Age: Nigeria

Materials from Nigeria

Saying Good-bye: A Special Farewell to Mama Nkwelle

By auraenid | Published: December 1, 2008

This deeply personal story looks at the stately Nigerian funeral for the author’s grandmother, said to be “the greatest traditional dancer of her generation,” as told by Onyefulu’s young son. “When Mama Nkwelle died, everyone came to say good-bye. Uncle Asika said it was a special good-bye. It took more days than I can count [...]

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Yoruba Girl Dancing

By Rebecca Ballenger | Published: October 29, 2008

For Remi, growing up in Nigeria is a celebration of love and family, eccentricity and old ritual. She feels confident in her privilege and grounded in the heart of her culture. But when she turns six, as if by some awful spell, she is sent to faraway England, to a posh all-girls’ boarding school where [...]

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The African Mask

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Twelve-year-old Layo, a Yoruba girl living in the area of eleventh-century Africa which is now Nigeria, attempts to reject the man who has been chosen to be her husband.

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Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

An African folktale tells how the sun and water once lived on earth as friends, but because the sun failed to build his house large enough, he and his wife, the moon, were driven into the sky when the water came to visit them.

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The Other Side Of Truth

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Smuggled out of Nigeria after their mother’s murder, Sade and her younger brother are abandoned in London when their uncle fails to meet them at the airport and they are fearful of what may have happened to their journalist father back home.

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How The Leopard Got His Claws

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Recounts how the leopard got his claws and teeth and why he rules the forest with terror.

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Bobo And The Flying Crab

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

This is a story about Bobo, the boy who was taught to fly by his friends, Mot the moth and Moz the mosquito.

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