Writers in Politics
This book reflects many of the concerns found in Decolonising the Mind and Moving the Centre. Ngugi has put together a new collection under an old title, rewriting most of the pieces that appeared in the original 1981 edition, and adding completely new essays, such as 'Freedom of Expression', written for the campaign to try to save Ken Saro-Wiwa and other Niger Delta activists and writers from execution in Nigeria. Kenya: EAEP
African Literature, Mother Earth and Religion
This book is a collection of essays that explore the intersection of Earth, Gender and Religion in African literary texts. It examines cultural, religious, theological and philosophical traditions, and their construction of perspectives and attitudes about Earth-keeping and gender. This publication is critical given the current global environmental crisis and its impact on African and global communities. The book is multidisciplinary in approach (literary, environmental, theological and sociological), exploring the intersection of African creative work, religion and the environment in their construction of Earth and gender. It presents how the gendered interconnectedness of the natural environment, with its broad spirituality and deep identification with the woman, features prominently in the myths, folklores, legends, rituals, sacred songs and incantations that are explored in this collection. Both male and female writers in the collection laud and accept woman's enduring motif as worker, symbol and guardian of the environment. This interconnectedness mirrors the importance of the environment for the survival of both human and non-human components of Mother Earth. The ideology of women's agency is emphasised and reinforced by ecofeminist theologians; namely those viewing African women as active agents working closely with the environment and not as subordinates. In the context of the environmental crisis the nurturing role of women should be bolstered and the rich African traditions that conserved the environment preserved. The book advocates the re-engagement of women, particularly their knowledge and conservation techniques and how these can become reservoirs of dying traditions. This volume offers recorded traditions in African literary texts, thereby connecting gender, religion and the environment and helpful perspectives in Earth-keeping.
Loose Purls Vol 1
Loose Purls: From the Recesses of a Grateful MindWhen you realize you've been dreaming for more years, than actually living the dream. God spared my life, made me sit down, take a look at my life and gave me a new voice. For years I talked about writing a book about my life's adventures but it was easier to talk about it because chatter didn't need to prove that I had any thoughts. Early 2016 I became deathly ill, needing surgery, died twice on the operating table and my caregivers and family wouldn't allow them to give up on me. I wasn't expected to live. I remained in a coma for a month on a ventilator until the hospital transferred me to a Transitional Care Hospital (TCH). My primary doctor and my family refused to pull the plug, refused to lose faith in my recovery... Thank the Lord I woke up before Memorial Day weekend. After hearing details about the ordeal I went through I got busy writing about everything that came to me and this poetry book is the result of my decision to quit procrastinating!
Save My Gunpowder
In his last book entitled 'There was a country, ' the celebrated novelist, Chinua Achebe wrote about his experiences in a country called Biafra. In this present effort, 'Save my Gunpowder, ' Mr. Amechi Oraka has undertaken an interesting foray into that country. In the course of that journey, Oraka met and has chronicled some of the activities of Chukwuemeka Oduemgwu Ojukwu himself.Biafra was a land flowing with milk and honey, but it had some question marks at the spiritual level. In it was found individuals of excellent pedigree like Dr. Gaius Okongwu, Chief Constantine Agbala, etc. It was Dr. Okongwu who ruffled some African leaders at a gathering in the Yamoussoukro Basilica by telling them that it was absolutely impossible for anyone of their ilk to make heaven. He said to the shock of the Ivorian President Houphouet-Boigny, who was present, that it was easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a man of wealth and power to make heaven. The author found Brenda and Bruno Imo, and their mother Janet, who could match anyone in planning, plotting, and scheming for the good of her children. He found Drs Lucas and Maureen Azikan whose only daughter, Chitoo, a medical student at the University of Babylon, was killed gruesomely. Nevertheless for them, there was still life after that devastating incident. The author became privy to the 21 military officers and one civilian who wanted power at all cost and by any means possible. They paid dearly for it. He found 'the helper' Mrs. Catherine Ofulue and Chiamaka who gave up on life and set herself ablaze, as well as the randy Dr. Ebenezer Wilcox whose heart suddenly gave up on him. The author applied amazing skill in the portrayal of Excellency 71 to demonstrate that big men other than airs are human like anybody else. He saw the wonderful Obuaku City, and the 22-lane Ogoja/Obuaku City expressway that looked like a glassy blue sea when seen from space. The author became a witness once more, to the natural human inclination to wickedness. This had everything to do with the girl Ogbenye-anu, and the marriage that never was.
Of Passion and Ink
From Limbe, the seaside city, to Kolofata in the north of Cameroon, Of Passion and Ink moves from stories of star-crossed lovers, mental health, dark fantasy, displacement, speculative futures to radicalization. These stories subvert what is believed to be the Cameroonian short story and offer exciting new directions.Stories by Dipita Kwa, Bengono Essola Edouard, Monique Kwachou, Dzekashu MacViban, Howard M-B Maximus, Nkiacha Atemnkeng, A. Bouna Guazong, Rita Bakop, Momo Bertrand and Wise Nzikie Ngasa.
