Download or read book The African Son written by James C. Johnston Jr and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1815, deep within Africa, a fifteen-year-old prince of the Matabele nation is captured and sold to slave traders in Mozambique. As he travels on a ship bound for America, the prince realizes he will never again hear his name--Atachawayo--cried out in greeting. But as soon as the ship docks in New Orleans, Samuel, as he is now known, escapes with a member of the slave ship's company and enters into a bargain that will change the direction of his life forever. After he becomes the shadow master of a large plantation in Georgia, he begins planning his revenge against the man who brought him to America in chains ... As he begins what will become a thirty-five-year journey from the confines of slavery to the joy of freedom ... Samuel stops at nothing to fulfill his promise to himself to achieve total revenge."--Back cover

Download or read book No One s Son written by Tewodros Fekadu and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An abandoned Ethiopian boy fights for more than mere survival: acceptance, education, and a life beyond poverty and war.

Download or read book The Son of the House written by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We must do something to pass the time, I thought. Two women in a room, hands and feet tied.” Kidnapped in Nigeria by a group not unlike Boko Haram, two women, Nwabulu and Julie, relate the stories of the very different lives fate has meted out for them. When Nwabulu’s father dies, her stepmother sends her off to become a housemaid. For years, she suffers the abuse of employers, a love affair with an employer’s son offering little comfort. Out of their union a son is born, but the young Nwabulu has to give him up, and is bound to suffer in her stepmother’s home again until she can flee, establishing herself as a fashion designer, and finally able to inhabit Julie’s world. Julie: privileged, educated, and adored by her parents. She has the opportunity to become whomever she desires. But sometimes too much choice can be a dangerous thing, and in Julie’s case it is. At thirty-four she is still unmarried and, for the first time, there is pressure: a burden that will only be lifted with the birth of a son. So determined is Julie for release that she goes as far as a polygamous marriage. While the two women wait for the ransom to be paid, fate will once again decide the course of their lives.

Download or read book African Sons written by Michael Naicker and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Son's is written by a South African born writer. This novel chronicles the life of immigrants all over the world. The writer draws his inspiration from his personal immigrant struggles to that of his forefathers who were drawn to South Africa, by the British Raj. The Saga begins in India and traces the life of the generational struggles of people who were drawn to South Africa to start a new beginning. Africa was proclaimed as the land of milk and honey. The writer delves into his boyhood adventures in Zululand and tells his tale from the eyes of a young boy growing up in rural South Africa. The book traces his adventurous life during the Apartheid and rural segregation.The book is filled with personal tales of life, love and adventure of the last born of nine children growing up in fast changing world. It was almost the dawn of a new era in Zululand, all fraught with adventure, threats for ethnic survival and dawn of a new society and freedom for all peoples. The economic boom in rural Zululand, commercialisation and mechanisation would ultimately drive the youth out of Zululand. Modern life styles with all his attractions would be the catalyst that brought an untimely end to simple ways of life ... where neighbours knew neighbours and life was simple and everyone was kind to each other. The saga draws some parallels to his own life and his own journey into the unknown. The writer becomes the immigrants like his forefathers As an immigrant seeking a new adventure. His personal struggles in Africa drawn him to the shores of Canada in 2005. A new beginning far away from his native Africa. The writer becomes the immigrant his forefathers and waves of indentured labourers were when they arrived in Africa during the 1860's. Both were born out of seeking a better life for all. The grandson of an immigrant becomes an immigrant himself The authors ancestors left India for Africa for a better life. The wheel of life turns full circle when the writer leaves Africa for North America in search of a better life for his famly. The author writing through the eyes of a young boy in Zululand, is reflecting as a older adult and the nostalgia of yesteryear fills his eyes with tears and fond memories of a Boy growing up in Zululand. Michael Alliemuthu Naicker

Download or read book The Poor Man s Son written by Mouloud Feraoun and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A direct response to Albert Camus' call for Algerians to tell the world their story, The Poor Man's Son remains after half a century the definitive map of the Kabyle soul.

Download or read book Son of Man written by Richard Walsh and published by Sheffield Phoenix Press Limited. This book was released on 2013 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable, award-winning film, Son of Man (2005), directed by the South African Mark Dornford-May, sets the Jesus story in a contemporary, fictional southern African Judea. While news broadcasts display the political struggles and troubles of this postcolonial country, moments of magical realism point to supernatural battles between Satan and Jesus as well. Jesus' Judean struggle with Satan begins with a haunting reprise of Matthew's 'slaughter of the innocents' and moves forward in a Steve Biko-like non-violent, community-building ministry, captured in graffiti and in the video footage that Judas takes to incriminate Jesus. Satan and the powers seemingly triumph when Jesus 'disappears', but then Mary creates a community that challenges such injustice by displaying her son's dead body upon a hillside cross. The film ends with shots of Jesus among the angels and everyday life in Khayelitsha (the primary shooting location), auguring hope of a new humanity (Genesis 1.26). This book's essays situate Son of Man in its African context, exploring the film's incorporation of local customs, music, rituals, and events as it constructs an imperial and postcolonial 'world'. The film is to be seen as an expression of postcolonial agency, as a call to constructive political action, as an interpretation of the Gospels, and as a reconfiguration of the Jesus film tradition. Finally, the essays call attention to their interested, ideological interpretations by using Son of Man to raise contemporary ethical, hermeneutical, and theological questions. As the film itself concisely asks on behalf of the children featured in it and their politically active mothers, 'Whose world is this'?

