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Author : S. M. O. Aka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Stories from an African Village written by S. M. O. Aka and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Peprah-Gyamfi
Publisher : Perseverance Books
ISBN 13 : 9780957078062
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Story of an African Village written by Robert Peprah-Gyamfi and published by Perseverance Books. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever imagined what life is like in a tiny village devoid of electricity, running water, a school, a hospital and all the facilities that people living elsewhere take for granted? Can you imagine yourself as a six-year-old walking a distance of three kilometres, bare-footed, on the hot tropical soil to attend school? Returning home in the evening, exhausted from the day's activities, did not end the day's burdens. Instead, you had to help your parents prepare the evening meal, and then, with the aid of kerosene lamps pumping foul- smelling fumes into the evening air, do your homework before going to bed. These, and many more amazing revelations, are what you will learn from this fascinating book by Dr Robert Peprah-Gyamfi who, growing up under the most deprived conditions imaginable, ended up training to become a doctor in Germany. It is a book that will surely engage the thoughts of the reader long after he/she has finished reading it.
Author : Samuel M. Aka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789781391040
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Stories from an African village written by Samuel M. Aka and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel M. O. Aka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789782268518
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (685 download)
Download or read book Stories from an African Village written by Samuel M. O. Aka and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peggielene Bartels
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307742814
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book King Peggy written by Peggielene Bartels and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The charming real-life fairy tale of an American secretary who discovers she has been chosen king of an impoverished fishing village on the west coast of Africa. King Peggy chronicles the astonishing journey of American secretary, Peggielene Bartels, who suddenly finds herself king to a town of 7,000 people on Ghana's central coast, half a world away. Upon arriving for her crowning ceremony in beautiful Otuam, she discovers the dire reality: there's no running water, no doctor, no high school, and many of the village elders are stealing the town's funds. To make matters worse, her uncle (the late king) sits in a morgue awaiting a proper funeral in the royal palace, which is in ruins. Peggy's first two years as king of Otuam unfold in a way that is stranger than fiction. In the end, a deeply traditional African town is uplifted by the ambitions of its decidedly modern female king, and Peggy is herself transformed, from an ordinary secretary to the heart and hope of her community.
Author : Alwell Chikwe Boms
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781456766733
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (667 download)
Download or read book The African Village Boy written by Alwell Chikwe Boms and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the true story of the life and times of an African nuclear family whose breadwinner, their father, was caught between sickness and war. His death leaves all the responsibility of care for his children to his helpless wife. Determined to raise her family, the poor widow is left amid that task and the task of preserving a little inheritance for her only son. Not giving up on their dreams the woman and her son faced life squarely, even when the youngest of her four children was only a few months old and the eldest eight. This seemed like the proverbial tale of a man pursuing a shadow. Was she able to surmount these herculean tasks? Did her only son live up to his many lofty dreams?
Author : Sarah Erdman
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1466850051
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Nine Hills to Nambonkaha written by Sarah Erdman and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of a resilient African village, ruled until recently by magic and tradition, now facing modern problems and responding, often triumphantly, to change When Sarah Erdman, a Peace Corps volunteer, arrived in Nambonkaha, she became the first Caucasian to venture there since the French colonialists. But even though she was thousands of miles away from the United States, completely on her own in this tiny village in the West African nation of Côte d'Ivoire, she did not feel like a stranger for long. As her vivid narrative unfolds, Erdman draws us into the changing world of the village that became her home. Here is a place where electricity is expected but never arrives, where sorcerers still conjure magic, where the tok-tok sound of women grinding corn with pestles rings out in the mornings like church bells. Rare rains provoke bathing in the streets and the most coveted fashion trend is fabric with illustrations of Western cell phones. Yet Nambonkaha is also a place where AIDS threatens and poverty is constant, where women suffer the indignities of patriarchal customs, where children work like adults while still managing to dream. Lyrical and topical, Erdman's beautiful debut captures the astonishing spirit of an unforgettable community.
Author : Hillary Rodham Clinton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471108643
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)
Download or read book It Takes a Village written by Hillary Rodham Clinton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years ago one of America's most important public figures, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, chronicled her quest both deeply personal and, in the truest sense, public to help make our society into the kind of village that enables children to become able, caring resilient adults. IT TAKES A VILLAGE is a textbook for caring, filled with truths that are worth a read, and a reread. In her substantial new introduction, Senator Clinton reflects on how our village has changed over the last decade, from the internet to education, and on how her own understanding of children has deepened as she has watched Chelsea grow up and take on challenges new to her generation, from a first job to living through a terrorist attack. She discusses how the work she is doing in the Senate is helping children and looks at where America has been successful, improvements in the foster care system and support for adoption, and where there is still work to be done, providing pre-school programmes and universal health care to all our children. This new edition elucidates how the choices we make about how we raise our children, and how we support families, will determine how all nations will face the challenges of this century.
