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Muzungu

Author : Pamela Sisman Bitterman
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1456600907
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Muzungu written by Pamela Sisman Bitterman and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muzungu, the Swahili word for white folk, translated literally means "confused person wandering about." During the author's months working and traveling through Kenya, this description fits her to a tee. Her audacious Kenyan adventure makes for a bucket load of anecdotes and impressions born of heart and hands-on experience-enough to knock your socks off. The devil in Africa is in the details, and Muzungu is there in the trenches - raw, down and dirty, unapologetic. The author witnesses religious elders morphing into villains, political leaders exposed as criminals, tribal chiefs engaging in forbidden rituals, disease obliterating a generation, dedicated missionaries at the ends of their ropes, and a country in violent revolt. Her husband is railroaded and sentenced to prison. Her co-worker, the author's stalwart bellwether for hard fact and unlikely personal guide into the shadowy underbelly of the country, ultimately commits suicide. She is present for a bizarre meeting between doctors and activists from President Bush's AIDS Relief Project. With these topics being ever-present on today's world stage, this is one story that is dying to get out there. The author's white skin and declaration that she is a writer become her free pass through each successive door and ticket to all events, bar none: in the hospital wards, surgery rooms, orphan clinics, homes, schools, villages, churches, government offices, during tribal ceremonies and throughout the commission of heinous crimes. The reader will meet an African mission's peculiar band of residents up close and personal, their unsparing good, bad and ugly. The author herself is not immune to this intense scrutiny. Quite the opposite, in fact. No pious filter softens this writer's lens. A living newsreel of realities informs the narrative. Candid conversations and interviews are recorded verbatim and in their entirety. The real "AIDS in Africa" will be disclosed. Western definition does not apply. In fact, the reader may come to realize that few concepts familiar to them can be applied in Kenya. The term "lost in translation" emerges as a gross understatement. Fellow volunteers who find themselves trapped in the foxholes during a horrific national political revolution witness and report from the front lines.Secret tribal rituals are described in graphic detail. Long-established cultural traditions are examined. Western religion's influence is dissected. Foreign intervention is challenged. History is revisited. Kenya is deconstructed. The reader is invited into a tiny school where the students create a children's picture book for the author in the hope that she can get it published for them in America. Vignettes from the Orphan Feeding Program and the Mobile Medical Clinic will break hearts. Tribal chiefs, church bishops, heads of Non-Governmental Organizations, leaders of Faith-Based Operations, representatives of all manner of self-righteous American and European groups desperate to leave their idealistic fingerprints on the continent, hold forth. Those with their fingers truly on the pulse of the people furiously demand to be heard as well. However, it is the locals themselves who provide the most unwaveringly transparent view of the Kenyans and their condition. Muzungu is complete with color photographs that will touch anyone who has ever had a financial, spiritual, anthropological, sociological or humanitarian interest in Africa, or those who are simply adventurers at heart. Unlike other books on the subject of Africa, this one is specific to the author's own uniquely personal experience with Kenya - too fantastic to be believed. Almost.

A Rwandan Bishop’s Confession

Author : Joel Kubwimana
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666703184
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book A Rwandan Bishop’s Confession written by Joel Kubwimana and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, I analyze why Bishop Aloys Bigirumwami prioritizes the use of the native language and the value of primal religions in spreading the gospel. According to Bigirumwami, the gospel should be taught in the native language, because it is the people's heart language. On the other hand, when the message is spoken in non-native languages, the gospel may spread but it does not reach the hearts of the people. As for the primal religions (tradition religions), for Bigirumwami they are part of what Jesus came to fulfill rather than abolish. In Rwanda, Western missionaries neglected the Rwandan primal religions by demonizing them, and the result was that the gospel was not planted in the good soil; the reason why the genocide against the Tutsi was executed in 1994 in a country where 91 percent of its population were Christians. A part of exploring the Christian mission history in Rwanda, this book points out the need to continue where Bigirumwami and others of his time left off in their effort of inculturation of the Christian faith in Rwanda and Africa in general.

Satisfying Zambian Hunger for Culture

Author : Mwizenge S. Tembo
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479702099
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Satisfying Zambian Hunger for Culture written by Mwizenge S. Tembo and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southern African country of Zambia with 72 tribes has experienced tremendous social turmoil during the last 48 years. The 13 million citizens migrated into the cities and professionals immigrated and scattered abroad in a growing Diaspora. The diversity of the Zambian society and globalization has created a cultural crisis. Satisfying Zambian Hunger for Culture discusses social and political history, gender rites of passage, food, religion, witchcraft, and recommendations for contemporary life in the 21st century. The17 chapter book puts the diverse Zambian African tribal customs, culture and technology into the modern digital age.

