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"Veronica, my daughter": a romantic drama, where love
overcomes bride-price. Probably the best-known Onitsha text, it
was published with a simple typographical wrapper design. Details...
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"Dr. Nkrumah in the struggle for freedom": this pamphlet
on the first President of Ghana, a major figure in the history of
African independence, uses a simple linocut for its cover design.
Details... |
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"Beware of harlots and many friends": simple linocuts
illustrate the front wrapper and interior of this didactic text.
Front wrapper. Details... |
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"Beware of harlots and many friends": simple linocuts
illustrate the wrappers and interior of this didactic text. Page
48. Details... |
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"About the husband and wife who hate them-selves": illustrated
with dramatic linocuts on front and back wrappers. Front wrapper.
Details... |
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"About the husband and wife who hate them-selves": illustrated
with dramatic linocuts on front and back wrappers. Back wrapper.
Details... |
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"Life turns man up and down: money and girls turn man up and
down". Front wrapper. Details... |
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"Life turns man up and down". Caption" You must marry
me as you promised". Back wrapper.
Details... |
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"No condition is permanent": with linocut illustrations
on wrappers and internal pages. Front wrapper. Details...
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"No condition is permanent": with linocut illustrations
on wrappers and internal pages. Page 10. Details... |
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"No condition is permanent": with linocut illustrations
on wrappers and internal pages. Page 45. Details... |
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"No condition is permanent": with linocut illustrations
on wrappers and internal pages. Back wrapper. Details... |
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"The last days of Lumumba": with a photograph of the murdered
first Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo. Front wrapper.
Details... |
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"Money hard to get but easy to spend": a typical didactic
Onitsha text, with a photograph on the front wrapper. Details... |
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"How to make friends with girls": the photograph on this
wrapper appears to have been taken from a knitting pattern. Details... |
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"Learn to speak English, Ibo, Hausa and Yoruba languages":
the illustration shows the interior of a typical Onitsha publisher
and bookseller. Details... |
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"The complete letter-writing made easy": Onitsha pamplets
were originally inspired by Indian publications; sample letters
in this volume use Indian names and addresses. Front wrapper. Details... |
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"The complete letter-writing made easy": Onitsha pamplets
were originally inspired by Indian publications; sample letters
in this volume use Indian names and addresses. Page 66. Details... |
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"The complete letter-writing made easy": Onitsha pamplets
were originally inspired by Indian publications; sample letters
in this volume use Indian names and addresses. Page 67. Details... |
