Download or read book Congo Stars Supplement written by Barbara Steiner and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Congo Stars written by Barbara Steiner and published by . This book was released on 2018-12 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congo Stars does not attempt to trace the historic development or even deliver a definition of what popular painting in the Congo is. It is in fact much more about the dimension of fiction in the writing of its history.Processes of nation building, facets of social order or the realities of everyday life are the major themes of popular art in the Congo. Painters see themselves as reporters or chroniclers of the everyday. They tell stories and thus offer an alternative historiography, confronting the traditional colonial narrative.Congo Stars places these popular painters alongside artists who work with installations and conceptually with photo and film, while often tackle the same themes.Artists include: Chéri Chérin, Bodo, Ange Kumbi, Gosette Lubondo, JP Mika, Maurice Mbikayi, Moke, Chéri Samba, SAPINart, Shula, Maitre Syms, Sim Simaro, and Sam Ilus, among others.Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Congo Stars at Kunsthaus Graz, Austria (22 September 2018 - 27 January 2019), and at Kunsthalle Tübingen, Germany (9 March 2019 - 30 June 2019).English and German text.
Download or read book Supplement to Commerce Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Congo Cables written by Madeleine G. Kalb and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1982 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dancing in the Glory of Monsters written by Jason Stearns and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "tremendous," "intrepid" history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa's Congo, with first-hand accounts of the continent's worst conflict in modern times. At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal war in which millions have died. In Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, renowned political activist and researcher Jason K. Stearns has written a compelling and deeply-reported narrative of how Congo became a failed state that collapsed into a war of retaliatory massacres. Stearns brilliantly describes the key perpetrators, many of whom he met personally, and highlights the nature of the political system that brought these people to power, as well as the moral decisions with which the war confronted them. Now updated with a new introduction, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters tells the full story of Africa's Great War.
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo written by Emizet Francois Kisangani and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo looks back at the nearly 48 years of independence, over a century of colonial rule, and even earlier kingdoms and groups that shared the territory. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 800 cross-referenced dictionary entries on civil wars, mutinies, notable people, places, events, and cultural practices.
Download or read book Challenge of the Congo written by Kwame Nkrumah and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stars and dragons written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: European Union Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inquiry conducted by Sub-committee C (Foreign Affairs, Defence and Development Policy)
Download or read book Supplements to Commerce Reports written by United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Republic of the Congo written by John Frank Clark and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published as: Historical dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo / by Emizet Franocois Kisangani and F. Scott Bobb. 2010.
Download or read book Mean and Lowly Things written by Kate Jackson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2005 Kate Jackson ventured into the remote swamp forests of the northern Congo to collect reptiles and amphibians. Her camping equipment was rudimentary, her knowledge of Congolese customs even more so. She knew how to string a net and set a pitfall trap, but she never imagined the physical and cultural difficulties that awaited her. Culled from the mud-spattered pages of her journals, Mean and Lowly Things reads like a fast-paced adventure story. It is JacksonÕs unvarnished account of her research on the front lines of the global biodiversity crisisÑcoping with interminable delays in obtaining permits, learning to outrun advancing army ants, subsisting on a diet of Spam and manioc, and ultimately falling in love with the strangely beautiful flooded forest. The reptile fauna of the Republic of Congo was all but undescribed, and JacksonÕs mission was to carry out the most basic study of the amphibians and reptiles of the swamp forest: to create a simple list of the species that exist thereÑa crucial first step toward efforts to protect them. When the snakes evaded her carefully set traps, Jackson enlisted people from the villages to bring her specimens. She trained her guide to tag frogs and skinks and to fix them in formalin. As her expensive camera rusted and her Western soap melted, Jackson learned what it took to swim with the snakesÑand that thereÕs a right way and a wrong way to get a baby cobra out of a bottle.
Download or read book First Supplementary Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Colonial Institute written by Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain). Library and published by London : The Institute. This book was released on 1901 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Area Handbook for the Democratic Republic of the Congo Congo Kinshasa written by Gordon C. McDonald and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides facts about the social, economic, political and millitary institutions of the country.
Download or read book The Supplementary Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rising Stars in Food Chemistry written by Fuguo Liu and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-11-09 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Mercy written by Redmond O'Hanlon and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1998-06-30 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lit with humor, full of African birdsong and told with great narrative force, No Mercy is the magnum opus of "probably the finest writer of travel books in the English language," as Bill Bryson wrote in Outside, "and certainly the most daring." Redmond O'Hanlon has journeyed among headhunters in deepest Borneo with the poet James Fenton, and amid the most reticent, imperilled and violent tribe in the Amazon Basin with a night-club manager. This, however, is his boldest journey yet. Accompanied by Lary Shaffer--an American friend and animal behaviorist, a man of imperfect health and brave decency--he enters the unmapped swamp-forests of the People's Republic of the Congo, in search of a dinosaur rumored to have survived in a remote prehistoric lake. The flora and fauna of the Congo are unrivalled, and with matchless passion O'Hanlon describes scores of rare and fascinating animals: eagles and parrots, gorillas and chimpanzees, swamp antelope and forest elephants. But as he was repeatedly warned, the night belongs to Africa, and threats both natural (cobras, crocodiles, lethal insects) and supernatural (from all-powerful sorcerers to Samalé, a beast whose three-clawed hands rip you across the back) make this a saga of much fear and trembling. Omnipresent too are ecological depredations, political and tribal brutality, terrible illness and unnecessary suffering among the forest pygmies, and an appalling waste of human life throughout this little-explored region. An elegant, disturbing and deeply compassionate evocation of a vanishing world, extraordinary in its depth, scope and range of characters, No Mercy is destined to become a landmark work of travel, adventure and natural history. A quest for the meaning of magic and the purpose of religion, and a celebration of the comforts and mysteries of science, it is also--and above all--a powerful guide to the humanity that prevails even in the very heart of darkness.
Download or read book The African Stakes of the Congo War written by J. Clark and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-09-13 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African Stakes in the Congo War analyzes the Congo conflict by looking at the roles played by various states and factors in the conflict. Part I introduces the conflict by showing the historical and regional context of the war. Part II examines those states and groups that worked to support the Kaliba regime; Part III examines the rebel groups working to overthrow Kabila and those intervening on their behalf. Part IV looks at the role of supposedly neutral states such as South Africa and looks at the social and economic effects of the war by examining trans-state factors such as rebel groups, arms trading, and economic consequences. The collection includes both African and US/UK scholars, and covers the recent transfer of power from Laurent to Joseph Kabila.
