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| Author | : Wilma Stockenstrom |
| Publisher | : Archipelago |
| Total Pages | : 137 |
| Release | : 2014-04-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1935744933 |
Learning to survive in the harsh interior of Southern Africa, a former slave seeks shelter in the hollow of a baobab tree. For the first time since she was a young girl her time is her own, her body is her own, her thoughts are her own. In solitude, she is finally able to reflect on her own existence and its meaning, bringing her a semblance of inner peace. Scenes from her former life shuttle through her mind: how owner after owner assaulted her, and how each of her babies were taken away as soon as they were weaned, their futures left to her imagination. We are the sole witnesses to her history: her capture as a child, her tortured days in a harbor city on the eastern coast as a servant, her journey with her last owner and protector, her flight, and the kaleidoscopic world of her baobab tree. Wilma Stockenström's profound work of narrative fiction, translated by Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee, is a rare, haunting exploration of enslavement and freedom.
| Author | : Julie Stiegemeyer |
| Publisher | : Zonderkidz |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 2012-11-20 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0310739284 |
The baobab tree story, which I wrote (the church version) is actually based upon a true story, told by Limakatso Nare, a Lutheran pastor who is currently serving a congregation in Louisiana. When he was growing up in his native Africa, he gathered for Sunday school under the baobab tree. Here he learned the Biblical stories of Noah and the ark, Jonah and the big fish, and the parables of Jesus. His Sunday school experiences inspired my story, Under the Baobab Tree.
| Author | : Jurga Vile |
| Publisher | : SelfMadeHero |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2020-03-17 |
| Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
| ISBN | : 9781910593776 |
One morning in June 1941, a quiet village in Central Lithuania is shaken out of its slumber by the sudden arrival of the Soviet Army. Eight-year-old Algiukas awakes to the sound of Russian soldiers pounding on the door. His family are given ten minutes to pack up their things. They are not told where they're going or for how long. An airless freight train carries them from the fertile lands of rural Lithuania to the snowy plains of the Siberian taiga. There, in the distant, dismal North, they begin a life marked by endless hunger and unrelenting cold. And yet the darkness of exile is lightened, for Algiukas, by flights of imagination. This curious, brave and adaptable child transforms hardship into adventure. Drawing on her father's exile in Siberia, writer Jurga Vile brings to light a neglected, even suppressed, episode from the history of the Soviet Union. Beautifully drawn by Lina Itagaki, Siberian Haikuuses the child's perspective to tell an unforgettable story of courage and human endurance.
| Author | : Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 2018-09-04 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0062696742 |
Based on interviews with young women who were kidnapped by Boko Haram, this poignant novel by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani tells the timely story of one girl who was taken from her home in Nigeria and her harrowing fight for survival. Includes an afterword by award-winning journalist Viviana Mazza. A new pair of shoes, a university degree, a husband—these are the things that a girl dreams of in a Nigerian village. And with a government scholarship right around the corner, everyone can see that these dreams aren’t too far out of reach. But the girl’s dreams turn to nightmares when her village is attacked by Boko Haram, a terrorist group, in the middle of the night. Kidnapped, she is taken with other girls and women into the forest where she is forced to follow her captors’ radical beliefs and watch as her best friend slowly accepts everything she’s been told. Still, the girl defends her existence. As impossible as escape may seem, her life—her future—is hers to fight for.
| Author | : Beth Moon |
| Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2021-11-30 |
| Genre | : Photography |
| ISBN | : 0789214091 |
A spectacular oversize photo book celebrating Africa’s most majestic trees—which are now facing an unprecedented ecological threat. Baobabs are one of Africa’s natural wonders: they can live more than 2,000 years, and their massive, water-storing trunks can grow to more than one hundred feet in circumference. They serve as a renewable source of food, fiber, and fuel, as well as a focus of spiritual life. But now, suddenly, the largest baobabs are dying off , literally collapsing under their own weight. Scientists believe these ancient giants are being dehydrated by drought and higher temperatures, likely the result of climate change. Photographer Beth Moon, already responsible for some of the most indelible images of Africa’s oldest and largest baobabs, has undertaken a new photographic pilgrimage to bear witness to this environmental catastrophe and document the baobabs that still survive. In this oversize volume, Moon presents breathtaking new duotone tree portraits of the baobabs of Madagascar, Botswana, South Africa, and Senegal. She recounts her eventful journey to visit these monumental trees in a moving diaristic text studded with color travel photos. This book also includes an essay by Adrian Patrut, leader of a research team that has studied Africa's largest baobabs and alerted the world tot he threat these majestic trees are facing. Baobab is not only a compelling photo book and travel narrative, but also a timely ecological warning.
| Author | : Ken Bugul |
| Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780813927374 |
Despite its unflinching look at our darkest impulses, and at the stark facts of being a colonized African, the book is ultimately inspirational, for it exposes us to a remarkable sensibility and a hard-won understanding of one's place in the world.CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French
| Author | : Larry Hill |
| Publisher | : First Edition Design Pub. |
| Total Pages | : 167 |
| Release | : 2019-05-29 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1506908136 |
Doctor Michael Eisenstat of Beverly Hills, seeking adventure, moves with his wife, to West Africa. He joins the US Foreign Service taking a job with the American Embassy in Donoulu, Zinani, a nation controlled by a ruthless dictator. There, he and his small cadre of fellow diplomat, led by a hapless Ambassador, observe and become all too involved in a bloody coup de-etat.
| Author | : G.E. Wickens |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 535 |
| Release | : 2008-03-02 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1402064314 |
This is the only comprehensive account of all eight species in the genus Adansonia. It describes the historical background from the late Roman period to the present. It covers the extraordinary variety of economic uses of baobabs. There are also appendices on vernacular names, gazetteer, economics, nutrition and forest mensuration. This book fills a gap in the botanical literature. It deals with a genus that has fascinated and intrigued scientists and lay persons for centuries.
| Author | : Kirsten Miller |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Brothers |
| ISBN | : 9780795708343 |
"After burying their sister and mother, two brothers embark on a journey to the city in search of their only remaining family. On the brink of manhood, Ash must protect eight-year-old Zuko, who does not speak, his words stuck somewhere between his thoughts and his mouth. But Zuko, enchanted by nature and the rhythms of walking, seems more interested in the patterns he sees in the clouds, the stones, and the arc of the light, than in when their journey will end. When Ash finally realises who he is, - and who he is not - he must make his first authentic choices as an independent being. But can he offer his brother the same freedom, the same choices, in the face of those who have mapped out Zuko's future?"--
| Author | : Nelda LaTeef |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 40 |
| Release | : 2020-06-02 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9789988860387 |
A rabbit, lost in the desert and saved by a baobab tree, outwits a stronger, envious neighbor.
