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Meet our new student from Nigeria

2009
Julie, her classmates, and her teacher prepare to welcome Mayowa Adewale, a new student from Nigeria, by learning about her country and its culture. Includes a craft project and traditional recipe.

Chidi only likes blue

2006
Chidi has a favorite color, blue. He says it is the best color in the world. His older sister, Nneka, decides to teach him about other colors seen in their village.

A man of the people

1989
A schoolteacher risks his life to oppose a corrupt politician in this novel by noted twentieth-century Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, in which he explores the political state of his home country preceding the 1966 coup.

Nigeria

2002
Presents a comprehensive overview of the history, people, culture, geography, and government of Nigeria.

My name is Kofi

coming to America from Nigeria--1976
2002
Kofi's mother sends him to America in the hopes of giving her son a better life, but Kobi feels betrayed by his family and wonders if he will ever be happy again.

Chinua Achebe

a biography
1997
Biography of Nigerian author Chinua Achebe from his birth to his education and activism to his encouragement of other African writers through the literary journal "Okike, " a publishing house in Nigeria, and his role as the Founding Editor of the African Writers Series.

The thing around your neck

2009
Collects twelve short stories by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in which she examines bonds between men and women, parents and children, and Africa and the United States.

In the shadow of a saint

a son's journey to understand his father's legacy
2001
Ken Wiwa chronicles the life of his father, Nigerian writer and critic of military rule Ken Saro-Wiwa.

Home and exile

2000
African writer Chinua Achebe discusses how the European impact on African culture affected his own life.

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