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10 Key Qualities of Highly Successful People by Duve Nakolisa is outstanding for its brilliant ideas, self-empowering principles, problem-solving exercises, and splendid presentation. This publication is more than a motivational volume: it is an inspiring, result-generating book whose do-it-yourself practice sessions guide as well as rouse you to take steps to make your dream come true. You will love this life-changing book whose valuable principles are exemplified with brief references to over 50 pre-eminently successful people drawn from diverse callings and cultures. Loaded with rare gems of wisdom, this book is a truly essential reading for every person of purpose and one of the best gifts of life-long relevance you can give to anyone. A self-improvement masterpiece, 10 Key Qualities of Highly Successful People is a book you will read with increasing insight over and over again, and from which you will derive tangible benefits. Number of pages: 155.

CREATIVITY: Basic Operations that Generate Personal and Business Solutions presents a 7-Step Strategy for Generating Creative Solutions any individual can understand, adapt and apply to their problem-solving situation. Operating from the premise that every problem, given adequate thought and research, engenders its own solution, Duve Nakolisa, the ingenious author of this book, outlines seven user-driven steps a problem-solver can take to locate and implement appropriate solutions, beyond the mental and situational boundaries that engulf or surround most problems. The organizing axle of this book is Nakolisa’s Sign’s Formula which takes the four basic mathematics signs and imbues them with uncanny capacity to inspire, arouse and illuminate the imagination of anyone willing to brainstorm through a problem and discover the solution hiding behind the limitations of false assumptions, fixed mindsets and rigid conventional approaches. The Formula’s spiritual bearing is highlighted by inspired references to relevant scriptural personages and events. Using geometric figures to illustrate problem-solving scenarios and matching them with real-life examples, Duve Nakolisa presents, in this book, what it takes to guide anyone, even currently clueless individuals, through the exciting, self-managed, practical process of generating creative solutions to diverse personal and business problems. No. of Pages: 134.

Duve Nakolisa’s The 3 Most Powerful Success Determinants presents and illustrates the view that the fundamental causes of success and failure lie in the beliefs, values and habits of the individual. The author introduces new concepts and analytical tools invented not only to clarify his ideas but to empower the reader to evaluate their own beliefs, values and habits and to steer them in the direction of set goals.Concise, succinct and elegantly written, the book appeals to the head rather than to the emotion of the reader. It shows you, among other things, how to re-evaluate, choose and integrate your beliefs, values and habits and use them as channels of success. One of the notable tools in this regard is the author’s innovative Self-Querying Process and its decision-making complement, the Guided Question and Answer method. Then, there are the BVH charts, the belief-values-habit formulas and formulations that bring the puzzling task of analyzing one’s own and other people’s behaviour down to earth. This is, perhaps, the most in-depth book on the subject of beliefs, values, and habits written with the general reader and success-seeker in mind.The 3 Most Powerful Success Determinants is for everyone who wants to commit themselves to reversing their trends of failure by harnessing those internal powers that orient them towards transformational growth and speedy success. No. of Pages: 136 (with illustrations).

Through Laughter and Tears is a collection of modern Nigerian short stories edited by Duve Nakolisa. Quality short stories by twenty Nigerian authors are featured here, including stories by distinguished writers and literary-prize winners such as Helon Habila (Caine Prize, 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize [Africa Category], and 2015 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize), Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo (2007 NLNG Prize for Literature), Tolu Ajayi (a BBC Short Story prize-winner), Obiwu (Charanjit Rangi Leadership Award), and Ayo Mamudu (Professor of English). Eminent literary critic, Prof. Charles Nnolim, adjudges the anthology as being “quite an advance on…earlier collections, especially in the stylistic finesse of the writers, if not in the rich variety of the Nigerian world that happily and fortuitously found conflations in these pages… Here, compressed in these pages, is the Nigerian world with its infinite variety, captured with the subtlety and compression of Maupassant, the local colour of Achebe, the objectivity of Anton Checkhov, the dramatic climax of Somerset Maugham, the surprise ending of O’Henry, and the epiphanic revelations of James Joyce…Through Laughter and Tears is an exciting adventure into the imaginative realm…I urge it on lovers of literature, especially lovers of the short story to whom the present volume must act as an exemplar.” Through Laughter and Tears: Modern Nigerian Short Stories is now in its 2nd edition. No. of Pages: 232

This riveting story captures the social dislocations that turn Ojadi, a brilliant high-school sports star, into an unrelenting social activist implacably at war with the oppressive social system of his time – symbolized in Chief Obidi, crafty politician and businessman, and in the country’s opportunistic military rulers. This penetrative novel, in which thrilling characters and conflicting worldviews jostle for supremacy, vividly recreates defining features of the socio-political milieu of the late 20th century in a sub-Saharan African country. The bifurcated plot and sequences of Uncover the Sun heighten the stakes at both public and personal levels. Deploying unexpected, though delightful, twists of plot, the author excellently delivers to the reader a moving story in which the lust for power and wealth, and the conflicts it provokes, runs concomitantly with romantic love while raising fundamental questions that tug at the heart of the human condition. Duve Nakolisa’s keen eye for detail, in-depth probe of his characters’ motives, ingenious story-telling skill and gifted use of language couple with his injection of entertainment and wit into the execution of his novel’s universally apprehensible conflicts to make this an enjoyable and timeless story. No. of pages: 341.

