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Three Dreams on Mount Meru
"Bayu, the young African Muslim, becomes impatient to achieve what generations of his ancestors, a clan of sculptors and artists, have done before they marry: To make the journey which all men of the clan must make, and to dream three dreams on Mount Meru. From a village near Mombasa, in Kenya, he must cross the forests to Mount Meru, in Tanzania, a huge distance across hostile terrain, made harder by his inexperience and innocence." "Step by step, the young sculptor throws himself into the adventure, which illuminates a wild universe - the strange beauty of the trees, the ever-present animals who alternately threaten and protect him on this increasingly magical but always dangerous voyage. And throughout, the eyes of the leopard - a figure which Bayu's ancestor held captivated and captive - protect him." --Book Jacket.
La Traversée des contes
Auteur d’un premier roman très remarqué, Trois rêves au mont Mérou, François Devenne s’est récemment établi au Kenya où il a composé ce recueil de contes pour adultes, librement inspiré des légendes et des paysages de l’Afrique.
Mount Kilimanjaro
Mount Kilimanjaro is one of Tanzania's most consummate symbols. Interest in Mount Kilimanjaro dates back to the nineteenth century, when epic excursions by scientists, explorers and missionaries kindled controversy, envy and unquenchable desire; and the mountain became a prototype of colonial exoticism. Contemporary preoccupations with the mountain as an essential ingredient of national identity and of Tanzania's self-image are in some senses attempts to recapture what has been stolen. Moreover, as part of the legacy of both Chagga farmers and Maasai shepherds, it is both an image of agricultural toil, and of traditional pastoral values. It has become a psychic landmark for collective identi...
The Nature of Christianity in Northern Tanzania
The Nature of Christianity in Northern Tanzania explores the relationship between the region’s environment and social change during the pivotal, often over-looked German colonial period (1890-1916). The work connects changes in the landscape order and biogeography closely with the beginning Christianization of the three groups on the mountains – the Chagga on Mt Kilimanjaro and the Meru and Arusha peoples of Mt Meru. The work tells a story which is ordered, green and Christian. It looks at both new ideas and plants brought by the Germans to their colony in East Africa. The introduced German-like order and the exotic plants changed the landscape during the short period of German rule. How...
Roots of Power
Roots of Power tells five stories of plants, people, property, politics, peace, and protection in tropical societies. In Cameroon, French Polynesia, Papua New Guinea, St. Vincent, and Tanzania, dracaena and cordyline plants are simultaneously property rights institutions, markers of social organization, and expressions of life-force and vitality. In addition to their localized roles in forming landscapes and societies, these plants mark multiple boundaries and demonstrate deep historical connections across much of the planet’s tropics. These plants’ deep roots in society and culture have made them the routes through which postcolonial agrarian societies have negotiated both social and cu...
Trois Rêves Au Mont Mérou
Conformément aux traditions du clan des sculpteurs, un jeune musulman africain, Bayu, entreprend le voyage initiatique inauguré par un de ses ancêtres. Or, de sa ville côtière de Mombasa (Kenya) aux contrées forestières du mont Mérou (Tanzanie), c'est une immensité qui s'ouvre à lui, tantôt hostile, tantôt hospitalière, aussi vaste que son inexpérience et sa méconnaissance du monde. D'étape en étape, le trajet du jeune homme dessine une aventure à laquelle participent la révélation de l'univers sauvage, la découverte de l'altérité et le franchissement des interdits. Car le mystère est infini, changeant et multiple, comme les ocelles de la panthère - figure rituelle de son clan. Et si le chemin de Bayu passe par les méandres du rêve, celui du roman épouse les entrelacs où François Devenne nous enchante et nous retient captifs par son merveilleux pouvoir de conteur.
Transgression in Swahili Narrative Fiction and its Reception
"This book remarkably analyses the development of recent Swahili prose narrative. The main thesis is that since the 90s, Swahili literature has developed to go beyond aspects that had hitherto conditioned literature in African languages (local, popular and didactic) and has opened itself to global, sophisticated and subversive perspectives. Remi Tchokothe uses the leitmotif of transgression as the unifying thread to render an account of this evolution of the Swahili narrative fiction towards the disruption of narrative linearity, an increase in intertextual references, an awareness of globalisation in political analysis and a shift to magical realism. The finishing touch to the analysis is a meticulously conducted reception survey which highlights editorial ambiguities that go with the transgressive turn." -- Xavier Garnier, U. Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (Series: Contributions to Research on Africa / Beitrage zur Afrikaforschung - Vol. 56)
Water Brings No Harm
In Water Brings No Harm, Matthew V. Bender explores the history of community water management on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Kilimanjaro’s Chagga-speaking peoples have long managed water by employing diverse knowledge: hydrological, technological, social, cultural, and political. Since the 1850s, they have encountered groups from beyond the mountain—colonial officials, missionaries, settlers, the independent Tanzanian state, development agencies, and climate scientists—who have understood water differently. Drawing on the concept of waterscapes—a term that describes how people “see” water, and how physical water resources intersect with their own beliefs, needs, and expectations—Bender argues that water conflicts should be understood as struggles between competing forms of knowledge. Water Brings No Harm encourages readers to think about the origins and interpretation of knowledge and development in Africa and the global south. It also speaks to the current global water crisis, proposing a new model for approaching sustainable water development worldwide.
Encyclopedia of World Geography
Presents a comprehensive guide to the geography of the world, with world maps and articles on cartography, notable explorers, climate and more.
