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First Published in 1943, Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) is a widely collected book and has been published in 190 languages. This is the only Swahili translation in the world and includes the original drawings by the author, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Swahili is the widest spoken African language with more than 100 million speakers worldwide. This is a valuable collectors item and a memorable g...

Bukavu blues

Livro 'lusofonia' em africa

Livro the ink of the scholars

Pala pala killer

Research methods and statistics for cross-cutting research

Sur la philosophie africaine. critique de liethnophilosophie

How do we resolve the insider/outsider interpreting conundrum? Why do readers from different parts of the world read, interpret, or understand foreign literatures the way they do? What drives peculiar critical reactions, canon formations and such issues which determine the survival of cultural productions or their continued adoption as useful bolsters for a peoples self-definition or indeed self-p...

As there are different races and people in the world, so there are different cultures - meaning that cultural diversity is inevitable. Through human contact and association cultures meet. In such meetings every individual and culture projects itself as worthy, and should be held in high esteem. In today's world it is not encouraging to be ethnocentric - always taking action or in actions that crys...

This original work is a two-volume study of È?ù ?légbára, a Yoruba deity. Volume one consisted of six chapters, three appendices, and a bibliography. The texts of praise poems (orìkí), songs, and narratives selected from research in the field comprise volume two.

This meticulous and comprehensive documentation of Cameroonian Youth Day Messages and leadership discourse on youth from 1949 - 2009 is a gold mine for researchers, historians and anyone interested in studying youth, politics and society in Africa. The book presents and explores themes and content of Youth Day Messages: how these messages tied in with, or veered away from, key events and issues of...

This meticulous and comprehensive documentation of Cameroonian Youth Day Messages and leadership discourse on youth from 1949 - 2009 is a gold mine for researchers, historians and anyone interested in studying youth, politics and society in Africa. The book presents and explores themes and content of Youth Day Messages: how these messages tied in with, or veered away from, key events and issues of...

Liesl Jobsons collection is aptly termed flash fiction or prose poems. It comprises 100 short pieces that are beautifully impressionistic - the literary equivalent of a well-times photograph. Jobson was born in Durban, South Africa. Her poetry and prose has been published in journals and anthologies in South Africa and abroad. She won the People Opposing Women Abuse womens writing poetry competiti...

Liesl Jobsons collection is aptly termed flash fiction or prose poems. It comprises 100 short pieces that are beautifully impressionistic - the literary equivalent of a well-times photograph. Jobson was born in Durban, South Africa. Her poetry and prose has been published in journals and anthologies in South Africa and abroad. She won the People Opposing Women Abuse womens writing poetry competiti...

In one of the most anticipated debut collections of recent years, Maneo Mohale reckons boldly with the experience of and the reconstruction of a life after a sexual assault.Mohales unapologetic and disarming voice carries through a budding and blooming garden of poetics, rooted in a contemporary southern African tradition, but springing forth in queer and radical new directions. Indeed, this is...

In one of the most anticipated debut collections of recent years, Maneo Mohale reckons boldly with the experience of and the reconstruction of a life after a sexual assault.Mohales unapologetic and disarming voice carries through a budding and blooming garden of poetics, rooted in a contemporary southern African tradition, but springing forth in queer and radical new directions. Indeed, this is...

The persistence of indigenous African markets in the context of a hostile or neglectful business and policy environment makes them worthy of analysis. An investigation of Afrocentric business ethics is long overdue. Attempting to understand the actions and efforts of informal traders and artisans from their own points of view, and analysing how they organise and get by, allows for viable approache...

The persistence of indigenous African markets in the context of a hostile or neglectful business and policy environment makes them worthy of analysis. An investigation of Afrocentric business ethics is long overdue. Attempting to understand the actions and efforts of informal traders and artisans from their own points of view, and analysing how they organise and get by, allows for viable approache...

Professor Thandika Mkandawire, the first to hold the Chair in African Development at the London School of Economics, delivered the thirty-second in the Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial Lecture series at the University of Ghana in 2013. In these lectures, combining with and imagination with down-to-earth political economy, he traces Africa's attempts at growth and development since the independenc...

