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Abducted from Africa, sold in America. A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, with a foreword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker. This account illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells...

Nessun continente ha vissuto la metà degli omicidi politici, colpi di stato, guerre interne ed esterne, disordini civili e sconvolgimenti economici dalla seconda metà del XX secolo che l'Africa è stata sottoposta. Tuttavia, quasi nessun esperto serio direbbe che le mani di forze straniere che sono fuori per assicurarsi i loro "cosiddetti interessi" nel continente o che vogliono guadagnarne di nuovi, non erano nella maggior parte di questi contrattempi. Che queste forze esterne abbiano avuto all'incirca successo con l'aiuto degli africani con la disposizione malvagia o gli africani che ...

A Remarkable Yet Chilling Memoir of an Orphan from Africa From an orphan, environmental scientist and Fulbright Fellow comes a remarkable memoir of growing up in an unremarkable poor town in Zimbabwe that presents an alarming revelation of the oft ignored challenges of child-headed families in Africa. I Could Be Someone is an outstanding memoir on grace and grit, and the guts to forge an identity beyond the pain of being an orphan. At only nine, Edmond Sanganyado lost his father. By the time he turned 17, he had lost his mother and was taking care of his young brothers. I Could Be Someone ...

An inspiring account of how the US government built a start-up development program to fight AIDS called PEPFAR, which saved more than twenty-six million lives and created a new blueprint for results-oriented American foreign aid. In 2002, more than two million Africans died of AIDS. Militaries...

Était le partenariat entre l'armée française et l'opposition en Côte-d'Ivoire qui a abouti à la suppression de Laurent Gbagbo du pouvoir au cours de la guerre civile post-électorale, un effort pour restaurer la démocratie ou de la dernière pièce dans un plan visant à supprimer une menace pour l'infâme « La Pacte colonial» que la France a imposé à ses colonies en Afrique avant de leur accorder l'indépendance dans les années 1960? A été la suppression de Laurent Gbagbo et l'accession au pouvoir d'Alassane Ouattara un effort pour maintenir le système anachronique et ...

This sweeping account confronts and upends old fantasies, revealing the far more startling reality of our world's largest hot desert. Drawing on decades of research, and years spent living in the region, anthropologist Judith Scheele takes us from Libya to Mali, Algeria to Chad, from the ancient Roman Empire to the bloody colonial era to contemporary regional battles and fraught international diplomacy, questioning every easy cliché and exposing fascinating truths along the way.

En este relato mágico, Janvier T. Chando establece brillantemente los hilos que hicieron del joven Thomas Sankara uno de los líderes icónicos de África en el siglo XX, y los cambios revolucionarios que trajo a Burkina Faso que lo transformaron en el África Subsahariana más autosuficiente país. El autor lleva al lector de la mano por el camino que vio al joven Sankara catapultado en el centro de atención de la política de Burkina Faso, sus tribulaciones, su ascenso al poder como jefe de estado y su noción lúcida de su misión. Sankara aparece como uno de esos raros presidentes ...

Dans ce récit succinct, l'auteur révèle les liens qui tissent l'héritage controversé du chef militaire égyptien et chef d'État Anwar Al-Sadat, s'interrogeant sur ses motivations qui l'ont conduit à la guerre contre Israël et qui l'a vu peu après devenir un leader emblématique pour la paix au Moyen-Orient, en activant son pays sur un chemin qui non seulement a commencé la transformation de l'Egypte en un Etat moderne, mais qui a également aliéné l'Egypte du reste du monde Arabe. La nature sans équivoque du récit de Janvier T. Chando jette une lumière unique sur l'héritage ...

Paul Biya, the octogenarian second president of Cameroon has been power for forty-six years (ten years as Prime Minister, which is the second highest office of the land, and thirty-six years as the President ---the highest office of the land), making him Africa's and the world's longest-serving head of state who is a non-royal. He is the caretaker of a six-decade-old system put in place by France before it allowed Cameroon to become a member of the United Nations Organization on January 01, 1960 by granting it its so-called independence, a system made up of a Cameroonian political ...

Dans ce récit magique, Janvier Tchouteu établit avec brio les fils qui ont fait du jeune Thomas Sankara l'un des leaders emblématiques de l'Afrique au XXe siècle, et les changements révolutionnaires qu'il a apportés au Burkina Faso pour le transformer en pays le plus autosuffisant en Afrique subsaharienne. L'auteur conduit le lecteur main dans la main sur la trajectoire de la catapulte du jeune Sankara dans les coulisses de la politique burkinabè, de ses exploits, de son ascension au pouvoir en tant que chef de l'Etat et de sa notion lucide de sa mission. Sankara apparaît comme l'un...

