The Dream School Foundation is excited to offer resources for online learning, educational workshops, book clubs and professional development for students, teachers and parents.
The Dream School Foundation is dedicated to making sure our secondary and university students meet with success in school. We offer these support resources to help them they navigate their way.
The Dream School Foundation understands how important it is to support teacher development. If you are looking to teach an innovative program requiring specific supplies and materials submit our small grant application. If you are interested in bringing professional development opportunities to your school, fill out the application requesting professional development.
The Dream School Foundation believes parents play a crucial role in their child’s education. We are here to support parents in their effort to contribute to their child’s success in school. .
The Dream School Foundation loves all things books. In addition to running books clubs in our schools we are constantly encouraging our students to read, read, read. Take a look at our growing collection of African fiction and non-fiction books. If you are interested in reading one of our selections please submit a request to nigeriadsf@gmail.com.
Inspired by Nigeria’s folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly.
A heartbreaking story about a Nigerian poultry farmer who sacrifices everything to win the woman he loves.
A young girl, who, with her little brother, witness the worst possible scenario between parents who are asked to do the previously unimaginable in order to protect their children. Inside Nigeria, Benin, and Ethiopia, the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa are revealed.
A young Nigerian living in New York City goes home to Lagos for a short visit, finding a city both familiar and strange. In a city dense with story, the unnamed narrator moves through a mosaic of life, hoping to find inspiration for his own.
This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them.
Based on interviews with young women who were kidnapped by Boko Haram, this poignant novel by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani tells the timely story of one girl who was taken from her home in Nigeria and her harrowing fight for survival.
Purple Hibiscus is an exquisite novel about the emotional turmoil of adolescence, the powerful bonds of family, and the bright promise of freedom.
Azaro is a spirit child, an abiku, existing, according to the African tradition, between life and death. Born into the human world, he must experience its joys and tragedies. His spirit companions come to him often, hounding him to leave his mortal world and join them in their idyllic one. Azaro foresees a trying life ahead, but he is born smiling.
This great literary classic follows a young Nigerian woman who rejects the patriarchal traditions of her culture to find love and happiness in the western world.
The thirteen stories that comprise this volume stretch the boundaries of “noir” fiction, as each one fully captures the unsettled darkness that continues to lurk in Lagos’ city’s streets, alleys, and waterways.
