Download or read book Along the Odokoko River written by Koroma, Ahmed and published by Sierra Leonean Writers Series. This book was released on 2016-02-27 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ahmed Koroma has surpassed himself in this apt description about the community of his upbringing; the myths, beliefs and mores peculiar to its spawn and denizen, in this exhilarating collection of poems. He brings the rich cultural tapestry of these communities to life through an intimate literary relationship with the Odokoko Waterway and its environs. His perspective use of juxtaposition to describe diverse experiences is uncanny and leaves one with a mysterious and powerful feeling of déjà-vu.” Dr Fatmatta Taqi, Lecturer, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone

Download or read book Singing in Exile and The Child of War written by Kamarah, Sheikh Umarr and published by Sierra Leonean Writers Series. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of poems examines the causes of the African, specifically Sierra Leonean, condition, evaluates the African immigrant's situation in the West, hints at the role and culpability of corporate West in African wars and woes, and concludes that Africans must ultimately assume the responsibility of rebuilding their continent.

Download or read book Layila Kakatua wan bi Lida written by Forde, Coolie and published by Sierra Leonean Writers Series. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Layila, Kakatua wan bi Lida, Coolie Forde rehearses some invaluable thoughts on the way forward for post war Sierra Leone. The play highlights the problems of good governance. Through the vision of the main character, Aminata, the Author outlines the role she intends to play as an agent of change in Sierra Leone, which is in line with the Theme of the Commonwealth Lecture 2011 – “Women as agents of Change,”

Download or read book Onipe to London written by Olujide Agboola and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olujide Agboola was born in Onipe, a village in the Oluyole local council of Oyo State, Nigeria, in the early sixties. he attended Prospect High School, Abanla in the same local council He later trained as a graphic artist at The Polytechnic, Ibadan. He did his NYSC programme in the old Bendel State. Worked as graphic artist and later as cartoonist and rose to the level of an assistant editor. He holds GND and PGD (Mass Comm.) certificates From The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Oyo State. He lives in Ibadan with his family.

Download or read book Interpretation written by Charles J. Lundy and published by Don Mills : Academic Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grade level: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, e, i, s, t.

Download or read book Three African Tales written by Adjai Robinson and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1979 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Hunter's Dilemma" celebrates the rivalry between Zoongu the hunter and Teelay the trapper, from Sierra Leone. Clever Kelfala tries to make the beautiful Wambuna talk with his cunning tricks in "Kelfala's Secret Something" from the Kikuyus in Kenya. In the last tale from Sierra Leone, "The King's Rival," young Durosimi challenges wicked King Tonko, a great wrestler.

Download or read book Journal of the Senate of Virginia written by and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Land Tenure in Sierra Leone written by Ade Renner-Thomas and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a brief account of the background to the dual land tenure system in force in Sierra Leone and explains the reasons why the dualism derived from the different colonial experience of the former Colony and Protectorate of Sierra Leone still persists almost fifty years after the two entities were merged to form a unitary State of Sierra Leone. The book gives an account, for the benefit of both law students and legal practitioners, of the main features of the English derived land law in the Western Area and of the forms of land holding in the Provinces which are governed predominately by customary law. The book also highlights the practical problems that legal practitioners may be confronted with in advising clients wanting to enter into transactions involving land in Sierra Leone and in drafting legal documents for the creation or transfer of interests in land in different parts of the country. By giving an account of developments relating to policy initiatives and by laying bare the achievements and shortcomings of land tenure reform to date, the book aims to stimulate debate on current proposals for reform not only among law students and practitioners of the law but also among policy makers and members of the wider non-legal community It offers a brief but constructive criticism of the dual land tenure system and offers some proposals for reform of the system changes in the light of stated policies.

Download or read book Africa and International Relations in the 21st Century written by S. Cornelissen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines key emergent trends related to aspects of power, sovereignty, conflict, peace, development, and changing social dynamics in the African context. It challenges conventional IR precepts of authority, politics and society, which have proven to be so inadequate in explaining African processes. Rather, this edited collection analyses the significance of many of the uncharted dimensions of Africa's international relations, such as the respatialisation of African societies through migration, and the impacts this process has had on state power; the various ways in which both formal and informal authority and economies are practised; and the dynamics and impacts of new transnational social movements on African politics. Finally, attention is paid to Africa's place in a shifting global order, and the implications for African international relations of the emergence of new world powers and/or alliances. This edition includes a new preface by the editors, which brings the findings of the book up-to-date, and analyses the changes that are likely to impact upon global governance and human development in policy and practice in Africa and the wider world post-2015.

