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Gibbous Moon Over Lagos
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Author : Pamela Watson
language : en
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
Release Date : 2020-03-01
Gibbous Moon Over Lagos written by Pamela Watson and has been published by Hardie Grant Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Lagos, Nigeria, a city of about 20 million people is growing fast and it is not the same Africa as that of the open plains of the Serengeti or the thunderous white cloud of Victoria Falls. This is Africa’s wild side, a place where ethics can be lost and where enormous good can be done; it is where Africa’s future will be made. In 2005, Australian Pamela Watson, a one-time intrepid cyclist who peddled her way solo across Africa turned Lagos-based businesswoman, embarked on a thrilling five-year entrepreneurial journey. It included the highs of creating a successful hand-made paper social enterprise and making a difference to an embattled community, and the lows of discovering the human cost of a corrupt system and anxiety over the integrity of those she believed shared her business dream. This original story explores whether Lagos’s gibbous moon is waxing to full or waning back to the dark side, and what happened to Pamela’s own cycle of business adventures. Along the way, we gain rare insight into this megacity of contradictions — as open as it is opaque, as full of opportunity as it is of hazards, as exciting as it is frustrating. What becomes clear is that effervescent, hard-working, self-aware and brutally self-critical Lagosians are determinedly chasing dreams and opportunities in this untamed urban environment. Gibbous Moon Over Lagos is a timely, spirited and inspiring read for those keen to know an Africa that challenges old stereotypes.
Plays One Adaugo Giddy Festival The Dawn Of Full Moon Daring Destiny And Withered Thrust
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Author : Osita Ezenwanebe
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2012-04-23
Plays One Adaugo Giddy Festival The Dawn Of Full Moon Daring Destiny And Withered Thrust written by Osita Ezenwanebe and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-23 with Performing Arts categories.
The book, Plays One: Adaugo, Daring Destiny, Giddy Festival, The Dawn of Full Moon and Withered Thrust, is a compilation of plays by an African female Playwright, Osita Catherine Ezenwanebe Ph. D, an Associate Professor of dramatic Arts, University of Lagos Nigeria, a Visiting Professor and Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence, Winston-Salem State University, North Carolina, USA. It is aimed at making the plays available to her foreign audience who learnt of the plays during her scholarly activities as a Senior Fulbright Visiting Professor in United States of America. The plays are African Total Theatre, a functional and multidimensional view of theatre employing mime, songs, dances, chants, rituals, dialogue, etc. to drive home the message. The plays cover her though about the symbiotic relationship between drama and society and capture the social upheavals in Africa and modern world in general. Her perspective is humanist with a special concern for women and youth. Withered Thrust (2007) captures the pervasiveness of corruption; a social epidemic in which the oppressed employ anarchic ways of survival and social crusaders are infested with the same contagion as those they avowedly oppose, making the future look very bleak. Giddy Festival (2009) extends the theme of social rot and moral decay by focusing on the moral bankruptcy of the ruling class and its consequent atrophy of spirit: the politicians are giddy in merriment, full of empty rhetoric, egotistic, morally perverse, ideologically bankrupt and administratively incompetent; the suffering masses adopt anarchic indifference as a shield, and the law is made to look as an ass, resulting in a high disregard of the dignity of the human person. The drum beats, heralding the joyous moment of the power bloc; simultaneously, disjointed bones are fall-offs from the drum beat of their merriment. What a giddy festival! The Dawn of Full Moon (2009) brings a light of hope in the state of woman in many societies of the world where they still labor under the yoke of oppression. The play celebrates the sanctity of womanhood by dramatizing the dark days of a helpless, less privileged teenage girl and her victorious triumph when she blossoms like the dazzling brightness of full moon; strong, forceful and irresistible. It is a play deliberately meant to instill hope and confidence in women and youths. The Dawn of Full Moon also recreates the revolutionary love necessary for sustaining communal ties and gender complementarity. 2. In Adaugo (2011) the playwright deconstructs the suppressive oppression of women embedded in the rigidity of traditional social roles of male breadwinning and female home keeping in modern world and presents it as a major source of crisis in gender relation. By making the female protagonist, Adaugo, excel in both roles at a time her husband could not perform his due to circumstances beyond his control, the playwright celebrates the strength of women and calls for a change in the conception of masculinity in the face of modern experiences. In all, the play upholds the complementarity of the sexes which the playwright sees as imperative for traditional family and communal life. 3. Daring Destiny is a play that advocates Spartan courage and tenacity of purpose as the surest means of achieving a desirable destiny. It dramatizes the fate of the youth in a state where years of misrule has given way to anarchy. Mindless politicians and vicious capitalists cripple the people to penury and turn the youth into expendable cannon folders thereby setting up frightening destiny as their future. The youth are urged to dare such destiny and never give in to despair.
