Download or read book Sosu s Call written by Meshack Asare and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sosu's Call, won the 1999 UNESCO 1st prize for Children's and Young People's Literature in the Service of Tolerance. It is listed as one of the top twelve titles of Africa's 100 Best Books; and has been named an Honor Book for Young Children by the African Studies Association's Children's Africana Book Committee, as a contribution to accurate and balanced material on Africa for children. Beautifully illustrated on artpaper, the story tells of Sosu, a young disabled boy who cannot walk. Sosu misses going to school and all the activities of the other children. His village is on a lagoon, and one day when everyone is away fishing, working in the fields or at school, he raises the alarm with his drumming, and saves the village from total destruction by the sea. His heroism is rewarded when a wheelchair is donated and at last he can go to school.
Download or read book A Farm Called Kishinev written by Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1903, the British offered Uasin Gishu as a sanctuary and national home for Jews escaping persecution in Eastern Europe. But in the event, this was never put into effect; and instead of refugees, Afrikaner and British officers established themselves in the area. This novel explores the experiences and feelings of an ordinary Jewish settler family in twentieth century East Africa, considering the complex interplay between international politics, colonial dominance, and anti-Semitic and anti-African racist ideologies.
Download or read book Cat in Search of a Friend written by Meshack Asare and published by Sub-Saharan Pub & Traders. This book was released on 2000 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: torytelling tradition of the Ghanian people into the perfect blend of writtenword and beautiful illustration. Full color.
Download or read book The Brassman s Secret written by Meshack Asare and published by Accra : Educational Press and Manufacturers. This book was released on 1981 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kwajo's father makes traditional small figures. One day, he makes him a little brass drummer who comes alive and transforms Kwajo into a land of proverbs and riddles. It is a land where the figures represent money, and the people are citizens in a powerful kingdom. Kwajo is tempted by riches but must first solve a series of riddles and symbols. He fails at the last test, but learns an important lesson.
Download or read book Tawia Goes to Sea written by Meshack Asare and published by Sub-Saharan Pub & Traders. This book was released on 2007 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tawia lives in a fishing village near Accra. He helps on the beach, but his uncle thinks he is too young to go to sea; so he secretly makes his own little canoe with twigmen in it. But there is only a big sea, he cannot go out in it. But all the fishermen are so impressed, that uncle takes him to sea. This happy story is beautifully illustrated and children learn about fishing and respect for the sea through the words and illustrations.
Download or read book Kwajo and the Brassman s Secret written by Meshack Asare and published by Iesypenko Andrii. This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kwajo's father makes traditional small figures. One day, he makes him a little brass drummer who comes alive and transforms Kwajo into a land of proverbs and riddles. It is a land where the figures represent money, and the people are citizens in a powerful kingdom. Kwajo is tempted by riches but must first decode a series of riddles and symbols. He falls at the last test, but nonetheless learns an important lesson. The Brassman's Secret won The Noma Award for Publishing in Africa 1982. It has become one of the most important children's books in Africa, and has been translated into several foreign languages. This book is the second illustrated edition created by Oksana Ignaschenko.
Download or read book Tiny Human Protection Agency written by Landman, Megan and published by Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2019-02-10 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr Richards is a grumpy teacher who has gone too far. A group of 13 angels who call themselves The Tiny Human Protection Agency intervene to show Mr Richards the truth. He is taken through a whirlwind of emotions and visual memories as he learns more about the lives of his students. Will this journey lead him to the truth of his own childhood? Or will the angels fail him again? Tiny Human Protection Agency is a novel of interlinked children's stories which shade light on innovative and interesting ways to teach and impart knowledge to students.
Download or read book Emmanuel s Dream The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah written by Laurie Ann Thompson and published by Schwartz & Wade. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah's inspiring true story—which was turned into a film, Emmanuel's Gift, narrated by Oprah Winfrey—is nothing short of remarkable. Born in Ghana, West Africa, with one deformed leg, he was dismissed by most people—but not by his mother, who taught him to reach for his dreams. As a boy, Emmanuel hopped to school more than two miles each way, learned to play soccer, left home at age thirteen to provide for his family, and, eventually, became a cyclist. He rode an astonishing four hundred miles across Ghana in 2001, spreading his powerful message: disability is not inability. Today, Emmanuel continues to work on behalf of the disabled. Thompson's lyrical prose and Qualls's bold collage illustrations offer a powerful celebration of triumphing over adversity. Includes an author's note with more information about Emmanuel's charity.
Download or read book The Magic Goat written by Meshack Asare and published by Sub-Saharan Pub & Traders. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Magic Goat won the 1999 Toyota/Children's Literature Foundation Best Picture Story Book Illustrator's Award. Beautifully produced andillustrated on art paper, the story tells of a time long ago when therewere two great kingdoms in the world: the mighty Animal Kingdom and theKingdom of People. But Goat and Sheep find in their search for salt, thatnot all the animals in their kingdom are friendly and well- intentioned.Meshack Asare is one of Africa's top children's writers and illustrators,and won The Noma Award for Publishing in Africa 1982.