Teaching English in Africa is a practical guide written for primary and secondary school teachers working all over the continent. This book relates the practice of English language teaching directly to the African context. As well as covering the underlying theory of how children learn languages and how teachers can best facilitate this learning, it also provides practical resources and ideas for ...

The distinguished Nigerian playwright directed the first performance of this play at the Arts Theatre at the University of Ibadan. Osofisans incisive vision is put at the service of oppressed humanity. His over-riding theme is that the machinery of oppression in human society is created by man, but man is also capable of demolishing it. The production includes Yoruba songs and incantations, and a ...

This is an African retelling of Euripides: an unnervingly topical story of a people and a beloved city destroyed by the brutality of war. The play was first performed in Lagos in 2003 under the distinguished director Chuck Mike, and subsequently toured the UK.

African Pianism refers to a style of piano music which derives its characteristic idiom from the procedures of African percussion music as exemplified in bell patterns, drumming, xylophone and mbira music. It may use simple or extended rhythmic motifs or the lyricism of traditional songs and even those of African popular music as the basis of its rhythmic phrases. It is open ended as far as the us...

This book questions colonial and apartheid ideologies on being human and being African, ideologies that continue to shape how research is conceptualised, taught and practised in universities across Africa. Africans immersed in popular traditions of meaning-making are denied the right, by those who police the borders of knowledge, to think and represent their realities in accordance with the civili...

This is a comprehensive, insightful, lucid, intense and unrivalled text on the general part of the criminal law in Cameroon. Beginning with an account of the historical development of the criminal law generally, the author proceeds to analyse and discuss in detail the principles governing application of the criminal law, criminal responsibility, participation in crime, penalties, and sentencing. T...

Mozambique as a place of interrogation: the modernity in Elísio Macamo and Severino Ngoenha is an attempt to seek answers to questions that arise when we think within the scope of modern science from the global periphery. This book provides a tour through the works of Elísio Macamo and Severino Ngoenha, authors of great importance in the Mozambican social thought. The insight and fecundity with wh...

Historia ya Kiziba na Wafalme Wake: Tafsiri ya Amakuru Ga Kiziba na Abakama Bamu ni mchango mkubwa kwa fasihi ya kihistoria ya wenyeji wa Afrika ya Mashariki na Tanzania. Utafiti wa Mfalme Mutahangarwa wa Kiziba (aliyetawala 19031916) katika mwanzo wa karne ya ishirini ulikusanya mabingwa wa simulizi za mdomo kutoka katika koo za kifalme na zisizo za kifalme na shuhuda zao ziliandikwa na watu wali...

This book is about the thorny issue of rape in South Africa. It is about the young girl who was in her teenage stage doing grade 12. She was living with her parents in the rural area in KwaZulu Natal. Her home was situated near the forest. It was late in the night when Mandisa was walking back home, coming from her friends home after preparing for a mathematics paper which was going to be written ...

IsiZulu drama book titled Ingane Yamalungelo translated as Child of Rights is a drama book written for reading. It can be changed to be played in real places. This drama talks about the new theme for children using their rights the way that is unacceptable. The main character of the drama is Zethu, she uses her rights with an unacceptable way where she shows disrespect to her parents.This drama ha...

All of these poems were inspired by all the events that took place in the author's life. They highlight all of her struggles, but also serve as a platform for advice for readers and an expression of her gratitude towards her life. She expresses the severe grief I went through, after the passing of her husband; she highlights the appreciation that I have for my sister; and the shares appreciation t...

In a provocative yet unexpectedly tender debut, Kopano Maroga immerses themself in Christian myth and mystery, emerging reborn. In a riotous, innovative and unapologetic display of self-exposure, self-examination and self-love, Maroga appropriates and creates a (sometimes literal) collage of religious imagery, sexual want, and embodiedness - eventually widening their gaze to encompass the realitie...

The title Ohungipeki refers to a conversion of oral heritage into written form. The ohungi session traditionally takes place in the evening during which oral stories, riddles, taboos, and traditions are taught to children. This book literally puts the teaching of the evening assembly in the hand.The authors rich command of Oshindonga revives archaic words that are not often used in writings of tod...

