The Pacesetters Series;
Evbu My Love
Stone of Vengeance
Women for Sale
Mark of the Cobra etc

I've got soft copies of Things Fall Apart and No longer At Ease by Achebe, The Famished Road (Ben Okri) and I'm willing to share. Hard copies of The Passport of Mallam Ilia, The New Man, Toads for Supper, The Concubine... I don't know how that can be shared

I guess this thread can be an avenue where lovers of classics can share with one another.

DabFrankNG:
That game was Shanshi. The lady later died miserably. He saw the big guy serving food in the train much later and pushed him to death.

Mallam Unusa. illia died after realising the guy he was talking to was his son

Apart from the books, there were classic poems written by the likes of Christopher Okigbo and co. There was a collection of those poems in a book. I've forgotten the title. I need that book anyone pls?

Who remembers the African Child, The River Between and Weep not Child?

The concubine will always be one of my favorites, One Week One Trouble too, Bottled Leopard, Arrow of God, Anthills of Savannah and Man of the People. Wives Revolt was interesting too, Ralia The Sugar Girl, and Without A Silver Spoon.

In fact, God bless you OP. Nostalgia just full me as I dey now. Golden memories.

Samguine:
I've got soft copies of Things Fall Apart and No longer At Ease by Achebe, The Famished Road (Ben Okri) and I'm willing to share. Hard copies of The Passport of Mallam Ilia, The New Man, Toads for Supper, The Concubine... I don't know how that can be shared

I guess this thread can be an avenue where lovers of classics can share with one another.

Please!!! Email softcopy pls

taofikadetoro@gmail.com

Hard copy by courier. I'll pay for the fee. Plss
Pls!!!! God mama you with blessings

naptu2:


Kokoro was a very famous blind musician. He used to busk on Igbosere Road and Broad Street (at least, those were the two places that I saw him everyday). He played the tambourine (just like Akin in the novel).

I was always amazed by the fact that he knew the streets so well that he could walk up and down them unaccompanied. I saw him on those streets everyday and he never had an accident (at least not to my knowledge).

I think it was in the 1990s that PMAN (finally) decided to do something for him, but unfortunately he died soon after that.

There's a statue of him at the new Tinubu Square fountain.

waoo.... interesting! ThankGod for N. L, i lacked the slightest idea that the story of Akin was inspired by a real life personality. Thanks for the insight.

[quote author=Ishilove post=47575332][/quote] Nana Ai

Who remembers The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born?!!!!!

junnyjake:



if my memory serves me right, I guess Richard traveled to Zimbabwe with one of the twin girls right?

Yes. The one who later kept cropped hair. The twins met in school after Richard returned to Nigeria. you even remembered the country.. I had forgotten sef

sipsip:

Wow... you just put me in a pleasant memory lane. Stubborn Ajegunle boy, Richard Pepple, and helplessly in love Ikoyi girl, Mina Erein...

Glad I could

And then THe African Writers Series with the likes of the greatest African classic of all times, Chinua Achebe's Things fall Apart,

Mongo Beti's Mission to Kala
Nguigi Wa'thiongo's Weep not child
Elechi Amadi's The Concubine
Cyprian Ekwensi's Burning Grass and People of the City
Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

Samguine:
I've got soft copies of Things Fall Apart and No longer At Ease by Achebe, The Famished Road (Ben Okri) and I'm willing to share. Hard copies of The Passport of Mallam Ilia, The New Man, Toads for Supper, The Concubine... I don't know how that can be shared

I guess this thread can be an avenue where lovers of classics can share with one another.

The soft copies if you may

Gracias

Droyal:


I think there was one titled "Director"

I really want to read "Time changes yesterday day" and "The second chance" again .


Are pacesetters books still available in bookstores?

Unfortunately a lot of them are out of print

Yuneehk:

Yes. The one who later kept cropped hair. The twins met in school after Richard returned to Nigeria. you even remembered the country.. I had forgotten sef

Glad I could

yea yea, I loved the story that much.


look for 'the cyclist' and read it, I assure you, you'd love it.

dumo1:

same here m very sure that if I check my house it should still be lurking around somewhere.

I believe you. I used to be very careful so mine either got lost, torn or someone took it to read and never returned it

armadeo:


I wonder where I read these books. I also read this one and loved it.

Others not mentioned so far

There's tgis book about two guys who rob thier parents and run to lagos. They become business men but one dies in an accident driving a trailer and the other goes blind when his windscreen shatters. Can't remember the name.

Usman terror of the north and the deadly game of Shanshi

This story about an orphan who's mother dies and is taken in by a trader selling statues. While thinking of how to raise money the trader says 30naira to a couple of whites and they but the statues making her rich.

Agbo the lucky boy whose parents were rich.

Pacesetters bloodbath at lobster close.

