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Under an African Sky

Author : Peter Hudson
Publisher : New Internationalist
ISBN 13 : 1780261799
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Under an African Sky written by Peter Hudson and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author has been visiting the same village in Mauritania on the remote edge of the Sahara for over twenty years. This is the story of his most recent journey there—an intense and engaging day-by-day account through which global change and inequality are made human. The Sahel—the "shore" of the Sahara—is where cultures, customs, and climates meet, merge, and clash. Through the numerous characters we meet and from the obviously deep and sympathetic nature of the relationship the author has with the local people, with whom he now runs agricultural projects, we learn of the realities of life in one of the harshest, most marginalised, but also quietly inspiring corners of the world. Searingly honest and refreshing, this is a superbly written piece of travel writing about a little-known part of the world. The author gets under the surface and gives a sensitive account of what life is like. He understands not just the culture and complex social dealings but also how economics and geo-political forces that can profoundly affect the lives of people in a remote community. Illustrated with maps and line drawings, Under an African Sky is a unique journey for the armchair traveler and those interested in development, climate change, global politics, and economics. Peter Hudson has traveled widely in Mauritania and other parts of West Africa and has written several books including Leaf in the Wind, Travels in Mauritania, and Two Rivers.

Under African Skies

Author : Charles R. Larson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374211787
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Under African Skies written by Charles R. Larson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of short stories by African writers from a dozen countries. The subjects range from war and politics to problems with domestics and African humor. Some stories were written in English, others are translations from Arabic, French and Portuguese. All were written in the latter part of the 20th century.

African Sky

Author : Tony Park
Publisher : Ingwe Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1922389153
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book African Sky written by Tony Park and published by Ingwe Publishing. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic wartime adventure in the heart of Africa. Rhodesia, 1943: Paul Bryant hasn’t been able to get back in an aircraft since a fatal bombing mission over Germany. Instead, the Squadron Leader is flying a desk at a pilot training school in Africa when one of his trainees is reported missing. Pip Lovejoy, a volunteer policewoman, is also trying to suppress painful memories. When Felicity Langham, a high profile WAAF from the air base, is found raped and murdered, Pip and Bryant’s paths cross. Suspicion immediately falls on the local black community, but Pip’s investigations unearth a link between the Squadron Leader, the controversial heiress Catherine De Beers and the dead woman, which throws the case in a new, disturbing direction. What Pip thinks is a singular crime of passion soon escalates into a crisis that could change the course of the war. African Sky is the first instalment in Tony Park’s acclaimed Story of Zimbabwe series.

The Orphan Boy

Author : Tololwa M. Mollel
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395720790
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Orphan Boy written by Tololwa M. Mollel and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1995-02 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though delighted that an orphan boy has come into his life, an old man becomes insatiably curious about the boy's mysterious powers.

Under the Sky of My Africa

Author : Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810119714
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Under the Sky of My Africa written by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging consideration of the nature and significance of Pushkin's African heritage Roughly in the year 1705, a young African boy, acquired from the seraglio of the Turkish sultan, was transported to Russia as a gift to Peter the Great. This child, later known as Abram Petrovich Gannibal, was to become Peter's godson and to live to a ripe old age, having attained the rank of general and the status of Russian nobility. More important, he was to become the great-grandfather of Russia's greatest national poet, Alexander Pushkin. It is the contention of the editors of this book, borne out by the essays in the collection, that Pushkin's African ancestry has played the role of a "wild card" of sorts as a formative element in Russian cultural mythology; and that the ways in which Gannibal's legacy has been included in or excluded from Pushkin's biography over the last two hundred years can serve as a shifting marker of Russia's self-definition. The first single volume in English on this rich topic, Under the Sky of My Africa addresses the wide variety of interests implicated in the question of Pushkin's blackness-race studies, politics, American studies, music, mythopoetic criticism, mainstream Pushkin studies. In essays that are by turns biographical, iconographical, cultural, and sociological in focus, the authors-representing a broad range of disciplines and perspectives-take us from the complex attitudes toward race in Russia during Pushkin's era to the surge of racism in late Soviet and post-Soviet contemporary Russia. In sum, Under the Sky of My Africa provides a wealth of basic material on the subject as well as a series of provocative readings and interpretations that will influence future considerations of Pushkin and race in Russian culture.

Under the African Sky

Author : Rebecca Redford
Publisher : Partridge Africa
ISBN 13 : 148287847X
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Under the African Sky written by Rebecca Redford and published by Partridge Africa. This book was released on 2018-05-25 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the African Sky provides you with the history of a family following their dream against the backdrop of a stunning and often surprising continent, which is Africa. Their travels take you on a breathtaking journey of peril, hardship, and love into the heart of Africa.