Rwanda is believed to have emerged around the tenth or eleventh century under King Gihanga, the founder of the prosperous and sovereign nation. Initially, military structures played more of a social role, with their main concern being the preservation of the means of subsistence, other than securing territorial influence. King Gihangas military formations, for instance, were meant for the security...

A study of Igbo ritual symbolism is of primary significance to the systematic reconstruction of Igbo traditional religious experience and life. As the clearest visible expression of the corpus of Igbo beliefs, sacred symbols provide reliable information about indigenous religious thought and socio-cultural life. This is especially the case with the dominant symbol of Ofo, since it occupies a uniqu...

This famous little book is one of the funniest to come out of Africa. First published in 1996, it continues to be in demand. The Nigerian author turns a humorous and ironic eye on his fellow compatriots. The book is descibed as a guide for Nigerians and expatriates on the conduct, deportment, comportment, bearing, deameanour, mien, carriage, actions, the misdoings, misconduct and misbehaviours of ...

Mateso, maumivu na siasa ni mambo yaliyojaa uchochezi mkali unaomsukuma mshairi kuzungumza waziwazi na kinagaubaga na hatimaye kumfanya mwandishi apandwe na jazba zinazofanya kazi fulani itoke nje ya kingo za ulingo wa kisanaa. Katika hali kama hii mshairi lazima atunge wimbo unaoimbika ndani ya nafsi yake mwenyewe kwanza, wimbo utakaomwezesha kunyanyuka kitandani asubuhi huku akijua hayuko pweke,...

Hester se Brood is set in a small town in the Little Karoo, where Hester van der Walt bakes bread in a woodfired oven for the local market in MacGregor. The book is inhabited by the spirit of the poets C. Louis Leipoldt and Martin Versfeld, as Hester van der Walt has the same deep rooted, intuitive connection between food and soul, especially food that is prepared with traditional ingredients and ...

The last two decades have seen dramatic changes in Ethiopian higher education. System diversification, enrollment explosion, expansion in physical infrastructure, curricular overhaul and establishment of new types of institution - these are the areas of the most significant development in the sector. Nevertheless, it is the sharp decline in the quality of higher education that has been the subject...

Omiano vya Tjipangandjara: Otjiherero Proverbs and Idioms is a unique collection of linguistic and cultural significance. The author has collected over 150 proverbs and idioms from the Ovaherero community, particularly the Ovakaoko, in Namibia, and from various written sources. He encourages the use of these proverbs as a means of cultural enrichment, since younger speakers of Otjiherero tend to u...

Uwiruwiru hwazuro nhasi namangwana muunganidzwa wemanyukopfungwa atinopakurirwa nananyanduri vane unyanzvi hwekudzamisa ndangariro nekuumba zviumbwapfungwa zvinotekenyedza. Mashoko ari munhetembo idzi anoputika senhondo dzemusasa achitanda sedandemutande pakubata mazera ose uye zviitiko zvakasiyana-siyana zvinosanganikwa nazvo mukurarama kwevanhu. Vananyanduri vari mubhuku rino vakashandisa misamb...

The Stone Virgins, now translated here into Ndebele is an extraordinary and beautiful novel which reflects the graceful courage of Veras work. It is a novel in which the action moves between the dry grey sands of Kezi, the tumbling secretive rocks of Gulati and the bustling streets of Bulawayo. With language at once delicate and sensuous, Yvonne Vera evokes the passion that people feel for their c...

This is the second collection of poems that were entered for the Ebrahim Hussein poetry prize for 2015/2016. The late Gerald Belkin, film director, who came to in order to record on film the challenges of building Ujamaa (socialist) villages in the sixties and seventies established the prize fund. While in Tanzania and working with Ebrahim Hussein, Gerald Belkin was attracted to Swahili culture an...

Ilifa yingqokolela yemibongo engumzame wokuzikisa nokuphonononga ubumnandi nobukrakra bobomi. Nangona uMasola esaziwa nje ngombhali wezincoko, apha kule mibongo usibonisa isakhono sakhe sokubhala iingcamango ngothando, ubumnandi bokuziphatha nokuziyolisa nangona ephila kwilizwe elinobungozi ngenxa yamadoda axhaphaza amanina. Le mibongo ijijisana nokugqwethwa kwenku- luleko ngenxa yentlupheko engat...