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The Rose That Grew from Concrete By T...
The Rose That Grew from Concrete is a compelling collection of poetry. Tupac Shakur appreciated the sound and rhythm of words and the powerful affect they could have on people. He wrote these poems at 19 when he was part of a writing group conducted by Leila Steinberg, a writer and producer working in the music industry.
The book captures Shakur's passion and anger in a unique format. On the right side of the page is the typed version of each poem. On the left side is a copy of Shakur's own handwriting on notebook paper. Shakur drew an eye for "I" or used symbols to replace words like peace and love.
Two women who loved him dearly - his mother, Afeni Shakur, and poet and close friend Nikki Giovanni, share their thoughts in the preface and forward of the book.
Unbounded by Boniface Mwangi
Brief Summary
In just over a decade, Boniface Mwangi has risen from poverty to prominence in Kenya. He is renowned for his powerful photographs and his courageous protests calling for social justice. However, little is known about the man himself.
Unbounded is a collection of engaging personal stories that takes us through some of the people, places and events that have shaped Boniface, easily one of Kenya best known photographers and activists. It is a portrait of the child, the man and some of the human, harrowing and even humorous episodes that he has witnessed and photographed.
This book tells of the two remarkable women - his mother and grandmother - who influenced his character and inspired his drive to raise awareness about poverty, inequality and corruption. His work as a photo-activist is grounded in social engagement, collective action and the need for justice.
This is the story of a man of determination and warmth, a man who lives his life to make a difference. We cannot change the world as individuals. We can only change the world together.
How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu
A heartbreaking literary masterwork about love, family, and the power of imagination, which confirms Mengestu's reputation as one of the brightest talents of his generation.
Dinaw Mengestu's first novel, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, earned the young writer comparisons to Bellow, Fitzgerald, and Naipaul, and garnered ecstatic critical praise and awards around the world for its haunting depiction of the immigrant experience. Now Mengestu enriches the themes that defined his debut with a heartbreaking literary masterwork about love, family, and the power of imagination, which confirms his reputation as one of the brightest talents of his generation.
One early September afternoon, Yosef and Mariam, young Ethiopian immigrants who have spent all but their first year of marriage apart, set off on a road trip from their new home in Peoria, Illinois, to Nashville, Tennessee, in search of a new identity as an American couple. Soon, their son, Jonas, will be born in Illinois.
Thirty years later, Yosef has died, and Jonas needs to make sense of the volatile generational and cultural ties that have forged him.
How can he envision his future without knowing what has come before? Leaving behind his marriage and job in New York, Jonas sets out to retrace his mother and father's trip and weave together a family history that will take him from the war-torn Ethiopia of his parents' youth to his life in the America of today, a story - real or invented - that holds the possibility of reconciliation and redemption.
Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth ...
What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brilliance, is Warsan Shire's ability to give simple, beautiful eloquence to the veiled world where sensuality lives in the dominant narrative of Islam; reclaiming the more nuanced truths of earlier times - as in Tayeb Salih's work - and translating to the realm of lyric the work of the likes of Nawal El Saadawi. As Rumi said, "Love will find its way through all languages on its own".
In 'teaching my mother how to give birth', Warsan's debut pamphlet, we witness the unearthing of a poet who finds her way through all preconceptions to strike the heart directly. Warsan Shire is a Kenyan-born Somali poet and writer who is based in London.
Born in 1988, she is an artist and activist who uses her work to document narratives of journey and trauma. Warsan has read her work internationally, including recent readings in South Africa, Italy and Germany, and her poetry has been translated into Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
Mammals of Africa: Volumes 1 – ...
Mammals of Africa (MoA) is a series of six volumes which describes, in detail, every currently recognized species of African land mammal. This is the first time that such extensive coverage has ever been attempted, and the volumes incorporate the very latest information and detailed discussion of the morphology, distribution, biology and evolution (including reference to fossil and molecular data) of Africa's mammals.
With 1,160 species and 16 orders, Africa has the greatest diversity and abundance of mammals in the world.
The reasons for this and the mechanisms behind their evolution are given special attention in the series.
Each volume follows the same format, with detailed profiles of every species and higher taxa. The series includes some 660 colour illustrations by Jonathan Kingdon and his many drawings highlight details of morphology and behaviour of the species concerned.
Diagrams, schematic details and line drawings of skulls and jaws are by Jonathan Kingdon and Meredith Happold. Every species also includes a detailed distribution map. Extensive references alert readers to more detailed information.
• Volume I: Introductory Chapters and Afrotheria (352 pages)
• Volume II: Primates (560 pages)
• Volume III: Rodents, Hares and Rabbits (784 pages)
• Volume IV: Hedgehogs, Shrews and Bats (800 pages)
• Volume V: Carnivores, Pangolins, Equids and Rhinoceroses (560 pages)
• Volume VI: Hippopotamuses, Pigs, Deer, Giraffe and Bovids (704 pages)
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
Brief Summary
Akata Witch transports the reader to a magical place where nothing is quite as it seems. Born in New York, but living in Aba, Nigeria, twelve-year old Sunny is understandably a little lost. She is albino and thus, incredibly sensitive to the sun.
