Download or read book A Day in the Life of an African Village written by Avelyn Davidson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to life in an African village, a rural setting which the vast majority of Africans live.
Download or read book A Day in the Life of an African Village written by Avelyn Davidson and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using five villages and camps as examples, describes what life is like in rural Africa.
Download or read book Ogbo written by Ifeoma Onyefulu and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ogbo are a special part of village life in Nigeria, uniting children of the same age in a lifelong fellowship--a group with whom they celebrate festivals, share day-to-day chores, and face the challenges of growing up.
Download or read book One Big Family written by Ifeoma Onyefulu and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an insight into African village life and a special way of sharing, celebrating and making important decisions. One little girl tells how each member of her family contributes to the well-being and happiness of their village.
Download or read book Growing Up in a Small African Village written by Robert Peprah-Gyamfi and published by Perseverance Books. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author reflects on his impoverished upbringing and other revelations thatled to his training to become a doctor in Germany.
Download or read book The Story of an African Village written by Robert Peprah-Gyamfi and published by Perseverance Books. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever imagined what life is like in a tiny village devoid of electricity, running water, a school, a hospital and all the facilities that people living elsewhere take for granted? Can you imagine yourself as a six-year-old walking a distance of three kilometres, bare-footed, on the hot tropical soil to attend school? Returning home in the evening, exhausted from the day's activities, did not end the day's burdens. Instead, you had to help your parents prepare the evening meal, and then, with the aid of kerosene lamps pumping foul- smelling fumes into the evening air, do your homework before going to bed. These, and many more amazing revelations, are what you will learn from this fascinating book by Dr Robert Peprah-Gyamfi who, growing up under the most deprived conditions imaginable, ended up training to become a doctor in Germany. It is a book that will surely engage the thoughts of the reader long after he/she has finished reading it.
Download or read book The African Village Boy written by Alwell Chikwe Boms and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the true story of the life and times of an African nuclear family whose breadwinner, their father, was caught between sickness and war. His death leaves all the responsibility of care for his children to his helpless wife. Determined to raise her family, the poor widow is left amid that task and the task of preserving a little inheritance for her only son. Not giving up on their dreams the woman and her son faced life squarely, even when the youngest of her four children was only a few months old and the eldest eight. This seemed like the proverbial tale of a man pursuing a shadow. Was she able to surmount these herculean tasks? Did her only son live up to his many lofty dreams?
Download or read book Djoliba Crossing written by Dave Kobrenski and published by Artemisia Books. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a journey into the heart of West Africa... Artist, musician, and author Dave Kobrenski takes the reader on a musical and visual journey up the Djoliba river in Guinea to explore ancient music traditions, as well as to understand the challenges that face a country "balancing between the world of its ancient traditions and the frontier of modern ideals and influences." Dozens of original paintings and drawings accompany vivid first-hand accounts of the music, culture, and people of Guinea, while scores of rhythm notations make this a unique and valuable resource for musicians, educators, and travel enthusiasts alike. From the author's preface: "Part travelogue, part sketchbook, this is a book about glimpsing in the everyday dust of existence the potential for rich and meaningful expressions of being in the world; of seeing that beyond the tattered common cloth of life hangs a veil of mystery infused with magic and wonder."
Download or read book One Big Family written by Ifeoma Onyefulu and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A six-year-old Nigerian girl describes the social lives and traditions of her village.
Download or read book Growing Up in a Little African Village an Illustrated Edition written by Robert Peprah-Gyamfi and published by Perseverance Books. This book was released on 2014-10-19 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you have any idea what life is like in a little village that has no electricity, no running water from a tap, no school, no hospital and no shopping centre? Can you imagine what it is like to be a six-year-old walking a distance of three kilometres, without a pair of shoes or sandals, yes bare-footed, on the hot African soil to attend school? Returning home in the evening, very tired, you had to help your parents prepare the evening meal. That was not the end of the day-you still had to do your homework. Since there was no electricity, you had to do so with the help of kerosene lamps that pumped foul-smelling fumes into the evening air. These, and many more amazing stories, are what you will learn from this interesting book written by Dr Robert Peprah-Gyamfi. He grew up in a village in Africa. The living conditions there were very difficult. Still, he was able to do well in school and move on to study to become a doctor in Germany.
Download or read book Talking Wolof with Da African Village written by Serigne Mara Diakhate and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talking Wolof With Da' African Village is an easy to use basic guide to speaking the language of West Africa/Senegal. It is an ideal book for tourists, those planning to visit Senegal, or those who desire to learn to speak Wolof to interact with Senegalese people in America.
Download or read book Magomero written by Landeg White and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-09-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magomero is a vivid historical portrait of a Malawian village from 1859 to the present day. It focuses on a region which saw historically important political activity, in the founding of a colony of freed slaves and the rising of an independent church movement against white estate owners. With the dual concerns of a Southern African specialist and a poet, Landeg White offers an 'inside' view of social, political and economic change in Malawi, seen through the lives of individuals: the ordinary men and women, whose situation and poverty have hitherto prevented recognition of their vital contribution to African history.
Download or read book In Bikole written by Tom Gilroy and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories revealing various aspects of life among the Serers in the West African village of Bikole.