Under Our Skin
1570. A street teems with activity in Renaissance Lisbon: boatmen unload passengers as jugglers entertain the crowd and vendors hawk their goods. The crowd is large, and more than half of it is Black. Most are enslaved African people performing an array of duties, but there are free Africans too, and somebody else: a Black knight astride a horse.Four hundred and fifty years later, novelist and journalist Joaquim Arena stands in a museum, transfixed by the character depicted on this canvas by an anonymous Flemish painter. He doesn't know it yet, but the knight is Joao de S獺 Panasco, a one-time slave who nevertheless became an Afro-Portuguese nobleman.Arena was born in the tiny state of Cape Verde, a small chain of islands off the West Coast of Africa which were uninhabited before Portugal chose them for a slave-trade post―a place made famous in part by Herman Melville's essay on the nature of Cape Verdeans (known as 'Gees') who were common fixtures on whaling vessels. With this awareness, and the death of his adoptive, seafaring father, Arena begins to interlace the stories of historical figures with the complex and fascinating characters from his own childhood in Cape Verde and Lisbon to create a hybrid text of diasporic travel writing, memoir, and history from Europe to the US, and finally, back to Africa.
Bakwa Magazine 09
In our first-ever print and entirely nonfiction issue, we explore what it means to travel as an African. Herein are stories about passport privilege and air and road trips to destinations diverse and peculiar-from Douala, Lagos, Lisbon, through Berlin, Sylt, Maputo to Kousseri. A journey down memory lane with the inglorious history of an airline, and a cab driver's unheralded analysis of Captain Marvel.Bakwa 09 includes pieces from Florian Ngimbis, Anne-Marie Befoune, Yovanka Paquete Perdigao, Sada Malumfashi, Nkiacha Atemnkeng, Munukayumbwa 'Mimi' Mwiya, Howard M-B Maximus, Kay Ugwuede and Raoul Djimeli. It also features an online-only excerpt of the novel Whites Can Dance Too by Kalaf Epalanga.
African Literature, Mother Earth and Religion
This book is a collection of essays that explore the intersection of Earth, Gender and Religion in African literary texts. It examines cultural, religious, theological and philosophical traditions, and their construction of perspectives and attitudes about Earth-keeping and gender. This publication is critical given the current global environmental crisis and its impact on African and global communities. The book is multidisciplinary in approach (literary, environmental, theological and sociological), exploring the intersection of African creative work, religion and the environment in their construction of Earth and gender. It presents how the gendered interconnectedness of the natural environment, with its broad spirituality and deep identification with the woman, features prominently in the myths, folklores, legends, rituals, sacred songs and incantations that are explored in this collection. Both male and female writers in the collection laud and accept woman's enduring motif as worker, symbol and guardian of the environment. This interconnectedness mirrors the importance of the environment for the survival of both human and non-human components of Mother Earth. The ideology of women's agency is emphasised and reinforced by ecofeminist theologians; namely those viewing African women as active agents working closely with the environment and not as subordinates. In the context of the environmental crisis the nurturing role of women should be bolstered and the rich African traditions that conserved the environment preserved. The book advocates the re-engagement of women, particularly their knowledge and conservation techniques and how these can become reservoirs of dying traditions. This volume offers recorded traditions in African literary texts, thereby connecting gender, religion and the environment and helpful perspectives in Earth-keeping.
Aubade at Night or Serenade in the Morning
"aubade at night or serenade in the morning" investigates the etymology of Nigeria's notoriety for systemic corruption and insecurity. It narrates how the nation is scarred by episodes of terrorist attacks leaving a number of families broken forever; revealing its major actors as corrupt, inept leaders and the Boko Haram insurgent groups. It x-rays how lawlessness brings the nation to its knee and confronts the persecution of citizens by the Police who should protect them.Furthermore, while underscoring the Nigerianness of the people, the collection goes deeply into the demystification of fate and grief, narrates the plights of boy child amidst the burden placed upon them and how they are abandoned while placing focus on the girl child. In the end, it shares a crumb of the author's personal life vis-a-vis family, love, heartbreak and hope, thereby generally exploring the theme of identity of him as a verisimilitude of any other child from this country.This collection is unique for its experimentation of styles and forms (avant-garde) and its usage of natural and mundane images to probe the themes of patriotism and identity. The duality of effects of every picturesque showcases intensity of experience through velocity of language and emotional ethos.
