Download or read book Nationalism Mis Understanding Donald Trump s Capitalism Racism Global Politics International Trade and Media Wars written by Mwanaka , Tendai Rinos and published by Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Nationalism: (Mis)Understanding Donald Trump’s Capitalism, Racism, Global Politics, International Trade and Media Wars, Africa VS North America Vol 2, we have 10 essays, 3 fiction pieces, 51 poems, 2 plays from leading and upcoming writers, essayists, academicians and poets from the two regions, Africa and North America and their Diasporas, in these among other countries, USA, Canada, Sweden, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Botswana, Kenya, UK etc…, coming together to transact around issues to do with the nationalism espoused by Donald Trump. Cornell dissects issues to do with blackness and racism using Fanon’s theories, Nyongesa deals with the Fetishism of Donald Trump’s policies known colloquially as Trumpism, Opicho calls it ‘inoracy’, Donald Trump’s statement, “Shit-hole”, some essayists took to the personal narrative you would find in Mhondera and Kantey’s essays, yet Pravda used the middle ground between playwriting, Filmmaking and the essay form, Ofodile investigates the problematic issue of Boko Horam terrorism in North Nigeria, Bearly looks at capitalism, so does Koffi with his French Language essay which is also translated into English, Ifeachor in his poem has praise for Donald Trump, Hall goes back to apartheid South Africa period and as a direct tangent Matshoba deals with Xenophobia in his letter written from the future. Smith looks at the white supremacist demonstrations, for or against Trump, Thompson and Swanson encourage us to unfocus on Donald Trump, and Thompson rightly blames us for allowing the likes of Donald Trump and the kind of Nationalism and Capitalism he stands for to grow. Thus this collection of writings is rich, robust and very interesting and will be invaluable to scholarship to do with Nationalism, Capitalism, Media freedoms, Global Politics, Racism and International trade.
Download or read book Royal Burial and Enthronement in Ambazonia written by Peter Fossungu and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2023-04-30 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contribution works toward achieving its mentality-changing goals by essentially providing Afrikentication lessons radiating principally around the theme: Making African education relevant to African liberation and progress. The linchpin of the book is that we Africans truly need to cease dangling uselessly and reclaim our authentic roots if we have to independently move forward. This is an objective we clearly cannot correctly achieve when our intellectuals and universities (among others) who are supposed to be furnishing our liberation movements with sane policy and thought-leadership do continue in the same old colonial way of sheepish ‘theorising’ that excessively indulges in obliterating genuine African perspectives. Indigenous African education is the way to go! An inevitable rethinking in education, culture, and religion in Africa is recommended, basing on innovation and critical thinking which are sure highlights of communalism, which is a defining feature of the African way of life. The book thus harps on the need to recentralise African values and philosophy in the freedom and governance of the continent, as well as stressing the dire need for unity and visionary, dedicated and patriotic leadership.
Download or read book Re centring Mother Earth written by Andrew Nyongesa and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary critics have focused on the nexus between literature and the ecological environment. As a mirror of society, literature encapsulates the natural ecosystem to address environmental degradation as one of the major issues being confronted by communities the world over. Individual literary critics have demonstrated how literary writers have deliberately presented the impact of Mother Nature on the lives of characters. However, most critics have hardly demonstrated the essential role of the ecological environment on the political, social and religious attributes of human life.in Re-centring Mother Earth: Ecological Reading of Contemporary Works of Fiction, Andrew Nyongesa investigates the role of Mother Nature in the political, cultural, religious aspects of human life in contemporary novels. Using eco-criticism, the study challenges homocentric attributes of literature and shows how the ecological environment affects all facets of human life.
Download or read book Africa s Contemporary Food Insecurity written by Nkwazi Mhango and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2023-09-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contribution works toward achieving its mentality-changing goals by essentially providing Afrikentication lessons radiating principally around the theme: Making African education relevant to African liberation and progress. The linchpin of the book is that we Africans truly need to cease dangling uselessly and reclaim our authentic roots if we have to independently move forward. This is an objective we clearly cannot correctly achieve when our intellectuals and universities (among others) who are supposed to be furnishing our liberation movements with sane policy and thought-leadership do continue in the same old colonial way of sheepish ‘theorising’ that excessively indulges in obliterating genuine African perspectives. Indigenous African education is the way to go! An inevitable rethinking in education, culture, and religion in Africa is recommended, basing on innovation and critical thinking which are sure highlights of communalism, which is a defining feature of the African way of life. The book thus harps on the need to recentralise African values and philosophy in the freedom and governance of the continent, as well as stressing the dire need for unity and visionary, dedicated and patriotic leadership.
