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Pacesetter Novels
Pacesetter Novels are a collection of 130 works of popular fiction written by notable African authors, published by Macmillan. The series was started in 1977, with the first book being ''Director!'' by Agbo Areo. Writing style The Pacesetters series was characterised by adventures of falling in love, ethno-religious conflicts, tragic tales of woe, cautionary tales, and "rags to riches" (and sometimes back to rags!) tales. Book cover artwork The book covers usually featured very garish pictures that served to illustrate the main theme of that particular novel. Authors The authors of the books are noted African novelists and writers. Some of the more celebrated of these are Buchi Emecheta, Barbara KimenyeKhainga O'Okwemba,"Barbara Kimenye: East Africa’s Bestselling Children’s Author" ''The Star'' (Kenya), 27 September 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2014. and Helen Ovbiagele. Titles *1. ''A Picture Of Innocence'' – A. Mhlope *2. ''Agony In Her Voice'' – Peter Katuliiba *3. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macmillan Publishers
Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publishers. Founded in London in 1843 by Scottish brothers Daniel and Alexander MacMillan, the firm would soon establish itself as a leading publisher in Britain. It published two of the best-known works of Victorian era children’s literature, Lewis Carroll's ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865) and Rudyard Kipling's ''The Jungle Book'' (1894). Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Harold Macmillan, grandson of co-founder Daniel, was chairman of the company from 1964 until his death in December 1986. Since 1999, Macmillan has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group with offices in 41 countries worldwide and operations in more than thirty others. History Macmillan was founded in London in 1843 by Dani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buchi Emecheta
Florence Onyebuchi "Buchi" Emecheta (21 July 1944 – 25 January 2017) was a Nigerian-born novelist, based in the UK from 1962, who also wrote plays and an autobiography, as well as works for children. She was the author of more than 20 books, including ''Second Class Citizen'' (1974), '' The Bride Price'' (1976), '' The Slave Girl'' (1977) and ''The Joys of Motherhood'' (1979). Most of her early novels were published by Allison and Busby, where her editor was Margaret Busby. Emecheta's themes of child slavery, motherhood, female independence and freedom through education gained recognition from critics and honours. She once described her stories as "stories of the world, where women face the universal problems of poverty and oppression, and the longer they stay, no matter where they have come from originally, the more the problems become identical." Her works explore the tension between tradition and modernity. She has been characterized as "the first successful black woman n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Kimenye
Barbara Kimenye (19 December 1929 – 12 August 2012) was a British-born writer who became one of the most popular and best-selling children's authors in East Africa, where she lived from the 1950s.James Murua"Barbara Kimenye’s passing is just sad" jamesmurua.com, 19 September 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2014. Her books sold more than a million copies, not just in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, but throughout English-speaking Africa. She wrote more than 50 titles and is best remembered for her ''Moses'' series,Beatrice Lamwaka"Kimenye’s ‘Moses’ still impacts" ''Daily Monitor'', 29 September 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2014. about a mischievous student at a boarding school for troublesome boys.Jonathan Hunt"Barbara Kimenye obituary. One of East Africa's most popular children's authors" ''The Guardian'', 18 September 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2014. A prolific writer widely regarded as "the leading writer of children's literature in Uganda", Kimenye was among the first Anglophone Ugandan women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Ovbiagele
Helen Aiyeohusa Ovbiagele (born 1944) is a Nigerian novelist. She was born in Benin City, and after attending C.M.S. Girls' School, Benin City, and St. Peter's College, Kaduna, she studied English and French at the University of Lagos and studied at the Institut Français du Royaume-Uni in London. Her work is associated with the romance genre, published in Macmillan's hugely popular Pacesetter Novels series, but her heroines are said to be a bit older and more independent than normal for that form. She is the Woman Editor of ''Vanguard The vanguard (also called the advance guard) is the leading part of an advancing military formation. It has a number of functions, including seeking out the enemy and securing ground in advance of the main force. History The vanguard derives f ...'' newspaper. Bibliography * ''Evbu My Love'' (1981) * ''A Fresh Start'' (1982) * ''You Never Know'' (1982) * ''Forever Yours'' (1986) * ''Who Really Cares'' (1986) * ''The Schemers'' (1991) Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuma Nwokolo
Chuma Nwokolo (born 1963) is a Nigerian lawyer, writer and publisher. Early life and education Chuma Nwokolo was born in Jos, Nigeria, in 1963. He graduated from the University of Nigeria in 1983 and was called to the bar of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1984. Career He worked for the Legal Aid Council and was managing partner of the C&G Chambers, practising mainly in Lagos Nigeria. He was also writer-in-residence at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England. He is publisher of the literary magazine ''African Writing'', which he founded with Afem Akem. Nwokolo's first novels, ''The Extortionist'' (1983) and ''Dangerous Inheritance'' (1988), were published by Macmillan in the Pacesetter Novels. His other books include ''African Tales at Jailpoint'' (1999), ''Diaries of a Dead African'' (2003) ''One More Tale for the Road'' (2003), ''Memories of Stone'' (poetry, 2006), ''The Ghost of Sani Abacha'' (2012), ''How to Spell Naija in 100 Short Stories'' (2013), ''The Final Testament o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walije Gondwe
Walije Gondwe (born 1936) is a writer who was the first Malawian woman novelist to have her work published. Most of her books are young adult fiction published in the 1980s and 1990s. She now runs an educational charity, Vinjeru. Early years She grew up in a devout Christian family in Kayiwonanga in Mzimba."Malawi's first female writer, Walije Gondwe!" ''The Nation'', 30 October 2011. Some years after leaving school she started secretarial training and won a scholarship to complete her studies in the UK. Because of political problems in Malawi the scholarship became invalid but Gondwe stayed in the UK. Writin ...
