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The Water Trap: Water Scarcity & Local Government Challenges... Narrating an experience
ISBN: 9781516892105 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Synopsis The Water Trap - At the Scotland G7/8 conference 2005 a select African Head of States were invited by the conference host Prime Minister Tony Blair as observers. Many of the issues discussed in that conference concerning Africa: Aspects of mitigation of the MDGs Millennium Development Goal, Human rights and Good Governance, Infrastructure transformation and several of the conditions G8 had towards the end of the conference packaged for African Head of States - these were the background factors that had strengthened the theme of this book. Though the writing of this book was community...
Synopsis The Water Trap - At the Scotland G7/8 conference 2005 a select African Head of States were invited by the conference host Prime Minister Tony...
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31,11 zł |
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Blood on the Tides: The Ozidi Saga and Oral Epic Narratology
ISBN: 9781580464871 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Ozidi Saga is one of Africa's best known prosimetric epics, set in the Delta region of Nigeria. Blood on the Tides examines the epic -- a tale of a warrior and his sorcerer grandmother's revenge upon the assassins who killed her son -- both as an example of oral literature and as a reflection of the specific social and political concerns of the Nigerian Delta and the country as a whole. In addition the book considers various iterations of the saga, including a performance of the entire saga in 1963 in Ibadan by the folk artist Okabou Okobolo, which was subsequently transcribed,...
The Ozidi Saga is one of Africa's best known prosimetric epics, set in the Delta region of Nigeria. Blood on the Tides examines the epic -- a tale of ...
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414,96 zł |
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Zimbabwean Family Therapy: Perspectives in Multiple Sclerosis
ISBN: 9781493780990 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a therapeutic tool for (PwMS), their families, care/counsellors and health service providers to use when addressing the psychosocial issues that affect (PwMS). It also benefits the general populace who have a special interest in MS related volunteer work as well as issues pertaining to disability in general. Reflections of the strengths and limitations of (PwMS) including those of the local Society are also outlined, inclusive of other real life compounding issues. You'll find an overview of social networks, cultural issues, stigma and discrimination amongst others which are...
This book is a therapeutic tool for (PwMS), their families, care/counsellors and health service providers to use when addressing the psychosocial issu...
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50,10 zł |
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Writings from the Sand, Volume 2: Collected Works of Isabelle Eberhardt
ISBN: 9780803217553 / Angielski / Miękka / 646 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born in 1877 in Geneva, Switzerland, Isabelle Eberhardt became a rebel at an early age, dressing like a man so she could have access to areas forbidden to women, smoking in public, and otherwise scandalizing Genevan society. Already multilingual, she studied the Arabic language and Islamic culture and eventually converted to Islam. Eberhardt traveled throughout North Africa, wrote about her experiences, and married an Algerian. Her legendary, short, and stormy life included subversive political anarchism, the mysticism of Islam, numerous love affairs, and, most importantly, writing unmatched...
Born in 1877 in Geneva, Switzerland, Isabelle Eberhardt became a rebel at an early age, dressing like a man so she could have access to areas forbidde...
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259,35 zł |
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Due Season: To Whom It May Concern
ISBN: 9781936739325 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Encounters with wide socio-economic inequalities on the author's travels through Africa, Europe and North America remind him that sustained awareness and uncomplicated actionable plans are fundamental to individual success and national development. Fola is an accomplished professional engineer who is drawn more and more to literary affairs and charity work in Africa
Encounters with wide socio-economic inequalities on the author's travels through Africa, Europe and North America remind him that sustained awareness ...
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91,47 zł |
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Noumia: La part du destin
ISBN: 9782363311061 / Francuski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. De son Afrique natale jusqu'au somptueux harem du cheikh Mocktar el Altair, Noumia passera soudainement d'un monde dans lequel elle vivait en toute liberte a celui de la captivite. Au long chemin harassant et humiliant qui la conduira sur le marche des esclaves s'ajoutera celui d'une existence quasi privilegiee au sein du gynecee de son nouveau maitre. Mais sa presence engendrera rapidement un violent choc des cultures et maintes passions se dechaineront inevitablement autour de sa desirable personne. L'etrangere devra des lors lutter pour sa survie, car etre une favorite noire aupres du...
De son Afrique natale jusqu'au somptueux harem du cheikh Mocktar el Altair, Noumia passera soudainement d'un monde dans lequel elle vivait en toute li...
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57,19 zł |
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La vie du singe et Le mariage de Keile
ISBN: 9781493549047 / Francuski / Miękka / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. La vie de l'homme est presentee dans ce livre en quatre episodes: de la naissance a 40 ans, l'homme agit librement; de 40 a 60 ans, l'homme se sent plus responsable et repond aux differentes sollicitations; de 60 a 80, il se destine a garder les acquis; de 80 a 100 ans, il vit dans l'indifference. Pour mettre en exergue le deroulement de la vie, l'auteur fait intervenir l'ane, le chien, et le singe qui auraient permis a l'homme d'avoir une longevite."
