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Are you excited about planning your next trip?Do you want to try something new?Would you like some guidance from a local?If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Greater Than a Tourist book is for you.Greater Than a Tourist- Johannesburg Gauteng South Africa by Micheline Logan offers the inside scoop on Johannesburg. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.In these pages, you will discover advice that will help you throughout your stay. This book will not tell you exact addresses or store hours but instead will give you excitement and knowledge from a local that you may not find in other smaller print travel books.Travel like a local. Slow down, stay in one place, and get to know the people and the culture. By the time you finish this book, you will be eager and prepared to travel to your next destination.

Eritrea is characterised by regime paranoia, intense domestic repression and isolationism. Martin Plaut's book offers a glimpse into a relatively young nation marred by a stifling dictatorship

"Nigeria and Nigerians have acquired a notorious reputation for involvement in drug-trafficking, fraud, cyber-crime and other types of serious crime. Successful Nigerian criminal networks have a global reach, interacting with their Italian, Latin American and Russian counterparts. Yet in 1944, a British colonial official wrote that 'the number of persistent and professional criminals is not great' in Nigeria and that 'crime as a career has so far made little appeal to the young Nigerian'. This book traces the origins of Nigerian organised crime to the last years of colonial rule, when nationalist politicians acquired power at a regional level. In need of funds for campaigning, they offered government contracts to foreign businesses in return for kickbacks, in a pattern that recurs to this day. Political corruption encouraged a wider disrespect for the law that spread throughout Nigerian society. When the country's oil boom came to an end in the early 1980s, young Nigerian college graduates headed abroad, eager to make money by any means. Nigerian crime went global at the very moment new criminal markets were emerging all over the world"--

Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world. It is a unique blend of Asian and African culture and is well known as the home of some of the world's most unusual and most endangered flora and fauna, from lemurs to giant tortoises. Although so close to the east coast of Africa, where traces of human existence go back hundreds of thousands of years, Madagascar was uninhabited until about two thousand years ago. How it came to be inhabited by seafaring peoples from present-day Indonesia is just one of the many fascinating aspects of this book. A History of Madagascar examines the origins of the Malagasy, the early contacts with Europeans and the struggle for influence in the nineteenth century between the British and the French. It also covers the colonial period from 1896 to 1960, the recovery of independence and subsequent history up to the early 1990s.

In this inspirational, eventful and dramatic memoir, the author tells his life as a son from mixed ethnic groups of East-Central African people. In his impoverished childhood, his story starts after a choc provoked by the encounter with his birth city's Lake Tanganyika. He travels very young in DR Congo and Rwanda to search for his identity origin. He holds Master's degrees from a couple universities including UC Louvain School of Management. With the help of a Father, he feels confident to navigate across the many dangers in his pathway for a fulfilled life. He survived wars of DR Congo and countries around it. His odyssey, like in Greek mythology, is long through three continents. In Africa, first he crosses the Congolese jungle to discover one of the primitive lifestyles of his original country, and then he lands in cities like Abidjan, Nairobi, Cape Town, Rabat and Brazzaville. In Europe he visits France, Greece, Belgium, Italy and Spain. He immigrates to the USA after escaping being killed by soldiers, becomes a U.S. citizen raising three children, and works as financier at one of the prestigious universities.

A vacant patch of South African veld next to the comfortable, complacent Malgas household has been taken over by a mysterious, eccentric figure with "a plan." Fashioning his tools out of recycled garbage, the stranger enlists Malgas's help in clearing the land and planning his mansion. Slowly but inevitably, the stranger's charm and the novel's richly inventive language draws Malgas into "the plan" and he sees, feels and moves into the new building. Then, just as remorselessly, all that seemed solid begins to melt back into air.

Equal parts freedom fighter and statesman, Nelson Mandela bestrode the world stage for the past three decades, building a legacy that places him in the pantheon of history's most exemplary leaders.As a foreign correspondent based in South Africa, author John Carlin had unique access to Mandela during the post-apartheid years when Mandela faced his most daunting obstacles and achieved his greatest triumphs. Carlin witnessed history as Mandela was released from prison after twenty-seven years and ultimately ascended to the presidency of his strife-torn country.Drawing on exclusive conversations with Mandela and countless interviews with people who were close to him, Carlin has crafted an account of a man who was neither saint nor superman. Mandela's seismic political victories were won at the cost of much personal unhappiness and disappointment.Knowing Mandela offers an intimate understanding of one of the most towering and remarkable figures of our age.

