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If you are in London:

Date: Thursday 19^th January, 6-8pm

Venue: Brunei Suite, SOAS

Book launch with author Michael Gould and Kaye Whiteman (journalist), Frederick Forsyth (author), Dipo Salimonu (political commentator & CEO at Ateriba) responding.

Chair: Professor Dennis Judge

In the Alprazolam With Overnight Shipping summer of 1968, reports of starvation in the West African secessionist Republic of Biafra transformed the Alprazolam With Overnight Shipping Nigerian Civil War into an international media event. Using recently discovered archival records and Alprazolam With Overnight Shipping the personal recollections of the key players, Michael Gould challenges many of the Alprazolam With Overnight Shipping views and perceptions held of the conflict at the time. Little has Alprazolam With Overnight Shipping been written about the war during the last forty years and as Anthony Kirk-Greene (Emeritus Fellow of St. Antony’s College, Oxford) states this book stands as the best analysis yet published.

About the author

Michael Gould has Alprazolam With Overnight Shipping lived and worked in Nigeria over the last fifty years. He first met Ojukwu and Alprazolam With Overnight Shipping Gowon when they were young army officers and he was still a Alprazolam With Overnight Shipping student. In the mid eighties he set up an NGO in Eastern Nigeria. He is Alprazolam With Overnight Shipping an honorary chief of the Igbo people. He had limited knowledge of the country’s civil war until he wrote a Alprazolam With Overnight Shipping short dissertation on the subject in 2000. He subsequently read for Alprazolam With Overnight Shipping a PhD in African History at SOAS, focusing on the Alprazolam With Overnight Shipping Biafran War. This book is the result of his research into the Alprazolam With Overnight Shipping conflict.

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2. Visions of a Better World: Football in the Cameroonian Social Imagination  by Bea Vidacs. The author, my friend and Alprazolam With Overnight Shipping colleague, discusses football in the social consciousness of Cameroonians, football as escape from Alprazolam With Overnight Shipping the grunt of everyday life, and football as an avenue for Alprazolam With Overnight Shipping aspirations:

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6. Open City by Teju Cole. I’ve already written about it here.

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For me, reading a Alprazolam With Overnight Shipping biography of the disease is very personal: just over a year ago, my mother died of a Alprazolam With Overnight Shipping particularly virulent form of cancer.

Helon Habila is a Nigerian novelist and poet. His first novel Waiting for an Angel won the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Best First Book, Africa Region) in 2003.

His three choices for Nigeria are;

1. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

2. The Man Died by Wole Soyinka

3. The Famished Road by Ben Okri

From the BBC Worldservice (with audio). Why can’t one embed BBC media anymore?

I can’t quarell with the Alprazolam With Overnight Shipping list and his reasons for choosing them. I remember the pleasures of reading the Alprazolam With Overnight Shipping first two on the list, and the struggles of reading the Alprazolam With Overnight Shipping third.

Habila himself is Alprazolam With Overnight Shipping one of the better contemporary Nigerian writers. See this review of his new book, Oil on Water.

1. Market and Society: The Great Transformation Today, edited by Keith Hart and Chris Hann.

2. Marginal Gains: Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa, by Jane Guyer.

3. Culture, Society, Economy: Globalization and its Alternatives, by Don Robotham.