Decoded
Decoded: New Essays on Zadie Smith examines the middle period of Zadie Smith's illustrious career as a dynamic, experimental novelist of contemporary Black British writing. The five new essays in Decoded, written by innovative scholars in the fields of British literature and African Diasporic studies, bring together the most original and current analysis of Smith's novels and literary criticism since the release of Smith's NW (2012). Decoded includes discussions of NW, Swing Time, The Embassy of Cambodia, Grand Union, Changing My Mind, Feel Free, and Intimations. The essays delve into Smith's philosophy about the role and responsibility of the artist, her ardent defense of the function of the novel in the digital age, and the connection between writers and readers. Also illuminated is Smith's growth as a writer, her reconceptualization of racial identity, and shifting literary techniques from hysterical realism to social realism. Finally, the book discusses Smith's role as a public intellectua, and her evolution from an optimistic champion of multiculturalism to a subdued, austere realist who has broadened her social critique from the local to the global arena.
Decoded
Decoded: New Essays on Zadie Smith examines the middle period of Zadie Smith's illustrious career as a dynamic, experimental novelist of contemporary Black British writing. The five new essays in Decoded, written by innovative scholars in the fields of British literature and African Diasporic studies, bring together the most original and current analysis of Smith's novels and literary criticism since the release of Smith's NW (2012). Decoded includes discussions of NW, Swing Time, The Embassy of Cambodia, Grand Union, Changing My Mind, Feel Free, and Intimations. The essays delve into Smith's philosophy about the role and responsibility of the artist, her ardent defense of the function of the novel in the digital age, and the connection between writers and readers. Also illuminated is Smith's growth as a writer, her reconceptualization of racial identity, and shifting literary techniques from hysterical realism to social realism. Finally, the book discusses Smith's role as a public intellectua, and her evolution from an optimistic champion of multiculturalism to a subdued, austere realist who has broadened her social critique from the local to the global arena.
Whispers Of The Dark Race
Whispers of the Dark Race, is a multi-faceted tale of Africa, unfolding and unfurling its wings, catching the wind as it goes and soaring to the heavens fully formed and brightly plumed as she rises. The poems are a ricochet through the sacred hall of ancient times, a time when trees whispered sweet tunes and rocks drummed melodious tunes in the night. It shows men ascending to the highest level attainable. It reveals the mind, the conductor whose indefatigable fingers strum the multiple stringed guitar of the universe of the mind! It takes you through antiquity to the present and soars forth to the future whose plains are pure and not profaned by negative experiences of a past singed and a present in flames. The book dashes out a mosaic with a flourish and abandon that knows no restraint nor inhibition. On a vast canvas stretching the length and breadth of the globe, steered by the compass of what is proper. A piece from Europe spun, a flake from Asia, melting on the tongue, hot and spicy. In all this, Africa, reposes, the centre piece of it all, the hinge upon which everything revolves spinning a web of poetry and prose.
The Year of Fire
The Year of Fire explores a season of uncertainty, angst, and rage, made possible by reclusive reflections of the state of self andhomeland. Femi Morgan is a writer, creative media consultant, and arts curator.He is the author of five books of poetry. He was longlisted for theBabishai Niwe Poetry Foundation Prize in 2015 and was selected forthe Writivism Poetry Workshop in the same year. He is also theauthor of Renegade. Renegade was shortlisted for the 2019 PiusAdesanmi Memorial Prize for Literature, and selected amongst the2019 Lagos Book and Arts Festival, LABAF books. He is married toa chef, they live on the edge of Lagos, Nigeria.
Morning Shall Come
Struggle is not new to humanity. It has and always will be part of us, whatever form it takes, but the pain.Struggle measures our resilience and builds our fortitude. The more we overcome, the better we become. Therefore, hold on, it is only for a while. Give it another push, try it differently maybe. Rest if you must, but do not give up.'Morning Shall Come' is about rising above struggle. It is a spring of hope and reassurance for better days ahead. It picks on the little everyday things that make life beautiful.It tickles the heart, provokes the mind and uplifts the soul.
A Little Bit of Love's Magic
A young woman finds the person her heart desires with the help of a bit of magic. Noura is a young I.T. consultant whose weak point is her family. She is at that age when the pressure to get married has hit a new high, but she is not in love with her current boyfriend of three years. After losing a bet, she has to pay a visit to a babalawo in order to obtain a love charm. Despite initial scepticism, Noura follows through with the bet and obtains a charm that is supposed to lead her to true love. The instructions are straightforward, "use this charm and the first person you encounter afterwards will be the love of your life". The only issue is that the first person Noura sees is another woman. Bewaji has just moved back to her family home after almost a decade in the United Kingdom. She is looking for nothing more than a haven where she can relax, paint and not think about the row that was the reason she left in the first place. Of course nothing goes as planned, barely a week since Bewaji has returned and her father is trying to play matchmaker. There is also the matter of the gorgeous Noura who seems to believe that she is in love with Bewaji.