Since its original publication twenty years ago Rian Malan's classic work of narrative nonfiction "My Traitor's Heart" has earned its author comparisons to masters of literary nonfiction like Michael Herr and Ryszard Kapuscinski. "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" is Malan's remarkable chronicle of South Africa's halting steps and missteps, taken as blacks and whites try to build a new country. Some of the essays previously appeared in a collection published only in South Africa, Resident Alien, but others are collected here for the first time. The collection comprises twenty-three pieces; the title story investigates the provenance of the world famous song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," which Malan traces back to a Zulu singer named Solomon Linda who recorded a song called "Mbube" in the 1930s, which went on to be covered by Pete Seeger, REM, and Phish, and was incorporated into the musical "The Lion King." In other stories, Malan follows the trial of Winnie Mandela and plunges into the explosive controversy over President Mbeki's AIDS policies of the 1990s. The stories, combined with Malan's sardonic interstitial commentary, offer a brilliantly observed portrait of contemporary South Africa.

HIV/AIDS has been reported as one of the most destructive diseases in recent memory, tearing apart communities and ostracizing the afflicted. But the emphasis placed on death and despair hardly captures the many and varied effects of the epidemic, or the stories of the extraordinary people who live and die under its watch. On a remarkable journey through his native Nigeria, Uzodinma Iweala opens our minds to these stories, speaking with people from all walks of life: the ill and the healthy, doctors, nurses, sex workers, students, parents, and children. Their testimonies are by turns uplifting, alarming, humorous, and always unflinchingly candid.At once a deeply personal exploration of life in the face of disease and an incisive critique of our ideas of health and happiness, Our Kind of People goes behind the headlines to illuminate the scope of the crisis and the real lives it affects.

Cry of the Outcast is the incredible true story about a tiny premature African baby boy who was abandonned and left to die but because of love, survives and thrives with his forever family. With insurmountable difficulty, his new family struggles with the realities of life in Africa as they try to secure his future as a son and brother. The reader will gain deep insight into the challenges of Africa and a practical vision of how each one of us can make a difference.

Originally published: Auckland Park, South Africa: Jacana Media, 2010.

A young woman follows her fiancé to war-torn Congo to study extremely endangered bonobo apes-who teach her a new truth about love. In 2005 Vanessa Woods accepted a marriage proposal from a man she barely knew and agreed to join him on a research trip to the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo. Settling in at a bonobo sanctuary in Congo's capital, Vanessa and her fiancé entered the world of a rare ape with whom we share 98.7 percent of our DNA and who live in a peaceful society in which females are in charge, war is nonexistent, and sex is as common and friendly as a handshake. A fascinating memoir of hope and adventure, Bonobo Handshake traces Vanessa's self-discovery as she finds herself falling deeply in love with her husband, the apes, and her new surroundings in this true story of revelation and transformation in a fragile corner of Africa.

Inmore than forty essays and articles that range from Paris to Ceylon, Thailand to Kenya, and, of course, Morocco, the great twen-tieth-century American writer encapsulates his long and full life, and sheds light on his brilliant fiction. Whether he's recalling the cold-water artists' flats of Paris's Left Bank or the sun-worshipping eccentrics of Tangier, Paul Bowles imbues every piece with a deep intelligence and the acute perspective of his rich experience of the world. Woven throughout are photographs from the renowned author's private archive, which place him, his wife, the writer Jane Bowles, and their many friends and compatriots in the landscapes his essays bring so vividly to life. With an introduction by Paul Theroux and a chronology by Daniel Halpern