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Rosina Umelo
Rosina Umelo (born Rosina Martin, 1930) is a Nigerian writer. She is known for her short stories, children's books and her young adult fiction. She also has published under the pen name Adaeze Madu. Life Rosina "Rose" Martin was born in Cheshire, England, and educated at Bedford College, University of London. She married Nigerian John Umelo in 1961, having met him on the London Underground. In 1965, the two moved to Nigeria. She taught Latin at Queens School, Enugu, until the outbreak of the Nigerian Civil War (1967–70). She became a citizen of Nigeria in 1971 through marriage. She worked as a principal and created English-language curriculum materials. Later, Umelo became a school administrator. Umelo has six children. Umelo collected 12 of her short stories for adults into ''The Man Who Ate the Money'' (1978), five of which won awards. Nancy J. Schmidt, writing for ''Africa Today'', called Umelo's writing in ''The Man Who Ate the Money'' "fresh," even though her subject matte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Aryeetey
Sam Greatorex Aryeetey (born 23 August 1929 or 1927) is a Ghanaian film producer, film director and writer. He is often credited as the director of the first Ghanaian feature film, '' No Tears for Ananse''. Life Sam Aryeetey was born August 23, 1929, in Accra. He was educated at Accra Methodist Boys' School and Achimota School. Among the first students at an Accra film training school for West Africans established by the Colonial Film Unit in 1948, Sam Aryeetey joined the new Gold Coast Film Unit under Sean Graham. In 1952 he moved to work as an editor in England.Tom RiceGold Coast Film Unit ‘’Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire’’, June 2010. In 1963, Sam Aryeetey returned to Ghana to work for the Ghana Film Industry Corporation (GFIC).''Ghana Year Book'', 1978, p.245. '' No Tears for Ananse'', written and directed by Aryeetey, was the first GFIC production. It was based on Joe de Graft's play ''Ananse and the Gum Man', a story about the trickster Ananse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naira Power
''Naira Power'' is 1982 novel by Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta. It was published as part of the Pacesetter series published by Macmillan MacMillan, Macmillan, McMillen or McMillan may refer to: People * McMillan (surname) * Clan MacMillan, a Highland Scottish clan * Harold Macmillan, British statesman and politician * James MacMillan, Scottish composer * William Duncan MacMillan .... References External links''Naira Power''on WorldCat 1982 Nigerian novels Nigerian English-language novels Novels set in Nigeria Novels by Buchi Emecheta {{Nigeria-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Mkhonza
Sarah Mkhonza (born Sarah Thembile Du Pont; 7 May 1957) is a Swazi writer, educator and women's rights activist living in the United States. Mkhonza received a PhD from Michigan State University. She worked as a journalist for the ''Times of Swaziland'' and ''The Swazi Observer'' and taught English and Linguistics at the University of Swaziland. Because her writing was critical of the authorities in Swaziland, she was ordered to stop writing. Subsequent threats and assaults led her to seek political asylum in the United States in 2005. Mkhonza co-founded the Association of African Women and the African Book Fund Group at Michigan State University. She has taught at the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University, at Boston University and at Stanford University. In 2002, she received a Hammett-Hellman Award from Human Rights Watch. Mkhonza has also received an Oxfam Novib/PEN Award Oxfam Novib/PEN Award for Freedom of Expression is a literary award made in collabo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Footnotes
A note is a string of text placed at the bottom of a page in a book or document or at the end of a chapter, volume, or the whole text. The note can provide an author's comments on the main text or citations of a reference work in support of the text. Footnotes are notes at the foot of the page while endnotes are collected under a separate heading at the end of a chapter, volume, or entire work. Unlike footnotes, endnotes have the advantage of not affecting the layout of the main text, but may cause inconvenience to readers who have to move back and forth between the main text and the endnotes. In some editions of the Bible, notes are placed in a narrow column in the middle of each page between two columns of biblical text. Numbering and symbols In English, a footnote or endnote is normally flagged by a superscripted number immediately following that portion of the text the note references, each such footnote being numbered sequentially. Occasionally, a number between bracke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Series Of Books
A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group. Book series can be organized in different ways, such as written by the same author, or marketed as a group by their publisher. Publishers' reprint series Reprint series of public domain fiction (and sometimes nonfiction) books appeared as early as the 18th century, with the series ''The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill'' (founded by British publisher John Bell in 1777). In 1841 the German Tauchnitz publishing firm launched the ''Collection of British and American Authors'', a reprint series of inexpensive paperbound editions of both public domain and copyrighted fiction and nonfiction works. This book series was unique for paying living authors of the works published even though copyright protection did not exist between nations in the 19th century. Later British reprint series were to include the ''Routledge's Railway Librar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
