Download or read book Nimebadilika 2011 written by Dardanus Mfalme and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-10-26 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Nimebadilika 2011' is the book with over a hundred pages of modern Swahili poems from the best Swahili writer of our time. The ability of this champion writer of playing with language by mixing proper Swahili and Swahili slang while maintaining values of poetry is what makes this book unique and interesting. In the Malumbano section of this book, the writer is debating through poems with other writers including Shehe Hadji Saeedia, Stephen S. Mkoloma, Sharifa Bakari, Linda Ndalu, Ndugu Chilewa, Omari Njenje and Ndugu Mgimba. On last pages of this book, the writer put a Swahili slang dictionary so as for those who dont understand Swahili slang to get full entertainment when reading this book.
Download or read book Igituba written by Bangambiki Habyarimana and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African Short and Funny Stories written by Samson Kamara and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories for fun and relaxation. All the stories are fictitious and intended for fun but each one carried a hidden message and a brief look into African folk tales. These stories were told around the fire in the village square in the moon light This was the the process of passing history and tradition to children as the only way of teaching in the traditional African setting
Download or read book Inkuru Zo Guhuza Igitsina written by Bangambiki Habyarimana and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Battle of Identity written by Emmanuel O. Afolabi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Battle of Identity" is all about how to regain our past glory, honor and authority to rule and reign over every circumstance around us, because man was created to have dominion and to excel in whatsoever he does, hence we're born to rule, but the setback can be recovered. The Book enumerated the principles to recover that which is lost and enter into the divine covenant originally meant for man, by humility and fear of God that will avail tributes blessings of riches, honor and long life as stated in Proverbs 22:4. The book further revealed that there is no solution to the jigsaw puzzle of our lives called "difficult" hence we must learn to hear from God first before we embark the journey of our lives else we may end up on a wild-goose chase that produce nothing. The Battle of our Identity may appear difficult, we are however not alone, we have God's assurance of His presence in our journey of life. When we think we are all alone He watches over us.
Download or read book The Sinister Trophy written by John Kiriamiti and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the author of the popular Son of Fate, this follow-up story tells of Adams Wamathina, better known as Son of Fate, who is searching for a trophy which other parties will stop at nothing to get. The action takes place in Nairobi and Tanzania and Son of Fate finds himself involved with car chases and murder as he becomes embroiled in the chase.
Download or read book Land Without Thunder written by Grace Ogot and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 1988-06-15 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of short stories from Kenya's foremost woman novelist. Twelve stories bring alive the author's feeling for the macabre and fantastic - reminiscent of the tragedy in The Promised Land.
Download or read book African Short Stories Vol 1 written by Ce, Chin and published by Handel Books. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Society of Literary Fellows (Lsi) is the society of creative writers and scholars from African and the world with a critical interest in current developments around modern cultures of indigenous and foreign language expressions. In partnership with Progeny international, the Lsi aims to assess and promote the emergence of works of visionary creative impetus in the genres of modern African fiction, non-fiction and visual arts. 38 stories are included in this anthology.
Download or read book Swahili Grammar for Introductory and Intermediate Levels written by Oswald Almasi and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended for university students and anyone interested in learning Standard Swahili grammar as spoken in the East African Community of Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. The most comprehensive grammar book currently available, some of the concepts covered in this book are greetings, numerals, telling the time, the Noun Class system, simple tenses such the past, present and future, adjectives and possessives. The book then progresses to more complex concepts such as Direct and Reported Speech, various verb typologies, other tenses, prepositions and conjunctions, adverbs and relative pronouns. Each chapter includes many examples and sample sentences, easy to read charts, practice questions, answers to the practice questions, and a list of new vocabulary used within the chapter. On completing this book, the reader will be able to read, write and converse in Swahili with confidence.
Download or read book The Story of Swahili written by John M. Mugane and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swahili was once an obscure dialect of an East African Bantu language. Today more than one hundred million people use it: Swahili is to eastern and central Africa what English is to the world. From its embrace in the 1960s by the black freedom movement in the United States to its adoption in 2004 as the African Union’s official language, Swahili has become a truly international language. How this came about and why, of all African languages, it happened only to Swahili is the story that John M. Mugane sets out to explore. The remarkable adaptability of Swahili has allowed Africans and others to tailor the language to their needs, extending its influence far beyond its place of origin. Its symbolic as well as its practical power has evolved from its status as a language of contact among diverse cultures, even as it embodies the history of communities in eastern and central Africa and throughout the Indian Ocean world. The Story of Swahili calls for a reevaluation of the widespread assumption that cultural superiority, military conquest, and economic dominance determine a language’s prosperity. This sweeping history gives a vibrant, living language its due, highlighting its nimbleness from its beginnings to its place today in the fast-changing world of global communication.
