Author : Ingrid Mennen
Publisher : Puffin Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,89 MB
Release : 1997-04-22
Category : City and town life
ISBN : 9780140562422
Ashraf, a South African boy who lives in a big city, dreams of the African wild.
Author : Anne Sexton
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 30,44 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780618057047
A selection of poems by contemporary American author Anne Sexton, drawn primarily from eight previously published collections.
Author : Stefanie Zweig
Publisher : Terrace Books
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 44,94 MB
Release : 2006-07-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299210103
Follows the Redlichs as they return to Germany in 1947 after 10 years in exile from National Socialism on a Kenyan farm. Walter is so desperate to practice law again that he uproots his complaining wife, Jettel, his clever, nurturing daughter, Regina, and baby Max to Frankfurt, where gentiles either make snide anti-Semitic comments or claim that they saved Jews and used to have many Jewish friends. Zweig has a deft hand with telling anecdotes.
Author : Chris Berggren
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 28,95 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1440163642
Chris and his fellow adventurers are back from a wild, four-month stretch of world travel. Together, they climbed Mount Sinai, rode donkeys through the Valley of Kings, and partied every step of the way. The young men have become addicted to travel, and it isn't long before they are plotting their next trip this time to Timbuktu, a place of seemingly mythical proportions in the West African country of Mali. Before long, their group gets larger in number, and soon, a small army of nine is making plans to head to Africa. They don't know what to expect, but then again, they don't care. Once in Africa, they will need to navigate the desert, deal with corrupt officials, and stomach extreme images of hardship and poverty. Along the way, they find quite a bit of adventure but also quite a bit of trouble. Through it all, this group of adventure junkies finds out that the perfect place to quench their thirst for excitement is Somewhere in the Sand.
Author : D. Marie Winters
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 14,65 MB
Release : 2009-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1449008305
In this book there are personality conflicts, new formed student friendships and a humanitarian commitment to the villages that participated in a research project. The main character is a non-traditional research student, named Marie that has a psychologically disturbed research partner. Throughout, this novel, Marie is subjected to the bad behavior of her research partner. Her partner has a number of psychological problems ranging from bipolar to schizophrenia that affects their relationship. In the story, whenever, Marie tries to understand and help her partner with her behavior issues she gets worse. Marie made a lot of new friends while she is on this research project, with some of the other students participating in this research project but they were assigned to other areas of Uganda, which was miles away from her and that caused her to be alone with this crazy lady. Marie's research partner also in the story tries to pit their African business colleagues that are working with them on this project, against her by using subtle racial tactics, aimed at Marie. The primary purpose for their research project was to interview the natives in the villages on their perception and preventative strategies for contracting Malaria. The ultimate goal of the research project was to provide the natives in the Malaria endemic areas of Uganda, Africa with documentation on the best practices for preventing Malaria. Marie had a lot of problems with her research she believed her site mate was trying to set their project up for failure. In certain instances, Marie's partner would disrespect the native's customs and embarrass her. Overall, the events in this novel are factual but the characters names have been changed to protect their privacy. The Book cover is a print especially made for the author from her friend Fred Mutebi. Fred is one of Uganda's famous Master Woodcutting Printmaking Artist.
Author : Stefanie Zweig
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 19,76 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0299199649
German Jewish refuge child in Kenya during WWII.
Author : Cornelius Howard Patton
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 36,93 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Missions
ISBN :
Author : Victor Cleary
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 24,50 MB
Release : 2010-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0557345448
From 1939 to 1945, the farming community of Clarksburg, Ohio sent 222 of its sons and daughters to war: 1 in every 5 of its residents. From Somewhere in France is a one-of-a-kind collection of letters written by these men and women, stitched together chronologically and grouped into common themes shared with family and friends. The work includes nearly 200 letters from 70 individuals taking readers on parallel journeys through training, to combat and back home to Ohio. Experience first person accounts of camp life in the states; bombing missions over Europe; battlefield operations from Normandy to Okinawa; letters from POW camps; an eyewitness account of the retaking of Corregidor, and personal reactions to the Holocaust and the atomic destruction of Hiroshima. You have read in-depth histories of large units and entire armies during the war, as well as countless individual autobiographies of wartime tales. Now, experience the war from the unique perspective of one village.
Author : Andrew Sardanis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 12,75 MB
Release : 2007-01-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0857717723
This is a vivid personal history of an international business career. "A Venture in Africa" takes the reader through the twists and turns of doing business with African states and leaders in the turbulent 1970s and later. Drawing on his long experience of modern Africa and international business, Sardanis portrays the crises, disasters and personalities he has encountered in the continent. He shows how the old Africa of corruption, despotism and nepotism is being replaced by a new Africa in which a rising generation of business leaders is emerging - with practical technical and professional skills and free from the post-colonial mentality. A hugely intriguing and entertaining story which shows that Africa, despite the bad press, presents an immensely important and a rich source of commercial opportunities for the successful businessman.
Author : Chantal J. Zabus
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 37,10 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 1847010822
Homosexuality was and still is thought to be quintessentially 'un-African'. Yet in this book Chantal Zabus examines the anthropological, cultural and literary representations of male and female same-sex desire from early colonial contacts between Europe and Africa in the nineteenth century to the present. Covering a broad geographical spectrum, from Mali to South Africa and from Senegal to Kenya, and adopting a comparative approach encompassing two colonial languages (English and French) and some African languages, 'Out in Africa' charts developments in Sub-Saharan African texts and contexts through the work of 7 colonial and some 25 postcolonial writers.
