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In this magical account, Janvier T. Chando brilliantly establishes the threads that made the young Thomas Sankara one of Africa’s iconic leaders in the twentieth century, and the revolutionary changes he brought to Burkina Faso that transformed it into Sub-Saharan Africa’s most self-reliant country. The author leads the reader hand-in-hand to the path of the trail of the young Sankara’s catapult into the limelight of Burkina Faso’s politics, his travails, his rise to power as the head of state, and his lucid notion of his mission. Sankara comes across as one of those rare African ...

Dans «ANGLETERRE MÉDIÉVALE : La fondation et la croissance d'une puissance européenne», l'auteur offre un récit succinct de l'époque transformatrice qu'a été l'Angleterre médiévale, forgée par l'effondrement de la domination romaine au début du Ve siècle, lorsque des tribus germaniques — Angles, Saxons et Jutes — ont migré vers la Bretagne, remplaçant la culture romano-britannique par des royaumes anglo-saxons, période durant laquelle la progressivement unification de ces territoires a eu lieu avec le Wessex comme dominant puissant, fortement influencé par les ...

This thoughtful account of Patrice Lumumba provides an insight into why the swift elimination of the legend from the geopolitical developments involving his country plunged Congo into turmoil that it is yet to recover from. Janvier T. Chando highlights Congo's deep trauma as the private possession of King Leopold of Belgium, later as a Belgian colony, and afterward, as a so-called independent state that got disarrayed by a tug-of-war between the cold war rivals. That resulted in the inhuman dictatorship of pro-Western Mobutu Sese Seko, in wars during which millions of Congolese died, in the...

No continent has experienced half the political assassinations, coup d’états, internal and external wars, civil unrest, and economic upheaval s since the second half of the twentieth century that Africa suffered. Yet, hardly any serious pundit would say that the hands of foreign forces that are out to secure their “so-called interests” in the continent or that want to gain new ones, were not in most of these setbacks. That these external forces have roughly been succeeding with the help of Africans with the evil disposition or Africans ignorant of their game plan is true. Opposed to ...

Ce récit réfléchi de Patrice Lumumba trouve que l'élimination rapide de la légende des développements géopolitiques impliquant son pays a plongé le Congo dans une tourmente dont il n'a pas encore récupéré. Janvier T. Chando donne forme au traumatisme profond du Congo comme la possession privée du roi Léopold de Belgique, plus tard comme une colonie belge et ensuite comme un soi-disant État indépendant rendu misérable par un bras de fer entre les rivaux de la guerre froide. Cela a abouti à la dictature inhumaine du pro-occidental Mobutu Sese Seko, dans des guerres au cours ...

In a contemporary world blighted by conflicts and contradictory narratives tailored to sanitize or demonize the participating countries, we need a deep but concise understanding of the essence of the belligerent parties so as to make good judgements, appropriate condemnations, or carry out justified actions. It is along those lines that the writer is taking us on a vivid journey through the seven centuries of Polish history that defined the character of the nation, forged its identity, and established its relations with its neighbors in a manner that greatly determines its foreign and ...

Countries, continents, and the world at large experience jolts that move them away from their evolutionary if not reformatory paths, resulting in seismic changes that transform them fundamentally. Assassinations are one of the potent catalysts for these changes as they lead to wars, political changes, and even economic transformations. Below is an insight into far-reaching political assassinations that are still haunting the world today: Franz Ferdinand: Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian-Serb nationalist kills the Archduke and heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, thereby sparking off World War One...

In a Europe dominated by empires in the early years of the twentieth century, ethnic nationalism is challenging the status quo, threatening to throw the continent into an unfathomable turmoil. To hedge against this impending war, the different European leaders embarked on strengthening the alliances they had formed. Appearing the most vulnerable to this phenomenon is the multi-ethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire, which is situated at the heart of Europe and whose citizens come from Europe's three major language groups. But strangely enough, its emperor Franz Josef is loved by the majority of all...

Cette première partie du récit des hégémons qui ont façonné le monde occidental est une histoire millénaire impliquant la Rome antique et la nature de son monde qui impliquait les empires contre lesquels elle s'est battue, les terres et les peuples qu'elle a conquis, les invasions « barbares » qu'elle a vaincues et n'a pas réussi à arrêter, et l'influence qu'elle a exercée en Europe. L'Afrique et le Moyen-Orient, ce qui en fait la cible de puissants non-Romains déterminés à le contrôler tout en chérissant sa civilisation, les attributs positifs qui constituent le noyau du ...

As a German colony from 1884-1916, Kamerun was called "The African Pearl" for its human and material potential, and for its strategic position in Africa. The defeat of Germany in the First World War and the partition of the colony into British Cameroons and French Cameroon did not diminish the area's outsize role in the political and economic evolution of the continent. So, the quest by the land's civic nationalists to reunite the British-controlled and French-controlled territories and make Cameroon independent, raised concerns among the colonialists in Britain and France, who planned to ...

