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Jagua Nana Novel by Cyprian Ekwensi
Bold, moving, entertaining and controversial, this is the great novel of 1960s Lagos life - with one of the most unforgettable heroines in literature. Jagua Nana, no longer young but still irresistible, lives a life of hedonism in Lagos: men, parties, fights, wild nights in the Tropicana with her handsome young boyfriend Freddie. Rushing from one experience to the next in search of something she can't quite grasp, Jagua finds herself embroiled in shady politics, caught up in village feuds and a source of drama wherever she goes. In this vivid depiction of 1960s Nigeria, everyone is hustling and everyone is on the make - and a woman like Jagua must find her own unconventional path to fulfilment.
God’s Sense of Humour by Winsto...
An inspiration book about a relational God who from the beginning has desired a closer relationship with mankind. In reaching out to mankind God exhibits dome of the attributes like humour which man can easily identify him in many areas in his dealings with mankind ..at one point he uses a taking donkey to relay his message, acting prophets, poetry in humorous ways but with a deeper message of reconciliation. A great read.....with pictorial illustrations.
Perching The Ibis has landed Environm...
This books explores environmental degradation through the mind of the noisy ibis which according to the author laments the wanton encroachment and destruction of animal and for that matter habitat and the ecosystem through pollution of water sources, cutting of trees for human developments thus depriving the bird of places to nest, breed, feed or perch. The ibis gives a raft of measures mankind should consider through a memorandum on the way forward. The ibis attempts to describe some of the encroachment on her space through the raucous noise of disdain and protest ....its ribcracking but an informative read
Numbered Hairs Even a sparrow by Wins...
Numbered hairs is an amazing account of how the creator of the universe is so caring that despite being the creator of the vast universe and all therein he is so caring that he has count of the hairs of the close to 8billion people on earth and those who were before us as well as the details of all the insignificant sparrows worldwide a testament of his immense love and concern for the mind-boggling innumerable creation ....a must read
The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Bu...
At the very heart of all the success and failure I've been exposed to - both my own entrepreneurial journey and through the thousands of interviews I’ve conducted on my chart-topping podcast - are a set of principles that ensure excellence.
These fundamental laws underpinned my meteoric rise, and they will fuel yours too, whether you want to build something great or become someone great. The laws are rooted in psychology and behavioral science, in my own experiences, and those of the world's most successful entrepreneurs, entertainers, artists, writers, and athletes, who I’ve interviewed on my podcast.
These laws will stand the test of time and will help anyone master their life and unleash their potential, no matter the field.
They are the secret sauce to success.
God’s Masterpiece
God's Masterpiece is an inspirational book that explores the unique position of mankind in creation. He has not only been created in the image of God but this fearfully and wonderfully made creation has been given dominion over all creation. He is the apple of God's eye and to the envy of other more superior supernatural beings like angels been mandated by God to be custodian of other creation as well as God's emissary on earth. Nothing including all creation, technological innovations and creations can replace mankind. Be it ndroid robots, computers, space ships, animals bombs etc.We are all superior and special in the eyes of our creator regardless of color, race, class, position...…a great read
The Adventures of Amy Animal advocacy
An animal advocacy exposition through a real life experience with a puppy that transits from posh Kitsuru to Mwiki. In the transit culture shock is experienced from the serene upper market to noisy crowded matatus and tout noise pollution that almost sucks life out of the bewildered puppy through whose eyes in this fleeting
Experience, the treatment of other animals both domestic and wild is decried with tips and ideas on how we can live in harmony and sensitivity and consideration with other creations in the ecosystem.
Troubled Heart; Poetic Reflections, M...
Sankara Berhane Sellassie's "Troubled Heart" is a poetic masterpiece that takes readers on an emotional and intellectual journey, exploring a plethora of themes that resonate with the complexities of human existence. Through the evocative titles of each poem, the author sets the stage for a poignant exploration of love, spirituality, relationships, introspection, and societal paradigms.
Sankara Berhane Sellassie's "Troubled Heart" is a poetic symphony that resonates with the human soul. The evocative language, diverse themes, and thought-provoking titles make this anthology a captivating read, inviting readers to reflect on life, love, faith, and the enigmatic beauty that surrounds us. It's a heartfelt journey through the intricacies of the heart and mind, leaving an indelible mark on the reader's soul.
In essence, "Troubled Heart" by Sankara Berhane Sellassie is a rich and diverse collection that appeals to a wide range of readers, from lovers of romance and introspection to those pondering existential questions and societal paradigms.
It Didn’t Start with You: How I...
A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generations, by an acclaimed expert in the field
Depression. Anxiety. Chronic Pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The evidence is compelling: the roots of these difficulties may not reside in our immediate life experience or in chemical imbalances in our brains—but in the lives of our parents, grandparents, and even great-grandparents. The latest scientific research, now making headlines, supports what many have long intuited—that traumatic experience can be passed down through generations. It Didn’t Start with You builds on the work of leading experts in post-traumatic stress, including Mount Sinai School of Medicine neuroscientist Rachel Yehuda and psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score. Even if the person who suffered the original trauma has died, or the story has been forgotten or silenced, memory and feelings can live on. These emotional legacies are often hidden, encoded in everything from gene expression to everyday language, and they play a far greater role in our emotional and physical health than has ever before been understood.