Escape Under the Forever Sky

Author : Eve Yohalen
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452133484
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Escape Under the Forever Sky written by Eve Yohalen and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loosely based on real-life events, this suspenseful story, by a debut novelist, is also funny and touching and will have readers riveted from start to finish. Lucy's mother is the U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia, so Lucy's life must be one big adventure, right? Wrong. Lucy's worrywart mother keeps her locked up inside the ambassador's residence. All Lucy can do is read about the exotic and exciting world that lies beyond the compound walls and imagine what it would be like to be a part of it. That is, until one day Lucy decides she has had enough and she and a friend sneak off for some fun. But to their horror, Lucy gets kidnapped! With only herself to rely upon, Lucy must use her knowledge of African animals, inventiveness, will, and courage to escape, and in the process embarks on an adventure beyond her wildest imagination. Includes bonus material! - Book Club Discussion Guide

Love & Passion Under the African Sky

Author : Elizabeth Erasmus
Publisher : Globe Flower Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1068845562
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (688 download)

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Download or read book Love & Passion Under the African Sky written by Elizabeth Erasmus and published by Globe Flower Publishers. This book was released on 2024-10-11 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love and Passion Under the African Sky: In the heart of South Africa, beneath the vast, untamed African sky, a love story unfolds between two souls from different worlds. Passion Under the African Sky tells the captivating tale of falling in love with a Zulu warrior, a man who stands tall among others, proud of his heritage and fiercely connected to his culture. His strength, wisdom, and unwavering loyalty draw her in, and together, they embark on a journey filled with passion, challenges, and the beauty of a love that transcends boundaries. Their connection is not only a testament to the power of love but also a celebration of the rich Zulu traditions that shape him.

Paul Simon - Greatest Hits

Author : Paul Simon
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780711979123
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book Paul Simon - Greatest Hits written by Paul Simon and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Music Sales America). 14 of his best, arranged for piano and voice with guitar chord frames. Includes: The Boxer * Bridge Over Troubled Water * 59th Street Bridge Song (Feeling Groovy) * Homeward Bound * I Am a Rock * Mother and Child Reunion * Scarborough Fair/Canticle * The Sound of Silence * Still Crazy After All These Years * You Can Call Me Al * and more.

A Moonless, Starless Sky

Author : Alexis Okeowo
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316382914
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book A Moonless, Starless Sky written by Alexis Okeowo and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD "A rich and urgently necessary book" (New York Times Book Review), A Moonless, Starless Sky is a masterful, humane work of journalism by Alexis Okeowo--a vivid narrative of Africans who are courageously resisting their continent's wave of fundamentalism. In A Moonless, Starless Sky Okeowo weaves together four narratives that form a powerful tapestry of modern Africa: a young couple, kidnap victims of Joseph Kony's LRA; a Mauritanian waging a lonely campaign against modern-day slavery; a women's basketball team flourishing amid war-torn Somalia; and a vigilante who takes up arms against the extremist group Boko Haram. This debut book by one of America's most acclaimed young journalists illuminates the inner lives of ordinary people doing the extraordinary--lives that are too often hidden, underreported, or ignored by the rest of the world.

Keep Your Head to the Sky

Author : Grey Gundaker
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813918242
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Keep Your Head to the Sky written by Grey Gundaker and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of African American home ground knits together diverse aspects of the American landscape, from elite suburbs and tower apartments to the old homeplaces of the countryside, to the tabletop array of family photos beside the bed of a housebound elder. This fascinating volume focuses on ways African Americans have invested actual and symbolic landscapes with signifigance, gained the means to acquire property, and brought new insight to the interpretation of contemporary, historical, and archaelogical sites. Keep Your Head to the Sky demonstrates how visions of home, past and present, have helped to shape African Americans' sense of place, often under extremely hostile conditions.

Under African Skies

Author : Janet Zoglin
Publisher : Outskirts Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781932672107
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Under African Skies written by Janet Zoglin and published by Outskirts Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Youth Peace Collective comes one woman 's tale of traveling through 15 African countries. Join her crossing the Sahara Desert, down the Zaire River, to the village of a Malawian native healer, and on the sad island capital of Malabo. Janet Zoglin survives malaria, a set-up drug bust, endless taxi-brusse rides and border officials to share with us a firsthand account of what can happen along the unpaved roads of the great continent. Interspersed with poignant human stories, this travelogue takes you on a trail of unpredictable occurrences, full of irony and compassion.