All 21 famous five novels
The secret seven

Gwendoline lacy Mary ( I have no idea what that book is about but I read it all)


wow those days sha

Hehehe you too read! Haba mana

Samguine:
I've got soft copies of Things Fall Apart and No longer At Ease by Achebe, The Famished Road (Ben Okri) and I'm willing to share. Hard copies of The Passport of Mallam Ilia, The New Man, Toads for Supper, The Concubine... I don't know how that can be shared

I guess this thread can be an avenue where lovers of classics can share with one another.

Thank you so much brother. I just received the soft copies in my email. Twale!

Samguine:
I've got soft copies of Things Fall Apart and No longer At Ease by Achebe, The Famished Road (Ben Okri) and I'm willing to share. Hard copies of The Passport of Mallam Ilia, The New Man, Toads for Supper, The Concubine... I don't know how that can be shared

I guess this thread can be an avenue where lovers of classics can share with one another.

Pls could you send the soft copies to fidelisokojie@gmail.com?

Pacesetter's Novels Were the Bomb then! I had a lot of them then. Unfortunately I just can't remember all their story lines, but my best were those written by Late Kalu Kalu (I hope I am correct) And one Helen (Can't pronounce nor write her surname but it starts with Ovie) That later started written for Vanguard Newspapers. http://www.bummyla.com

junnyjake:



yea yea, I loved the story that much.


look for 'the cyclist' and read it, I assure you, you'd love it.

Hmmm.. I definitely will. mucho gracias

God bless you pally.. I ate all those books during Prep in school then.. My dad refused to by us a television because by his theories, that I didn't understand, it would not make us to read. So we all lived on books.. & God bless his soul.. He had a good stock. Your post reminds me. I now see the wonders of books over television. God bless my dad's soul.

naptu2:


You won't understand what I mean until you read that book. I skipped the first few pages when I read it the first time, but once I got started, I couldn't put it down. I almost died of laughter several times.

I've laid many potent curses on the head of the person that stole my copy of the book, but I shall get another one soon.

You see the thing with the Great ponds is that elechi Amadi used his profound knowledge of fundamental infantry tactics to describe his battle scenes.. Remember the naive manoeuvres of the warriors of Aliakoro.
lol..read the book and lost it the same year- 2001, yet it still feels like yesterday.. A good Nov that!

The secret lives of baba Segi's wives

I thoroughly enjoyed "The last duty" by Isidore Okpevwo. I read bottled leopard at 13 and found it scary.

For the best of African classics, check my signature. Prompt delivery throughout Nigeria.

Samguine:
I've got soft copies of Things Fall Apart and No longer At Ease by Achebe, The Famished Road (Ben Okri) and I'm willing to share. Hard copies of The Passport of Mallam Ilia, The New Man, Toads for Supper, The Concubine... I don't know how that can be shared

I guess this thread can be an avenue where lovers of classics can share with one another.

Quiero Les, Pór favor.

I need them please.

Also, unforgettable plays like
Wole Soyinka's - The Lion and the Jewel, Death and the Kings Horseman, Trials of Brother Jero, Opera Wonyosi etc
Ola Rotimi's - The Gods are not to Blame, Our Husband has gone mad again, Overamwen Nogbaisi
The marriage of Anansewa

Yuneehk:
Hmmm.. I definitely will. mucho gracias

¿hablas espanyol?

Amusaopeyemi:

I have it.

madam, please I can pay any reasonable price to get the passport of mallam Illyia. Where and how can I get it? My unborn children will definitely read this book.

I love this thread. Took me back to the late 80's. I don't mind having copies of the pacesetter series. I read virtually all.
Who remembers Ifeanyi and Obi?

What abt tea without sugar,my fathers car and chike and the river

Samguine:
I got deliveries just last week of The Concubine by Elechi Amadi, Toads for Super by Chukwuemeka Ike, The New Man by Femi Ademiluyi and The Passport of Mallam Ilia which I just finished about an hour ago. Currently reading the Famished Road by Ben Okri. Any one that has other classics, please let me know if we can exchange.

Your location.

charlescarlos:
The boy slave was about Shettima who was kidnapped and sold to a faraway land. He became friends with the prince of the land after he saved him from a ferocious guard's horsewhip. The sequel was The return of the boyslave.
Koku Baboni I think was about a baby placed in a basket and dumped in a forest.
The late Mabel Segun- My father's daughter.

you are very right. The boy slave was one of the books that shaped my early life. I could remember painting a picture of all that happened in my head. The love, the betrayal, the lack of trust in your best friend, the reward of honesty and hardwork? No! Shettima.

Wow! Read almost all of Pacesetters series within a year....1999/2000. Good old days. Started with Equatorial Assignment whole I was sick...then I got hooked. Finished all Pacesetters, advanced to James Hadley Chase.

what abt "RALIA THE SUGAR GIRL"?KOKU BABONI those two were...awesome. my favorite is WITHOUT A SILVER SPOON.That book is an inspiration