Download or read book Adieu Mon Pays written by Sedar D. E. Vigny WATULA and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Premièrement, Adieu mon pays, j'ai marres de toi est un témoignage frappant qui illustre l'échec de la démocratie en Afrique. Celui-ci vous plongera dans une réalité propre aux africains. C'est pour cette raison qu'ont été signalés quelques traits liés à la mauvaise gouvernance dite démocratique dans certains pays d'Afrique sub-saharienne où subsiste aujourd'hui une certaine pathologie d'une démocratie faite à l'africaine dans le but de s'éterniser au pouvoir. D'où naissance des tensions politiques qui poussent les citoyens à avoir marres du Pouvoir, préférant l'exile. Le second tour de force de ce roman est qu'il est porté d'humour mais aussi de raisonnement du début à la fin, de reproches et d'interpellations, de par son mode de narration romancée, avec des accents très visibles et très compréhensibles que chaque lecteur comprendra facilement à quoi ce livre tend à faire raisonner avec sa complexité des mots et la simplicité de leur sens. C'est à partir d'un parcours inédit à travers l'Afrique sub-saharienne que l'auteur est parvenu à écrire ce roman, grâce à ses infinis périples narrés avec une légèreté de lire que recherche tout véritable amateur du livre ainsi que la particularité si rare de pouvoir lire aisément en situation d'exile, de quelque univers que l'on vienne et de quelques âge et sexe que l'on appartienne.
Download or read book En attendant le vote des b tes sauvages Prix du Livre Inter 1999 written by Ahmadou Kourouma and published by Média Diffusion. This book was released on 2013-08-25T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages. Le président Koyaga est un maître chasseur... et un dictateur de la pire espèce. Au cours d’une cérémonie purificatoire en six veillées, un griot des chasseurs et son répondeur lui racontent sa propre vie, toute sa vie, sans omettre les parts d’ombre et de sang. Koyaga est né dans la tribu des hommes nus. Il a fait la guerre d’Indochine. Puis il a pris la tête de la République du Golfe en usant de la sorcellerie et de l’assassinat. Accompagné de son âme damnée Maclécio, qui a vu en lui son homme de destin, il a parcouru l’Afrique de la guerre froide, prenant des leçons auprès de ses collègues en despotisme. On n’aura guère de peine à reconnaître au passage Houphouët-Boigny, Sékou Touré, Bokassa, Mobutu... pour ne parler que des non-vivants. De retour chez lui, grâce aux pouvoirs merveilleux que lui confèrent la météorite de sa maman et le Coran de son marabout, il triomphe de tous ses ennemis, déjoue tous les complots. Jusqu’au jour de la dernière conjuration où, s’étant fait passer pour mort, il perd la trace de la maman et du marabout...Avec un humour ravageur et une singulière puissance d’évocation, le récit mêle hommes et bêtes sauvages dans une lutte féroce, allie le conte à la chronique historique et renverse nombre d’idées reçues sur les relations étroites qu’entretiennent la magie et la politique mondiale.
Download or read book Le ravissement des innocents written by Taiye Selasi and published by Editions Gallimard. This book was released on 2014-09-04T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C’est l’histoire d’une famille, des ruptures et déchirements qui se produisent en son sein, et des efforts déployés par chacun pour œuvrer à la réconciliation. En l’espace d’une soirée, la vie sereine de la famille Sai s’écroule : Kwaku, le père, un chirurgien ghanéen extrêmement respecté aux États-Unis, subit une injustice professionnelle criante. Ne pouvant assumer cette humiliation, il abandonne Folá, sa ravissante épouse nigériane, et leurs quatre enfants. Dorénavant, Olu, leur fils aîné, n’aura d’autre but que de vivre la vie que son père aurait dû avoir. Les jumeaux, la belle Taiwo et son frère Kehinde, l'artiste renommé, verront leur adolescence bouleversée par une tragédie qui les hantera longtemps après les faits. Sadie, la petite dernière, jalouse l’ensemble de sa fratrie. Mais l'irruption d'un nouveau drame les oblige tous à se remettre en question. Les expériences et souvenirs de chaque personnage s'entremêlent dans ce roman d'une originalité irrésistible et d'une puissance éblouissante, couvrant plusieurs générations et cultures, en un aller-retour entre l’Afrique de l’Ouest et la banlieue de Boston, entre Londres et New York.
