Recovering Letters, Discovering Numbers

Recovering Letters, Discovering Numbers
Author: Bernth Lindfors
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2004
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

The essays in this collection are attempts to arrive at a few new truths about writers and their writings based on novel evidence that has been either found by chance or subjected to unusual forms of analysis. The lucky finds include letters by Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott and Sarah Gertrude Millin. Among the texts examined are Julius Nyerere's Kiswahili translation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, some love poems by Dennis Brutus, and a novel and film by Sembene Ousmane. In addition there are several statistical studies that reveal salient patterns in the criticism of anglophone African literature and in the teaching of that literature in South African university English departments. The brain drain of African writers and scholars is also discussed.

Nollywood

Nollywood
Author: Jonathan Haynes
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 022638800X

Nigeria’s Nollywood has rapidly grown into one of the world’s largest film industries, radically altering media environments across Africa and in the diaspora; it has also become one of African culture’s most powerful and consequential expressions, powerfully shaping how Africans see themselves and are seen by others. With this book, Jonathan Haynes provides an accessible and authoritative introduction to this vast industry and its film culture. Haynes describes the major Nigerian film genres and how they relate to Nigerian society—its values, desires, anxieties, and social tensions—as the country and its movies have developed together over the turbulent past two decades. As he shows, Nollywood is a form of popular culture; it produces a flood of stories, repeating the ones that mean the most to its broad audience. He interprets these generic stories and the cast of mythic figures within them: the long-suffering wives, the business tricksters, the Bible-wielding pastors, the kings in their traditional regalia, the glamorous young professionals, the emigrants stranded in New York or London, and all the rest. Based on more than twenty years of research, Haynes’s survey of Nollywood’s history and genres is unprecedented in scope, while his book also vividly describes landmark films, leading directors, and the complex character of this major branch of world cinema.

Fortify Your Soul

Fortify Your Soul
Author: Laurie Hayden-Bergey
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2015-02-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0768406021

Its never too late to discover your purpose in life! Do you want to live a more meaningful life? Unfortunately, something so simple can get complicated really fast. With thousands of books and seminars availableall trying to give you the secrets to a more purposeful lifeyou might be asking: Is it really this hard to know who I am and what I have been put on Earth to do? No, its not. In Fortify Your Soul, Laurie Hayden Bergey takes you on an inspirational journey that is often humorous, always relatable, and consistently encouraging. Youll discover Spiritual growth that makes sense and gives purpose to your everyday life That there is actually a written blueprint to direct you toward who you were designed to be That you can transform your thoughts and attitudes in positive ways How you can be a catalyst for transformationwherever you are, whatever you do Laurie shares 40 entertaining and down-to-earth devotional stories of people who triumphed over adversity, overcame personal challenges, and fulfilled their destinies. Each story will give you new keys to unlock your purpose and supply you with tools and fortification for this great adventure, the life you were created to live!