The Tale Of Dark Africa

Author : By the Son of the Soil: Stone Obi
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781480919174

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The Tale of Dark Africa by By the Son of the Soil: Stone Obi Pdf

The Son of the Soil: Stone Obi’s The Tale of Dark Africa will open your eyes to the power of tradition and belief that exist within a people, a power that modern religion can’t totally wipe away. “I want people to see who we are,” writes the author. “We Africans have not detached from our folk’s way of thinking, and our ancestral conception has affected us into the 21st century as we continue to entertain such beliefs.” Part manifesto, part folk stories, Tale of Dark Africa explores the dark undertones of traditional African mythology and what issues its tenacious hold on Obi’s home country of Nigeria—and on Africa as a whole—may cause in the modern world. “Slavery, poverty, and wars are not the cause of our sufferings,” Obi writes. Instead, suffering comes from “the way we think and process information from a cultural and ancestral mentality.” In this way, the author seeks to draw the links between Africa’s suffering and the world’s. The tale of Dark Africa is the tale of the whole wide world.

Author : Virginia Hamilton,Leo Dillon,Diane Dillon
Publisher : Paw Prints
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 143952761X

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The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton,Leo Dillon,Diane Dillon Pdf

Born out of the sorrow of the slave, but passed on in hope, this collection of retold African-American folktales explores themes of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and the desire for freedom. Reprint. Coretta Scott King Award.

Author : Charles Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0233971718

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Tales from the Dark Continent by Charles Allen Pdf

Author : Christopher Hibbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0815411936

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Africa Explored by Christopher Hibbert Pdf

This highly praised book uses letters, diaries, and memoirs by Mongo Park, Richard Burton, David Livingstone, Henry Morton Stanley, and others to provide a gripping account of the search for the source of the Nile and of the colonialization of Africa.

Author : Thomas Edward Besolow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Guinea
ISBN : YALE:39002044559525

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From the Darkness of Africa to the Light of America by Thomas Edward Besolow Pdf

Author : Charles Allen
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0708819303

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Tales from the Dark Continent by Charles Allen Pdf

Author : Charles Allen
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780349142173

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Tales From the Dark Continent by Charles Allen Pdf

Charles Allen captures the vanished world of British Colonial Africa in the recollections of the pioneering men and women who lived and worked there.

Author : Charles Allen
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0312783892

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Tales from the Dark Continent by Charles Allen Pdf

British colonists in Africa during the early twentieth century reflect on their culture and lifestyles

Author : Roger Abrahams
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307803191

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African Folktales by Roger Abrahams Pdf

The deep forest and broad savannah, the campsites, kraals, and villages—from this immense area south of the Sahara Desert the distinguished American folklorist Roger D. Abrahams has selected ninety-five tales that suggest both the diversity and the interconnectedness of the people who live there. The storytellers weave imaginative myths of creation and tales of epic deeds, chilling ghost stories, and ribald tales of mischief and magic in the animal and human realms. Abrahams renders these stories in a narrative voice that reverberates with the rhythms of tribal song and dance and the emotional language of universal concerns. With black-and-white drawings throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library

Author : Thomas Pakenham
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780349141930

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The Scramble For Africa by Thomas Pakenham Pdf

In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by five European powers (and one extraordinary individual) in the name of Commerce, Christianity, 'Civilization' and Conquest. The Scramble for Africa is the first full-scale study of that extraordinary episode in history.

Author : Marlon James
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385690331

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Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James Pdf

"A fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made." —Neil Gaiman "Gripping, action-packed....The literary equivalent of a Marvel Comics universe." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times In this epic, internationally bestselling novel from Marlon James, the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings, myth, fantasy and history merge in the stunning story of a mercenary's quest to find a missing child. Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Hired to find a mysterious boy who has disappeared, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group assembled to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as the Leopard. As Tracker follows the boy's scent, he and the band are set upon by creatures intent on destroying them. As he fights for survival, Tracker starts to wonder: Who, really, is this boy? Why has he been missing for so long? Why do so many people want to keep the boy from being found? And perhaps most important of all: Who is telling the truth, and who is lying? Drawing from African history and mythology and his own rich imagination, Marlon James has written a saga of breathtaking adventure that's also an ambitious, involving read. Defying categorization and full of unforgettable characters, Black Leopard, Red Wolf is both surprising and profound as it explores the fundamentals of truth, the limits of power, the excesses of ambition, and our need to understand them all.

Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789180943642

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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Pdf

Heart of Darkness is often considered the world’s best short novel. The book serves as a bridge between the 19th century and modernism, an adventure tale revolving around the ambiguity of themes such as truth, morality, and evil. Joseph Conrad witnessed the European exploitation of the Congo with his own eyes. He once sailed up the Congo River himself to locate a countryman at a trading station deep within the country – even though this man wasn't named Kurtz. The goal and enigma of the journey have become synonymous with this name, one of the most unforgettable fictional characters of our time. JOSEPH CONRAD [1857–1924] was born in Ukraine to Polish parents, went to sea at the age of seventeen, and ended his career as a captain in the English merchant navy. His most famous work is the novella Heart of Darkness [1899], adapted into a film by Francis Ford Coppola in 1979 as Apocalypse Now.

Author : Charles Allen,Helen Fry
Publisher : Orbit Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0708847730

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Tales from the Dark Continent by Charles Allen,Helen Fry Pdf

Based on recorded interviews with 50 British men and women covering three generations of colonial rule in Africa, the stories and recollections in this book evoke the world of traders, missionaries, soldiers, policemen and district officers.

Author : Frits Andersen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Africa
ISBN : 8771248536

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The Dark Continent? by Frits Andersen Pdf

Africa: a forgotten continent that evades all attempts at control and transcends reason. Or does it? This book describes Europe's image of Africa and relates how the conception of the Dark Continent has been fabricated in European culture--with the Congo as an analytical focal point. It also demonstrates that the myth was more than a creation of colonial propaganda; the Congo reform movement--the first international human rights movement--spread horror stories that still have repercussions today. The book cross-examines a number of witness testimonies, reports and novels, from Stanley's travelogues and Conrad's Heart of Darkness to Herge's Tintin and Burroughs' Tarzan, as well as recent Danish and international Congo literature. The Dark Continent? proposes that the West's attitudes to Africa regarding free trade, emergency aid and intervention are founded on the literary historical assumptions of stories and narrative forms that have evolved since 1870.

Author : Nancy Yulee Stigand,C. H. Stigand
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547128380

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Black Tales for White Children by Nancy Yulee Stigand,C. H. Stigand Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Black Tales for White Children" by Nancy Yulee Stigand, C. H. Stigand. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.