La vie de l'homme est presentee dans ce livre en quatre episodes: de la naissance a 40 ans, l'homme agit librement; de 40 a 60 ans, l'homme se sent pl...
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24,61 zł |
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Sexuality and Gender Politics in Mozambique: Re-Thinking Gender in Africa
ISBN: 9781847010872 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2012 gender research award KRAKA-prisen. This book is about gender politics in Mozambique over three decades from 1975 to 2005. The book is also about different ways of understanding gender and sexuality. Gender policies from Portuguese colonialism, through Frelimo socialism to later neo-liberal economic regimes share certain basic assumptions about men, women and gender relations. But to what extent do such assumptions fit the ways in which rural Mozambican men and women see themselves? A major line of argument in the book is that gender relations should be investigated, not...
Winner of the 2012 gender research award KRAKA-prisen. This book is about gender politics in Mozambique over three decades from 1975 to 2005. The book...
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129,62 zł |
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Daga Dazagaa
ISBN: 9781493555550 / Francuski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nous sommes en train de perdre, au Tchad, un tresor. Les contes, les legendes, les proverbes et les adages sont des recueils de sagesse. Il n'y a plus beaucoup de personnes mures, sages et assez impregnees de ces connaissances immenses pour les transmettre aux plus jeunes, le soir autour du feu. Le nouveau feu, c'est l'ecran de television. Les connaissances qui s'y diffusent ne sont pas toujours necessaires a la vie. Nous sommes plutot interpelles, a tous ages, ... de decouvrir un tresor cache dans la memoire des anciens qui commencent a se faire rares. Il vous est vivement conseiller d'en...
Nous sommes en train de perdre, au Tchad, un tresor. Les contes, les legendes, les proverbes et les adages sont des recueils de sagesse. Il n'y a plus...
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24,61 zł |
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Zimbabwean and African Voices in The Disapora
ISBN: 9781493780471 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book clearly discusses the success and challenges faced by Zimbabweans and Africans in the diaspora. The goal is to correct misconceptions of being wasteful as well as unrealistic expectations from family members back home to encourage them to be also responsible for their own lives. You will find highlights on legal migration to overseas nations is encouraged as well as abiding to the laws and regulations of those respective nations. It's for your spiritual empowerment, giving you a glimpse of counseling concepts, networking and giving back to nation's of origin is emphasized, including...
This book clearly discusses the success and challenges faced by Zimbabweans and Africans in the diaspora. The goal is to correct misconceptions of bei...
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50,10 zł |
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Poems for a Century: An Anthology on Nigeria
ISBN: 9782359260328 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2010, billions of naira currency were spent to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Nigeria's independence. More naira are to be spent in 2014 to commemorate the centenary marking the nation's birth in 1914 - from an amalgamation of diverse group of peoples, languages, cultures, and expectations. As the conscience of the nation, writers are calling for a deeper introspection. A hundred years after unification, the most populous African nation has oscillated from being great to being fickle, from colony to independence and dependency, from peace to war to ungraceful insecurity, from military...
In 2010, billions of naira currency were spent to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Nigeria's independence. More naira are to be spent in 2014 to comm...
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73,86 zł |
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Diary of a Black Man: Zero
ISBN: 9781494900298 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is about me looking perceptively through my eyes at the world turning written as journal entries from my diaries of a black man. This is part zero with of course "Diary of a Black Man: Tri Ba and Geometry" as part one. It's just me while traveling across the world. Peace and goodwill.
It is about me looking perceptively through my eyes at the world turning written as journal entries from my diaries of a black man. This is part zero ...
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45,76 zł |
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Siqondephi Manje? Indatshana Zasezimbabwe
ISBN: 9780797494497 / Bantu (Other) / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, the translation of the collection, Where to Now? Short Stories from Zimbabwe, features sixteen Zimbabwean writers - Raisedon Baya, NoViolet Bulawayo, Diana Charsley, Mapfumo Clement Chihota, Murenga Joseph Chikowero, John Eppel, Fungai Rufaro Machirori, Barbara Mhangami-Ruwende, Christopher Mlalazi, Mzana Mthimkhulu, Blessing Musariri, Nyevero Muza, Thabisani Ndlovu, Bryony Rheam, Novuyo Rosa Tshuma and Sandisile Tshuma. The writing in the collection, at times dark, at times laced with comedy, is set against the backdrop of Zimbabwe's 'lost decade' of rampant inflation, violence,...
