Author: Gavin Weston
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781471222252
Category : General fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
Harmattan tells the story of Haoua, a young girl growing up in the Republic of Niger. Spirited independent and intelligent, she has benefitted from a loving and attentive mother. Haoua worships her elder brother, Abdelkrim, a serving soldier who sends money home to support the family. But, on his last home visit, Abdelkrim quarrels with their father accusing him of gambling away their money and being the cause of their mother's worsening health. As civil strife mounts in Niger, Haoua begins to fear for Abdelkrim's safety. Her mother's illness is much more serious than anyone had recognised and her father has threatening plans. Approaching her twelfth birthday, Haoua is vulnerable for the very first time in her life...
Harmattan
Author: Gavin Weston
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781471222252
Category : General fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
Harmattan tells the story of Haoua, a young girl growing up in the Republic of Niger. Spirited independent and intelligent, she has benefitted from a loving and attentive mother. Haoua worships her elder brother, Abdelkrim, a serving soldier who sends money home to support the family. But, on his last home visit, Abdelkrim quarrels with their father accusing him of gambling away their money and being the cause of their mother's worsening health. As civil strife mounts in Niger, Haoua begins to fear for Abdelkrim's safety. Her mother's illness is much more serious than anyone had recognised and her father has threatening plans. Approaching her twelfth birthday, Haoua is vulnerable for the very first time in her life...
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781471222252
Category : General fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
Harmattan tells the story of Haoua, a young girl growing up in the Republic of Niger. Spirited independent and intelligent, she has benefitted from a loving and attentive mother. Haoua worships her elder brother, Abdelkrim, a serving soldier who sends money home to support the family. But, on his last home visit, Abdelkrim quarrels with their father accusing him of gambling away their money and being the cause of their mother's worsening health. As civil strife mounts in Niger, Haoua begins to fear for Abdelkrim's safety. Her mother's illness is much more serious than anyone had recognised and her father has threatening plans. Approaching her twelfth birthday, Haoua is vulnerable for the very first time in her life...
Harmattan
Author: Michael D. Jackson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231539053
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
We all experience qualms and anxieties when we move from the known to the unknown. Though our fulfillment in life may depend on testing limits, our faintheartedness is a reminder of our need for security and our awareness of the risks of venturing into alien worlds. Evoking the hot, dust-filled Harmattan winds that blow from the Sahara to the Gulf of Guinea, this book creatively explores what it means to be buffeted by the unforeseen and the unknown. Celebrating the life-giving potential of people, places, and powers that lie beyond our established worlds, Harmattan connects existential vitality to the act of resisting prescribed customs and questioning received notions of truth. At the book's heart is the fictional story of Tom Lannon, a graduate student from Cambridge University, who remains ambivalent about pursuing a conventional life. After traveling to Sierra Leone in the aftermath of its devastating civil war, Tom meets a writer who helps him explore the possibilities of renewal. Illustrating the fact that certain aspects of human existence are common to all people regardless of culture and history, Harmattan remakes the distinction between home and world and the relationship between knowledge and life.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231539053
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
We all experience qualms and anxieties when we move from the known to the unknown. Though our fulfillment in life may depend on testing limits, our faintheartedness is a reminder of our need for security and our awareness of the risks of venturing into alien worlds. Evoking the hot, dust-filled Harmattan winds that blow from the Sahara to the Gulf of Guinea, this book creatively explores what it means to be buffeted by the unforeseen and the unknown. Celebrating the life-giving potential of people, places, and powers that lie beyond our established worlds, Harmattan connects existential vitality to the act of resisting prescribed customs and questioning received notions of truth. At the book's heart is the fictional story of Tom Lannon, a graduate student from Cambridge University, who remains ambivalent about pursuing a conventional life. After traveling to Sierra Leone in the aftermath of its devastating civil war, Tom meets a writer who helps him explore the possibilities of renewal. Illustrating the fact that certain aspects of human existence are common to all people regardless of culture and history, Harmattan remakes the distinction between home and world and the relationship between knowledge and life.
