Author: Marie Villeneuve
Publisher:
ISBN: 2897281731
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
Marie Villeneuve (Author) In order to encourage the learning of French by children of all horizons and all cultures, Marie has chosen to publish bilingual versions of this story in French-Spanish, French-Creole and French-English. To Marie, it is essential to create links between generations and between cultures; that is the reason why Marie asked children from Québec and Mexico to illustrate the book. In this story, Marie Villeneuve takes the readers to the African savannah, at the foot of an old baobab that tells the story of Ahmadou, the philosophical chameleon and his friends.
A Chameleon called Ahmadou
Author: Marie Villeneuve
Publisher:
ISBN: 2897281731
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
Marie Villeneuve (Author) In order to encourage the learning of French by children of all horizons and all cultures, Marie has chosen to publish bilingual versions of this story in French-Spanish, French-Creole and French-English. To Marie, it is essential to create links between generations and between cultures; that is the reason why Marie asked children from Québec and Mexico to illustrate the book. In this story, Marie Villeneuve takes the readers to the African savannah, at the foot of an old baobab that tells the story of Ahmadou, the philosophical chameleon and his friends.
Publisher:
ISBN: 2897281731
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
Marie Villeneuve (Author) In order to encourage the learning of French by children of all horizons and all cultures, Marie has chosen to publish bilingual versions of this story in French-Spanish, French-Creole and French-English. To Marie, it is essential to create links between generations and between cultures; that is the reason why Marie asked children from Québec and Mexico to illustrate the book. In this story, Marie Villeneuve takes the readers to the African savannah, at the foot of an old baobab that tells the story of Ahmadou, the philosophical chameleon and his friends.
Chameleon
Author: G. J. J
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453542205
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
"Terrorism will not and cannot prevail." When we analyze terrorism, these questions always come up: Who is most responsible for terrorism? Is it the person who commits the act of terrorism? Is it the person who finances the act of terrorism? Is it the person who incites the act of terrorism? Follow Chameleon, and you can decide which of the above persons is most guilty for the acts of terrorism.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453542205
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
"Terrorism will not and cannot prevail." When we analyze terrorism, these questions always come up: Who is most responsible for terrorism? Is it the person who commits the act of terrorism? Is it the person who finances the act of terrorism? Is it the person who incites the act of terrorism? Follow Chameleon, and you can decide which of the above persons is most guilty for the acts of terrorism.
Feet of the Chameleon
Author: Ian Hawkey
Publisher: Portico
ISBN: 1909396060
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Winner of the Best Football Book at the British Sports Book Awards and shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of The Year 2009 'Written with warmth and understanding, the book for which African football has been crying out.' FourFourTwo Featuring a new foreword by the author, Feet of the Chameleon has been newly released in digital format to coincide with 29th African Cup of Nations in January 2013. A comprehensive study of African football, Ian Hawkey traces the development of the world’s favourite sport through the tangled history and complex social and political life of this fascinating continent. Drawing on a range of sources, including interviews conducted with individuals involved in all levels of the African game, his own extensive experience and years of research, Ian Hawkey, international football correspondent for the Sunday Times, has crafted a unique and remarkable book to satisfy the surge of interest in African football. Engagingly written and comprehensively researched, drawing on a range of accounts from those at grass-roots level through to the very top tiers of African football, Feet of the Chameleon is a compelling mixture of analysis and insight that delves deep into the history of the game in a continent fragmented by history, language and politics. Ian Hawkey is a meticulous and knowledgeable guide to this complex subject, and he has produced a timely and entertaining study of African football’s colourful history, players, supporters and legends.
Publisher: Portico
ISBN: 1909396060
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Winner of the Best Football Book at the British Sports Book Awards and shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of The Year 2009 'Written with warmth and understanding, the book for which African football has been crying out.' FourFourTwo Featuring a new foreword by the author, Feet of the Chameleon has been newly released in digital format to coincide with 29th African Cup of Nations in January 2013. A comprehensive study of African football, Ian Hawkey traces the development of the world’s favourite sport through the tangled history and complex social and political life of this fascinating continent. Drawing on a range of sources, including interviews conducted with individuals involved in all levels of the African game, his own extensive experience and years of research, Ian Hawkey, international football correspondent for the Sunday Times, has crafted a unique and remarkable book to satisfy the surge of interest in African football. Engagingly written and comprehensively researched, drawing on a range of accounts from those at grass-roots level through to the very top tiers of African football, Feet of the Chameleon is a compelling mixture of analysis and insight that delves deep into the history of the game in a continent fragmented by history, language and politics. Ian Hawkey is a meticulous and knowledgeable guide to this complex subject, and he has produced a timely and entertaining study of African football’s colourful history, players, supporters and legends.
