Resources

Websites

Nigeria Project

http://slim.emporia.edu/globenet/Nigeriaproject/index.htm
Official website of the Nigeria Project

All Africa

http://allafrica.com/
Produced by AllAfrica Global Media, this website provides news from all of Africa

American Embassy in Nigeria

http://usembassy.state.gov/nigeria/
American Embassy in Nigeria, located in Abuja, one of the places the Nigeria Project visited July 2001

BBC Africa

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/index.shtml
BBC World Service: Africa

Friends of Nigeria

http://www.friendsofnigeria.org/
A non-profit group of Peace Corps alumni who served in Nigeria and other friends of Nigeria, provides good list of links to related websites

Glimpse of Maiduguri

http://www.15tg.freeserve.co.uk/maidindx.htm
A personal account of visiting Maiduguri, the largest city in Northeast Nigeria and one of the places the Nigeria Project visited July 2001

The Guardian

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/
Newspaper website headquartered in Lagos, mission statement claims the newspaper is nonpartisan and nondenominational

Kano Online

http://www.kanoonline.com/
Kano city website, produced by private citizens, one of the places the Nigeria Project visited July 2001

Motherland Nigeria

http://www.motherlandnigeria.com/
A fun, personal website by "Webdiva Olubunmi Boomie"

New Nigerian Newspaper

http://www.gamji.com/NNN.htm
Largest, most popular newspaper in Northern Nigeria

Nigeria - Consular Information Sheet

http://travel.state.gov/nigeria.html
US State Dept fact sheet

Nigeria Consulate, New York

http://www.nigeria-consulate-ny.org/
Nigerian Consulate in New York City

Nigeria Daily

http://www.nigeriadaily.com/
News portal points to stories produced on other news websites, good search engine and ties with related topics

Nigeria World

http://nigeriaworld.com/
News website produced by the Odili.net company

Nigerian Community in Oregon & Southwest Wshington

http://community.oregonlive.com/cc/ncoswa
Nigerian community group in Oregon and Southwest Wshington

Shell Nigeria

http://www.shellnigeria.com/
One of the largest oil companies operating in Nigeria, the focus of much political and social debate

UCLA Hausa Home Page

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/aflang/Hausa/
Hausa language site

Books

Recently Published

Beyond the Execution: Understanding the Ethnic and Military Politics in Nigeria

Tom Mbeke-Ekanem, Francis E. Nyong (2000)

Home and Exile

Chinua Achebe (The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Series) (2000)

This House Has Fallen: Midnight in Nigeria

Karl Maier (2000)

Life Turns Man Up and Down: High Life, Useful Advice, and Mad English

Kurt Thometz (2001)

In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son's Journey to Understand His Father's Legacy

Ken Wiwa (2001)

Violence in Nigeria: The Crisis of Religious Politics and Secular Ideologies

Toyin Falola (2001)

Childrens

The Distant Talking Drum: Poems from Nigeria

Isaac Olaleye

Festivals of the World: Nigeria

Elizabeth Berg

Grandfather's Work: A Traditional Healer in Nigeria

Ifeoma Onyefulu

Life Among the Ibo Women of Nigeria

Salome Nnoromele

Olode the Hunter

Harold Courlander

History, Culture, & Politics

African Broadcast Cultures

Richard Fardon

The Brothers War

John de St. Jorre

Crippled Giant: Nigeria Since Independence

Eghosa E. Osaghae

On a Darkling Plain : An Account of the Nigerian Civil War

Ken Saro-Wiwa

Genocide in Nigeria: The Ogoni Tragedy

Ken Saro-Wiwa

The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful : Discourse About Values in Yoruba Culture

Barry Hallen

Hausa

Ronald Parris

Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century

Catherine Coles

The Igbo of Southeast Nigeria

Victor Chikezie Uchendu

A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary

Ken Saro-Wiwa, William Boyd

Nigeria: Enchantment of the World

Dorothy B. Sutherland

Ogoni's Agonies

Abdul Rasheed Na'Allah

The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis

Wole Soyinka (The W.E.B. Dubois Institute Series)

Shadows: Airlift and Airwar in Biafra and Nigeria 1967-1970

Michael I. Draper, Frederick Forsyth

Language

Hausa-English English-Hausa Dictionary

Nicholas Awde

The Hausa Language: An Encyclopedic Reference Grammar

Paul Newman

Nigerian English Usage: An Introduction

David Jowitt

Yoruba Basic Course

Earl W. Stevick, et al

Literature

Ake : The Years of Childhood

Wole Soyinka

Anthills of the Savannah

Chinua Achebe

Arrow of God

Chinua Achebe

Burning Grass

Cypprian Ekwensi

The Dancing Palm Tree and Other Nigerian Folktales

Barbara K. Walker, Helen Siegl

Death and the King's Horseman

Wole Soyinka

Myth, Literature, and the African World

Wole Soyinka

Poetry, Prose and Popular Culture in Hausa

Graham Furniss

Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English

Ken Saro-Wiwa

Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe

Travel

Lonely Planet West Africa, 4th ed.

David Else, et al

Nigeria: Giant of Africa

Peter Holmes

Riding the Demon

Peter Chilson

The Rough Guide to West Africa

Jim Hudgens, Richard Trillo