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Interpreting a Continent

Author : Kathleen DuVal
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742564649
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Interpreting a Continent written by Kathleen DuVal and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2009-03-16 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader provides students with key documents from colonial American history, including new English translations of non-English documents. The documents in this collection take the reader beyond the traditional story of the English colonies. Readers explore the Spanish, French, Dutch, Russian, German, and even Icelandic colonial efforts throughout North America, including California, New Mexico, Texas, the Great Plains, Louisiana, Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New England. Throughout, the collection provides not only the perspectives of Europeans but also of Native Americans and Africans. By looking beyond traditional sources, students see the power and diversity of Native Americans and learn that European domination of the continent was not inevitable. They see different forms of slavery and ways that slaves dealt with their captivity. By considering multiple perspectives, students learn that colonial history was largely the attempts of various peoples to understand strangers and adapt them to their own will.

Voices from the Continent

Author : Sara Talis O'Brien
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781592211951
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Voices from the Continent written by Sara Talis O'Brien and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The companion to the previous volume which featured West African literature, this useful guide introduces students to five authors from North and East Africa. Providing anthropological and historical research as well as literary criticism, it explores writings with a wide range of universal themes as well as presenting the experiences of a range of ethnic groups. A highly useful tool for schoolteachers, university lecturers and students alike, it can be integrated into courses ranging from world literature to women's studies.

Our Continent, Our Future

Author : P. Thandika Mkandawire
Publisher : IDRC
ISBN 13 : 155250204X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book Our Continent, Our Future written by P. Thandika Mkandawire and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Continent, Our Future presents the emerging African perspective on this complex issue. The authors use as background their own extensive experience and a collection of 30 individual studies, 25 of which were from African economists, to summarize this African perspective and articulate a path for the future. They underscore the need to be sensitive to each country's unique history and current condition. They argue for a broader policy agenda and for a much more active role for the state within what is largely a market economy. Finally, they stress that Africa must, and can, compete in an increasingly globalized world and, perhaps most importantly, that Africans must assume the leading role in defining the continent's development agenda.

African Voices of the Global Past

Author : Trevor R. Getz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429982135
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book African Voices of the Global Past written by Trevor R. Getz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on retelling many of the important episodes in the global past (c.1500–present) from African points of view. It discusses the events and trends of global significance: the Atlantic slave system, the industrial revolution, World Wars I and II, and decolonization.

Oral Epics from Africa

Author : John William Johnson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253211101
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Oral Epics from Africa written by John William Johnson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-22 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It seems incredible that heretofore there has not been an introductory anthology of African epics presented in English. Western literary culture has long emphasized the heritage of such well-known epics as the Iliad, the Odyssey, and Aeneid. But it is only recently that scholars have turned their attention toward capturing the rich oral tradition that is still alive in Africa. The twenty-five excerpts in this volume have been selected and introduced so as to offer English-speaking readers a broad sample of the extensive epic traditions in Africa. The general introduction and the background on each epic will enable readers to understand the context of each epic and will also provide leads for further inquiry.

The Continent

Author : Keira Drake
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488079358
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Continent written by Keira Drake and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Have we really come so far, when a tour of the Continent is so desirable a thing? We’ve traded our swords for treaties, our daggers for promises—but our thirst for violence has never been quelled. And that’s the crux of it—it can’t be quelled. It’s human nature.” For her sixteenth birthday, Vaela Sun receives the most coveted gift in all the Spire—a trip to the Continent. It seems an unlikely destination for a holiday: a cold, desolate land where two nations remain perpetually locked in combat. Most citizens lucky enough to tour the Continent do so to observe the spectacle and violence of battle, a thing long vanished in the peaceful realm of the Spire. For Vaela, the war holds little interest. As a talented apprentice cartographer and a descendant of the Continent herself, she sees the journey as a dream come true: a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to improve upon the maps she’s drawn of this vast, frozen land. But Vaela’s dream all too quickly turns to nightmare as the journey brings her face-to-face with the brutal reality of a war she’s only read about. Observing from the safety of a heli-plane, Vaela is forever changed by the sight of the bloody battle being waged far beneath her. And when a tragic accident leaves her stranded on the Continent, Vaela finds herself much closer to danger than she’d ever imagined—and with an entirely new perspective as to what war truly means. Starving, alone and lost in the middle of a war zone, Vaela must try to find a way home—but first, she must survive.