Download or read book Peach State written by Adrienne Su and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peach State has its origins in Atlanta, Georgia, the author’s hometown and an emblematic city of the New South, a name that reflects the American region’s invigoration in recent decades by immigration and a spirit of reinvention. Focused mainly on food and cooking, these poems explore the city’s transformation from the mid-twentieth century to today, as seen and shaped by Chinese Americans. The poems are set in restaurants, home kitchens, grocery stores, and the houses of friends and neighbors. Often employing forms—sonnet, villanelle, sestina, palindrome, ghazal, rhymed stanzas—they also mirror the constant negotiation with tradition that marks both immigrant and Southern experience. Excerpt from “You’re from the South?” As if it had never joined the Union. As if we had to go through Customs when bringing Vidalia onions to uncles and cousins in the North, where Confucians and their brethren flock for education. As if our speech required translation or at least interpretation. As if Hartsfield-Jackson were a plantation, the Amtrak Crescent a moon over rows of cotton, and all of us a population that never saw snow or migration.
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Minority Discourses in African Literature written by Tanure Ojaide and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a critical overview of literature dealing with groups of people or regions that suffer marginalization within Africa. The contributors examine a multiplicity of minority discourses expressed in African literature, including those who are culturally, socially, politically, religiously, economically, and sexually marginalized in literary and artistic creations. Chapters and sections of the book are structured to identify major areas of minority articulation of their condition and strategies deployed against the repression, persecution, oppression, suppression, domination, and tyranny of the majority or dominant group. Bringing together diverse perspectives to give a holistic representation of the African reality, this handbook is an important read for scholars and students of comparative and postcolonial literature and African studies.
Download or read book HandiLand written by Elizabeth A. Wheeler and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HandiLand looks at young adult novels, fantasy series, graphic memoirs, and picture books of the last 25 years in which characters with disabilities take center stage for the first time. These books take what others regard as weaknesses—for instance, Harry Potter’s headaches or Hazel Lancaster’s oxygen tank—and redefine them as part of the hero’s journey. HandiLand places this movement from sidekick to hero in the political contexts of disability rights movements in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ghana. Elizabeth A. Wheeler invokes the fantasy of HandiLand, an ideal society ready for young people with disabilities before they get there, as a yardstick to measure how far we’ve come and how far we still need to go toward the goal of total inclusion. The book moves through the public spaces young people with disabilities have entered, including schools, nature, and online communities. As a disabled person and parent of children with disabilities, Wheeler offers an inside look into families who collude with their kids in shaping a better world. Moving, funny, and beautifully written, HandiLand: The Crippest Place on Earth is the definitive study of disability in contemporary literature for young readers.
Download or read book Chipo and the Bird on the Hill written by Meshack Asare and published by Sub-Saharan Pub & Traders. This book was released on 2002 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two children, Chipo and Dambudzo set out in search of a big stone bird at Great Zimbabwe after Sekuru tells them the story of how this bird guided their ancestors to a hill. All the mysteries of the ancient ruins come alive as the children slip away from their duties to climb the hill in search of the bird. The story is set in the 'Great Zimbabwe' of 700 years ago. Great Zimbabwe was built by Shona-speaking people who lived there and was where the most powerful rulers of the south-eastern interior of Africa lived. It was an organised and prosperous state. The story and illustrations are the author's impressions of how life in Great Zimbabwe might have been when it was full of huts, footpaths, cooking fires, people laughing and chatting and cock-crowing.
Download or read book Adventures of Pongo and Uncle Talema written by George G. N. Kamau and published by East African Educ Press. This book was released on 1994-04-01 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader is about a young man, Pongo, whose parents are captured by unknown people. He goes to search for them together with his uncle, Talema. This story tells about their troubles, their escapes and the rescue of many people.
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Minority Discourses in African Literature written by Tanure Ojaide and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a critical overview of literature dealing with groups of people or regions that suffer marginalization within Africa. The contributors examine a multiplicity of minority discourses expressed in African literature, including those who are culturally, socially, politically, religiously, economically, and sexually marginalized in literary and artistic creations. Chapters and sections of the book are structured to identify major areas of minority articulation of their condition and strategies deployed against the repression, persecution, oppression, suppression, domination, and tyranny of the majority or dominant group. Bringing together diverse perspectives to give a holistic representation of the African reality, this handbook is an important read for scholars and students of comparative and postcolonial literature and African studies.
Download or read book The Incredible Adventures of Wapi written by Jane Osafoa Dankyi and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sunshine After Rain written by Rose Rwakasisi and published by Fountain Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young boy names Mose is raised by two HIV-positive parents and learns from their mistakes despite pressure from his peers to do otherwise.