Pelong YA Ka
Pelong ya Ka, a collection of essays and sketches in Sotho was first published in 1962 in the Bantu Treasury Series imprint of Witwatersrand University Press. S. Machabe Mofokeng is regarded as one of the greatest essayist and dramatist in Southern Sotho. His first book, Senkatana (a play) was published in 1952. Pelong ya Ka comprises 20 essays which range from meditative, descriptive, and narrative to polemic style, with the tone of voice characterised by melancholy, humour, and satire. The essays span over a wide range of themes, as suggested by their titles, e.g. Pelo (The heart), Bodutu ('Solitude'), Death ('Lefu'), Nako ('Time'), Pampiri ('Paper'), Ho kganna mmotokara ('Driving an automobile'), Sepetlele ('Hospital'), Lenyalo ('Matromony'), and Boqheku ('Old age'). Nhlanhla Maake says of this collection "Mofokeng's essays fuse simplicity with dept." Pelong ya Ka is part of the African Treasury Series published by Wits University Press.
Validaci籀n Vil
El viaje de una fase despreocupada de su vida se convierte en una carrera que tiene que ganar por medios estrat矇gicos. El miedo al rechazo y al fracaso se cierne en el aire. En este cautivador drama, la presi籀n de los compa簽eros no es el problema. Es una lucha practicable unida al dolor autoinfligido de perseguir sombras, el terreno m獺s peligroso para que una adolescente se encuentre a s穩 misma. En el camino de la b繳squeda de validaci籀n, Anjola pasa por muchos enredos que afectan enormemente a su vida. Encerrada en las paredes de un internado, su b繳squeda de aceptaci籀n, excelencia y el fin de la reprimenda de sus padres es ef穩mera. Las intrigas del tiempo, el lugar y los eventos secuenciales dar獺n un giro significativo a Anjola. Lee c籀mo Anjola supera los obst獺culos que le impiden sentir el valor de su identidad.
Seven African Writers
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Seven African Writers
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
O To Ge!
The book "O to ge" is a compendium of the salient political history of Kwara from formation leading up to the epochal political change and all the inherent dynamics that facilitated the "O to ge" movement of 2019. It encapsulates the different struggles within and outside of the camp, key actors, intrigues and the bold and the underlying factors that led to the success of the "O to ge" movement in Kwara State, Nigeria.
The Evolution of the Igweship.
Rivaling Quintin Winks' 'Tanzania-Culture Smart', 'The Evolution of the Igweship' takes you on a tour of one of the oldest African institution, especially of the Igbo tribe in the Idemili part of Nigeria. It is history and criticism of an African culture from an academic view, with a good douse of entertainment. It is littered with stories and events in history around the Igweship, with the view of showcasing the past, while forging a solution for moving ahead as a people and a tribe. You would come away from this book feeling educated about a people and a tribe. It is a culture guide for historians, inquisitive minds and Afrocentric individuals.
Monographies Ngemba
"Diviser pour mieux r矇gner". Tel semble avoir 矇t矇 depuis les imp矇rialismes, l'un des principaux leitmotiv de l'administration coloniale afin d'矇teindre toutes les vell矇it矇s d'矇mancipation et inf矇oder le pouvoir traditionnel ? l'administration centrale. Apr癡s les ind矇pendances reconquises, les nouveaux chefs d'Etats pontes de l'administration coloniale ont perp矇tr矇 la m礙me politique ? l'int矇rieur de leurs jeunes nations. Des d矇coupages administratifs dont le seul objectif est de fragiliser l'autorit矇 des chefs traditionnels, confin矇s plus que jamais au r繫le d'auxiliaires...non plut繫t de supp繫ts de l'administration. Le d矇vouement quasi-religieux que les populations t矇moignaient nagu癡re ? l'endroit de leur roi-que le colon par m矇pris a appel矇 "chef"-, a amen矇 les autorit矇s ? conclure que ces royaut矇s traditionnelles constituaient un obstacle ? la consolidation des fondements de l'Etat unitaire. C'est ainsi que, de gr矇 ou de force, l'autorit矇 traditionnelle se trouve enr繫l矇e dans l'appareil administratif. Dans Monographies Ngemb?, l'auteur se faufile avec le lecteur dans les d矇dales de l'histoire du peuple 矇ponyme, ? travers les diff矇rents rois qui ont r矇gn矇 ? Bafounda, Bameka, Bamendjou, Bamougoum et Bansoa depuis leur cr矇ation. Il nous restitue ici un r矇cit 矇mouvant, ? partir des t矇moignages d'acteurs rencontr矇s sur le terrain. Car acceptons-le, l'histoire du Cameroun telle que nous l'a servie le colon n'a 矇t矇 qu'un leurre visant ? nous assimiler et servir davantage ses int矇r礙ts. Nagu癡re idol璽tr矇 par le peuple, le roi au troisi癡me mill矇naire de l'癡re chr矇tienne est r矇duit ? une esp癡ce d'otage coinc矇 entre le marteau de l'administration et l'enclume d'un peuple de plus en plus exigeant. Et tr癡s souvent entre la politique men矇e par ces autorit矇s et les aspirations populaires, il ya un net divorce.