Voices from the Continent

Author : Sara Talis O'Brien
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781592211951
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Voices from the Continent written by Sara Talis O'Brien and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The companion to the previous volume which featured West African literature, this useful guide introduces students to five authors from North and East Africa. Providing anthropological and historical research as well as literary criticism, it explores writings with a wide range of universal themes as well as presenting the experiences of a range of ethnic groups. A highly useful tool for schoolteachers, university lecturers and students alike, it can be integrated into courses ranging from world literature to women's studies.

Vital Voices

Author : Alyse Nelson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118184777
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Vital Voices written by Alyse Nelson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How women around the world are leading powerful change Women's progress is global progress. Where there is an increase in women's university enrollment rates, women's earnings, and maternal health, and a reduction in violence against women, we see more prosperous communities, better educated, healthier families, and the preservation of equal human rights. Yet globally, women remain the most consistently under-utilized resource. Vital Voices calls for and makes possible transformative leadership around the world. In Vital Voices, CEO Alyse Nelson shares the stories of remarkable, world-changing women, as well as the story of how Vital Voices was founded, crossing lines that typically divide. For 15 years, Vital Voices has brought together women who want to enable others to become change agents in their governments, advocates for social justice, and supporters of democracy. They equip women with management and business development skills to expand their enterprises and create jobs in their communities. Their voices, stories, and hard-earned lessons—shared here for the first time—are deeply authentic and truly vital. Features interviews and first-person accounts of global leaders, such as Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia, and Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Prize-winning Burmese pro-democracy leader, as well as business leaders Draws on the work of the Vital Voices, the organization founded by Hillary Clinton in 1997 as a government initiative that transformed into a leading non-profit, which enables a network of 10,000 emerging women leaders in politics, human rights, and economic development in 127 countries. These women have gone on to mentor and train more than 500,000 Focuses on the key elements of the Vital Voices five-step model of transformational leadership, including how to find a voice, lead with purpose, cross lines that divide, and more Through the firsthand accounts of trail-blazing leaders, Vital Voices introduces unforgettable, inspiring women who are shaping our world.

Voice in the Night

Author : Pastor Surprise
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1441270191
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Voice in the Night written by Pastor Surprise and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astonishing True Story of the Miracles That Are Changing Africa Born into a long line of witch doctors, Surprise ("Surpresa") Sithole was destined for a life of fear, oppression, and poverty in the jungles of Africa. But at the age of fifteen, he was awakened in the middle of the night by an unfamiliar voice. Urgent, but not harsh, it told him to get up and leave his family immediately. As Surprise stepped out into the night, away from everything dear to him, he had no idea who God was--or what he had in store for him. From miraculous signs and wonders to supernatural deliverance from certain death to divine revivals that overtook countries, Surprise has followed wherever God has led, becoming an agent of hope and change in a continent devastated by war, poverty, and spiritual oppression. Voice in the Night is the amazing true story of what began that night in a jungle hut more than twenty-five years ago: a journey--an adventure--of faith and miracles.

African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Author : Anne Bailey
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807055190
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade written by Anne Bailey and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2005-01-02 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's an awful story. It's an awful story. Why do you want to bring this up now?--Chief Awusa of Atorkor For centuries, the story of the Atlantic slave trade has been filtered through the eyes and records of white Europeans. In this watershed book, historian Anne C. Bailey focuses on memories of the trade from the African perspective. African chiefs and other elders in an area of southeastern Ghana-once famously called "the Old Slave Coast"-share stories that reveal that Africans were traders as well as victims of the trade. Bailey argues that, like victims of trauma, many African societies now experience a fragmented view of their past that partially explains the blanket of silence and shame around the slave trade. Capturing scores of oral histories that were handed down through generations, Bailey finds that, although Africans were not equal partners with Europeans, even their partial involvement in the slave trade had devastating consequences on their history and identity. In this unprecedented and revelatory book, Bailey explores the delicate and fragmented nature of historical memory.