All Sunny wants to do is be able to play football and get through another day of school without being bullied. But once she befriends Orlu and Chichi, Sunny is plunged in to the world of the Leopard People, where your worst defect becomes your greatest asset. Together, Sunny, Orlu, Chichi and Sasha form the youngest ever Oha Coven.
Their mission is to track down Black Hat Otokoto, the man responsible for kidnapping and maiming children. Will Sunny be able to overcome the killer with powers stronger than her own, or will the future she saw in the flames become reality?
Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor
Brief Summary
A year ago, Sunny Nwazue, an American-born girl Nigerian girl, was inducted into the secret Leopard Society. As she began to develop her magical powers, Sunny learned that she had been chosen to lead a dangerous mission to avert an apocalypse, brought about by the terrifying masquerade, Ekwensu. Now, stronger, feistier, and a bit older, Sunny is studying with her mentor Sugar Cream and struggling to unlock the secrets in her strange Nsibidi book.
Eventually, Sunny knows she must confront her destiny. With the support of her Leopard Society friends, Orlu, Chichi, and Sasha, and of her spirit face, Anyanwu, she will travel through worlds both visible and invisible to the mysteries town of Osisi, where she will fight a climactic battle to save humanity.
Much-honored Nnedi Okorafor, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards, merges today’s Nigeria with a unique world she creates. Akata Warrior blends mythology, fantasy, history and magic into a compelling tale that will keep readers spellbound.
An Atlas of African Dermatology
Brief Summary
Radiologists in training need a sound understanding of concepts and their applications that relate directly to practical experience, and this is precisely what this book sets out to achieve.
A team of widely respected teachers show how the equipment can be used for all the principal interventions, and highlight some of the ethical issues involved. The presentation is concise but comprehensive, so that pressured trainees can update their knowledge in a modern, attractive reference.
Each chapter is followed by a set of multiple-choice questions to enable readers to test their knowledge.
ISBN:9781857755442
Author:Barbara Leppard
Dedan Kimathi The Whole Story by Jose...
Brief Summary
Writer takes an honest look at the life and times of Dedan Kimathi, Kenya’s foremost freedom fighter at his Kimathi Street corner statue in Nairobi, a dreadlocked Dedan Kimathi is a small, frail, bent old man struggling to lift his rifle.
That is the public image of the greatest Kenyan ever to live. Old, frail, starved. The sculptors were not helped by a literature that portrays Mau Mau adherents as bloodthirsty, atavistic, rural, poor and illiterate.
Which child wants this for his grandpa? Yet image is everything.
ISBN:9789966229724
Author:Joseph Karimi
Son of Fate by John Kiriamiti
This novel is by the author of the celebrated My Life in Crime and is his first. The life of the 'Son of Fate' is a grim struggle for survival, after his release from prison.
He tries his luck at farming, and odd jobs in the city, but everything fails, and he finds himself on the wrong side of the law again. But a glimmer of hope comes when he rescues a tycoon.
Remote Dawn
Brief Summary
Bwiza - a small girl with a name containing the property of beauty is getting the worst start a child can have in this world when she is losing her whole family at young age.
But when she is growing up her noble character and the mysterious power of love gives her a new foundation for a meaningful life by helping other orphans.
And finally she is also embraced by happiness when Wilson, a young man who is completely reappraising his life, by chance is crossing her path and the sweet music of love arises around them during one blessed night in the enchanted realm of a dark warm garden under the yellow African moon.
ISBN:9789186528041
Author:Barassa
Teta A Story of a Young Girl
Brief Summary
It is a rainy day in Kibuye in 1962, when Teta is born. She is a spoiled child, the only daughter in her family. Everybody spoils her. Life offers her everything she wants. It even offers her the dream of every girl; love . . . She is seventeen when she meets Kayira. It is love at first sight. Her family agrees. She will get married with the man she loves.
But is this her destiny? To be happy and to get everything that she wants? Her destiny was pre-determined when she was born and all she could do was to follow her destiny. Will their love resist her destiny? Will the love that fill their young hearts endure the trials of life?
ISBN:9789186528065
Author:Barassa
The Fugitive’s Love
Brief Summary
Five years ago, a faceless guardian angel rescued James Lavin from prison during a trial that would have ended with him hanging at the lower end of a hangman’s rope by his neck. After a chaotic five years, he decides to go back to his birth town, pulled to the ridges and the hills by the memories of an innocence he doesn’t feel anymore. His travails lead him to Kathleen, his childhood sweetheart who also happens to be his first and only love.
Old flames are re-ignited, and Lavin comes down to earth six blissful months later to find himself cornered. See, for a fugitive, a few moments of lascivious distraction can be the difference between freedom and jail time, or worse, death. When old foes ensnare him, Lavin discovers that going back home may not have been such a good idea.
