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A Short History of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

by Terri Ochiagha ...

Series series Ohio Short Histories of Africa
The publication of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) is heralded as the inaugural moment of modern African fiction, and the book remains the most widely read African novel of all time. Translated into dozens of languages, it has sold more than twelve million copies and has become a canonical reading in schools the world over. While Things Fall Apart is neither the first African novel to be ... Read more

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The publication of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) is heralded as the inaugural moment of modern African fiction, and the book remains the most widely read African novel of all time. Translated into dozens of languages, it has sold more than twelve million copies and has become a canonical reading in schools the world over. While Things Fall Apart is neither the first African novel to be
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Poor No More

by Robert Ruark ...

Poor No More is a story about Craig Price, a rural North Carolinian who grew up in poverty. As an adult, Price evolved into a tycoon who had amassed a financial fortune. His lifestyle and persona, at first, is appealing to many, yet in the end, he misleads and uses business partners and girlfriends. Unsurprisingly, his family life is a mess. While Craig Price accumulates more and more wealth and ... Read more

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Poor No More is a story about Craig Price, a rural North Carolinian who grew up in poverty. As an adult, Price evolved into a tycoon who had amassed a financial fortune. His lifestyle and persona, at first, is appealing to many, yet in the end, he misleads and uses business partners and girlfriends. Unsurprisingly, his family life is a mess. While Craig Price accumulates more and more wealth and
... Read more
In My Father's House

Africa in the Philosophy of Culture

by Kwame Anthony Appiah ...

The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles. The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights. The boats of Haitian refugees being turned away from the Land of Opportunity. These are among the many racially-charged images that have burst across our television screens in the last year alone, images that show that for all our complacent ... Read more

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The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles. The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights. The boats of Haitian refugees being turned away from the Land of Opportunity. These are among the many racially-charged images that have burst across our television screens in the last year alone, images that show that for all our complacent
... Read more
Heart Of Darkness: The Original 1899 Edition (A Joseph Conrad Classic Novel)

by Joseph Conrad ...

Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) is regarded as one of the greatest writers in English, and Heart of Darkness, first published in 1902, is considered by many his "most famous, finest, and most enigmatic story." — Encyclopedia Britannica. The tale concerns the journey of the narrator (Marlow) up the Congo River on behalf of a Belgian trading company. Far upriver, he encounters the mysterious Kurtz, an ... Read more

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Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) is regarded as one of the greatest writers in English, and Heart of Darkness, first published in 1902, is considered by many his "most famous, finest, and most enigmatic story." — Encyclopedia Britannica. The tale concerns the journey of the narrator (Marlow) up the Congo River on behalf of a Belgian trading company. Far upriver, he encounters the mysterious Kurtz, an
... Read more
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Book Analysis)

Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

by Bright Summaries ...

Series series BrightSummaries.com
Unlock the more straightforward side of Half of a Yellow Sun with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a gripping novel set against the backdrop of the Nigerian Civil War in the 1960s, when the Igbo people attempted to secede from Nigeria to found the Republic of Biafra. The novel depicts ... Read more

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Unlock the more straightforward side of Half of a Yellow Sun with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a gripping novel set against the backdrop of the Nigerian Civil War in the 1960s, when the Igbo people attempted to secede from Nigeria to found the Republic of Biafra. The novel depicts
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Drawing the Line

What to Do with the Work of Immoral Artists from Museums to the Movies

by Erich Hatala Matthes ...

Can we still watch Woody Allen's movies? Can we still laugh at Bill Cosby's jokes? Woody Allen, Kevin Spacey, Dave Chappelle, Louis C. K., J.K. Rowling, Michael Jackson, Roseanne Barr. Recent years have proven rife with revelations about the misdeeds, objectional views, and, in some instances, crimes of popular artists. Spurred in part by the #metoo movement, and given more access than ever ... Read more

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Can we still watch Woody Allen's movies? Can we still laugh at Bill Cosby's jokes? Woody Allen, Kevin Spacey, Dave Chappelle, Louis C. K., J.K. Rowling, Michael Jackson, Roseanne Barr. Recent years have proven rife with revelations about the misdeeds, objectional views, and, in some instances, crimes of popular artists. Spurred in part by the #metoo movement, and given more access than ever
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Card Carrying Ace of Spades

by Jenni Gisselbrecht ...

