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African Civilizations: An Archaeologi...
Brief Summary
This new revised edition of African Civilizations re-examines the physical evidence for developing social complexity in Africa over the last six thousand years. Unlike the two previous editions, it is not confined to tropical Africa but considers the whole continent.
Graham Connah focuses upon the archaeological research of two key aspects of complexity, urbanism and state formation, in ten main areas of Africa: Egypt, North Africa, Nubia, Ethiopia, the West African savanna, the West African forest, the East African coast and islands, the Zimbabwe Plateau, parts of Central Africa and South Africa. The book's main concern is to review the available evidence in its varied environmental settings, and to consider possible explanations of the developments that gave rise to it.
Extensively illustrated, including new maps and plans, and offering an extended list of references, this is essential reading for students of archaeology, anthropology, African history, black studies and social geography.
The Oxford Handbook of Modern African...
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The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History represents an invaluable tool for historians and others in the field of African studies. This collection of essays, produced by some of the finest scholars currently working in the field, provides the latest insights into, and interpretations of,
the history of Africa - a continent with a rich and complex past.
An understanding of this past is essential to gain perspective on Africa's current challenges, and this accessible and comprehensive volume will allow readers to explore various aspects - political, economic, social, and cultural - of
the continent's history over the last two hundred years.
Since African history first emerged as a serious academic endeavour in the 1950s and 1960s, it has undergone numerous shifts in terms of emphasis and approach, changes brought about by political and economic exigencies and by ideological debates. This multi-faceted Handbook is essential reading for
anyone with an interest in those debates, and in Africa and its peoples. While the focus is determinedly historical, anthropology, geography, literary criticism, political science and sociology are all employed in this ground-breaking study of Africa's past.
A History of Modern Africa: 1800 to t...
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A History of Modern Africa recounts the full breadth of Africa's political, economic, and social history over the past two centuries.
- Adopts a long-term approach to current issues, stressing the importance of nineteenth-century and deeper indigenous dynamics in explaining Africa's later twentieth-century challenges
- Places a greater focus on African agency, especially during the colonial encounter
- Includes more in-depth coverage of non-Anglophone Africa
- Offers expanded coverage of the post-colonial era to take account of recent developments, including the conflict in Darfur and the political unrest of 2011 in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya
Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All R...
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Ogadinma Or, Everything Will be All Right tells the story of the naïve and trusting teenager Ogadinma as she battles against Nigeria's societal expectations in the 1980s. After a rape and unwanted pregnancy leave her exiled from her family in Kano, thwarting her plans to go to university, she is sent to her aunt's in Lagos and pressured into a marriage with an older man.
When their whirlwind romance descends into abuse and indignity, Ogadinma is forced to channel her independence and resourcefulness to escape a fate that appears all but inevitable. Ogadinma, the UK debut by Ukamaka Olisakwe, introduces a heroine for whom it is impossible not to root, and announces the author as a gifted chronicler of the patriarchal experience.
‘An intimate and dazzling exploration of the life and times of a young Nigerian woman whose move to the capital city of Lagos leads to a series of encounters, which are by turns disorienting, revelatory and tragic.’ Christopher Merrill, author of Self-Portrait with Dogwood
‘Written in vivid, engaging prose, this is the story of one woman’s journey to independence.’ Chinelo Okparanta, author of Under the Udala Trees and Happiness, Like Water: Stories
The Mechanics of Yenagoa by Michael A...
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Ebinimi, star mechanic of Kalakala Street, is a man with a hapless knack for getting in and out of trouble. Some of his troubles are self-inflicted: like his recurring entanglements in love triangles; and his unauthorised joyriding of a customer’s car which sets off a chain of dire events involving drugs, crooked politicians, and assassins.
Other troubles are caused by the panorama of characters in his life, like: his sister and her dysfunctional domestic situation; the three other mechanics he employs; and the money-loving preacher who has all but taken over his home.
The story is fast-paced with surprising twists and a captivating plot - a Dickenesque page-turner. This is Ebinimi’s story but it is about a lot more than him. It is an exploration of the dynamics between working-class people as they undertake a colourful tour of Yenagoa, one of Nigeria’s lesser-known cities, while using humour, sex, and music, as coping mechanisms for the everyday struggle.
It is a modern-classic tale of small lives navigating a big city.
A Tale To Tell by Brian Ongoro
Ebalu Superstar by Roy Gachuhi
Timo Ebalu is a football prodigy. At only 17, he gets a call-up to the Kenya national football team, the Elephants of the Mara. He instantly becomes for the country what he has been for his high school team – a one-man goal scoring machine.
But Ebalu has a monumental battle on his hands – that with his parents. They frown on football, or any sport, as a career and won’t settle for anything but academic excellence.
Unfortunately, Ebalu, unlike his whiz siblings, is poor in academics. His life at home becomes unbearable just as his football career soars to the stratosphere. The collision between two seemingly irreconcilable positions is epic.
Ministry of Misdemeanor (Memoir) by H...
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Life in high school: raging hormones, peer pressure, rebellion, and self-discovery. A paragon of adolescence, it embodies unplanned pregnancies for young girls and boys becoming fathers, all in the name of exploring. Relationships are formed, rules broken, and, sometimes, lifelong mistakes made.
Ministry of Misdemeanor exemplifies the height of tempting fate—daredevil teenage antics, intrigues, mischief, and pushing the limits at Akili High School.
Broken Hedges (Novel) by Joseph Kang&...