Download or read book HIV and AIDS in Zimbabwe written by K. Muvhiringi and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2022-08-05 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a tremendous progress to the available plethora of literature on young men masculinities and HIV risk behaviors. This book integrated theories of masculinities that shape young men's HIV risk behaviors using available empirical evidence. The book focused firmly on Zimbabwe young men masculinities and risk behaviors, Young Men as a Focal Point for an effective Behavioral Change. Therefore, the book is an essential reading for policy makers, program developers and scholars of young men masculinities that are related to HIV risk behaviors.
Download or read book Zimbabwe Essays Non Fictions and Letters written by Rinos Mwanaka and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2022-10-13 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tendai Rinos Mwanaka wrote letters to Robert Mugabe, Constantine Chiwenga, Morgan Tsvangirai, The Zimbabweans, Emerson Mnangagwa, Nelson Chamisa, The Police, and in between infused the letters with deeply literary and psychoanalytic essays on the motivations of political players in Zimbabwe. Using this nonfiction literary form, the letter writing form, to protest against Robert Mugabe and the Mugabeism the letters were initially written to protest against Mugabe's continuing clinging to power, the collection has been expanded to include other issues related to Zimbabwe society. As the country moves towards a better multiparty democracy if there is change in thinking in these very important facets shaping Zimbabwe such as constitutionalism and rule of law, change and devolution of government, developmental agenda, and freedom of expression and association.
Download or read book A Letter to the President written by Chirasha, Mbizo and published by Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His eagle eyes scan beyond the boundaries of his native Zimbabwe to right the crookedness of men with dubious ideals and reckless twists in lands abroad. Caressing his Lenovo mistress upon a night, he relives in recorded poesy, memories of victims of corruption and the false memoirs of looters of the land. A Letter to the President, is a collection of his experimental poetry. Here is the man on a mission and with a mission. Words are slings and rocks on his quiver. Tireless and resilient; no ugliness is too ugly to stay below his radar. His weapon of choice is his pen. Dipped in acid, as he says, no thug escapes the roast of his laser beam that put them on the spot light.
Download or read book Because Sadness is Beautiful written by Tanaka Chidora and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tanaka Chidora writes with the nerve and verve of firework displays in these poems. There is a peace armed to the teeth here, and over there words are just fugitives scuttling away from the recognition of the reader. Through this burst of iron vocabulary discipline, the poet suggests that even if sadness could be all we are left with, we still need to give sadness a try until it becomes beautiful, because sadness has always been beautiful, anyway." - Memory Chirere, University of Zimbabwe
Download or read book Ouafa and Thawra About a Lover from Tunisia written by Desimone, Arturo and published by Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ouafa and Thawra is a nomadic collection: well-travelled and restless, but with roots firmly in revolutionary Tunisia, a tumultuous country “where people are sweet/ where even the hypocrisy is sweet.” Arturo Desimone travels fearlessly between genres, too, with sketches deepening the reading experience and a postscript essay on Tunisia before and after the ‘Arab Spring’ adding context to the poems (and offering the controversial but sound claim that the Arab Spring was catalysed by the events of 2003 in Iraq). Desimone is wholly original: his poems simultaneously draw on a breathtaking, freewheeling sense of linguistic innovation, and on a timeless well of imagery and mythology." - Jacob Silkstone, managing editor of Asymptote journal, co-founder of The Missing Slate.
Download or read book Where I Belong written by Bhoumik, Smeetha and published by Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smeetha Bhoumik is an artist celebrating her deep engagement with poetry. Her main theme of work is the Universe Series, exploring the mystery, oneness and unifying energies of the universe in oils and new media, shown in national and international exhibitions.
