Author: Mandla Langa
Publisher: New Africa Books
ISBN: 9780864864086
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Based upon the author's wide experience of exile, 'The Memory of Stones' is a novel about Zadwa, a sophisticated young graduate, and her clashes with men who subscribe to traditional attitudes and values towards women in South Africa.
Author: United States Board on Geographic Names
Publisher:
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Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Author: Jack Cope
Publisher:
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Category : Zulu Rebellion, 1906
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Author: United States. Geographic Names Division
Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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Author: Andrzej Halemba
Publisher: University of Zambia Press
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
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Author: John Luangala
Publisher:
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Category : Magic
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Author: Mzuvukile Maqetuka
Publisher: Partridge Africa
ISBN: 1482877163
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
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This collection of engaging short stories emanates from the Camdeboo region of South Africas Karoo. They are told by a traditional African griot (career storyteller), Ndabazabantu, who knows all the gossip about the enigmatic as well as the ordinary folk in his town. Partly drawn from Mzuvukiles book, Children from Exile and other Stories (featuring Oom Asval and His Donkey Cart), the stories expose both the struggle to live comfortably in South African townships of old and the harshness of having to deal with the strictures of Apartheid. The Day the Town of Xhogwana almost Collapsed, deals with this second challenge, specifically the prohibition on mixed race relations and degrading treatment of black people under Apartheids Group Areas Act; when blacks had to report to the township superintendents office when visiting places outside their registered hometowns. The author, through Ndabazabantu, tells these stories with humour, pathos and poignancy. While Camdeboo Stories is unique in style and content, the tales are somewhat reminiscent of Herman Charles Bosmans storytelling style and are valuable additions to the stories of the South African platteland.
Author: amabooks amabooks
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 0797443479
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Silent Cry: Echoes of Young Zimbabwe Voices is a book of twenty-eight stories and fourteen poems, written by thirty-three young people from Zimbabwe's second city, Bulawayo. The pieces cover many issues, including family, gender, relationships, race, alienation, disability, HIV/AIDS, border jumping and the struggle to survive in Zimbabwe.
Author: Ignasio Malizani Jimu
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956727598
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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This book explores the changing land relations in the peri-urban villages of Blantyre in Malawi. It questions and debates how and why the peri-urban villages have become the locus of the selling and buying of customary land, the practices and also the relations involved. The book provides rich ethnographic insights on the commodification of land relations, custom, practices, disputes and social relations between land sellers, land buyers, traditional leaders, and intermediaries. The transactions draw strength from the growing peri-urbanization and monetization of social relations, both of which push towards land decisions at family and individual levels. Bigger groups like the village, clan or extended family have minimal, if not symbolic role only. Village headmen benefit materially by taking gifts (signing fee) rationalized by custom on reciprocity, while estate agents claim commission. Numerous constraints are negotiated about the ownership, rights to sale, multiple selling and the use and sharing of land money. Peri-urban land transactions offer scope for examining a wider range of social and economic relations, and the subtle ways in which the state infiltrates the everyday lives of actors. Overtime, the practices reproduce but also transform land relations in significant but less appreciated ways.
Author: Henry Callaway
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Category : Children's stories, Zulu
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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