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In Oshiwambo, the elephant is likened to the most challenging situation that people can face. If an elephant appears in the morning, all planned activities are put on hold and the villagers join forces to deal with it. For Tshiwa Trudie Amulungu, the elephant showed up on many mornings and she had no choice but to tame it. Growing up in a traditional household in northern Namibia, and moving to a Catholic school, Amulungu’s life started within a very ordered framework. Then one night in 1977 she crossed the border into Angola with her schoolmates and joined the liberation movement. Four months later she was studying at the UN Institute for Namibia in Lusaka Zambia, later going on to study in France. Amulungu recounts the cultural shocks and huge discoveries she made along her journey with honesty, emotion and humour. She draws the reader into her experiences through a close portrayal of life, friends and community in the different places where she lived and studied in exile. This is a compelling story of survival, longing for home, fear of the return, and overcoming adversity in strange environments. It is also a love story that brought two families and cultures together.
Monale-nale, Aawambo oya li ya tala ko ondjamba oshinamwenyo shi tilitha noonkondo. Yo aniwa oya li ashike hayi itsuwa ongula aantu sho taya penduka. Yo aasamane yaawambo yonale kaya li haya lala inaaya pangela kutya ongula otaya meneka taya ningi shike. Ihe ngele nkene ya ka penduka omondjamba, oompangela adhihe dhesiku odha li dhi na okukalekwa opo omukunda aguhe gu kondeke ondjamba. Omupya omunene, Tshiwa, kehe ngaa esiku a pendukile, omondjamba. Sho ye mu nyengelele, ye okwa li oye awike, ashike osho e yi kola. Tshiwa okwa koko ngaashi aanona aakwawo yAawambo yopethimbo ndiyaka. Osikola okwe yi hiti poosikola dhongeleka yaKatoolika koshitopolwa shokonooli. Onkene uukwatya we owa li wa ng...
The Routledge Companion to Migration Literature offers a comprehensive survey of an increasingly important field. It demonstrates the influence of the “age of migration” on literature and showcases the role of literature in shaping socio-political debates and creating knowledge about the migratory trajectories, lives, and experiences that have shaped the post-1989 world. The contributors examine a broad range of literary texts and critical approaches that cover the spectrum between voluntary and forced migration. In doing so, they reflect the shift in recent years from the author-centric study of migrant writing to a more inclusive conception of migration literature. The book contains se...
Monale-nale, Aawambo oya li ya tala ko ondjamba oshinamwenyo shi tilitha noonkondo. Yo aniwa oya li ashike hayi itsuwa ongula aantu sho taya penduka. Yo aasamane yaawambo yonale kaya li haya lala inaaya pangela kutya ongula otaya meneka taya ningi shike. Ihe ngele nkene ya ka penduka omondjamba, oompangela adhihe dhesiku odha li dhi na okukalekwa opo omukunda aguhe gu kondeke ondjamba. Omupya omunene, Tshiwa, kehe ngaa esiku a pendukile, omondjamba. Sho ye mu nyengelele, ye okwa li oye awike, ashike osho e yi kola. Tshiwa okwa koko ngaashi aanona aakwawo yAawambo yopethimbo ndiyaka. Osikola okwe yi hiti poosikola dhongeleka yaKatoolika koshitopolwa shokonooli. Onkene uukwatya we owa li wa ng...
PKK’s soul-warming memoir tells of a life enriched by song, literature, food and spirituality at the heart of a loving family. Born into a newly independent Uganda, she grew up in a volatile political landscape but never lacked the inspiration and protection of generations of friends and relatives. Her story travels from her expansive childhood homes in Uganda, to the novelties of living in Addis Ababa, before settling in Cape Town, her current home. But no matter how far her journeys take her, it’s clear that home is not only about places but people.
Riding the Samosa Express is a collection of life stories exploring issues of marriage, love, loss, family life, culture, religious beliefs, suburban life, local and international politics, freedom and education among other important issues faced by professional and well-educated Muslim women who have not been held back by global stereotypes.
When the boys in her class asked her to sit on the ground in the classroom because they felt girls were dull and so only fit for the dusty floor while they sat on chairs, Grace refused to do so, and vowed to struggle for gender equality. As she excelled in school, the war in neighbouring northern Uganda districts was something Grace only heard about, but did not witness. In the early morning of 10 October 1996, this ended. The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group broke into her school dormitory at St. Mary’s College, Aboke in Apac district, and abducted 139 schoolgirls. Grace was marched to South Sudan where she endured close to nine years of forced labour, hardship and violence at t...
This book represents the state of the art in cognitive stylistics a rapidly expanding field at the interface between linguistics, literary studies and cognitive science. The twelve chapters combine linguistic analysis with insights from cognitive psychology and cognitive linguistics in order to arrive at innovative accounts of a range of literary and textual phenomena. The chapters cover a variety of literary texts, periods, and genres, including poetry, fictional and non-fictional narratives, and plays. Some of the chapters provide new approaches to phenomena that have a long tradition in literary and linguistic studies (such as humour, characterisation, figurative language, and metre), others focus on phenomena that have not yet received adequate attention (such as split-selves phenomena, mind style, and spatial language). This book is relevant to students and scholars in a wide range of areas within linguistics, literary studies and cognitive science.
In Cold Water: Women and Girls of Lira, Uganda, the women retell their horrifying experiences in northern Uganda during the 1987-2007 civil war and life after the war. In that war, Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army disrupted lives, destroyed settlements, killed, abducted and raped thousands of children. The contributing authors not only recall the hopelessness felt during the war, but also narrate stories of hope and resilience after the war. Every page is crammed with emotional recollections of personal experiences. The stories show how communities can be rebuilt even where hope seems to be lost. The book makes public the trauma, courage and triumph of the remarkable women of Lira. The w...