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Life turns man up and down : high life, useful advice, and mad English : African market literature

Title
  1. Life turns man up and down : high life, useful advice, and mad English : African market literature / selected and introduced by Kurt Thometz.
Published by
  1. New York : Pantheon Books, ©2001.
Supplementary content
  1. Contributor biographical information
  2. Publisher description

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Additional authors
  1. Thometz, Kurt
Description
  1. xliv, 356 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
  1. "An anthology that brings together examples of once wildly popular but long out-of-print African market literature never intended as art: irresistibly charming, brief literary anomalies in all genres, written for entertainment, instruction, and moral guidance."--Jacket.
Subject
  1. Chapbooks, Nigerian
  2. Nigeria
  3. Popular literature
  4. Chapbooks, Nigerian > Facsimiles
  5. Nigerian literature (English)
  6. Nigeria > Literary collections
  7. Literary collections
  8. Popular literature > Nigeria
  9. Facsimiles
Genre/Form
  1. Literary collections.
  2. Facsimiles.
Contents
  1. High life, useful advice, and mad English -- Rosemary and the taxi driver / Miller O. Albert -- Man has no rest in his life / Okenwa Olisah -- Beware and be wise / Olusola -- No condition is permanent / The master of life (Okenwa Olisah) -- Money hard to get but easy to spend / Okenwa Olisah -- Lack of money is not lack of sense / Felix N. Stephen -- Miss Comfort's heart cries for Tonny's love / Cyril Nwakuna Aririguzo -- Drunkards believe bar as heaven / Sunday Okenwa Olisah -- Beware of harlots and many friends / J. Nnadozie -- How to avoid corner corner love and win good love from girls / Thomas O. Iguh -- Why harlots hate married men and love bachelors / C.N.O. Moneyhard -- Mabel the sweet honey that poured away / Speedy Eric -- How to write famous love letters, love stories, and make friend with girls / N.O. Njoku -- Saturday night disappointment / Miller O. Olbert -- Adventures of the four stars / J.A. Okeke Anyichie -- The statements of Hitler before the world war / Sunday Okenwa Olisah -- The life story and death of John Kennedy / Wildred Onwuka -- What is life? / Frank E. Odili -- Afterword.
Call number
  1. Sc D 01-2347
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
Additional formats (note)
  1. Also issued online.
Title
  1. Life turns man up and down : high life, useful advice, and mad English : African market literature / selected and introduced by Kurt Thometz.
Imprint
  1. New York : Pantheon Books, ©2001.
Edition
  1. 1st ed.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
Additional formats
  1. Also issued online.
Local note
  1. Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
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  1. Sample text
  2. Contributor biographical information
  3. Publisher description
Added author
  1. Thometz, Kurt.
LCCN
  1. 2001021340
ISBN
  1. 0679450211
  2. 9780679450214
Research call number
  1. Sc D 01-2347
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