Download or read book Whispers from a Continent the Literature of Contemporary Black Africa written by Wilfred Cartey and published by New York : Random House. This book was released on 1969 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critique of Black African literature.
Download or read book Africa written by Air University (U.S.). Library and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Whispers from the Depths written by Mike Wickins and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liz and Mike Wickins' book Whispers from the Depths ... The Kariba Story is more than just the story of the building of the Kariba Dam in the mid-1950s. Built in just five years against overwhelming odds, the dam is a monument to engineering excellence. Shrouded in political undertones, the construction of the dam was vital for the hydroelectric power it would provide for Zambia's burgeoning copper industry. Little thought, however, appears to have been given to the future of the human and animal populations who lived in the valley that would be inundated when the dam was completed. The question has to be asked: Was this awe-inspiring man-made creation achieved at too high a cost in terms of the human suffering and environmental devastation it caused? Central to the story of Kariba was the fate of the Tonga people who had for centuries lived in the Gwembe Valley, due to be flooded when the sluice gates were finally closed to halt the flow of the mighty Zambezi River. Approximately 57 000 people were forced to move from their ancestral homes, abandoning family graves and spiritual sites to the depths of Kariba's water. They became a dispersed people who have never been able to reunite as a cohesive society, never again been able to live peacefully on the banks of the river which gave them life. Animals, too, perished in their thousands despite the gallant efforts of wildlife personnel who mounted a hastily planned rescue mission known as Operation Noah. Whispers from the Depths gives a voice to the all but forgotten BaTonga. It celebrates their unique culture but deplores the price they paid for progress ... a price from which they themselves derived no benefit whatsoever.
Download or read book A Whisper in the Walls written by Scott Reintgen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking revenge, Ren Monroe teams up with Vin'Tori siblings Dahvid and Nevelyn to take down House Brood, the most powerful family in Kathor, but Ren's magical bond with Theo Brood complicates her plans.
Download or read book Postcolonial African Writers written by Siga Fatima Jagne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference book surveys the richness of postcolonial African literature. The volume begins with an introductory essay on postcolonial criticism and African writing, then presents alphabetically arranged profiles of some 60 writers, including Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Tahbar Ben Jelloun, among others. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of major works and themes that appear in the author's writings, an overview of the critical response to the author's work, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. These profiles are written by expert contributors and reflect many different perspectives. The volume concludes with a selected general bibliography of the most important critical works on postcolonial African literature.
Download or read book Colonialism in Africa 1870 1960 Volume 5 A Bibliographic Guide to Colonialism in Sub Saharan Africa written by L. H. Gann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of recent African history, examining the political, social, and economic effects of colonialism.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Post Colonial Literatures in English written by Eugene Benson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 1950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... Documents the history and development of [Post-colonial literatures in English, together with English and American literature] and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.
Download or read book African Women Writers and the Politics of Gender written by Sadia Zulfiqar and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the work of a group of African women writers who have emerged over the last forty years. While figures such as Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri and Wole Soyinka are likely to be the chief focus of discussions of African writing, female authors have been at the forefront of fictional interrogations of identity formation and history. In the work of authors such as Mariama Bâ (Senegal), Buchi Emecheta (Nigeria), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria), Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe), and Leila Aboulela (Sudan), there is a clear attempt to subvert the tradition of male writing where the female characters are often relegated to the margins of the culture, and confined to the domestic, private sphere. This body of work has already generated a significant number of critical responses, including readings that draw on gender politics and colonialism, but it is still very much a minor literature, and most mainstream western feminism has not sufficiently processed it. The purpose of this book is three-fold. First, it draws together some of the most important and influential African women writers of the post-war period and looks at their work, separately and together, in terms of a series of themes and issues, including marriage, family, polygamy, religion, childhood, and education. Second, it demonstrates how African literature produced by women writers is explicitly and polemically engaged with urgent political issues that have both local and global resonance: the veil, Islamophobia and a distinctively African brand of feminist critique. Third, it revisits Fredric Jameson’s claim that all third-world texts are “national allegories” and considers these novels by African women in relation to Jameson’s claim, arguing that their work has complicated Jameson’s assumptions.
Download or read book Africa Special Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Whispers Across Time written by Stuart Coates and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first time Tiffany Abernathy travels through time is in 1898, right before her parents are killed. An automobile runs their carriage off the road. Tiffany is thrown into a nearby tree, while her parents plunge to their deaths at the bottom of a ravine. As Tiffany hangs from its limbs, the tree is struck by lightning; strangely, Tiffany finds herself transported decades into the future. It wont be the last time. Although Tiffany eventually returns to 1898, in 1910, an even bigger shock comes her way. Directly following her wedding, an electric shock sends her to the year 2011. Tiffany understands what has occurred, but her great-granddaughter, Kate Dixon, does not. Suddenly, Kate finds herself transported to the year 1910. Not only that, but she is inhabiting the body of Mrs. Tiffany Abernathy Nichols. A modern science experiment has created a black hole deep beneath the surface of Portland, Maine. Time travel occurs through this black hole, but the ramifications are much more severe than body-swapping. Because of the black hole, the trajectory of Earth in 1910 has been thrown into the path of Halleys Comet and certain destruction. Will Tiffany and Kate be able to fix what has been done, or will they also die, each trapped in the body of the other?
