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Download or read book African Seasons written by Craig Bone and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mana Pools National Park in Zimbabwe is one of Africa's great national parks. The terrain varies from thick bush, to sparse woodlands, to river floodplain. Living there is a complex cross-section of the animal kingdom -- lions, cheetahs, eagles, impala, elephants and a host of other creatures, large and small. They are all depicted here in beautiful full color paintings and black and white drawings.
Book Synopsis The Last Hunger Season by : Roger Thurow
Download or read book The Last Hunger Season written by Roger Thurow and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 4:00 am, Leonida Wanyama lit a lantern in her house made of sticks and mud. She was up long before the sun to begin her farm work, as usual. But this would be no ordinary day, this second Friday of the new year. This was the day Leonida and a group of smallholder farmers in western Kenya would begin their exodus, as she said, "from misery to Canaan," the land of milk and honey. Africa's smallholder farmers, most of whom are women, know misery. They toil in a time warp, living and working essentially as their forebears did a century ago. With tired seeds, meager soil nutrition, primitive storage facilities, wretched roads, and no capital or credit, they harvest less than one-quarter the yields of Western farmers. The romantic ideal of African farmers -- rural villagers in touch with nature, tending bucolic fields -- is in reality a horror scene of malnourished children, backbreaking manual work, and profound hopelessness. Growing food is their driving preoccupation, and still they don't have enough to feed their families throughout the year. The wanjala -- the annual hunger season that can stretch from one month to as many as eight or nine -- abides. But in January 2011, Leonida and her neighbors came together and took the enormous risk of trying to change their lives. Award-winning author and world hunger activist Roger Thurow spent a year with four of them -- Leonida Wanyama, Rasoa Wasike, Francis Mamati, and Zipporah Biketi -- to intimately chronicle their efforts. In The Last Hunger Season, he illuminates the profound challenges these farmers and their families face, and follows them through the seasons to see whether, with a little bit of help from a new social enterprise organization called One Acre Fund, they might transcend lives of dire poverty and hunger. The daily dramas of the farmers' lives unfold against the backdrop of a looming global challenge: to feed a growing population, world food production must nearly double by 2050. If these farmers succeed, so might we all.
Author :Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki Publisher :Institute of Southeast Asian Studies ISBN 13 :9812303340 Total Pages :34 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (123 download)
Book Synopsis Africa's Season of Hope by : Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
Download or read book Africa's Season of Hope written by Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2005 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the text of the Singapore Lecture delivered by Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki on 21 April 2005.
Book Synopsis African Series by : United States. Department of State
Download or read book African Series written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by : Emmanuel Acho
Download or read book Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man written by Emmanuel Acho and published by Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent primer on race and racism, from the host of the viral hit video series “Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man” “You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have.” So begins Emmanuel Acho in his essential guide to the truths Americans need to know to address the systemic racism that has recently electrified protests in all fifty states. “There is a fix,” Acho says. “But in order to access it, we’re going to have to have some uncomfortable conversations.” In Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man, Acho takes on all the questions, large and small, insensitive and taboo, many white Americans are afraid to ask—yet which all Americans need the answers to, now more than ever. With the same open-hearted generosity that has made his video series a phenomenon, Acho explains the vital core of such fraught concepts as white privilege, cultural appropriation, and “reverse racism.” In his own words, he provides a space of compassion and understanding in a discussion that can lack both. He asks only for the reader’s curiosity—but along the way, he will galvanize all of us to join the antiracist fight.
Book Synopsis African Series by : United States. Dept. of State
Download or read book African Series written by United States. Dept. of State and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Peace Corps Volunteer written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Peace Corps Volunteer, a Quarterly Statistical Summary by : Peace Corps (U.S.). Division of Volunteer Support
Download or read book The Peace Corps Volunteer, a Quarterly Statistical Summary written by Peace Corps (U.S.). Division of Volunteer Support and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Improving effective use of seasonal forecasts in South Africa by : Vincent, Katharine
Download or read book Improving effective use of seasonal forecasts in South Africa written by Vincent, Katharine and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study showed that El Niño no longer strikes the same fear as it used to, even in the agricultural sector where the negative impacts of the 1997-98 and 1982-83 events are within living memory. The widespread drought associated with the El Niño event of 2015/16 (subsequent to this study) may, however, reverse this trend and promote greater interest in the role of ENSOs in seasonal forecasts. There is little demand for El Niño-specific forecasts outside of agricultural research. However there is evidence for the use of seasonal forecasts in the agriculture, water and disaster preparedness and response sectors in South Africa.
Book Synopsis My Life as an African by : Godfrey Mwakikagile
Download or read book My Life as an African written by Godfrey Mwakikagile and published by New Africa Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an autobiographical work covering a wide range of subjects including a number of major events relevant to Africa and the African diaspora.
