The Love Diary of a Zulu Boy

The Love Diary of a Zulu Boy PDF Author: Bhekisisa Mncube
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 1776092813
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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The Love Diary of a Zulu Boy is by turns erotic, romantic, tragic and comic. Inspired by the real-life drama of a romance between a Zulu boy and an Englishwoman, the book consists of various interrelated short stories on interracial relationships in modern-day South Africa. As the author reflects on love across the colour line, it triggers memories of failed affairs and bizarre experiences: love spells, toxic masculinity, infidelity, sexually transmitted diseases, a phantom pregnancy, sexless relationships, threesomes and prostitution, to name but a few. A unique book for the South African market, The Love Diary of a Zulu Boy is written with an honesty rarely encountered in autobiographical writing.

The Love Diary of a Zulu Boy

The Love Diary of a Zulu Boy PDF Author: Bhekisisa Mncube
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 1776092813
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Book Description
The Love Diary of a Zulu Boy is by turns erotic, romantic, tragic and comic. Inspired by the real-life drama of a romance between a Zulu boy and an Englishwoman, the book consists of various interrelated short stories on interracial relationships in modern-day South Africa. As the author reflects on love across the colour line, it triggers memories of failed affairs and bizarre experiences: love spells, toxic masculinity, infidelity, sexually transmitted diseases, a phantom pregnancy, sexless relationships, threesomes and prostitution, to name but a few. A unique book for the South African market, The Love Diary of a Zulu Boy is written with an honesty rarely encountered in autobiographical writing.

The White Giraffe

The White Giraffe PDF Author: Lauren St John
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
ISBN: 1444002104
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 137

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The first book in the heart-warming White Giraffe series by Lauren St John, featuring the African adventures of Martine and her magical white giraffe. When tragedy strikes on a winter's night in England, Martine is sent to live with her grandmother on a game reserve in South Africa. Her wild, beautiful new home is riddled with secrets, but lonely Martine finds comfort in the legend of a white giraffe and in mysterious Grace, who believes Martine has a powerful gift. Defying her grandmother by entering the reserve alone, Martine is plunged into a world of danger, mystery and adventure. Who can she trust? And how far will she go to save the only friend she has ever known?

Ghost

Ghost PDF Author: Jason Reynolds
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481450166
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Aspiring to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school's track team, gifted runner Ghost finds his goal challenged by a tragic past with a violent father.

The Zulus of New York

The Zulus of New York PDF Author: Zakes Mda
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 141521039X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 101

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The Great Farini would stride on to the stage and announce, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, and now for the highlight of the day, the ferocious Zulus.’ The impresario Farini introduced Em-Pee and his troupe to his kind of show business, and now they must earn their bread. In 1885 in a bustling New York City, they are the performers who know the true Zulu dances, while all around them fraudsters perform silly jigs. Reports on the Anglo-Zulu War portrayed King Cetshwayo as infamous, and audiences in London and New York flock to see his kin. What the gawking spectators don’t know is that Em-Pee once carried nothing but his spear and shield, when he had to flee his king. But amid the city’s squalid vaudeville acts appears a vision that leaves Em-Pee breathless: in a cage in Madison Square Park is Acol, a Dinka princess on display. For Em-Pee, it is love at first sight, though Acol is not free to love anyone back.

Eggs to Lay, Chickens to Hatch

Eggs to Lay, Chickens to Hatch PDF Author: Chris van Wyk
Publisher: Pan Macmillan South africa
ISBN: 1770100946
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Agnes, the Van Wyks’ Zulu housekeeper, had a special friendship with young Chris in the late sixties to early seventies. He would defend her whenever she came to work with a hangover on a Monday morning and made a mess of the cleaning. In turn, Agnes never told on Chris when he played truant from school. As the years passed, the two grew closer, swopping stories about coloureds and Zulus, life in Riverlea and Soweto, pass laws, politics and falling in love. She taught him to count in Zulu and he promised to teach her to read in English. Whenever the clock ran against her, Agnes would stop almost in mid-sentence, grab a broom or cloth, and declare: ‘I have to rush. I have eggs to lay, chickens to hatch.’ What an odd, ungrammatical thing to say, Chris often mused. But many years later, he played a CD by Louis Jordan, a 1940s American jazz singer, and it all became clear. Eggs to lay, chickens to hatch (forthcoming end April 2010) is Chris van Wyk’s second childhood memoir about growing up in Riverlea and his colourful interactions with the men and women who lived the African proverb that ‘it takes a village to raise a child’. But mostly it is the story of a wonderful friendship between a young coloured boy and a Zulu woman.

Diary of a Side Chick

Diary of a Side Chick PDF Author: Lesego Maake
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780463568101
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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A Different Time

A Different Time PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578537771
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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African Beginnings

African Beginnings PDF Author: James Haskins
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061136123
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Book Description
Presents the history of Africa's rich cultural empires from the early part of the millennium through the time of Christopher Columbus.

Dreaming of Light

Dreaming of Light PDF Author: Jayne Bauling
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780624056263
Category : Young adult fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Regile is a zama-zama working illegally in an abandoned mine near Barberton. He has moved up the ranks and is now paid a salary to keep the other child workers in line. Towards the end of a three-month stint underground, a fourteen-year-old boy from Mozambique, Taiba, starts asking questions about their rescue. Taiba constantly reaffirms his belief that they will be saved: by the police, by the private security firms that guard the mines, or maybe even by the mythical Spike Maphosa. Regile knows that such hope is dangerous.

The Century World's Fair Book for Boys and Girls

The Century World's Fair Book for Boys and Girls PDF Author: Tudor Jenks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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A humorous fictional account of a visit to the World's Columbian exposition illustrated with actual photographs and sketches of the buildings, exhibits, and fairgrounds.