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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEA dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse, full of trial and sacrifice, The Perfect Nine is a glorious epic about the founding of Kenya's Gikuyu people and the ideals of beauty, courage and unity. 'One of the greatest writers of our time' Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieGikuyu and Mumbi settled on the peaceful and bounteous foot of Mount Kenya after fleeing war and hunger. When ninety-nine suitors arrive on their land, seeking to marry their famously beautiful daughters, called The Perfect Nine, the parents ask their daughters to choose for themselves, but to choose wisely. First the young women must embark on a treacherous quest with the suitors, to find a magical cure for their youngest sister, Warigia, who cannot walk. As they journey up the mountain, the number of suitors diminishes and the sisters put their sharp minds and bold hearts to the test, conquering fear, doubt, hunger and many menacing ogres, as they attempt to return home. But it is perhaps Warigia's unexpected adventure that will be most challenging of all.Blending folklore, mythology and allegory, Ngugi wa Thiong'o chronicles the adventures of Gikuyu and Mumbi, and how their brave daughters became the matriarchs of the Gikuyu clans, in stunning verse, with all the epic elements of danger, humour and suspense. 'A tremendous writer... it's hard to doubt the power of the written word when you hear the story of Ngugi wa Thiong'o' Guardian

The Matabele Campaign; Being a Narrative of the Campaign in Suppressing the Native Rising in Matabeleland and Mashonaland, 1896, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from scanned copies.

Memoir of disease detective.When Mark White quit his job as head bubonic plague epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and fell in love with a beautiful Filipina, he had no idea they'd find themselves traveling the world training teams to fight epidemics and natural disasters, including Ebola virus, cholera, typhoid, malaria, AIDS, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. They supervised evacuees from a giant volcanic eruption and earthquakes.Along the way, they lived through six military coups, a murder plot, and a near-fatal electrocution.Eventually, Mark returned to CDC to become Director of the Division of International Health.

An insightful evaluation of South Africa's five post-apartheid presidents and what kind of leaders they were.

The first of its kind, this concise, up-to-date field guide covers 500 species in four animal groups: mammals, birds, reptiles and frogs.

A new addition to the Pocket Guide series on Zambia, this book features 141 common tree species occurring in the country. Species descriptions include key ID pointers - bark, leaves, flowers, fruit - and are accompanied by full-color photographs of the tree and and its parts, a distribution map, and places for best viewing.

The idea of public sociology, as introduced by Michael Burawoy, was inspired by the sociological practice in South Africa known as 'critical engagement'. This volume explores the evolution of critical engagement before and after Burawoy's visit to South Africa in the 1990s and offers a Southern critique of his model of public sociology. Involving four generations of researchers from the Global South, the authors provide a multifaceted exploration of the formation of new knowledge through research practices of co-production. Tracing the historical development of 'critical engagement' from a Global South perspective, the book deftly weaves a bridge between the debates on public sociology and decolonial frameworks.

"Zach's life was an example to others in steadfastness and courage against the worst possible odds." - Kader Asmal (an anti-apartheid veteran)

Da Mads Munk vælger at tage med som lærer på en studietur til Ghana, opdager han sin afrikanske arv. Hans far, Jens Christian Munk, har gennem mange år arbejdet både i og med Ghana, og det går langsomt op for Mads, hvilken betydning Ghana har for deres familie.
Samtidig følger vi Mads’ datter, Stine Munk, der er på en ungdomsdannelsesrejse med sin veninde i Ghana, og hvordan de to piger bliver introduceret overfor familiens hemmeligheder, og hvad de fører med sig.
Mads vikles ind i et spind af gamle familiehemmeligheder, og snart efterlyses han for mord og jages gennem landet af både politi og kriminelle.Jim Højberg er børnebibliotekar og har rejst meget i Afrika. Han debuterede som forfatter i 1981 med Kampen for et frit land, hvor han beskriver frihedskampen i Guinea-Bissau oplevet fra et barns synsvinkel. Siden har han udgivet over 100 børnebøger, hvor flere af dem også er inspireret af hans rejser, heriblandt Min farfar er høvding i Ghana, og Hvis livlinen brister om gadebørn i Portugal.

A reflection on family roots in England, Germany and the first years of growing up in southern Africa during the troubled 1970s' in Rhodesia. Followed by a challenging new beginning in Europe, learning to overcome insecurity and finding strength and identity with subculture music and underground scenes. I experienced Skinhead life in the mid-late 1980s, started creating own fanzines, explored friendships and failures, fought on the streets and danced through the nights at countless concerts of Psychobilly, Heavy Metal, New Wave, Skinhead, Punk and Ska acts. 'Give me Some Kick!' is a passionate mirroring of a restless past...

Ob tanzende Grenzbeamte, freundliche Giraffen oder verblüffte Nashörner, Judi King's Buch 'Dark Spots in the Tall Grass' bietet neben persönlichen Beobachtungen vielfältige Einblicke in die Geschichte von Lesotho und Südafrika. Eine unterhaltsame Reisebeschreibung, die das Unerwartete mit historischen Bezügen verbindet.A journey through Lesotho and South Africa experiencing the unexpected from eloquent animals to a vehicle going berserk. With a sense of curiosity and humour, the author blends historic facts and personal reflections. Her travelogue gives you background information while taking you on an entertaining journey.