Brilliance of hope
Intended to record a crucial element of African history in the making, this short story anthology depicts experiences of the Zimbabwean diaspora through perspectives of writers based in Australia, Dubai, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States and Zimbabwe. The fictional and autobiographical narratives herein collectively reflect on the resilience and hope intrinsic to the Zimbabwean dispersion. Entangled in a common quandary, these writers echo the particulars of what it means to be displaced as a first generation immigrant: TahRudo D M ManyereSibonginkosi Christabel NethaSamuel ChambokoPriscilla ShumbaTariro NdoroBrain Garusa Tinashe Junias ChipenyuIvainashe Earnest NyamutsambaA K MwanyekondoJames Wanangwa Kajumi KuwaliNobuhle N NyoniFlavian Farainashe MakovereLazarus Panashe NyagwamboSamantha Rumbidzai Vazhure
Speaking Beyond
Speaking Beyond is a collection of Gameli Tordzro's poems that span from the 1980 to the present interspaced with stories that chapter a combination of factual narratives of his life experience and the imaginary realities of life. The book is a poetic insight into Tordzro's life in Ghana and Scotland and documents instances of challenge, reflection and deep reflection on life as a gift and life as interaction and exploration.
Layers of Onions
Bestselling Author of RICHER with CHARACTER, Victor Alade in this new novel, tells a compelling fiction about the pursuit of destiny for two princes in series of events that gravitate to a central point: Leadership."Whoever wants to lead a people must also learn how to firstly serve the same people."In hilarious and reveling twists, Layers of Onions is an African folktale that rallies for hope and moral consciousness among leaders and young people. As you will learn in this first series, Ladele's grandpa, as influential and knowledgeable as he is almost ruined his age long reputation because of sexual relationship he had with the Queen earlier. This puts to question the paternity of one of the two princes.Set in the immediate post civil war in Nigeria, the novel tells about the impact of war on ordinary people in no ordinary fashion. This is an African story like no other.Layers of Onions: The Golden Silhouette is just the start of a lifelong story that tells readers that there is absolutely 'nothing new under the heavens.'
A Dangerous Love
"A tightly coiled story of obsession and crime that plays out in an era of lawlessness"Terry-Ann Adams, author of Those Who Live in CagesA Dangerous Love is an exhilarating, true love story that plays out in the chaos and lawlessness of the political turmoil that was South Africa in the late 80s and early 90s. The mayhem and desperation of a country whose social fabric is unravelling is mirrored in Karen Daniels's own life, and hers is an up-close-and-personal account of life as a young woman of colour in the anarchy of early post-apartheid South Africa.Karen Daniels was only 21 when she met Martin, a mysterious, dangerous man who, at 22 years of age, had the world at his feet. Captivated by this man, she was soon caught up in a love affair that turned into obsession and violence. Gutsy and charming, Martin wasn't born into a life of crime and drugs, but his greed and passion soon pulled him into the underworld and he was overcome by a darkness he could not escape.Hold your breath as Karen takes you with her on a roller-coaster ride into an abyss of armed heists, crime, and violent abuse. Her story shows how having such intense and conflicting emotions for a man - loving him and being petrified of him - is only a few heartbeats away from hate.Karen's eventual escape from this life is a success story that has taken her to the heights of the corporate world, and encouraged her to become an advocate for human rights and women empowerment. Her story is one of human resilience, courage and determination. It offers hope to those struggling to break free from their circumstances, and will inspire anyone who wants to live their best life and go from surviving to thriving.
Songs of a Stranger at the Smiling Coast
Obinna Chilekezi's Songs of a Stranger at the Smiling Coast is a collection of poems that revolves around love, loss and nature. The poet renders in powerful lines the beauty and burdens of the rivers Niger and Gambia.Obinna Chilekezi announces his arrival with a strong love collection that invokes passion. The poems in this collection underline the compelling passion of the poet, which is held together by motifs of the African pastoral landscape and rivers. He employs imagery and sample diction to convey his love on the wings of time. Chilekezi's lines echo Neruda.