Series Book 8 - Rise of the Hystericals
We as hyenas, one of the many more prominent species of both our original homeland of Africa and our so called, "Promised Land" of here in America are damn finally sick and tired of the quote unquote, "Dominant"'s insipid bullshit. We will no longer sit up here and be squashed like cockroaches beneath the feet of the ignorant, slaughtered like cattle of a fresh kill. Because if it's one true thing ... Read more

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We as hyenas, one of the many more prominent species of both our original homeland of Africa and our so called, "Promised Land" of here in America are damn finally sick and tired of the quote unquote, "Dominant"'s insipid bullshit. We will no longer sit up here and be squashed like cockroaches beneath the feet of the ignorant, slaughtered like cattle of a fresh kill. Because if it's one true thing
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Yet Being Someone Other

by Sir Laurens Van Der Post ...

Yet Being Someone Other is the most revealing book that Laurens van der Post wrote about his extraordinary and eventful life, and the most far-reaching; it is a distillation of the experiences that have moved him at the deepest level of the imagination and made him the exceptional person and writer he was. ... Read more

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Yet Being Someone Other is the most revealing book that Laurens van der Post wrote about his extraordinary and eventful life, and the most far-reaching; it is a distillation of the experiences that have moved him at the deepest level of the imagination and made him the exceptional person and writer he was.
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Book Analysis)

Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

by Bright Summaries ...

Series series BrightSummaries.com
Unlock the more straightforward side of Things Fall Apart with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, which centres on the great warrior and champion wrestler Okonkwo as he deals with the challenges resulting from disagreements in his clan, the arrival of white missionaries in his village and the mounting ... Read more

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Unlock the more straightforward side of Things Fall Apart with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, which centres on the great warrior and champion wrestler Okonkwo as he deals with the challenges resulting from disagreements in his clan, the arrival of white missionaries in his village and the mounting
... Read more
The Signifying Monkey

A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism

by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s original, groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature, elaborating a new critical approach located within this tradition that allows the black voice to speak for itself. Examining the ancient poetry and myths found in African, Latin American, and Caribbean culture, and particularly the ... Read more

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s original, groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature, elaborating a new critical approach located within this tradition that allows the black voice to speak for itself. Examining the ancient poetry and myths found in African, Latin American, and Caribbean culture, and particularly the
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Consenting victims

The polygamy drama

by Marie Claire Akamendo Bita ...

Consenting victims is the story of Olivia, a young african woman who believes that love is between one man and one woman, despite the fact that she lives in a country where polygamy is legitimate. Olivia leaves an unfaithful husband to marry a widow who, unfortunately, proves to be as adulterous.Some time after her, he marries one of his mistresses. Here are the two women under the same roof, ... Read more

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Consenting victims is the story of Olivia, a young african woman who believes that love is between one man and one woman, despite the fact that she lives in a country where polygamy is legitimate. Olivia leaves an unfaithful husband to marry a widow who, unfortunately, proves to be as adulterous.Some time after her, he marries one of his mistresses. Here are the two women under the same roof,
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Heart of Darkness with FREE Audiobook+Author's Biography+Active TOC

by Joseph Conrad ...

with FREE Audiobook + Author's Biography + Interactive Table of Contents Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski). Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon. This highly ... Read more

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with FREE Audiobook + Author's Biography + Interactive Table of Contents Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski). Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon. This highly
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Return to my Native Land

by Aime Cesaire ...

Translated by John Berger, Anna Bostock ...