Natural Theology

Author : Maurice Muhatia Makumba
Publisher : Paulines Publications Africa
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Theology written by Maurice Muhatia Makumba and published by Paulines Publications Africa. This book was released on 2006 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mountains of the Moon

Author : I. J. Kay
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143123459
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Mountains of the Moon written by I. J. Kay and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a ten-year stint in a London prison, Louise Alder has a new name, a cold room, and a past full of secrets. Her story takes us back to a shattered childhood world, a runaway’s odyssey of love and madness, and ultimately to a legendary mountain range in central Africa. In Mountains of the Moon, I. J. Kay has crafted a haunting, hallucinatory, and suspenseful tale of the ultimate triumph of language and imagination, of witnessing and forgiveness. This richly imagined debut novel has garnered comparisons to the swift pacing of mystery master Stieg Larsson and the dazzling literary styles of Cormac McCarthy and William Faulkner.

Tears On The Equator

Author : Gerasimos I. Kambites
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460245024
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Tears On The Equator written by Gerasimos I. Kambites and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the beginning, in 1973, when a young couple met at a seminary in the city of Boston, during a time of great racial tension over an issue called bussing, they dared to share a dream and the dream was about faith, progress, unity, love and sustainable development in Africa. She trained in education, her Canadian husband schooled in medicine. They would return to the Ugandan paradise island of her youth in Lake Victoria only to discover that beauty hid the beast; that an interracial couple, white and black and their Ancient Orthodox faith would cause a spark which turned verdant fields into flames of conflict. Truths would be told and taboos would be broken. Courage would be unveiled and passions uncovered. This story is about the glue that maintained the vision until time, politics and war wore it away. It is also about survival and rebirth and the ultimate seeds which gave birth to a new crop of hopes. "What are you looking at old man?" the young doctor queried. The elder was looking into a rotten log. "I am seeing the face of God," he smiled standing up, allowing the doctor to see the sun kissed orchid." "The face of God," he said, and so it was, for their five years on Bukasa island uncovered the weaknesses and strengths of this couple and the community around them. That they would fail was inevitable, but that they would survive in a real and mystical way was the hidden treasure....

Faith in Real Life

Author : Mike Tatlock
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310291909
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Faith in Real Life written by Mike Tatlock and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a Christian, you yearn for a faith that infects your whole life and reaches out to others. In Faith in Real Life, Mike Tatlock shares his own failures and life lessons to show you how your church can create a thriving community---one that reaches beyond its walls on Sunday morning to influence the whole world around you.

Sage Philosophy

Author : Henry Odera Oruka
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004452265
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Sage Philosophy written by Henry Odera Oruka and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sage Philosophy is an anthology of three main parts: Part one contains papers by Odera Oruka clearing the way and arguing about his research over the last decade on indigenous sages in Kenya. Part Two introduces verbatim interviews with a given number of those sages, while Part Three consists of published papers by scholars who are critics or commentators on the Oruka project. The author has spent the last decade in Kenya carrying out his research. It is the general stand of the book that the sages turn out to be thinkers or philosophers in no trivial sense, despite their lack of modern formal education. This study is a critique for all those scholars who hitherto have found no practice of critical philosophy in traditional Africa.

History from Below

Author : Johannes Fabian
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027252270
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book History from Below written by Johannes Fabian and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johannes Fabian with assistance from Kalundi Mango (Administrator, National Museum of Zaire) and with linguistic notes by Walter Schicho (University of Vienna). An extraordinary linguistic and sociopolitical document, this is a history of colonization written by the colonized, about the colonized, and for the colonized. The original text, a history of what is now Lubumbashi in the Shaba region of Zaire, is reproduced in exact facsimile in Part 1. The period covered is from the beginning of Belgian colonization to 1965. The text was commissioned by an association of former domestic servants and written, or compiled, by one Andre Yav. The facsimile text is followed by linguistic notes (provided by W. Schicho) on the variety of Swahili used by the author. In Part 2 this amazing document is twice translated: first, into an oralized' version in current Shaba Swahili and, second, into English. Numerous historical and linguistic notes make the text accessible to the non-specialist. While Parts 1 and 2 are of particular interest to linguists, Part 3 covers a wider area of intellectual concerns. It is an essay analyzing the social conditions, literary means and political purposes and importance of the history. Of interest to linguists, historians, sociologists and political scientists.

