Download or read book Facing Adversity with Audacity written by F. For-mukwai and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a very engaging book based on compelling stories of human triumph over adversity coming out of Africa, Asia and America. Gideon's personal journey and his account of his mother and uncle in this book exemplify what it means to be truly resilient. The book is moving, well thought out and masterfully structured, a most riveting Read. Gideon For-mukwai draws on local wisdoms from his native Cameroon to tell a universal story. It is a book written in evidence of a mind in tune with the heart. Its stories, strategies, and metaphors provide incredible wisdom relevant to any society and explicitly remind readers that our circumstances may be different, but the strategies to overcome are the same. If a widow can make a legendary success story in Africa, then almost anybody can. What makes this book special is the fact that it is based on the stories of modest human beings.
Download or read book Facing Adversity with Audacity written by Gideon F. For-mukwai and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a very engaging book based on compelling stories of human triumph over adversity coming out of Africa, Asia and America. Gideon's personal journey and his account of his mother and uncle in this book exemplify what it means to be truly resilient. The book is moving, well thought out and masterfully structured, a most riveting Read. Gideon For-mukwai draws on local wisdoms from his native Cameroon to tell a universal story. It is a book written in evidence of a mind in tune with the heart. Its stories, strategies, and metaphors provide incredible wisdom relevant to any society and explicitly remind readers that our circumstances may be different, but the strategies to overcome are the same. If a widow can make a legendary success story in Africa, then almost anybody can. What makes this book special is the fact that it is based on the stories of modest human beings.
Download or read book Facing Adversity with Audacity written by Gideon F. For-Mukwai and published by Xlibris. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Facing Adversity with Audacity, Gideon For-mukwai illuminates simple strategies you can use to transform your life by creating extraordinary opportunities from ordinary or deficient circumstances. He uses fascinating, original and inspirational stories from Africa and Asia to reveal powerful strategies and perspectives on surviving and thriving in challenging times. For-mukwai s stories metaphorically reflect and depict the challenges faced by people in self-transformation from setbacks to success stories. In conveying his message, he focuses on showing you how you can: Endure adversity to create profound opportunities, Make sacrifices to attain self-transformation, Trust your intuition in times of uncertainty, Sow seeds that breed outstanding success, Create and sustain trustworthy relationships, Grow cash crops' that spur geometric growth.
Download or read book Courage In The Face Of Adversity written by Kingsley Morrison Ogan and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-11-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a treasure and a gift. An encounter with this book is an encounter with destiny and a forceful- positive turn around. This book is not for everybody, but for success-minded Christians, people who are tired of where they are and are ready to breakthrough via knowledgeable bold step from every face of adversity. "Fear not; stand firm and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will work for you today". (Exodus 14:13) Anytime you want to advance, make progress or do something big for God, the adversary will send adversities and challenges to knock you off track. He may try to send you running, but you have a promise that God is with you. You will be surprised at what God will do in your life when you stand and face your adversities with audacity based on your knowledge of God's promises found in his Word. When you take a stand, you make a declaration of your faith in God and raise that shield of boldness. Take a stand today and stay on the course the Lord has for you.
Download or read book Audacity in the Face of Adversity written by Rhonda R.J. Benjamin and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audacity in the face of Adversity serves as a motivational tool to assist individuals onto a path of betterment in life.
Download or read book The Audacity of Overcoming written by A.M. Thompson Enterprises and published by . This book was released on 2022-11-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Audacity of Overcoming book series shares faith in adversity with real stories of courage under fire in real and relatable experiences. This special edition volume is entitled Activated to Evolve as inspired by a sermon entitled "Activating Audacity".
Download or read book Audacity The Art of Attempting the Impossible and Achieving the Extraordinary written by Santos Omar Medrano Chura and published by . This book was released on 2023-12-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever felt that your life is boring, routine or unsatisfactory? Have you ever wished to do something different, daring or extraordinary? Have you ever dreamed of achieving goals that seem impossible or unattainable? If your answer is yes, then this book is for you. In this book, you will learn how boldness can transform your life by pushing you to step out of your comfort zone, face your fears, take calculated risks and pursue your most ambitious dreams. Boldness is the ability to act with courage, decision and confidence in the situations that arise in life. Boldness is a quality that we can all develop and improve, and that can help us achieve what we set out to do. In this book, you will discover the principles and strategies of people who have used boldness as a tool to achieve what they set out to do, and how you can do it too. In each chapter, you will find concepts, examples, exercises and practical tips to apply boldness in different areas and dimensions of your life, such as: Your habit: how to incorporate boldness into your daily routine, and how to overcome the obstacles and excuses that prevent you from being bold. Your attitude: how to adopt a growth mindset and a mindset of possibility, and how to use boldness to improve your self-esteem and confidence. Your strategy: how to use boldness to define and achieve your goals, and how to use boldness to solve problems and make decisions. Your passion: how to use fearlessness to discover and follow your talents and passions, and how to use fearlessness to express your authenticity and creativity. His virtue: how to use boldness to act with integrity and responsibility, and how to use boldness to face adversity and failure. His art: how to use audacity to enjoy and celebrate life, and how to use audacity to constantly learn and grow. This book is an invitation to live boldly, to attempt the impossible and achieve the extraordinary. This book is a gift to you, to dare to be the protagonist of your own story, and to inspire and motivate others to do the same.
