African Passions and Other Stories
African Passions and Other Stories

Author: Beatriz Rivera

Publisher: Arte Publico Press

Published: 1995-03-01

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9781611920574

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African Passions, Beatriz RiveraÍs first collection of stories, is peopled by Hispanic women in the thrall of love of varying sorts, but always of overwhelming intensity. Passion, obsession, raucous humor, and satire are in store for the reader of this tour-de-force examination of Latina womanhood. A series of strong-minded women relentlessly pursue love and success as they move in and out of the reality of the New Jersey Hispanic barrio that bonds them: a frustrated professional woman who unsuccessfully strives for a wedding ring from her mamaÍs-boy lover, a recent college graduate applies for dead-end jobs while pursuing a traditional macho lover, an Italian-Puerto Rican princess gets caught up in a vicious cycle of destructive relationships, and a young Cuban matron wrecks husband, children, and her own well-being as she seeks the nirvana of material wealth and status.

Africa, My Passion
Africa, My Passion

Author: Corinne Hofmann

Publisher: Arcadia Books Limited

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9781908129451

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In an exquisite personal pilgrimage, Corinne Hofmann, author of the global bestseller The White Masai, delves into the slums of Nairobi to uncover the heart-warming and heart-breaking stories of unforgettable people and places. Joined by her half-Kenyan daughter, Napirai, and traveling Kenya together for the first time, they discover Napirai's roots and finally meet her father and half-siblings. Hofmann then treks 500 miles across the Namibian desert to discover the lives of the nomadic Himba people. "Narrated with genuine affection for all things African."--Kirkus Reviews, May 15, 2014

Born Wild
Born Wild

Author: Tony Fitzjohn

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2011-03-22

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0307716058

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Tony Fitzjohn, part missionary, part madman, has been called “one of the world’s most endangered creatures.” An internationally renowned field expert on African wildlife, he is best known for the eighteen years he spent helping Born Free’s George Adamson return more than forty leopards and lions—including the celebrated Christian—to the wild in central Kenya. Born Wild is the memoir of Fitzjohn’s extraordinary life. It shows how a man driven by an impossibly restless spirit can do almost anything, from being a bouncer in a brothel, to surviving a vicious lion attack, to fighting with the Tanzanian government, to being appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by the Queen. A notorious hell-raiser given to scrapes with bandits, evil policemen, and wicked politicians, who has been shot at by poachers and chewed up by lions, Fitzjohn is also a wonderful raconteur. Shenanigans aside, he belongs to that rare species of humans who have sought refuge and meaning in a life truly dedicated to the restoration of the animal kingdom. Many times Tony Fitzjohn has put his life on the line for the cause in which he believes. Born Wild is the story of that passion.

A Study Guide for Beatriz Rivera's "African Passions"
A Study Guide for Beatriz Rivera's

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

Published: 2016-07-14

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 1410339351

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A Study Guide for Beatriz Rivera's "African Passions," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

Lusaka Punk and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2015
Lusaka Punk and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2015

Author: Segun Afolabi

Publisher: New Internationalist

Published: 2015-06-22

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1780262299

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Now in its sixteenth year, the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa’s leading literary prize, and is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere. This collection collects the five 2015 shortlisted stories, along with stories written at the Caine Prize Writers’ Workshop, which took place in April 2015.

Private Passions
Private Passions

Author: Rochelle Alers

Publisher: Kimani Press

Published: 2012-03-20

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0373534744

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Successful journalist Emily Kirkland secretly marries her close friend and gubernatorial candidate Christopher Delgado, but their growing relationship is soon threatened by scandal and by powerful enemies out to destroy them.

Uncompromising Passion
Uncompromising Passion

Author: Eyram Tawia

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-10-22

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9781539652175

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A story of passion with purpose.This is Eyram's uncompromising and passionate story of grit and purpose. The story of a young man who pursued his dreams with such unwavering focus that all readers of this book will be inspired to do the same. Each one of us is entrusted with the prime responsibility for making our dreams come true. Eyram Akofa Tawia depicts that truth ever so clearly. This book is not a motivational book. It was not written to tell you, you can. It was written to tell you, you are already doing it. To unlock your potential of greatness as an African child. This book is not an autobiography. It is to show you what goes on in the mind of an African child. This book is to tell you to write your story for every breath on this continent is an adventure and worth writing about. This book believes in Africa's ability to globalize its discoveries.

A Passion to Liberate
A Passion to Liberate

Author: Fritz Pointer

Publisher: Africa World Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780865438187

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A literary biography of one of South Africa's most extraordinary and eminent men of letters, Justine Alexander La Guma, better known as Alex La Guma. Concerned with the writing life of one of South Africa's most prolific, eloquent and courageous authors, it covers his contribution in the fight to overturn apartheid as well as his literary work and journalism.

Cuban-American Fiction in English
Cuban-American Fiction in English

Author: M. Delores Carlito

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9780810856806

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This bibliography contains listings and annotations of all novels, anthologies, and short story collections written by the first, 1.5, and second generations of Cuban Americans. This work also contains listings and annotations of all secondary works dealing with this fiction, as well as related memoirs, autobiographies and interviews.