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In these pieces the contrast between the natural worlds of South Africa and Europe are brought into sharp focus, and her eye for detail and emotional connectedness to place and people are especially highlighted.

Paper Kingdom and Other Stories recount the experience of growing up in a small Chinese community in Mozambique during the 1950s and 60s.

Most social science studies on automobility have focused on the production, usage, identity construction and aesthetic improvements of personal means of transportation. What happens if we shift the focus to the labour, knowledge and social relations that go into the unavoidable moments of maintenance and repair? Taking motorcycling in Romania as an ethnographic entry point, this book documents how bikers handle the inevitable moments of malfunction and breakdown. Using both mobile and sedentary research methods, the book describes the joys and troubles experienced by amateur mechanics, professional mechanics and untechnical men and women when fixing bikes.

Hebrewisms of West Africa

In A Trail of Crab Tracks, the award-winning author Patrice Nganang chronicles the fight for Cameroonian independence through the story of a father's love for his family and his land and of the long-silenced secrets of his former life.For the first time, Nithap flies across the world to visit his son, Tanou, in the United States. After countless staticky phone calls and transatlantic silences, he has agreed to leave Bangwa: the city in western Cameroon where he has always lived, where he became a doctor and, despite himself, a rebel, where he fell in love, and where his children were born. When illness extends his stay, his son finds an opportunity to unravel the history of the mysterious man who raised him, following the trail of crab tracks to discover the truth of his father and his country. At last, Nithap's throat clears and his voice rises, and he drifts back in time to tell his son the story that is burned into his memory and into the land he left behind. He speaks about the civil war that tore Cameroon apart, about the great men who lived and died, about his soldiers, his martyrs, and his great loves. As the tale unfolds, Tanou listens to his father tell the history of his family and the prayer of the blood-soaked land. From New Jersey to Bamileke country, voices mingle, the borders of time dissolve, and generations merge. In A Trail of Crab Tracks, the third part of a magisterial trilogy by Patrice Nganang, the award-winning author creates an epic of war, inheritance, and desire, and of the relentless, essential struggle for freedom.

Winner of an international 2023 Nautilus Book Award Journey into an ancient valley of Ethiopia, where a true-life struggle for the future of Africa unfolds. In the remote Lower Omo Valley, where our human ancestors first crafted tools, Africa's most famous Indigenous peoples practice timeless rituals rooted in land and cattle, lives shaped by the sun, rain, and cosmos. Their world is shaken when Ethiopia's development revolutionaries, determined to slash the nation's poverty, spot treasure in waters of the fabled Omo River tumbling from the highlands. The Omo will nourish the greatest agricultural dream in Ethiopia's history, while pushing these ancient cultures to the brink. In this captivating insider's memoir, meet the wily officials, fiery activists, storied anthropologists, "human zoo" tourists, and embattled conservationists caught up in the struggle. Richly describing Ethiopia's incredible landscapes and the extraordinary people who live there, LAST DAYS IN NAKED VALLEY will change the way you see the past - and the future. 'Couldn't put it down! Fantastic characterization of the multiple issues and wonderfully descriptive of that fascinating region.' - Tibor Nagy, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs and Ambassador to Ethiopia

"First published in Nigeria in 2021 by Narrative Landscape Press"--Title page verso.

A thousand years ago in west Africa, a hero stopped a sacrifice. He cut off the head of a monster, the head flying into the air. But the Soninke princess was not saved: she was caught in an unfulfilled ritual. She was lost, immortal and unrecognized. A thousand years later a Bamana peasant boy fled his home and was recruited by the spirits to help fulfill a quest traveling a new world, where the French were colonial rulers, then encountering the lost princess. Yet their paths are forced apart. Grounded in the mythology, folklore, and legendary history of the old empires of west Africa (Wagadu and Mali), this novel is set at the dawn of French colonial rule in the territories of Mali and Guinea. Follow this Bamana peasant and the spirits of the bush that are guiding him in this quest. His path leads him on the old trade routes: salt to the south, kola nuts to the north. He discovers the purpose of his quest: to assist the princess of Wagadu who was not sacrificed a thousand years before. In the village of Kri Koro, a new French administrator is in charge. The traditional rulers of the town sought influence, the men used women as pawns; the women sought their own courses and means of influence. Behind the old authority of the Condé was a secret: a theft of power. In Kri Koro, the peasant and the princess meet again ... will they accomplish their goal with the tribal leaders and colonial authority both racing them to the golden secret? Meanwhile, an American has come to west Africa seeking a fortune and travels with a companion from the coast of Guinea to Kri Koro. All paths are set to crash together!

