Under African Sun
Author | : Marianne Alverson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226016245 |
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Author | : Marianne Alverson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226016245 |
Author | : William John Ansorge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Africa, Central |
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Author | : Ryszard Kapuscinski |
Publisher | : Vintage Canada |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2011-05-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0307367096 |
A moving portrait of Africa from Poland's most celebrated foreign correspondent - a masterpiece from a modern master. Famous for being in the wrong places at just the right times, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa in 1957, at the beginning of the end of colonial rule - the "sometimes dramatic and painful, sometimes enjoyable and jubilant" rebirth of a continent. The Shadow of the Sun sums up the author's experiences ("the record of a 40-year marriage") in this place that became the central obsession of his remarkable career. From the hopeful years of independence through the bloody disintegration of places like Nigeria, Rwanda and Angola, Kapuscinski recounts great social and political changes through the prism of the ordinary African. He examines the rough-and-ready physical world and identifies the true geography of Africa: a little-understood spiritual universe, an African way of being. He looks also at Africa in the wake of two epoch-making changes: the arrival of AIDS and the definitive departure of the white man. Kapuscinski's rare humanity invests his subjects with a grandeur and a dignity unmatched by any other writer on the Third World, and his unique ability to discern the universal in the particular has never been more powerfully displayed than in this work.
Author | : William John Ansorge |
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Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Africa, East |
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Author | : Marianne Alverson |
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Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226016238 |
Author | : Schuyler Jones |
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Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Africa |
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Author | : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
Publisher | : Vintage Canada |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 2010-10-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307373541 |
With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was heralded by the Washington Post Book World as the “21st century daughter” of Chinua Achebe. Now, in her masterly, haunting new novel, she recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria during the 1960s. With the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Adichie weaves together the lives of five characters caught up in the extraordinary tumult of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Ugwu is houseboy to Odenigbo, a university professor who sends him to school, and in whose living room Ugwu hears voices full of revolutionary zeal. Odenigbo’s beautiful mistress, Olanna, a sociology teacher, is running away from her parents’ world of wealth and excess; Kainene, her urbane twin, is taking over their father’s business; and Kainene’s English lover, Richard, forms a bridge between their two worlds. As we follow these intertwined lives through a military coup, the Biafran secession and the subsequent war, Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise, and intimately, the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place. Epic, ambitious and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a more powerful, dramatic and intensely emotional picture of modern Africa than any we have had before.
Author | : Charles R. Larson |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374211787 |
An anthology of short stories by African writers from a dozen countries. The subjects range from war and politics to problems with domestics and African humor. Some stories were written in English, others are translations from Arabic, French and Portuguese. All were written in the latter part of the 20th century.
Author | : Tololwa M. Mollel |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1995-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780395720790 |
Though delighted that an orphan boy has come into his life, an old man becomes insatiably curious about the boy's mysterious powers.