Author: Max-Landry Kassa
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956551031
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Tragedy Of The Stupid Nation retraces three decades of political instability during which the people of the Central African Republic suffered from several waves of violence that lead to the breakdown of the social cohesion between the different communities (first along ethnic, then along religious lines). This book is a personal and collective account of the massacres, looting and fleeing and an indictment of misgovernance, nepotism and political inequality. The consequences of which are, too often, carried by the population. Combining different literary genres, Max-Landry Kassa gives the reader an appreciation of what it is to come of age in the Central African Republic.
The Tragedy Of The Stupid Nation
Author: Max-Landry Kassa
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956551031
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Tragedy Of The Stupid Nation retraces three decades of political instability during which the people of the Central African Republic suffered from several waves of violence that lead to the breakdown of the social cohesion between the different communities (first along ethnic, then along religious lines). This book is a personal and collective account of the massacres, looting and fleeing and an indictment of misgovernance, nepotism and political inequality. The consequences of which are, too often, carried by the population. Combining different literary genres, Max-Landry Kassa gives the reader an appreciation of what it is to come of age in the Central African Republic.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956551031
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Tragedy Of The Stupid Nation retraces three decades of political instability during which the people of the Central African Republic suffered from several waves of violence that lead to the breakdown of the social cohesion between the different communities (first along ethnic, then along religious lines). This book is a personal and collective account of the massacres, looting and fleeing and an indictment of misgovernance, nepotism and political inequality. The consequences of which are, too often, carried by the population. Combining different literary genres, Max-Landry Kassa gives the reader an appreciation of what it is to come of age in the Central African Republic.
The Republic of Monkeys
Author: Kouadio, Jean-Francois
Publisher: Botsotso Publishing
ISBN: 0994708114
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
How can poverty be erradicated? How can Africa be industrialised? How can corruption be fought? How armed conflicts be settled? Why are so many Africans maladjusted once back from western universities? How can religious fundamentalism and fanaticism be contained? Do we really fight xenophobia and tribalism? How deeply do we comprehend the principles of the social contract? How do we hold back and eradicate pandemic diseases? How do we contain bad citizenship and insecurity? The sole aim of these stories is to point out some of the daily behaviours Africans should rid ourselves of in the process of building better functioning societies.
Publisher: Botsotso Publishing
ISBN: 0994708114
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
How can poverty be erradicated? How can Africa be industrialised? How can corruption be fought? How armed conflicts be settled? Why are so many Africans maladjusted once back from western universities? How can religious fundamentalism and fanaticism be contained? Do we really fight xenophobia and tribalism? How deeply do we comprehend the principles of the social contract? How do we hold back and eradicate pandemic diseases? How do we contain bad citizenship and insecurity? The sole aim of these stories is to point out some of the daily behaviours Africans should rid ourselves of in the process of building better functioning societies.
Zawadi ya Ushindi
Author: R. Mtobwa
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9966565930
Category : Fiction
Languages : sw
Pages : 82
Book Description
Idd Amini, kiongozi dhalimu kutoka nchi ya Uganda, alipoiteka sehemu ya nchi ya Tanzania na kuangamiza mamia ya watu wasiokuwa na hatia, serikali ya Tanzania iliamua kumkomesha kabla hajatekeleza maafa zaidi. Iliwatuma vijana wake wakapambane naye ili kusalimisha nchi yao. Sikamona akiwa kijana barubaru aliukubali mwito wa serikali na kuingia vitani kukabiliana na Idd Amin na kikosi chake. Maisha ya Sikamona yalibadilika kabisa baada ya vita hivi. Hata ingawa walifaulu kumkomesha Idd Amin, Sikamona alibaki na makovu mengi yaliyoiharibu sura yake asijione kastahili kuitwa binadamu tena. Ni yapi yatakayotokea watakapokutana na Rusia? Atapewa Zawadi ya Ushindi?
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9966565930
Category : Fiction
Languages : sw
Pages : 82
Book Description
Idd Amini, kiongozi dhalimu kutoka nchi ya Uganda, alipoiteka sehemu ya nchi ya Tanzania na kuangamiza mamia ya watu wasiokuwa na hatia, serikali ya Tanzania iliamua kumkomesha kabla hajatekeleza maafa zaidi. Iliwatuma vijana wake wakapambane naye ili kusalimisha nchi yao. Sikamona akiwa kijana barubaru aliukubali mwito wa serikali na kuingia vitani kukabiliana na Idd Amin na kikosi chake. Maisha ya Sikamona yalibadilika kabisa baada ya vita hivi. Hata ingawa walifaulu kumkomesha Idd Amin, Sikamona alibaki na makovu mengi yaliyoiharibu sura yake asijione kastahili kuitwa binadamu tena. Ni yapi yatakayotokea watakapokutana na Rusia? Atapewa Zawadi ya Ushindi?
Ideas and Forms of Tragedy from Aristotle to the Middle Ages
Author: Henry Ansgar Kelly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521431840
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
H.A. Kelly explores meanings given to tragedy, from Aristotle's most basic notion (any serious story, even with a happy ending), via Roman ideas and practices, to the Middle Ages, when Averroes considered tragedy to be the praise of virtue, but Albert the
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521431840
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
H.A. Kelly explores meanings given to tragedy, from Aristotle's most basic notion (any serious story, even with a happy ending), via Roman ideas and practices, to the Middle Ages, when Averroes considered tragedy to be the praise of virtue, but Albert the
Italian Pocket Dictionary in Two Parts
Author: Giuspanio Graglia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Gustave Courbet
Author: Georges Riat
Publisher: Parkstone Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Child of materialism and positivism, Courbet was without a doubt one of the most complex painters of the nineteenth century. Symbolising the rejection of traditions, Courbet did not hesitate to confront the public with the truth by liberating painting of conventional rules. He became from then on the leader of pictorial realism.
