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Smouldering Charcoal
Chronicles the lives of two families in post-colonial Africa, the first – poor, working-class and ill-educated – is compared to the young politically aware college student and her journalist fiance.
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Distant View Of A Minaret
“More convincingly than any other woman writing in Arabic today, Alifa Rifaat lifts the vil on what it means to be a women living within a traditional Muslim society.” So states the translator’s foreword to this collection of the Egyptian author’s best short stories.
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Dead Men Don’t Talk
One of a series of readers for African students which aims to help them to develop an awareness and a love of language, and consists of stories from all over Africa.
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The government inspector
The Government Inspector, which satirises a corrupt society was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest play in the Russian language and is still widely studied in schools and universities: "I resolved to gather into one heap everything that was bad in Russia which I was aware of at that time, all the injustices being perpetrated in those places, and in those circumstances that especially cried out for justice, and tried to hold them all up to ridicule, at one fell swoop." (Nikolai Gogol)
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A Walk In The Night
Of French and Malagasy stock, involved in South African politics from an early age, Alex La Guma was arrested for treason with 155 others in 1956 and finally acquitted in 1960. During the State of Emergency following the Sharpeville massacre he was detained for five months.
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A Woman Alone
The idea of a journey without companions is too daunting for most travelers. Not so the women of this collection.
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Dance Of The Delta
EGO:
…How can oil that brings peace and progress in other lands bring only pain and punishment to us? When we had no oil, we were happier and at peace. When those long-nosed spirits from who knows where sniffed out oil on our land, we thought we had been blessed, but how wrong we were. May God save us from this curse! -
Intimate encounter
The worksheets, exercises, and personal inventories in this book will help couples gain a better understanding of each other’s deepest feelings and needs, with a view towards achieving new closeness.
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A Wonderful World
First recorded in 1967 by Louis Armstrong, and with sales of over one million copies, “What a Wonderful World” has become a poignant message of hope for people everywhere.
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News from home
Winner of the 2009 NOMA Award for Publishing in Africa<P> From Zamfara up north to the Niger delta down south, with a finale in Lagos, this collection of stories and a novella respond to and amplify the newspaper headlines in a range of Nigerian voices. Men, women, and children speak out to us from these stories, from immigration centers and police barracks, from street corners and maternity wards. Ghanaian writer Mohammed Naseehu Ali says, Sefi Atta “writes like one who has lived the life of each single character in her dazzling collection of short stories.”