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The Nexus series gives readers stimulating and balanced introductions to an exciting collection of major texts. As well as evaluating the work and explaining its context and background each Nexus book provides a wide variety of reference and classroom material, including questions for discussion or assignments.^ Titles covered in the Nexus series: Wole Soyinka s The Lion and the Jewel John Pepper Clark s A Decade of Tongues Edward Brathwaite s Masks Kofi Awoonor s This Earth, My Brother... Chinua Achebe s Things Fall Apart V. S. Naipaul s A House for Mr Biswas R. K. Narayan s The Guide V. S. Naipaul s The Mimic Men Ngugi wa Thiongo s The River Between ' J. P. Clark s Three Plays Chinua Achebe s Arrow of God Elechi Amadi s The Concubine