Kukhorwa na Ciuta
Kukhorwa na Ciuta

Author: Bonet Byton Kamwela

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2024-08-21

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 9996080269

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Some people are convinced by many things that are less important in their lives. These things are short term and they come to an end. In this book I have written that people should be convinced by God. To be convinced by God is to believe that He is our Lord and Savior. It is to believe deep down our hearts that nothing is important than Him. It is to believe that God has authority over our lives. It is to choose eternal life. It is to have peace even when you face challenges. The list is endless. Indeed, God is the most powerful. There is no other savior but God alone. Therefore, serve him always. There are many people in the Bible who were convinced by God. They served the Lord by sacrificing their lives in all situations. I will discuss few of them. Wanthu wanandi chomene wali kukhorwa na vinthu vinandi vyambula kuwovwila pa umoyo wawo, vinthu ivyo wanthu wanandi wakukhorwa navyo, nvya kanyengo kachoko chomene ndipo vikumala. Buku ili likulongosola na zakukhorwa na chiuta. Munthu para wakhorwa na chiuta nanga wangasangana na suzgo uku uli, Chiuta wakutaska. Pachifukwa ichi, kukhorwa na Chiuta ntchakuzirwa kuluska kukhorwa na vinthu vya mu charu.

Towards a Malawian Theology of Laity
Towards a Malawian Theology of Laity

Author: Volker Glissmann

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2021-01-29

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9996066614

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A key theological emphasis of the church is the priesthood of all believers. This emphasis implies that lay empowerment and lay participation are central to what the church does. Yet, lay participation is a bit of an unfulfilled promise in many cases. This book brings together church leaders, theological educators, as well as practitioners who are actively involved in lay ministry here in Malawi, so that a stronger theology of laity for the Malawian church can emerge.

The Gospel Sounds Like the Witch's Spell
The Gospel Sounds Like the Witch's Spell

Author: Kiyoshi Umeya

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2022-02-10

Total Pages: 766

ISBN-13: 9956552798

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The Gospel Sounds Like the Witch's Spell is a highly detailed ethnography about how the Jopadhola in eastern Uganda talk about, interpret and cope with death, illness and other misfortunes. The book presents a provocative discussion that critiques the idea of the revival of witchcraft in the neo-liberalised contemporary world, as represented by the 'modernity model of witchcraft', and attempts to formulate a 'spiderweb model' that connects witchcraft to contemporary society in a more complex manner. The book is a unique ethnography of the collective memory of indigenous knowledge and local historicity. The author moves the reader from curse to misfortune to fortune as he plots the notion of 'curse' as deeply embedded in the Adhola way of life. He weaves between culture, religion, state and modernity with lived experience. Did the concept of witchcraft unwittingly endear the Adhola to the Christian way of life because of the presence of the notion of 'curse' in the Bible or make them less susceptible to the vagaries of modernity compared to their neighbours? These are some of the questions that the author puts on the table in a deeply reflective manner. The phenomenon of witchcraft is given an intriguing angle that invites the reader to reexamine earlier anthropological writings on the subject among African peoples.

Between Worlds
Between Worlds

Author: Rosabelle Boswell

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2022-03-03

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9956552666

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Because of the climate crisis and declining ocean health, humans are increasingly in a liminal space between this world and imaginary, alien worlds to come. The poems raise the issue of climate change by foregrounding the centrality, beauty, and significance of the ocean, and of marine life to humanity. They suggest that all species live 'between worlds': between fantasy and reality, dreaming and wakefulness, intuition and consciousness, water and air. We need all worlds to survive. Serendipitously, the poems were composed between dusk and dawn. They are both part-thoughts and whole thoughts that come to inspire my ethnographic writing.

Principles of Namibian Criminal Law
Principles of Namibian Criminal Law

Author: Dunia Zongwe

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2022-02-14

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9956552674

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This book reveals the oil that greases the wheels of one of Africa's best criminal justice systems. Principles of Namibian Criminal Law distils the major principles that help people answer this one big, life-defining question: Is the accused guilty? In 14 chapters, this book discusses principles that govern matters such as punishment, criminal liability, causation, unlawfulness, culpability, participation in crimes, and incomplete crimes. Largely inherited from South Africa, the principles of Namibian criminal law emanate mostly from common law and case law. Particularly, case law has been the channel through which lawyers in Namibia have, since Independence on 21 March 1990, molded their own criminal law doctrines. For that reason, this book heavily relies on the court cases that Namibian courts have forged since then. It showcases Namibia's South African heritage while giving pride of place to Namibia's homegrown jurisprudence - from the rules concerning corporate liability to the very definition of an 'accused'. Principles of Namibian Criminal Law will prove especially useful to law students who need to grasp the first principles of Namibian criminal law and to learn to think like lawyers, and to the seasoned practitioners (judges, attorneys, prosecutors, and police officers) who need to refresh their memories. The book should also serve the researchers and the comparatists looking for a window into how criminal justice actors think and resolve issues to make Namibia one of the continent's safest countries.

