Recommended Online Books
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These books are offered through the Internet Archive. The books
listed are simply recommendations on what users might find
interesting. If there's a genre that's of interest to you that's not
listed here, feel free to checkout the
Internet Archive's site.
The Autobiography of Nicholas Said
Born in Kukawa, Bornu Empire, Said fell victim to the trans-Saharan slave trade. Click now to read the book about his life & experiences.
The African knights
A book about the armies of Sokoto, Bornu, and Bagirmi in the nineteenth century
The Kanuri of Bornu
A slim anthropological volume about the Kanuri tribe of northern Nigeria published in 1967.
The Concubine
The story revolves around Ihuoma, a woman of great beauty and dignity, who inadvertently brings suffering and death to all her lovers. The novel captures pre-colonial life and explores the boundary between myth and reality.
Magana Jari ce Littafi Na Uku
The novel tells the story of a young prince and his pet parrot Aku. It also depicts royalist and royal life within Hausa emirates.
Arrow of God
The novel centres on Ezeulu, the chief priest of several Igbo villages in colonial Nigeria, who confronts colonial powers and Christian missionaries in the 1920s.