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Author : Laye Camara
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : African literature (French)
ISBN : OCLC:224222883
Author : Kuki Gallmann
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141966403
‘Often, at the hour of day when the savannah grass is streaked with silver, and pale gold rims the silhouettes of the hills, I drive with my dogs up to the Mukutan, to watch the sun setting behind the lake, and the evening shadows settle over the valleys and plains of the Laikipia plateau.’ Kuki Gallmann’s haunting memoir of bringing up a family in Kenya in the 1970s first with her husband Paulo, and then alone, is part elegaic celebration, part tragedy, and part love letter to the magical spirit of Africa.
Author : Eloise Greenfield
Publisher : Perfection Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1992-01-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0780710487
In words that sing and pictures that evoke the rich life and culture of the African continent, here is a book that makes real the deepest longings and imaginings of children for the faraway land of their ancestors.
Author : Laye Camara
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Africa
ISBN : UOM:39015046367192
"Twelve years later, having returned to his native land, Camara Laye wrote A Dream of Africa. In this sequel to The African Child, the narrator - now influenced by his experiences in Europe - sees an Africa on the brink of independence and has a dream which reveals a terrifying glimpse of the violence and unrest to come."--
Author : Olga Marlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0984523227
In the late 1950s, Opus Dei sought to begin apostolic work in Africa. A group of young women from various countries moved to Kenya with the aim of starting a school, one open to women of all races and beliefs, the first of its kind. Olga Marlin, who was one of those young women, tells the story of how the womens' faith in their mission was sustained despite obstacles and ultimately bore fruit.
Author : Shannon Gibney
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780735231696
The heartbreaking story of five generations of young people from a single African-and-American family pursuing an elusive dream of freedom. "Gut wrenching and incredible.”— Sabaa Tahir #1 New York Times bestselling author of An Ember in the Ashes "This novel is a remarkable achievement."—Kelly Barnhill, New York Times bestselling author and Newbery medalist "Beautifully epic."—Ibi Zoboi, author American Street and National Book Award finalist Dream Country begins in suburban Minneapolis at the moment when seventeen-year-old Kollie Flomo begins to crack under the strain of his life as a Liberian refugee. He's exhausted by being at once too black and not black enough for his African American peers and worn down by the expectations of his own Liberian family and community. When his frustration finally spills into violence and his parents send him back to Monrovia to reform school, the story shifts. Like Kollie, readers travel back to Liberia, but also back in time, to the early twentieth century and the point of view of Togar Somah, an eighteen-year-old indigenous Liberian on the run from government militias that would force him to work the plantations of the Congo people, descendants of the African American slaves who colonized Liberia almost a century earlier. When Togar's section draws to a shocking close, the novel jumps again, back to America in 1827, to the children of Yasmine Wright, who leave a Virginia plantation with their mother for Liberia, where they're promised freedom and a chance at self-determination by the American Colonization Society. The Wrights begin their section by fleeing the whip and by its close, they are then the ones who wield it. With each new section, the novel uncovers fresh hope and resonating heartbreak, all based on historical fact. In Dream Country, Shannon Gibney spins a riveting tale of the nightmarish spiral of death and exile connecting America and Africa, and of how one determined young dreamer tries to break free and gain control of her destiny.
Author : Odile Goerg
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190089078
Many studies focus on film in Africa. Few, however, study cinema as a leisure activity: one that has influenced several generations and opened up spaces to dream, discuss or contest. Movie theatres offered a break from the daily routine, as places of escape and of education. Cinema was also potentially subversive, offering an alternative to colonial discourse. Tropical Dream Palaces seeks to trace this history in a West African context: of broadening horizons on the one hand, and of censorship and control on the other. It fills a historiographic void, following cinema's arrival in the region in the early twentieth century up until the Independence era, and also looking further afield to Central Africa and its different models. Goerg addresses questions of film distribution in colonial times; of screening venues, their implantation, spread and different categories; while also focusing on audiences, their gender or age; the acquisition of a film culture; and the impact of screening foreign images. Her book draws on extremely varied sources to paint a broad picture of this cinematographic landscape: archives, the accounts of African and European spectators or administrators, novels, autobiographies, the local press, interviews and iconography.
