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Book Synopsis First Notes on Koma Culture by : Franz Kröger
Download or read book First Notes on Koma Culture written by Franz Kröger and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2010 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the Koma are known throughout the world as a result of the so-called Komaland-terracottas, excavated in the 1980s, no extensive ethnographic publication about their culture has appeared yet. The present book comprises some of the results of author Franz Kroger's surveys during six field research trips between 1984 and 2008. It is also based on the profound knowledge of the co-author, Ben Baluri Saibu, a lawyer from the Koma village of Yikpabongo. The main focus of the book is the social, political and economic structure of the Koma, as well as their material culture, and, above all, their traditional religion and the extraordinarily dynamic history. A Konni-English word list with approximately 2400 entries might be interesting for linguists specialised in the West African Gur languages.
Book Synopsis New Fiction in English from Africa: West, East, and South by : André Viola
Download or read book New Fiction in English from Africa: West, East, and South written by André Viola and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term 'recent' or 'new' covers novels and some short fiction published between 1980 and 1995, a period characterized by growing pessimism about the state of affairs in both East and West Africa. The section on South Africa deals more narrowly with the 1985-95 watershed marking the end of official apartheid and the beginning of reconstruction. The three sections aim at giving a coherent picture of the main directions in production, highlighting three main centres of interest, Nigeria, Kenya, and the Republic of South Africa, although some novelists from neighbouring countries are also considered (such as Kofi Awoonor from Ghana, Nuruddin Farah from Somalia, and M.G. Vassanji and Abdulrazak Gurnah from Tanzania). The evaluations conducted in the three sections lead to the emergence of a number of common themes, in particular the writers' predilection for topicality, the role of the past, and the controversy over the idea of the nation. Central themes also include the role of women in fending for themselves, both in rural and in urban environments. A further major theme is the role of the past (the Nigerian civil war; the Mau Mau period in Kenya; the revisiting of slavery; the refurbishing of myth; the questioning of historical reconstructions). The preoccupation of the West, East, and South African novel with the idea and ideal of the 'nation' is explored, particularly in the context of migrancy, hybridity, and transculturalism characterizing the anglophone diaspora. The volume is aimed at literary scholars and students and, more generally, readers of fiction seeking an introduction to contemporary literary developments in various parts of sub-Saharan anglophone Africa. No categorical distinction is drawn between 'popular' and 'high' literature. Though still selective and not intended as an exhaustive catalogue, the present survey covers a large number of titles. Rather than resorting to broad and ultimately somewhat abstract thematic categories, the contributors endeavour to keep control over this mass of material by applying a 'micro-thematic' taxonomy. This approach, well-tested in the tradition of literary studies within France, groups works analytically and evaluatively in terms of such categories as actional motifs, plot-frames, and sociologically relevant locations or topics, thereby enabling a clearer focus on the dynamics of preoccupation and tendency that form networks of affinity across the fiction produced in the period surveyed.
Book Synopsis Urban Obsessions, Urban Fears by : John Roger Kurtz
Download or read book Urban Obsessions, Urban Fears written by John Roger Kurtz and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kurtz's analysis the development of the Kenyan novel in English emphasizes the historical contingencies affecting the production of literature in Kenya, and how succeeding generations have drawn from and expanded the thematic repertoire established by the 'first generation' of works in the 1960s.He explores the relationship between the novel and the city, and how obsessions and fears about the urbanization have been expressed and represented through different generations of Kenyan writers. Kurtz has also put together the first annotated bibliography of all the anglophone Kenyan novels that have appeared since Ngugi wa Thiong'o wrote Weep Not, Child.Ngugi's Weep Not, Child made an immediate impact on its publication in 1964. Since then hundreds of novels by Kenyans have been published. This is a comprehensive introduction to the postcolonial novel in English. Three broad areas are identified: -- the first generation of the sixties -- the 'golden age' of the seventies -- and the years after Kenyatta in the 80s and 90sA unifying feature is an uneasy but marked emphasis on the city-particularly Nairobi. The city is used by novelists as both the site and the symbol for a range of obsessions and fears about postcolonial society. There is particular emphasis on the changing ways in which the city has been portrayed since Ngugi's first novel, the relation of popular literature to the city, the portrayal of women in the city and the special status of Meja Mwangi's urban novels.
Book Synopsis My Heart on Trial by : F. M. Genga-Idowu
Download or read book My Heart on Trial written by F. M. Genga-Idowu and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel from a woman writer, set against a backdrop of a rich but dying Kenyan culture. The story tells of secret burdens, moral decay and political callousness - both a work of fiction, and a challenge to society to face up to itself.
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Book Synopsis Of Man and Lion by : Beatrice Erlwanger
Download or read book Of Man and Lion written by Beatrice Erlwanger and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories on encounters between man and lion, used to examine a range of social conflicts in man-woman relationships.
Book Synopsis The Toughest Man Who Ever Lived by : Nori Bunasawa & John Murray
Download or read book The Toughest Man Who Ever Lived written by Nori Bunasawa & John Murray and published by Jukken Judo. This book was released on with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Return to Paradise by : Yusuf Kodwavwala Dawood
Download or read book Return to Paradise written by Yusuf Kodwavwala Dawood and published by East African Educ. Publ.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family is exiled when Idi Amin expels all Asians from Uganda.
Book Synopsis Sigurd Our Golden Collie by : Katharine Lee Bates
Download or read book Sigurd Our Golden Collie written by Katharine Lee Bates and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chira written by Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road by : Katharine Lee Bates
Download or read book Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road written by Katharine Lee Bates and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis English in East and Central Africa by : Josef Schmied
Download or read book English in East and Central Africa written by Josef Schmied and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Never Say Die written by Wanyiri Kihoro and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described as the most sensational security, diplomatic and judicial quagmire in post-independence Kenya, this is the first-hand testament of a political prisoner's struggle to survive. The prominent and internationally respected Kenyan attracted wide local and international support, with many organisations and individuals supporting his efforts to be freed. His arrest took place in 1986 and for over three years he was in the hands of the security system. He suffered inhuman torture, the authorities being suspicious of his political activities. Here he recounts the story, step-by-step, both of his own treatment and the legal and humanitarian work to get him released.
Book Synopsis Joint Acquisitions List of Africana by :
Download or read book Joint Acquisitions List of Africana written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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