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Vivienne was born into a comfortable home, and her parents are happily married though they have high expectations. From a young age she begins to display traits of a desperado. She alarms everyone with her unrealistic obsessions and behaviour, and her realisation of her own waywardness does little to restrain her. Driven by frustration, she embarks upon a perilous journey with the aim of self-discovery.

'Loudly, alone in her room she heard herself say. "You do not realise the difference in our culture, Chuma? Doesn't that matter to you? Do you realise that my people may not accept you, nor would yours accept me?"

A collection of some of the best stories by popular fiction writer Labo Yari. Yari's stories capture a mixture of Nigerian lifestyles and concerns, from the rural North of Nigeria to urban existences in London. He combines suspence, horror, romantic love and traditional values to produce captivating and surprising plots and conclusions.

This volume brings together essays first published in literary journals world-wide in the seventies and eighties, on writers of some classics of African and World Literature in the contemporary period, now considered household names: Achebe, Mwangi, Rotimi, Soyinka, and Tutuola. Critics discuss themes and literary movements including women's literature; language and the problems of communication in African literature; the link between traditional and contemporary experience; use of sociological material; and questions about the universality of a work of art. From the writers' individual relationships towards African culture, this edited collection attempts to establish a consistent literary and historical context; and to judge the writers' successes in their treatment of contemporary African society and its realities.

The author sees the two related and persistent phenomena of imperialism and dependency as the crucial factors of underdevelopment in Africa, and in the developing world generally. He argues that foreign aid aggravates historical dependency stemming from imperialism and now rooted in poverty, and that the neo-liberal economic order, which promotes investment driven growth by the so- called multi-nationals, compounds the problem. He focuses on the role played by the CIA in the US in promoting the interests of the multinational or rather American dominated companies in underdeveloped areas of the world, in service of the US national economic interest. These processes depend on the collaborating bourgeoisie of the developing world who benefit, to the detriment of meaningful grassroots-led development.

An ironic and amusing story of a group of young Nigerians making their lives in modern times, synonymous with a climate of corruption, in which traditional moral and religious values are withering. Instead they are exposed to drinking and smoking, and theatre and (Indian) films, extra-marital sex, feminism and homosexuality.

Nwosu investigates how successive regimes in Nigeria have sought to create and develop legitimate political authority and structures, and how these structures have shaped and developed the civil service and its capacity to plan and induce economic development. He addresses the fear that the civil service does not have enough authority to fulfil its centralised functions and gain support and credibility, instead relying on mechanisms from ethnic appeal to coalition making. He identifies the alternative and plural clusters of power, and discusses how they arose, and how they have shaped the processes, which have turned Nigeria into an unbalanced federation, further constrained by corruption, and a lack of skilled manpower and infrastructure.