Download or read book Africa from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century written by Bethwell A. Ogot and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of years of work by scholars from all over the world, The UNESCO General History of Africa reflects how the different peoples of Africa view their civilizations and shows the historical relationships between the various parts of the continent. Historical connections with other continents demonstrate Africa's contribution to the development of human civilization. Each volume is lavishly illustrated and contains a comprehensive bibliography. This fifth volume of the acclaimed series covers the history of the continent from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the close of the eighteenth century in which two themes emerge: first, the continuing internal evolution of the states and cultures of Africa during this period second, the increasing involvement of Africa in external trade--with major but unforeseen consequences for the whole world. In North Africa, we see the Ottomans conquer Egypt. South of the Sahara, some of the larger, older states collapse, and new power bases emerge. Traditional religions continue to coexist with both Christianity (suffering setbacks) and Islam (in the ascendancy). Along the coast, particularly of West Africa, Europeans establish a trading network which, with the development of New World plantation agriculture, becomes the focus of the international slave trade. The immediate consequences of this trade for Africa are explored, and it is argued that the long-term global consequences include the foundation of the present world-economy with all its built-in inequalities.
Download or read book Africa Since 1935 written by Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hardcover edition of volume 8 was published in 1994. This paperback edition is the eighth and final volume to be published in the UNESCO General History of Africa. Volume 8 examines the period from 1935 to the present, and details the role of African states in the Second World War and the rise of postwar Africa. This is one of the most important books in the entire series, and as such, it is an unabridged paperback.
Download or read book UNESCO General History of Africa Vol I Abridged Edition written by Jacqueline Ki-Zerbo and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume covers the period from the end of the Neolithic era to the beginning of the seventh century of our era. This lengthy period includes the civilization of Ancient Egypt, the history of Nubia, Ethiopia, North Africa and the Sahara, as well as of the other regions of the continent and its islands."--Publisher's description
Download or read book Individuals and Materials in the Greco Roman Cults of Isis SET written by Valentino Gasparini and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 1191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Individuals and Materials in the Greco-Roman Cults of Isis Valentino Gasparini and Richard Veymiers present a collection of reflections on the individuals and groups which animated one of Antiquity’s most dynamic, significant and popular religious phenomena: the reception of the cults of Isis and other Egyptian gods throughout the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. These communities, whose members seem to share the same religious identity, for a long time have been studied in a monolithic way through the prism of the Cumontian category of the “Oriental religions”. The 26 contributions of this book, divided into three sections devoted to the “agents”, their “images” and their “practices”, shed new light on this religious movement that appears much more heterogeneous and colorful than previously recognized.
Download or read book Historical journey in a linguistic archipelago written by Émilie Aussant and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a selection of papers presented during the 14th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XIV, Paris, 2017). Part I brings together studies dealing with descriptive concepts. First examined is the notion of “accidens” in Latin grammar and its Greek counterparts. Other papers address questions with a strong echo in today’s linguistics: localism and its revival in recent semantics and syntax, the origin of the term “polysemy” and its adoption through Bréal, and the difficulties attending the description of prefabs, idioms and other “fixed expressions”. This first part also includes studies dealing with representations of linguistic phenomena, whether these concern the treatment of local varieties (so-called patois) in French research, or the import and epistemological function of spatial representations in descriptions of linguistic time. Or again, now taking the word “representation” literally, the visual display of grammatical relations, in the form of the first syntactic diagrams. Part II presents case studies which involve wider concerns, of a social nature: the “from below” approach to the history of Chinese Pidgin English underlines the social roles of speakers and the diversity of speech situations, while the scrutiny of Lhomond’s Latin and French textbooks demonstrates the interplay of pedagogical practice, cross-linguistic comparison and descriptive innovation. An overview of early descriptions of Central Australian languages reveals a whole spectrum of humanist to positivist and antihumanist stances during the colonial age. An overarching framework is also at play in the anthropological perspective championed by Meillet, whose socially and culturally oriented semantics is shown to live on in Benveniste. The volume ends with a paper on Trần Đức Thảo, whose work is an original synthesis between phenomenology and Marxist semiology, wielded against the “idealistic” doctrine of Saussure.
