The Poor Christ Of Bomba

Author : Mongo Beti
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781804543436

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The Poor Christ of Bomba by Mongo Beti Pdf

Award-winning author Mongo Beti presents The Poor Christ of Bomba, a cutting satirical critique on the role of Catholic missionaries and French colonialism in 1930s Cameroon. A revolutionary novel in its time. In the small village of Bomba, a French missionary priest is instructed to build a parish for its residents. Father Drumont has one important task; to save the village from heresy by preparing its girls for Christian marriage. A servant in Father Drumont's house, a young boy named Denis is reliant on the priest's generosity after the death of his mother. In the eyes of the Catholic church, Denis is the perfect example of the African heathen saved by Christianity – but the reality of what happens behind closed doors in much more sinister. 'One of the foremost African writers of the independence generation.' Guardian

Author : Beti Mongo Beti
Publisher : Apollo
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1035901048

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The Poor Christ of Bomba by Beti Mongo Beti Pdf

Author : Mongo Beti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1577664183

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The Poor Christ of Bomba by Mongo Beti Pdf

In Bomba the girls who are being prepared for Christian marriage live together in the women's camp. It is not clear whether the girls have to stay in the women's camp for such long periods for the good of their souls or for the good of the mission building program. Only gradually does it become apparent that the local churchmen have also been using the local girls for their own purpose.

Author : Annie Gagiano
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0894108875

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Achebe, Head, Marechera by Annie Gagiano Pdf

Concentrating on issues of power and change, this analysis of texts by Chinua Achbe, Bessie Head and Dambudzi Marechera teases out each author's view of how colonialism affected Africa, the contributions of Africans to their malaise, and how many reacted in creative, progressive, pragmatic ways.

Author : Mongo Beti
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780253008305

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Cruel City by Mongo Beti Pdf

Under the pseudonym Eza Boto, Mongo Beti wrote Ville cruelle (Cruel City) in 1954 before he came to the world's attention with the publication of Le pauvre Christ de Bomba (The Poor Christ of Bomba). Cruel City tells the story of a young man's attempt to cope with capitalism and the rapid urbanization of his country. Banda, the protagonist, sets off to sell the year's cocoa harvest to earn the bride price for the woman he has chosen to wed. Due to a series of misfortunes, Banda loses both his crop and his bride to be. Making his way to the city, Banda is witness to a changing Africa, and as his journey progresses, the novel mirrors these changes in its style and language. Published here with the author's essay "Romancing Africa," the novel signifies a pivotal moment in African literature, a deliberate challenge to colonialism, and a new kind of African writing.

Author : Mongo Beti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:18387074

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King Lazarus by Mongo Beti Pdf

Author : Mariama Bâ
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781478611233

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So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ Pdf

Written by award-winning African novelist Mariama Bâ and translated from the original French, So Long a Letter has been recognized as one of Africa’s 100 Best Books of the 20th Century. The brief narrative, written as an extended letter, is a sequence of reminiscences —some wistful, some bitter—recounted by recently widowed Senegalese schoolteacher Ramatoulaye Fall. Addressed to a lifelong friend, Aissatou, it is a record of Ramatoulaye’s emotional struggle for survival after her husband betrayed their marriage by taking a second wife. This semi-autobiographical account is a perceptive testimony to the plight of educated and articulate Muslim women. Angered by the traditions that allow polygyny, they inhabit a social milieu dominated by attitudes and values that deny them status equal to men. Ramatoulaye hopes for a world where the best of old customs and new freedom can be combined. Considered a classic of contemporary African women’s literature, So Long a Letter is a must-read for anyone interested in African literature and the passage from colonialism to modernism in a Muslim country. Winner of the prestigious Noma Award for Publishing in Africa.

Author : Walter Rodney
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788731201

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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney Pdf

The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed 20th century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In his magnum opus, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Rodney incisively argues that grasping "the great divergence" between the west and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the former. This meticulously researched analysis of the abiding repercussions of European colonialism on the continent of Africa has not only informed decades of scholarship and activism, it remains an indispensable study for grasping global inequality today.

Author : Charlotte Walker-Said
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1847013279

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Faith, Power and Family by Charlotte Walker-Said Pdf

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Author : Mongo Beti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1407720308

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Mission to Kala by Mongo Beti Pdf

Author : Thomas Mofolo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781803288345

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Chaka by Thomas Mofolo Pdf

Thomas Mofolo's final novel and masterpiece, Chaka captures the phenomenal rise and fall of the great Zulu king. One of the earliest modern literary classics from Southern Africa, Chaka, is the tragic tale of a warrior-king and his insatiable hunger for power. Told in a mythic style, Chaka follows the torments of the Zulu king's early life, his rapid ascension to the throne, and the prophesied events that lead to his downfall. 'Chaka is a beautifully dark and twisted take on the true life story of the Zulu King ... built around one of the most enigmatic and memorable literary figures you'd ever encounter.' Ainehi Edoro

Author : Mongo Beti
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0813920493

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The Story of the Madman by Mongo Beti Pdf

Widely acclaimed when first published in French in 1994, Mongo Beti's tenth novel, L'histoire du fou, continues the author's humorous yet fierce criticism of the colonial system in Africa and its legacy of governmental corruption. Translated here as The Story of the Madman, the novel gives the English-speaking world Beti's comic satire of the fictional Chief Zoaételeu and his favorite sons Zoaétoa and Narcisse. In a modern fable that Beti uses to illustrate the problems of a people's disintegrating values in a postcolonial state, Chief Zoaételeu, a puppet under two dictatorial regimes, is swept into the frontline of politics, where his fortunes unravel. Along with his caustic portrayal of failed government--clearly a reflection of his native Cameroon--Beti's realism provides an intriguing view of the struggle for balance between traditional life and imminent change in African culture.

Author : Julius Ocwinyo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029490856

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Fate of the Banished by Julius Ocwinyo Pdf

Author : Thomas Morgan Thomas
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780714618807

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Eleven Years in Central South Africa by Thomas Morgan Thomas Pdf

An important surviving source for the study of the spectacular and short-lived kingdom of Ndebele which stands out by virtue of its ethnographical and political material about the Ndebele under Mzilikazi and Lebengula.

Author : Charles G. Häberl,James F. McGrath
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110487862

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The Mandaean Book of John by Charles G. Häberl,James F. McGrath Pdf

Given the degree of popular fascination with Gnostic religions, it is surprising how few pay attention to the one such religion that has survived from antiquity until the present day: Mandaism. Mandaeans, who esteem John the Baptist as the most famous adherent to their religion, have in our time found themselves driven from their historic homelands by war and oppression. Today, they are a community in crisis, but they provide us with unparalleled access to a library of ancient Gnostic scriptures, as part of the living tradition that has sustained them across the centuries. Gnostic texts such as these have caught popular interest in recent times, as traditional assumptions about the original forms and cultural contexts of related religious traditions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, have been called into question. However, we can learn only so much from texts in isolation from their own contexts. Mandaean literature uniquely allows us not only to increase our knowledge about Gnosticism, and by extension all these other religions, but also to observe the relationship between Gnostic texts, rituals, beliefs, and living practices, both historically and in the present day.