Voice from the Continent; Or, Interesting Observations on Remarkable Places, Health, and Religion, in Belgium, Germany, and on the Rhine

Author : Edward MORGAN (Vicar of Syston.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Voice from the Continent; Or, Interesting Observations on Remarkable Places, Health, and Religion, in Belgium, Germany, and on the Rhine written by Edward MORGAN (Vicar of Syston.) and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

1,001 Voices on Climate Change

Author : Devi Lockwood
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982146737
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book 1,001 Voices on Climate Change written by Devi Lockwood and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A journalist travels the world to collect personal stories about how flood, fire, drought, and rising seas are changing communities"--

Love Songs for a Lost Continent

Author : Anita Felicelli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781945233043
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Love Songs for a Lost Continent written by Anita Felicelli and published by . This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[This is] the book we needed to read yesterday... a book we will still be reading tomorrow." - Porochista Khakpour, author of Sick and Sons and Other Flammable Objects Anita Felicelli's debut collection delivers a dazzling array of precisely drawn characters searching for identity in the seemingly narrow spaces of their everyday lives. From the glittering heat of India to the palm-lined streets of Silicon Valley, the backwoods of Kentucky to the vanilla-bean fields of Madagascar, immigrants, daughters, and lovers explore what it means to lose and to love, to continually reinvent oneself while honoring the personal histories and lost continents that shape us all.

Voices of Latin America

Author : Tom Gatehouse
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 158367800X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Voices of Latin America written by Tom Gatehouse and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are uncertain times in Latin America. Popular faith in democracy has been shaken; traditional political parties and institutions are stagnating, and there is a growing right-wing extremism overtaking some governments. Yet, in recent years, autonomous social movements have multiplied and thrived. This book presents voices of these movement protagonists themselves, as they describe the major issues, conflicts, and campaigns for social justice in Latin America today. Latin America Bureau, a London-based, independent organization providing news and analysis on the region, spoke to people from fourteen countries, from Mexico to the Southern Cone. The book captures the voices indigenous activists, fighting oil drilling in their homelands; mothers from favelas seeking justice for their children killed by police; opponents of large-scale mining projects; independent journalists working, at great personal risk, to expose corruption and human rights violations; women and LGBT people confronting violence and discrimination; and students demanding their right to a free, universal and high-quality education system. Though their locations and causes are disparate, these people and their movements share learning and activism, and their cooperation helps to link the movements across national borders. Voices of Latin America is essential reading for students, travelers, journalists—anyone with an interest in social justice movements in Latin America.

African Words, African Voices

Author : Luise White
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253339485
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book African Words, African Voices written by Luise White and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Words, African Voices considers African history as an art incorporating the experience and testimony of ordinary Africans. It is a provoative volume that evokes the richness and relevance of oral sources for understanding a complex past.

Other Voices, Other Vistas

Author : Barbara H. Solomon
Publisher : Signet Book
ISBN 13 : 9780451628459
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Other Voices, Other Vistas written by Barbara H. Solomon and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains twenty-five short stories by such authors as Chinua Achebe, Anita Desai, Kobo Abe, and Isabel Allende.

Imagine Africa

Author : Mia Couto
Publisher : Archipelago
ISBN 13 : 0914671189
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Imagine Africa written by Mia Couto and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine Africa and its theme of "Revolution" is introduced by Georges Lory who opens the collection with his essay, "Poets to your quills, Africa is taking off". Through a collage of poems, essays, fiction, and visual art, Imagine Africa gives us a glimpse of a kaleidoscopic contemporary Africa.