Download or read book A Wreath for Udomo Faber Editions written by Peter Abrahams and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The forerunner of an entire school of African literary art.' Sunday Times Those men who are history now; did they feel like this? A 1950s Hampstead pub; a freezing night. Lois can't tear her eyes away from the haunted, restless African man in the corner. Over brandy and stew, she discovers he is in awe of her friend, Panafrica's greatest political writer and fighter. Their meeting inducts this stranger, Udomo, into London's revolutionary community of exiled African activists: the start of a life-changing journey. Amidst the internal politics and love affairs, Udomo is inspired by other leaders' independence uprisings; but when he returns to his native land to overthrow the colonial oppressors, his idealism is put to the ultimate test ... Inspired by Peter Abrahams' befriending of future African heads of state in mid-century London , A Wreath for Udomo (1956) is a radical lost classic, unforgettably exploring the nature of freedom, power, leadership and love.
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Download or read book Termush Faber Editions written by Sven Holm and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer - 'a classic: stunning, dangerous, darkly beautiful' - welcome to the post-apocalyptic White Lotus: a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this lost 1967 dystopia ... 'Chilling and prescient.' Andrew Hunter Murray 'Elemental and true.' Kiran Millwood Hargrave 'Mesmerizing.' Sandra Newman 'Like someone from the future screaming to us.' Salena Godden The day we came up from the shelters four people were found dead on the steps of the hotel. Welcome to Termush: a luxury coastal resort like no other. All the wealthy guests are survivors: preppers who reserved rooms long before the Disaster. Inside, they embrace exclusive radiation shelters, ambient music and lavish provisions; outside, radioactive dust falls on the sculpture park, security men step over dead birds, and a reconnaissance party embarks. Despite weathering a nuclear apocalypse, their problems are only just beginning. Soon, the Management begins censoring news; disruptive guests are sedated; initial generosity towards Strangers ceases as fears of contamination and limited resources grow. But as the numbers - and desperation - of external survivors increase, they must decide what it means to forge a new moral code at the end (or beginning?) of the world ... Translated by Sylvia Clayton
Download or read book Mine Boy written by Peter Abrahams and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'One of my all-time favourite novels.' Tsitsi Dangarembga 'The first African novel in English to draw international attention.' New York Times 'The forerunner of an entire school of African literary art.' Sunday Times And the black man and the white were like two men alone in the world .. Xuma will never forget the day he arrived in the Johannesburg slums: the charismatic woman who takes him in, the brutal police raids, the fights, friendships, dancing, drinking and romances - yet it soon feels like home. But when he becomes a leader in the city's gold mines, he is shocked by the racist treatment of the labourers. And as he begins to question whether 'man could be without colour', Xuma stages an act of defiance that changes his life forever . . . In 1946, Peter Abrahams' classic novel Mine Boy exposed South Africa's fledgling racial apartheid system and townships to the world - and its wisdom, vividness and political power endures to this day. What readers are saying: 'Beautiful, memorable characters [I've] remembered since my childhood. These are the kind of stories that make the world better for having been written.' 'A seminal work of African fiction ... Prose as unadorned as Solzhenitsyn or Hemingway.' 'I can still recall Xuma almost 20 years later ... A beautiful book.' 'An unsung gem, amazing ... Its simplicity makes the story such a dramatic tale.'
Download or read book Trapped in History written by Nicholas Rankin and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trapped in History tells how the British colonised Kenya and how African nationalism arose under Jomo Kenyatta. It describes the terrifying first attacks by the guerrilla freedom fighters known as Mau Mau. Though defeated, the Mau Mau hastened the end of British rule in Kenya. Trapped in History explores the effect the uprising on the author, who grew up as a child in the Kenya colony. The book is both a history, as well as a memoir, of the end of Empire.
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Download or read book La Republique des singes written by Jean-Francois Kouadio and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprenons-nous rellement le contenu principiel du contrat social? Comment combattre effacement la corruption. Pourquoi assistons-nous continuellement la dilution des repres normatifs, la monte du tribalisme et de la xnophobie? Comment contenir et radiquer les pandmies? Comment faire reculer la pauvret? Comment endiguer la monte de lincivisme du fanatisme religieux, de linscurit etc. Cet ouvrage ne vise aucun autre objectif que de pointer du doigt certains reflexes nuisibles dont lAfricain doit site se dbarrasser sil rve rellement dune meilleure Afrique.
Download or read book Stories of Women written by Elleke Boehmer and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text combines Boehmer's keynote essays on the mother figure and the postcolonial nation, with incisive new work on male autobiography, 'daughter' writers, the colonial body, the trauma of the post-colony, and the nation in a transnational context.
Download or read book Foundational African Writers written by Bhekizizwe Peterson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-06 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores the complexities of black existence, and intellectual and cultural life in the work and legacies of centenarian writers, Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Cyril Lincoln Nyembezi and Es’kia Mphahlele
Download or read book African Literature in the Twentieth Century written by O. R. Dathorne and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores intellectual currents in African prose and verse from sung or chanted lines to modern writings
Download or read book Worlds in One Country written by Denis Hirson and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2011 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worlds in one country is a compact, inclusive history of writing in South Africa from the nineteenth century to 1994 that crosses boundaries of language and colour, including prose, poetry and theatre.
Download or read book A History of South African Literature written by Christopher Heywood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a critical study of South African literature, from colonial and pre-colonial times onwards. Christopher Heywood discusses selected poems, plays and prose works in five literary traditions: Khoisan, Nguni-Sotho, Afrikaans, English, and Indian. The discussion includes over 100 authors and selected works, including poets from Mqhayi, Marais and Campbell to Butler, Serote and Krog, theatre writers from Boniface and Black to Fugard and Mda, and fiction writers from Schreiner and Plaatje to Bessie Head and the Nobel prizewinners Gordimer and Coetzee. The literature is explored in the setting of crises leading to the formation of modern South Africa, notably the rise and fall of the Emperor Shaka's Zulu kingdom, the Colenso crisis, industrialisation, the colonial and post-colonial wars of 1899, 1914, and 1939, and the dissolution of apartheid society. In Heywood's study, South African literature emerges as among the great literatures of the modern world.
Download or read book The Black Mind written by Oscar Ronald Dathorne and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Contemporary African Writing 1967 written by Africa Centre (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