"From one of South Africa's foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched, shattering new account of Nelson Mandela's relationship with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Drawing on never-before-seen material, Steinberg reveals the fractures and stubborn bonds at the heart of a volatile and ground-breaking union, a very modern political marriage which was performed on the world stage"--

Studying the reactions from Fula communities in West Africa that have created narratives of their own, Narratives of Mali: Fula Communities in Times of Crisis analyzes the various narratives employed in Mali as the country faces a lasting political, social, and security crisis that threatens the country's sense of identity.

Lagos megachurch Pastor, Nicholas Adejuwon is a very ambitious man desperate to erase a past that has scarred his mind. His beautiful wife Nkechi has reasons to secretly snoop on him following a series of indiscretions that threaten their marriage and superstardom. When Nkechi uncovers some scandalous secretes, she turns to Ifenna, a young journalist turned blogger who has history with her husband, to make them public, changing her reality as she knew it in the process.Believers and Hustlers is an exposé into the underbelly of Nigeria's Pentecostal fervor and the lives of rich celebrity posterity preachers, their motivations, rivalries, pretenses and fears. This bold novel tells an important story about our times - the quest for power, the fears that trigger it, the hypocrisy that sustains it, and the ways in which religion can be weaponized to shroud it all in a mystery. At its core however, it's a story of life, of love, power, and the ironies that fate often deals us at the end of our desperate quests."In this page turner, Sylva Nze Ifedigbo writes with so much mastery, lucidity and truth, it felt like he was holding up a mirror, daring the reader to look and see themselves. Believers and Hustlers, might be a bitter pill for some to swallow, but what is it they say about the truth?"- Michael Afenfia, author of Leave My Bones in Saskatoon"Sylva Nze Ifedigbo can stand on the same podium as masters like Gurcharan Das. What makes his writing plain and unique at the same time, is the elegance of his prose. He writes with such clarity, that one does not need to be told that he is one of the best storytellers of his generation."- Onyeka Nwelue, author of The Strangers of Braamfontein"Ifedigbo's engaging and deeply affecting novel undertakes a "forensic audit" of the church...he is a brutal writer who writes lines dripping with blood but devoid of bile. The quest for truth seems to be his main goal. He has captured a slice of life that many Africans are familiar with and also succeeds in giving us unforgettable characters in Pastor Nick and Nkechi."- Olukorede Yishau, author of Vaults of Secrets¿Sylva Nze Ifedigbo writes fiction, creative non-fiction and socio-political commentaries. He is the author of the acclaimed novel My Mind Is No Longer Here (2018), a collection of stories The Funeral Did Not End (2012) and a novella Whispering Aloud (2007). His short stories have appeared in various publications including Prick of the Spindle, African Writer, Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Saraba, Kalahari Review, Brittle Paper, AFREADA and Thrice Fiction Magazine.Sylva holds that stories matter and that our very existence is a collection of stories. Being able to tell them beautifully he believes is the most powerful way to impact the world. He lives in Lagos, Nigeria.

The author resists identity politics through a postcolonial political pastoral care and praxis that decolonizes biopolitical governmentalities, reframes hegemonic and fragmented identities, and restores the in-between spaces and in-between subjectivities of Ethiopians.

In this book, media professionals and scholars of media studies examine how the Nigerian media industry has changed in the era of globalization and digitization. They provide history on the Nigerian media industry and examine changes in media law, journalism, broadcasting, sports media, and digital news.

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Explores the fundamental role of the military in state-building in francophone postcolonial West Africa and how foreign economic and military aid has influenced it.

East Africa's birds are extraordinary in their evolution, diversity and behaviour, often proving to be the unexpected highlight of a safari. Lavishly illustrated with beautiful photographs of each species, this book tells the fascinating, surprising, amusing stories of 100 regularly encountered birds - whether iconic or unjustly overlooked.

When the Dutch and German settlers left Europe for South Africa, they had no idea what to expect. Like their fellow Calvinists and cousins who went to Plymouth Colony in the Americas, these people left Leiden, Netherlands for the Cape Colony in South Africa. Here they faced hardship and conflict as they settled amongst the African tribes of southern Africa, the British and Sweden as they fought for control of the colony. Businesses, farms, and wineries were built and families intermarried with other ethnic groups and freed slaves. Many of those freed slaves became property owners in their own right and the Cape Colony grew exponentially. Some of the free slaves actually lived at the Castle of Good Hope, the oldest building on the Cape and many of the ships that brought them cave into Table Bay. Many of Rosa's ancestor were original Progenitors, meaning they were the first of that name to come to South Africa.Front cover: Castle of Good Hope, Cape of Good Hope