In this highly original book, Obert Bernard Mlambo offers a comparative and critical examination of the relationship between military veterans and land expropriation in the client-army of the first-century BC Roman Republic and veterans of the Zimbabwean liberation war. The study centres on the body of the soldier, the cultural production of images and representations of gender which advance theoretical discussions around war, masculinity and violence. Mlambo employs a transcultural comparative approach based on a persistent factor found in both societies: land expropriation. Often articulated in a framework of patriarchy, land appropriation takes place in the context of war-shaped masculinities.This book fosters a deeper understanding of social processes, adding an important new perspective to the study of military violence, and paying attention to veterans' claims for rewards and compensation. These claims are developed in the context of war and its direct consequences, namely expropriation, confiscation and violence. Land Expropriation in Ancient Rome and Contemporary Zimbabwe contributes to current efforts to decolonise knowledge construction by revealing that a non-Western perspective can broaden our understanding of veterans, war, violence, land and gender in classical culture.

This open access book offers a detailed study of the foundation and expansion of the Dutch Cape Colony to ask why certain regions in the global south became European settler societies from the 16th century onwards. Examining the different factors that led to the creation of the Cape Colony, Erik Green reveals it was a gradual process, made up of ad hoc decisions, in which the agency of indigenous peoples played an important role. He identifies the drivers behind settler expansion, explores the effect of inequality on long-term economic development and examines the relationship between settlers and the colonial authorities, asserting that they should not be treated as one homogenous group with shared economic interests. Assessing specific characteristics of the Cape Colony, such as the proposition it was a slavery economy, and comparing key insights of this study with the historiography of other settler colonies, Creating the Cape Colony demonstrates the need to revise our understanding of how settler economies operated, and to rethink the long-term legacies of settler colonialism.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation grant.

Volume III covers the Iberian Empires and the important ethnic dimension of the Ibero-American independence movements, revealing the contrasting dynamics created by the Spanish imperial crisis at home and in the colonies. It bears out the experimental nature of political changes, the shared experiences and contrasts across different areas, and the connections to the revolutionary French Caribbean. The special nature of the emancipatory processes launched in the European metropoles of Spain and Portugal is explored, as are the connections between Spanish America and Brazil, as well as between Brazil and Portuguese Africa. It ends with an assessment of Brazil and how the survival of slavery is shown to have been essential to the new monarchy, although simultaneously, enslaved people began pressing their own demands, just like the indigenous population.

"An in-depth look at the infrastructural landscape of Africa's 3rd wave urbanization, drawing on case studies from Africa and the US"--

Sakagwa's Ghost, originally published in Kiswahil as Kivuli cha Sakawa, is a story about one of Africa's legendary heroes. A seer, strategist and medicine man, Sakagwa's legend lives to date, holding that many of his predictions have come to pass. His wisdom, some say, served to assure the survival of the Abagusii community in the face of colonial incursion.In this this story, Sakagwa finds himself at a crossroads following the death of his father, a prominent leader in his own right. Conservative elders in the community, feeling threatened by this youngster's demonstrated wisdom and knowledge are determined to dim his rising star. Will they succeed? Sakagwa Ng'iti was born and lived in the Abagusii community in western Kenya at the turn of 19th Century (1800). The unfolding story in this book did take place, probably in slightly a different way from that depicted here. By chronicling this episode, the author gives the story a new lease of life, through artistic rendering, and offers chance for others to comment or offer versions of the story as they understand it.

Before history became legend and legend became myth, the oral traditions of what is presently referred to as "Pre-History" were maintained for thousands of years, preserved and handed down throughout the generations since the dawn of the "Age of Man". Throughout the ages, through myth, allegory, parables, iconography and symbolism, the fragmented remains of ancient beliefs have preserved down to the present day; such are the tales in Mythos: The Prescient Kings

The lives of the women, soldiers, famers and fishermen of the Boko Haram conflict, told in their own hand.

LoveOffers No Safety: Nigeria’s Queer Men Speak tells the stories of amarginalized community in their own words.

A seminal novel of African decolonization available for the first time in English translation. Lisbon 1961. Aware that the secret police are watching them, four young Angolans discuss their plans for a utopian homeland free from Portuguese rule. When war breaks out, they flee to France and must decide whether they will return home to join the fight. Two remain in exile and two return to Angola to become guerilla fighters, barely escaping capture over the course of the brutal fourteen-year war. Reunited in the capital of Luanda, the old friends face independence with their confidence shaken and struggle to build a new society free of the corruption and violence of colonial rule. Pepetela, a former revolutionary guerilla fighter and Angolan government minister, is the author of more than twenty novels that have won prizes in Africa, Europe, and South America. The Utopian Generation is widely considered in the Portuguese-speaking world an essential novel of African decolonization-and is now available in English translation for the first time.

Ce livre parle de l'indépendance de Mayotte. Il regroupe quelques analyses historiques sur Mayotte et interroge. Vous y trouverez également des propositions de solutions mahoraises pour les problèmes qui affectent la vie des Mahorais

Exactly 400 years since the first slave ships left Ghana for America, Elton, Vincent and Scott arrive in the country to visit the historic sites from the transatlantic slave route. But they are also there to explore the country's underground queer scene. A shocking and unsettling tale, and a genre-breaking novel from a new African voice.

History never dies. It is embedded in people's memories when books are burnt and children are taught false histories, imagined by false historians from near and far - says the author in this book. This is the context in which Key Points in the History of Kenya, 1885-1990 is published. This, the 4th in the Kenya Resists Series from Vita Books, brings together presentation points from several conferences and meetings on the history of Kenya. It also includes historical records on Kenya by Saleh Mamon and Ladislav Venys. Key Points highlights many hidden facts about the history of Kenya.References are included for those who wish to explore the history further. While these books and facts are readily available in many history books, they are not easily available to all people in Kenya and in a form that meets their needs. The book therefore aims to familiarise people with the history of Kenya. It seeks to keep people's struggles, sacrifices and history alive. The author hopes that it will be a weapon in the sense that Bertolt Brecht meant when he said: 'Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon'. That is the aim of the series, Kenya Resists too.