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The Tribulations of a Sahelian Traveler
ISBN: 9780615981697 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Tribulations of a Sahelian Traveler is a novel about N'Djilekou and his children. It is the story of a man and his family engaged in exploring new possibilities, facing death, celebrating birth and rebirth, and overcoming challenges. N'Djilekou's children continue the battle where he left it in the midst of a pitiless society overtaken by greed, selfishness and hypocrisy. The Tribulations of a Sahelian Traveler is a story of audacity and hope, coming of age, the refusal to be caught in the past, the strong belief in self-reliance and self-reinvention in the midst of crisis. It is a story...
The Tribulations of a Sahelian Traveler is a novel about N'Djilekou and his children. It is the story of a man and his family engaged in exploring new...
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47,83 |
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Homeland Nostalgia: The Cook's Soup Pot
ISBN: 9780976065944 / Angielski / Miękka / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The unsettling experience of coming home to what no longer, or not quite exists in the same form, is not the sole preserve of Nigerians or Africans. It is a universal phenomenon, commonly reported by immigrants who visit their original homelands. Having been away for so long, memories of what used to be contrasted starkly with what actually obtained. Sometimes this change is welcome; often times, it is dismaying. Homeland Nostlagia: The Cook's Soup Pot is a collage of spontaneous reflections that arose from the author's visit to her motherland in 2014. For her, the lines between fact, fiction...
The unsettling experience of coming home to what no longer, or not quite exists in the same form, is not the sole preserve of Nigerians or Africans. I...
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23,97 |
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Moving Thoughts: Life of an Observer and Doer
ISBN: 9781500624149 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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51,99 |
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Les contes égyptiens anciens et les contes de l'Afrique subsaharienne: Esquisse d'une analyse comparée
ISBN: 9782981300478 / Francuski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ce livre est une des plus belles aventures qui me soient arrivees cette annee. C'est par hasard sur Internet que j'ai pris connaissance du travail de Magloire Tessoh de Yaounde. Tout de suite j'ai pris contact avec lui pour lui demander l'autorisation d'en faire un livre. Sa reponse est venue sans tarder: C'est d'accord De passage a Douala, j'ai eu la chance de le voir en personne. Il a fait le deplacement de Yaounde pour me rencontrer dans ma chambre d'hotel. Apres avoir apprecie l'oeuvre, j'ai rencontre un auteur sympathique a souhait. Nous avons refait le monde ou plutot refait...
Ce livre est une des plus belles aventures qui me soient arrivees cette annee. C'est par hasard sur Internet que j'ai pris connaissance du travail de ...
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120,07 |
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Erse Dogusu Tuhatida
ISBN: 9781495350047 / Francuski / Miękka / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ce livre fait parti de la litterature traditionelle qui sort des montagnes du Tibesti. Ces histoires ne sont qu'une petite representation des contes toubou qui sont raconte la nuit au tour d'un feu dans l'isolation du nord du Tchad."
Ce livre fait parti de la litterature traditionelle qui sort des montagnes du Tibesti. Ces histoires ne sont qu'une petite representation des contes t...
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21,54 |
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Hope For Liberia
ISBN: 9781500853549 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. HOPE FOR LIBERIA is an anthology of short stories and poems, by a group of Liberian authors. In this specialized edition, there is a wide range of stories, personal, historical, controversial but mostly, they are centered on Spider. We encounter the mischievous spider and his many tricks. Interestingly, what most people do not know is that there is more to him than evil, greed, envy and selfishness. Was he always notorious? Was he ever a decent creature? What happened to him? Open up and read some rarely to never before told, stories of Spider; stories of long, long before he was Spider. The...
HOPE FOR LIBERIA is an anthology of short stories and poems, by a group of Liberian authors. In this specialized edition, there is a wide range of sto...
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39,98 |
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Les chemins du Paradis
ISBN: 9782981300430 / Francuski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lorsqu'un jeune pretre decide de mener la revolution pour plus de justice sociale dans un pays d'Afrique noire, il est loin d'imaginer que le plus grand obstacle a son entreprise se presenterait sous les traits d'une jeune et belle etudiante quelle que peu rebelle. A travers Julie, l'abbe Cesar finit par comprendre la veritable portee de cette sagesse biblique: Les voies de Dieu sont insondables ... On retrouve une fois de plus dans ce livre le style depouille de l'auteur qui fait le bonheur des lecteurs, rappelant par moment Zamenga Batukezanga, l'ecrivain dont il se sent le plus proche."
