Author : Kate Gale
Publisher : Blue Beginnings Pub
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 19,99 MB
Release : 2000-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780963952882
When Princess Riva is born, a witch predicts that she will drive away when she turns sixteen, and never return, but a wise woman says the princess will sleep and not wake unless she does so by her own efforts within five years, in a version of "Sleeping Beauty" set in an African kingdom.
Author : Wanda Coleman
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 12,47 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780876858134
"Coleman is one of the decade's most moral poets, showing us in feverishly focused first- and third-person dramatic monologues the grim life of L.A.'s streets. It's impossible to paraphrase her colloquial, dynamic style ... Understanding does not mean, to Coleman, mild forgiveness, it means hot rage against those of any color who prey on others in pain. Contextualizing murder, rape, poverty, addiction showing us their human faces gives Coleman a 'shattered heart,' makes her feel 'thrown heart first into this ruin,' but the experience transforms the reader"--From Booklist review.
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Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 30,77 MB
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ISBN : 1619960451
Author : Maskarm Haile
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 14,38 MB
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781775175728
What does it take to know oneself? To fully realize one's life dream? For some it may take a lifetime, and for others, the chance may never come. There are those who dream and have the courage to take the first steps past the threshold of familiarity. Their stories, like mine, are etched on the avenues we dare to traverse. The Cape to Cairo road is where I, a black female soul-searcher, faced my greatest trial in confronting my fear of losing my mother to cancer, trying to keep old love alive, and make my childhood dream come true.
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Page : 840 pages
File Size : 42,37 MB
Release : 1964
Category : South Africa
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Author : A. H. J. Prins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 25,3 MB
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1315310236
Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples. Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demography History & Traditions of Origin Nomenclature Grouping Cultural Features: Religion, Witchcraft, Birth, Initiation, Burial Social & Political Organization: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, Warfare & Justice Economy & Trade Domestic Architecture Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually, and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa, North-Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West Central Africa, Western Africa, and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps, available to view on routledge.com or available as a pdf from the publishers.
Author : Philip M. Peek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1256 pages
File Size : 41,74 MB
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1135948739
Written by an international team of experts, this is the first work of its kind to offer comprehensive coverage of folklore throughout the African continent. Over 300 entries provide in-depth examinations of individual African countries, ethnic groups, religious practices, artistic genres, and numerous other concepts related to folklore. Featuring original field photographs, a comprehensive index, and thorough cross-references, African Folklore: An Encyclopedia is an indispensable resource for any library's folklore or African studies collection. Also includes seven maps.
Author : Rachel Murray
Publisher : Hart Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 20,35 MB
Release : 2000-09-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 1841131229
This book challenges the applicability of international law to the African situation.
Author : Anitra Nettleton
Publisher : Wits University Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 30,33 MB
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1868144585
African Dream Machines takes African headrests out of the category of functional objects and into the more rarefied category of ‘art’ objects. Styles in African headrests are usually defined in terms of western art and archaeological discourses, but this book interrogates these definitions of style and demonstrates the shortcomings of defining a single formal style model as exclusive to a single ethnic group. Among the artefacts made by southern African peoples, headrests were the best known. Anitra Nettleton’s study of the uses and forms of headrests opened up a number of art-historical methodologies in the attempt to gain an understanding of form, style and content in African art objects. Her drawings of each and every headrest encountered become a major part of the project.
Author : Fred Crump, Jr.
Publisher :
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 10,90 MB
Release : 1991-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781555233006
A retelling of Sleeping Beauty, illustrated with Black characters.
