The Shadow of the Sun

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Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307367096
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Book Synopsis The Shadow of the Sun by : Ryszard Kapuscinski

Download or read book The Shadow of the Sun written by Ryszard Kapuscinski and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving portrait of Africa from Poland's most celebrated foreign correspondent - a masterpiece from a modern master. Famous for being in the wrong places at just the right times, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa in 1957, at the beginning of the end of colonial rule - the "sometimes dramatic and painful, sometimes enjoyable and jubilant" rebirth of a continent. The Shadow of the Sun sums up the author's experiences ("the record of a 40-year marriage") in this place that became the central obsession of his remarkable career. From the hopeful years of independence through the bloody disintegration of places like Nigeria, Rwanda and Angola, Kapuscinski recounts great social and political changes through the prism of the ordinary African. He examines the rough-and-ready physical world and identifies the true geography of Africa: a little-understood spiritual universe, an African way of being. He looks also at Africa in the wake of two epoch-making changes: the arrival of AIDS and the definitive departure of the white man. Kapuscinski's rare humanity invests his subjects with a grandeur and a dignity unmatched by any other writer on the Third World, and his unique ability to discern the universal in the particular has never been more powerfully displayed than in this work.

Under African Sun

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ISBN 13 : 9780226016245
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (162 download)

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Under the African Sun

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Download or read book Under the African Sun written by Schuyler Jones and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Under the African Sun

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
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Book Synopsis Under the African Sun by : William John Ansorge

Download or read book Under the African Sun written by William John Ansorge and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Empires in the Sun

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681774992
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)

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Book Synopsis Empires in the Sun by : Lawrence James

Download or read book Empires in the Sun written by Lawrence James and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The one hundred year history of how Europe coerced the African continent into its various empires—and the resulting story of how Africa succeeded in decolonization. In this dramatic (and often tragic) story of an era that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James investigates how, within one hundred years, Europeans persuaded and coerced Africa into becoming a subordinate part of the modern world. His narrative is laced with the experiences of participants and onlookers and introduces the men and women who, for better or worse, stamped their wills on Africa. The continent was a magnet for the high-minded, the adventurous, the philanthropic, the unscrupulous. Visionary pro-consuls rubbed shoulders with missionaries, explorers, soldiers, big-game hunters, entrepreneurs, and physicians. Between 1830 and 1945, Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Italy and the United States exported their languages, laws, culture, religions, scientific and technical knowledge and economic systems to Africa. The colonial powers imposed administrations designed to bring stability and peace to a continent that appeared to lack both. The justification for occupation was emancipation from slavery—and the common assumption that late nineteenth-century Europe was the summit of civilization. By 1945 a transformed continent was preparing to take charge of its own affairs, a process of decolonization that took a quick twenty years. This magnificent history also pauses to ask: what did not happen and why?

Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395539637
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (396 download)

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Book Synopsis Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky by : Elphinstone Dayrell

Download or read book Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky written by Elphinstone Dayrell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1968 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sun and Moon must leave their earthly home after Sun invites the Sea to visit.

The Orphan Boy

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

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Book Synopsis The Orphan Boy by : Tololwa M. Mollel

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.

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun

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Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 0316032093
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by : Peter Godwin

Download or read book When a Crocodile Eats the Sun written by Peter Godwin and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2008-04-10 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on his elderly parents, he bore witness to Zimbabwe's dramatic spiral downwards into the jaws of violent chaos, presided over by an increasingly enraged dictator. And yet long after their comfortable lifestyle had been shattered and millions were fleeing, his parents refuse to leave, steadfast in their allegiance to the failed state that has been their adopted home for 50 years. Then Godwin discovered a shocking family secret that helped explain their loyalty. Africa was his father's sanctuary from another identity, another world. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun is a stirring memoir of the disintegration of a family set against the collapse of a country. But it is also a vivid portrait of the profound strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of love.

