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Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Literacy for All in Africa. Vol. 1The first in a two-volume set of selected papers presented at the 3rd Pan-African Conference on Reading for All, in Kampala, Uganda. This volume considers literacy within the formal education system in Africa, bringing international perspec… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Globalization. Non-formal Education and Rural DevelopmentDrawing on the results of non-formal education programmes inspired by Brazil’s famous educationalist, Freire, particularly non-formal education and literacy programmes in Brazil, Ghana and Tanzania, the author illustrates and advocates the … -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Theory and Practice of Community EducationArgues that the sustainability of such programmes depends on the training and commitment of local leaders, as well as on methodologies employed; and that community education has the potential to improve the lives of both communities and ind… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Boxing and Other StoriesThe stories in this collection are set in West Africa. They differ widely in content and form, ranging from the shocking to the amusing, from romantic comedy, to comedy of intrigue, to the exploration of the consciousness of victims of econ… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Writing NowThe sequel to the award-winning Writing Still, this new collection of stories paints an engaging – and sometimes challenging – picture of contemporary life and concerns in Zimbabwe. Like its predecessor, Writing Now combines well-establishe… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Barons, TheThis political drama reflects on the long period of military rule in Nigeria, which officially began with the end of Shagari’s regime in 1983 and ended with the ascent of Obansanjo in 1999. It gives a satirical account of the clandestine ma… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Trial and Other Stories, TheThe title story tells the tale of Anayo, a grief-stricken and pregnant widow, who stands accused by her jealous brother-in-law, Ezeji, of poisoning her husband. Anayo faces a dehumanizing and humiliating trial under the clan’s traditional l… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Sketches of High Density LifeBy Wonder Guchu. Harare has been pulling people into its environs for well over a century. The city’s townships are inhabited by strangers and old acquaintances, hardened old-timers and naive newcomers, who embrace a mixture of languages… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Chairman of FoolsNovel by Shimmer Chinodya. Chairman of Fools explores the plight of Farai Chari, a supposedly successful writer, professor and self-acclaimed artist, living in an African culture in which tradition weighs heavy and middle class aspiratio… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Stained EarthBy Derek Huggins. Stained Earth is a powerful and moving collection of short stories narrated by a policeman, Greg Stanyon. The clarity of his observations is fused with the pity and pain of this conflict. Both give rise to constant doub… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005StreetwiseBy Patricia Chater. Seven young Zimbabweans are abducted from a remote border village by a group of matsangaise. They are used as porters to carry their booty to Mozambique. After several adventures which test their courage and endurance… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Kwani? 03Kwani? is arguably Africa’s most exciting and varied literary initiative of recent years. Describing itself as’a magazine of ideas, [that]seeks to entertain, provoke and create’, Kwani commissions and publishes stories, poetry, art and pho… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Do I Have to Kneel?Namuli, the lead character of this novel, makes her way from an isolated Ugandan village to international recognition. She encounters obstacles, prejudices and uncertainties about her own identity as a student, professional woman and mother… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005FacesCome and peer into the imaginations of four fascinating women from different walks of life who come together to weave remarkable stories inspired by their own lives, interests, cultures and society. Let their words inspire you to rise above… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Pale Souls Abroad and Other TalesTales by Ulysses C. Kibuuka. The author subtly weaves encyclopedic knowledge of Uganda’s indigenous languages and history to create chronicles of a country with a complex past and uncertain future. He creates vivid tales of the legacy of… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Aida, Hurray for Somo and Other StoriesThis collection of short stories brings together a body of creative work compiled during the writer’s life. It includes the author’s early experimental writing, and more recent fiction. The stories reflect three decades of violent history i… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005A Farm Called KishinevIn 1903, the British offered Uasin Gishu as a sanctuary and national home for Jews escaping persecution in Eastern Europe. But in the event, this was never put into effect; and instead of refugees, Afrikaner and British officers established… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Broken