African Cosmos

Author : Christine M. Kreamer
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1580933432
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book African Cosmos written by Christine M. Kreamer and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking scholarly publication, accompanying an exhibition organized by the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, African Cosmos: Stellar Arts brings together exceptional works of art, dating from ancient times to the present, and essays by leading scholars and contemporary artists to consider African cultural astronomy: creativity and artistic practice in Africa as it is linked to celestial bodies and atmospheric phenomena. African concepts of the universe are intensely personal, placing human beings in relation to the earth and sky, and with the sun, moon, and stars. At the core of creation myths and the foundation of moral values, celestial bodies are often accorded sacred capacities and are part of the “cosmological map” that allows humans to chart their course through life.

Under African Skies

Author : Charles Larson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429952547
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Under African Skies written by Charles Larson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning a wide geographical range, this collection features many of the now prominent first generation of African writers and draws attention to a new generation of writers. Powerful, intriguing and essentially non-Western, these stories will be welcome by an audience truly ready for multicultural voices.

Earth to Sky

Author : Michael Nichols
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781597112437
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Earth to Sky written by Michael Nichols and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elephants are among the earths most sentient beings. They remember, they experience grief and joy, fear and love. Indeed, as our knowledge of these extraordinary creatures increases, the more they transcend all preconceptions of animal behavior. Michael Nick Nichols, longtime photographer for National Geographic as well as the magazines editor-at-large for photography, has been working with African elephants for more than twenty years. In Earth to Sky he tells their story through poignant images that bring us directly into their habitatslush forests and open savannas, or stark landscapes ravaged by human interventionto observe the animals daily engagements and activities. Nicholss photographs are accompanied here by the words of such celebrated figures in the field of conservation as Iain Douglas-Hamilton, J. Michael Fay, Peter Matthiessen, Cynthia Moss, David Quammen, and many others. In addition, Nichols engages us in his photographic journey with personal and informative introductions to each of the books four chaptersexploring life in the wild, the ivory trade, family interactions, and programs for orphaned elephants. The survival of elephants is under dire threat from humankind, most immediately from the market for ivory. More than twenty-five thousand elephants are slaughtered each year, and their ivory is sold at astronomically high prices to countries such as China, Japan, the Philippines, and Singapore. African elephant refuges are under siege; many park rangers have been murdered in the fray. The misuse of elephants ivory as a commodity has to stopbut, as Nichols makes clear, the issue must be addressed with a full and empathetic understanding of the poverty and corruption that persist in the countries where elephants roam. In Earth to Sky Nichols demonstrates that the world needs elephants, and insists that we do all we can to protect their spaces and their lives. Sadly, most signs point to a tragic conclusion for these wise and emotionally complex creatures. This book is an urgent call for us to bring that process to a halt, while we still can.

Canvas Under the Sky

Author : Robin Binckes
Publisher : 30 Degrees South Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781920143633
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Canvas Under the Sky written by Robin Binckes and published by 30 Degrees South Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1834. The Eastern Cape frontier is burning. Rauch Beukes, a young Boer of 17, returns to the family homestead to find it razed, the livestock gone and his mother and sisters slaughtered by the marauding Xhosa from across the Great Fish River. So begins a tale of violence and warfare and love and lust across racial divides, painted against the

The Athenian Sun in an African Sky

Author : Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786410934
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Athenian Sun in an African Sky written by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2001-11-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western literature has become more influential in Africa since the independence of many of that continent's countries in the early 1960s. In particular, Greek tragedy has grown as model and inspiration for African theatre artists. This work begins with a discussion of the affinity that modern-day African playwrights have for ancient Greek tragedy and the factors that determine their choice of classical texts and topics. The study concentrates on how African playwrights transplant the dramatic action and narrative of the Greek texts by rewriting both the performance codes and the cultural context. The methods by which African playwrights have adapted Greek tragedy and the ways in which the plays satisfy the prevailing principles of both cultures are examined. The plays are The Bacchae of Euripides by Wole Soyinka, Song of a Goat by J.P. Clark, The Gods Are Not to Blame by Ola Rotimi, Guy Butler's Demea, Efua Sutherland's Edufa, Orestes by Athol Fugard, The Song of Jacob Zulu by Tug Yourgrau, Femi Osofisan's Tegonni, Edward Kamau Brathwaite's Odale's Choice, The Island by Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona, and Sylvain Bemba's Black Wedding Candles for Blessed Antigone.