Poems for All Reasons

Author : Alan Clegg
Publisher : Partridge Africa
ISBN 13 : 1482804972
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Poems for All Reasons written by Alan Clegg and published by Partridge Africa. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blacksmith The blacksmith by his anvil, his hammer in his hand. He beats a merry rhythm upon the hardened steel. Tap, tap, it bounces, up and down, a clear shrill note as old as time. The shoe he forms with an expert eye, as practiced as his old clay pipe. The Language of Flowers A wish: A cry from the heart A dream: A longing for something good A care: For something lovely Gary the Grasshopper Gary the grasshopper was such a nice guy. All he wanted to do was to fly and fly. Around and around, and up and down he goes, he bangs off the ceiling and hurts his poor nose. From Ireland to Uganda to South Africa and all in between Poems for all Reasons which reflects The Musings and Amusings of an ordinary guy is really what is says it is, Poems for all Reasons. It is a reflection of the life and the various moods and humours of the author during the many facets of his life. No two poems are from the same theme or genre of experience, from the seriousness of What land is this I gaze upon to the tongue in cheek humour of Gary the Grasshopper the diversity is extreme to say the least.

Mirror to the Church

Author : Emmanuel Katongole
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN 13 : 031056316X
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Mirror to the Church written by Emmanuel Katongole and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We learn who we are as we walk together in the way of Jesus. So I want to invite you on a pilgrimage. Rwanda is often held up as a model of evangelization in Africa. Yet in 1994, beginning on the Thursday of Easter week, Christians killed other Christians, often in the same churches where they had worshiped together. The most Christianized country in Africa became the site of its worst genocide. With a mother who was a Hutu and a father who was a Tutsi, author Emmanuel Katongole is uniquely qualified to point out that the tragedy in Rwanda is also a mirror reflecting the deep brokenness of the church in the West. Rwanda brings us to a cry of lament on our knees where together we learn that we must interrupt these patterns of brokenness But Rwanda also brings us to a place of hope. Indeed, the only hope for our world after Rwanda’s genocide is a new kind of Christian identity for the global body of Christ—a people on pilgrimage together, a mixed group, bearing witness to a new identity made possible by the Gospel.

Life, Wanderings and Labours in Eastern Africa

Author : Charles New
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136984291
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Life, Wanderings and Labours in Eastern Africa written by Charles New and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of East Africa and its people, 20 years before the main period of European penetration.

Insights into Uganda

Author : Kevin OConnor
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 997063741X
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Insights into Uganda written by Kevin OConnor and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insights into Uganda is a selection of newspaper articles written by columnist Kevin OConnor for the Sunday Monitor, drawn almost entirely from 2007 to 2015. Divided into 13 chapters ranging from sex to religion and from inequality to the environment, the 193 articles are always thoughtful, often provocative and sometimes humorous. The text is further enlivened by Moses Balagaddes cartoons. Kevin provides a multitude of insights into Ugandan society, which amply reflect both the title of his column, Roving Eye, and his catchphrase, For the observer of human behaviour every scene has its interest.

Images of the West

Author :
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Images of the West written by and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 1996 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two organisations have collaborated in this beautifully produced book: Images of Africa in Denmark and Baobab Books in Zimbabwe. Images of Africa is one of the world's largest festivals of African art and culture, and this book is published in conjunction with the third festival in 1996. It brings together a range of perceptions of the West from writers throughout the African continent. Personal or political, intimate or rhetorical, abrasive or tender, they arise from deeply held convictions and experience. A recognition of the ambivalence of the relationship between the West and Africa is apparent in both the text and the photographs; but the book suggests that there is room for dialogue, honesty, and greater understanding.

Running the Rift

Author : Naomi Benaron
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616201231
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Running the Rift written by Naomi Benaron and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running the Rift follows Jean Patrick Nkuba, a gifted Rwandan boy, from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life, a ten-year span in which his country is undone by the Hutu-Tutsi tensions. Born a Tutsi, he is thrust into a world where it’s impossible to stay apolitical—where the man who used to sell you gifts for your family now spews hatred, where the girl who flirted with you in the lunchroom refuses to look at you, where your Hutu coach is secretly training the very soldiers who will hunt down your family. Yet in an environment increasingly restrictive for the Tutsi, he holds fast to his dream of becoming Rwanda’s first Olympic medal contender in track, a feat he believes might deliver him and his people from this violence. When the killing begins, Jean Patrick is forced to flee, leaving behind the woman, the family, and the country he loves. Finding them again is the race of his life. This is the third Bellwether Prize winner published by Algonquin. The Bellwether Prize is awarded biennially by Barbara Kingsolver for an unpublished novel that addresses issues of social justice and was previously awarded to The Girl Who Fell from the Sky and Mudbound.

African theology in the 21st century : the contribution of the pioneers. 2

Author : Bénézet Bujo
Publisher : Paulines Publications Africa
ISBN 13 : 9966081577
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book African theology in the 21st century : the contribution of the pioneers. 2 written by Bénézet Bujo and published by Paulines Publications Africa. This book was released on 2005 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Lake Regions of Central Africa

Author : Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lake Regions of Central Africa written by Sir Richard Francis Burton and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a detailed description of a personal adventure into the Central African Lake Regions. The volume is a combination of an expoistion of popular and picturesque points of views and a geography and ethnology of the area.