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Author: Lucinda E. Clarke
Publisher: Amie in Africa
Published: 2020-04-27
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9788409201419
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmie has returned to Africa and faces new challenges and dangers as she searches for the child she had fostered, before the civil war forced them apart.
Author: Lucinda E Clarke
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2015-09-22
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781517119867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the second of the Amie series, Amie sets off to look for the child she was fostering before the civil war broke out. This time she is up against a ruthless terrorist organization with international connections. She meets up with some old friends and meets a new one, but who can she trust? One of them will betray her. Set against the backdrop of the African bush, this is a fast moving, action packed adventure with several twists and turns. Amie faces dangers from the wildlife, both large and small, and the men who will kill without the slightest hesitation.
Author: Sahr John Yambasu
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: 2013-08-19
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 1490709800
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhere is home? There were plenty of twists and turns in Sahr Yambasus journey from a small remote village in Sierra Leone to becoming a Christian missionary in Ireland, driving a taxi in Galway and having a home in Carlow and Bray. This is a story of that journey. In telling it, Dr. Yambasu deals with the important and global themes of culture, colonization, change, resistance, conversion, displacement, development, identity, prejudice and the longing for his home country. He does so in an illuminating, thought-provoking, refreshingly honest and engaging way. This is a very human story which many who have left home to make a living in a different country and culture can easily identify with. Here is a distinctive voice which needs to be heard. What happens when a child in Africa sponsored by western charity grows up? Sahr John Yambasu was educated thanks to the philanthropy of a family of English Methodists and in the style of Edel Quinn made a pact with God to devote his life to spreading the Christian message. His route from frugal existence in Sierra Leone to life in ministry in Ireland, where he also became a war refugee, is told with great insight, humour and wisdom. The diaspora is a familiar theme in Irish literature but here we have the memoirs of an immigrant, a valuable realigning of the normal Irish perspective on the world. Sometimes moving and occasionally hilarious, Yambasu describes how he nearly gets himself run over crossing a street in Belfast just to greet another black man. As the father of three children in an inter-race marriage and one, moreover, who has worked as a Galway taxi-driver - he also questions Irelands avowed commitment to multiculturalism...a much wider audience will benefit from its reading. Joe Humphreys Irish Times journalist and author
Author: Yilla, Baimba
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2024-05-29
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Africa, the persistent cycle of socio-economic stagnation remains a formidable challenge, with myriad factors contributing to its endurance. From political instability to systemic corruption, this continent grapples with obstacles that hinder progress and perpetuate hardship for its people. The comprehensive book, Comparative Approach on Development and Socioeconomics of Africa, offers a fresh perspective on Africa's dilemma, illuminating the critical role of individual agency and cultural context in shaping its destiny. This book delves deep into the lived experiences of individuals across Africa, uncovering the intricate interplay between choice and culture. Through compelling narratives and rigorous research, it reveals how these factors influence socio-economic development and perpetuate the status quo. By addressing the root causes of Africa's challenges, this book provides a roadmap for change that empowers individuals and fosters a cultural environment conducive to growth and innovation.
Author: Robert Weis
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2020-08-27
Total Pages: 681
ISBN-13: 1544362307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReflecting the latest advancements in the field and complete DSM–5 criteria, Robert Weis’ Introduction to Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology provides students with a comprehensive and practical introduction to child psychopathology. The book uses a developmental psychopathology approach to explore the emergence of disorders over time, describe the risks and protective factors that influence developmental processes and trajectories, and examine child psychopathology in relation to typical development and children’s sociocultural context. The fully revised Fourth Edition includes a new chapter on research methods, a greater emphasis on the ways social-cultural factors affect each disorder covered, and recent research findings on topics such as autism spectrum disorder and adolescents’ use of nicotine and marijuana vaping products.
Author: JoAnn D'Alisera
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2004-01-08
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 0812218744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author argues that anthropological paradigms of separate, bounded, & unique communities, geographically located & neatly localised, must be reconsidered. She shows how Sierra Leonean Muslims living in Washington D.C. maintain community ties across both vast urban spaces & national boundaries.
Author: African Union
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Published: 2023-02-14
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 923100574X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Yaw Ofosu-Kus
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2017-07-19
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 2869787375
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on African childhood and youth within the context of development and socialization where children are expected to be moulded in the image of adults. In many African societies children are generally held as passive bearers of the demands of adults, regardless of the fact that they are often exposed to a multitude of challenges that originate from the capriciousness of those adults. However, buoyed by international conventions and national legislations that offer them greater protection, and the ubiquitous internet that exposes them to childhood and youth experiences elsewhere, many of them are increasingly becoming assertive in homes, schools, and communities as well as re-invigorating their survival and self-preservation instincts. It is in this regard that this book, through the various chapters, engages with their competencies, skills and creativity to respond to experiential challenges as independent migrants or ones under coercion working in city streets and markets or cocoa farms or juggling work and schooling in pursuit of some education. Confronted with their parents and siblings health predicaments and the inadequacies of state and familial care, or urgent negotiation of their sexualities, they demonstrate incredible resilience. Similarly, their perceptiveness is demonstrated in a unique appreciation of politics and its actors and a capacity to assume responsibilities beyond their chronological age. Thus while highlighting some of the challenges confronting African children, the book provides gripping evidence of how they resiliently negotiate those challenges.
Author: K. Martial Frindéthié
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2008-04-21
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0786436638
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work explores the limits and prospects of Afro-Caribbean Francophone writers in reshaping or producing action-oriented literature. It shows how Francophone literatures have followed a hegemonic discourse that leaves little room for thinking outside of traditional cultural and ideological conventions. Part One explores the origins of Afro-Caribbean Francophone literature and what the author terms "griotism"--a shared heritage of awareness of biological differences, a sense of the black hero as black messiah and black people as chosen, and the promise of a common racial history. Part Two discusses the formidable grip of griotism on Fanon, Mudimbe, the champions of Creolity (Bernabe, Chamoiseau, and Confiant), and well-read African women writers (Aminata Sow Fall, and Mariama Ba). Part Three seeks to subvert the discourse of griotism in order to propose a new autonomy for Francophone African writers.
Author: Jean Wyatt
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-01-28
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 0429581351
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContemporary African American and Black British Women Writers: Narrative, Race, Ethics brings together British and American scholars to explore how, in texts by contemporary black women writers in the U. S. and Britain, formal narrative techniques express new understandings of race or stimulate ethical thinking about race in a reader. Taken together, the essays also demonstrate that black women writers from both sides of the Atlantic borrow formal structures and literary techniques from one another to describe the workings of structural racism in the daily lives of black subjects and to provoke readers to think anew about race. Narratology has only recently begun to use race as a category of narrative theory. This collection seeks both to show the ethical effects of narrative form on individual readers and to foster reconceptualizations of narrative theory that account for the workings of race within literature and culture.
