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Congo Love Song

Author : Ira Dworkin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469632721
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Congo Love Song written by Ira Dworkin and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his 1903 hit "Congo Love Song," James Weldon Johnson recounts a sweet if seemingly generic romance between two young Africans. While the song's title may appear consistent with that narrative, it also invokes the site of King Leopold II of Belgium's brutal colonial regime at a time when African Americans were playing a central role in a growing Congo reform movement. In an era when popular vaudeville music frequently trafficked in racist language and imagery, "Congo Love Song" emerges as one example of the many ways that African American activists, intellectuals, and artists called attention to colonialism in Africa. In this book, Ira Dworkin examines black Americans' long cultural and political engagement with the Congo and its people. Through studies of George Washington Williams, Booker T. Washington, Pauline Hopkins, Langston Hughes, Malcolm X, and other figures, he brings to light a long-standing relationship that challenges familiar presumptions about African American commitments to Africa. Dworkin offers compelling new ways to understand how African American involvement in the Congo has helped shape anticolonialism, black aesthetics, and modern black nationalism.

Bonobo Handshake

Author : Vanessa Woods
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101528834
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Bonobo Handshake written by Vanessa Woods and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman follows her fiancé to war-torn Congo to study extremely endangered bonobo apes-who teach her a new truth about love and belonging. In 2005, Vanessa Woods accepted a marriage proposal from a man she barely knew and agreed to join him on a research trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country reeling from a brutal decade-long war that had claimed the lives of millions. Settling in at a bonobo sanctuary in Congo's capital, Vanessa and her fiancé entered the world of a rare ape with whom we share 98.7 percent of our DNA. She soon discovered that many of the inhabitants of the sanctuary-ape and human alike-are refugees from unspeakable violence, yet bonobos live in a peaceful society in which females are in charge, war is nonexistent, and sex is as common and friendly as a handshake. A fascinating memoir of hope and adventure, Bonobo Handshake traces Vanessa's self-discovery as she finds herself falling deeply in love with her husband, the apes, and her new surroundings while probing life's greatest question: What ultimately makes us human? Courageous and extraordinary, this true story of revelation and transformation in a fragile corner of Africa is about looking past the differences between animals and ourselves, and finding in them the same extraordinary courage and will to survive. For Vanessa, it is about finding her own path as a writer and scientist, falling in love, and finding a home. Watch a Video

Science Bulletin

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Science Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Africa Presents The Congo RDC And A Congolese Woman Chief (Mfumu-Nkento)

Author : Bepona Collection
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0985923032
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book Africa Presents The Congo RDC And A Congolese Woman Chief (Mfumu-Nkento) written by Bepona Collection and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen

Author : Lisa Shannon
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 1610394453
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen written by Lisa Shannon and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven by her family’s devastating losses, Congolese expatriate Francisca Thelin embarks, with human rights activist Lisa J. Shannon, on a perilous journey back to her beloved homeland, now under the shadow of one of Africa’s most feared militias—Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army. With gunmen camped at the edge of town, Francisca is forced to face a paralyzing clash between her life in America and her family’s rapidly evaporating world—and the reality that their rush to her family’s aid may backfire. Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen weaves Francisca’s journey with stories of the family’s harrowing encounters with gunmen and tales from their past to create a vivid, illuminating portrait of a place and its people. We hear of Mama Koko’s early life as a gap-toothed beauty plotting to escape her inevitable fate of wife and motherhood; of Papa Alexander’s empire of wives, each of whom he married because she cooked and cleaned and made good coffee; and of Francisca’s idyllic childhood, when she ran barefoot through the family’s coffee plantation gorging herself on mangoes and fish that “were the size of small children.” Offering compelling testimony to the strength of the human spirit and the beauty of human connection in the darkest of times, Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen also explores what it means and requires to truly make a difference in an unjust and often violent world.

Love, Africa

Author : Jeffrey Gettleman
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062284118
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Love, Africa written by Jeffrey Gettleman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Jeffrey Gettleman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist, comes a passionate, revealing story about finding love and finding a calling, set against one of the most turbulent regions in the world. A seasoned war correspondent, Jeffrey Gettleman has covered every major conflict over the past twenty years, from Afghanistan to Iraq to the Congo. For the past decade, he has served as the East Africa bureau chief for the New York Times, fulfilling a teenage dream. At nineteen, Gettleman fell in love, twice. On a do-it-yourself community service trip in college, he went to East Africa—a terrifying, exciting, dreamlike part of the world in the throes of change that imprinted itself on his imagination and on his heart. But around that same time he also fell in love with a fellow Cornell student—the brightest, classiest, most principled woman he’d ever met. To say they were opposites was an understatement. She became a criminal lawyer in America; he hungered to return to Africa. For the next decade he would be torn between these two abiding passions. A sensually rendered coming-of-age story in the tradition of Barbarian Days, Love, Africa is a tale of passion, violence, far-flung adventure, tortuous long-distance relationships, screwing up, forgiveness, parenthood, and happiness that explores the power of finding yourself in the most unexpected of places.