In questo magico racconto, Janvier T. Chando stabilisce brillantemente i fili che hanno reso il giovane Thomas Sankara uno dei leader iconici dell'Africa nel ventesimo secolo, e i cambiamenti rivoluzionari che ha apportato al Burkina Faso, che ha trasformato il paese nel più autosufficiente entità geopolitica nell'Africa sub-Sahariana. L'autore conduce il lettore mano nella mano sul percorso del sentiero del giovane Sankara dalla sua catapulta alla ribalta della politica del Burkina Faso, i suoi travagli, la sua ascesa al potere come capo di stato e la sua lucida nozione della sua ...

The independence fervor that gripped African colonies in the 1940s and 1950s was supposed to give birth to a "New Africa" that was expected to play a major role in advancing world civilization. What happened to make Africa fail so abysmally? By the end of the 1980s, a culture of political monolithism, dictatorship, corruption, coup d’état, mismanagement, underdevelopment and violence was dominating the political leadership of most African countries, fuelled by leaders with the evil disposition and their foreign puppeteers keeping them in power. The era of Mikhail Gorbachev’s Glasnost ...

Africa's middle class has suffered a rapid decline since the days of the Arab Spring, from 313 million down to only 18 according to some estimates. This for Africa is comparable to the Great Depression of the 1920's... The collapse of the African middle class, besides its obvious economic implications may come as a bonus for African leaders who want to extend their rule indefinitely. The opposition in these countries is in disarray, and some of their numbers are easy prey to those with the money bags who are working to disintegrate any credible opposition to the regimes. Both the middle ...

Wie sauber ist unsere Mobilitätswende wirklich? Es ist ein Rohstoff, der unseren batteriebetriebenen Alltag am Laufen hält: Kobalt. Abgebaut wird es überwiegend in der Demokratischen Volksrepublik Kongo – unter dramatischen Menschenrechtsverletzungen. Welche Industrie steckt hinter unseren sauberen E-Autos, Smartphones und Laptops? Der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler und Aktivist Siddharth Kara ist auf seinen Reisen in die von Milizen kontrollierten Bergbauregionen bis tief in das finstere Herz unseres fossilen Kapitalismus vorgedrungen.

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa is credited with driving through the deal between the apartheid government and the African National Congress that was at the heart of South Africa’s democratic constitution. He was the ANC’s lead negotiator and the man who persuaded one of the most recalcitrant racist governments in the world to buy into a settlement based on one of its most enlightened bills of rights. But once the ink had dried on the constitution, Ramaphosa found himself politically sidelined.

In Will Africa Feed China?, Deborah Brautigam, one of the world's leading experts on China and Africa, probes the myths and realities behind the media headlines. Her careful research challenges the conventional wisdom; as she shows, Chinese farming investments are in fact surprisingly limited, and land acquisitions modest. Defying expectations, China actually exports more food to Africa than it imports. Is this picture likely to change?

Pour la première fois, des enregistrements historiques de Léopold Sédar Senghor sont remis à la disposition du public sous la direction de Philippe Sainteny dans le cadre des émissions radiophoniques de RFI. Les archives sonores, ici réunies, de l'Institut National de l'Audiovisuel et de Radio France Internationale, nous permettent de redécouvrir l'une des figures marquantes de l'Afrique contemporaine.

Many of the patients at Mother of Mercy walk for days in order to arrive at the hospital's gates. Others are carried by friends, or survive the jarring ride over dirt paths in the back of the rare pickup that exists in the Nuba Mountain region of southern Sudan. Most are victims of the war that has been waged from the air against the people of Nuba by the Sudanese government for years. All Nubans know to seek refuge in a foxhole when they hear the drone of the bombers overhead; and they all know, in the aftermath, is to bring the maimed to Dr. Tom Catena, the only surgeon for thousands of square miles.

In the spirit of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, which examined a turbulent time in Africa’s history, Things Come Together grapples with modern challenges and seeks to bring hope for the continent’s future. The book traverses a wide range of perspectives, from the scientific to the artistic, the physical to the sociological, political, economic, and metaphysical.

In this book articulating a national ideology for a diverse land welded together by fate and kept distinct and divided by forces sucking Cameroon dry and making it live below its potential, Cameroon’s civic-nationalism otherwise called Cameroonian union-nationalism or Kamerunism, is the national idea around which the land has sought to free itself from the shackles of colonialism and neocolonialism. The ideas and ideals are the corner stone of the effort to found the “New Cameroon”, and are formidable resources that can be tapped in realizing the economic union of Africa and the ...