ReedBroken Reed is Sophia Mustafa’s most recent work, published in the country the author considered her home, Tanzania, shortly after her death in September 2005. She initially began work on the novel in 1947 when she was a refugee from the pa… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Creative Minds for Creative WritingThis book contains fourteen short stories by children in South Africa from different sectors, that is, street children in shelters, children in the streets, disabled children and children from the rural areas. Their stories range from their… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Further Adventures of the Black Hand GangThe Black Hand Gang is a neighbourhood group of young Kenyans, which meets in the eastern part of Nairobi. The gang members, Onyango, Waithaka, his sister Jane, V.J. Patel and Hassan make a lot of friends trying to help other people. The st… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Nigerian Revenue LawContents: general principles: e.g. definitions, objectives, criteria, direct and indirect taxes, jurisdiction, personal taxation, company taxation, local taxation; income tax: charges, exemption, returns, penalties; reliefs and rates: rates… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Comparative Perspectives on Shari’ah in NigeriaA timely publication when the need for greater understanding between Islamic and Western cultures is sharper than ever, the papers in this book are the result of an international conference entitled ‘the Shari’ah debate and the shaping of M… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Criminal Law in UgandaPresents the substantive laws pertaining to sexual crimes in Uganda, based on the judicial interpretation of the major sexual offences acts created under the Uganda penal code. The text illustrates how out of the colonial inheritance, Ugand… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Compendium of Laws on Banking in Uganda, AThe first publication bringing together laws relating to banking in Uganda into one volume. Contents: the Financial Institutions Act; the Bank of Uganda Act; the Bills of Exchange Act; The Evidence (Banker’s Books) Act; the Bankruptcy Act; … -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Compendium of Commercial Laws in Uganda, AFor the first time, all the laws relating to business and commerce in Uganda have been brought together into one substantive reference work. The laws are grouped and set out under the following major Acts: The Companies Act, The Limitations… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Offences Against the PersonThis work provides comprehensive coverage of the substantive case law on homicide and non-fatal assaults in Uganda. It is based on judicial interpretation of the Uganda Penal Code: the principal criminal legislation in the country. Using re… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Compendium of Codes of Legal Practice, Conduct, Ethics and Etiquette in East AfricaThis compendium intends to plug a gap in the information on the rules and regulations governing the practice of law in East Africa and to provide an up-to-date regulatory framework. It aims to encourage comparative analyses and adoption of …
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Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Versions of ZimbabweThe book is the result of a collaboration of scholars from southern Africa and overseas, whose work emphasises hitherto overshadowed subjects of literature, exposing new and untried approaches to Zimbabwean writing. The contributors focus o… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005African Oral Story-telling Tradition and the Zimbabwean Novel in EnglishThis study presents a break with previous literary criticism that has vilified orality, in an effort to understand the interface between orality and the black Zimbabwean novel. It traces the ways in which the African oral story-telling trad… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Creative Writing Handbook for African Writers and Students, ACreative writing is a relatively new phenomenon in African universities, as the influence of the American higher education system gains ground on the continent. Whilst there are many creative writing course books that focus on American/Euro… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Links and BridgesThis is a comparative study of two literary movements: the ‘Harlem Renaissance’and négritude, and an effort to revaluate some the existing scholarship on the two movements. The work addresses both the factual errors in the current state of … -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Sewero! Christian Drama and the Drama of Chrstianity in AfricaThis book explores and describes the genesis, historical development and genius of Chinyanja radio plays in Malawi, with reference to African traditional religion. It analyses the key subjects that feature in the Sewero productions: magic, … -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Aime Cesaire. Cahier d’un Retour Au Pays NatalAime Cesaire’s long poem, Cahier d’un retour au pays natal, is noted as much for its formidable difficulty as for its rare power of poetic expression. In preparing this edition, the distinguished literary critic, Abiola Irele, had in mind p… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Liquidity Management in NigeriaA solid and stable financial sector is essential to any functioning