Lorsqu'un jeune pretre decide de mener la revolution pour plus de justice sociale dans un pays d'Afrique noire, il est loin d'imaginer que le plus gra...
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60,03 |
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L'Homme est mort, le Genre est né
ISBN: 9782981300492 / Francuski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Apres avoir gagne le Prix Mark Twain au debut de l'annee 2010, l'auteur rencontre un monsieur qui, en decortiquant son ouvrage, emet son avis sur le contenu. L'Homme est mort, le Genre est ne est un debat dans lequel l'auteur defend ses idees sous la critique d'un observateur independant. La nouvelle-phare est suivi d'un bonus (Sacre monde pourri ), et l'ensemble constitue une satire philosophique dans laquelle il y a a rire et surtout beaucoup a reflechir."
Apres avoir gagne le Prix Mark Twain au debut de l'annee 2010, l'auteur rencontre un monsieur qui, en decortiquant son ouvrage, emet son avis sur le c...
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60,03 |
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La Récolte de vie
ISBN: 9781502847409 / Francuski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Quand la tricherie et la corruption s'installent comme valeurs de reference a l'universite, la nation et son futur sont sacrifies. Cette piece theatrale, aux personnages haut en couleur, nous conduit dans les labyrinthes de l'Universite ou les bons et mauvais enseignants, cotoient les etudiants dont la volonte de reussir, par tous les moyens, depasse de loin la discipline et le travail. Heureusement, dans le theatre de Waliya, ou on joue vrai, chacun ne peut recolter que ce qu'il a seme."
Quand la tricherie et la corruption s'installent comme valeurs de reference a l'universite, la nation et son futur sont sacrifies. Cette piece theatra...
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64,03 |
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Conceptions of Marginality in the Postcolonial Novel: Revisiting Bessie Head
ISBN: 9781634431125 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Postcolonial discourse in all its breadth and depth often narrows down to issues of marginality, a situation in which the imperial hegemony subjugates the less privileged peoples to the margins, be they nations or linguistic, religious and ethnic groups, or race. In Conceptions of Marginality in the Postcolonial Novel: Revisiting Bessie Head, Adamu Pangmeshi critically explores the issues of marginality in Head's fiction, problematizing such critical issues as identity, gender, exile, religion, social and economic problems and the ensuing circumstances in the peculiar postcolonial matrix of...
Postcolonial discourse in all its breadth and depth often narrows down to issues of marginality, a situation in which the imperial hegemony subjugates...
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85,33 |
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Sacred River
ISBN: 9780821421376 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The reincarnation of a legendary nineteenth-century Caribbean emperor as a contemporary African leader is at the heart of this novel. Sacred River deals with the extraordinary lives, hopes, powerful myths, stories, and tragedies of the people of a modern West African nation. It is also the compelling love story of an idealistic philosophy professor and an ex-courtesan of incomparable beauty. Two hundred years after his death, the great Haitian emperor Henri Christophe miraculously appears in a dream to Tankor Satani, president of the fictional West African country of Kissi, with instructions...
The reincarnation of a legendary nineteenth-century Caribbean emperor as a contemporary African leader is at the heart of this novel. Sacred River dea...
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144,77 |
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Mrs. Shaw
ISBN: 9780821421437 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the East African Kwatee Republic of the 1990s, the dictatorship is about to fall, and the nation s exiles are preparing to return.One of these exiles, a young man named Kalumba, is a graduate student in the United States, where he encounters Mrs. Shaw, a professor emerita and former British settler who fled Kwatee s postcolonial political and social turmoil. Kalumba s girlfriend, too, is an exile: a Puerto Rican nationalist like her imprisoned father, she is an outcast from the island. Brought together by a history of violence and betrayals, all three are seeking a way of regaining... In the East African Kwatee Republic of the 1990s, the dictatorship is about to fall, and the nation s exiles are preparing to return.One of these e... |
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130,84 |
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Maisha Ni Kugharimia (School Edition)
ISBN: 9781499199352 / Swahili / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mathias E. Mnyampala (1917-1969) is a famous Tanzanian lawyer, writer and poet who wrote in Kiswahili. The unpublished manuscript of his autobiography has been discovered in 2007 in Dodoma (United Republic of Tanzania) by Dr Mathieu Roy by finding the heir of the author. Roy then edited the manuscript for the first time in 2013. It was conserved in Dodoma with other unpublished manuscripts and rare literary archives by Charles M. Mnyampala, the second son of the author who received from his father the mission to conserve and publish these precious documents since 1969. This Kiswahili book is...