This book, the translation of the collection, Where to Now? Short Stories from Zimbabwe, features sixteen Zimbabwean writers - Raisedon Baya, NoViolet...
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174,76 zł |
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Diary of a Black Man: Raw Remnants Head On
ISBN: 9781494980108 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Last remains of my poetry since i was kid, through the military and up unto now. I will never stop writing but these are most personal with mistakes and without to be shared as an experience of what still goes down behind the human walls of me being a Black Man to include experiences from other brothaz and sistahz too. Writing yourself out of poetry without putting out a biography is sometime the quickest way to relieve pressure. I follow no rules when it is personal as this as my true feelings just comes out like an deep exhale long long overdue. May my words be of depth of experience to the...
Last remains of my poetry since i was kid, through the military and up unto now. I will never stop writing but these are most personal with mistakes a...
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68,63 zł |
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Stories From Our Grandmother's Hut.
ISBN: 9781495963490 / Angielski / Miękka / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stories From Our Gramother's Hut is a collection of short stories from the children, who wish to share their stories with other children living in different parts of the world. The stories are following the same traditional narrative style complete with lessons learnt at the end of every story.
Stories From Our Gramother's Hut is a collection of short stories from the children, who wish to share their stories with other children living in dif...
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41,77 zł |
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African Short Stories: Vol 1
ISBN: 9789783603578 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The International Society of Literary Fellows (Lsi) is the society of creative writers and scholars from African and the world with a critical interest in current developments around modern cultures of indigenous and foreign language expressions. In partnership with Progeny international, the Lsi aims to assess and promote the emergence of works of visionary creative impetus in the genres of modern African fiction, non-fiction and visual arts. 38 stories are included in this anthology.
The International Society of Literary Fellows (Lsi) is the society of creative writers and scholars from African and the world with a critical interes...
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264,96 zł |
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Elikia - Espoir
ISBN: 9781496088581 / Francuski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Au pays des illustres: Labou Tansi, S.Bemba, Taty Loutard fidele a Gerald Felix Tchicaya, au temps d'Henri Lopes et d'Alain Mabanckou, une jeune femme intrepide inaugure en Lettres un nouveau genre, le roman au rythme vif comme une short- story: Elikia - Espoir. En un dialogue ou alternent les voix de Seho et de Miamona, leur histoire se complique et s'epure. L'histoire de Nsona traverse le recit comme un trait de feu. La poesie des lieux en divers contextes, le heurt des usages et coutumes entre l'Europe et le grand Sud donnent aux amours sur lesquels pese le passe aggrave par les tensions...
Au pays des illustres: Labou Tansi, S.Bemba, Taty Loutard fidele a Gerald Felix Tchicaya, au temps d'Henri Lopes et d'Alain Mabanckou, une jeune femme...
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54,90 zł |
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The Mis-Education of the Negro
ISBN: 9781497521247 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Mis-Education of the Negro is a book by Dr. Carter G. Woodson.The thesis of Dr. Woodson's book is that African Americans of his day were being culturally indoctrinated, rather than taught, in American schools. This conditioning, he claims, causes African Americans to become dependent and to seek out inferior places in the greater society of which they are a part. He challenges his readers to become autodidacts and to "do for themselves," regardless of what they were taught. Here is a quote from the book: "When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do...
The Mis-Education of the Negro is a book by Dr. Carter G. Woodson.The thesis of Dr. Woodson's book is that African Americans of his day were being cul...
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30,47 zł |
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Small Friends and Other Stories and Poems
ISBN: 9780797494527 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The short stories and poems in this collection were written by students at King George VI School and centre for physically disabled children in Zimbabwe's second city, Bulawayo. HIV and AIDS have had a devastating effect on all the communities of Zimbabwe, and those with disabilities have not been exempt from the effects of the virus, as is reflected in many of the pieces in this collection. The book clearly demonstrates both the talent of the students and their concern about the issues facing their community and wider society. Some of the stories and poems tell the stories of their lives,...
The short stories and poems in this collection were written by students at King George VI School and centre for physically disabled children in Zimbab...
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118,40 zł |
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The Water Trap: Water scarcity & Local Government Challenges... Narrating an experience
ISBN: 9781484155240 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Synopsis The Water Trap - At the Scotland G7/8 conference 2005 a select African Head of States were invited by the conference host Prime Minister Tony Blair as observers. Many of the issues discussed in that conference concerning Africa: Aspects of mitigation of the MDGs Millennium Development Goal, Human rights and Good Governance, Infrastructure transformation and several of the conditions G8 had towards the end of the conference packaged for African Head of States - these were the background factors that had strengthened the theme of this book. Though the writing of this book was community...
Synopsis The Water Trap - At the Scotland G7/8 conference 2005 a select African Head of States were invited by the conference host Prime Minister Tony...
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128,07 zł |
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