Download or read book Women s Activism in Africa written by Balghis Badri and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout Africa, growing numbers of women are coming together and making their voices heard, mobilising around causes ranging from democracy and land rights to campaigns against domestic violence. In Tanzania and Tunisia, women have made major gains in their struggle for equal political rights, and in Sierra Leone and Liberia women have been at the forefront of efforts to promote peace and reconciliation. While some of these movements have been influenced by international feminism and external donors, increasingly it is African women who are shaping the global struggle for women’s rights. Bringing together African authors who themselves are part of the activist groups, this collection represents the only comprehensive and up-to-date overview of women’s movements in contemporary Africa. Drawing on case studies and fresh empirical material from across the continent, the authors challenge the prevailing assumption that notions of women’s rights have trickled down from the global north to the south, showing instead that these movements have been shaped by above all the unique experiences and concerns of the local women involved.

Download or read book War Politics and Justice in West Africa written by Gberie, Lansana and published by Sierra Leonean Writers Series. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects articles and reviews the author wrote for various publications, academic and journalistic, over the past 10 to 14 years. They are not arranged in chronological order, but there is a consistent underlying theme: the author’s reaction to war, politics and transitional justice in Africa, with a particular focus on Sierra Leone and Liberia. He has studied these two countries more intimately than all others; but this book includes articles on Ivory Coast, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Download or read book The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective written by Jacqueline Knörr and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, Africa’s Upper Guinea Coast region has been the site of regional and global interactions, with societies from different parts of the African continent and beyond engaging in economic trade, cultural exchange and various forms of conflict. This book provides a wide-ranging look at how such encounters have continued into the present day, identifying the disruptions and continuities in religion, language, economics and various other social phenomena. These accounts show a region that, while still grappling with the legacies of colonialism and the slave trade, is both shaped by and an important actor within ever-denser global networks, exhibiting consistent transformation and creative adaptation.

Download or read book The Road to Jamaica written by Cheney-Coker, Sly and published by Sierra Leonean Writers Series. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Road to Jamaica, which was announced over forty years ago, but suppressed, Cheney- Coker looks at a particular period of African history; the tragic, outward voyages of people and other social variants that have been part of what he calls his Afro-Saxon narrative. Crucially, the volume is divided into two sections: the first being a look at the shock of displacement, but also the remembrance of identifiable modes in the formation of a new cultural perspective. Looking back at remembered landscape, languages and cultural comforts, the poet has attempted to recreate as chapter of history that changed his and other people's idea of identity. The long poems that usher in Part 2 of the volume are, in a sense, reflections on that evolving template about our small world: the happenstances of regeneration, while at the same time an attempt to come to terms with the realities that societies, the world over, are bound to the inevitability of change. Given the smallness of that world, the oneness of our humanity, and the quiet personal awareness of aging, Cheney-Coker has, as usual, focused his lenses on them.

Download or read book The National Social Protection Policy written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Travelling Models in African Conflict Management written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travelling Models offers a theoretical concept for comparative research on conflict management in Africa in processes of globalization: how is change in one place related to developments in other places? Why are certain issues that are important in one place taken up in other places, while others are not? The authors examine how the travel of models enact changes, particularly in African conflict situations, most often in unexpected ways. They look at what happens when a model has been put into practice at a conflict site, and they pay attention to the forms of social (re-)ordering resulting from this process. The authors look, among others, at conflict managing models of power- and revenue sharing, mediation, freedom of expression, disaster management, community involvement and workshopping. Contributors are: Andrea Behrends, Lydie Cabane, Veronika Fuest, Dejene Gemechu, Mutasim Bashir Ali Hadi, Remadji Hoinathy, Mario Krämer, Sung-Joon Park, Tinashe Pfigu, Richard Rottenburg, Sylvanus Spencer and Kees van der Waal. The Introduction of this volume is being offered in Open Access

Download or read book The Culture of Mental Illness and Psychiatric Practice in Africa written by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many African countries, mental health issues, including the burden of serious mental illness and trauma, have not been adequately addressed. These essays shed light on the treatment of common and chronic mental disorders, including mental illness and treatment in the current climate of economic and political instability, access to health care, access to medicines, and the impact of HIV-AIDS and other chronic illness on mental health. While problems are rampant and carry real and devastating consequences, this volume promotes an understanding of the African mental health landscape in service of reform.

Download or read book Voices and Passions written by Walon-Jalloh, Abdulai and published by Sierra Leonean Writers Series. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 54 poems by Abdulai Walon-Jalloh explores childhood through to adulthood and rekindles the souls and thoughts of a generation in an honest and clear manner. Nothing is left untouched as the deepest fears to great moments of anxiety and hope are laid bare for all to enjoy and reflect