Author : John Gay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:30000095384263
Author : Mohamed Kheir Omer
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684716494
Eritrea is located in northeast Africa on the Red Sea coast and boasts one of the oldest human settlements in the region. One-million-year-old human remains have been found in the Danakil Depression in the country, which is home to one of the oldest-written scripts in sub-Saharan Africa: Ge'ez. Eritrea was also pioneer in multi-party democracy in Africa and had a democratic constitution based on United Nations principles in 1952. But it is also home to one of the earliest armed liberation movements in Africa - a conflict that Mohamed Kheir Omer witnessed firsthand, having grown up in Eritrea as a member of the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF). In this book, he traces the history of the country, exploring how ethnicity, religion, geography, colonialism, and other factors have shaped its fate - and what must be done to ensure its people enjoy a brighter future. The history of Eritrea is similar to others on the continent, and its people continue to struggle to build a just, democratic, and inclusive country.
Author : Isak Dinesen
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443432955
In Out of Africa, author Isak Dinesen takes a wistful and nostalgic look back on her years living in Africa on a Kenyan coffee plantation. Recalling the lives of friends and neighbours—both African and European—Dinesen provides a first-hand perspective of colonial Africa. Through her obvious love of both the landscape and her time in Africa, Dinesen’s meditative writing style deeply reflects the themes of loss as her plantation fails and she returns to Europe. HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.
Author : Leo Raditsa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015016889902
Author : Che Guevara,Ernesto Guevara
Publisher : Random House
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Congo
ISBN : 9781860468476
These African diaries--written when Che Guevara tried to help the people of the Congo throw off the yoke of colonial imperialism--afford a very personal insight into the thoughts and emotions of one of the 20th century's greatest revolutionary martyrs. of photos.
Author : Andrew Wutawunashe
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781465303769
In his letter to Africa Andrew Wutawunashe carefully constructs a sustainable African Dream that nurses no hurts, regrets or excuses but propels the reader gloriously upward from the painful and credible sighs of Africa's people to build a bold, vibrant and competitive Africa whose boundless wealth and potential are open to her people. Wutawunashe offers a wealth of examples from Africa's visionaries of the past and present by which he escalates his rallying call to action for self-empowerment and actualization. With engaging clarity Wutawunashe presents a challenge to the best of Africafs minds and to the most plundered of her people to own The African Dream, love it, live it and propel Africans everywhere to a new contented African-ness and to greater heights of productivity and achievement that go toe to toe with the worldfs best in every field. Dear Africa is a must-read for anyone, Black or not, who wants to benefit from the power of an eloquent and knowledgeable primary source. The African Dream - own it, love it, live it and transform your world
Author : Lansiné Kaba
Publisher : Diasporic Africa Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781937306595
In Kwame Nkrumah and the Dream of African Unity, Lansiné Kaba describes some of the epic phases of Kwame Nkrumah’s struggle for the independence of his country, Ghana, and the unity of his continent, Africa. These two tasks were gigantic, complex, and even frightening. Each separately was promethean in scope, perhaps beyond the capacity of a single leader, however able and determined. Yet, Nkrumah dared to accomplish them and thus deserves a place among the great figures of his world. Far from being a hagiography or a biography, or an essay on the ideology and foreign politics of Nkrumah, this work follows the adventures of his dream of African unity, from the years studying across the Atlantic to the Accra Summit in 1965 and the coup d’état in 1966. Throughout, the analysis tries to understand the genesis of the dream and the effort required for its realization. These discussions deal with the difficulties of implementing a policy of regrouping independent states into a continental body.
Author : Sylviane A. Diouf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199723980
In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded group of Africans deported to the United States as slaves. Timothy Meaher, an established Mobile businessman, sent the slave ship, the Clotilda , to Africa, on a bet that he could "bring a shipful of niggers right into Mobile Bay under the officers' noses." He won the bet. This book reconstructs the lives of the people in West Africa, recounts their capture and passage in the slave pen in Ouidah, and describes their experience of slavery alongside American-born enslaved men and women. After emancipation, the group reunited from various plantations, bought land, and founded their own settlement, known as African Town. They ruled it according to customary African laws, spoke their own regional language and, when giving interviews, insisted that writers use their African names so that their families would know that they were still alive. The last survivor of the Clotilda died in 1935, but African Town is still home to a community of Clotilda descendants. The publication of Dreams of Africa in Alabama marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. Winner of the Wesley-Logan Prize of the American Historical Association (2007)
