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Muzungu
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Author : Pamela Sisman Bitterman
language : en
Publisher: eBookIt.com
Release Date : 2011-02-03
Muzungu written by Pamela Sisman Bitterman and has been published by eBookIt.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Muzungu, the Swahili word for white folk, translated literally means "confused person wandering about." During the author's months working and traveling through Kenya, this description fits her to a tee. Her audacious Kenyan adventure makes for a bucket load of anecdotes and impressions born of heart and hands-on experience-enough to knock your socks off. The devil in Africa is in the details, and Muzungu is there in the trenches - raw, down and dirty, unapologetic. The author witnesses religious elders morphing into villains, political leaders exposed as criminals, tribal chiefs engaging in forbidden rituals, disease obliterating a generation, dedicated missionaries at the ends of their ropes, and a country in violent revolt. Her husband is railroaded and sentenced to prison. Her co-worker, the author's stalwart bellwether for hard fact and unlikely personal guide into the shadowy underbelly of the country, ultimately commits suicide. She is present for a bizarre meeting between doctors and activists from President Bush's AIDS Relief Project. With these topics being ever-present on today's world stage, this is one story that is dying to get out there. The author's white skin and declaration that she is a writer become her free pass through each successive door and ticket to all events, bar none: in the hospital wards, surgery rooms, orphan clinics, homes, schools, villages, churches, government offices, during tribal ceremonies and throughout the commission of heinous crimes. The reader will meet an African mission's peculiar band of residents up close and personal, their unsparing good, bad and ugly. The author herself is not immune to this intense scrutiny. Quite the opposite, in fact. No pious filter softens this writer's lens. A living newsreel of realities informs the narrative. Candid conversations and interviews are recorded verbatim and in their entirety. The real "AIDS in Africa" will be disclosed. Western definition does not apply. In fact, the reader may come to realize that few concepts familiar to them can be applied in Kenya. The term "lost in translation" emerges as a gross understatement. Fellow volunteers who find themselves trapped in the foxholes during a horrific national political revolution witness and report from the front lines.Secret tribal rituals are described in graphic detail. Long-established cultural traditions are examined. Western religion's influence is dissected. Foreign intervention is challenged. History is revisited. Kenya is deconstructed. The reader is invited into a tiny school where the students create a children's picture book for the author in the hope that she can get it published for them in America. Vignettes from the Orphan Feeding Program and the Mobile Medical Clinic will break hearts. Tribal chiefs, church bishops, heads of Non-Governmental Organizations, leaders of Faith-Based Operations, representatives of all manner of self-righteous American and European groups desperate to leave their idealistic fingerprints on the continent, hold forth. Those with their fingers truly on the pulse of the people furiously demand to be heard as well. However, it is the locals themselves who provide the most unwaveringly transparent view of the Kenyans and their condition. Muzungu is complete with color photographs that will touch anyone who has ever had a financial, spiritual, anthropological, sociological or humanitarian interest in Africa, or those who are simply adventurers at heart. Unlike other books on the subject of Africa, this one is specific to the author's own uniquely personal experience with Kenya - too fantastic to be believed. Almost.
Tears On The Equator
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Author : Gerasimos I. Kambites
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2014-09-03
Tears On The Equator written by Gerasimos I. Kambites and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the beginning, in 1973, when a young couple met at a seminary in the city of Boston, during a time of great racial tension over an issue called bussing, they dared to share a dream and the dream was about faith, progress, unity, love and sustainable development in Africa. She trained in education, her Canadian husband schooled in medicine. They would return to the Ugandan paradise island of her youth in Lake Victoria only to discover that beauty hid the beast; that an interracial couple, white and black and their Ancient Orthodox faith would cause a spark which turned verdant fields into flames of conflict. Truths would be told and taboos would be broken. Courage would be unveiled and passions uncovered. This story is about the glue that maintained the vision until time, politics and war wore it away. It is also about survival and rebirth and the ultimate seeds which gave birth to a new crop of hopes. "What are you looking at old man?" the young doctor queried. The elder was looking into a rotten log. "I am seeing the face of God," he smiled standing up, allowing the doctor to see the sun kissed orchid." "The face of God," he said, and so it was, for their five years on Bukasa island uncovered the weaknesses and strengths of this couple and the community around them. That they would fail was inevitable, but that they would survive in a real and mystical way was the hidden treasure....
Muzungu
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Author : Rod Madocks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-06-16
Muzungu written by Rod Madocks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-16 with categories.
An elegy upon a vanished life and people, 'Muzungu' is a reflection upon a childhood mainly spent deep in the backcountry of what is now Zambia.
Muzungu
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Author : Daniel Topolski
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Muzungu written by Daniel Topolski and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Travel categories.
How Are You Muzungu
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Author : Oliver Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2011-08-22
How Are You Muzungu written by Oliver Johnson and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In January 2004, I travelled to Zambia with Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) to take up a two-year placement as a physics teacher at Kasempa Day High School in Northwestern Province. I returned to the UK in December 2005. In an attempt to piece together a coherent chronology of my time in Zambia, this book presents a compilation of emails, journal entries and letters that I wrote.
Tales From A Muzungu
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Author : Nicholas Duncan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Tales From A Muzungu written by Nicholas Duncan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Uganda categories.
Muzungu
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Author : Rod Madocks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Muzungu written by Rod Madocks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
Muzungu
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Author : Diane Gakwardi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Muzungu written by Diane Gakwardi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Children's art categories.
Muzungu Good Morning
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Author : Daniele Ligneau-Wilton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-04-30
Muzungu Good Morning written by Daniele Ligneau-Wilton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-30 with British categories.
The teachers said that they were grateful for all that I had done for them in the short time I had been at the school, including the mirror in the loo... This inspiring story follows Dani
Nyanja For The Muzungu
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Nyanja For The Muzungu written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Nyanja language categories.
