78 títulos para "African Books Collective"

Swahili for Foreigners

Alice Wanjiku Mangat

Swahili for Foreigners has been developed to help the non-native speaker learn the language systematically and with minimal teacher assistance. The book is divided into thirty-four lessons progressing from beginner to advanced level and includes exercises, verb tables and comprehensive English-Swahi...

Research on Gender and Sexualities in Africa

This collection comprises a diverse and stimulating collection of essays on questions of gender and sexualities, crafted by both established and younger researchers. The collection includes fascinating insights into topics as varied as the popularity of thong underwear in urban Kenya, the complexity...

Genocide in Nigeria

Ken Saro-Wiwa

This collection of newspaper columns and articles mostly written in the 1970s and 1980s perhaps provides the best overview of Saro-Wiwas political and environmental concerns. The articles document his concerns about the fate of the Ogoni people and their mistreatment by multinational oil companies a...

Ships of Slaves (Revised Edition

Thorkild Hansen

This is the second volume in the trilogy, The Ships of Slaves, which tells the story of the Danish/Norwegian participation in the transatlantic slave trade on the Gold Coast (now Ghana) to the West Indies. This volume narrates the middle passage of the slave trade, from the time the remadors at the...

Biographies de la Radicalisation

La radicalisation est devenue un mot désignant notre monde en couleurs négatives. Ce livre cherche à comprendre ce que c’est que la radicalisation au Sahel et aux Pays-Bas ? Est-elle seulement négative? Quelle diversité de processus sociaux et politiques se t...

Mmeza Fupa

Ali Hilal

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 fasah...

The Mauritian Paradox

Speaking of Mauritius as an economic miracle has become a cliché, and with good reason: Its development since Independence in 1968 can easily be narrated as a rags-to-riches story. In addition, it is a stable democracy capable of containing the conflict potential inherent in its complex ethni...

Shariah Legal Practice in Nigeria 1956-1983

Ajetunmobi, Musa Ali

This book contains and in-depth study of the Shariah legal system generally, and its practice in Nigeria, in particular from 1956 to 1983. The book covers the meaning and scope of the Shariah: the general and legal precepts; it legal theory and legal practice; the development of Shariah legal practi...

Sunset at Dawn. A Novel of the Biafran War

Ike, Chukwuemeka Vincent / Lugumba, S.M.E.

As one of Nigeria's top writers, the author is concerned with the condition of his country. In this novel he tells, with humour, a human story set in the tragedy of the Biafran war. Fatima is fleeing the enemy planes with her young son, and through her unfolding drama, the reader sees what the war w...

Ìléwó Ìkòwé Yorùbá Òde-òní

Awobuluyi, Oladele / Oyelaran, Olasope O.

This book presents rules and guidelines that are better formulated and more detailed than hitherto proposed for writing modern Yoruba. They are based on those commissioned and approved by the Yoruba Cross-Border Language Organisation for use in Nigeria, Benin, Togo and elsewhere in the Yoruba-speaki...

History of the Gold Coast and Asante. Third Edition

Reindorf, Carl C.

English-German

Since Namibia's Independence in 1990, a variety of English words have come into use, referring predominantly to political developments but also to changes in society in general. As German is one of the national languages in Namibia, these vocabulary changes also need to be expressed in this language...