Dictionary of African Biography: Oding
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File Size : 43,78 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Africa
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Release : 2012
Category : Africa
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Author : Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
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Page : 3382 pages
File Size : 16,72 MB
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195382072
From the Pharaohs to Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa's history. Unprecedented in scale, DAB covers the whole continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatsheput of Egypt (1490-1468 BC) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (243-183 BC), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1909-1972), Miriam Makeba and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (1918 -).
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Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 2720 pages
File Size : 34,32 MB
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195382075
From the Pharaohs to Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa's history. Unprecedented in scale, DAB covers the whole continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatsheput of Egypt (1490-1468 BC) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (243-183 BC), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1909-1972), Miriam Makeba and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (1918 -).
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Page : 366 pages
File Size : 32,61 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Africa
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Author : Norbert C. Brockman
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Page : 448 pages
File Size : 33,34 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780874367485
Over 550 biographical sketches of the modern cultural and political leaders of sub-Saharan Africa.
Author : Ben Okri
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,25 MB
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1529114918
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE ‘So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use’ The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria exists between life and death. He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and injustice, but Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Nearly called back to the land of the dead, he is resurrected. But in their efforts to save their child, Azaro's loving parents are made destitute. The tension between the land of the living, with its violence and political struggles, and the temptations of the carefree kingdom of the spirits propels this latter-day Lazarus's story. Despite belonging to a spirit world made of enchantment, where there is no suffering, Azaro chooses to stay in the land of the Living: to feel it, endure it, know it and love it. This is his story. ‘In a magnificent feat of sustained imaginative writing, Okri spins a tale that is epic and intimate at the same time. The Famished Road rekindled my sense of wonder. It made me, at age 50, look at the world through the wide eyes of a child’ Michael Palin
Author : Ben Okri
Publisher : Random House
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 26,76 MB
Release : 2008-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1407022555
Starbook tells the tale of a prince and a maiden in a mythical land where a golden age is ending. Their fragile story considers the important questions we all face, exploring creativity, wisdom, suffering and transcendence in a time when imagination still ruled the world. A magnificent achievement and a modern-day parable, Starbook offers a vision of life far greater than ourselves.
Author : Ben Okri
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 31,82 MB
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1635422914
An epic poem touching on issues of racism, intolerance, and environmental destruction, from the Booker Prize–winning author. There is much to celebrate in the human journey so far—art in all its forms, advances made in the fields of technology and medicine, and for many of us, the miracle of freedom. But there is also much to regret—racism, intolerance, the destruction of our environment, the reality and the legacy of slavery. In this long, sustained consideration of the state we find ourselves in, Ben Okri invokes the past to explain the present, and sings out a message of hope. The future is still ours to make. This epic poem, an anthem for the twenty-first century, first appeared in The Times in January 1999. Its message could hardly be more relevant to our present condition. Discover this revised edition of an inspiring and extraordinarily tender work.
Author : Ben Okri
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 16,96 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780582035362
Set in the hustle of Lagos, a series of disturbing events strip the young Jeffia Okwe of his innocence and reveal the ruthlessness of his own father. The tragic climax of the tale leaves Jeffia cleansed of the sins of his father, ready for adult life and optimistic about the future.
Author : Ben Okri
Publisher : Random House
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 14,14 MB
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1446433897
Incidents at the Shrine is the first collection of stories by the author of 1991 Booker Prize-winning novel, The Famished Road. Whether the subject is a child's eye view of the Nigerian Civil War, Lagos and the spirit world or dispossession in a decaying British inner city, Okri's lyrical, poetic and humorous prose recreates the known and the unknown world with startling power.