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Author: Nadezda Obradovic
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2002-12-03
Total Pages: 396
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThirty-four powerful stories that inform, entertain, and illuminate from the best emerging and award-winning African writers working today, including nine new stories that detail struggles with the legacy of colonialism, countries torn apart by civil war, and the growing AIDS epidemic. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author: Charles R. Larson
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0374211787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn anthology of short stories by African writers from a dozen countries. The subjects range from war and politics to problems with domestics and African humor. Some stories were written in English, others are translations from Arabic, French and Portuguese. All were written in the latter part of the 20th century.
Author: Chinua Achebe
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780435905668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of 20 stories written between 1980-1991 which deal with themes relevant to various regions of Africa.
Author: ELLIS AYITEY KOMEY, EZEKIEL MPHAHLELE
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 238
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Barbara H. Solomon
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-12-31
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 1101617446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEncompassing many different visions of Africa, the stories in this comprehensive collection feature characters struggling to survive grinding poverty, tyrannical governments, cultural upheavals, and disintegrating relationships. Reflecting a continent with a tragic history, An African Quilt depicts a place where even everyday life is extraordinary, and the continent’s history changes what it means to be a woman, an employee, a couple, a passerby, and, of course, a citizen. Revealed through the backdrop of postcolonial Africa, the struggles within these stories resonate beyond their context and appeal to every reader’s sense of what it means to be human. Includes Stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nadine Gordimer (Winner of the Nobel Prize), Bessie Head, Doris Lessing (Winner of the Nobel Prize), Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and Others
Author: Gerald Moore
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780141181004
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers a selection of African poetry arranged by country
Author: Stephen Gray
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 228
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Syl Cheney-Coker
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2013-03-11
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 0821444654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe reincarnation of a legendary nineteenth-century Caribbean emperor as a contemporary African leader is at the heart of this novel. Sacred River deals with the extraordinary lives, hopes, powerful myths, stories, and tragedies of the people of a modern West African nation. It is also the compelling love story of an idealistic philosophy professor and an ex-courtesan of incomparable beauty. Two hundred years after his death, the great Haitian emperor Henri Christophe miraculously appears in a dream to Tankor Satani, president of the fictional West African country of Kissi, with instructions for Tankor to continue Henri Christophe’s rule, which had been interrupted by “that damned Napoleon.” Ambitious in scope, Sacred River is a diaspora-inspired novel, in which Cheney-Coker has tackled the major themes of politics, social strife, crime and punishment, and human frailty and redemption in Malagueta, the fictional, magical town and its surroundings first created by the author in The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar, for which he was awarded the coveted Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Sacred River is equally about love and politics, and marks the return to fiction of one of Africa’s major writers.
Author: Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2021-02-23
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 0821447300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn epic story of a Bedouin family’s survival and legacy amid their changing world in the unforgiving Sahara Desert. Ahmed is a camel herder, as his father was before him and as his young son Abdullahi will be after him. The days of Ahmed and the other families in their nomadic freeg are ruled by the rhythms of changing seasons, the needs of his beloved camel herd, and the rich legends and stories that link his life to centuries of tradition. But Ahmed’s world is threatened—by the French colonizers just beyond the horizon, the urbanization of the modern world, and a drought more deadly than any his people have known. At first, Ahmed attempts to ignore these forces by concentrating on the ancient routines of herding life. But these routines are broken when a precious camel named Zarga goes missing. Saddling his trusted Laamesh, praying at the appointed hours, and singing the songs of his fathers for strength, Ahmed sets off to recover Zarga on a perilous journey that will bring him face to face with the best and the worst of humanity and test every facet of his Bedouin desert survival skills.
Author: Basil Davidson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-07-10
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 131789393X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBasil Davidson's famous book -- now updated in a welcome Third Edition -- reviews the social and political history of Africa in the twentieth century. It takes the reader from the colonial era through the liberation movements to independence and beyond. It faces squarely the disappointments and breakdowns that have dulled the early successes of the post-colonial era; yet, for all the sorrows and uncertainties of Africa today, Basil Davidson shows how much has been achieved since decolonization, and the mood of his new final chapter is hopeful and buoyant.