Amkoullel, the Fula Boy
Author: Amadou Hampâté Bâ
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478021497
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Born in 1900 in French West Africa, Malian writer Amadou Hampâté Bâ was one of the towering figures in the literature of twentieth-century Francophone Africa. In Amkoullel, the Fula Boy, Bâ tells in striking detail the story of his youth, which was set against the aftermath of war between the Fula and Toucouleur peoples and the installation of French colonialism. A master storyteller, Bâ recounts pivotal moments of his life, and the lives of his powerful and large family, from his first encounter with the white commandant through the torturous imprisonment of his stepfather and to his forced attendance at French school. He also charts a larger story of life prior to and at the height of French colonialism: interethnic conflicts, the clash between colonial schools and Islamic education, and the central role indigenous African intermediaries and interpreters played in the functioning of the colonial administration. Engrossing and novelistic, Amkoullel, the Fula Boy is an unparalleled rendering of an individual and society under transition as they face the upheavals of colonialism.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478021497
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Born in 1900 in French West Africa, Malian writer Amadou Hampâté Bâ was one of the towering figures in the literature of twentieth-century Francophone Africa. In Amkoullel, the Fula Boy, Bâ tells in striking detail the story of his youth, which was set against the aftermath of war between the Fula and Toucouleur peoples and the installation of French colonialism. A master storyteller, Bâ recounts pivotal moments of his life, and the lives of his powerful and large family, from his first encounter with the white commandant through the torturous imprisonment of his stepfather and to his forced attendance at French school. He also charts a larger story of life prior to and at the height of French colonialism: interethnic conflicts, the clash between colonial schools and Islamic education, and the central role indigenous African intermediaries and interpreters played in the functioning of the colonial administration. Engrossing and novelistic, Amkoullel, the Fula Boy is an unparalleled rendering of an individual and society under transition as they face the upheavals of colonialism.
Essai d’histoire locale by Djiguiba Camara
Author: Elara Bertho
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004424873
Category : History
Languages : fr
Pages : 445
Book Description
Dans Essai d’histoire locale, Djiguiba Camara, un intermédiaire colonial et un interprète, décrit l’histoire de la Haute Guinée, de l’empire de Samori Touré et des résistances anticoloniales. In Essay on Local History, Djiguiba Camara, a colonial intermediary and interpreter, describes the history of Upper Guinea, with emphasis on the Empire of Samori Touré and of anticolonial local resistance.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004424873
Category : History
Languages : fr
Pages : 445
Book Description
Dans Essai d’histoire locale, Djiguiba Camara, un intermédiaire colonial et un interprète, décrit l’histoire de la Haute Guinée, de l’empire de Samori Touré et des résistances anticoloniales. In Essay on Local History, Djiguiba Camara, a colonial intermediary and interpreter, describes the history of Upper Guinea, with emphasis on the Empire of Samori Touré and of anticolonial local resistance.