A work of immense cultural significance and beauty, this long poem became an anthem for the African diaspora and the birth of the Negritude movement. With unusual juxtapositions of object and metaphor, a bouquet of language-play, and deeply resonant rhythms, Césaire considered this work a "break into the forbidden," at once a cry of rebellion and a celebration of black identity.More praise:"The ... Read more

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A work of immense cultural significance and beauty, this long poem became an anthem for the African diaspora and the birth of the Negritude movement. With unusual juxtapositions of object and metaphor, a bouquet of language-play, and deeply resonant rhythms, Césaire considered this work a "break into the forbidden," at once a cry of rebellion and a celebration of black identity.More praise:"The
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (With Original Illustrations)

Enriched edition. A Gothic Sea Ballad of Guilt, Redemption, and the Supernatural

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' with Original Illustrations is a haunting and mesmerizing work of Romantic poetry that delves into themes of guilt, redemption, nature, and the supernatural. Written in 1797-1798, the poem showcases Coleridge's mastery of lyrical balladry, with its distinctive musical cadence and vivid imagery. The inclusion of original illustrations ... Read more

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' with Original Illustrations is a haunting and mesmerizing work of Romantic poetry that delves into themes of guilt, redemption, nature, and the supernatural. Written in 1797-1798, the poem showcases Coleridge's mastery of lyrical balladry, with its distinctive musical cadence and vivid imagery. The inclusion of original illustrations
... Read more
The Rise of the African Novel

Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership

by Mukoma Wa Ngugi ...

Series series African Perspectives
The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization that spanned the 1950s through the 1980s, and the contemporary generation of established and emerging continental and diaspora African writers of international renown.Calling it a major crisis in African ... Read more

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The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization that spanned the 1950s through the 1980s, and the contemporary generation of established and emerging continental and diaspora African writers of international renown.Calling it a major crisis in African
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NIGERIA; RISING FROM THE ASHES

RE-WRITING THE HISTORY OF NIGERIA

by KELECHI NWAOKIKE ...

As co-architects of this crumbling edifice called Nigeria, the Author highlights the complacence, apathy and nonchallance of the citizens as they watched the elite pillage the nations patrimony;He highlights the role of politics in the underdevelopment of this colonial contraption called Nigeria;Diagnosed dysfunctional leadership as Nigeria's existential bane;He prescribed the drug of visionary ... Read more

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As co-architects of this crumbling edifice called Nigeria, the Author highlights the complacence, apathy and nonchallance of the citizens as they watched the elite pillage the nations patrimony;He highlights the role of politics in the underdevelopment of this colonial contraption called Nigeria;Diagnosed dysfunctional leadership as Nigeria's existential bane;He prescribed the drug of visionary
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Postcolonial Ecologies

Literatures of the Environment

Edited by Elizabeth DeLoughrey, George B. Handley ...

The first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial literature, this volume offers rich and suggestive ways to explore the relationship between humans and nature around the globe, drawing from texts from Africa and the Caribbean, as well as the Pacific Islands and South Asia. Turning to contemporary works by both well- and little-known postcolonial ... Read more

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The first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial literature, this volume offers rich and suggestive ways to explore the relationship between humans and nature around the globe, drawing from texts from Africa and the Caribbean, as well as the Pacific Islands and South Asia. Turning to contemporary works by both well- and little-known postcolonial
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The Literary History of the Igbo Novel

African Literature in African Languages

by Ernest N. Emenyonu ...

Series series Routledge African Studies
This book looks at the trends in the development of the Igbo novel from its antecedents in oral performance, through the emergence of the first published novel, Omenuko, in 1933 by Pita Nwana, to the contemporary Igbo novel.Defining "Igbo literature" as literature in Igbo language, and "Igbo novel" as a novel written in Igbo language, the author argues that oral and written literature in African ... Read more

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This book looks at the trends in the development of the Igbo novel from its antecedents in oral performance, through the emergence of the first published novel, Omenuko, in 1933 by Pita Nwana, to the contemporary Igbo novel.Defining "Igbo literature" as literature in Igbo language, and "Igbo novel" as a novel written in Igbo language, the author argues that oral and written literature in African
... Read more
Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature

by Laura T. Murphy ...

Series series Western African Studies
Metaphor and the Slave Trade provides compelling evidence of the hidden but unmistakable traces of the transatlantic slave trade that persist in West African discourse. Through an examination of metaphors that describe the trauma, loss, and suffering associated with the commerce in human lives, this book shows how the horrors of slavery are communicated from generation to generation.Laura T. ... Read more

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Metaphor and the Slave Trade provides compelling evidence of the hidden but unmistakable traces of the transatlantic slave trade that persist in West African discourse. Through an examination of metaphors that describe the trauma, loss, and suffering associated with the commerce in human lives, this book shows how the horrors of slavery are communicated from generation to generation.Laura T.
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Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas

by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o ...

