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    Helon Habila Ngalabak (born November 1967) is a Nigerian novelist and poet, whose writing has won many prizes, including the Caine Prize in 2001. He worked...
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  • American actress Helon Habila (born 1967), Nigerian novelist and poet Helon Ollivierre (1881–1907), Trinidadian cricketer George Helon (born 1965), Australian...
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  • Oil on Water is a 2010 petrofiction novel by Nigerian author Helon Habila. The novel documents the experience of two journalists as they try to rescue...
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  • Odyssey in the Himalayas, a 1993 book by Eric Hansen Travelers (novel), by Helon Habila, 2019 "The Traveller" (poem), by Oliver Goldsmith, 1764 The Traveller...
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  • Militancy in Nigeria is a 2016 non-fiction social novel by Nigerian author Helon Habila. The novel was developed due to 2014 kidnaping of 276 Chibok school girls...
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  • Travelers is a 2019 novel by Nigerian author Helon Habila. It was published by W. W. Norton & Company. The story revolves around the life of a Nigerian...
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  • no place at all, I still the same way, neither forward nor backward." Helon Habila has noted: "One imagines immediately the loneliness that must have gnawed...
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  • Waiting for an Angel is a 2002 political novel written by Nigeria writer Helon Habila. It was first published by New York's publishing firm W. W. Norton &...
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  • Short Storie[s], is a collection of prison stories by Nigerian writer Helon Habila. "Love Poem", which is among the stories included in the collection,...
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  • Measuring Time is a 2007 novel by Helon Habila. It follows a twin brothers, Mamo and LaMamo, raised in northeastern Nigeria amidst a blend of secularism...
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  • Heinemann Educational Books) has described it as "a shocking book". Helon Habila has called the book's opening line ("I got my things and left") "the...
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    Glennon, American football player Sean Glennon, former football player Helon Habila, professor and author Abul Hussam, inventor of Sono arsenic filter and...
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    senator for the Gombe central senatorial district from 2011 to date. Helon Habila, novelist Dahiru Mohammed, politician Abubakar Buba Atare, Emir of Tula...
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    Guillermo Sheridan – literary critic Hassan Wario – Kenyan Cabinet Minister Helon Habila – Caine Prize–winning novelist Herbert Wigwe – CEO, Access Bank, Nigeria...
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    Anthology of New Writing, Volume 14, selected by Lavinia Greenlaw and Helon Habila, London: Granta Books "The Arriver's Tale", in Refugee Tales, edited...
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  • Osofisan Funso Aiyejina Gabriel Okara Alhaji Garba Gashuwa Godspower Oboido Helon Habila Ibukun Oyedokun Penawd John Jea (1773-1817) John Pepper Clark Jumoke...
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  • Jabujicaba, Rosa da Silva The Jungle, Upton Sinclair Oil on Water by Helon Habila The Monkey Wrench Gang, Edward Abbey Barkskins, Annie Proulx Float, JoeAnn...
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  • explicitly compared it to Kafka's The Metamorphosis. Writing in The Guardian, Helon Habila lauded Barrett for "his ability to satirise the ridiculous extents people...
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  • Dambudzo Marechera. Trenton, Africa World Press, 1999, ISBN 9780865436459. Helon Habila, "On Dambudzo Marechera: The Life and Times of an African Writer", Virginia...
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    44(1):80–116. Hilary Matfess. 2017. Women and the War on Boko Haram. Zed Books. Helon Habila (2016). The Chibok Girls: The Boko Haram Kidnappings and Islamist Militancy...
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    Parrésia Publishers, a Lagos-based Afri-centric publishing house, home to Helon Habila, Onyeka Nwelue, Chika Unigwe and Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, other continental...
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    life: he was sentenced to death in 1995 under Sani Abacha's regime. Helon Habila's Oil on Water (2010) dealt with the victims of the military dictatorship...
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  • the original on 2023-01-07. Retrieved 2023-01-06. "Prize Citation for Helon Habila". Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes. Archived from the original on 2023-01-07...
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    activism that run through the third-generation of Nigerian novelists". Helon Habila, whose Waiting for an Angel has been said to be interwoven with that...
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  • 2013). Patrick Marber's Closer. A&C Black. p. 3. ISBN 978-1-4411-7104-7. Helon Habila (27 April 2005). "Yvonne Vera". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 November 2023...
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  • Gagdi, member, House of Representatives, Federal Republic of Nigeria Helon Habila, novelist Doug Kazé, musician, lecturer, novelist Esther Ibanga, pastor...
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    and Barrett has something to tell us all." Writing in The Guardian, Helon Habila said: "Igoni Barrett's greatest asset is his ability to satirise the...
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  • novel, but to serve as midwife to spiritual and psychological growth?" — Helon Habila, The Guardian "Written with kinetic energy that crackles with life, NoViolet...
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    women through a single prism of the ability to marry and have children. Helon Habila, Sefi Atta, Flora Nwapa, Iquo Diana Abasi Eke, Zaynab Alkali and Chimamanda...
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  • dressage rider 16 October - Ike Shorunmu, footballer date unknown - Helon Habila, novelist and poet September - Christopher Okigbo, poet, 37, killed during...
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