Africa Presents The Congo RDC And CHILD EDUCATION

Author : Bepona Collection
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0985923040
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book Africa Presents The Congo RDC And CHILD EDUCATION written by Bepona Collection and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child education in the Bantu society of the Congo RDC is based on their ancestors' virtues, namely Hygiene, Refinement, Justice, Respect, Love, Integrity, Hospitality, and Auto-sufficiency. Read more and find out the entire process.

By the Grace of God

Author : Judith Briles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780882821719
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book By the Grace of God written by Judith Briles and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do Monica Lewinsky, Nancy Kerrigan, Mary Jo Buttafuocco and Hillary Clinton have in common? They were all sabotaged by other women.Since the controversy stirred by Woman to Woman, the Chicago Tribune 1987 Business Book of the Year, Dr. Judith Briles has spoken to thousands of women about this insidious problem permeating politics, business, media and relationships. Her latest edition reveals a 45% increase in sabotaging incidences and offers strategies to deal with this destructive behavior and a game plan to restore a healthy home and workplace.

The "Vass" Continent of Africa: a Love Story

Author : Elizabeth "Lilibet" Vass Wilkerson
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1664291644
Total Pages : 725 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book The "Vass" Continent of Africa: a Love Story written by Elizabeth "Lilibet" Vass Wilkerson and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the story of the lives of Winifred Kellersberger Vass and Lachlan Cumming Vass -- how they met, fell in love and became missionaries in the Belgian Congo as told in letters they wrote to their friends, family, and supporting churches back in the United States. There are many exciting adventures and Winnie Vass is a story teller par excellence!! From heartbreak to thrills -- you will find it all in this book!!

Providence Pond

Author : Beresford McLean
Publisher : Anancy Books
ISBN 13 : 0975329715
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (753 download)

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Download or read book Providence Pond written by Beresford McLean and published by Anancy Books. This book was released on 2005-12-22 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted in Jamaican folklore and African mythology, Providence Pond by novelist Beresford McLean is a remarkable tale depicting British attempts to influence ancient African customs in the process of reshaping Providence, Jamaica. Engaging the reader with its exceptionally well written and quite unique perspective, Providence Pond draws upon the communal Jamaican lifestyle centered in the African mores of Kumina wisdom and the everyday experiences of the Jamaican natives as their family concepts of love, truth, and hope are all threatened by the largely British-dominant society. Highly entertaining, Providence Pond is very strongly recommended reading and a welcome addition to any community library fiction collection. Bitter conflict and raw excitement abound as deep religious and political fervor divide and set ablaze the Caribbean community of Providence Pond, a former British slave holding in the futile valleys of western St. Mary, Jamaica. As this community struggles for life and definition following the passing of slavery, the imperative - which native religion, political ideology, or vestige of British thinking will prevail to lead the nascent community - must be resolved. During slavery the answer was clear: British thought must prevail. The eventual collapse of the strong, central British control gave rise to African traditions that were long kept semi-dormant in the distant backlands of huge slave plantation. Various factions - African, Indian, and British - vie for social and political dominance. The momentous events of Providence Pond are staged above the backdrop of the still larger conflict of World War 1. In Providence Pond there is first a triangular grouping derived from remnants of Ashanti, Congo and, British elements locked in the struggle to define the "only way." As the country forges along and the conflict in Providence Pond escalates, Congo King the leader of the forbidden Kumina sect, finds himself pitted in impending battle against the ad hoc Ashanti-Christian coalition - lead by the Anglican Reverend, Bernard Watkins. The torch is set! McLean's Providence Pond is a tale of wisdom and deep socio-political insight. It offers a fresh opportunity - yet another way of looking at our own modern conditions: to reevaluate past credence and prejudices - and finding new ways of courageously living old concepts.

News from Belgium and the Belgian Congo

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book News from Belgium and the Belgian Congo written by and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Adventures of Congo in Search of His Master

Author : Mrs. John Farrar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Congo in Search of His Master written by Mrs. John Farrar and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Everfair

Author : Nisi Shawl
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 076533805X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Everfair written by Nisi Shawl and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An "alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's ... colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier"--Amazon.com.