A Literary Hub Most Anticipated BookBrilliant thoughts on modern African literature and postcolonial literary criticism from one of the giants of contemporary letters“One of the greatest writers of our time.” —Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, bestselling authorNgũgĩ wa Thiong’o was a towering figure in African literature, and his novels A Grain of Wheat; Weep Not, Child;... ... Read more

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A Literary Hub Most Anticipated BookBrilliant thoughts on modern African literature and postcolonial literary criticism from one of the giants of contemporary letters“One of the greatest writers of our time.” —Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, bestselling authorNgũgĩ wa Thiong’o was a towering figure in African literature, and his novels A Grain of Wheat; Weep Not, Child;...
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The Witness as Educator

Reading W. G. Sebald, Aimé Césaire, and Walt Whitman

by David T. Hansen ...

Illuminates the power in bearing witness as an ethical orientation toward the world and its people.In The Witness as Educator, David T. Hansen examines the idea of bearing witness. He shows how it constitutes an ethical orientation that heeds human yearnings for justice, beauty, and meaning. He engages the work of three exemplary witnesses: W. G. Sebald, Aimé Césaire, and Walt Whitman. Sebald ... Read more

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Illuminates the power in bearing witness as an ethical orientation toward the world and its people.In The Witness as Educator, David T. Hansen examines the idea of bearing witness. He shows how it constitutes an ethical orientation that heeds human yearnings for justice, beauty, and meaning. He engages the work of three exemplary witnesses: W. G. Sebald, Aimé Césaire, and Walt Whitman. Sebald
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Muslims beyond the Arab World

The Odyssey of Ajami and the Muridiyya

by Fallou Ngom ...

Series series AAR Religion, Culture, and History
Muslims beyond the Arab World explores the vibrant tradition of writing African languages using the modified Arabic script ('Ajami) alongside the rise of the Muridiyya Sufi order in Senegal. The book demonstrates how the development of the 'Ajami literary tradition is entwined with the flourishing of the Muridiyya into one of sub-Saharan Africa's most powerful and dynamic Sufi organizations. It ... Read more

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Muslims beyond the Arab World explores the vibrant tradition of writing African languages using the modified Arabic script ('Ajami) alongside the rise of the Muridiyya Sufi order in Senegal. The book demonstrates how the development of the 'Ajami literary tradition is entwined with the flourishing of the Muridiyya into one of sub-Saharan Africa's most powerful and dynamic Sufi organizations. It
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Around The Globe - Must See Places in Africa

African Travel Guide for Kids

by Baby Professor ...

Series series Children's Explore the World Books
See wild animals in their natural habitat when you go on a virtual tour of Africa. This culture-rich expanse is a trove of knowledge on biodiversity and how wild animals and humans live and interact with each other. Use this book to raise awareness on the importance of wildlife. Grab a copy now! ... Read more

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See wild animals in their natural habitat when you go on a virtual tour of Africa. This culture-rich expanse is a trove of knowledge on biodiversity and how wild animals and humans live and interact with each other. Use this book to raise awareness on the importance of wildlife. Grab a copy now!
... Read more
The Fiction of Chinua Achebe

by Jago Morrison ...

Series series Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism
Since the emergence of Things Fall Apart in 1958, Chinua Achebe has come to be regarded by many as the 'Godfather' of modern African writing. Over 150 full length studies of his work have been published, together with many hundreds of scholarly articles.This Reader's Guide enables students to navigate the rich and bewildering field of Achebe criticism, setting out the key areas of critical debate, ... Read more

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Since the emergence of Things Fall Apart in 1958, Chinua Achebe has come to be regarded by many as the 'Godfather' of modern African writing. Over 150 full length studies of his work have been published, together with many hundreds of scholarly articles.This Reader's Guide enables students to navigate the rich and bewildering field of Achebe criticism, setting out the key areas of critical debate,
... Read more

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