Download or read book How Beautiful We Were written by Imbolo Mbue and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fearless young woman from a small African village starts a revolution against an American oil company in this sweeping, inspiring novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Behold the Dreamers. ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, People • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, The Christian Science Monitor, Marie Claire, Ms. magazine, BookPage, Kirkus Reviews “Mbue reaches for the moon and, by the novel’s end, has it firmly held in her hand.”—NPR We should have known the end was near. So begins Imbolo Mbue’s powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of cleanup and financial reparations to the villagers are made—and ignored. The country’s government, led by a brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interests. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight back. Their struggle will last for decades and come at a steep price. Told from the perspective of a generation of children and the family of a girl named Thula who grows up to become a revolutionary, How Beautiful We Were is a masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghost of colonialism, comes up against one community’s determination to hold on to its ancestral land and a young woman’s willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people’s freedom.
Download or read book African Village Boy written by Matshwene Moshia and published by Author House. This book was released on 2006-10-30 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book is based on 100 % true story Preface "At times when I recall your life from the past, pleasure comes rushing through my neural systems mainly because having been grown up in remote rural villages of Moletjie area, I know that one might loose hope of reaching the stars." That was my buddy trying to sum up my life with few words. Poverty couldn't be the wall to boundary my potentiality, but I have built the foundation of my victory based on history. Along the thorny road to reaching my dreams, lots of salty tears escaped my ocular boundaries and I have tasted about few milliliters of them. This includes the time when the Bantu Education teachers sjamboked me to the level where I could not sit nor walk. I dropped schooling for sometimes. The life of a poor village boy was nothing but anything parallel or below zero. Indeed my history has determined my destiny. Today I'm a Fulbright Scholar. My stomach has taken many forms during my metamorphosis stage of growth and development. From a ballooned stiff stomach - airbag like, caused by malnutrition and poverty at young age to an elastic fresh healthy one as a result of feeding from balanced diets and high nutritive value of daily intakes. The colonizers - the Afrikaners, European gangsters and the ruthless Botha's of my country (South Africa) has planted crops on the soil of my motherland without giving it proper fertility. He harvested and emigrated with a bag full of wealth. Today the soil of our land, dry as it is, cannot even serve a mere seed of corn to germinate. Is as barren as Hannah, the wife of Elkanah in the Old testament of the Bible, but she later gave birth to a Prophet-Samuel. My motherland shall recuperate, and yesterday will never see the present day. I consider myself as a powerful seed, the seed of power that germinated and survived the apartheid of South Africa, Corporal punishment of Bantu education system, lightning's and thunderstorms of the cold blooded witches of the village while dwelling in a clay hut and shack, all this with almost empty stomach and a condition vulnerable to diseases and poor health service. My smiles hide my feelings and portray my feelings, because I'm a survivor of a village hatred bestowed upon underprivileged family. I'm thankful to the saccharine expressions that my parents taught me to utter to every human being including the extraterrestrials and strangers. Bantu education system of South Africa was not meant to be an education but the Afrikaner's strategy of keeping black man's kids away from streets, away from committing crime and stealing the harvest of his field. I've grown up walking barefooted in the village streets and the wild jungle of the village looking after my grandma's goats, for that was the only wealth the family possessed. Enjoy reading my road; I shall fall and suffer no more. For I was raised by the experienced. I was typing while listening to my memory speaks the past, I smiled, I cried, I laughed and above all, I prayed. Thanks GOD. A Fulbright Fellow I became. Blessed is the man who trusts in God.
Download or read book King Peggy written by Peggielene Bartels and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The charming real-life fairy tale of an American secretary who discovers she has been chosen king of an impoverished fishing village on the west coast of Africa. King Peggy chronicles the astonishing journey of American secretary, Peggielene Bartels, who suddenly finds herself king to a town of 7,000 people on Ghana's central coast, half a world away. Upon arriving for her crowning ceremony in beautiful Otuam, she discovers the dire reality: there's no running water, no doctor, no high school, and many of the village elders are stealing the town's funds. To make matters worse, her uncle (the late king) sits in a morgue awaiting a proper funeral in the royal palace, which is in ruins. Peggy's first two years as king of Otuam unfold in a way that is stranger than fiction. In the end, a deeply traditional African town is uplifted by the ambitions of its decidedly modern female king, and Peggy is herself transformed, from an ordinary secretary to the heart and hope of her community.
Download or read book Yaya Come Here written by and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the time he wakes up until the time he goes to sleep, Yaya is constantly on the move. Everyone knows Yaya, and everyone calls out to him as he runs from place to place. Follow this energetic boy through a typical day in a West African village as he gathers firewood, picks mangos, fashions a toy from a tire, chases a monkey, and joins a drum and dance celebration. Durga Yael Bernhard is the author/illustrator of numerous award-winning picture books, including Trouble (a Ready Set Go book), While You Are Sleeping: A Lift-the-Flap Book of Time Around the World, A Ride On Mother's Back, and five other multicultural titles that invite young readers to discover diverse people and cultures. durgabernhard.com/childrensbooks.phpReady Set Go Books, an Open Hearts Big Dreams Project, are dual language books designed to engage young readers in Ethiopia and beyond. Open Hearts Big Dreams is dedicated to increasing opportunities for K-12 kids in Ethiopia and their communities through literacy, technology and art projects. https: // openheartsbigdreams.org/book-project/