Blue White Red
Author: Alain Mabanckou
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253007941
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
“Mabanckou dazzles with technical dexterity and emotional depth” in his debut novel, winner of the Grand Prix Littéraire de l’Afrique Noire (Publishers Weekly, starred review). This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans living between worlds. When Moki returns to his village from France wearing designer clothes and affecting all the manners of a Frenchman, Massala-Massala, who lives the life of a humble peanut farmer after giving up his studies, begins to dream of following in Moki’s footsteps. Together, the two take wing for Paris, where Massala-Massala finds himself a part of an underworld of out-of-work undocumented immigrants. After a botched attempt to sell metro passes purchased with a stolen checkbook, he winds up in jail and is deported. Blue White Red is a novel of postcolonial Africa where young people born into poverty dream of making it big in the cities of their former colonial masters. Alain Mabanckou’s searing commentary on the lives of Africans in France is cut with the parody of African villagers who boast of a son in the country of Digol. Praise for Alain Mabanckou and Blue White Red “Mabanckou counts as one of the most successful voices of young African literature.” —Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin “The African Beckett.” —The Economist “Blue White Red stands at the beginning of the author’s remarkable and multifaceted career as a novelist, essayist and poet . . . this debut novel shows much of his style and substance in remarkable ways . . . Dundy’s translation is excellent.” —Africa Book Club “Mabanckou’s provocative novel probes the many facets of the ‘migration adventure.’” —Booklist
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253007941
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
“Mabanckou dazzles with technical dexterity and emotional depth” in his debut novel, winner of the Grand Prix Littéraire de l’Afrique Noire (Publishers Weekly, starred review). This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans living between worlds. When Moki returns to his village from France wearing designer clothes and affecting all the manners of a Frenchman, Massala-Massala, who lives the life of a humble peanut farmer after giving up his studies, begins to dream of following in Moki’s footsteps. Together, the two take wing for Paris, where Massala-Massala finds himself a part of an underworld of out-of-work undocumented immigrants. After a botched attempt to sell metro passes purchased with a stolen checkbook, he winds up in jail and is deported. Blue White Red is a novel of postcolonial Africa where young people born into poverty dream of making it big in the cities of their former colonial masters. Alain Mabanckou’s searing commentary on the lives of Africans in France is cut with the parody of African villagers who boast of a son in the country of Digol. Praise for Alain Mabanckou and Blue White Red “Mabanckou counts as one of the most successful voices of young African literature.” —Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin “The African Beckett.” —The Economist “Blue White Red stands at the beginning of the author’s remarkable and multifaceted career as a novelist, essayist and poet . . . this debut novel shows much of his style and substance in remarkable ways . . . Dundy’s translation is excellent.” —Africa Book Club “Mabanckou’s provocative novel probes the many facets of the ‘migration adventure.’” —Booklist
Waiting For The Wild Beasts To Vote
Author: Ahmadou Kourouma
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446444309
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Ahmadou Kourouma's remarkable novel is narrated by Bingo, a West African sora - storyteller and king's fool. Over the course of five nights he tells the life story of Koyaga, President and Dictator of the Gulf Coast. Orphaned at the age of seven, Koyaga grows up to be a terrible hunter; he fights mythical beasts, and is a shape-shifter, capable of changing himself into beasts and birds. He fights in the French colonial armies, in Vietnam and Algeria, but on his return he mounts a coup and becomes ruler and dictator of the Gulf Coast. For thirty years he runs a corrupt but 'clean' state, surviving repeated assassination attempts and gaining support and investment from abroad. But when the 'First World' decides it no longer want to support dictatorships and call for democracy, he needs another ruse to maintain himself in power... Part magic, part history, part savage satire, Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote is nothing less than a history of post-colonial Africa itself.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446444309
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Ahmadou Kourouma's remarkable novel is narrated by Bingo, a West African sora - storyteller and king's fool. Over the course of five nights he tells the life story of Koyaga, President and Dictator of the Gulf Coast. Orphaned at the age of seven, Koyaga grows up to be a terrible hunter; he fights mythical beasts, and is a shape-shifter, capable of changing himself into beasts and birds. He fights in the French colonial armies, in Vietnam and Algeria, but on his return he mounts a coup and becomes ruler and dictator of the Gulf Coast. For thirty years he runs a corrupt but 'clean' state, surviving repeated assassination attempts and gaining support and investment from abroad. But when the 'First World' decides it no longer want to support dictatorships and call for democracy, he needs another ruse to maintain himself in power... Part magic, part history, part savage satire, Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote is nothing less than a history of post-colonial Africa itself.
Political Leadership in Africa
Author: Giovanni Carbone
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108423736
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
An innovative analysis of political leadership in Africa between 1960 and 2018, drawing on an entirely new dataset.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108423736
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
An innovative analysis of political leadership in Africa between 1960 and 2018, drawing on an entirely new dataset.
People, Land, and Water
Author: Guy Bessette
Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 1552502244
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
In natural resource management research, best practice implies the participation of community members, research or development teams and other stakeholders to jointly identify research and development parameters and contribute to decision making. Ideally, the research or development process itself generates a situation of empowerment in which participants transform their vision and become able to take effective action. Used increasingly widely in resource management, this process is known as Participatory Development Communication (PDC).This book presents conceptual and methodological issues r.
Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 1552502244
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
In natural resource management research, best practice implies the participation of community members, research or development teams and other stakeholders to jointly identify research and development parameters and contribute to decision making. Ideally, the research or development process itself generates a situation of empowerment in which participants transform their vision and become able to take effective action. Used increasingly widely in resource management, this process is known as Participatory Development Communication (PDC).This book presents conceptual and methodological issues r.
West Africa
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description