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Author | : Nadifa Mohamed |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2010-08-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429979798 |
Yemen, 1935. Jama is a "market boy," a half-feral child scavenging with his friends in the dusty streets of a great seaport. For Jama, life is a thrilling carnival, at least when he can fill his belly. When his mother—alternately raging and loving—dies young, she leaves him only an amulet stuffed with one hundred rupees. Jama decides to spend her life's meager savings on a search for his never-seen father; the rumors that travel along clan lines report that he is a driver for the British somewhere in the north. So begins Jama's extraordinary journey of more than a thousand miles north all the way to Egypt, by camel, by truck, by train, but mostly on foot. He slings himself from one perilous city to another, fiercely enjoying life on the road and relying on his vast clan network to shelter him and point the way to his father, who always seems just a day or two out of reach. In his travels, Jama will witness scenes of great humanity and brutality; he will be caught up in the indifferent, grinding machine of war; he will crisscross the Red Sea in search of working papers and a ship. Bursting with life and a rough joyfulness, Black Mamba Boy is debut novelist Nadifa Mohamed's vibrant, moving celebration of her family's own history.
Author | : Nadifa Mohamed |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2014-03-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374709920 |
From one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists comes The Orchard of Lost Souls, a stunning novel illuminating Somalia's tragic civil war. It is 1987 and Hargeisa waits. Whispers of revolution travel on the dry winds, but still the dictatorship remains secure. Soon, through the eyes of three women, we will see Somalia fall. Nine-year-old Deqo has left the vast refugee camp where she was born, lured to the city by the promise of her first pair of shoes. Kawsar, a solitary widow, is trapped in her little house with its garden clawed from the desert, confined to her bed after a savage beating in the local police station. Filsan, a young female soldier, has moved from Mogadishu to suppress the rebellion growing in the north. As the country is unraveled by a civil war that will shock the world, the fates of these three women are twisted irrevocably together. Nadifa Mohamed was born in Hargeisa and was exiled before the outbreak of war. In The Orchard of Lost Souls, she returns to Hargeisa in her imagination. Intimate, frank, brimming with beauty and fierce love, this novel is an unforgettable account of ordinary lives lived in extraordinary times.
Author | : Kurtis Scaletta |
Publisher | : Yearling Books |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2011-09-13 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 037585472X |
After moving with his family to Liberia, twelve-year-old Linus discovers that he and the deadly black mamba have a mystical connection, which he is told will give him some of the snake's characteristics.
Author | : William Kamkwamba |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2015-02-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1101637420 |
Now a Netflix film starring and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, this is a gripping memoir of survival and perseverance about the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village. When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell. William began to explore science books in his village library, looking for a solution. There, he came up with the idea that would change his family's life forever: he could build a windmill. Made out of scrap metal and old bicycle parts, William's windmill brought electricity to his home and helped his family pump the water they needed to farm the land. Retold for a younger audience, this exciting memoir shows how, even in a desperate situation, one boy's brilliant idea can light up the world. Complete with photographs, illustrations, and an epilogue that will bring readers up to date on William's story, this is the perfect edition to read and share with the whole family.
Author | : Nadifa Mohamed |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2016-11-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783423145350 |
Author | : Richard Wright |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 2009-06-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0061935484 |
Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment--a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering. When Black Boy exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, it caused a sensation. Orville Prescott of the New York Times wrote that “if enough such books are written, if enough millions of people read them maybe, someday, in the fullness of time, there will be a greater understanding and a more true democracy.” Opposing forces felt compelled to comment: addressing Congress, Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi argued that the purpose of this book “was to plant seeds of hate and devilment in the minds of every American.” From 1975 to 1978, Black Boy was banned in schools throughout the United States for “obscenity” and “instigating hatred between the races.” The once controversial, now classic American autobiography measures the brutality and rawness of the Jim Crow South against the sheer desperate will it took to survive. Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi, with poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those about him; at six he was a “drunkard,” hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common lot. At the end of Black Boy, Wright sits poised with pencil in hand, determined to "hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo."
Author | : Nadifa Mohamed |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9788854503991 |
Author | : Nadifa Mohamed |
Publisher | : Editions Phébus |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9782752904591 |
Ce premier roman de Nadifa Mohamed débute à Aden, au Yémen, en 1935. Il retrace la vie mouvementée de Jama, un enfant des rues dont le père a disparu peu après la naissance et dont la mère lui jure qu’il est né sous une bonne étoile. A la mort de celle-ci, Jama part à la recherche de son géniteur. Ce périple rendu incandescent par la croyance en une terre promise, lui fait traverser l’Abyssinie, la Somalie, l’Erythrée, le Soudan, l’Egypte et la Palestine. Mais chaque frontière franchie se révèle source de déception. Les décennies passent, les empires coloniaux s’effondrent, le monde change, cependant Jama l’aventurier demeure un laissé-pour-compte, malgré le serpent tatoué sur son bras, le fameux mamba noir. Evocation puissante de contrées en proie à la guerre, mais aussi roman de formation, Black Mamba Boy est une véritable épopée qui nous fait mieux comprendre le destin de cette partie du globe.
Author | : Naomi Nkealah |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2021-03-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000367770 |
This book investigates how the intersection between gendered violence and human rights is depicted and engaged with in Africana literature and films. The rich and multifarious range of film and literature emanating from Africa and the diaspora provides a fascinating lens through which we can understand the complex consequences of gendered violence on the lives of women, children and minorities. Contributors to this volume examine the many ways in which gendered violence mirrors, expresses, projects and articulates the larger phenomenon of human rights violations in Africa and the African diaspora and how, in turn, the discourse of human rights informs the ways in which we articulate, interrogate, conceptualise and interpret gendered violence in literature and film. The book also shines a light on the linguistic contradictions and ambiguities in the articulation of gendered violence in private spaces and war. This book will be essential reading for scholars, critics, feminists, teachers and students seeking solid grounding in exploring gendered violence and human rights in theory and practice.
Author | : Elleke Boehmer |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2018-06-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3319903411 |
Postcolonial Poetics is about how we read postcolonial and world literatures today, and about how the structures of that writing shape our reading. The book’s eight chapters explore the ways in which postcolonial writing in English from various 21st-century contexts, including southern and West Africa, and Black and Asian Britain, interacts with our imaginative understanding of the world. Throughout, the focus is on reading practices, where reading is taken as an inventive, border-traversing activity, one that postcolonial writing with its interests in margins, intersections, subversions, and crossings specifically encourages. This close, sustained focus on reading, reception, and literariness is an outstanding feature of the study, as is its wide generic range, embracing poetry, essays, and life-writing, as well as fiction. The field-defining scholar Elleke Boehmer holds that literature has the capacity to keep reimagining and refreshing how we understand ourselves in relation to the world and to some of the most pressing questions of our time, including resistance, reconciliation, survival after terror, and migration.