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Author | : Davida James |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2007-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0595453848 |
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It is 1976, the summer of the Soweto student riots in South Africa. The massacres sparked world awareness of the horrors of apartheid and, many believe, were the catalyst for the eventual fall of apartheid fourteen years later when Nelson Mandela walked out of prison. A twenty-two year old woman enrolls in a college prep program in Harlem and meets a South African expatriate thirty-plus years her senior. He is there teaching English. Amidst the turmoil of that summer, they fall in love, marry and make plans to move to Nigeria. Set in New York, the Caribbean, London, South Africa and Los Angeles "The South Africa of His Heart" is a moving thirty-year memoir about how the circles in life can lead us to astounding places-often by chance. Ms. James shares the true story of the lifelong impact her South African husband made on her life. What unfolds is a touching, unconventional love story about dedication and a spiritual connection that bridged their physical separations. In a series of fateful discoveries, many years after their last encounter, she uncovers surprising and profound revelations about her first husband. *** "A touching, often poignant book, with lyrical qualities that bring you deep into the author's heart. The descriptions of the Caribbean are haunting. The author's emotional journey, exploring memories of her South African husband's influence in her life, offer a new interpretation of marital love." David Edgecombe, author of "Heaven and Other Plays" "Davida Siwisa James' memoir recounts an American woman's marriage to a man who took part in some of the most important history of our time. "The South Africa of His Heart"is an American story and an African story rolled into one fascinating tale." -Kathy Seal, Coauthor, "Pressured Parents, Stressed-out Kids: Dealing With Competition While Raising a Successful Child."
Author | : Rian Malan |
Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2012-03-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0802193900 |
Download My Traitor's Heart Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An essay collection that offers “a fascinating glimpse of post-apartheid South Africa” from the bestselling author of My Traitor’s Heart (The Sunday Times). The Lion Sleeps Tonight is Rian Malan’s remarkable chronicle of South Africa’s halting steps and missteps, taken as blacks and whites try to build a new country. In the title story, Malan investigates the provenance of the world-famous song, recorded by Pete Seeger and REM among many others, which Malan traces back to a Zulu singer named Solomon Linda. He follows the trial of Winnie Mandela; he writes about the last Afrikaner, an old Boer woman who settled on the slopes of Mount Meru; he plunges into President Mbeki’s AIDS policies of the 1990s; and finally he tells the story of the Alcock brothers (sons of Neil and Creina whose heartbreaking story was told in My Traitor’s Heart), two white South Africans raised among the Zulu and fluent in their language and customs. The twenty-one essays collected here, combined with Malan’s sardonic interstitial commentary, offer a brilliantly observed portrait of contemporary South Africa; “a grimly realistic picture of a nation clinging desperately to hope” (The Guardian).
Author | : Allen Drury |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download A Very Strange Society: A Journey to The Heart of South Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : June Goodwin |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Afrikaners |
ISBN | : 0684813653 |
Download Heart of Whiteness Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
When South Africa's present transitional government comes to an end, apartheid will be dead. But just as the demise of slavery did not solve America's race problems, so the abolition of apartheid will only begin South Africa's healing process. Heart of Whiteness examines the cataclysmic changes taking place among Afrikaners--the "white tribe" of South Africa.
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Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Animals |
ISBN | : 142620194X |
Download Wild at Heart Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Reprising the years-long, in-depth collaboration that produced much of "National Geographic" magazine's coverage of southern Africa, award-winning photographer Chris Johns and veteran foreign correspondent Peter Godwin reveal majestic southern Africa as defined by the entangled relationships among its wildlife, peoples, and geography. 128 full-color photos.
Author | : Claire L. Wendland |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2010-09-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0226893286 |
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Burnout is common among doctors in the West, so one might assume that a medical career in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, would place far greater strain on the idealism that drives many doctors. But, as A Heart for the Work makes clear, Malawian medical students learn to confront poverty creatively, experiencing fatigue and frustration but also joy and commitment on their way to becoming physicians. The first ethnography of medical training in the global South, Claire L. Wendland’s book is a moving and perceptive look at medicine in a world where the transnational movement of people and ideas creates both devastation and possibility. Wendland, a physician anthropologist, conducted extensive interviews and worked in wards, clinics, and operating theaters alongside the student doctors whose stories she relates. From the relative calm of Malawi’s College of Medicine to the turbulence of training at hospitals with gravely ill patients and dramatically inadequate supplies, staff, and technology, Wendland’s work reveals the way these young doctors engage the contradictions of their circumstances, shedding new light on debates about the effects of medical training, the impact of traditional healing, and the purposes of medicine.
Author | : Zakes Mda |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2007-05-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374708215 |
Download The Heart of Redness Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A startling novel by the leading writer of the new South Africa In The Heart of Redness -- shortlisted for the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize -- Zakes Mda sets a story of South African village life against a notorious episode from the country's past. The result is a novel of great scope and deep human feeling, of passion and reconciliation. As the novel opens Camugu, who left for America during apartheid, has returned to Johannesburg. Disillusioned by the problems of the new democracy, he follows his "famous lust" to Qolorha on the remote Eastern Cape. There in the nineteenth century a teenage prophetess named Nonqawuse commanded the Xhosa people to kill their cattle and burn their crops, promising that once they did so the spirits of their ancestors would rise and drive the occupying English into the ocean. The failed prophecy split the Xhosa into Believers and Unbelievers, dividing brother from brother, wife from husband, with devastating consequences. One hundred fifty years later, the two groups' decendants are at odds over plans to build a vast casino and tourist resort in the village, and Camugu is soon drawn into their heritage and their future -- and into a bizarre love triangle as well. The Heart of Redness is a seamless weave of history, myth, and realist fiction. It is, arguably, the first great novel of the new South Africa -- a triumph of imaginative and historical writing.
Author | : J. M. Coetzee |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2017-05-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1524705527 |
Download In the Heart of the Country Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A story told in prose as feverishly rich as William Faulkner's, In the Heart of the Country is a work of irresistable power. J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. On a remote farm in South Africa, the protagonist of J. M. Coetzee's fierce and passionate novel watches the life from which she has been excluded. Ignored by her callous father, scorned and feared by his servants, she is a bitterly intelligent woman whose outward meekness disguises a desperate resolve not to become "one of the forgotten ones of history." When her father takes an African mistress, that resolve precipitates an act of vengeance that suggests a chemical reaction between the colonizer and the colonized—and between European yearnings and the vastness and solitude of Africa. With vast assurance and an unerring eye, J. M. Coetzee has turned the family romance into a mirror of the colonial experience.
Author | : Francis Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 794 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : South Africa |
ISBN | : |
Download Outlook on a Century: South Africa 1870-1970 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Jacques Pauw |
Publisher | : J. Ball Publishers |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : |
Download Into the Heart of Darkness Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This books is the culmination of an investigation spanning several years into state sponsored apartheid death squads ...