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Death of a Statue is a collection of poems covering a wide spectrum of themes, all encompassed within one's relationship with the self. The poet has managed to employ simple language to evoke complex images which are startling in their clarity. There are many voices that speak out from this anthology, the priest, the politician, the virgin, the farmer and many more. All tell their stories in a way that would relate to the reader's predicaments...

The Royal Agricultural Sociey of Natal (RAS) is one of KwaZulu-Natal's oldest and best-known institutitions. This volume provides a detailed overview of two earlier accounts of its history since 1851 and updates it from 1984 to 2021. It is a story of dramatically fluctuating fortunes, which in many ways reflects the experience of the whole province and, in particular, its agricultural sector. In the face of financial, political and other uncer...

Litany of a Foreign Wife, Nnane Ntube's beautifully crafted debut collection of poetry projects images of a society marked by instability, feelings of homelessness, disorientation, oppression and neglect. Through her storytelling style of poetry, she interrogates humanity's existence in a context where life's meanings are gradually fading and absurdities are becoming the order of the day. The poems are adorned with the faculties of sight, smel...

This book addresses the epistemological, ethical and methodological challenges faced by African scholars in their research practices. The epistemological domain addresses three interrelated topics: how African university students' ethnocentric choice of research topics hampers the production of knowledge, researchers' adaptation of their research methods to improve validity, and the challenge of knowledge production on community museums plague...

Poetry is fragments of music thrown into the air. The primary job and aim of a poet is to create these musical notes, to play these musical notes, and the wind will take these fragment notes, sounds, musics into the ears of listeners. Zimbolicious Poetry Anthology, Volume 2 is one of those winds among many others. As we all are aware of, when the wind travels it has no boundaries, it collects, it deposits, it mixes things up, you never know wh...

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Mauaji ya kikatili yanafanyika karibu na mji wa Uitenhage nchini Afrika Kusini siku ya kuwakumbuka wazalendo, waliouawa mjini Sharpeville mwaka 1960. Makaburu wanajawa na hofu kwa mauaji hayo, na wanawatilia shaka kuwa ni njama za kikundi cha watu weusi za kutaka kupindua mfumo wa Serikali yao ya Ubaguzi wa Rangi. Uongozi wa Makaburu wa Afrika Kusini wakiongozwa na Mkurugenzi wa Shirika la Ujajusi, Kamanda wa Jeshi la Kulfut na Mkuu wa Magaidi...

Kwa zaidi ya miaka na tano vitabu vya mwandishi maarufu kushinda wote katika jamii za Waswahili kote Afrika ya Mashariki na Kati, Marehemu Sheikh Shaaban Robert, havikupatikana Tanzania. Sababu ya kukosekana kwa vitabu hivyo ni kuwa kampuni ya kigeni iliyovichapisha iliamua kuacha kuvichapisha kwa sababu haikulipwa kwa fedha za kegini jamo, lililosabishwa na hali mbaya ya uchumi. Athari za kupotea kwa vitabut vya Sheikh Shaaban Robert katika m...

Kwa zaidi ya miaka kumi na tano vitabu vya mwandishi maarufu kushinda wote katika jamii za Waswahili kote Afrika ya Mashariki na Kati, Marehemu Sheikh Shaaban Robert, havikupatikana Tanzania. Sababu ya kukosekana kwa vitabu hivyo ni kuwa kampuni ya kigeni iliyovichapisha iliamua kuacha kuvichapisha kwa sababu haikulipwa kwa fedha za kigeni jambo, lililosabishwa na hali mbaya ya uchumi. Athari za kupotea kwa vitabu vya Sheikh Shaaban Robert kat...

Riwaya ya Mungu Hakopeshwi inaelezea maisha ya familia moja ya Unguja iliyoingia katika mitafaruku na mikasa mingi. Kila kitu huwa na chanzo na khatima, basi ni nini chanzo cha mitafaruku hiyo na khatima yake ilikuwaje? Simulizi ni juu ya baba, Bw. Ahmed, mwenye hasira kali zisizo na mipaka, aliyeongoza familia yake kwa utashi wa nafsi yake, bila kujali hisia za mkewe wala wanawe. Kumbe moyoni mwake alihifadhi siri, na hiyo siri ndiyo iliyomfa...

