Amali Samson (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Bi-lingual literary works, no. 3. Hardcover book in dust jacket, 64 pages, Text in Idoma and in English translation; introd. and synopsis in English; book Very Good condition, dust jacket Fair with closed tears, edge rubs and chips.

[xi]+56p., 8x13 inches, foreword, by R. G. Armstrong, author bio, poem, essay, footnotes, very good in original pictorial wraps. Tribal strife and the military coup considered, with references to the persecution of the Jews.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. good condition.

Originalbroschur. Condition: Gut. 55 S. Typoskript. Mit Widmung des Autors für Carl Hoffmann. Einband leicht berieben. - Essay about the Nigerian Civil War, commonly known as the Biafran War (6 July 1967 15 January 1970), was a war fought between the government of Nigeria and the secessionist state of Biafra. Biafra represented nationalist aspirations of the Ibo people, whose leadership felt they could no longer coexist with the Northern-dominated federal government. The conflict resulted from political, economic, ethnic, cultural and religious tensions which preceded Britain's formal decolonization of Nigeria from 1960 to 1963. Immediate causes of the war in 1966 included a military coup, a counter-coup and persecution of Igbo living in Northern Nigeria. Control over the lucrative oil production in the Niger Delta played a vital strategic role. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Originalbroschur. Condition: Gut. 56. III S. Typoskript. Mit Widmung des Autors für Carl Hoffmann. Einband leicht berieben. - ONUGBO AND OKO is Samson Amali's own poetic and dramatic version of an Idoma traditional ancestral story. He helped record the story at Oturkpo in its original forms his brother Oteikwu Ainali, transcribed the text, and both of them worked hard on the translation. As a parable of the rivalry of brothers, the story has a significance that goes far beyond the immediacies of time and place. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

FINE IN TAN PRINTED STAPLED WRAPS. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE VERSO OF TITLE PAGE WITH A COUPLE OF INK CORRECTIONS/ADDITIONS BY THE AUTHOR IN THE TEXT TAN PRINTED WRAPS IN FINE CONDITION WITH JUST A TOUCH OF SOIL. FIRST EDITION. Binding is PAPERBACK.

FINE IN BLUE PRINTED STAPLED WRAPS. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE FIRST BLANK PAGE / NIGERIAN POET, PLAYRIGHT, AND DIRECTOR WHO WRITES IN ENGLISH BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. FIRST EDITION. Binding is PAPERBACK.

Original wraps. Condition: Very good. First Edition. 130p 12mo, Front corner crimped, otherwise a very good copy in green printed wraps. Scarce.

NEAR FINE IN BLUE PRINTED WRAPS. A BILINGUAL PLAY IN IDOMA AND ENGLISH (123 PAGES)/ INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE BOOK IS ABOUT FINE BUT FOR A SHORT BEND TO THE BOTTOM FRONT FORE-EDGE CORNER. AN EXCELLENT CLEAN AND TIGHT COPY. FIRST EDITION. Binding is PAPERBACK.

Printed Wrapper. Condition: Good to Very Good. First Edition. RARE FIRST EDITION, no place of publication, "1968" on verso of title page; large format 8x13 inches, printed pictorial paper covers, printed from typescript, (4) + 2 + 56 + iii pages including Introduction, Synopsis, side-by-side translation and Notes in English; WorldCat locates no copies of this edition, OCLC Number:251433137; pages clean and unmarked, bears signature of previous owner on title page, small pull/tear at bottom of spine with no loss.

First Edition. Slim folio (32.5cm.); original red pictorial card wrappers; [2],iv,43pp.; mimeographed text. Fine. Play originally composed and produced while the author was a student at the International Secondary School, University of Ibadan, in 1963. Amali, later described as the only writer in his native language of Idoma, is best known for his poetry, both English and Idoman (see Albert S. Gérard, European-Language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa (1986), p. 782n, providing the date for this mimeographed edition).