Download or read book Beneath the African Sun written by Maria Lynch and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sabby Mendes leaves Portuguese Goa aboard the dhow Monsoon Wind bound for British East Africa in 1916, he has one dream—to find work as a tailor in the relatively new capital of Nairobi. Sabby is a young man, still a teenager, but he is determined to build a life for himself, and he knows that the opportunities in the British Protectorate are better than those facing him at home. A bright, affable young man with a genuine passion and talent for tailoring, he is not prepared for what he is about to find beyond the Arabian Sea. The Protectorate, which will become British Colony of Kenya, is a highly segregated society with the British firmly ensconced at its top; below them are the “Asians” like Sabby; and at the very bottom are the native African population who are regarded as little more than savages in need of civilization. Beneath the African Sun offers, through the eyes of its protagonist, a street-level view of the changing social and political climate of Kenya between 1916 and 1970, including the ‘Mau Mau’ Uprising of the native Kikuyu, the eventual independence of Kenya in 1963, and the political fallout that followed. More than a history, it is a story about family, home, social justice, and what it means to truly belong somewhere.
Download or read book Beneath the African Sun written by Amanda Michelle Grierson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ricky Garrett a Hollywood celebrity is in South Africa to host a music awards when during a short safari he falls foul to a group of poachers. After a long stay in hospital he recovers and making use of his celebrity status joins a group of conservationists in Botswana, tracking a poaching ring in the hope of bringing the criminals to justice. When he meets Sandra, sparks immediately fly, but are the two able to keep this hidden from Sandra's very powerful boyfriend. Beneath the African Sun follows Ricky's slow awakening to the beauty and harshness of Africa, his guarded acceptance into the group, and his quest to find the people that nearly took his life. His journey is thwarted with problems. Is someone in the group hiding something, and will they all stay alive long enough to see justice done.
Download or read book Beneath the African Sun written by Maria Lynch and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sabby Mendes leaves Portuguese Goa aboard the dhow Monsoon Wind bound for British East Africa in 1916, he has one dream-to find work as a tailor in the relatively new capital of Nairobi. Sabby is a young man, still a teenager, but he is determined to build a life for himself, and he knows that the opportunities in the British Protectorate are better than those facing him at home. A bright, affable young man with a genuine passion and talent for tailoring, he is not prepared for what he is about to find beyond the Arabian Sea. The Protectorate, which will become British Colony of Kenya, is a highly segregated society with the British firmly ensconced at its top; below them are the "Asians" like Sabby; and at the very bottom are the native African population who are regarded as little more than savages in need of civilization. Beneath the African Sun offers, through the eyes of its protagonist, a street-level view of the changing social and political climate of Kenya between 1916 and 1970, including the 'Mau Mau' Uprising of the native Kikuyu, the eventual independence of Kenya in 1963, and the political fallout that followed. More than a history, it is a story about family, home, social justice, and what it means to truly belong somewhere.
Download or read book Under African Sun written by Marianne Alverson and published by . This book was released on with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Under the African Sun written by William John Ansorge and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Clouds Beneath the Sun written by Mackenzie Ford and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenya, 1961. When Natalie Nelson’s plane lands at a remote airstrip in the Serengeti, she knows she’s run just about as far as she can from home. Trained as an archeologist, she accepted an invitation to join a famous excavating team in order to escape England and the painful memories of her past. But before she can get her bearings, the dig is surrounded by controversy involving the local Maasai people, and Natalie is swept up in a passionate affair that threatens to spark even more violence and turmoil. The startling beauty of Africa, the tension of looming social upheaval, and the dizzying highs of a doomed love affair are all captured brilliantly in this extraordinary and utterly unforgettable novel.
Download or read book Under the African Sun a Description of the Native Races in Uganda Sporting Adventures and Other Experiences by W J Ansorge with 134 Illustrations from Photographs by the Author and Two Coloured Plates written by William John Ansorge and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Under African Skies written by Charles R. Larson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of short stories by African writers from a dozen countries. The subjects range from war and politics to problems with domestics and African humor. Some stories were written in English, others are translations from Arabic, French and Portuguese. All were written in the latter part of the 20th century.
Download or read book The Orphan Boy written by Tololwa M. Mollel and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1995-02 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though delighted that an orphan boy has come into his life, an old man becomes insatiably curious about the boy's mysterious powers.
Download or read book Under the African Sun written by William John Ansorge and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Under the African Sun written by Ginny Swart and published by Linford. This book was released on 2009 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whilst on her Gap year, Patsy travels to Cape Town to visit her great-aunt. Patsy convinces her mother Maureen to also return to South Africa. Whilst there, both mother and daughter find reasons to stay on longer than intended - but Daniel Clayton needs to convince Maureen she really is the one for him, and Patsy suspects that her new man isn't all he seems to be...