Essays on Pan-Africanism
Essays on Pan-Africanism

Author: Shiraz Durrani

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2022-02-22

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9914992102

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Essays on Pan-Africanism begins with essays by Shiraz Durrani, Abdilatif Abdulla, Issa Shivji, Firoze Manji, Sabatho Nyamsenda, Willy Mutunga and Noosim Naimasiah on various aspects of Pan-Africanism. This is followed by Remembering the Champions of African Liberation, with articles on Patrice Lumumba by Antoine Lokongo, Abdulrahman Babu by Amrit Wilson, Makhan Singh by Hindpal Singh and Piyo Rattansi, followed by Tajudeen Abdul Raheem's last Pan African Postcard (2009) and Debating and Documenting Africa - A Conversation. The Preface, Pan-African Thought, is by Prof. Issa Shivji. The book incorporates Karim Essack's compilation, The Pan African Path (1993) with historical records and documents on Pan-African history, with a new Preface by Prof. Issa Shivji. The final section has documents on Pan-Africanism, including the Kampala Declaration (1994)

Of Passion and Ink
Of Passion and Ink

Author: Dzekashu MacViban

Publisher:

Published: 2019-09-15

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781733752602

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From Limbe, the seaside city, to Kolofata in the north of Cameroon, Of Passion and Ink moves from stories of star-crossed lovers, mental health, dark fantasy, displacement, speculative futures to radicalization. These stories subvert what is believed to be the Cameroonian short story and offer exciting new directions.Selected from the Bakwa Magazine Short Story Prize, as well as commissioned, these stories herald new voices in Cameroonian fiction, by young writers who write in English and French.Stories by: Dipita Kwa, Bengono Essola Edouard, Monique Kwachou, Dzekashu MacViban, Howard M-B Maximus, Nkiacha Atemnkeng, A. Bouna Guazong, Rita Bakop, Momo Bertrand and Wise Nzikie Ngasa.

Nationalism, Politics and Anthropology
Nationalism, Politics and Anthropology

Author: Ilana van Wyk

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2022-02-28

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9956552437

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Africa is rich in (neo) traditional dances; yet, not much exists in the form of written literature on the subject. Even worse, existing documents date back to the colonial period and are often disparaging. Dance to Africans is what martial arts are to Asians. Embedded in them are some of the solutions to many of the problems wracking the African diaspora: gang violence, drug addiction, and high school dropout rates, etc. When Guinea's Ballets Africains first bursts on the international scene in the late fifties and sixties, the black revolution in the US was in full swing. The troupe's emancipatory message enkindled in African Americans a new sense of cultural pride and a return to their African roots. For once, dance became something else other than the ballet. With that burst of enthusiasm came the need to introduce African dances in the academia. Most of the research, however, focused mainly on dances which use drums (djembe). Departing from that tradition, in this detailed and richly choreographed ethnography on the Buum Oku Dance Yaounde, Thomas Jing's investigation into a xylophone-based dance opens up new research avenues and exposes the challenges involved. An Afrocentric theoretical framework to the research counters imperialist notions of African dances, thus setting them up as a tool for emancipation.

A History of Disappearance
A History of Disappearance

Author: Sarah Lubala

Publisher: Botsotso Publishing

Published: 2022-02-14

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 9781990922602

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Sarah Lubala is a Congolese-born poet. Her family fled the Democratic Republic of Congo two decades ago admidst political unrest as militant factions tried to overthrow the dictator Mobutu Sese Seko. Her family relocated first to Cape Town, South Africa, then Abidjan - the capital of the Ivory Coast - before returning to South Africa and settling in Johannesburg. She has since spent her life in various parts of Africa, Asia and Europe and believes herself to be from here, there, everywhere and nowhere. She currently lives in Johannesburg with her husband and cat. Sarah has been twice shortlisted for the Gerald Kraak Award, and once for The Brittle Paper Poetry Award as well as longlisted for the Sol Plaatje EU Poetry Award. She is also the winner of the Castello Di Duino XIV prize.

Iragbiji
Iragbiji

Author: Oba Abdul Rasheed Ayotunde Olabomi

Publisher:

Published: 2021-12-31

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9789789868568

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Iragbiji is the headquarters of Boripe Local Government Area (one of the 774 Local Government Areas in Nigeria) of Osun State, Nigeria. This book is designed as a "one-stop shop" for people all over the world to know and appreciate Iragbiji even when such person(s) may have not visited. Included is a History of the town's Origin, its name, and a report of Inquiries into the Aragbiji of Iragbiji (1957-2020). Attention is given to Iragbiji's urban planning: Family Compounds; Institution and Infrastructural Layout; and the Boripe Local Government Area. Also covered in the cultural and political realm are discussions on the efforts and role of traditional rulers, important traditional festivals in Iragbiji and the political structure of Iragbiji.