Chinny learned at an early age that with her background and heritage, life does not simply hand you opportunities – especially not when you’re a girl child living in Eastern Nigeria. With only the meagre resources hewed out of her parents’ low-income jobs, the decision to send either Chinny or her male, unenthusiastic sibling to school is inevitable... and defeating. The only bright spot in the tempest of her life is her best friend, Ejiofor.With every scrap of courage and convicti...

“When a factor meant to unite threatens to so violently separate you from the one person who infuses wholeness into your every day, would you let go? Or would you cling with both hands, feet, and perhaps teeth?'The Steel Gavel’ follows the ordinary lives of Jideofor Williams and Fiyinfunoluwa Taylor after their rather interesting first encounter. As they pursue their happily-ever-after, nothing prepares them for the smouldering glare of a thriving...

This book interrogates contemporary debates, controversies, achievements, challenges, and future prospects of African development and democratization from varied theoretical perspectives. The diverse issues and sub-themes addressed in this volume include tenets of democracy such as democratization, democratic institutions, good governance, term limits, minority rights, and women’s political participation; and dynamics of development such as economic growth, liberalization, development stra...

Some women break. Some women disappear. Some women rise.The Journey of a Phoenix is a raw, unflinching memoir about what happens when the life you built with loyalty, sacrifice, and faith is dismantled in front of you - and you are left to stand alone in the ashes.She believed in commitment.She believed in honor.She believed that endurance would be rewarded.She was wrong.When betrayal came - calculated, public, and devastatin...

Two worlds. One forbidden love. A feud that has lasted twenty years — and a passion that refuses to obey it.When Olankani Kipkoech Ole Nkadaru travels from the vast grasslands of Amboseli to the coral stone streets of Mombasa, he comes as a warrior on a mission: represent his Maasai community at a government summit, protect his people's land, and return home untouched by the coast his father despises. The son of a grief-hardened chief whose brother was killed in a dispute with coas...

This is a foundational book for people that want a career in cloud engineering. To understand why some of these cloud engineering roles exist, we need to understand the concept of the cloud. The goal of this book is to introduce the reader to cloud computing, the different paths for cloud engineering and how to navigate a cloud engineering career.Once the reader is able to learn the concepts introduced in this book, they will be ready to take on more complicated cloud related techn...

This is a foundational book for people that want a career in cloud engineering. To understand why some of these cloud engineering roles exist, we need to understand the concept of the cloud. The goal of this book is to introduce the reader to cloud computing, the different paths for cloud engineering and how to navigate a cloud engineering career.Once the reader is able to learn the concepts introduced in this book, they will be ready to take on more complicated cloud related techn...

Princess Adaora was a very beautiful girl and the only child of her parents. One big problem Adaora had was that she swore she would never have anything to do with any man from their community or even from their neighboring communities. Her desire was to marry a Prince from a far away kingdom. Her parents advised her against that but she wouldn't listen. Different men of gold came from their community and even suburbs seeking her hand in marriage but she kept rejecting them. Eventually, sh...

The Covid-19 pandemic is leaving an indelible mark on history leaving a heightened need for responsibility, accountability, and ethics in the use and management of resources for the common good. This first volume of Responsible Management of Shifts in Work Modes – Values for a Post Pandemic Future reflects on past and present events influencing the pandemic’s global impact and the shifts towards new directions in responsible management of human relationships and workforce dynamics...

THE CARTOGRAPHER OF LONGINGA Novel for Anyone Who Has Ever Been Waiting for Permission to BeginBy Adaora EllisYou know the feeling.It lives between your ribs — not quite in your heart, not quite in your stomach, but in the space between them where breath begins. It wakes you at three in the morning for no reason you can name. It makes a perfectly adequate life feel, on certain evenings, like a coat that almost fits.You have ...

The Covid 19 pandemic transformed the slow morphing of work modes into rapid shifts that heightened VUCA characteristics globally. The management of these shifts in work dynamics is the focus of the chapters in this volume. The variation of post-pandemic outcomes for businesses, from complete collapses to profit booms, easily motivates an interest in the values that influence truly positive outcomes. Also, the health sector, globally, has borne much of the brunt of the pandemic and needs t...

This book provides a unique insight into understanding the Igbo social, economic, and political world through comprehensive analyses of indigenous and foreign religious practices, issues surrounding women, literature, language, sexism in musical lyrics, films, and community development and government. It also explores thought-provoking cultural practices relating to marriage and divorce, reincarnation, naming, and masquerade dance. The themes covered in the book help readers appreciate the...