Publisher: Parkstone Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Child of materialism and positivism, Courbet was without a doubt one of the most complex painters of the nineteenth century. Symbolising the rejection of traditions, Courbet did not hesitate to confront the public with the truth by liberating painting of conventional rules. He became from then on the leader of pictorial realism.
A Dark Energy
Author: Mwanaka, Tendai Rinos
Publisher: Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 0797493336
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Don is the only child of a happy family full of love, but it does not last. At 6 years old Don’s parents are burned in a fire through arson, and suspects his father’s brother is the culprit. As the family fights over his father's wealth nobody wants anything to do with Don, particularly the Uncle whom he suspects of arson and ends up taking most of his father’s wealth. After a difficult upbringing in orphanages and living with an abusive old man Don starts working as an agent in Central Investigations Organisation, Zimbabwe’s security intelligence organisation. Despite this apparent success Don never deals with the existential dilemmas he has as a result of his childhood. He becomes a loner, he doesn't believe in love, marriage, or happiness... until he meets Lilian. Soon after he is called into the president’s office to cover up an extramarital affair. When a political rival of the president, the corrupt defence minister, ‘bones’ gets wind of the cover up and unsuccessfully tries to blackmail Don something terrible happens and Don becomes thrown back into the darkness. Straddling literary genres this novel explores themes related to family, love, politics, life and existence. It is the story of a man pushed to breaking point and how that, inevitably, impacts society.
Publisher: Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 0797493336
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Don is the only child of a happy family full of love, but it does not last. At 6 years old Don’s parents are burned in a fire through arson, and suspects his father’s brother is the culprit. As the family fights over his father's wealth nobody wants anything to do with Don, particularly the Uncle whom he suspects of arson and ends up taking most of his father’s wealth. After a difficult upbringing in orphanages and living with an abusive old man Don starts working as an agent in Central Investigations Organisation, Zimbabwe’s security intelligence organisation. Despite this apparent success Don never deals with the existential dilemmas he has as a result of his childhood. He becomes a loner, he doesn't believe in love, marriage, or happiness... until he meets Lilian. Soon after he is called into the president’s office to cover up an extramarital affair. When a political rival of the president, the corrupt defence minister, ‘bones’ gets wind of the cover up and unsuccessfully tries to blackmail Don something terrible happens and Don becomes thrown back into the darkness. Straddling literary genres this novel explores themes related to family, love, politics, life and existence. It is the story of a man pushed to breaking point and how that, inevitably, impacts society.
The Campaign Trail
Author: Nji Bangsi
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956726257
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
In an uncomplicated plot, The Campaign Trail takes its readers through the independence of a state in fiction, the introduction of a multiparty system, to its demise owing to poor governance and power struggle; this novel has a universal appeal to the political scientist, the literary critic, the sociologist, the anthropologist and just anyone who needs entertainment. The author blends the comic and the tragic to good effect.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956726257
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
In an uncomplicated plot, The Campaign Trail takes its readers through the independence of a state in fiction, the introduction of a multiparty system, to its demise owing to poor governance and power struggle; this novel has a universal appeal to the political scientist, the literary critic, the sociologist, the anthropologist and just anyone who needs entertainment. The author blends the comic and the tragic to good effect.
Zimbabwe: The Urgency of Now
Author: R. Mwanaka
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956762601
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Zimbabwe: The Urgency of Now, is a follow-up creative non-fiction book to Zimbabwe: The Blame Game. It goes further than The Blame Game and focuses on Zimbabwe in the GNU entity, the 2013 elections, post elections and post GNU Zimbabwe, and Now. They are a myriad number of problems, issues, limitations that still unbundles Zimbabwes push towards multiparty democracy, social justice, economic sanity and growth, and The Urgency of Now focuses on the solutions to these. It also tackles the land reform in South Africa, how this could be its biggest problem going forward. It goes further and tackles the larger Africa problem toward democracy, growth, stability and unity, and why the progress towards the United States of Africa has been moribund.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956762601
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Zimbabwe: The Urgency of Now, is a follow-up creative non-fiction book to Zimbabwe: The Blame Game. It goes further than The Blame Game and focuses on Zimbabwe in the GNU entity, the 2013 elections, post elections and post GNU Zimbabwe, and Now. They are a myriad number of problems, issues, limitations that still unbundles Zimbabwes push towards multiparty democracy, social justice, economic sanity and growth, and The Urgency of Now focuses on the solutions to these. It also tackles the land reform in South Africa, how this could be its biggest problem going forward. It goes further and tackles the larger Africa problem toward democracy, growth, stability and unity, and why the progress towards the United States of Africa has been moribund.
Exhumed, Tried and Hanged
Author: Charles Alobwede D'Epie
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956616532
Category : Cameroon
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Exhumed, Tried and Hanged elucidates the abuse of folk good faith and ignorance by a conceited, ruthless and grasping leadership that sows carnage among the natives of Etambeng, culminating in unprecedented exodus, untold suffering and death of the people in neighbouring villages. Upon the death of the perpetrator the few returnees are made to listen to the gruesome stories of how the aggrieved children of his victims took revenge on his corpse.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956616532
Category : Cameroon
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Exhumed, Tried and Hanged elucidates the abuse of folk good faith and ignorance by a conceited, ruthless and grasping leadership that sows carnage among the natives of Etambeng, culminating in unprecedented exodus, untold suffering and death of the people in neighbouring villages. Upon the death of the perpetrator the few returnees are made to listen to the gruesome stories of how the aggrieved children of his victims took revenge on his corpse.