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Comms | Speechwriting | Digital | Public Policy | Ex @NGRPresident | Fellow @HarvardWCFIA (2022-23) | https://t.co/UELQeJVuED | https://t.co/f6MpHtFkci

18 books
Book Cover for: Power: A Self Help for Women, Hollywood Washington

Power: A Self Help for Women

Hollywood Washington
Tolu OgunlesiTolu Ogunlesi

“…the four corners of power in America: Wall Street, Washington, Silicon Valley and Hollywood.” — @PuckNews I’m curious, what are the Nigerian corners of power? How many, and what?

Paperback, 2021

$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: U.S. Climate Finance: Nigeria, U. S. Department of State

U.S. Climate Finance: Nigeria

U. S. Department of State
Tolu OgunlesiTolu Ogunlesi

2023 Presidential Election Results in Nigeria - United States Department of State https://t.co/Vo783Jvef9

Paperback, 2014

$9.95$4.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: How Megaprojects Are Damaging Nigeria and How to Fix It: A Practical Guide to Mastering Very Large Government Projects, Jimoh Ibrahim

How Megaprojects Are Damaging Nigeria and How to Fix It: A Practical Guide to Mastering Very Large Government Projects

Jimoh Ibrahim
Tolu OgunlesiTolu Ogunlesi

“How Megaprojects Are Damaging Nigeria and How to Fix It (A Practical Guide to Mastering Very Large Government Projects)” | By Jimoh Ibrahim, @christoph_loch and @kishoresengupta | Published by @Palgrave, under Open Access (pdf): https://t.co/xLeuI4nxN1 https://t.co/p3tjaXs9eu

Paperback, 2022

$49.99$25.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses, Oyeronke Oyewumi

Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses

Oyeronke Oyewumi
Tolu OgunlesiTolu Ogunlesi

More: "In her book Invention Of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses (1997), Nigerian scholar Oyeronke Oyewumi describes how the imposition of Western gender categories influenced the social relations in Yoruba society..." https://t.co/DBzi0UJ0GA https://t.co/1kTdd8rmyl

Paperback, 1997

$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Awo: The Autobiography of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, O. Awolowo

Awo: The Autobiography of Chief Obafemi Awolowo

O. Awolowo
Tolu OgunlesiTolu Ogunlesi

With the naming of Port Harcourt International Airport after Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Nigeria’s first set of Regional Premiers (assumed office 1954) now have airports named for them: Zik: Abuja Bello: Kebbi Awo: PH They also each have a Univ named after them Z: NAU B: ABU A: OAU

Paperback, 1960

$37.00$18.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Liberia: Its Origin, Rise, Progress and Results: An Address Delivered Before the American Colonization Society, January 20th, 1880..., American Colonization Society

Liberia: Its Origin, Rise, Progress and Results: An Address Delivered Before the American Colonization Society, January 20th, 1880...

American Colonization Society
Tolu OgunlesiTolu Ogunlesi

One last #thread for the day. PMB will pay a 1-day visit to Liberia tomorrow, to attend the country’s 175th independence anniversary celebrations. July 26, 1947: Liberia declared independence from the American Colonization Society, making it Africa’s oldest independent Republic

Paperback, 2011

$14.75$7.38 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A Wedding in Hell, Charles Simic

A Wedding in Hell

Charles Simic
Tolu OgunlesiTolu Ogunlesi

On Reading "A Wedding in Hell" by Charles Simic https://t.co/UKejWBx7iV #poetry https://t.co/YL98E5s0CE

Paperback, 2006

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Open City, Teju Cole

Open City

Teju Cole
Tolu OgunlesiTolu Ogunlesi

Teju Cole has a new novel out in October. First novel from him in over a decade, since Open City in 2011. https://t.co/g3DlD6a2nl

Paperback, 2012

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Arrow of God, Chinua Achebe

Arrow of God

Chinua Achebe
Tolu OgunlesiTolu Ogunlesi

“We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.” — Arrow of God (Chinua Achebe novel)

Paperback, 1989

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Belonging: Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership, Peter Read

Belonging: Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership

Peter Read
Tolu OgunlesiTolu Ogunlesi

You didn't read the link abi: This is not a Peter Obi project, it was a Nat. Integrated Power Project(NIPP), delivered by @ndphconline, using monies belonging to Federal,State & Local Govts. Chris Ngige,at the time ViceChair Sen Cttee Power, actually took credit for initiating it https://t.co/jEAaGZ6dw3 https://t.co/GBOt1hOxux

Paperback, 2000

$46.00$23.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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