As a pioneer in the field of inherited family trauma, Mark Wolynn has worked with individuals and groups on a therapeutic level for over twenty years. It Didn’t Start with You offers a pragmatic and prescriptive guide to his method, the Core Language Approach. Diagnostic self-inventories provide a way to uncover the fears and anxieties conveyed through everyday words, behaviors, and physical symptoms. Techniques for developing a genogram or extended family tree create a map of experiences going back through the generations. And visualization, active imagination, and direct dialogue create pathways to reconnection, integration, and reclaiming life and health. It Didn’t Start With You is a transformative approach to resolving longstanding difficulties that in many cases, traditional therapy, drugs, or other interventions have not had the capacity to touch.
Southern African Liberation Struggles...
These 9 volumes are the most comprehensive historical record of the liberation struggles in southern Africa. Comprising 2.4 million words in 5,394 pages, they record interviews with liberation fighters and supporters in the Frontline States and the extraordinary sacrifices they made so that Africa could, at last, be free. With the fall of the South African apartheid regime, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) identified the need to record the experiences of the liberation struggles in Southern Africa, from 1960, until that final liberation in 1994.
To that end, SADC launched the Hashim Mbita Project – named after the last Executive Secretary of the OAU Liberation Committee. The research covered liberation movements in the countries which engaged in liberation wars, the Frontline States and Extension countries; and the Research Project team comprised members from the SADC mainland states of Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Swaziland.
The support received from other regions is documented: Anglophone West Africa, Francophone Africa, North Africa, East Asia, Canada and the United States, Cuba and the Caribbean, the German Democratic Republic (GDR), Nordic Countries, Western Europe, the Soviet Union, Non-Aligned Movement: India, Yugoslavia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka; Organisation of African Unity and United Nations.
The Mkapa Years: Collected Speeches 3...
This collection of speeches, in three volumes, by the President of the United Republic of Tanzania’s Third Phase Government, Benjamin William Mkapa (1995–2005), will serve primarily as reference documents to the vision of what he attempted to achieve in his ten years of leadership. His tenure as leader came at a time when Tanzania’s economy was in a dire condition. The legacy of the command economy, which had been in place for much of 1970s and 1980s, was still felt. There was resistance to change to adopt a market economy, evident in the political tensions and debates about privatisation, an approach following Structural Adjustment Programmes, imposed by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, that had led to stagnation of the economy; high inflation, deteriorating health, education, communication and transport sector services; and general gloom in the country especially among the poor.
The bold steps he took during the first half of his administration did not immediately endear him to the public. However, in ensuing years, slowly but steadily, positive results were achieved, and the social cost of change that the people had endured was appreciated. Relations with development partners and the multilateral agencies, that before he took office had sunk to the lowest ebb, were restored and Tanzania received the largest debt relief ever and henceforth was no longer unfit to borrow. Tanzania was on its way to new growth potentials and a vibrant private sector led economy.
These collected speeches tell this story and tell it well, in great prose laced with wit and quotations from world political and literary sources; evidence of his erudition as a literature student and journalist.
Tippu Tip: Ivory, Slavery and Discove...
Tippu Tip, notorious to some, intriguing to others, was a Zanzibari Arab trader living in the turbulent and rapidly changing Africa of the late 19th century. This biography transports the reader into his extraordinary world, describing its exotic cast of characters and the principal factors that shaped it.
His colorful life culminated in his engagement as governor of a province in the ‘Congo Free State’ of the Belgian King Leopold, and in his involvement in Stanley’s astonishing expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, governor of the Egyptian southern province of Equatoria. This book is the first thorough investigation in English of this significant figure.
The lucid narrative unfolds against the political and economic backdrop of European and American commercial aims, while allowing the reader to see the period through African and Arab eyes. The fascinating figures who strutted the 19th-century African stage, and their hardly believable exploits, give this book an appeal reaching beyond the African specialist to the general reader.
Abdilatif Abdalla: Poet in Politics e...
Abdilatif Abdalla: Poet in Politics Âcelebrates the work of Abdilatif Abdalla, one of Kenya’s most well-known poets and a committed political activist. It includes commentary essays on aspects of Abdilatif Abdalla’s work and life, through inter-weaving perspectives on poetry and politics, language and history; with contributions by East African writers and scholars of Swahili literature, including Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Said Khamis, Ken Walibora, Ahmed Rajab, Mohamed Bakari, and Sheikh Abdilahi Nassir, among others.
