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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 guides as well as rouses you to take steps to make your dream come true. You will love this life-changing book whose treasurable 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. 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.

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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.

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Beauty is in Slender Things is a volume of poems in five movements written by Duve Nakolisa, the highly-engaging poet noted for his lyricism, apposite imagery and profundity of thought. Nakolisa’s poems, with melodious depth, explore the disintegrative aspects 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.”

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Duve Nakolisa’s book, The 3 Most Powerful Success Determinants, is probably the most useful book on the subject of beliefs, values, and habits written with the general reader and success-seeker in mind. This innovative, down-to-earth book presents and illustrates the view that the fundamental trigger of success or failure lies in the beliefs, values and habits (BVH) of the individual. The author introduces powerful new concepts and tools to clarify his ideas and to empower the reader to analyze their own beliefs, values and habits with a view to steering them in the direction of set goals.

     Concise, succinct and elegantly written, the book appeals more to the head 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 rather than of failure. One of the notable tools in this regard is the author’s ingenious Self-Quering Process (SQP) and its decision-making complement, the Guided Question and Answer (GQA) method. Then, there are his original belief-values-habit (BVH) formulations, formulas and charts that enable us to understand vital aspects of our own and other people’s behaviour and to evaluate certain behavioural patterns.

     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 steady personal growth and sustainable success.

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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 by Chief Obidi, crafty politician and businessman, and the country’s opportunistic military rulers. This great novel vividly recreates defining features of the socio-political milieu of the 1980s in a sub-Saharan African country. It is an action-packed story in which real-life people as much as conflicting worldviews jostle for supremacy.

     Through the novel’s bifurcated plot and sequences, the author heightens the stakes at both public and personal levels. He 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 skills 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.

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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 mankind 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.”

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