The Old Chief Mshlanga

The Old Chief Mshlanga PDF Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007525737
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25

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From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing, a short story about a young girl’s experience of growing up in an unnamed African country.

The Old Chief Mshlanga

The Old Chief Mshlanga PDF Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007525737
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25

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Book Description
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing, a short story about a young girl’s experience of growing up in an unnamed African country.

Somehow Tenderness Survives

Somehow Tenderness Survives PDF Author: Hazel Rochman
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0064470636
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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A collection of ten short stories about southern Africa -- five by black southern Africans and five by white southern Africans.

A Century of South African Short Stories

A Century of South African Short Stories PDF Author: Jean Marquard
Publisher: Ad Donker
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Waterlily

Waterlily PDF Author: Ella Cara Deloria
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803219045
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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When Blue Bird and her grandmother leave their family?s camp to gather beans for the long, threatening winter, they inadvertently avoid the horrible fate that befalls the rest of the family. Luckily, the two women are adopted by a nearby Dakota community and are eventually integrated into their kinship circles. Ella Cara Deloria?s tale follows Blue Bird and her daughter, Waterlily, through the intricate kinship practices that created unity among her people. Waterlily, published after Deloria?s death and generally viewed as the masterpiece of her career, offers a captivating glimpse into the daily life of the nineteenth-century Sioux. This new Bison Books edition features an introduction by Susan Gardner and an index.

Segu

Segu PDF Author: Maryse Conde
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 014025949X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 513

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“Condé’s story is rich and colorful and glorious. It sprawls over continents and centuries to find its way into the reader’s heart.” —Maya Angelou “A wondrous novel” (The New York Times) by the winner of the 2018 New Academy Prize (The Alternative Nobel prize in literature) and author of The Gospel According to the New World The year is 1797, and the kingdom of Segu is flourishing, fed by the wealth of its noblemen and the power of its warriors. The people of Segu, the Bambara, are guided by their griots and priests; their lives are ruled by the elements. But even their soothsayers can only hint at the changes to come, for the battle of the soul of Africa has begun. From the east comes a new religion, Islam, and from the West, the slave trade. Segu follows the life of Dousika Traore, the king’s most trusted advisor, and his four sons, whose fates embody the forces tearing at the fabric of the nation. There is Tiekoro, who renounces his people’s religion and embraces Islam; Siga, who defends tradition, but becomes a merchant; Naba, who is kidnapped by slave traders; and Malobali, who becomes a mercenary and halfhearted Christian. Based on actual events, Segu transports the reader to a fascinating time in history, capturing the earthy spirituality, religious fervor, and violent nature of a people and a growing nation trying to cope with jihads, national rivalries, racism, amid the vagaries of commerce.

The Wine of Astonishment

The Wine of Astonishment PDF Author: Earl Lovelace
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435988807
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Book Description
Charts the history of a Spiritual Baptist community from the passing of the Prohibition Ordinance in 1917 until the lifting of the ban in 1951.

Night Flying Woman

Night Flying Woman PDF Author: Ignatia Broker
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 0873516869
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Book Description
In the accounts of the lives of several generations of Ojibway people in Minnesota is much information about their history and culture.

The Poor Christ of Bomba

The Poor Christ of Bomba PDF Author: Mongo Beti
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1804543438
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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Award-winning author Mongo Beti presents The Poor Christ of Bomba, a cutting satirical critique on the role of Catholic missionaries and French colonialism in 1930s Cameroon. A revolutionary novel in its time. In the small village of Bomba, a French missionary priest is instructed to build a parish for its residents. Father Drumont has one important task; to save the village from heresy by preparing its girls for Christian marriage. A servant in Father Drumont's house, a young boy named Denis is reliant on the priest's generosity after the death of his mother. In the eyes of the Catholic church, Denis is the perfect example of the African heathen saved by Christianity – but the reality of what happens behind closed doors in much more sinister. 'One of the foremost African writers of the independence generation.' Guardian

Mississippi Morning

Mississippi Morning PDF Author: Ruth Vander Zee
Publisher: Eerdmans Young Readers
ISBN: 9780802852113
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Book Description
Set in 1933 Mississippi, this thought-provoking story about a young boy who lives in an environment of racial hatred will challenge young readers to question their own assumptions and confront personal decisions. Full color.

Tsotsi

Tsotsi PDF Author: Athol Fugard
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802142689
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Book Description
In the Johannesburg township of Soweto, a young black gangster in South Africa, who leads a group of violent criminals, slowly discovers the meaning of compassion, dignity, and his own humanity.