Under the African Sun

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Half of a Yellow Sun

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Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307373541
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Book Synopsis Half of a Yellow Sun by : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Download or read book Half of a Yellow Sun written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was heralded by the Washington Post Book World as the “21st century daughter” of Chinua Achebe. Now, in her masterly, haunting new novel, she recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria during the 1960s. With the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Adichie weaves together the lives of five characters caught up in the extraordinary tumult of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Ugwu is houseboy to Odenigbo, a university professor who sends him to school, and in whose living room Ugwu hears voices full of revolutionary zeal. Odenigbo’s beautiful mistress, Olanna, a sociology teacher, is running away from her parents’ world of wealth and excess; Kainene, her urbane twin, is taking over their father’s business; and Kainene’s English lover, Richard, forms a bridge between their two worlds. As we follow these intertwined lives through a military coup, the Biafran secession and the subsequent war, Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise, and intimately, the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place. Epic, ambitious and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a more powerful, dramatic and intensely emotional picture of modern Africa than any we have had before.

Under the African Sun

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Total Pages : 422 pages
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Book Synopsis Under the African Sun by : William John Ansorge

Download or read book Under the African Sun written by William John Ansorge and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Under African Skies

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374211787
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (742 download)

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Book Synopsis Under African Skies by : Charles R. Larson

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.

Black Sun Signs

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684812096
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Book Synopsis Black Sun Signs by : Thelma Balfour

Download or read book Black Sun Signs written by Thelma Balfour and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An African-American perspective on astrology is tailored to the experience, interests, and culture of the African-American community, offering profiles of each sign as well as lighthearted advice on an array of subjects. Original. 25,000 first printing.

General Sun, My Brother

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Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813918907
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (189 download)

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Book Synopsis General Sun, My Brother by : Jacques Stéphen Alexis

Download or read book General Sun, My Brother written by Jacques Stéphen Alexis and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel on the exploitation of the poor in the Caribbean. The hero is a Haitian peasant who becomes politicized while in jail. Forced to work as a sugar-cane cutter in the Dominican Republic, he participates in a strike which ends in a massacre.

Under the African Sun

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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Beneath the African Sun

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Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1438989911
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (389 download)

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Book Synopsis Beneath the African Sun by : Amanda Michelle Grierson

Download or read book Beneath the African Sun written by Amanda Michelle Grierson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ricky Garrett a Hollywood celebrity is in South Africa to host a music awards when during a short safari he falls foul to a group of poachers. After a long stay in hospital he recovers and making use of his celebrity status joins a group of conservationists in Botswana, tracking a poaching ring in the hope of bringing the criminals to justice. When he meets Sandra, sparks immediately fly, but are the two able to keep this hidden from Sandra's very powerful boyfriend. Beneath the African Sun follows Ricky's slow awakening to the beauty and harshness of Africa, his guarded acceptance into the group, and his quest to find the people that nearly took his life. His journey is thwarted with problems. Is someone in the group hiding something, and will they all stay alive long enough to see justice done.

The Granta Book of the African Short Story

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Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1847084389
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis The Granta Book of the African Short Story by : Helon Habila

Download or read book The Granta Book of the African Short Story written by Helon Habila and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a diverse and dazzling collection from all over the continent, from Morocco to Zimbabwe, Uganda to Kenya. Helon Habila focuses on younger, newer writers - contrasted with some of their older, more established peers - to give a fascinating picture of a new and more liberated Africa. These writers are characterized by their engagement with the wider world and the opportunities offered by the end of apartheid, the end of civil wars and dictatorships, and the possibilities of free movement. Their work is inspired by travel and exile. They are liberated, global and expansive. As Dambudzo Marechera wrote: 'If you're a writer for a specific nation or specific race, then f*** you." These are the stories of a new Africa, punchy, self-confident and defiant. Includes stories by: Fatou Diome; Aminatta Forna; Manuel Rui; Patrice Nganang; Leila Aboulela; Zo Wicomb; Alaa Al Aswany; Doreen Baingana; E.C. Osondu.