whose phone won't stop ringing, and ever the dutiful Nigerian daughter, Joy has planned every aspect of her mother's seventieth birthday weekend on her own. As the Okafors slowly begin to arrive, Mama Mary goes to take a nap. But when the grandkids go to wake her, they find that she isn't sleeping after all. Refusing to believe that her sister is gone-gone, Auntie Nancy declares that she has had a premonition that Mama Mary will rise again like Jesus Christ on Easter Sunday. Desperate to believe that they're about to witness a miracle, the family overhauls their birthday plans to welcome the Nigerian Canadian community, effectively spreading the word that Mama Mary is coming back. But skeptical Joy is struggling with the loss of her mother and not allowing herself to mourn just yet while going through the motions of planning a funeral that her aunt refuses to allow"--
Subjects: Novels.; Aunts; Divorced women; Families; Mothers; Nigerians;
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After the rain [graphic novel] / by Jennings, John,1970-author.; Brame, David(Illustrator),artist.; Duffy, Damian,letterer.; Okorafor, Nnedi.On the road.;
"After the Rain' is a graphic novel adaptation of Nnedi Okorafor's short story "On the Road." The drama takes place in a small Nigerian town during a violent and unexpected storm. A Nigerian-American woman named Chioma answers a knock at her door and is horrified to see a boy with a severe head wound standing at her doorstep. He reaches for her, and his touch burns like fire. Something is very wrong. Haunted and hunted, Chioma must embrace her heritage in order to survive. John Jennings and David Brame's graphic novel collaboration uses bold art and colors to powerfully tell this tale of identity and destiny."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Fate and fatalism; Nigerian Americans;
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Notes on grief / by Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi,1977-author.;
"Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's beloved father's death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure. Expanding on her original New Yorker piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes about being one of the millions of people grieving this year; about the familial and cultural dimensions of grief and also about the loneliness and anger that are unavoidable in it. With signature precision of language, and glittering, devastating detail on the page--and never without touches of rich, honest humor--Adichie weaves together her own experience of her father's death with threads of his life story, from his remarkable survival during the Biafran war, through a long career as a statistics professor, into the days of the pandemic in which he'd stay connected with his children and grandchildren over video chat from the family home in Abba, Nigeria. In the compact format of We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, Adichie delivers a gem of a book--a book that fundamentally connects us to one another as it probes one of the most universal human experiences. Notes on Grief is a book for this moment-a work readers will treasure and share now more than ever--and yet will prove durable and timeless, an indispensable addition to Adichie's canon"--
Subjects: Essays.; Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-; Grief.; Bereavement; Fathers; Authors, Nigerian; Fathers and daughters;
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My seven Black fathers : a young activist's memoir of race, family, and the mentors who made him whole / by Jawando, Will,1983-author.;
"A memoir by the lawyer, activist, and county councilman Will Jawando"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Jawando, Will, 1983-; African American men; African Americans; African Americans; Nigerian Americans; Role models;
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Everyone can be a ninja : find your inner warrior and achieve your dreams / by Gbajabiamila, Akbar,author.;
"The beloved host of the NBC hit show American Ninja Warrior draws inspiration from both the fierce competitors on his show and his own unlikely path to success to outline the essential steps to achieving your goals and becoming a modern-day ninja. Akbar Gbajabiamila, the host of NBC's hit Emmy-nominated show, American Ninja Warrior, did not have an easy path to success. One of seven children by Nigerian immigrant parents, he grew up in the Crenshaw district of South Central Los Angeles during the 1980s and '90s, a time when the neighborhood was fraught with riots and gang violence. With dreams of playing professional basketball, Gbajabiamila found success not in the sport he loved, but in football. Late in his high school career, Gbajabiamila suited up with pads for the first time and was thrown into the complex sport of football. He climbed major hurdles to play college football and then professional football. After playing in the NFL, it was only after years of hard work behind-the-scenes in radio and television that he was offered the job to be the host of American Ninja Warrior. Through his own inspirational underdog stories and interviews with modern-day ninjas who have accomplished extraordinary things in their own lives against the odds, Akbar proves in Everyone can be a ninja that it doesn't matter if you make it through every step of the obstacle course on the first try. Ninjas keep pushing themselves until they reach their goals, and they don't let anyone or anything stand in their way. It is easy to see greatness in others; it's hard to see it in ourselves. Everyone can be a ninja shows you that we can fulfill our potential and achieve our dreams by finding our inner warriors"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Gbajabiamila, Akbar.; American Ninja Warrior (Television program); Self-actualization (Psychology); Television personalities; Football players; Nigerian Americans;
