Mzungu Mjinga

Mzungu Mjinga
Author: Rick Boyer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2004
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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A humorous yet informed view of the African safari experience is evoked in Rick Boyer's foray into creative nonfiction. An autobiographical look at the myth of the Great White Hunter, this tale provides an insightful look into the meeting of two cultures that has become big business—the safari as a subculture within Africa's vast expanse of uninhabited land. Providing a broader understanding of the environment and politics of Africa, the self-deprecating tale presents a keen depiction of the African landscape and the people met on the way to a final showdown with a Cape buffalo.

Will this be on the Final?

Will this be on the Final?
Author: Bianca Palmisano
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2017-06
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 194177122X

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a multi-themed exploration in three sections. "Freshman" is a collection of stories on love and relationships, "Field Work" offers observations from travel to Nairobi, Kenya, and "Thesis" concludes the volume with reflections on family, legacy, and how identity shifts with age and experience. Sometimes heartbreaking, occasionally laughable, but always insightful, these poems tell a story of personal education and growth through yearning, travel, and loss.

Pursuing Giraffe

Pursuing Giraffe
Author: Anne Innis Dagg
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2009-08-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1554586623

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In the 1950s, Anne Innis Dagg was a young zoologist with a lifelong love of giraffe and a dream to study them in Africa. Based on extensive journals and letters home, Pursuing Giraffe vividly chronicles the realization of that dream and the year that she spent studying and documenting giraffe behaviour. Dagg was one of the first zoologists to study wild animals in Africa (before Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey); her memoir captures her youthful enthusiasm for her journey, as well as her näiveté about the complex social and political issues in Africa. Once in the field, she recorded the complexities of giraffe social relationships but also learned about human relationships in the context of apartheid in South Africa and colonialism in Tanganyika (Tanzania) and Kenya. Hospitality and friendship were readily extended to her as a white woman, but she was shocked by the racism of the colonial whites in Africa. Reflecting the twenty-three-year-old author’s response to an “exotic” world far removed from the Toronto where she grew up, the book records her visits to Zanzibar and Victoria Falls and her climb of Mount Kilimanjaro. Pursuing Giraffe is a fascinating account that has much to say about the status of women in the mid-twentieth century. The book’s foreword by South African novelist Mark Behr (author of The Smell of Apples and Embrace) provides further context for and insights into Dagg’s narrative.

Amani Haki Yetu

Amani Haki Yetu
Author: Adam Hummel
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Africa
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2014-04-23
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1482801833

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On December 30, 2007, President Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner of Kenyas presidential election. Within minutes of this declaration, rioting erupted across Kenya, from the coast of the Indian Ocean to the banks of Lake Victoria. These riots lasted two months, claiming the lives of nearly 1500 Kenyans, and leaving more than half a million internally displaced. Hostility to this extent, not seen in Kenyas modern history, illustrated the divisive nature of Kenyas tribalism, and left an entire generation questioning whether Kenya would once again become one of Africas most peaceful nations. Realizing the role they had in ensuring a peaceful future, Kenyas youths, who comprise a majority of the population, began to lead, and grassroots organizations soon began to materialize throughout Kenyas countryside. This book details the efforts made by one such group of Kenyan youths who, together with a young Canadian, came together with the goal of helping to build a sustainable peace in Kenya. It details the background to Kenyas 2008 post-election violence, the early efforts leading to the formation of the Youth Ambassadors for Peace, and steps taken to engage both the potential and ability of those who wish to help. Through youth empowerment and the belief that diversity creates strength, these Kenyans demonstrate the power of a small group of thoughtful and dedicated individuals, united by their desire to find peace before Kenyas next elections are held in March 2013.

The Mzungu Boy

The Mzungu Boy
Author: Meja Mwangi
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2005
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0888996640

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Kariuki, a twelve-year-old Kenyan boy, is befriended by Nigel, the white landowner's son, and they are both caught up in powerful forces as a rebellion arises in the area. Reprint.

Up-Country Swahili - For the Soldier, Settler, Miner, Merchant, and Their Wives - And for all who Deal with Up-Country Natives Without Interpreters

Up-Country Swahili - For the Soldier, Settler, Miner, Merchant, and Their Wives - And for all who Deal with Up-Country Natives Without Interpreters
Author: F. H. Le Breton
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2020-10-16
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 152876711X

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“Up-Country Swahili Exercises” is a guide to learning Swahili complete with exercises. Swahili, also known as Kiswahili, is a Bantu language and the first language of the Swahili people. It is a lingua franca of the African Great Lakes region and other parts of Southeast Africa, including Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This volume concentrates on rural dialects and the more commonly-spoken language rather than “Correct Swahili”, and it will be of considerable utility to those wishing to learn it. Contents include: “Adjectives”, “Adverbs”, “Comparison of Adjectives”, “Conjunctions”, “Demonstrations”, “English-Derived Words”. “Interrogative”, “Locative Case”, “Measure”, “Money”, “Na”, “Nouns”, “Numerals”, “Personal Prefixes”, “Pronunciation”, “Solutions to Exercises”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.

Library Journal

Library Journal
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1022
Release: 2004
Genre: Libraries
ISBN:

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Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.

An Obama's Journey

An Obama's Journey
Author: Mark Obama Ndesandjo
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2014-09-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1493013912

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In this revealing and beautifully written memoir, Mark Obama Ndesandjo, recounts his complex relationship with his older half-brother, President Barack Obama, including their first meeting in Kenya over twenty years ago. The book also offers the author's inspiring personal story about identity and multiculturalism. Rare family photos add to the book's personal nature as does the intense recounting of domestic violence in the home of Barack Obama Sr.’s and his third wife, Ruth Baker, Mark’s Jewish-American mother. The book also attempts to set the records straight on several points of the president’s best-selling memoir Dreams from My Father. In its connection to President Obama, Mark's story takes on an even greater significance because it becomes all the more directly, a story of American identity and a window into the complex figure of the father they share, Barack Obama Sr., their roots in Kenya, their multicultural identities, and their relationships with America.

Mzungu Boy

Mzungu Boy
Author: Meja Mwangi
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2005-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780605016446

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