Download or read book Good News for Modern Man written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sobanukirwa N Imibonano Mpuzabitsina written by Bangambiki Habyarimana and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Son of Two Countries written by Rubagumya, Casmir M. and published by Mkuki na Nyota Publishers. This book was released on 2018-09-26 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Son of Two Countries is a story of struggle for education. Born in 1946 in Rwanda under Belgian colonial rule, the author recounts his early education in Rwanda and later as a refugee in Tanzania. He was naturalized as a Tanzanian citizen in 1980 while doing his undergraduate studies at the University of Dar es Salaam. As he struggled to get education, the author was also grappling with his refugee status, with all the challenges that it entailed. The book gives insights into the contradictions of colonial and post-colonial education, as well as the author’s reflections on education in Tanzania, given his long experience in the education sector in that country. Finally, we get some glimpses into the dual identity of the author as a Tanzanian citizen of Rwandan origin and how this shaped his relationship with the two countries he calls home. As he aptly puts it, “Rwanda gave me my heart; Tanzania gave me my brain. I find it difficult to choose between my heart and my brain”.
Download or read book Moral Lessons in African Folktales written by Kwame A. Insaidoo and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-01-14 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges us to take a cursory glance at our contemporary world, where modern mans scientific and technological ingenuity has led him to soar thorough the galaxy and made the heavens part of his domain; and contrast that with his level of morality today. Open any newspaper or listen to the radio and television news and you cant help but lament on the appalling moral depravity and obscene behavior of our contemporary man. With this intractable moral depravity on the ascendancy, the author nostalgically reminiscences the upright morality of yesteryears, and admonishes us to heed Platos philosophical advice: now since men are by nature acquisitive, jealous, combative, and erotic, how shall we persuade them to behave themselves? By the policemans omnipresent club? {now, AK 47}. It is a brutal method, costly and irritating. There is a better way, and this is by lending to the moral requirements of the community. Throughout this book the author emphasizes the significance of proper moral education in shaping the character of children, youngsters and even adults, and reminds us: morals are the rules by which society exhorts its members and associations to behavior consistent with its 'order, security and growth {Will & Ariel Durant}. The author noted that in traditional African societies, the wise elders, like the ancient Greek philosophers, strongly emphasized the teachability of moral values and deliberately inculcated them into their youngsters. The stories in this book are folktales filled with moral lessons that have been handed down from many generations to the present in many African countries from Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroons, Liberia, the Gambia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania to Zimbabwe. The traditional African elders successfully utilized these folktales to socialize their youngsters to the moral requirements of their society to insure stability, harmonious relations, order, security and growth.
Download or read book The Yam Child and Other Tales From West Africa written by A. Sakyiama and published by Pepper Pot Books. This book was released on with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From talking yam tubers and polite little boys who throw up money, to the deliciously scary story of a disrespectful little girl who sets out to find something to see, this second collection of stories in the African Fireside Classics series has something for everyone.
Download or read book Riddles Folktales and Proverbs from Cameroon written by Comfort Ashu and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the olden days, after a day's work in the farms, children and parents returned home feeling worn out. As a sort of evening entertainment, children of the same family, compound or village then gathered round a story-teller to listen to folk tales and riddles. This was common in every African home. The listeners participate with joy by joining in the songs and choruses. Sometimes the children were given the opportunity to tell stories that they had known while the adult story-teller listened attentively in order to add more details where necessary. In telling these stories and riddles, children were expected to learn something through all those activities connected with the customs, environment, language and religious practices of their people. This book provides children with stories, riddles and some proverbs that parents ought to have told their children at home but have failed because of their present-day busy schedules. Teachers will fill that vacuum at school as they guide the children in reading the stories, riddles and proverbs in their second language - English. As an instructional tool, this collection will foster literacy, promote cultural awareness and create situations where learners share with one another their personal experiences and traditions.
Download or read book African Stories by Moonlight written by Celestine E. Ebegbulem and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to African Stories by Moonlight. The most memorable evenings I had as a child were those in which, together with other children, I listened to adults tell us stories which were often accompanied with rhythmic and delightful songs. When I started raising my own family in the city, my children looked forward to those nights when we would regale them with those stories and songs. I noticed then that many urban children were not exposed to these stories, as they were no longer in the environment in which they were told. It was after I did some studies on Indigenous African Education as a Visiting Scholar in the African Studies Center at UCLA, that I realized the molding influence of these stories on our character. Storytelling, of course, was a basic ingredient for traditional African education. I have therefore decided to share some of these stories with those children of African descent who are now away from the environment where they are told. Children and adults of other cultures will enjoy these stories, and learn from the wisdom embedded in them. The enthusiastic reception given to them by the multicultural classes to which I read them in the Long Beach Unified School District in California, further encouraged me to seek to publish them. I have written ten short stories in a language suitable for school readers, and a wider audience. If these stories help to revive storytelling in homes and communities, one objective for writing this book shall have been achieved. For the benefit of teachers who want to use the book to teach English, social studies, or multicultural studies, and for the benefit of families who would like to use the book for entertainment and learning, comprehension questions and answers have been prepared on each of the stories. These are available from [email protected]