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2019 in the subject Organisation and administration - Public administration, grade: 1.1, University for Development studies (Wa Campus), course: Social Administration, language: English, abstract: The provision of legal aid services for the poor, marginalized and excluded groups of persons has increasingly attracted the attention of the global development community due to its role in improving access to justice and in providing beneficiaries with access to legal entitlements, resolution of disputes, and justice processes. It has also been globally accepted under the Sustainable Development Goals (i.e. Goal 16) that rule of law and equal access to justice for all should be promoted at both national and international levels and that adequate investments in legal aid provision should also be made. Legal aid provision has emerged as a crucial tool aimed at strengthening democratic governance, fostering peace and achieving progress towards sustainable development. It has been regarded as an important tool in tackling issues of women¿s inheritance rights, empowering local communities to promote the accountability of extractive industries, securing legal identity or ensuring equal access to health, education and other social and economic services (UNDP, 2016). In the African region, access to justice by impoverished and marginalized people has been a constraint. Women living in rural areas are denied their rights to inherit the property of their deceased spouse, subsistence labourers are denied their wage by persons who engaged their services, and some persons at times are held in police custody without due process of law. In view of these, many African countries have guaranteed the right to a fair trial and equal access to legal service in their Constitutions. The right to legal aid in Africa has been affirmed in various regional human rights documents such as the 1999 Dakar Declaration and Recommendations, the Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Fair Trial and Legal Assistance in Africa (2001), the 2003 Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples¿ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa and the 2004 Lilongwe Declaration on Accessing Legal Aid in the Criminal Justice System in Africa (UNDP, 2016b; Atuguba et al., 2006).

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Afrika, Note: 1,7, Technische Universität Darmstadt (Gesellschafts- und Geschichtswissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Absicht der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es zunächst die Vorgehensweise und Funktion des Radiosenders RTLM zu beschreiben und seine Bedeutung als Hilfsmittel beim Völkermord zu verdeutlichen, anschließend jedoch die Bedeutung, die dem Sender zugesprochen wurde, zu relativieren. Die Kernthese dieser Arbeit ist, dass RTLM zwar ein wichtiges Instrument bei der Umsetzung des Völkermordes war, dass seine Wirkungsweise aber nicht überschätzt werden darf und die Vehemenz, mit der seine Wirkungsweise als Ausdruck einer Art ruandischen Kadavergehorsams verbreitet wird sogar eher denen als zusätzliches Argument dient, denen es behagt den Völkermord als Kulmination einer jahrzehnte- oder jahrhundertealten und quasi natürlichen ethnischen Spannung zwischen afrikanischen ¿Stämmen¿ zu sehen. Die Schuld, die die internationale Gemeinschaft mit ihren Regimen (repräsentiert durch die Vereinten Nationen) durch ihre Untätigkeit und Gleichgültigkeit gegenüber den Vorgängen in Ruanda auf sich geladen hat, wäre so ein wenig kleiner und erschiene weniger monströs. Dem entgegenzutreten ist auch Ziel dieser Arbeit. Im letzten Teil wird außerdem die Frage aufgeworfen, inwieweit Massenmedien insgesamt ein unverzichtbarer Bestandteil von Macht sind. Die Arbeit stützt sich dabei auf einige der bekanntesten Veröffentlichungen sowohl zum Völkermord in Ruanda allgemein als auch zur Rolle RTLMs im Besonderen, vor allem auf Des Forges, Thompsons und Dallaires Bücher.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Ethnologie / Volkskunde, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Genozid in Ruanda 1994 hat ein gespaltenes Land zurückgelassen. Ein Leben in einer Gesellschaft, in der Täter und Opfer Tür an Tür wohnen muss reguliert werden, die Taten des Völkermordes müssen gerichtet werden. Doch wie geht eine Gesellschaft mit einer solchen Schuld um? Wie kann Gerechtigkeit stattfinden, wie können Taten bestraft und Täter und Opfer zueinander gebracht werden? Zunächst soll zum Verständnis der Prozesse nach 1994 der historische Kontext des Genozids geklärt werden. Um diesen Konflikt zu verstehen muss zuerst einmal die Geschichte der Bevölkerung betrachtet werden. Hierbei liegt der Fokus vor allem auf den beiden in Ruanda ansässigen Gruppen der Hutu und Tutsi und der Entwicklung des Konflikts zwischen diesen. Anschließend werden die verschiedenen Formen der Transnational Justice betrachtet, hierzu zählen die Gerechtigkeitsbestrebungen der Staatengemeinschaft sowie vonseiten der ruandischen Regierung. Es soll beleuchtet werden, welche Methoden der Rechtsprechung und Wiedergutmachung angewendet wurden, um Frieden anzustreben. Die Funktions- und Vorgehensweise der verschiedenen Teile dieser soll erläutert und einer Bewertung unterzogen werden, abschließend ziehe ich ein Fazit über diese.