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Life turns man up and down : high life, useful advice, and mad English : African market literature
- Title
- Life turns man up and down : high life, useful advice, and mad English : African market literature / selected and introduced by Kurt Thometz.
- Publication
- New York : Pantheon Books, ©2001.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Thometz, Kurt.
- Description
- xliv, 356 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "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.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Facsimiles.
- Literary collections.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also issued online.
- Contents
- 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
- Sc D 01-2347
- ISBN
- 0679450211
- 9780679450214
- LCCN
- 2001021340
- Title
- Life turns man up and down : high life, useful advice, and mad English : African market literature / selected and introduced by Kurt Thometz.
- Imprint
- New York : Pantheon Books, ©2001.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Additional Formats
- Also issued online.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
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- Added Author
- Thometz, Kurt.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 01-2347