Man In Africa

Author : Mary Douglas,Phyllis M. Kaberry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781136419201

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Man in Africa by Mary Douglas,Phyllis M. Kaberry Pdf

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1969 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

Author : William Boyd
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241970409

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A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd Pdf

A Good Man in Africa is William Boyd's classic, prize-winning debut novel - Winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Prize Escapee from suburbia, overweight, oversexed... Morgan Leafy isn't overburdened with worldly success. Actually, he is refreshingly free from it. But then, as a representative of Her Britannic Majesty in tropical Kinjanja, it was not very constructive of him to get involved in wholesale bribery. Nor was it exactly oiling his way up the ladder to hunt down the improbably pointed breasts of his boss's daughter when officially banned from horizontal delights by a nasty dose ... Falling back on his deep-laid reserves of misanthropy and guile, Morgan has to fight off the sea of humiliation, betrayal and ju-ju that threatens to wash over him. 'Wickedly funny' The Times 'If a widening grin is the test of a novel's entertainment value in retrospect, A Good Man in Africa romps home' Guardian 'A delight' Washington Post

Author : Ciba Foundation,Haile Selassie I Prize trust
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Africa
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Man and Africa by Ciba Foundation,Haile Selassie I Prize trust Pdf

Author : Roger S. Levine
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300168594

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A Living Man from Africa by Roger S. Levine Pdf

Born into a Xhosa royal family around 1792 in South Africa, Jan Tzatzoe was destined to live in an era of profound change—one that witnessed the arrival and entrenchment of European colonialism. As a missionary, chief, and cultural intermediary on the eastern Cape frontier and in Cape Town and a traveler in Great Britain, Tzatzoe helped foster the merging of African and European worlds into a new South African reality. Yet, by the 1860s, despite his determined resistance, he was an oppressed subject of harsh British colonial rule. In this innovative, richly researched, and splendidly written biography, Roger S. Levine reclaims Tzatzoe's lost story and analyzes his contributions to, and experiences with, the turbulent colonial world to argue for the crucial role of Africans as agents of cultural and intellectual change.

Author : Keith B Richburg
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780465021017

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Out Of America by Keith B Richburg Pdf

Keith B. Richburg was an experienced and respected reporter who had paid his dues covering urban neighborhoods in Washington D.C., and won praise for his coverage of Southeast Asia. But nothing prepared him for the personal odyssey that he would embark upon when he was assigned to cover Africa. In this powerful book, Richburg takes the reader on an extraordinary journey that sweeps from Somalia to Rwanda to Zaire and finally to South Africa. He shows how he came to terms with the divide within himself: between his African racial heritage and his American cultural identity. Are these really my people? Am I truly an African-American? The answer, Richburg finds, after much soul-searching, is that no, he is not an African, but an American first and foremost. To those who romanticize Mother Africa as a black Valhalla, where blacks can walk with dignity and pride, he regrets that this is not the reality. He has been there and witnessed the killings, the repression, the false promises, and the horror. "Thank God my nameless ancestor, brought across the ocean in chains and leg irons, made it out alive," he concludes. "Thank God I am an American."

Author : Richard William Johnson
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106018129921

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South Africa by Richard William Johnson Pdf

Author : Raymond Bonner
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780307830593

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At the Hand of Man by Raymond Bonner Pdf

Defying conventional wisdom even as it makes an impassioned plea for moral common sense, this book by an award-winning journalist sheds a new light on the history and politics of the African conservation movement. The book will anger and inspire anyone who cares about African wildlife and the people whose future is intertwined with the fate of these animals.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:923093120

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Man in Africa by Anonim Pdf

Author : Binyavanga Wainaina
Publisher : One World
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812989663

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How to Write About Africa by Binyavanga Wainaina Pdf