A Higher Mission

Author : Kimberly D. Hill
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813179831
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book A Higher Mission written by Kimberly D. Hill and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this vital transnational study, Kimberly D. Hill critically analyzes the colonial history of central Africa through the perspective of two African American missionaries: Alonzo Edmiston and Althea Brown Edmiston. The pair met and fell in love while working as a part of the American Presbyterian Congo Mission—an operation which aimed to support the people of the Congo Free State suffering forced labor and brutal abuses under Belgian colonial governance. They discovered a unique kinship amid the country's growing human rights movement and used their familiarity with industrial education, popularized by Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute, as a way to promote Christianity and offer valuable services to local people. From 1902 through 1941, the Edmistons designed their mission projects to promote community building, to value local resources, and to incorporate the perspectives of the African participants. They focused on childcare, teaching, translation, construction, and farming—ministries that required constant communication with their Kuba neighbors. Hill concludes with an analysis of how the Edmistons' pedagogy influenced government-sponsored industrial schools in the Belgian Congo through the 1950s. A Higher Mission illuminates not only the work of African American missionaries—who are often overlooked and under-studied—but also the transnational implications of black education in the South. Significantly, Hill also addresses the role of black foreign missionaries in the early civil rights movement, an argument that suggests an underexamined connection between earlier nineteenth-century Pan-Africanisms and activism in the interwar era.

Mean and Lowly Things

Author : Kate Jackson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674048423
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Mean and Lowly Things written by Kate Jackson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2005 Kate Jackson ventured into the remote swamp forests of the northern Congo to collect reptiles and amphibians. Her camping equipment was rudimentary, her knowledge of Congolese customs even more so. She knew how to string a net and set a pitfall trap, but she never imagined the physical and cultural difficulties that awaited her. Culled from the mud-spattered pages of her journals, Mean and Lowly Things reads like a fast-paced adventure story. It is JacksonÕs unvarnished account of her research on the front lines of the global biodiversity crisisÑcoping with interminable delays in obtaining permits, learning to outrun advancing army ants, subsisting on a diet of Spam and manioc, and ultimately falling in love with the strangely beautiful flooded forest. The reptile fauna of the Republic of Congo was all but undescribed, and JacksonÕs mission was to carry out the most basic study of the amphibians and reptiles of the swamp forest: to create a simple list of the species that exist thereÑa crucial first step toward efforts to protect them. When the snakes evaded her carefully set traps, Jackson enlisted people from the villages to bring her specimens. She trained her guide to tag frogs and skinks and to fix them in formalin. As her expensive camera rusted and her Western soap melted, Jackson learned what it took to swim with the snakesÑand that thereÕs a right way and a wrong way to get a baby cobra out of a bottle.

Congo Shadows

Author : John B. Franz
Publisher : First Edition Design Pub.
ISBN 13 : 150690341X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Congo Shadows written by John B. Franz and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tough Love

Author : Susan Rice
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501189980
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Tough Love written by Susan Rice and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recalling pivotal moments from her dynamic career on the front lines of American diplomacy and foreign policy, Susan E. Rice—National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama and US Ambassador to the United Nations—reveals her surprising story with unflinching candor in this New York Times bestseller. Mother, wife, scholar, diplomat, and fierce champion of American interests and values, Susan Rice powerfully connects the personal and the professional. Taught early, with tough love, how to compete and excel as an African American woman in settings where people of color are few, Susan now shares the wisdom she learned along the way. Laying bare the family struggles that shaped her early life in Washington, DC, she also examines the ancestral legacies that influenced her. Rice’s elders—immigrants on one side and descendants of slaves on the other—had high expectations that each generation would rise. And rise they did, but not without paying it forward—in uniform and in the pulpit, as educators, community leaders, and public servants. Susan too rose rapidly. She served throughout the Clinton administration, becoming one of the nation’s youngest assistant secretaries of state and, later, one of President Obama’s most trusted advisors. Rice provides an insider’s account of some of the most complex issues confronting the United States over three decades, ranging from “Black Hawk Down” in Somalia to the genocide in Rwanda and the East Africa embassy bombings in the late 1990s, and from conflicts in Libya and Syria to the Ebola epidemic, a secret channel to Iran, and the opening to Cuba during the Obama years. With unmatched insight and characteristic bluntness, she reveals previously untold stories behind recent national security challenges, including confrontations with Russia and China, the war against ISIS, the struggle to contain the fallout from Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks, the U.S. response to Russian interference in the 2016 election, and the surreal transition to the Trump administration. Although you might think you know Susan Rice—whose name became synonymous with Benghazi following her Sunday news show appearances after the deadly 2012 terrorist attacks in Libya—now, through these pages, you truly will know her for the first time. Often mischaracterized by both political opponents and champions, Rice emerges as neither a villain nor a victim, but a strong, resilient, compassionate leader. Intimate, sometimes humorous, but always candid, Tough Love makes an urgent appeal to the American public to bridge our dangerous domestic divides in order to preserve our democracy and sustain our global leadership.