Harmattan
Harmattan

Author: Gavin Weston

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 515

ISBN-13: 9781471222252

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Harmattan tells the story of Haoua, a young girl growing up in the Republic of Niger. Spirited independent and intelligent, she has benefitted from a loving and attentive mother. Haoua worships her elder brother, Abdelkrim, a serving soldier who sends money home to support the family. But, on his last home visit, Abdelkrim quarrels with their father accusing him of gambling away their money and being the cause of their mother's worsening health. As civil strife mounts in Niger, Haoua begins to fear for Abdelkrim's safety. Her mother's illness is much more serious than anyone had recognised and her father has threatening plans. Approaching her twelfth birthday, Haoua is vulnerable for the very first time in her life...

Harmattan
Harmattan

Author: Michael D. Jackson

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2015-04-21

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 0231539053

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We all experience qualms and anxieties when we move from the known to the unknown. Though our fulfillment in life may depend on testing limits, our faintheartedness is a reminder of our need for security and our awareness of the risks of venturing into alien worlds. Evoking the hot, dust-filled Harmattan winds that blow from the Sahara to the Gulf of Guinea, this book creatively explores what it means to be buffeted by the unforeseen and the unknown. Celebrating the life-giving potential of people, places, and powers that lie beyond our established worlds, Harmattan connects existential vitality to the act of resisting prescribed customs and questioning received notions of truth. At the book's heart is the fictional story of Tom Lannon, a graduate student from Cambridge University, who remains ambivalent about pursuing a conventional life. After traveling to Sierra Leone in the aftermath of its devastating civil war, Tom meets a writer who helps him explore the possibilities of renewal. Illustrating the fact that certain aspects of human existence are common to all people regardless of culture and history, Harmattan remakes the distinction between home and world and the relationship between knowledge and life.

Harmattan
Harmattan

Author: Marcello Di Cintio

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781894663328

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This is a travelogue of a different order: the searing beauty and somber reality of West Africa are distilled into poetic moments of refreshingly honest insight, a world transformed through the wide eyes of a new traveler.

The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar
The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar

Author: Syl Cheney-Coker

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2024-01-01

Total Pages: 587

ISBN-13: 1803288876

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Winner of the 1991 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Syl Cheney-Coker's acclaimed debut novel, The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar traces the history of a nation's rise and fall, as prophesied by an ancient sorcerer. A military general sits in one of Malagueta's prison cells, awaiting his execution. He has just failed to overthrow the government. In the same land, over two centuries ago, the wife of a formerly enslaved man takes her first steps towards freedom. From the creation of Malagueta to its devastating fall, Alusine Dunbar, the wizened old diviner, has prophesied it all. And what he sees, he calls a tragedy. One of Sierra Leone's most renowned novelists and poets, Sly Cheney-Coker creates a world teeming with magical realism as he paints the journey from precolonial Africa to its shaky independence.

Harmattan
Harmattan

Author: Michael Jackson

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780231172356

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A compelling work of ethnography, memoir, and fiction that explores the emancipatory power of transcending boundaries.

The Tale of the Harmattan
The Tale of the Harmattan

Author: Ojaide, Tanure

Publisher: Kraft Books

Published: 2016-10-06

Total Pages: 71

ISBN-13: 9789183119

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In this collection, Nigerian poet Tanure Ojaide adopts the persona of a homeboy griot returning from travels to be confronted by the devastation wrought by oil greed, politics, and technology upon his beloved Niger Delta; its environment, civilisation and people. It becomes a tragedy of corruption, suffering and dispossession in sharp contrast to the eco-sensitive animism of his youth. Angry, elegiac and lyrical, this collection allows the reader insight far beyond the reach of journalism or prose.

Gérard Grisey and Spectral Music
Gérard Grisey and Spectral Music

Author: Liam Cagney

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-11-30

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1009399535

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The first in-depth historical overview of spectral music, which is widely regarded, alongside minimalism, as one of the two most influential compositional movements of the last fifty years. Charting spectral music's development in France from 1972 to 1982, this ground-breaking study establishes how spectral music's innovations combined existing techniques from post-war music with the use of information technology. The first section focuses on Gérard Grisey, showing how he creatively developed techniques from Messiaen, Xenakis, Ligeti, Stockhausen and Boulez towards a distinctive style of music based on groups of sounds mutating in time. The second section shows how a wider generation of young composers centred on the Parisian collective L'Itinéraire developed a common vision of music embracing seismic developments in in psychoacoustics and computer sound synthesis. Framed against institutional and political developments in France, spectral music is shown as at once an inventive artistic response to the information age and a continuation of the French colouristic tradition.

Victim Organisations and the Politics of Reparation
Victim Organisations and the Politics of Reparation

Author: Heidy Rombouts

Publisher: Intersentia nv

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 558

ISBN-13: 9050954316

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Reparation for victims of gross and systematic human rights violations is a contemporary issue gaining increased attention in both national and international politics. Post-conflict societies have to face the legacies of the dark past and dealing with a large group of victims is one of them. Transitional justice mechanisms trying to cope with the past should not overlook the issue of reparation. This research demonstrates how reparation for victims of gross and systematic human rights violations differs from reparation for isolated violations. The Rwandan case study unveils the role of victim organisations in and the competition and politicisation of the reparation debate. Although reparation for victims is a crucial element in transitional justice, it becomes clear that the way in which the reparation debate unfolds does not necessarily contribute to the peaceful future of a post-conflict society. This study argues that remedying the process and debate of the search for reparation will lead to an improved and more constructive reparation policy. Heidy Rombouts is a legal and social scientist (1997, Master of Laws; 1999, Master in Social and Political Sciences, Catholic University of Leuven). In 2004 she obtained a PhD degree in Social and Political Sciences at the University of Antwerp for her research on victim organisations and the politics of reparation. For several years she has been conducting research on transitional justice, human rights and post-conflict situations, including extensive field research in South Africa and Rwanda.