Download or read book A Short History of Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes text, vocabulary lists, and comprehension questions designed to acquaint students with the history of Africa.
Download or read book Globalization and Minority Cultures written by Sophie Croisy and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization and “Minority” Cultures: The Role of “Minor” Cultural Groups in Shaping Our Global Future is a collective work which brings to the forefront of global studies new perspectives on the relationship between globalization and the experiences of cultural minorities worldwide.
Download or read book The Work of the International Law Commission written by Vereinte Nationen International Law Commission and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reports of International Arbitral Awards written by International Court of Justice. Registry and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Witnesses to History written by Lyndel V. Prott and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Compendium gives an outline of the historical, philosophical and ethical aspects of the return of cultural objects (e.g. cultural objects displaced during war or in colonial contexts), cites past and present cases (Maya Temple Facade, Nigerian Bronzes, United States of America v. Schultz, Parthenon Marbles and many more) and analyses legal issues (bona fide, relevant UNESCO and UNIDROIT Conventions, Supreme Court Decisions, procedure for requests etc.). It is a landmark publication that bears testament to the ways in which peoples have lost their entire cultural heritage and analyses the issue of its return and restitution by providing a wide range of perspectives on this subject. Essential reading for students, specialists, scholars and decision-makers as well as those interested in these topics.
Download or read book Medum written by William M. Flinders Petrie and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cruel City written by Mongo Beti and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-22 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banda, the protagonist, sets off to sell the year's cocoa harvest to earn the bride-price for the woman he has chosen to wed. A series of misfortunes causes Banda to lose both his crop and his bride-to-be. As he makes his way to the city, Banda is witness to a changing Africa.
Download or read book Africa s Critical Choices written by Dunod Editeur and published by Europa Regional Perspectives. This book was released on 2019 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines contemporary Africa, a vast continent which, while entering the era of globalization, is also confronted by a number of issues, including the environment and climate change, demographics, trade issues, internal and external migration, education, economic Issues, governance, and the influence of other countries. Written by former Prime Minister of Niger and current Chief Executive Officer of the Secretariat of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), Dr Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, this book offers an overview of Africa, and looks to the next generation of leaders in the continent, aiming to offer a manifesto for future change.
Download or read book Speech to Speech Translation written by Yutaka Kidawara and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the readers with retrospective and prospective views with detailed explanations of component technologies, speech recognition, language translation and speech synthesis. Speech-to-speech translation system (S2S) enables to break language barriers, i.e., communicate each other between any pair of person on the glove, which is one of extreme dreams of humankind. People, society, and economy connected by S2S will demonstrate explosive growth without exception. In 1986, Japan initiated basic research of S2S, then the idea spread world-wide and were explored deeply by researchers during three decades. Now, we see S2S application on smartphone/tablet around the world. Computational resources such as processors, memories, wireless communication accelerate this computation-intensive systems and accumulation of digital data of speech and language encourage recent approaches based on machine learning. Through field experiments after long research in laboratories, S2S systems are being well-developed and now ready to utilized in daily life. Unique chapter of this book is end-2-end evaluation by comparing system’s performance and human competence. The effectiveness of the system would be understood by the score of this evaluation. The book will end with one of the next focus of S2S will be technology of simultaneous interpretation for lecture, broadcast news and so on.