Download or read book Under the African Sun written by Schuyler Jones and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Africa written by Rumbidzai Mukonoweshuro and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep in the heart of southern Africa, in the Kingdom of Nabi, lives little, six-year-old Princess Zuva, with her father, King Rufaro, and her two sisters, in a fine palace set near to the lush African jungle.In our first story, Princess Zuva is thrilled to be starting her first day at school where she marches to the beat of an African drum on her way to the opening assembly of the new school year and where she meets her new friend, Ruva. Later the class are taken to a special part of the school with wild grasslands, to learn about ants and how such small creatures can make such a breath-taking home.It is getting close to Christmas in our second tale and Princess Zuva is excited about the thought of her new Christmas dress, which her father, King Rufaro, will buy her for the special day. She learns that not all the children in the kingdom will be getting fine new clothes though and she sadly tells her father of their troubles.What happens next? Who can say...' Perhaps you would like to join the princess to find out...
Download or read book A Raisin in the Sun written by Lorraine Hansberry and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in 1950s Chicago, 'A Raisin in the Sun' is a classic play about a black family's struggle for equality, and the first play written by a black woman to be produced on Broadway.
Download or read book Beneath a Ruthless Sun written by Gilbert King and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exposes the sinister complexity of American racism... King tells this... story with grace and sensitivity, and his narrative never flags." --Jeffrey Toobin, New York Times Book Review From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Devil in the Grove comes the story of a small town with a big secret. In December 1957, the wife of a Florida citrus baron is raped in her home while her husband is away. She claims a "husky Negro" did it, and the sheriff, the infamous racist Willis McCall, does not hesitate to round up a herd of suspects. But within days, McCall turns his sights on Jesse Daniels, a gentle, mentally impaired white nineteen-year-old. Soon Jesse is railroaded up to the state hospital for the insane, and locked away without trial. But crusading journalist Mabel Norris Reese cannot stop fretting over the case and its baffling outcome. Who was protecting whom, or what? She pursues the story for years, chasing down leads, hitting dead ends, winning unlikely allies. Bit by bit, the unspeakable truths behind a conspiracy that shocked a community into silence begin to surface. Beneath a Ruthless Sun tells a powerful, page-turning story rooted in the fears that rippled through the South as integration began to take hold, sparking a surge of virulent racism that savaged the vulnerable, debased the powerful, and roils our own times still.
Download or read book Half of a Yellow Sun written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was heralded by the Washington Post Book World as the “21st century daughter” of Chinua Achebe. Now, in her masterly, haunting new novel, she recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria during the 1960s. With the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Adichie weaves together the lives of five characters caught up in the extraordinary tumult of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Ugwu is houseboy to Odenigbo, a university professor who sends him to school, and in whose living room Ugwu hears voices full of revolutionary zeal. Odenigbo’s beautiful mistress, Olanna, a sociology teacher, is running away from her parents’ world of wealth and excess; Kainene, her urbane twin, is taking over their father’s business; and Kainene’s English lover, Richard, forms a bridge between their two worlds. As we follow these intertwined lives through a military coup, the Biafran secession and the subsequent war, Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise, and intimately, the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place. Epic, ambitious and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a more powerful, dramatic and intensely emotional picture of modern Africa than any we have had before.
Download or read book The Shadow of the Sun written by Ryszard Kapuscinski and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving portrait of Africa from Poland's most celebrated foreign correspondent - a masterpiece from a modern master. Famous for being in the wrong places at just the right times, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa in 1957, at the beginning of the end of colonial rule - the "sometimes dramatic and painful, sometimes enjoyable and jubilant" rebirth of a continent. The Shadow of the Sun sums up the author's experiences ("the record of a 40-year marriage") in this place that became the central obsession of his remarkable career. From the hopeful years of independence through the bloody disintegration of places like Nigeria, Rwanda and Angola, Kapuscinski recounts great social and political changes through the prism of the ordinary African. He examines the rough-and-ready physical world and identifies the true geography of Africa: a little-understood spiritual universe, an African way of being. He looks also at Africa in the wake of two epoch-making changes: the arrival of AIDS and the definitive departure of the white man. Kapuscinski's rare humanity invests his subjects with a grandeur and a dignity unmatched by any other writer on the Third World, and his unique ability to discern the universal in the particular has never been more powerfully displayed than in this work.