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Forever trailed by the spiders, political activist Kamirangi Mwenda has dedicated himself to fighting the locusts—the people behind the corrupt and oppressive government—a fight for the second liberation of Kenya,
His father, the veteran Mau Mau General Baikioo, is a bitter man: wallowing in poverty, not honoured as the hero he is, and false promises by the government; the sacrifices he made for the liberation of the country are nothing ... and his son is walking the same path.
As the locusts threaten to wring the country dry, the past grapples with the present, pulling apart father and son, forcing them to realise that the cost of true freedom might be far too high.
Holy Innocence (Poetry) by Elove Poetry
Brief Summary
Holy Innocence is a collection of innocent musings on love, the things lovers do innocently moved by love, the emotion that makes the mind stop functioning the minute one falls helpless in to the abysmal abyss of love. May it be teen hominess, school-boy/girl crush on someone, secret admiration, harmless flirtation, infatuation, or lust for someone already taken - love does this innocently, just to fulfill the longing of a heart that is helplessly in love for which words can't describe.
Holy Innocence is sensational, love poems to the max. Every girl should read this.
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Millionaire EMPLOYEE by Patrick N. Ngumi
Brief Summary
Achieving Financial Freedom while still in Employment
It would be an understatement to say that every employed person dreams of having an extra source of income some day. The quest for financial independence for those who are currently accustomed to a regular pay check is a constant nag.
However, many are also aware of the immense challenge and risks associated with leaving employment and running their own ventures. If we will be honest, self employment is not always as easy as imagined.
This book is a welcome relief to those in employment who may wish to enjoy financial wealth beyond their salary without engaging full time in their own entrepreneurial activities.
The author discusses several principles and methods that one can relate with and implement in search for financial freedom.
In very practical ways, the author demonstrates how to evaluate ones financial standing, choose a profitable investment and build a secure financial future.
Holy Crimes (Poetry) by Elove Poetry ...
Brief Summary
Holy Crimes is a collection of crimes of love, the little things lovers do oblivious, innocently, inadvertently, sometimes deliberately and guiltily.
The joys of love are compacted in the mystery behind the history love has written since time immemorial, it continues to write and shall write even in days to come.
When that one single day the lover wakes and feels fluttering like a butterfly, dancing like a dervish, butterflies rioting in them thence they commit the crimes.
When love ends and life has to continue, the lover commits the crimes. Crimes of love, Holy Crimes, that the lover gets away with, and shall get away with.
Raw Power Supreme Courts and the Cons...
Flights of Poetry Fancy (Poetry) by V...
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Flights of Poetic Fancy is a collection of whims, capricious enchantments and impulsive imaginations that attack the mind beguiled into visions and fantasies. It is an aggregation of quarrels, musings, battles (rather not) fought, wounds and wooing's, loves and agonies and all sorts possible nonsense and forgetfulness – anything and everything ghastly grim of the wandering mind – that possesses the mind and convinces it that no maxim and order has more sense than its thinking.
Flights of Poetic Fancy has a critical sensibility and humorous look at life, issues, vice and life while challenging the invention of history and beliefs strongly held by a people rather falling into despondency.
From the award winning author of First Words, Holy Emotions and Flashes of Vice, Flights of Poetic Fancy will leave you impishly amused yet reeling with ire and indignation.
Flashes of Vice: Vol II by Vincent de...
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Life on the fast lane; sex, money and crime – the holy trinity of life. Terrorists and their virgins; love, romance and marriage chastised.
Flashes of Vice tells life as it is in short, punchy, thrilling stories. The switch is flipped on and off before you know what is happening, leave you wanting more and more – something you will never get.
Flashes of Vice: Vol II is the second book in the Flashes of Vice series. It is a collection of flash fiction stories touching on the vices affecting the society today: the holy trinity of life – money, sex & crime; terrorism and relationships.
The Traveler by Aileen Munene
Another Fabulous Year by Joyce Wakini
BOOK SUMMARY:
TITLE: ANOTHER FABULOUS YEAR ; AUTHOR: WAKINI JOYCE
This book focuses on how to build and develop your TALENTS. It was written detailing out a journey of best practises supporting individual's personal goals. A pillar for your next level of greater self leadership.
It is also best practice for those who seek to start working on some new things such as; now harnessing their talents profitably with or without unemployment. Some have a new business idea or want to heed their life calling into ministry, philanthropic work etc. The topics discussed herein are pillars towards your next level of work and career time.
Last but not least, ANOTHER FABULOUS YEAR is a manual that helps individuals map a way out of any kind of personal struggle. A pillar for setting up a new level of order from where they're right now.
Don't be surprised to find some activities for you to do in every chapter. Look out for them right at the start, for that's the beginning of the change.
CHAPTER HIGHLIGHTS:
The writer has systematically elaborated 8 pillars which you can use to start working on your next level. The following are the HIGHLIGHTS of each chapter;-
√ WHY you need to draft your wish list
√ Mental CLARITY and decision making
√ How to plan and why you need to conduct RESEARCH about your dreams
√ Ways to become a DOER and finally..
√ Make a commitment to SERVE globally with your gifts and talents.
This book ANOTHER FABULOUS YEAR will foster behaviour changes necessary for next level kind of performance. It shapes the character of its' readers way before they arrive on stage.
RECOMMENDATION:
What's behind the title ANOTHER FABULOUS YEAR? Time! It sets readers of the book to work from a schedule. That is, tie a time target to the change you want to see. While a one year challenge is sufficient for some kind of work or is even too much, for other scopes of work more time could be needed.
CONCLUSION:
Best practice for our next level, leaving no one behind.
BLURB (Inside): "Stepping into the present of who you have decided to be this year in order to appreciate your life even more and build a legacy."
Joyce Wakini | Author | Best Practices > ANOTHER FABULOUS YEAR