The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar
Author: Syl Cheney-Coker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1803288876
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 587
Book Description
Winner of the 1991 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Syl Cheney-Coker's acclaimed debut novel, The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar traces the history of a nation's rise and fall, as prophesied by an ancient sorcerer. A military general sits in one of Malagueta's prison cells, awaiting his execution. He has just failed to overthrow the government. In the same land, over two centuries ago, the wife of a formerly enslaved man takes her first steps towards freedom. From the creation of Malagueta to its devastating fall, Alusine Dunbar, the wizened old diviner, has prophesied it all. And what he sees, he calls a tragedy. One of Sierra Leone's most renowned novelists and poets, Sly Cheney-Coker creates a world teeming with magical realism as he paints the journey from precolonial Africa to its shaky independence.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1803288876
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 587
Book Description
Winner of the 1991 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Syl Cheney-Coker's acclaimed debut novel, The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar traces the history of a nation's rise and fall, as prophesied by an ancient sorcerer. A military general sits in one of Malagueta's prison cells, awaiting his execution. He has just failed to overthrow the government. In the same land, over two centuries ago, the wife of a formerly enslaved man takes her first steps towards freedom. From the creation of Malagueta to its devastating fall, Alusine Dunbar, the wizened old diviner, has prophesied it all. And what he sees, he calls a tragedy. One of Sierra Leone's most renowned novelists and poets, Sly Cheney-Coker creates a world teeming with magical realism as he paints the journey from precolonial Africa to its shaky independence.
Harmattan
Author: Marcello Di Cintio
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781894663328
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is a travelogue of a different order: the searing beauty and somber reality of West Africa are distilled into poetic moments of refreshingly honest insight, a world transformed through the wide eyes of a new traveler.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781894663328
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is a travelogue of a different order: the searing beauty and somber reality of West Africa are distilled into poetic moments of refreshingly honest insight, a world transformed through the wide eyes of a new traveler.
The Tale of the Harmattan
Author: Ojaide, Tanure
Publisher: Kraft Books
ISBN: 9789183119
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
In this collection, Nigerian poet Tanure Ojaide adopts the persona of a homeboy griot returning from travels to be confronted by the devastation wrought by oil greed, politics, and technology upon his beloved Niger Delta; its environment, civilisation and people. It becomes a tragedy of corruption, suffering and dispossession in sharp contrast to the eco-sensitive animism of his youth. Angry, elegiac and lyrical, this collection allows the reader insight far beyond the reach of journalism or prose.
Publisher: Kraft Books
ISBN: 9789183119
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
In this collection, Nigerian poet Tanure Ojaide adopts the persona of a homeboy griot returning from travels to be confronted by the devastation wrought by oil greed, politics, and technology upon his beloved Niger Delta; its environment, civilisation and people. It becomes a tragedy of corruption, suffering and dispossession in sharp contrast to the eco-sensitive animism of his youth. Angry, elegiac and lyrical, this collection allows the reader insight far beyond the reach of journalism or prose.
Harmattan
Author: Michael Jackson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780231172356
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A compelling work of ethnography, memoir, and fiction that explores the emancipatory power of transcending boundaries.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780231172356
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A compelling work of ethnography, memoir, and fiction that explores the emancipatory power of transcending boundaries.
The New and Complete American Encyclopedia
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Phenological report contained in vols. 3-71, issued as a supplement to vols. 73-74, missing from vols. 56-58, 60-62.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Phenological report contained in vols. 3-71, issued as a supplement to vols. 73-74, missing from vols. 56-58, 60-62.
Geophysical Memoirs
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geophysics
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geophysics
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
A Directory for the North Atlantic Ocean, Comprising Instructions, General and Particular, for Its Navigation
Author: Alexander George Findlay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pilot guides
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pilot guides
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
Book Description