Wilfred Terlumun UjiAuthor: Norbert HwakaaBook Title: The Untold Story of Kuje YumPublisher: Old Press, AbujaISBN: 978-978-59342-7-9Year: 2023Pages: 124IntroductionThe book is focused on a collection of folk songs composed by Kuje Yum, a Masev folk singer, who made indelible foot prints on the oral poetry of the Tiv nation.Kuje Yum like his contemporaries in Tiv Society such as Tarker Golozo and Anche Igbaaze, laid a remarkable foundation for the understanding and insight into Tiv oral poetry, thus revealed the philosophical depth of Tiv Oral Literature, History and Culture.The book is compri ..read more

Author: Kuni TyessiBook Title: If Only we Knew: A Collection of Short StoriesPublisher: Aboki Publishers Kaduna, 2022ISBN: 978-978-8546-9Word Count: 9,925She had explained herself repeatedly to different police personnel, but the case seemed to have just started. She was escorted from office to office, continuously reiterating herself. It was exhaustive, but she had no choice. She was careful not to change or forget anything, as that would further implicate her in an issue that was already bad. The police personnel were interested in listening to the monotonous story only to make mere specula ..read more

Book Title: If Only We Knew a Collection of Short StoriesAuthor: Kuni TyessiPublisher: Aboki Pulishers, Kaduna ISBN:978-978-8546-9Word Count:4808 Once it was evening, the fears resurfaced. Being alone at home with her baby girl of barely three months became increasingly difficult for Malang. She would put a call through to her husband and tell white lies. This always made him abandon whatever he was doing. He would immediately rush back home. Oftentimes, he would meet her outside waiting for him with the baby strapped on her back. With him at home, she was guaranteed some level of safety an ..read more

Author: Terver Malu and Okechukwu Oko Publisher: Author House, 2013 Pages:169 Rotimi Olajide Opeyeoluwa This book probes deeply into the life of a charismatic and intrepid soldier who rose to command the Nigerian Army as the 13th Chief of Army Staff. Lt. General Samuel Victor Malu was indeed prepared for the role he eventually played in both the entirety of his life and particularly his professional calling, as a soldier’s solider because of the kind of background he had and the values he imbibed therein. The book carefully portrayed a boy born into poverty but rich in values inculcated ..read more

Author: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Publisher: Harper Collins E-Books, Australia, 2009 Pages: 353 Rotimi Olajide Opeyeoluwa This book of 353 pages put in perspectives, the varied interesting story of a great personality, her accomplishments, travails and dazzling heights and an obvious intersection with her country of birth, Liberia, earning her the distinction of being the first female President and by extension Africa’s. An intriguing story filled with several twists and turns which could break a faint-hearted person. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is indeed a great woman imbued with the heart of stee ..read more

Sunday Moses Adebayo AlokoBook Title: The History of African Development: An Outline Textbook for a New Generation of African Students and TeachersEditors: Ewout Frankema, Ellen Hillbom, Ushehwedu Kufakurinani and Felix Meier zu SelhausenPublisher: African Economic History Network, 2023Pages: 296 pagesISBN: 978-94-6447-652-1The book comprised of 17 chapters edited by Ewout Frankema, Ellen Hillborn, Ushehwedu Kufakurinani and Felix Meier zu Selhausen and published by African Economic History Network (AEHN) in 2023.A History of African Development, is beyond reasonable doubt an all-encompassing ..read more

Sunday Moses Adebayo AlokoBook Title: An Economic History of Nigeria, 1860-1960Author: R. Olufemi EkundarePublisher: Methuen & Co Ltd, London, 1973Pages: xxii + 458 pagesISBN: 416 75150 4R. Olufemi Ekundare’s book entitled, An Economic History of Nigeria, 1860-1960 was published by Methuen and Co Limited, London in the year 1973. The book, though plagued with so many problems, which shall be highlighted, is nevertheless an important and comprehensive text in the study of the economic history of West Africa. Its major focus was the economic development and transformation engendered in Nige ..read more

Sunday Moses Adebayo Aloko Book Title: Economic Diversification in Nigeria: The Politics of Building a Post-Oil Economy, Author: Zainab UsmanPublisher: ZED Book, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., London, 2022Pages: xiii+292 pagesISBN: 978-1-7869-9394-6 Zainab Usman’s book, Economic Diversification in Nigeria: The Politics of Building a Post-Oil Economy was published in 2022 by Zed Books Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. It is a path breaking study, which has been added to the Financial Times best books of 2022. The study was informed by the current international economic landscape, in which many count ..read more

Sunday Moses Adebayo Aloko Book Title: An Economic History of West AfricaAuthor: A.G. HopkinsPublisher: Routledge, Oxon, 2022Pages: xiii + 339ISBN: 978-0-367-00243-5 The first edition of A.G. Hopkins An Economic History of West Africa, was first published in 1973 by Addison Wesley Longman Limited. In 2014, it was published by Routledge, which has equally published its second edition in 2020. The book was/is a masterpiece and a pioneering study in the economic history of Africa, which was relatively new as at the time it was first written. Thus, it filled a huge gap and also inspired furth ..read more

Book Title: Moses Orshio ADASU: Religion Politics and Development Author: Terhemba Wuam Publisher: Aboki Publishers Makurdi Pages: 98 ISBN:978-8098-50-9 Vivian Inyang Moses Orshio Adasu was a Catholic priest with no political antecedent before his assumption as the Governor of Benue state who was very conscious of the situation of Benue state. Adasu is remembered as a man of his words who offered a selfless service to the people of Benue state during his reign as the governor. His government was seen as making promises and striving hard to keep them. Above all his virtues of honesty, hard w ..read more