national economy and to ensuring balanced liquidity within the economy. Appropriate liquidity management is a de facto condition of price and foreign exchange control, stab… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Epics of Zebra Pathways in Black and WhiteThis book tells it all in a narrative free verse. The Zebra is Nompumelelo, and others who have endured hardships in life, but also had some luck and good living. The theme is multi-faceted, as it can also mean kind and cruel people and tho… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Proud Kid and the Stream, TheBy Paschal Shija. The kid goat Mbuli is very pleased with himself for being able to climb to the top of a boulder, something his friend Max a cub, cannot do. He is convinced he is superior to his friend, and he even has horns! But one da… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Mystery Door, TheBy Deogratias Simba. An illustrated translation of the Swahili tale Lango la Ajabu. In the story, the Mtemi, the king of Kabende, a small country town along Lake Tanganyika, realises that he has become too old to lead his people. One of … -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Story of the Crow and the Crab, The‘The Crow was behaving like the cat and the Crab was like the mouse; the Crow enjoying himself, the Crab in fear of his life. But whenever there is a dance soon enough there will be spectators…wherever there is a dancer there is bound to … -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Story of Katope Boy Created from Dark Brown Earth, TheKatope is a boy created from dark brown earth, born in the dreams of an old couple who do not have children. Katope cannot be caught in the rain. This is the story of how he runs from the rain and plays the games of the boys of the plain. B… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Purple Pleasure/Raha ZambarauBy Nadir Tharani. A beautiful, simple and artistic tale about the anthropomorphic colour Purple bringing pleasure and peace to everyone it touches. The story is accompanied with full-page modern, colourful illustrations. It is written in… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Songs My Country Taught MeBy John Eppel. ‘If the form of my poetry is thoroughly European, its content is thoroughly African.’ Thus the author introduces this collection of some eighty of his poems written between the late 1950s and the present: from the settler … -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Zimbabwe. Injustice and Political ReconciliationZimbabwe: Injustice and Political Reconciliation brings together an array of commentators who chart patterns of historical injustice and consider a range of options for what may be termed a politics of justice and reconciliation, with the u… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Perspectives on the OAU/AU and Conflict Management in AfricaA three way co publication between the Development Policy Management Forum in Addis Ababa, the African Centre for Applied Research and Training in Social Development, and the Community of the Sahel Saharan States in Libya presenting a pan A… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Transformational Leadership in East AfricaThis book discusses the relationship between politics and power in East Africa from a historical perspective. The author examines how the exercise and contestation of political power and the role of leadership have played themselves out wit… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005World Inter-Religious CrisisThe world is in the grip of what can be loosely characterised as an inter-religious conflict, in which there appears to be a basic bias against Islam and Muslims, as the behaviour of an extreme minority of fundamentalists is indiscriminatel… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Democracy in the Time of MbekiIn line with common efforts to measure the state of democracy in countries around the world, this study documents the results of a ‘democratic audit’ of South Africa. The survey was carried out by the Institute for Democracy in South Africa… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Whistleblowing Around the WorldThis book represents a unique North-South-East-West comparative review of the state of whistle blowing around the world. It looks as American, Australian, British, Japanese and South African approaches, focusing on what legislative protecti… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Central Africa. Crises, Reform and ReconstructionThe papers in the collection are divided into two main areas: nation building and regional integration: problems and prospects; and the ‘weird wind of democratisation and governance’. Some examples of topics covered are: the effects of the … -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005General Assembly Distinguished Lectures. Kampala, 2002The Claude Aké lecture delivered by Mahmood Mamdani offers an African perspective on 9/11, arguing that the roots of the terrorism so widely promulgated are in America (the ‘democratic empire’) and the Cold War. Mamdani underlines the aspec… -
Sortie le 01 Janvier 2005Conferences speciales de la 10e Assemblee generale du CODESRIA, Kampala, 2002This volume brings together four lectures given by distinguished scholars at the 2002 Codesria General Assembly, all offering African perspectives on globalisation, terrorism and development. The Claude Aké lecture delivered by Mahmood Mamd…
