Tolu Ogunlesi Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Tolu Ogunlesi on X
Comms | Speechwriting | Digital | Public Policy | Ex @NGRPresident | Fellow @HarvardWCFIA (2022-23) | https://t.co/UELQeJVuED | https://t.co/f6MpHtFkci

Power: A Self Help for Women
Hollywood Washington
“…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
U.S. Climate Finance: Nigeria
U. S. Department of State
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
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)” | 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
Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses
Oyeronke Oyewumi
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
Awo: The Autobiography of Chief Obafemi Awolowo
O. Awolowo
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
Liberia: Its Origin, Rise, Progress and Results: An Address Delivered Before the American Colonization Society, January 20th, 1880...
American Colonization Society
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
A Wedding in Hell
Charles Simic
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
Open City
Teju Cole
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
Arrow of God
Chinua Achebe
“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
Belonging: Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership
Peter Read
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