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being the real thing, the true inheritor of a legacy, the upholder of the identity others strive to be attached to. In this account, we see two narratives that oppose one another, but that ought to complement each other. How do a people so divided by history embrace their common heritage or denominator as the children of Kievan Rus, but who later became known as the frontier people (Ukrainians)? "The Real Ukrainians" is the first part of an account that would take us hand-in-hand through our journey that would make us enlightened regarding the ...

SYNOPSIS DE « ICÔNES ET MÉCHANTS » Les pays, les continents et le monde en général connaissent des secousses qui les éloignent de leurs voies évolutives, sinon réformatrices, entraînant des changements sismiques qui les transforment fondamentalement. Les assassinats sont l'un des puissants catalyseurs de ces changements, car ils conduisent à des guerres, des changements politiques et même des transformations économiques. Vous trouverez ci-dessous un aperçu des assassinats politiques de grande envergure qui hantent encore le monde aujourd'hui : François-Ferdinand : Gavrilo ...

Aucun continent n'a connu la moitié des assassinats politiques, des coups d'état, des guerres internes et externes, des troubles civils et des bouleversements économiques depuis la seconde moitié du XXe siècle comme l'Afrique. Pourtant, aucun expert sérieux ne dirait que la plupart de ces échecs n'ont pas les mains de forces étrangères qui cherchent à protéger leurs «soi-disant intérêts» sur le continent ou qui veulent en acquérir de nouveaux. C'est vrai que ces forces extérieures aient à peu près réussi avec l'aide des Africains avec la mauvaise disposition du mal ou ...

This account of a man who ultimately distinguished himself from the rest of the elites of his country as someone who would not accept the occupation of Nicaragua and play the role of a lap dog or puppet, explains in a very simple manner the nuances in the socio-political evolution of the Central American country that greatly influenced other struggles in Latin America. In Augusto C. Sandino, we see the development of a legend who rose from humble beginnings and whose sense of justice guided him in his epic journey of resistance to the oppressive forces in his country. Even though his ...

A bright-eyed explorer and soldier in the German colonial army in Kamerun adopts Josef Nana Njike and takes him to Germany. While in Germany, Josef studies Agronomy, flirts with leftist political ideologies, and is humbled by the realities of his new world and the expectations of the world he left behind in Africa. He returns to German Kamerun after failing to marry his first love, and without their son, Hans. He sets about pursuing his dream as his benefactor's disciple with a mission. Josef is a man with unusual strengths and makes unprecedented sacrifices while building his business ...

Dans COUPS DE FEU ET LAMENTATIONS, Janvier T. Chando offre aux lecteurs des récits succincts de la vie, des idéaux et des décès prématurés des personnalités politiques imposantes dont les assassinats ont choqué la société américaine, déclenché des transformations politiques nationales et fondamentalement modifié la politique étrangère américaine, de sorte que les États-Unis de l'Amérique a perdu son innocence pour toujours.Sur un siècle, la mort par balle de quatre présidents des États-Unis — Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, James A. Garfield et John F. Kennedy —...

This account of Muammar Gaddafi takes us to his rise to power, to the moments when he was in the spotlight, and then to his travails and his swift elimination from the geopolitical developments in Libya in a procession that plunged the country into a turmoil that it is yet to recover from. With insight, lucidity, impartiality, breadth, and diligence, Janvier T, Chando manages to delineate the intricate threads that weaved the controversial character of Muammar Gaddafi. He not only finds the truth from the disparate accounts about the Libyan strongman, he shed light on him in a unique manner...

Janvier T. Chando fornisce un resoconto conciso e illuminante della trasformazione di uomini di guerra in leader di pace in una regione con una storia cronica di conflitti. Da questa presentazione delle umili origini e dell'ascesa alla ribalta dell'israeliano Yitzhak Rabin e dell'egiziano Anwar Sadat, il lettore esce con una migliore comprensione del conflitto arabo-israeliano, delle motivazioni degli attori chiave, delle loro speranze, delle loro paure e dei loro sogni. , così come le forze nascoste e indicibili che costringono i giocatori a cercare la salvezza o la dannazione. Questa ...

En "Fuego y Lamentaciones", Janvier T. Chando ofrece a los lectores relatos sucintos de las vidas, los ideales y las muertes prematuras de las destacadas figuras políticas cuyos asesinatos conmocionaron a la sociedad estadounidense, desencadenaron transformaciones políticas internas y alteraron fundamentalmente la política exterior de los Estados Unidos de America, de modo que el país perdiera para siempre su inocencia. A lo largo de un siglo, las muertes a tiros de cuatro presidentes de los Estados Unidos (Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, James A. Garfield y John F. Kennedy) y del ...

In Fire and Lamentations, Janvier T. Chando offers readers succinct accounts of the lives, ideals, and untimely deaths of the towering political figures whose assassinations shocked American society, triggered domestic political transformations, and fundamentally altered America foreign policy, so that the United States of America lost its innocence forever. Spanning a century, the shooting deaths of four United States Presidents — Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, James A. Garfield, and John F. Kennedy — and the country’s soul and the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. brought...