"Her graphically detailed pictures of tribal life make the novel memorable."―Chicago TribuneThe Slave Girl follows the fortunes of Ogbanje Ojebeta, a Nigerian woman who is sold into slavery in her own land after disease and tragedy leave her orphaned as a child. In her fellow slaves, she finds a surrogate family that clings together under the unbending will of their master. As Ogbanje Ojebeta becomes a woman and discovers her need for home and family, and for freedom and identity, she realizes that she must ultimately choose her own destiny.

Slave Girl

Emecheta, Buchi

Literature & Fiction

Fontana

"As for my survival for the past twenty years in England, from when I was a little over twenty, dragging four cold and dripping babies with me and pregnant with the fifth one - that is a miracle. And if for any reason you do not believe in miracles, please start believing, because keeping my head above water in this indifferent society...is a miracle." Buchi Emecheta's autobiography spans the transition from a tribal childhood in the African bush to life in North London as an internationally acclaimed writer.

Head above water (Flamingo)

Fontana Paperbacks

Second Class Citizen (Flamingo)

Contemporary

Flamingo

The latest novel by the author of "The Rape of Shavi", "In the Ditch", "A Kind of Marriage" and an autobiography called "Head Above Water".

Gwendolen

HarperCollins, Publishers

This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension. Audio versions of selected titles provide great models of intonation and pronunciation of difficult words.

Oxford Bookworms Library: The Bride Price: Level 5: 1,800 Word Vocabulary (Oxford Bookworms Library: Human Interest: Stage 6)

World Literature

Oxford University Press

The titles in the "Textplus" series, designed to reflect the changing nature of English Literature at advanced post-GCSE level, offer the complete text with a specially commissioned introduction and compact background notes placing the work in historical and critical context. Together, these components are intended to open up the text for students, allowing them to plot their own course of study, to plan extended projects, to compare writers' perspectives on similar themes and to relate works to key social and historical phenomena.

Second Class Citizen (Textplus)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Hodder & Stoughton Educational Division

A tale of lost innocence and betrayal of trust.

Gwendolen (African Writers Series)

Heinemann International Literature and Textbooks

Kehinde is a Nigerian woman, unsure of herself, not quite certain she has the right to be happy. With her husband, Albert, she has made a home in London, and has a promising career when Albert decides they should return to Nigeria. Kehinde is loath to do so, and joins him later, reluctantly, only to discover that he has taken a second, younger wife. Her years in England have left Kehinde unwilling and unprepared to reembrace Nigerian social mores; and unable to accept the situation, she returns to London.

Kehinde (African Writers Series)

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Heinemann

This novel dramatizes the painful birth of the republic of Biafra in the late 1960s.

Destination Biafra (African Writers Series)

Literary

"As for my survival for the past twenty years in England, from when I was a little over twenty, dragging four cold and dripping babies with me and pregnant with the fifth one - that is a miracle. And if for any reason you do not believe in miracles, please start believing, because keeping my head above water in this indifferent society...is a miracle." Buchi Emecheta's autobiography spans the transition from a tribal childhood in the African bush to life in North London as an internationally acclaimed writer.

Head Above Water (African Writers Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

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