Book Synopsis High on the Hog by : Jessica B. Harris
Download or read book High on the Hog written by Jessica B. Harris and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of The Africa Cookbook presents a history of the African Diaspora on two continents, tracing the evolution of culturally representative foods ranging from chitlins and ham hocks to fried chicken and vegan soul.
Download or read book Season of Rains written by Stephen Ellis and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa is playing a more important role in world affairs than ever before. Yet the most common images of Africa in the American mind are ones of poverty, starvation, and violent conflict. But while these problems are real, that does not mean that Africa is a lost cause. Instead, as Stephen Ellis explains in Season of Rains, we need to rethink Africa’s place in time if we are to understand it in all its complexity—it is a region where growth and prosperity coexist with failed states. This engaging, accessible book by one of the world’s foremost researchers on Africa captures the broad spectrum of political, economic, and social foundations that make Africa what it is today. Ellis is careful not to position himself in the futile debate between Afro-optimists and Afro-pessimists. The forty-nine diverse nations that make up sub-Saharan Africa are neither doomed to fail nor destined to succeed. As he assesses the challenges of African sovereignties, Ellis is not under the illusion that governments will suddenly become more benevolent and less corrupt. Yet, he sees great dynamism in recent technological and economic developments. The proliferation of mobile phones alone has helped to overcome previous gaps in infrastructure, African retail markets are becoming integrated, and banking is expanding. Businesses from China and emerging powers from the West are investing more than ever before in the still land-rich region, and globalization is offering possibilities of enormous economic change for the growing population of one billion Africans, actively engaged in charting the future of their continent. This highly readable survey of the continent today offers an indispensable guide to how money, power, and development are shaping Africa’s future.
Book Synopsis The African Renaissance and the Afro-Arab Spring by : Charles Villa-Vicencio
Download or read book The African Renaissance and the Afro-Arab Spring written by Charles Villa-Vicencio and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hope and despair surrounding the Afro-Arab Spring in North Africa has only begun to be played out in regional and global politics. And the call for an African renaissance that followed the miraculous political transition in South Africa is, twenty years later, viewed with similar ambiguity. What is clear is that current developments in Africa, north and south, promise something markedly different from what has prevailed at any point since the dawn of the African independence movements of the 1950s and 60s. But the continent's own identity remains unresolved, posing the question whether and how its multiple and divergent experiences can be understood and perhaps woven into a basis for unity. Contributors to this volume explore whether or not events north of the Sahara and on the southern tip of Africa can be catalysts for change in other parts of the continent. Chapters assesses the nature of political resistance, revolution, and transition in North and Southern Africa, addressing critical factors--economics, culture, gender, theology--that reveal the promises and perils of African reform. Includes a foreword by former South African president Thabo Mbeki.
Book Synopsis Africa Since 1940 by : Frederick Cooper
Download or read book Africa Since 1940 written by Frederick Cooper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-10 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Book Synopsis The British Empire Series: British Africa by :
Download or read book The British Empire Series: British Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis African Culture and Global Politics by : Toyin Falola
Download or read book African Culture and Global Politics written by Toyin Falola and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume attempts to insert itself within the larger discussion of Africa in the twenty-first century, especially within the realm of world politics. Despite the underwhelming amount of attention given to Africa's role in international politics in popular news sources, it is evident that Africa has a consistent record of participating in world politics- one that pre-dates colonization and continues today. In continuance of this legacy of active participation in global political exchanges, Africans today can be heard in dialogues that span the world and their roles are impossible to replace by other entities. It is evident that a vastly different Africa exists than ones that bolster images of starvation, corruption, and compliance. The essays in this volume center on Africa and Africans participating in international political discourses, but with an emphasis on various forms of expression and philosophies, as these factors heavily influence Africa's role as a participant in global politics. The reader will find a variety of essays that permeate surface discussions of politics and political activism by inserting African culture, rhetoric, philosophies into the larger discussion of international politics and Africa's role in worldwide political, social, and economic debates.
Book Synopsis Africa on the Contemporary London Stage by : Tiziana Morosetti
Download or read book Africa on the Contemporary London Stage written by Tiziana Morosetti and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays investigates the way Africa has been portrayed on the London stage from the 1950s to the present. It focuses on whether — and, if so, to what extent — the Africa that emerges from the London scene is subject to stereotype, and/or in which ways the reception of audiences and critics have contributed to an understanding of the continent and its arts. The collection, divided into two parts, brings together well-established academics and emerging scholars, as well as playwrights, directors and performers currently active in London. With a focus on Wole Soyinka, Athol Fugard, Bola Agbaje, Biyi Bandele, and Dipo Agboluaje, amongst others, the volume examines the work of key companies such as Tiata Fahodzi and Talawa, as well as newer companies Two Gents, Iroko Theatre and Spora Stories. Interviews with Rotimi Babatunde, Ade Solanke and Dipo Agboluaje on the contemporary London scene are also included.
