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The Plagues of Friendship
Thirty-eight-year-old Marcia Evans has spent her adult life as a struggling actress, unable to penetrate that barrier which prevents her from having the "big break" all aspiring actors and actresses hope to achieve which will move her career to the next level. She works part-time at a day job and does small acting gigs on the side. She is tired of her lifestyle and of life in the big city. Marcia eventually discovers a charming house set in the woods while traveling to an acting job at a theater outside of the city. She learns that the original owners, who were killed in a car accident twenty years after the house was built, were retirees who enjoyed aiding transients and runaways. The house...
Historical Dictionary of Chad
Having achieved its independence from France in 1960, Chad has run into a serious crises of national building, which have continued to haunt it to the present day, making it one of the poorest and most politically unstable countries on the globe. Chad is a country with sharp geographic and climatic contrasts that puzzle and fascinate the visitor, displaying first a monotonous but majestic portion of the Saharan Desert in the north, punctuated by plains and high altitudes displayed by the Tibesti mountains, where the highest point, Emi Koussi, reaches 11,204 ft.; the middle Central Sahelian zone, where pastoral transhumance lifestyle predominates but where and nut cultivation and harvesting i...
Ngugi Wa Thiongʼo
"...AN EXHAUSTIVE & COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY...AN ESSENTIAL ADDITION TO ANY COLLECTION THAT SUPPORTS UPPER-DIVISION UNDERGRADUATE OR GRADUATE WORK IN AFRICAN LITERATURE OR AFRICAN STUDIES."--CHOICE. "...[AN] OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT...INDISPENSABLE RESEARCH TOOL."--MATATU. This comprehensive bibliography traces Ngugi's work from juvenalia through Matigari & covers the burgeoning world-wide criticism. It includes not only Ngugi's published works, but interviews, manuscripts & other published materials as well as nearly 1,400 articles & books. Four detailed indexes list authors, editors & translators; Ngugi's titles & all references to them; interviews & subjects. (BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH IN AFRICAN WRITTEN LITERATURE, 1)
Chad
Chad, the fifth largest country in Africa, has experienced great difficulties politically, economically, and socially. During the 1980s and early 1990s, Chad briefly held international attention because of its warring with Libya. This situation underlines Chad's potential for drawing its neighbors-Libya, Sudan, Cameroon, and Nigeria in particular-a
Historical Dictionary of Niger
Sitting on the cusp between Mediterranean and sub-Saharan Africa, Niger is in many ways a remarkable place, blending in the harsh Sahelian environment a great diversity of cultures and lifestyles to make up a poor but resilient nation. The country was established in the early 20th century in what used to be the busy crossroad of exchanges between the kingdoms and empires of West Africa and the Arab-Islamic world. The resulting melting pot is a blend of Western Sudanic cultures, manifest in particular in its food, music, and dance, as well as in the enduring rituals and practices of animist religions, along with a good deal of Arab culture imported through the Islamic religion and a dash of F...
Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o Speaks
Ngugi's words lead to a deeper understanding of colonial and postcolonial history.
Black African Literature in English, 1987-1991
Black African Literature in English, 1987-1991 is the continuation of the 1982-1986 and earlier volumes compiled by Bernth Lindfors, and lists all the important works produced on Anglophone black African literature published between 1987 and 1991. Containing almost 9,000 entries - some of which are annotated to identify the authors discussed - it covers books and periodical articles, as well as providing selective coverage of other relevant sources of informed commentary. Also included are a very substantial number of articles which have appeared in African newspapers and magazines.
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