Author: Laye Camara
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780143026785
Category : Authors, Guinean
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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The Dark Child is a vivid and graceful memoir of Camara Laye's youth in the village of Kouroussa, French Guinea, a place steeped in mystery. Laye marvels over his mother's supernatural powers, his father's distinction as the village goldsmith, and his own passage into manhood, which is marked by animistic beliefs and bloody rituals. Eventually, he must choose between this unique place and the academic success that lures him to distant cities. More than autobiography of one boy, this is the universal story of sacred traditions struggling against the encroachment of a modern world. A passionate and deeply affecting record, The Dark Child is a classic of African literature.
Author: Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459747100
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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SHORTLISTED for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2021 • WINNER of the Nigeria Prize for Literature 2021 • SHORTLISTED for the Chinua Achebe Prize for Nigerian Writing 2021 • WINNER of the SprinNG Women Authors Prize 2020 • WINNER of the Best International Fiction Book Award, Sharjah International Book Fair 2019 “The Son of the House is a compelling novel about two women caught in a constricting web of tradition, class, gender, and motherhood.” — FOREWORD REVIEWS, starred review The lives of two Nigerian women divided by class and social inequality intersect when they're kidnapped, held captive, and forced to await their fate together. In the Nigerian city of Enugu, young Nwabulu, a housemaid since the age of ten, dreams of becoming a typist as she endures her employers’ endless chores. She is tall and beautiful and in love with a rich man’s son. Educated and privileged, Julie is a modern woman. Living on her own, she is happy to collect the gold jewellery lovestruck Eugene brings her, but has no intention of becoming his second wife. When a kidnapping forces Nwabulu and Julie into a dank room years later, the two women relate the stories of their lives as they await their fate. Pulsing with vitality and intense human drama, Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia’s debut is set against four decades of vibrant Nigeria, celebrating the resilience of women as they navigate and transform what remains a man’s world.
Author: Michael Naicker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 269
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African Son's is written by a South African born writer. This novel chronicles the life of immigrants all over the world. The writer draws his inspiration from his personal immigrant struggles to that of his forefathers who were drawn to South Africa, by the British Raj. The Saga begins in India and traces the life of the generational struggles of people who were drawn to South Africa to start a new beginning. Africa was proclaimed as the land of milk and honey. The writer delves into his boyhood adventures in Zululand and tells his tale from the eyes of a young boy growing up in rural South Africa. The book traces his adventurous life during the Apartheid and rural segregation.The book is filled with personal tales of life, love and adventure of the last born of nine children growing up in fast changing world. It was almost the dawn of a new era in Zululand, all fraught with adventure, threats for ethnic survival and dawn of a new society and freedom for all peoples. The economic boom in rural Zululand, commercialisation and mechanisation would ultimately drive the youth out of Zululand. Modern life styles with all his attractions would be the catalyst that brought an untimely end to simple ways of life ... where neighbours knew neighbours and life was simple and everyone was kind to each other. The saga draws some parallels to his own life and his own journey into the unknown. The writer becomes the immigrants like his forefathers As an immigrant seeking a new adventure. His personal struggles in Africa drawn him to the shores of Canada in 2005. A new beginning far away from his native Africa. The writer becomes the immigrant his forefathers and waves of indentured labourers were when they arrived in Africa during the 1860's. Both were born out of seeking a better life for all. The grandson of an immigrant becomes an immigrant himself The authors ancestors left India for Africa for a better life. The wheel of life turns full circle when the writer leaves Africa for North America in search of a better life for his famly. The author writing through the eyes of a young boy in Zululand, is reflecting as a older adult and the nostalgia of yesteryear fills his eyes with tears and fond memories of a Boy growing up in Zululand. Michael Alliemuthu Naicker
Author: Tewodros Fekadu
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781935248262
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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An abandoned Ethiopian boy fights for more than mere survival: acceptance, education, and a life beyond poverty and war.
Author: James C. Johnston Jr
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450281176
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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"In 1815, deep within Africa, a fifteen-year-old prince of the Matabele nation is captured and sold to slave traders in Mozambique. As he travels on a ship bound for America, the prince realizes he will never again hear his name--Atachawayo--cried out in greeting. But as soon as the ship docks in New Orleans, Samuel, as he is now known, escapes with a member of the slave ship's company and enters into a bargain that will change the direction of his life forever. After he becomes the shadow master of a large plantation in Georgia, he begins planning his revenge against the man who brought him to America in chains ... As he begins what will become a thirty-five-year journey from the confines of slavery to the joy of freedom ... Samuel stops at nothing to fulfill his promise to himself to achieve total revenge."--Back cover
Author: Eric L. Heard
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1663216444
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 71
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The purpose of this book is an awkward discussion of Eric Heard’s life to his son. He talks about his life in a candid way that tries to explain his anxiety as an African American dad. It is an open and honest account of his life through the life of a child that has been through a lot in his life. It is a reflection on his life that has been shaped by his childhood experiences.
Author: Marcellina Ndidi Oparaoji
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1503585115
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Like other African-born immigrants, I came to the shores of America from Nigeria, West Africa, some twenty-plus years ago as a young adult, freshly married to my Nigerian immigrant spouse. All we knew was what we learnt from our parents and community, growing up. Except for what we read in books about the outside world, we had no idea what lay ahead surviving in another environment outside our Third World. Our parents had sent us forth to study some more in an environment different from what we were used to, in so many ways. We had to make success of this opportunity that was costing them so much. Immigrant Nigerians coming to America are then faced with questions of how to raise their children. Should their offsprings be raised as Nigerians, Americans or to help them benefit from both worlds, as Nigerian-Americans? Who decides, the parents, the children or the society? What will be the fate of the next generation to come?
Author: Phil Deutschle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780931625367
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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An account of a 3000-mile lone bicycle trip across the Kalahari & Namib deserts of southern Africa. Includes flashbacks of the author's three years of teaching in Botswana. Numerous insightful comments about the cultures he observed on his incredible trek.
Author: Richard Walsh
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press Limited
ISBN: 9781907534836
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 231
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The remarkable, award-winning film, Son of Man (2005), directed by the South African Mark Dornford-May, sets the Jesus story in a contemporary, fictional southern African Judea. While news broadcasts display the political struggles and troubles of this postcolonial country, moments of magical realism point to supernatural battles between Satan and Jesus as well. Jesus' Judean struggle with Satan begins with a haunting reprise of Matthew's 'slaughter of the innocents' and moves forward in a Steve Biko-like non-violent, community-building ministry, captured in graffiti and in the video footage that Judas takes to incriminate Jesus. Satan and the powers seemingly triumph when Jesus 'disappears', but then Mary creates a community that challenges such injustice by displaying her son's dead body upon a hillside cross. The film ends with shots of Jesus among the angels and everyday life in Khayelitsha (the primary shooting location), auguring hope of a new humanity (Genesis 1.26). This book's essays situate Son of Man in its African context, exploring the film's incorporation of local customs, music, rituals, and events as it constructs an imperial and postcolonial 'world'. The film is to be seen as an expression of postcolonial agency, as a call to constructive political action, as an interpretation of the Gospels, and as a reconfiguration of the Jesus film tradition. Finally, the essays call attention to their interested, ideological interpretations by using Son of Man to raise contemporary ethical, hermeneutical, and theological questions. As the film itself concisely asks on behalf of the children featured in it and their politically active mothers, 'Whose world is this'?
Author: James Haskins
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061136123
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Presents the history of Africa's rich cultural empires from the early part of the millennium through the time of Christopher Columbus.