Commerce America
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Commerce America written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with United States categories.
Chimurenga
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Chimurenga written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with African literature (English) categories.
The Dark Chronicles
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Author : Jeremy Duns
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2012-05-29
The Dark Chronicles written by Jeremy Duns and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-29 with Fiction categories.
It's 1969, and MI6 agent Paul Dark has spent the last twenty-five years betraying his country. When a would-be Russian defector turns up with information about a high-level British double agent, Dark goes on the run—only to discover that everything he believes is a lie. Bringing together three novels featuring double agent Paul Dark, The Dark Chronicles journeys from London to Nigeria and from Rome to Moscow in a heart-pounding saga of dubious loyalties, deadly conspiracies, and ruthless acts of revenge at the height of the Cold War.
The Man Who Cried I Am A Novel
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Author : John A. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Library of America
Release Date : 2023-11-21
The Man Who Cried I Am A Novel written by John A. Williams and has been published by Library of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-21 with Fiction categories.
Rediscover the sensational 1967 literary thriller that captures the bitter struggles of postwar Black intellectuals and artists With a foreword by Ishmael Reed and a new introduction by Merve Emre about how this explosive novel laid bare America's racial fault lines Max Reddick, a novelist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter, has spent his career struggling against the riptide of race in America. Now terminally ill, he has nothing left to lose. An expat for many years, Max returns to Europe one last time to settle an old debt with his estranged Dutch wife, Margrit, and to attend the Paris funeral of his friend, rival, and mentor Harry Ames, a character loosely modelled on Richard Wright. In Amsterdam, among Harry’s papers, Max uncovers explosive secret government documents outlining “King Alfred,” a plan to be implemented in the event of widespread racial unrest and aiming “to terminate, once and for all, the Minority threat to the whole of the American society.” Realizing that Harry has been assassinated, Max must risk everything to get the documents to the one man who can help. Greeted as a masterpiece when it was published in 1967, The Man Who Cried I Am stakes out a range of experience rarely seen in American fiction: from the life of a Black GI to the ferment of postcolonial Africa to an insider’s view of Washington politics in the era of segregation and the Civil Rights Movement, including fictionalized portraits of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X. John A. Williams and his lost classic are overdue for rediscovery. Few novels have so deliberately blurred the boundaries between fiction and reality as The Man Who Cried I Am (1967), and many of its early readers assumed the King Alfred plan was real. In her introduction, Merve Emre examines the gonzo marketing plan behind the novel that fueled this confusion and prompted an FBI investigation. This deluxe paperback also includes a new foreword by novelist Ishmael Reed. “It is a blockbuster, a hydrogen bomb . . . . This is a book white people are not ready to read yet, neither are most black people who read. But [it] is the milestone produced since Native Son. Besides which, and where I should begin, it is a damn beautifully written book.” —Chester Himes “Magnificent . . . obviously in the Baldwin and Ellison class.” —John Fowles “If The Man Who Cried I Am were a painting it would be done by Brueghel or Bosch. The madness and the dance is never-ending display of humanity trying to creep past inevitable Fate.” —Walter Mosely
Remarks On The Country Extending From Cape Palmas To The River Congo
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Author : John Adams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1823
Remarks On The Country Extending From Cape Palmas To The River Congo written by John Adams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1823 with Africa, West categories.
Remarks On The Country Extending From Cape Palmas To The River Congo
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Author : John Adams
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1966
Remarks On The Country Extending From Cape Palmas To The River Congo written by John Adams and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Africa, West categories.
First Published in 1966. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Literary Gazette And Journal Of Belles Lettres Arts Sciences
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language : en
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Release Date : 1823
The Literary Gazette And Journal Of Belles Lettres Arts Sciences written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1823 with categories.
The Little Sea Torch Or True Guide For Coasting Pilots By Whoch They Are Clearly Instructed How To Navigate Along The Coasts Of England Ireland And Sicily
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1801
The Little Sea Torch Or True Guide For Coasting Pilots By Whoch They Are Clearly Instructed How To Navigate Along The Coasts Of England Ireland And Sicily written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1801 with categories.