Download or read book Weep Not Child written by Ngugi wa Thiong'o and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1987 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Two small boys stand on a rubbish heap and look into the future. One boy is excited, he is beginning school; the other, his brother, is an apprentice carpetner. Together, they will serve their country--the teacher and the craftsman. But this is Kenya and times are against them. In the forests, the Mau Mau are waging war against the white government, and two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, and the rest of their family, need to decide where their loyalties lie. For the practical man, the choice is simple, but for Njoroge, the scholar, the dream of progress through learning is a hard one to give up"--P. [4] of cover.

Download or read book Shango s Son written by Dr Winmilawe and published by Gazing in Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-30 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shango's Son is a short story based on ancient African knowledge (Yoruba Ifa). Shango has a son who becomes his companion and protector. The son has amazing abilities that help Shango succeed. The story, the colorful imagery, and even some African Yoruba vocabulary will enrich young and older readers alike!

Download or read book The Dark Child written by Camara Laye and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1954-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dark Child is a distinct and graceful memoir of Camara Laye's youth in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea. Long regarded Africa's preeminent Francophone novelist, Laye (1928-80) herein marvels over his mother's supernatural powers, his father's distinction as the village goldsmith, and his own passage into manhood, which is marked by animistic beliefs and bloody rituals of primeval origin. Eventually, he must choose between this unique place and the academic success that lures him to distant cities. More than autobiography of one boy, this is the universal story of sacred traditions struggling against the encroachment of a modern world. A passionate and deeply affecting record, The Dark Child is a classic of African literature.

Download or read book A Son of Two Countries written by Rubagumya, Casmir M. and published by Mkuki na Nyota Publishers. This book was released on 2018-09-26 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Son of Two Countries is a story of struggle for education. Born in 1946 in Rwanda under Belgian colonial rule, the author recounts his early education in Rwanda and later as a refugee in Tanzania. He was naturalized as a Tanzanian citizen in 1980 while doing his undergraduate studies at the University of Dar es Salaam. As he struggled to get education, the author was also grappling with his refugee status, with all the challenges that it entailed. The book gives insights into the contradictions of colonial and post-colonial education, as well as the author’s reflections on education in Tanzania, given his long experience in the education sector in that country. Finally, we get some glimpses into the dual identity of the author as a Tanzanian citizen of Rwandan origin and how this shaped his relationship with the two countries he calls home. As he aptly puts it, “Rwanda gave me my heart; Tanzania gave me my brain. I find it difficult to choose between my heart and my brain”.

Download or read book Tears of the African Son s written by Larry Leslie and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tears of the African Sons is a story about a young couple who are geologists from Scotland who fall in love with Africa on their visit in search of oil while working for a German oil company before World War II began. While in Africa, they fall in love with the continent, its people, wildlife, and each other. After the war, they buy a coffee plantation and move back to make Africa their new home and start up a safari service. This is their story; it's about love, adventure, war, romance, passion, and death on the African Serengeti plain and the struggle against man and nature and their will to a make difference in the lives of the people and the wildlife of the African Serengeti. 1

Download or read book Welcoming Spirit Home written by Sobonfu Somé and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A natural sequel to Some's book on ritual and intimacy, this book draws on the wisdom of the African ancestors to show how to build communities where children are not only welcomed but prized.

Download or read book Across African Sand written by Phil Deutschle and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of a 3000-mile lone bicycle trip across the Kalahari & Namib deserts of southern Africa. Includes flashbacks of the author's three years of teaching in Botswana. Numerous insightful comments about the cultures he observed on his incredible trek.

Download or read book Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.

Download or read book African Son Dial written by John Osborne and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Between Father and Son written by Eric V. Copage and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Jordan Garrison is at a crossroads. He's just about to enter high school, and his biggest worries are his new bottom-of-the-totem-pole status as an incoming freshman and his father's constant lectures about becoming a man. Growing further apart from his younger siblings—precocious eight-year-old twins—Jordan thinks his only ally is his grandmother, a hip sixty-two-year-old with a youthful glow that comforts Jordan, especially in the absence of his mother. But when his widowed father suddenly dies, Jordan finds the journey through puberty to adulthood all the more daunting. He feels alone despite the best efforts of his family and friends. He is resentful and confused about new responsibilities forced on him, and torn between acting with his heart or fulfilling the expectations of those around him. A mysterious neighborhood shopkeeper, Snackman, notices Jordan's dilemma and steps in as surely as Jordan's own father would have. He offers Jordan a dirty strip of kente cloth, which he says contains the answers to Jordan's problems. And through this strip of cloth, Snackman guides Jordan to the answer of what it is to be a Black man. But not before Jordan meets with an almost disastrous fire and realizes his true importance to his family. Dazzling and magical, Between Father and Son is a heartening story with a powerful message that adults and children alike will turn to time and time again.

Download or read book African Son written by William J. Hemminger and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Son is a record of the author’s many trips to Africa—as a Peace Corps volunteer, Fulbright scholar, teacher, and traveler—over the course of thirty years. These personal essays range from sympathetic descriptions of village life in Senegal and Cameroon to detailed accounts of the rich physical and natural worlds in Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Madagascar to a mock-curriculum vitae for a Cameroonian man whose skill-set is surprisingly extensive. A work of creative non-fiction, African Son describes individual and, later, family experiences in a number of African locations, from villages to major urban centers and from desert to thick, tropical forest.