Criminology in Nigeria: History, Evolution, and Trends explores the threads of the criminal justice system in Nigeria through past, present, and future. Tracing the roots of law and criminology in Nigeria, this book elucidates the dynamic nature and impact of Nigeria’s criminal justice system. It sheds light on the various influences of the Nigerian criminal justice system, different types of crimes, and various sentencing practices. By doing so, the book encourages readers to eng...

From award-winning author, Ifeoma Okoye, Behind the Clouds is the emotional story a woman trying to build a family under the societal pressures of 1970s Nigeria.Ije has visited every reputable faith healer, doctor, and herbalist she can find yet her desire to become a mother is proving impossible to fulfill.While her mother-in-law believes the blame should rest solely on the wife, her husband remains unfailingly supportive. That is until one day If...

From award-winning author, Ifeoma Okoye, Men Without Ears chronicles the societal challenges and pressures of 1980s Nigeria.After travelling away from home, Chigo returns to his family with fresh ideals and a renewed sense of purpose, but finds that his brother has fallen into a life of reckless materialism and debt while he was away.Chigo soon realises that problem is larger than it seems, with the country under the thumb of a corrupt regime where...

GO FOR GOLD With Your Writing shows you how to write gold-winning sentences, sentences that are error-free, clear, concise, varied, and mature. The book shows you, step-by-step, how to construct basic sentences, which form the backbone of all sentences, and how to expand basic sentences by modification, subordination, and coordination, thereby turning them into the kind of sentences that mature writers use in their writing.

'Your ambition, Chira, don't let it die. Don't give up no matter the obstacles. I'll be happy wherever I am to know that you made it.' These are Chira's father's words to her from his hospital bed. Chira is the main character in THE FOURTH WORLD. She is an intelligent, hardworking, and soft-hearted young woman whose ambition is to rise above her deprived background by acquiring a good education.Her father's sudden death truncates Chira's education before she finishes secondary scho...

Over the past two decades, there has been a resurgence in the writing of African and African diaspora speculative and science fiction writing. Recent discussions around the "rise of science-fiction and fantasy" in Africa have led to a push-back, in which writers and scholars have suggested that science fiction and fantasy is not a new phenomenon in African literature, but that the deep past of the African world and its complex and mysterious foundations still register in burgeoning modern ...