Download or read book Tell Me Africa written by James Olney and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Olney demonstrates that autobiography, because it provides the most direct narrative enactments of the ways, motives, and beliefs of a culture, is an excellent way to approach African literature. After a general discussion of the African ethos, each chapter takes up the "autobiographical" literature of a specific group in African society and treats it as both an expression of a personal vision and as a revelation of a permeating social reality. Originally published in 1974. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book Napoleon Bonaparte A Comprehensive Look at How Napoleon Conquered Europe The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte His Role the French Revolution written by Dennis Kelley and published by Dennis Kelley. This book was released on 101-01-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, i have explained in my view 100 quotes from napoleon bonaparte. everyone in this world is moving towards success and that success will not render you easily got. Focus on all the things necessary for success success depends on experiences and passion. Experience in the event of continuing to do an action. To get these experiences you can take the secret of success from the best people who are already successful in life. Thus you do not need to face the challenges faced in the lives of those great men and the sufferings that befell them. By reading this book you can easily achieve in your life by knowing the secret of their success. Here's what you will discover inside this book, napoleon bonaparte • Learn exactly who he was. • Discover the secret of his success. • Understand his motivations. • Decode his strategies. • Discover his strengths. • And much more! A look at the life of a modern day caesar via the eyes of artists and through napoleon’s own words. This is not a traditional napoleon bonaparte biography. Instead it is but a glimpse at napoleon bonaparte as a hero, statesmen, revolutionary, military officer, general, and as a man. Many of the quotes you will read will sound as if they came from tony robbins or napoleon hill. Napoleon was a man who practiced personal achievement and success principles like no one else of his time.
Download or read book Spirit Whispers written by Charmaine Wilson and published by Fontaine Press Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2009 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of Channel Seven's The One - Australia's most gifted psychic medium. This is the story of an ordinary woman who discovers her extraordinary abilities the hard way.
Download or read book Black Africa written by V. Klima and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1972, our Czech-written book Literatury eerne Afriky (Literatures of Black Mrica) was published in Prague, presenting a survey of an extensive field. The publication, which was signed at that time by all three authors, differed from most contemporary introductions to the study of Mrican literatures in a threefold way: a) The authors attempted to cover various literacy and literary efforts in the area roughly delimited by Senegal in the west, Kenya in the east, Lake Chad in the north and the Cape in the south. We were well aware-even at that time-that neither technically nor linguistically would it be possible to cover all literary efforts within that area. We did try, however, to include in our survey both the literacies and literatures written in the Indo-European linguae francae (English, French, Portuguese) and in at least several of the major African languages of the area. We did not attempt an exhaustive description, but wished, rather, to show the mutual relationships which emerge, if the literatures of thii\ area, written either in the major linguae francae or in the African languages, are studied not as isolated phenomena, but as mutually complementary features. b) As two of us were linguists and one was a literary historian, we did not limit our analysis of the developing literacies and literatures to the purely cultural and literary aspects. Our intention waR to deal-whcre and if it was relevant-not only with the process of African literary development, but also with the simultaneous, complementar.
Download or read book Night Whispers Vol 01 Q2 Contextual Tilting written by Victor Robert Farrell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-03-18 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unusual, fresh and challenging these essential Daily Bible Insights rarely whisper, but shout! At last, the Christian world has a relevant and up-to-date honest daily book of Bible insights that speaks to this generation! 'Night-Whispers' have long since been a global endeavour to communicate the God of the whole Bible in very raw terms to very real people. They are presented in such a way as to be read each day and are produced on a regular basis, the 366 daily readings for each year being presented with a unique volume number. That 'Volume' year is then divided into four Quarters. You can start any volume-quarter book of Night Whispers at any time you choose, because whilst these Everyday Bible Insights are fresh and relevant to each day, they are not interconnected in a way which means you have to read one volume before another. They are Biblical, fresh, provocative, relevant, and always challenging and always powerful. Night-Whispers: get yours today!
Download or read book Whispers in the Cries written by Matthew Ewald and published by Black Bed Sheet Books. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How deep are you willing to go to unlock the mystery? ------------------------ A young hotshot journalist's life unravels in a web of mystery and horror when he is called back to a home and family he hasn't seen in over a decade. He returns home after the mysterious death of his grandfather, a WWII vet who has seen, first hand, the horrors of life and man. From the beaches of Normandy to the bitter cold of Bastogne; he was a respected hero and man of great strength both physically and mentally. A man who was confined to an asylum in the last weeks of his life; where he spoke of demonic entities, faceless spirits who tormented him relentlessly, and images depicting a black shadowed poltergeist in a top hat and grin. A "sniveling whelp," as he would once say, confined to an asylum where he carved and drew strange markings upon the floor, the ceiling, the walls; stories and tales told all leading to a nameless vessel. A ghost ship that has drank the most ancient of blood. Tasted the most ancient of flesh. A vessel that has now...awoken. Now hunted by the shadowed entity of his grandfather's past and its dark brethren of phantom wraiths, macabre menace, and demonic beasts, Randy Conroy must survive the nightmare his grandfather could not. "A first class ghost story....intensely visual!" Mister Lobo, (nationally syndicated horror host) "Matthew Ewald's love of horror is matched only by his love of mystery--the tale unfolds like a descriptive Film Noir in which the mysteries grab us long before we realize we are actually down a terrifying path into the horror genre..." -- Michele Specht (Corporal Simone Cole -- Clive Barker's "Jericho") "Take yourself into the hollowed bowels of the Queen Mary...then drown in Ewald's brutal and haunting prose." -- Wayne Allen Sallee (Five time Bram Stoker Award Nominee and author of "The Holy Terror," "With Wounds Still Wet," "Fiends By Torchlight," and the upcoming "Proactive Contrition")
