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Africa’s Joola Shipwreck
In 2002, a government-owned Senegalese ferry named the Joola capsized in a storm off the coast of The Gambia in a tragedy that killed 1,863 people and left 64 survivors, only one of them female. The Joola caused more human suffering than the Titanic yet no scholarly research to date has explored the political and environmental conditions in which this African crisis occurred. Africa’s Joola Shipwreck: Causes and Consequences of a Humanitarian Disaster investigates the roots of the Joola shipwreck and its consequences for Senegalese people, particularly those living in the rural south. Using three summers of field research in Senegal, Karen Samantha Barton unravels the geographical forces such as migration, colonial cartographies, and geographies of the sea that led to this humanitarian disaster and defined its aftermath. Barton shows how the Sufi tenet of “beautiful optimism” shaped community resilience in the wake of the shipwreck, despite the repercussions the event had on Senegalese society and space.
Youth, Nationalism, and the Guinean Revolution
How youth-centered ambitions destroyed the ideals of nationhood in Guinea
2012 Africa Cup of Nations: Complete Tournament Record
Zambia's penalty shoot-out triumph in the Final of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations was an emotional end to the 28th edition of the tournament, co-hosted by Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. The tournament began back in 2010 with the first qualifying matches and finished with the dramatic win by unfancied Zambia over the favourites Ivory Coast, in the country where many of the 1993 Zambian side died in an air crash. This book records every match played in both the qualifying and finals tournaments, full line-ups in the 32 Finals matches, details of the national squads, top scorers, host stadiums plus an extended section on each of the previous 27 tournaments back to the first in 1957. 130 pages of facts and statistics covering all aspects of the competition.
Nafissa ou l'illusion d'une vie
« Nafissa ou l’illusion d’une vie » retrace la vie de Nafissa, une jeune mariée en désaccord avec son époux Claude, pour des raisons d’ordre matériel et celle de son frère qui vend la cour paternelle. Ce dernier, après son forfait, fuit hors du pays avec sa copine à qui il a promis la lune. Cet abandon de foyer de la part de Nafissa l’entraînera dans une vie de turpitudes, allant jusqu’à sa mort. En somme, le roman est une peinture savante des maux qui minent la société tels que les relations amoureuses intéressées, la dépravation sexuelle, la vindicte populaire, les problèmes fonciers, etc. « Nafissa ou l’illusion d’une vie » est aussi instructif que distractif et touche du doigt les péripéties des relations de couples en particulier et la vie sociale en générale. Avec un style plutôt inédit, le roman touche profondément le lecteur.
SOCCER WORLD 2012/2013
Soccer World è l'unico annuario statistico sul calcio internazionale prodotto interamente in Italia. Forte di una quantità innumerevole di statistiche il volume permette di conoscere informazioni spesso non comuni ad altre pubblicazioni del settore come per esempio i dati societari di tutti i club presenti, gli organici minuziosamente aggiornati di oltre 500 squadre e l'analisi tattica di ognuna di esse con le disposizioni in campo dei giocatori. Inoltre l'elenco dei più importanti movimenti del calciomercato estivo uniti ad un resoconto dettagliato della stagione precedente con il palmarès di ogni squadra rendono ogni edizione una piccola pietra miliare nel suo genere. Utile sia per l'esperto del settore che per il semplice appassionato. Imperdibile!
Sékou Touré 1957-1961
Au moment où la Guinée s'apprête à fêter ses cinquante années d'indépendance, à la faveur du "non" de son peuple au référendum d'autodétermination de septembre 1958, l'auteur requestionne les archives et les témoins pour livrer une vision jusque-là insoupçonnée de cette page de l'histoire des décolonisations. Et si le président Sékou Touré n'était pas l'homme du 28 septembre 1958 ?
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