From one of Africa’s most influential and eloquent essayists, a posthumous collection that highlights his biting satire and subversive wisdom on topics from travel to cultural identity to sexuality “A fierce literary talent . . . [Wainaina] shines a light on his continent without cliché.”—The Guardian “Africa is the only continent you can love—take advantage of this. . . . Africa is to be pitied, worshipped, or dominated. Whichever angle you take, be sure to leave the strong impression that without your intervention and your important book, Africa is doomed.” Binyavanga Wainaina was a pioneering voice in African literature, an award-winning memoirist and essayist remembered as one of the greatest chroniclers of contemporary African life. This groundbreaking collection brings together, for the first time, Wainaina’s pioneering writing on the African continent, including many of his most critically acclaimed pieces, such as the viral satirical sensation “How to Write About Africa.” Working fearlessly across a range of topics—from politics to international aid, cultural heritage, and redefined sexuality—he describes the modern world with sensual, emotional, and psychological detail, giving us a full-color view of his home country and continent. These works present the portrait of a giant in African literature who left a tremendous legacy.

Author : E. D. Morel
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : 9780853451150

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The Black Man’s Burden by E. D. Morel Pdf

Chronological narrative of the terrible consequences to black africans when white explorers came Africa to colonize and plunder.

Author : Lionel Rogosin
Publisher : Real African Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119967367

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Come Back, Africa by Lionel Rogosin Pdf

Lionel Rogosin came to South Africa in the 1950s to make a film documentary that would 'give a voice to the oppressed'. He put his experiences down in writing, and fellow filmmaker Peter Davis has edited these into a highly readable account of a gruelling, often dangerous encounter with apartheid society.

Author : Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1996-04-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 0226620859

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Africa Wo/Man Palava by Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi Pdf

Ogunyemi uses the novels to trace a Nigerian women's literary tradition that reflects an ideology centered on children and community. Of prime importance is the paradoxical Mammywata figure, the independent, childless mother, who serves as a basis for the postcolonial woman in the novels and in society at large. Ogunyemi tracks this figure through many permutations, from matriarch to writer, her multiple personalities reflecting competing loyalties. This sustained critical study counters prevailing "masculinist" theories of black literature in a powerful narrative of the Nigerian world.

Author : Colin M. Turnbull
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000004999

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Man in Africa by Colin M. Turnbull Pdf

Author : Tony Fitzjohn
Publisher : Crown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307716057

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Born Wild by Tony Fitzjohn Pdf

Tony Fitzjohn, part missionary, part madman, has been called “one of the world’s most endangered creatures.” An internationally renowned field expert on African wildlife, he is best known for the eighteen years he spent helping Born Free’s George Adamson return more than forty leopards and lions—including the celebrated Christian—to the wild in central Kenya. Born Wild is the memoir of Fitzjohn’s extraordinary life. It shows how a man driven by an impossibly restless spirit can do almost anything, from being a bouncer in a brothel, to surviving a vicious lion attack, to fighting with the Tanzanian government, to being appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by the Queen. A notorious hell-raiser given to scrapes with bandits, evil policemen, and wicked politicians, who has been shot at by poachers and chewed up by lions, Fitzjohn is also a wonderful raconteur. Shenanigans aside, he belongs to that rare species of humans who have sought refuge and meaning in a life truly dedicated to the restoration of the animal kingdom. Many times Tony Fitzjohn has put his life on the line for the cause in which he believes. Born Wild is the story of that passion.

Author : L. Ouzgane,R. Morrell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403979605

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African Masculinities by L. Ouzgane,R. Morrell Pdf

While masculinity studies enjoys considerable growth in the West, there is very little analysis of African masculinities. This volume explores what it means for an African to be masculine and how male identity is shaped by cultural forces. The editors believe that to tackle the important questions in Africa-the many forms of violence (wars, genocides, familial violence and crime) and the AIDS pandemic-it is necessary to understand how a combination of a colonial past, patriarchal cultural structures and a variety of religious and knowledge systems creates masculine identities and sexualities. The work done in the book particularly bears in mind how vulnerability and marginalization produce complex forms of male identity. The book is interdisciplinary and is the first in-depth and comprehensive study of African men as a gendered category.