Mathias E. Mnyampala (1917-1969) is a famous Tanzanian lawyer, writer and poet who wrote in Kiswahili. The unpublished manuscript of his autobiography...
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24,01 |
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Hoddu: Stories
ISBN: 9781505866407 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do you hear the notes plucked as the griot tunes his hoddu? When a Peul griot from Senegal plays his hoddu he sings family histories, praise songs, traditional tales and epics. Within these songs there are questions of identity, and of how people conduct themselves when facing adversity. It is fitting to link that tradition to this collection, which includes: stories of the tirailleurs senegalais (West African conscripts who fought for France); stories of families struggling to find their way; and above all stories of people seeking an answer to the question that most troubles us all: how am...
Do you hear the notes plucked as the griot tunes his hoddu? When a Peul griot from Senegal plays his hoddu he sings family histories, praise songs, tr...
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52,03 |
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Tears of the gods: Regicide in a village
ISBN: 9781505516173 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ignorance. Jealousy. Witchcraft. Subterfuge. Regicide and Vengeance. These characterized the leadership situation in the village of Umuigwe. There is relative peace in Umuigwe until the arrival of the white man with his religion and government. Igwe Uwaneme the ruler of Umuigwe is at a loss over the paradox of the white man's coming. The gods predicted the alien as good, but his actions suggested evil omen. For condoning what they called the desecration of the land, Igwe Uwaneme now becomes a target for elimination by some charlatans. Under this guise a new leadership is enthroned. However,...
Ignorance. Jealousy. Witchcraft. Subterfuge. Regicide and Vengeance. These characterized the leadership situation in the village of Umuigwe. There is ...
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59,99 |
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Voice of Humanity
ISBN: 9781500432669 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a global anthology, written by poets whose pens blaze with a passionate wish to halt the assault of the injustices foisted on innocent humanity. If you read between the lines, you may hear the 'Voice Of Humanity', which is crying out to be listened to. These poets vocalize the concerns of many people around the world, and their compassion reveals their fundamental belief that poets should write about matters in a way that empowers ordinary people. The issues raised therefore are topical, and include those represented by the global media, yet they are dealt with in a very precise...
This is a global anthology, written by poets whose pens blaze with a passionate wish to halt the assault of the injustices foisted on innocent humanit...
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35,98 |
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On the Meaning and Function of Allegory in the English Renaissance
ISBN: 9781258898892 / Angielski / Twarda / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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144,93 |
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A Decade of Sighs: Nigeria...a nation so dedicated
ISBN: 9781503337381 / Angielski / Miękka / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A poetry collection of individual and nationhood yearnings from Nigeria. In this poetic telling, human stories expose the transformations this nation and several others in Africa have experienced in the last decade. It is as much a beautiful bouquet of hopes and aspirations, an inquisition of its politics of waste of human and resource capital, and the dynamism of a progressive people. At a time when geopolitical, religious and social worldviews bring civilizations eyeball to eyeball, it is an urgent account and an unwrapping of the metaphors that could make for more meaningful dialogues. It...
A poetry collection of individual and nationhood yearnings from Nigeria. In this poetic telling, human stories expose the transformations this nation ...
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57,99 |
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Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa: The Tragedy of Endowment
ISBN: 9781580465427 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conflict over natural resources has made Africa the focus of international attention, particularly during the last decade. From oil in Nigeria and diamonds in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to land in Zimbabwe and water in the Horn of Africa, the politics surrounding ownership, management, and control of natural resources has disrupted communities and increased external intervention in these countries. Such conflict has the potential to impact natural resource supply globally, with both local and wide-reaching consequences. The United States, for example, estimates that a quarter of its...
Conflict over natural resources has made Africa the focus of international attention, particularly during the last decade. From oil in Nigeria and dia...
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159,93 |
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Corinthians
ISBN: 9781507851555 / Angielski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Corinthians consists of the collected work of poetry of Christopher Gerard. The work, published during the month of February is filled with personal works dedicated to the previous lovers of Christopher Gerard. The text also includes the story "Shelly." also produced in February 2015.
Corinthians consists of the collected work of poetry of Christopher Gerard. The work, published during the month of February is filled with personal w...
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31,97 |
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