God Has A Sense of Humor
I miss my husband's girlfriends.Whenever he was having an affair, he became a new man; more witty, more talkative, and friendlier. He shaved daily and traded his frayed underwear for snug boxer briefs. Whenever they broke up with him, I suffered with him as he would always, somehow, take it out on me and turn my life and our home into a living hell. Even our dismal sex life was affected. Call it the guilty husband syndrome, but a few years ago, I discovered that whenever we were intimate, it meant he was going to be intimate with someone else the very next day. But even that stopped years ago. My marriage had come to a point where I was happier when he was happy in his extramarital affairs' I know it sounds weird. I used to see it that way too, but I don't anymore. If you are the type of wife that believe that women should be the weaker vessels, you get to a point where the only thing you want is peace. If other women make your husband happy enough to make him leave you alone and not call you names, you no longer see the situation as strange. In fact, you even begin to thank those women for it.That Saturday as I watched my husband mope around the house, looking like the weight of the world was on his shoulders, I suspected that some errant girlfriend had caused his current malady. Perhaps, she had found out he was married with kids, or had grown bored with him and decided to look for some other lover, maybe even someone younger. I would have told him it served him right, but I knew the consequences. All I could do was feel sorry for him and for myself, and hope that I could find a way to placate him before things got worse. I summoned up courage-yes, it is funny that to go near my husband, I had to summon courage and even plead the blood of Jesus- went over to him and placed a hand gently on his shoulder. "Are you all right?" I asked desperate not to annoy him. He turned slowly and looked at me as if a filthy, homeless person had touched him. He stared in disbelief at the hand I placed on his shoulder, and I quickly snatched it away...
My Funny Africa
A rare collection of nearly 200 enthralling, authentic bushwhacker anecdotes, most of which are superbly illustrated by a handful of celebrated African artists. There are over 50 mainly African contributors from all walks of life including famous conservationists, legendary game guides and bestseller authors. This collectors item will intrigue and entertain the very young and the very old and everyone else in-between. It will bring memories flooding back to those who live or have lived in African and inspire those who haven't, to go to Africa. The authenticity, unbelievable in many instances may, to the uninitiated, even be educational. It will allow you into the minds of those who have experienced human-wildlife interactions hardly heard of before, which makes it all the more special. These wonderful tales about to fade into the oblivion of time as with many species of wildlife nearing extinction, needed to be 'captured' and saved forever. There is little doubt that this book is unique; there is very little else with which it can be compared. A perfect example that fact is indeed stranger than fiction.
Broken Vase
There are poems I've wanted to scrap off from this book, I feel like I have let you see parts of me that I hate looking atParts of me I sometimes don't want to be associated withParts of me I don't want in my legacyParts I don't want my child to knowThe sad thing is, I'm a storyteller and, these are not just my stories.These are your storiesFind yourself in them."I have felt the pain, anger, anxiety and helplessness of being human. I have related to the love and the need for its presence. I have floated and risen by letting go and knowing for sure that the vase is as important as the flowers inside." Kim Chokera
A Seed In The Dust
A Seed In The Dust is a remarkable narration of one woman's journey through family crisis, grief and trauma to emerge with an unbroken spirit. It is a candid look into a deeply dysfunctional past, painful secrets and loss - all shaping the life of a child coming of age as a woman who rises to serve a nation.A painfully beautiful story that is at once heart wrenching and magnificent, it cuts through the silence around the issues that are carefully hidden in childhood memories and the private struggles that are not openly discussed. The memoir seeks to deliver courage and faith to the reader who may be questioning their own journey. The past is not who we are, it's the path we take to our destiny.
Dungeon of Despair
It's life before and after Zimbabwe's Independence in 1980, the life of people in Mutare/Umtali, the Chimurenga War; its consequences and results, and the fight for survival in Poverty, challenges of Relationships and Infidelity, ... ..to the vast Migration troubles into Botswana that came within the early millennium.From the Author of TEARS AND SCARS comes a parallel-tale to TEARS AND SCARS, showing the life of different individuals, in an almost similar environment, with however different outcomes as such is LIFE..
Black Stars
...Anthology consisting of a collection of poems from the talents of Catherine Magodo-Mutukwa, Lloyd Machacha, Tendai Mtukwa, Pearson Mbendera, Nicholas J Gorejena, Buhle Wendy Moyo and Simbarashe Chidakwa. ...The anthology reveals the poets working on certain various themes and concerns, yet it exemplifies the diversity of their individual styles and identities.It is the first of the black stars Anthology of Poems Series.
The Kee - Toe Saga
Share humorous, thought provoking stories of rural life in America. Experiences shared by all, prompting humor and reflection. remember, inside we're all still the child of long ago, or the present.
Black Seeds
They grew even on unsoiled grounds -- only to become profound. Take a philosophical journey about the Black Seeds -- with Darick Spears.