Download or read book The Audacity of Hope written by Barack Obama and published by Crown. This book was released on 2006-10-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Barack Obama’s lucid vision of America’s place in the world and call for a new kind of politics that builds upon our shared understandings as Americans, based on his years in the Senate “In our lowdown, dispiriting era, Obama’s talent for proposing humane, sensible solutions with uplifting, elegant prose does fill one with hope.”—Michael Kazin, The Washington Post In July 2004, four years before his presidency, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners’ minds, a reminder that for all the discord and struggle to be found in our history as a nation, we have always been guided by a dogged optimism in the future, or what Obama called “the audacity of hope.” The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama’s call for a different brand of politics—a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the “endless clash of armies” we see in congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart of “our improbable experiment in democracy.” He explores those forces—from the fear of losing to the perpetual need to raise money to the power of the media—that can stifle even the best-intentioned politician. He also writes, with surprising intimacy and self-deprecating humor, about settling in as a senator, seeking to balance the demands of public service and family life, and his own deepening religious commitment. At the heart of this book is Barack Obama’s vision of how we can move beyond our divisions to tackle concrete problems. He examines the growing economic insecurity of American families, the racial and religious tensions within the body politic, and the transnational threats—from terrorism to pandemic—that gather beyond our shores. And he grapples with the role that faith plays in a democracy—where it is vital and where it must never intrude. Underlying his stories is a vigorous search for connection: the foundation for a radically hopeful political consensus. Only by returning to the principles that gave birth to our Constitution, Obama says, can Americans repair a political process that is broken, and restore to working order a government that has fallen dangerously out of touch with millions of ordinary Americans. Those Americans are out there, he writes—“waiting for Republicans and Democrats to catch up with them.”
Download or read book Zintgraffs Explorations in Bamenda Adamawa and the Benue Lands 18891892 written by E.M. Chilver and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010-08-30 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following pages, initially prepared for limited circulation in 1961, contain brief extracts and summaries of those parts of Eugen Zintgraffs book NORD-KAMERUN (1895), of most interest concerning the colonial Bamenda and Wum Division. Zintgraffs book, the first by a European about the Grassfields, has not been translated and is hard to get second-hand. In using these notes the following points should be borne in mind: Zintgraffs knowledge of Bali (Mungaka) and Hausa was very slight, and his discussions of character, motives and political institutions are consequently superficial and open to criticisms. He had no means of checking what he was told, or thought he was told. He had no previous knowledge of any similar culture and no training in ethnographical method. He was, however, a good observer, and his descriptions of tools, dress, weapons and the like, can be regarded as fairly reliable. Finally, it must be remembered that Zintgraff wrote the book to justify his own actions and to support that small but influential section of public opinion in Germany which favoured rapid imperial expansion. A full account of the actions and motives of Zintgraffs opponents in the Kamerun Government and in the Colonial Bureau of the German Foreign Office has not been written: we only have one side of the story. But there are some suggestive points made in Rudins GERMANS IN THE CAMEROONS and others referred to in these notes. What is perhaps most striking about Zintgraffs account is the fact that the people of the Western Grassfields were not so isolated from one another or their neighbours as might be thought. A network of trade-friendships covered the country and big men exchanged gifts over long distances. These links must be set beside the insecurity due to raids and slave-catching, and are well worth investigation.
Download or read book Homage and Courtship written by Shadrach Ambanasom and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a collection of sixty-two beautifully crafted poems on some of the deepest of human emotions. They celebrate love, constancy, beauty, marriage, birth and death; in the poems are hailed intellectual labour, leadership and duty. Occasionally, the poet depicts the states of his mind against the backdrop of nature, interfusing description, memory and meditation in a manner essentially romantic. The best in Ambanasom's poetry is matter and manner combined. The striking force of the poems lies in the intriguing relationship between romanticism and romance. Ambanasom's romanticism is concerned with the concept of nature as a universal being or a cosmic entity, nostalgia, the attempt to link his childhood with the present and the future, and the response to nature at different levels of his development. The poet also demonstrates a penchant for rural subject matter, places and people. In the poet of romance there is a more direct expression of basic human emotions, in particular of love that is enchanting, possessing, seductive, and alluring. We find in the poems, love that is reciprocal and imbued with constancy and understanding.
