In the Nude

₦5,000

In their engrossing collection, poet Logan February documents and interrogates grief, and God, and examines what it is to be on the outside, even in the family setting-the reality of having a queer identity in the African world. In this volume, eroticism and manic depression are navigated alone. Some of the poems use a mannequin as a projective tool to dissect self hood, histories, and family connections in the aftermath of a fundamental bereavement. February additionally explores religious concepts to further mythologize the self, collecting Buddhist philosophies and Yoruba proverbs and myths, and putting them adjacent to the toxic tenets of Pentecostal Christianity, which is widespread in Nigeria. In the vein of confessional poetry, the narrative takes its pride in exposing the elements which are deemed taboo and advised to be hidden away. The poems are equally fearful and raunchy, tender and defiant, morose and youthful.   BOOK INFORMATION AUTHOR: Logan February ISBN: 978-978-974-193-9 GENRE(S): Poetry FORMAT: Paperback NUMBER OF PAGES: 57 PUBLICATION DATE: 1 March 2019 PUBLISHER: Ouida Books IMPRINT: Ouida Poetry

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The Boko Haram Doctrine

₦12,000

Since it erupted onto the world stage in 2009, people have asked, what is Boko Haram, and what does it stand for? Is there a coherent vision or set of beliefs behind it? Despite the growing literature about the group, few if any attempts have been made to answer these questions, even though Boko Haram is but the latest in a long line of millenarian Muslim reform groups to emerge in Northern Nigeria over the last two centuries.

The Boko Haram Doctrine offers an unprecedented collection of essential texts, documents, videos, audio, and nashids (martial hymns), translated into English from Hausa, Arabic and Kanuri, tracing the group’s origins, history, and evolution. Its editors, two Nigerian scholars, reveal how Boko Haram’s leaders manipulate Islamic theology for the legitimisation, radicalisation, indoctrination and dissemination of their ideas across West Africa.

Mandatory reading for anyone wishing to grasp the underpinnings of Boko Haram’s insurgency, particularly how the group strives to delegitimise its rivals and establish its beliefs as a dominant strand of Islamic thought in West Africa’s religious marketplace.

  BOOK INFORMATION AUTHOR: Abdulbassit Kassim and Michael Nwankpa (Editors) ISBN: 978-978-563-440-2 GENRE(S): Nonfiction (History & Religion) FORMAT: Paperback NUMBER OF PAGES: 529 PUBLICATION DATE: 30 June 2019 PUBLISHER: Ouida Books IMPRINT: Cognix

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