The Competent Youth
HOW TO BECOME COMPETENT AND ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS OF IMPACT ...even if it seems as if there's no more hope for you. Are you among the several millions of youths who question their potentials?Do you feel insufficient about your capabilities in certain areas of your life?Have you considered and thought you could make a better leader if you had the seat of governance?Do you feel you can make a better Nigeria from the ruin we now have? If you have answered yes to any of the above questions, then what I'm about to share is very important to you. I am James Useghan. Just over a decade ago, I was battling a severe kidney challenge and it felt like I would die from it. I soliloquized in pain everyday, hoping and wishing that the sting of pain will eventually fade away someday. I was in this hurtful, depressed, sick position for over ten years and was bedridden at some point until I decided to reach out to the power embedded in us all, and that was how His salvation in me brought life back to my drying bones. Fast forward to now, I ventured into activism, public speaking, and have been aired on several platforms including Channels TV, Silverbird TV, AIt, to name a few. Having had to fight the battle of competency and the feeling of insufficiency myself, I knew it was time to share my tale to youths, like you, out there so that you can begin to work in line of your purpose in building a good nation, as well as a wonderful world. In this book, THE COMPETENT YOUTH, you'll not only be stimulated or motivated to do great things, but you'll be able to reach out to your deeps immediately to unleash that powerful force that is key to the creation of a new world order and a better Nigeria. The change you desire is in you, and the best way to begin is by realising how competent you are! Start towards your competency journey NOW by getting the book, THE COMPETENT YOUTH! I'll catch you right inside the book's pages. Yours, James Useghan.
Good Pedigree
"Every child that comes from a proper home gets morning blessings from their parents. This is a tradition. It ensures you do well in life. A wise child should cherish a parent's prayer." Iye has everything a good village girl should want - a respectable family, a boyfriend who wants to marry her. But why isn't she happy? Why does she want more? When her traditional father catches her in public with her boyfriend, she realizes what she truly wants. And it is not the village life. Independence, education, a career ... Her dreams. Iye is accepted to university, in Lagos - a world away from everything she knows. She quickly learns how exhilarating, but also frightening, the city can be. Struggling to be herself, she has to choose who her friends are before it is too late. Family revelations and personal disaster threaten everything Iye has worked for. Will she succumb to the jealousy and materialism claiming so many around her? Or will she prove to herself that her dreams are worth fighting for?
The Seasons of Change
The Seasons of Change is a text which discusses four seasons in which people experience during the process of life. These changes can impact one's mood and perception pertaining to self and worldview. The four seasons include: The Season of Innocence, The Season of Corruption, The Season of Depression, and The Season of Redemption. Each of the four seasons focus on self perception, personal and professional conduct, power and greed, deceit, hopelessness and self-vindication.
Racconti di Habbaassi III
Un alunno della Scuola delle Conoscenze in HAB Y SSINIA (Etiopia), studente del terzo anno di corso, ha studiato come scrivere storie da raccontare alla comunit? dopo che diventer? Guida, cos穫 decide di raccogliere tra gli altri studenti, anche altre storie tra coloro che sono diventati Gran Maestri; uno di questi 癡 il seguente, scritto da un bambino di otto anni.Un bambino nel campo ascolt簷 la conversazione di due animali parlanti; la cosa insolita era che erano una capra e una chiocciola, e la prima diceva alla seconda:
Great Collection of Tetela Proverbs on the African Wisdom
Great Collection of Tetela Proverbs on the African WisdomBy: Ambaye Albertine Tshefu, Elisabeth Mukanga Ndjeka and Albert Tshefu Empenge, Great Collection of Tetela Proverbs on the African Wisdom is a rich and charming collection of wisdom. Proverbs are an important and creative tradition of the Tetela tribe of the Democratic Republic of Congo. This book includes nearly 300 proverbs written in Tetela, French, and English.While some proverbs are similar to English sayings - "It is the survivor who narrates the story," "Nothing is impossible until the death," - others are unique - "Do not take fog for rain," "The basket of the prickly ants is difficult to carry and to put down." With short explanations, each proverb's meaning is illuminated for reflection and application.Filled with wisdom for a proper moral life, family relationships, leadership, encouragement, and reminders, these proverbs are both representative of the Tetela culture and universal in their hope and encouragement. About the AuthorAmbaye Albertine Tshefu is the sixth child in her family. She has always had a passion for writing. Tshefu received a bachelor's degree from Metropolitan States University in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has worked as an ultrasound technologist, but currently works as a substitute teacher. She has three daughters and two grandchildren.Elisabeth Mukanga Ndjeka is the widow of Albert Tshefu Empenge, magistrate. She is the mother of ten, including twins. She has grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nephews, grandnephews, and great-grandnephews living on Africa, Europe, and the Americas. She recorded these proverbs to share her tribe's culture and wisdom with her family.
Unity in Flight
This volume was our first anthology of fiction (2001)and included work by writers who had been published in the Botsotso literary journal. The themes reflect the turmoil of the 1980's and the new issues raised in the 90's. Maropodi Mapalakanye's stories focus on the political-military struggle against apartheid with an emphasis on the deadly 'twists of fate' that insurrection spawns with regard to the need to resist and its collateral damage to oppressed people. Peter Rule deals with more personal issues such as the anguish of rape and homophobic violence, the devastation of AIDS and the trauma of surviving police interrogation. Zachariah Rapola brings a surreal and tragic touch to stories about lonely misfits in Alexandria, Joburg's oldest African township. Michael Vines, on the other hand, writes about arty white suburban youth whose alienation is just as acute despite their wealthier environment. Phaswane Mpe's stories all foreshadow his novel Welcome to our Hillbrow which also deals with student life in Johannesburg and the ramifications of the Aids epidemic. Lastly, Kolski Horwitz touches on both the general political landscape of decolonization and internal corruption within the liberation movements as well as the shifting tides of sexual behaviour.