Download or read book Challenge of Culture in Africa written by N. Fonlon and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was first published as a two-part essay in 1965 and 1967 in ABBIA Cameroon Cultural Review under the title Idea of Culture. Its main argument is that indigenous Africans cultures must be the foundation on which the modern African cultural structure should be raised; the soil into which the new seed should be sown; the stem into which the new scion should be grafted; the sap that should enliven the entire organism. This culture, the object of imperialist mockery and rejected, needs rehabilitation. However, such rehabilitation of African culture cannot be a mere archaeological enterprise. It will not answer to dig up the past and live it as it was. Not only is African culture not without its imperfections, times change and African culture must adapt itself, at every turn, to the changing times. In restoring African culture, it is imperative to steer clear of two extremes: on the one hand, the imperialist arrogance which declared everything African as only fit for the scrap-heap and the dust-bin, and, on the other hand, the overly enthusiastic and rather naive tendency to laud every aspect of African culture as if it were the quintessence of human achievement.
Download or read book What a Next of Kin written by Alobwed'Epie Alobwed'Epie and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This psycho-anthropological and socio-cultural novel logically and succinctly x-rays the foundations and raison d'tre of patriarchy through the implied questions - Is wealth the basis of patriarchy? Have women any role in the system? And how far can a patriarch protect his lineage from alien blood? The extremely wealthy father of eight daughters protagonist Ndi, says yes, to the first question; no, to the second; and in the third questions he says, through dogged pursuance of looking for a male heir by any means; but his lone son whom he unknowingly begot in a remote village in his early life and whom he accidentally stumbled upon and adopted as his heir in his odyssey of looking for a male heir through a series of marriages, says no, to the first question; yes, to the second and to the third question, he says fate is the umpire; and succeeds in convincing his father that he is right.
Download or read book The Earth Mother written by Kehbuma Langmia and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fight against evil remains at the core of this play, pitting Kamsi and her supporters against a few daring councillors. Skilfully scripted by a renowned actor and playwright, this drama exposes the alliances and explosive tensions in Nyong village overwhelmed by unseen but supposedly harmful forces. Spiced with witty proverbs and humour, The Earth Mother will not fail to thrill its readers.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Popular Bali Names written by Koyela Fokwang and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dictionary of Popular Bali Names is an exceptional minefield of Chamba names, meticulously assembled and expatiated for the curious user. As a pioneer in the field of dictionary-writing in the Cameroon grassfields, Fokwangs third edition counts for more than a regular dictionary. It skilfully combines a short history of the Chamba people in Cameroon as well as ethnographic issues on the naming ritual. John Fokwangs work stands in a class of its own and will serve as reference material for people of Chamba descent and those who favour the use of African names in general. This edition is an exceptionally worthy contribution to the ethnography of the Cameroon grassfields and of course, the growing literature and interest on African names and languages.
Download or read book Exhumed Tried and Hanged written by Charles AlobwedEpie and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhumed, Tried and Hanged elucidates the abuse of folk good faith and ignorance by a conceited, ruthless and grasping leadership that sows carnage among the natives of Etambeng, culminating in unprecedented exodus, untold suffering and death of the people in neighbouring villages. Upon the death of the perpetrator the few returnees are made to listen to the gruesome stories of how the aggrieved children of his victims took revenge on his corpse.
Download or read book Folktales from the Moose of Burkina Faso written by Alain-Joseph Sissao and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Moogo, the region of the Moose known as Mossi in ancient literatureoccupies the entire central zone of Burkina Faso. It is divided into several kingdoms, the principal one comprising todays capital of Ouagadougou. Along with the singing griots, the evening storytellers pass on the ancestral word during the evening gatherings where they provide the group with models to follow. The folktale is the most appropriate form for teaching young children to express themselves, to structure their thoughts, and to reason. The tales portraying familiar animals will be reserved for the group of youngest children. The legendary gluttony and foolishness of Mba-Katr, the hyena, in contrast with the cunning and finesse of Mba-Somba, the hare, will interest above all children from 10 12 years of age. The stories describing the origin of things, the reason for various social taboos, the legitimacy of social functions and structures, as well character flaws that need correcting, are reserved as a priority for adolescents.
Download or read book Osagyefo written by Linus Tongwo Asong and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The personality of the highly charismatic foremost African Nationalist, Kwame Nkrumah as featured once in a while in Ghanaian fiction. For example, the celebrated Ghanaian novelist, Ayi Kwei Armah draws attention to the corrupt nature of the Nkrumah regime in his famous novel, The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born. But this is by far the very first time that Kwame Nkrumah and his era have been made the main subject of a full-length novel.
