5 Best fiction books like Shaihu Umar (Topics in World History) by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa

Cover of Shaihu Umar (Topics in World History) by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa

Shaihu Umar (Topics in World History)

By: Abubakar Tafawa Balewa

3.65

Format: 79 pages, Paperback

Northern Nigeria, just before the turn of the a time of unrest and civil war, when the trans-Sahar…

If you liked the fiction plot in Shaihu Umar (Topics in World History) by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Matigari by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

1. Matigari

By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

3.45

Format: 94 pages, Hardcover

Who is Matigari? Is he young or old; a man or fate; dead or living...or even a resurrection of Jesu… read more

Similar categories in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Matigari book and Abubakar Tafawa Balewa's Shaihu Umar (Topics in World History)

  • africa
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of African Perspectives on Colonialism by A. Adu Boahen

2. African Perspectives on Colonialism

By: A. Adu Boahen

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

This history deals with the twenty-year period between 1880 and 1900, when virtually all of Africa … read more

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  • africa
Cover of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Seamus Deane

3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane

3.64

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more

Similar categories in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man book and Abubakar Tafawa Balewa's Shaihu Umar (Topics in World History)

  • fiction
"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

4. Nervous Conditions

By: Tsitsi Dangarembga

4.54

Format: 253 pages,

A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa's 100 Best Books of … read more

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5. Dubliners

By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more

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Cover of Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville, Tom Quirk, Andrew Delbanco

6. Moby-Dick or, The Whale

By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco

3.55

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more

Similar categories in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick or, The Whale book and Abubakar Tafawa Balewa's Shaihu Umar (Topics in World History)

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Call me Ishmael."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

7. Beloved

By: Toni Morrison

4.24

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a … read more

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8. The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.79

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemin… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Never be daunted"

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"I am always in love."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"You'll lose it, if you talk about it"

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"Oh, darling, I've been so miserable."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

Cover of Shaihu Umar (Topics in World History) by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa

9. Shaihu Umar (Topics in World History)

By: Abubakar Tafawa Balewa

3.65

Format: 79 pages, Paperback

Northern Nigeria, just before the turn of the a time of unrest and civil war, when the trans-Sahar… read more

Similar categories in Abubakar Tafawa Balewa's Shaihu Umar (Topics in World History) book and Abubakar Tafawa Balewa's Shaihu Umar (Topics in World History)

  • africa
  • fiction
  • nigeria
  • historical fiction

11 Top 20th century books like A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Seamus Deane

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To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

3.80

Transform Your Habits

A Passage to India

E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass

3.68

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The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

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