Author : Benjamin Madison
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1412032318
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Night Studies written by Benjamin Madison and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heart of Africa touches the heart of a volunteer teacher through his village students. His 16 intimate stories of innocence, tragedy, joy, and wisdom will touch your heart, too.
Author : Imbolo Mbue
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0593132432
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)
Download or read book How Beautiful We Were written by Imbolo Mbue and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fearless young woman from a small African village starts a revolution against an American oil company in this sweeping, inspiring novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Behold the Dreamers. ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, People • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, The Christian Science Monitor, Marie Claire, Ms. magazine, BookPage, Kirkus Reviews “Mbue reaches for the moon and, by the novel’s end, has it firmly held in her hand.”—NPR We should have known the end was near. So begins Imbolo Mbue’s powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of cleanup and financial reparations to the villagers are made—and ignored. The country’s government, led by a brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interests. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight back. Their struggle will last for decades and come at a steep price. Told from the perspective of a generation of children and the family of a girl named Thula who grows up to become a revolutionary, How Beautiful We Were is a masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghost of colonialism, comes up against one community’s determination to hold on to its ancestral land and a young woman’s willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people’s freedom.
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Publisher : Frances Lincoln Childrens Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845076863
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (768 download)
Download or read book One Big Family written by and published by Frances Lincoln Childrens Books. This book was released on 2006-09-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A six-year-old Nigerian girl describes the social lives and traditions of her village.
Author : Tom Gilroy
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book In Bikole written by Tom Gilroy and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1978 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories revealing various aspects of life among the Serers in the West African village of Bikole.
Author : John Acquaye-Awah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692055328
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (553 download)
Download or read book The American Doctor written by John Acquaye-Awah and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few have heard of Oterkpolu, Ghana, but for John Acquaye-Awah, MD, CCD, it was home. He was born in the tiny village and grew up immersed in its traditions and superstitions. There were very few health care choices available, and Acquaye-Awah recounts how frequently death shook the small community. Then tragedy touched his own family. Acquaye-Awah's brother was stricken with polio, and many believed he would never walk again. His family consulted a spiritualist, but nothing happened. Only when Acquaye-Awah's brother was finally admitted to a hospital did he get the help he needed. Acquaye-Awah witnessed the unforgettable joy on his brother's face when he took his first step-and he knew he wanted to help others feel that same joy. This was one of many instances that sparked Acquaye-Awah's fascination with science. In this spellbinding memoir, he tells the amazing story of how he left Oterkpolu and pursued a rigorous medical education. But even as he was traveling and studying, Acquaye-Awah never forgot the important lessons he learned in Oterkpolu-nor the debt he owed his community. The American Doctor chronicles his triumphant homecoming and his new mission to bring health care to the most remote of locations.
Author : Landeg White
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521389099
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Magomero written by Landeg White and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-09-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magomero is a vivid historical portrait of a Malawian village from 1859 to the present day. It focuses on a region which saw historically important political activity, in the founding of a colony of freed slaves and the rising of an independent church movement against white estate owners. With the dual concerns of a Southern African specialist and a poet, Landeg White offers an 'inside' view of social, political and economic change in Malawi, seen through the lives of individuals: the ordinary men and women, whose situation and poverty have hitherto prevented recognition of their vital contribution to African history.
Author : John Holton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781434328793
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (287 download)
Download or read book The Last African Village written by John Holton and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a true story about four brothers struggle to make ends meet due to thier parent's illnesses. They had to improvise, adapt and overcome difficulties and finally became successful.
Author : Susana Herrera
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834800039
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Mango Elephants in the Sun written by Susana Herrera and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2000-08-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Peace Corps sends Susana Herrera to teach English in northern Cameroon, she yearns to embrace her adopted village and its people, to drink deep from the spirit of Mother Africa—and to forget a bitter childhood and painful past. To the villagers, however, she’s a rich American tourist, a nasara (white person) who has never known pain or want. They stare at her in silence. The children giggle and run away. At first her only confidant is a miraculously communicative lizard. Susana fights back with every ounce of heart and humor she possesses, and slowly begins to make a difference. She ventures out to the village well and learns to carry water on her head. In a classroom crowded to suffocation she finds a way to discipline her students without resorting to the beatings they are used to. She makes ice cream in the scorching heat, and learns how to plant millet and kill chickens. She laughs with the villagers, cries with them, works and prays with them, heals and is helped by them. Village life is hard but magical. Poverty is rampant—yet people sing and share what little they have. The termites that chew up her bed like morning cereal are fried and eaten in their turn ("bite-sized and crunchy like Doritos"). Nobody knows what tomorrow may bring, but even the morning greetings impart a purer sense of being in the moment. Gradually, Susana and the village become part of each other. They will never be the same again.
Author : Avelyn Davidson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780531155455
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (554 download)
Download or read book A Day in the Life of an African Village written by Avelyn Davidson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to life in an African village, a rural setting which the vast majority of Africans live.