Beauty is in Slender Things is a volume of poems in five movements written by Duve Nakolisa, a poet noted for his profundity of thought, lyricism, and apposite imagery. Nakolisa’s poems, in melodious depth, explore the disintegrative burdens of the human condition.    Duve Nakolisa’s style has been praised by notable poets and literary scholars. According to Satya Dev Jaggi, the Indian English poet, Nakolisa’s poems “have the complexity of rich musical tunes as parts of a poetical musical utterance…an organized pattern of sounds echoing the impulsions of meaning”.Reviewing Beauty is in Slender Things in The Guardian, Ben Tomoloju asserts: “There is, in Duve Nakolisa’s work, a joyous use of language, a celebration of beauty, matched effectively by profundity of thought. The prosodic, lyrical progression of the five movements bears this out... Duve’s anagramatic phraseology is also captivating. Such lines as ‘Does it symbolise the head of state/ Or the state of his head?’ cannot but excite. This is what one means by his joyous use of language. Combined with effective alliteration, assonances and emphatic repetitions, it makes good music to the ear, titillates the soul and conveys loads and loads of sense. Beauty is in Slender Things is a collection you want to read again and again.”

Politics of Human Rights: A Discourse on the Theory and Practice of Human Rights, now in its second edition, is Duve Nakolisa’s masterpiece on the high-level politics and double standards that characterize international human rights law monitoring and enforcement. The author brilliantly argues that human rights are the common heritage of humanity and not, as some claim, solely Western inspired precepts. He exposes the fallacies in the philosophical assumptions of Western human rights theorists and diplomats, proffering evidence of the universalism of human rights in the indigenous thoughts and traditions of African and Asian peoples, among others. He said that such conceptual universality notwithstanding, there should be, in practice, tolerance for plural models to allow states permissible latitude to domesticate some aspects of the international bill on human rights in line with their diverse cultures and traditions. He gives a blow-by-blow, rigorously factual account of a session of the UN Commission on Human Rights at a crucial time of its history to portray the politics and selectivism typical in its operations. Politics of Human Rights has been widely praised by many informed commentators. Ebenezer Babatope, author and social critic hailed the book as “An intellectual masterpiece… The objective evaluation of the issue of human rights in Africa and the developing nations. A book of the season.” International human rights lawyer, TOS Benson, SAN, said, “It is amazing that all the views expressed and conclusions reached, with the poignant facts he adduced, support my own views of the matter…a revealing book which I think should be a vade mecum to all.” Dr. Muhammed Tabi’u, Executive Secretary, National Human Rights Commission, Abuja, situated the relevance of the book within the context of the Vienna Convention: “The global community conceived a vision at the Vienna World Conference on Human Rights in 1993 hoping to universalize human rights. The subversion of that vision, through the politicization of human rights, is described brilliantly in (Duve Nakolisa’s) critical exposition. Concise… A significant contribution.” No. of pages: 195.

Many of the stories of this collection, even when they strain credulity, pulsate with stimulating characters that overstretch natural and conventional boundaries, thereby quaking, in often delightful ways, our delicate sense of scale and moral order. Some of the narrations, inevitably, seek to bolster and stabilize the communal ethos but even these etch their contemporary relevance in the timeless lore that filter through their cultural canvas. The tales of People, Animals, Spirits, and Objects: 1000 Folk Stories of Nigeria, edited by Bukar Usman, are organized into eight sections according to the nature of the characters embroiled in the stories. One interesting outcome of this classification is the realization that non-living objects, when personified or animated, can be as morally flawed as people, animals and spirits.  These 1000 tales, rooted in Nigeria’s rich oral tradition, are as diverse as the cultures they reflect. Here are myriads of thrilling encounters made even more gripping by the subterfuge, chicanery, subversion, daredevilry, domestic jealousy, unenlightened self-interest, and comic foolhardiness of many of the characters. But there are also charming happenstances featuring fair-minded characters that reverse the trend of evil through their interventional and refreshing gestures of goodness, grace and godliness. This is the third book of Dr Usman’s Treasury of Nigerian Tales (TNT) quartet (the others being A Treasury of Nigerian Tales (TNT 001), A Selection of Nigerian Folktales: Themes and Settings (TNT 002) and Gods and Ancestors: Mythic Tales of Nigeria (TNT 004). One notable quality of this volume that recommends it to every lover of stories and the wisdom they illustrate is that it is as sizzling as it is sizable! No. of Pages: 939.