He appears to be destined back to jail or a painful death, but the faceless benefactor, like a competent guardian angel, swoops in and saves the day, and his hide, again. The Fugitive’s Love is a romantic story infused with intrigue, mystery, and suspense.
ISBN:9781370392971
Author:P. G. Gatuna
The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches
Brief Summary
Great leaders of history have sought to take their followers to the Promised Land through the uplifting power of speech. Editor Brian MacArthur surveys the greatest oratory past and present.
From Moses to Abraham Lincoln, he shows that great speeches can be placed alongside the work of artists, poets, and priests and read with the same pleasure and intellectual enlightenment.
ISBN:9780140176193
Author:Brian MacArthur
Zone One
Brief Summary
In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead.
Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuild¬ing civilization under orders from the provisional govern¬ment based in Buffalo. Their top mission: the resettlement of Manhattan. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street—aka Zone One—but pockets of plague-ridden squatters remain. While the army has eliminated the most dangerous of the infected, teams of civilian volunteers are tasked with clearing out a more innocuous variety—the "malfunctioning” stragglers, who exist in a catatonic state, transfixed by their former lives.
Mark Spitz is a member of one of the civilian teams work¬ing in lower Manhattan. Alternating between flashbacks of Spitz’s desperate fight for survival during the worst of the outbreak and his present narrative, the novel unfolds over three surreal days, as it depicts the mundane mission of straggler removal, the rigors of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder, and the impossible job of coming to grips with the fallen world.
And then things start to go wrong.
Both spine chilling and playfully cerebral, Zone One bril¬liantly subverts the genre’s conventions and deconstructs the zombie myth for the twenty-first century.
ISBN:9780385528078
Author:Colson Whitehead
Ethnicity and Conflict in the Horn of...
Brief Summary
Conflicts in the Horn have all too often dominated press coverage of Africa. This book exposes the subtle and ambiguous role ethnicity can play in social conflict - a role that is nowhere as simple and direct as commonly assumed.
Social conflict is routinely attributed to ethnic differentiation because dividing lines between rival groups often follow ethnic contours; and cultural symbolism has proved a potent ideological weapon. The purpose of this book is to examine the nature of the bond linking ethnicity to conflict in a variety of circumstances.
The diverse groups are involved in confrontations at different levels and of varying intensity, ranging from elemental struggles for physical survival of groups at the margin of society, to contests for state power and control of resources at the center.
The ten studies from Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya are based on primary research by anthropologists and historians who have long experience of the region. The insights gained from this comparative work help to refine common assumptions about conflict among ethnic groups.
ISBN:9780852552261
Author:Katsuyoshi Fukui and John Markakis
The Road to Hell
Brief Summary
The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity.
A former aid worker explains how misguided foreign aid, charity, development assistance, and food relief have propagated a culture of destructive dependency that damages the local economy and promotes corruption. 35,000 first printing. Tour.
ISBN:9780743227865
Author:Michael Maren
A Short History of Slavery
Brief Summary
As we approach the bicentenary of the abolition of the Atlantic trade, Walvin has selected the historical texts that recreate the mindset that made such a savage institution possible - morally acceptable even.
Setting these historical documents against Walvin's own incisive historical narrative, the two layers of this extraordinary, definitive account of the Atlantic slave trade enable us to understand the rise and fall of one of the most shameful chapters in British history, the repercussions of which the modern world is still living with.
ISBN:9780141027982
Author:James Walvin
Walking in Kenyatta Struggles By Dunc...
The legacy of notable leadership in Africa, be it in politics, government, academia, business or the corporate sector cannot be said to be adequately chronicled and published. Yet, the moment the story of a man or woman of great achievement, and whose contribution has changed the destiny of others is published — particularly when the one in focus has been presented as a person of flesh and blood — the inspiration that could result can eventually transform people, generations or even entire nations.
In acknowledgement of the foregoing, Kenya Leadership Institute (KLI) has initiated a Biography Programme with a mission to publish memoirs of outstanding men and women whose contributions to the makings of modern day Kenya beg systematic documentation. KLI hopes that publications that will result from this initiative will inspire Kenyans to aim higher in their various pursuits and rethink their individual roles in nation building.
The programme also aims at prompting useful discourse on issues of national interest.
The Africans by David Lamb
Brief Summary
During the four years he spent in black Africa as the bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, David Lamb traveled through almost every country south of the Sahara, logging more than 300,000 miles. He talked to presidents and guerrilla leaders, university professors and witch doctors.
He bounced from wars to coups oceans apart, catching midnight flights to little-known countries where supposedly decent people were doing unspeakable things to one another. In the tradition of John Gunther's Inside Africa,
The Africans is an extraordinary combination of analysis and adventure. Part travelogue, part contemporary history, it is a portrait of a continent that sometimes seems hell-bent on destroying itself, and of people who are as courageous as they are long-suffering.
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ISBN:9780394753089
Author:David Lamb