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A coastline is an immeasurable thing : a memoir across three continents / by Daniel, Mary-Alice,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Mary-Alice Daniel's family moved from West Africa to England when she was a very young girl, leaving behind the vivid culture of her native land in the Nigerian savanna. They arrived to a blanched, cold world of prim suburbs and unfamiliar customs. So began her family's series of travels across three continents in search of places of belonging. A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing ventures through the physical and mythical landscapes of Daniel's upbringing. Against the backdrop of a migratory adolescence, she reckons with race, religious conflict, culture clash, and a multiplicity of possible identities. Daniel lays bare the lives and legends of her parents and past generations, unearthing the tribal mythologies that shaped her kin and her own way of being in the world. The impossible question of which tribe to claim as her own is one she has long struggled with: the Nigerian government recognizes her as Longuda, her father's tribe; according to matrilineal tradition, Daniel belongs to her mother's tribe, the nomadic Fulani; and the language she grew up speaking is that of the Hausa tribe. But her strongest emotional connection is to her adopted home: California, the final place she reveals to readers through its spellbinding history. Daniel's approach is deeply personal: in order to reclaim her legacies, she revisits her unsettled childhood and navigates the traditions of her ancestors. Her layered narratives invoke the contrasting spiritualities of her tribes: Islam, Christianity, and magic. A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing is a powerful cultural distillation of mythos and ethos, mapping the far-flung corners of the Black diaspora that Daniel inherits and inhabits. Through lyrical observation and deep introspection, she probes the bonds and boundaries of Blackness, from bygone colonial empires to her present home in America"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Daniel, Mary-Alice.; African American poets; African American women poets; Nigerian Americans; Poets; Women poets;
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Truth doesn't have a side : my alarming discovery about the dangers of contact sports / by Omalu, Bennet I.(Bennet Ifeakandu); Tabb, Mark A.;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.LSC
Subjects: Omalu, Bennet I. (Bennet Ifeakandu); Webster, Mike, 1952-2002; National Football League.; Brain; Head; Football injuries.; Sports injuries.; Football players; Football players; Forensic pathologists; Neuropathologists; Nigerian Americans; Christian life.;
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Only big bumbum matters tomorrow : a novel / by Kuku, Damilare,author.;
"A twenty-year-old Nigerian woman decides to make over her life after her father's death by getting plastic surgery and moving to Lagos"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Family secrets; Life change events; Surgery, Plastic; Women, Black; Women;
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My grandfather would have shot me : a Black woman discovers her family's Nazi past / by Teege, Jennifer,1970-; Sellmair, Nikola,1971-; Sommer, Carolin(Translator);
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and Internet addresses.Prologue: The discovery -- Me, granddaughter of a mass murderer -- Master of the Płaszów Concentration Camp : my grandfather Amon Goeth -- The commandant's lover : my grandmother Ruth Irene Kalder -- Living with the dead : my mother Monika Goeth -- The victim's grandchildren : my friends in Israel -- Flowers in Krakow -- Further resources: Books, films and online."The memoir of a German-Nigerian woman who learns that her grandfather was the brutal Nazi commandant depicted in Schindler's List, Amon Goeth"--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Teege, Jennifer, 1970-; Teege, Jennifer, 1970-; Göth, Amon, 1908-1946; Teege, Jennifer, 1970-; Teege, Jennifer, 1970-; Płaszów (Concentration camp); Grandchildren of war criminals; Racially mixed people; Nazis; Concentration camp commandants;
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Dele weds Destiny : a novel / by Obaro, Tomi,1990-author.;
"A novel in which three Nigerian women, friends since their university days, are reunited in Lagos for the first time in thirty years at the lavish wedding of one of their daughters"--
Subjects: Novels.; Female friendship; Friendship; Middle-aged women; Reunions; Weddings; Women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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