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Back from Africa

Back from Africa
Author: Corinne Hofmann
Publisher: Arcadia Books
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2008-11-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1908129212

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Corinne Hofmann describes her return to Switzerland and the difficulties that faced her there, detailing how she built a new life for herself and her daughter and overcame all obstacles, with the same courage and optimism with which she faced the demands of her life in the Kenyan outback.


Back to Africa

Back to Africa
Author: Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2010-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 027104571X

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Africa Writes Back

Africa Writes Back
Author: James Currey
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2008
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1847015026

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17 June 2008 is the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart by Heinemann. This provided the impetus for the foundation of the African Writers Series in 1962 with Chinua Achebe as the Editorial Adviser.'The book is therefore not only the story of a publishing enterprise of great significance; it is also a large part of the story of African literature and its dissemination in the latter half of the twentieth century. The manuscript is full of the drama of that enterprise, the drama of dealing with the mother house, William Heinemann, of dealing with the often intractable political constraints dominating the intellectual space across Africa, and not least of all dealing with the writers themselves - with their ambitions, their temperaments, their financial needs and, at time, their perception of a colonial relationship between themselves and a European publishing house.' - Clive Wake, Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages, University of Kent at Canterbury.


Out Of Africa

Out Of Africa
Author: Isak Dinesen
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1443432954

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In Out of Africa, author Isak Dinesen takes a wistful and nostalgic look back on her years living in Africa on a Kenyan coffee plantation. Recalling the lives of friends and neighbours—both African and European—Dinesen provides a first-hand perspective of colonial Africa. Through her obvious love of both the landscape and her time in Africa, Dinesen’s meditative writing style deeply reflects the themes of loss as her plantation fails and she returns to Europe. HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.


Africa Writes Back to Self

Africa Writes Back to Self
Author: Evan M. Mwangi
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2010-07-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1438426976

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The profound effects of colonialism and its legacies on African cultures have led postcolonial scholars of recent African literature to characterize contemporary African novels as, first and foremost, responses to colonial domination by the West. In Africa Writes Back to Self, Evan Maina Mwangi argues instead that the novels are primarily engaged in conversation with each other, particularly over emergent gender issues such as the representation of homosexuality and the disenfranchisement of women by male-dominated governments. He covers the work of canonical novelists Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe, NguÅgiÅ wa Thiong'o, and J. M. Coetzee, as well as popular writers such as Grace Ogot, David Maillu, Promise Okekwe, and Rebeka Njau. Mwangi examines the novels' self-reflexive fictional strategies and their potential to refigure the dynamics of gender and sexuality in Africa and demote the West as the reference point for cultures of the Global South.


Journey of Hope

Journey of Hope
Author: Kenneth C. Barnes
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2005-10-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807876224

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Liberia was founded by the American Colonization Society (ACS) in the 1820s as an African refuge for free blacks and liberated American slaves. While interest in African migration waned after the Civil War, it roared back in the late nineteenth century with the rise of Jim Crow segregation and disfranchisement throughout the South. The back-to-Africa movement held great new appeal to the South's most marginalized citizens, rural African Americans. Nowhere was this interest in Liberia emigration greater than in Arkansas. More emigrants to Liberia left from Arkansas than any other state in the 1880s and 1890s. In Journey of Hope, Kenneth C. Barnes explains why so many black Arkansas sharecroppers dreamed of Africa and how their dreams of Liberia differed from the reality. This rich narrative also examines the role of poor black farmers in the creation of a black nationalist identity and the importance of the symbolism of an ancestral continent. Based on letters to the ACS and interviews of descendants of the emigrants in war-torn Liberia, this study captures the life of black sharecroppers in the late 1800s and their dreams of escaping to Africa.


No Turning Back

No Turning Back
Author: Beverley Naidoo
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2010-06-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0062007939

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Escaping from his violent stepfather, twelve-year-old Sipho heads for Johannesburg, where he has heard that gangs of children live on the streets. Surviving hunger and bitter-cold winter nights is hard'but learning when to trust in the ‘new' South Africa proves even more difficult. No Turning Back appeared on the short list of both the Guardian and Smarties book prizes on the United Kingdom.


Art from Africa

Art from Africa
Author: Pamela McClusky
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780691092751

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"The authors draw on personal memories, interviews, and oral narratives to present twelve "case histories" of objects--or clusters of objects-- in the Seatle Art Museum's renowned collection of African art."


Africa is Open for Business

Africa is Open for Business
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2015
Genre: Business enterprises
ISBN: 9781770104464

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Marcus Garvey and the Back to Africa Movement

Marcus Garvey and the Back to Africa Movement
Author: Stuart A. Kallen
Publisher: Lucent Press
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781590188385

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In the 1920s, Marcus Garvey was one of the most famous black men in the world. Marcus Garvey and the Back to Africa Movement examines the rise and fall of this charismatic leader from his days preaching from a soapbox in Harlem to his role as a spokesman for millions of black Americans who dreamed of a better life in Africa.