Download or read book Travellers Gather Dust and Lust written by Mainoo, Gabriel Awuah and published by Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabriel Awuah Mainoo is an award winning writer, a tennis professional, lyricist and playwright studying at the University of Cape Coast whose poem ‘Taunt’ won best satire of the year 2017 on VOAP: Voices of African poets. He serves as project manager to Ghana writes literary group and creative editor to WGM: Writers Global Movement magazine. His first published work ‘Afri-lad’ appeared on YMCA, 2016. Mainoo is an international anthologized poet who has featured on several journals, he is a contributor to Best New African Poets 2018, Bodies & Scars anthology, and poetry leaves bound volume among others. His next projects are three collections: ‘60 Aces of Haiku’, ‘Lyrical Textiles’ and ‘Chicken Wings’, a Christmas haiku. Many of his works, sometimes esoteric are well-known for their wonderful lyrical propensity and spontaneity. Critics affirm that his remarkable weave of words marks him as the ‘Lyricist Extraordinaire’.
Download or read book Blooming Cactus written by e. mbambo and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From invisibility to invincibility, Mikateko takes us through verses of despair, assault, discrimination, fear and hopelessness that girls and women encountered in a system that does not serve their interests to the life of purpose, power and freedom that girls and women continue to wedge in the face of all odds. This is one anthology that has the power to break and mend you. Mikateko has freed us all!" - Dr. Toyin Ajao (PhD), Researcher, Teacher and Storyteller
Download or read book Righteous Indignation written by Mzinyathi, Jabulani and published by Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When I vision through the seas of oppression and the grinding poverty I write not out anger but righteous indignation." Jabulani Mzinyathi was born of isiNdebele and ChiShona speaking parents in the Midlands Province of the then Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He has published pieces in various journals and anthologies over the years and his maiden collection of poetry Under The Steel Yoke, was published in 2018.
Download or read book When Escape Becomes the Only Lover written by Mwanaka, Tendai Rinos and published by Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Escape Becomes the only Lover is a continuation and crystallization of issues dealt with in A Portrait of Defiance. The poet deals with a broad subject matter, love in all its forms, spirituality; this spirituality is individual it is the artist’s spiritual world. He deals with dreams, voice, word, numbers, poet’s vocation, wars, language, etc… He is the prophet of his dreams, his world, his future… There is strong experimentation and innovativeness in the writing, in the text, in form, in style, in content matter, the writer is a discoverer, every horizon is a life horizon. There is the dissecting of that space where art criticism meets art mimesis, and this space is offered as the future of art criticism. The storyteller refuses to die thus the collection proffers escape as the ultimate lover who can help us deal with the insanities of our time.
Download or read book Ghetto Symphony written by Mavolwane, Mandhla A. and published by Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2019-02-10 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghetto Symphony is an orchestra of short stories and poems which vividly portray the socio-economic situation affecting teens and young adult groups across Zimbabwe. It is a compilation of an underground poet’s readings and writings which highlight the restrictions faced daily by the masses, and also project innovative ideas to overcome the dark cloud hovering over the future of Zimbabwe.
Download or read book The day and the dweller written by Jonathan Thompson and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mixture of personal experience and magical realism, the author explores the teachings of the Emerald Tablets through the lens of his life. A tortured soul seeking peace, a journey to find meaning, Thompson invites you into his world where adventure, misery, discovery and learning merge in seeking enlightment.
Download or read book The Case for Nationalism written by Rich Lowry and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Rich Lowry not only makes an original and compelling case for nationalism but also carefully demonstrates how throughout Western history and literature, enlightened nationhood was the glue that held diverse democratic societies together in peace and kept them safe in war. A fascinating, erudite—and much-needed—defense of a hallowed idea unfairly under current attack.” — Victor Davis Hanson “America is an idea, but it’s not only an idea: America is also a nation with flesh-and-blood people, particular lands with real borders, and its own history and culture. Rich Lowry’s learned and brisk The Case for Nationalism defends these unfashionable truths against transnational assault from both the left and the right while reminding us that nationalist sentiments are essential to self-government.” — Tom Cotton “Rich Lowry’s The Case for Nationalism is a massively important exploration of what nationalism really means, how it has been radically misinterpreted, and why American nationalism, properly construed, is essential to the project of restoring unity and purpose in our country.” — Ben Shapiro “Anyone who loves freedom knows that nothing today is more tragically misunderstood than the vital subject of this important book. I thank God that someone of the caliber of my friend Rich Lowry has taken it on as he so brilliantly has!” — Eric Metaxas