Riwaya ya Mmeza Fupa ni riwaya iliyoshinda an kupewa tuzo ya Mabati-Cornell ya Fasihi ya Afrika kwa mwaka 2017. Katika tangazo la ushindi wa riwaya hii jopo la majaji lilitoa sifa zifuatazo: Si mno mtu kukutana na riwaya ya Kiswahili ambayo mwandishi wake amejidhihirisha kuwa ni mbuji wa lugha fasaha na ya kisanii, inayotiririka kitabia kwa hiari yake, na bila ya kuonesha dalili zozote kwamba imelazimishwa. Wahusika wake wote wamebuniwa kwa us...

Wakizingatia historia ndefu ya uandishi katika lugha ya Kiswahili, majaji wa Tuzo ya Kiswahili ya Mabati-Cornell ya Fasihi ya Afrika wameeleza: Mashairi yaliyomo katika diwani hii yametumiliwa lugha iliyojaa taswira na majazanda yanayowakilisha vyema hisia zinazoelezwa katika dhamira mbalimbali. Mshairi amefaulu sana kuzitumia mbinu na miundo kadha wa kadha ili kuyajadili maswala yanayohusu hali na mazingira tafauti tafauti katika maisha ya bi...

In The Quacky Rappy Trash Book we meet Rappy Duck, an unusual duck who is unhappy about the piles of garbage that people throw around his lake and everywhere in nature. One day, hit on his head by a plastic bag with breadcrumbs, Rappy Duck strikes an extraordinary friendship with a young schoolgirl, Nora. Together, through rhymes and amusing encounters, they tell and show us how we can all participate in sorting and recycling our trash.

In this gripping, lucid and succinct account, Cardinal Tumi, the retired Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Douala, Cameroon, invites readers into the dreary night of his captivity by "Amba Boys" - so-called liberation fighters seeking the restoration of the erstwhile British Southern Cameroons. Tumi recounts the circumstances, actors and intrigues leading up to his capture along with Fon Sehm Mbinglo I, the paramount traditional ruler ...

Little Gabriel of Perpignan does not like to read. He adores video games! However, he likes to visit libraries just to accompany his friends or to play there. One day in a library, he meets Mr. Gopte, a writer and researcher from Africa. Henceforth, Gabriel's relationship with reading will never be the same again.

É quase injusto celebrarmos a força feminina em situações como as das personagens Zola e Mvelo, em que a única opção dada às mulheres é serem fortes: nos guetos do apartheid não há outra escolha senão resistir. Precisamos olhar mais fundo, para além da sobrevivência, e ver o que estas mulheres foram capazes de preservar da sua identidade individual, o que puderam guardar intocado mesmo diante da degradação a que foram submetidas. Se acompanham...

At the age of twelve, a resilient Wema, whose mother commits suicide in her favour is caught in a web of a vicious stepmother and inattentive father and is forced to endure grief with guts and determination. Despite life cruelties, she keeps hope alive, not allowing herself to be disillusioned and bitter. A child of immense strength, Wema is proof that difficult circumstances can be overcome…

How can African theology survive the self-repetition of mere cultural apologia or contextualization-stereotypes, and mature into a critical theoretical discipline responding to the challenges of the postmodern world-order? Dr. Humphrey M. Wawe contributes here a sound theological reflection using the hitherto unused methodological paradigm of mapping the inroads in the 'transaction' between the Bible and African culture.

New Voices is an attempt to record some of the new generation of Nigerian poets. A move that begun in the early 90's when the call for poems appeared in some Nigerian dailies. This volume includes largely unpublished works collected over the period 1998-2008.  The anthology features some wholly new and other popular Nigerian voices such as Enekwe, Ce, Raji, Onwudinjo, Adeoti, Chylekezi, Adegoke, Bassey and Ushie.

In a tribute to Hon. Justice Iorhemen Hwande CFR, Chief Judge of Benue State this book includes contributions from a variety of scholars from Nigeria. 14 essays cover a wide range of topics such as: Insider Dealing by Company Directors and the Nigerian Capital Market, United Nations Conventions on the Law of the Sea as a Tool for the Resolution of Climate Change Disputes, Is a Practicing Christian Lawyer/Judge in Nigeria an Anachronism?, The J...