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Author: Issa G. Shivji
Publisher: Fahamu/Pambazuka
Published: 2009-04
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 190638746X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNeoliberal policies promised to correct multiple distortions in postcolonial Africa. But democratic politics, land reform, rights and freedom all suffered. Shivji calls for Africa-centred thinking that embraces the continent's right to self-determination.
Author: Oginga Odinga
Publisher: East African Publishers
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9789966460059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: M.G. Vassanji
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2012-09-04
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 1551997088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy the two-time winner of the Giller Prize for his novels The Book of Secrets and The In-Between World of Vikram Lall Uhuru Street is M.G. Vassanji’s stunning book of linked stories, set within the Asian community of Dar es Salaam. With delicate strokes, and with irony and humour, Vassanji brings alive the characters who live and work in the shops and tenements of Uhuru Street; among them: Roshan Mattress, so called because of her free and easy ways; a street-wise orphan fighting for survival; a Goan dressmaker who entertains her employers with local gossip; and a servant who opens up the world for the children in his charge, until he oversteps his bounds and has to leave. As the younger generation searches for a new destiny, and the older fiercely holds on to the past, Uhuru Street resonates with the moment of moving on, of leaving the place where we have roots, knowing that things will never be the same.
Author: Robert Chester Ruark
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 431
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Wangari Maathai
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2009-04-07
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0307378098
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this groundbreaking work, the Nobel Peace Prize-winner and founder of the Green Belt Movement offers a new perspective on the troubles facing Africa today. Too often these challenges are portrayed by the media in extreme terms connoting poverty, dependence, and desperation. Wangari Maathai, the author of Unbowed, sees things differently, and here she argues for a moral revolution among Africans themselves. Illuminating the complex and dynamic nature of the continent, Maathai offers “hardheaded hope” and “realistic options” for change and improvement. She deftly describes what Africans can and need to do for themselves, stressing all the while responsibility and accountability. Impassioned and empathetic, The Challenge for Africa is a book of immense importance.
Author: Wangari Maathai
Publisher: Lantern Books
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9781590560402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWangari Maathai, founder of The Green Belt Movement, tells its story including the philosophy behind it, its challenges, and objectives.
Author: Adrian Roscoe
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1977-06-30
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780521290890
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1977, this is an eminently readable introduction to contemporary literature in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa. The author examines work in verse, prose and drama, and discusses vernacular language problems, the role of oral literature and tradition and the varied responses to the struggle for freedom and its achievement. He argues that African literature is achieving its own inner dynamic, revealing a rapid spread of influences from one side of the continent to the other and a decrease in influences from the Western world. Part of his argument is based on a discussion of authors not yet known outside East and Central Africa, but whose works shows signs of great promise and originality. Dr Roscoe has close personal knowledge of many of the authors he discusses, as he has worked in East and Central African universities throughout the period of the literary awakening he discusses.
Author: Sokari Ekine
Publisher: Fahamu/Pambazuka
Published: 2010-01-30
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1906387354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProviding a unique insight into how activists and social change advocates are addressing Africa's many challenges from within, this collection of essays by those engaged in using mobile phone technologies for social change provides an analysis of the socioeconomic, political, and media contexts faced by activists in Africa today. The articles address a broad range of issues--including inequalities in access to technology based on gender and rural and urban usage--and it offers practical examples of how activists are using mobile technology to organize and document their experiences. An overview of the lessons learned in making effective use of mobile phone technologies without any of the romanticism so often associated with the use of new technologies for social change is given. Examples are shared in a way that makes them easy to replicate, hoping to lead to greater reflection about the real potential and limitations of mobile technologies. Contributors include Ken Banks, Nathan Eagle, Anil Naidoo, Berna Ngolobe, and Juliana Rotich.
Author: Axel Fleisch
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2016-05-23
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1785331647
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmploying an innovative methodological toolkit, Doing Conceptual History in Africa provides a refreshingly broad and interdisciplinary approach to African historical studies. The studies assembled here focus on the complex role of language in Africa's historical development, with a particular emphasis on pragmatics and semantics. From precolonial dynamics of wealth and poverty to the conceptual foundations of nationalist movements, each contribution strikes a balance between the local and the global, engaging with a distinctively African intellectual tradition while analyzing the regional and global contexts in which categories like "work," "marriage," and "land" take shape.
Author: Tribune Burden
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2011-12-06
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 146205112X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn top of one of the monuments itself in Peponi is a weapon, the Akin-Eno used by the Final King of the Humans a weapon so great the Serwans (a race of Noble Ones) refuse to acknowledge that it has human origins but to esclaves the Akin-Eno is a gift from Heaven that was given to them some time after creation from Origin, the Creator God. It is kept as a reminder by the Serwans of their victory over human kind... The Sentient War, the 600 year struggle that laid waste to the land of the humans and Ended the Age was told in every home. As it came to an end there had only been a few human kingdoms left who still posed a threat to permanent control of the land of Kiskeya. One Kingdom managed to unite neighboring territories through bloody civil wars and another had possession of the Tomb of Creation. It is said that during the battle the Final King took the Akin-Eno and plunged it into a tree turning it to diamond and ever since the human race has been enslaved for over 2000 years.