We Jive Like This
The Botsotso Jesters poetry performance group was founded in 1994. After a few member changes, it solidified in 1996 with the line up that published this first Botsotso book. The collectively written poems that provided such powerful performance material are followed by individual collections of each of the five. Anna Varney's graphics set the tone for many future books in which the combination of written and visual images becomes a striking factor.
No Time to Mourn
No Time to Mourn is a collection of short stories, poems, artwork and photography penned, produced and presented by South Sudanese women. It reflects the lives of the women writers and artists, and at the same time gives voice to the very real lived experiences and lives of every woman of South Sudanese heritage. The ideas and experiences in this book span decades they straddle borders, they cross continents and describe events that are hard to imagine, even with some knowledge of South Sudan's history. It is hard not to be moved as you read what many of these authors have lived through as they strive to achieve those basic of human rights: life, liberty and security. Through this book, we learn more about the cost of war and the value of peace, and how they affect women's abilities to found a home, bear and raise children, stay healthy and safe, secure education for themselves and their children, seek professional fulfilment and even fall in love, all while navigating society's often narrowly defined gender roles.
The Coming of Otungwi
This is a story is about a nation called Otungwi located deep in the heart of Africa. It follows its journey through the struggle of peace and prosperity. This is seen through the eyes of dynasties that have ruled over this country since its beginning. The story captures the different dynasties' perspectives and visions for their homeland and the lengths to which they are willing to go in order to attain their goals at the end of the day. It entails the challenges the rulers of this nation face and how they overcome diversity.
thorns in her flesh
THORNS IN HER FLESH is an illustrated collection of poems by a black woman on love that is often like a rose flower; magnificent in its beauty but burdened with pricking thorns. It is also about the realities of family relationships and the socio-cultural, spiritual, economic, and political complexities of life in the African context. In this collection of poetry, Eshe has thrown together poems of different themes; something akin to mixing lemon slices and balls of sugar in water. She hopes you, her dear reader, would be kind enough to stir and enjoy a tall glass of lemonade! The book is split into four chapters: Pricking Companions, Hyena Dance, Tangled Knots, and Liquid Fire
A Victim of Injustice
It is very important that one looks before one leaps, for every decision or action produces a consequence. But it is absolutely unjustifiable for an innocent person to go through hell as a result of someone else's actions. Sadly, that was the exact terrible ordeal an only girl-child suffered.Serwaa-Akoto was unluckily rendered a victim of injustice. And despite her incomparable beauty and immense personal charm, her burning desire to get married and have children remained elusive.The story portrays some of the traditional beliefs and practices of the African society. In the course of development, however, most of them, especially those that either raised ethical issues or violated human rights, have been modified to fall into line with modernity. It thus provides valuable insight into our unique culture and civilisation. It is simply a must-read novel for the African diaspora especially. But readers must be 18 or above since the story contains scenes of romance, violence and crime.
Sur Des Sentiers Solitaires de Poussi癡re et Autres histoires
Je venais de dire ? mon mari qu'il ne m'avait jamais amen矇 ? ce stade, que je me branlais pour apaiser l`envie de lui qui 矇tait encore insatisfaite, que j`aurais fr矇mit ? ses coups mous et ? ses pouss矇es lentes, pour me faire crier son nom d`extase. Il quitta ? la h璽te mes cuisses 矇cart矇es et m'accusa d'infid矇lit矇.- Qui est donc l'homme avec lequel tu as couch矇 ? Il m'aboya dessus, et il me tra簾na par les cheveux hors du lit jusqu'? la salle ? manger. Il exigea que je jure sur la Sainte Bible sur la table centrale qu'aucun homme ne m'avait besogn矇e en dehors de lui.-------Sur Des Sentiers Solitaires de Poussi癡re et autres histoires est un recueil de quinze nouvelles impr矇gn矇es de frictions intrigantes de la soci矇t矇 moderne. Ces histoires centr矇es sur les personnages et l'intrigue dressent le portrait intransigeant d'矇l矇ments qui agitent la soci矇t矇 et les individualit矇s humaines. C'est une tumultueuse s矇quence de th癡mes universels suivant les luttes humaines, l'acceptation des valeurs et le renouvellement des normes. Les th癡mes transpirent l'amour, la col癡re, la frustration, la culture, l'audace, le crime, le d矇nigrement humain, la discrimination de genre, l'espoir, la survie, la d矇couverte de soi et la crise d'identit矇, l'矇mancipation politique et plus. L'humour est pourtant pr矇sent dans ce recueil de reflexion ininterrompue, parsemant le texte comme un brumisateur humoristique.
