Inspired by a story told to the author while on safari in 2015, The Wild Beast describes the creation of one of Africa's most unusual animals, the wildebeest. According to oral tradition, the Creator built this unique beast out of...
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- Author:Walters, Eric, Down, ChristianSummary:
- Author:Hanson, Ed, Doman, Mary KateSummary:
These traditional reads are brimming with spirited characters and positive values—but with a little extra excitement and bite, so hold on to your hats! Written expressly for the middle grade struggling reader, the series does not...
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We Have Crossed Many Rivers: New Poetry from Africa is a fascinating anthology of some of the finest contemporary poetic voices from twenty-nine African countries. Inspired by the examples of first generation African poets like Wole...
- Author:WILSON, John F.Summary:
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Ces douze études ont été présentées par une équipe de chercheurs africains, nord-américains et européens réunis en 2012 à Vancouver. Elles soulèvent plusieurs dimensions du problème des traditions orales : l'oralité et les écrivaines...
- Author:Berrisford, Stephen, Kihato, Caroline Wanjiku, McGaffin, Rob, Napier, Mark, Royston, LaurenSummary:
Trading Places is about urban land markets in African cities. It explores how local practice, land governance and markets interact to shape the ways that people at society's margins access land to build their livelihoods. The authors...
- Author:Hacking, Lawrence, De Clercq, WilSummary:
The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who...
- Author:Smith, RolandSummary:
Determined, after his mother's accidental death, to foil his stepfather's plans for his future, fourteen-year-old Jacob travels alone to Africa in search of his father, a biologist studying elephants in a remote area of Kenya.
- Author:Minot, SusanSummary:
Tells the story of two extraordinary young women: Esther, a Ugandan teenager abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced to commit unspeakable acts, and Jane, an American journalist traveling in Africa, hoping to give a voice to...
- Author:FULLERTON, AlexanderSummary:
The true story, in the form of a novel, of how under Major Alan Wilson, a small group of soldiers hold off thousands of African warriors, bringing to an end the Matabele War and the birth of Rhodesia.
- Author:Krotz, LarrySummary:
The relationship between Westerners and Africa has long been conflicted and complicated. Frequently exploitative, it is also just as often propelled by an almost irresistible urge to ‘do good’. The persistence of this impulse is...
- Author:Haigh, J. C.Summary:
The trouble with lions is that while you are conducting a pregnancy test, you need to be equally, if not more, aware of what you can learn from the lion's other end. That is one lesson that Jerry Haigh brings home in this...
- Author:Lofting, HughSummary:
The life of quiet bachelor Dr. Dolittle is turned upside down when Polynesia the parrot teaches him how to speak to animals, prompting him to shift his medical focus on the creatures he’s always adored. His veterinary practice takes him...
- Author:Lofting, HughSummary:
When the monkeys in Africa were stricken with an epidemic, they called the world-renowned animal doctor, Doctor Dolittle. He set sail at once, embarking on a magnificent adventure.
- Author:Martin MeredithSummary:
- Author:Mankell, HenningSummary:
Author/poet Jesper Humlin struggles under the pall of a frustrating life. Everything--from his personal relationships to his professional pursuits to his finances--seems to be failing miserably. Then Jesper happens across a group of...
- Author:Burroughs, Edgar RiceSummary:
The novel picks up where Tarzan of the Apes left off. The ape man, feeling rootless in the wake of his noble sacrifice of his prospects of wedding Jane Porter, leaves America for Europe to visit his friend Paul d'Arnot. On the ship...
- Author:Crothers, Tim.Summary:
Biography of a female chess grandmaster from a poor family in Uganda.
- Author:Sun, Irene YuanSummary:
Will Africa be the world's next hub of manufacturing? China is answering in the affirmative and investing accordingly. This book dispels the notion that this crucial story is merely about China's exploitation of Africa's resources,...
- Author:Kinch, MichaelSummary:
Under siege in the harsh African desert. Their only choice: rise up against ruthless renegades... or die. After weeks of suffering from exhaustion and starvation, Jaym and D’Shay, conscripted NorthAm Blenders, have helped dozens of...