African Novels in the Classroom

African Novels in the Classroom

Author: Margaret Jean Hay

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9781555878788

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Many teachers of African studies have found novels to be effective assignments in courses. In this guide, teachers describe their favourite African novels - drawn from all over the continent - and share their experiences of using them in the classroom.


Teaching the African Novel

Teaching the African Novel

Author: Gaurav Desai

Publisher: Modern Language Association of America

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781603290371

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What is the African novel, and how should it be taught? The twenty-three essays of this volume address these two questions and in the process convey a wealth of information and ideas about the diverse regions, peoples, nations, languages, and writers of the African continent. Topics include Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's favoring of indigenous languages and literary traditions over European; the special place of Marxism in African letters;the influence of Frantz Fanon; women writers and the sub-Saharan novel;the Maghrebian novel;the novel and the griot epic in the Sahel;Islam in the West African novel;novels in Spanish from Equatorial Guinea;apartheid and postapartheid fiction;African writers in the diaspora;globalization in East African fiction; teaching Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart to students in different countries;the Onitsha market romance. The volume editor, Gaurav Desai, writes, "The point of the volume is to encourage a reading of Africa that is sensitive to its history of colonization but at the same time responsive to its present multiracial and multicultural condition."


Chike and the River

Chike and the River

Author: Chinua Achebe

Publisher: Penguin Books

Published: 2011-08-09

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 0307473864

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After an 11-year-old Nigerian boy leaves his small village to live with his uncle in the city, he is exposed to a range of new experiences and becomes fascinated with crossing the Niger River on a ferry boat.


The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born

The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born

Author: Ayi Kwei Armah

Publisher: Heinemann

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780435905408

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A beginners' guide to the fundamentals of the Dru meditation technique, a method for soothing the mind and relaxing the emotions. The programme includes six short guided meditations designed to instill a sense of profound stillness, quieten and calm a stressed mind and reconnect with the important aspects of life. Each nine-minute meditations is based on one of the elements: Earth, Water, Light, Air and Sky.


I Lost My Tooth in Africa

I Lost My Tooth in Africa

Author: Penda Diakité

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780439662260

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Penda Diakité joins forces with her award-winning author/artist father to give a charming peek at everyday life in Africa. "This fact-based story of losing a tooth while visiting family in Mali rings with authenticity and good humour...[T]he illustrations exude happiness and togetherness." - The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books


Long Way Down

Long Way Down

Author: Jason Reynolds

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2020-10-13

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1534444971

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A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) Jason Reynolds’s Newbery Honor, Printz Honor, and Coretta Scott King Honor–winning, #1 New York Times bestselling novel Long Way Down is now a gripping, galvanizing graphic novel, with haunting artwork by Danica Novgorodoff. Will’s older brother, Shawn, has been shot. Dead. Will feels a sadness so great, he can’t explain it. But in his neighborhood, there are THE RULES: No. 1: Crying. Don’t. No matter what. No. 2: Snitching Don’t. No matter what. No. 3: Revenge Do. No matter what. But bullets miss. You can get the wrong guy. And there’s always someone else who knows to follow the rules…


Trinity High

Trinity High

Author: Lokko, CNN

Publisher: Afram Publications (Ghana)

Published: 2014-06-12

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9964705239

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Back to School, the sequel to Trinity High: Students in crime is full of adventure, mischief and fun. It captures the last two terms of the Form One experience for Naa Atswei and her friends. Together, the girls figure out how to beat the system and survive in the jungle. Whether they willingly chase some adventures or are drawn in unintentionally. The girls do what they alone do best: they keep readers at the edge of their seats!


Efuru

Efuru

Author: Flora Nwapa

Publisher: Waveland Press

Published: 2013-10-21

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1478613270

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Appearing in 1966, Efuru was the first internationally published book, in English, by a Nigerian woman. Flora Nwapa (1931–1993) sets her story in a small village in colonial West Africa as she describes the youth, marriage, motherhood, and eventual personal epiphany of a young woman in rural Nigeria. The respected and beautiful protagonist, an independent-minded Ibo woman named Efuru, wishes to be a mother. Her eventual tragedy is that she is not able to marry or raise children successfully. Alone and childless, Efuru realizes she surely must have a higher calling and goes to the lake goddess of her tribe, Uhamiri, to discover the path she must follow. The work, a rich exploration of Nigerian village life and values, offers a realistic picture of gender issues in a patriarchal society as well as the struggles of a nation exploited by colonialism.


The Life of Frederick Douglass

The Life of Frederick Douglass

Author: David F. Walker

Publisher: Ten Speed Graphic

Published: 2019-01-08

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0399581448

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A graphic novel biography of the escaped slave, abolitionist, public speaker, and most photographed man of the nineteenth century, based on his autobiographical writings and speeches, spotlighting the key events and people that shaped the life of this great American. Recently returned to the cultural spotlight, Frederick Douglass's impact on American history is felt even in today's current events. Comic book writer and filmmaker David F. Walker joins with the art team of Damon Smyth and Marissa Louise to bring the long, exciting, and influential life of Douglass to life in comic book form. Taking you from Douglass's life as a young slave through his forbidden education to his escape and growing prominence as a speaker, abolitionist, and influential cultural figure during the Civil War and beyond, The Life of Frederick Douglass presents a complete illustrated portrait of the man who stood up and spoke out for freedom and equality. Along the way, special features provide additional background on the history of slavery in the United States, the development of photography (which would play a key role in the spread of Douglass's image and influence), and the Civil War. Told from Douglass's point of view and based on his own writings, The Life of Frederick Douglass provides an up-close-and-personal look at a history-making American who was larger than life.


Diamond Boy

Diamond Boy

Author: Michael Williams

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2014-12-02

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 0316320668

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My father says that a journey should always change your life in some way. Well, when you have nothing, I suppose a journey promises everything. "Diamonds for everyone." That's what fifteen-year-old Patson Moyo hears when his family arrives in the Marange diamond fields. Soon Patson is working in the mines along with four friends, pooling their profits for a chance at a better life. Each of them hopes to find a girazi, a priceless stone that could change their circumstances forever. But when the government's soldiers come to Marange, Patson's world is shattered. Set against the backdrop of Zimbabwe's brutal recent history, Diamond Boy is the story of a young man who succumbs to greed but finds his way out through a transformative journey to South Africa in search of his missing sister, in search of freedom, and in search of himself. A high-stakes, harrowing adventure in the blood-diamond fields of southern Africa, from the critically acclaimed author of Now Is the Time for Running.