Abdalla became famous in 1973, with the publication of Sauti ya Dhiki (Voice of Agony), a collection of poems written secretly in prison during three years of solitary confinement (1969-72). He was convicted of circulating pamphlets against Jomo Kenyatta’s KANU government, criticizing it as ‘dictatorial’ and calling for political resistance in the pamphlet, 'Kenya: Twendapi?' (Kenya: where are we heading?). His poetry epitomizes the ongoing currency of classic Swahili form and language, while his work overall, including translations and editorships, exemplifies a two-way mediation between ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’ perspectives. It makes old and new voices of Swahili poetry and African literature accessible to a wider readership in East Africa, and beyond.
Abdalla has lived in exile since 1973, in Tanzania, London, and subsequently, until now, in Germany. Nevertheless, Swahili literature and Kenyan politics have remained central to his life.
Art, Artists and the Flowering of Pan...
This book, initiated in Africa, is the first in a series to address this gap. Bringing together leading artists, designers, and scholars from the East African region, it illustrates how visually creative people in Eastern Africa expressed themselves in the past through art and artefacts, and how some contemporary artists and designers respond to the world within and beyond Africa.
KANGA COLLECTION by Chieko Orimoto
Kanga is a single sheet of cloth which beautifies women's lives in Tanzania and Kenya. With impressive bright and bold designs, this cloth has been worn since the second half of the 19th century as a garment wrapped around the body, and it may be regarded as a symbol of Swahili culture. Even today Kanga is widely used in everyday life and on ceremonial occasions such as weddings and funerals. The most defining characteristic of Kanga is that it has a Swahili phrase known as "jina" (name) printed in the center. The phrase acts as a communication tool in various aspects of social life. This book introduces the reader to a selection of the finest Kanga in the author's collection. It also to touches on an unknown history between Kanga and Japan.
Joan Wicken and Her Lifelong Collabor...
Many people have wondered about the life-long relationship between Joan Wicken and Julius Nyerere, Tanzania's stalwart and founding president. This book provides the first in-depth window into the life of this British woman, who was in many ways Nyerere's staunchest and most loyal supporter. She was his personal assistant, speechwriter, confidant, sounding board, and friend.
Finally in her own words, Wicken tells us about getting to know Nyerere and their decades' long collaboration. Readers will find out how she came to play such a significant role in Nyerere's life and, in essence, the building of Tanzania. She tells us much about the man as a person and how he experienced events in the country after Independence and leading up to his death.
In this interview with Aili Mari Tripp, Wicken talks about her early life and how she became Nyerere's personal assistant. Tripp shows us a side of Joan Wicken that very few would have seen. Her wit and dry humour is on display as she discuss the Mwalimu she served for almost 40 years and the country she called home for most of her adult life.
Say It In Swahili by Sharifa M.Zawawi
This book has been written to help English speakers find Swahili expressions equivalent and corresponding to their English counterparts.
It is equally useful for Swahili speakers wishing to acquire some English expressions for immediate use.
It is, therefore, more than a dictionary, it is user-friendly and, above all, lightweight and portable.
- More than 1,700 up-to-date useful entries for all situations (restaurants, shopping, markets, hotels, travelling and many more…).
- Every entry is numbered.
- Lightweight and compact size.
- Quick word substitution for all needs.
SWAHILI MADE EASY A Beginners Complet...
This handy book is a beginner's complete course in the Swahili language, designed especially for foreigners. The book is a result of the author's many years of teaching experience. It is divided into two parts: part one covers pronunciation; Swahili greetings and manners; classification of nouns; adjectives, verbs, adverbs, etc. in twenty-eight lessons and thirty-six exercises. part two includes a study of Swahili usage in specific situations (e.g. at home, in the market, on the road, at the airport, etc.); eleven further lessons and thirteen exercises; the key to the exercises in Parts One and Two; and a Swahili-English vocabulary of words used in the book.
The Crooked Society by Elijah Opondo ...
The high number of reported cases of murder, rape, terrorism, misdiagnosis, theft, and the plunder of public resources in the country has reignited the debate on the moral standing of our society and level of integrity among the public officials, state workers and the general public at large. At the centre of the debate is the call to ensure individuals and the society takes a moment of self-introspection to reflect on the state of the society and figure out where we might have gone wrong and how we can pull ourselves from this quagmire threatening to tear down the fabric of the society.
Attendant to this desire is the call to ensure moral values are inculcated in individuals at a tender age so that they can grow knowing what is right and wrong.
The Crooked Society seeks to be part of this discourse by highlighting some of the core issues affecting our society: their root causes and how we can possibly overcome them. The author’s history and triumph amid challenges forms the reference point of how we should aspire to conduct ourselves during these trying moments albeit from a Christian perspective.
Elijah Opondo Ochiel (the author) is a Leadership and Management (Public Admin/NPO) graduate from Strathmore University with a background in Finance and Accounting. He is married with four kids. Irrespective of being raised from a humble background, by the grace of God he scaled all the heights in life to become what he is today as attested in this book. His pursuit for good governance cannot be overemphasized. He is known to say things straight as they are without fear or favor, an accolade he reckons he does not regret! This is a must read book and one wonders why he cannot test the waters as a motivational speaker given the contents of this very inspiring book- The Crooked SocietyÂ
