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Popular African Cultural Books
Find cultural books written by authors from Africa for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (63)
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O Mundo Visto do Meio by Conceição Lima PT
Country: Africa / 
Sao Tome and Principe
Sao Tome and Principe
Description:
Estas crónicas, entre muitas outras excluídas do formato livro ou, simplesmente, retidas ainda numa zona de hesitação entre publicar e não publicar, foram transcorrendo ao longo dos dias, ao longo de anos, ao longo dos tempos de ofício de jornalista. Umas acionadas por factos, considerados, por uma ou outra razão, relevantes e dignos de registo, outras filhas ‘’apenas’’ de reflexões íntimas, subterrâneas congeminações, (in)frutíferas meditações, fundas palpitações. Elas aí estão, finalmente, em páginas cronologicamente anichadas. O texto curatorial da VII Bienal de São Tomé e Príncipe foi ‘’ac... continue
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Preço de Noiva by Buchi Emecheta PT
NigeriaDescription:
Aku-nna é uma jovem igbo que vê a vida ruir após a morte do pai. Junto com a mãe e o irmão, ela precisa deixar a capital, Lagos, e retornar ao povoado rural de Ibuza, onde vai enfrentar as angústias da adolescência e as rígidas tradições patriarcais do seu povo. Lá, ela se apaixona por Chike, filho de uma família próspera, mas descendente de escravos, e esse amor é considerado uma afronta à cultura dos igbos. Só que o casal está disposto a tudo para ficar junto, mesmo sabendo que esse caminho pode levar à tragédia.
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Ritual : Power, Healing and Community by Malidoma Patrice Some EN
Country: Africa / 
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso
Description:
In this remarkable book, Malidoma Some explores the essential role ritual plays in the maintaining of the community, and makes a convincing case that a lack of ritual in the Western world is a fundamental reason that the fabric of society is unravelling.
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Riwan oder der Sandweg by Ken Bugul DE
SenegalDescription:
Als Ken Bugul ernüchtert aus Europa in ihr Dorf zurückkehrt, ist sie zu einer Außenseiterin geworden. Sie ist die Gescheiterte, die mit leeren Händen nach Hause gekommen ist - ohne Geld, ohne Mann, ohne zu wissen, wie es weitergehen soll. Erneut macht sie sich auf die Suche. Fasziniert von Sanftmut und Toleranz des großen Serigne, zieht sie an seinen Hof und wird zu seiner achtundzwanzigsten Ehefrau.
Dieser Roman erzählt mutig über afrikanische Traditionen und Polygamie, Verführung und Selbstbestimmung.
Riwan oder der Sandweg wurde zu einem der h... continue
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Search Sweet Country by B. Kojo Laing EN
GhanaDescription:
Describes the experience of a corrupt government official, an idealistic professor, a bishop, a witch, and other characters living in Accra, Ghana, in 1975
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Shackled : One Woman's Dramatic Triumph Over Persecution, Gender Abuse, and a Death Sentence by Mariam Ibraheem, Eugene Bach EN
SudanDescription:
Sentenced to Death for Her Beliefs Mariam Ibraheem was finally rising above her difficult childhood and building a new life for herself. Born to a Muslim father and an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian mother, she grew up in poverty in a refugee camp in Sudan. Her father left the family when she was only six, and her mother raised her in the Christian faith. Left without family after the deaths of her beloved mother and sister, she was beginning to move past her grief--earning a medical degree, marrying the man she loved, and having a baby boy. But one day in late 2013, her world was shattered when... continue
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Sit Down and Listen: Stories from South Africa by Ellen Kuzwayo EN
Country: Africa / 
South Africa
South Africa
Description:
'For so many years now,' writes the author of this delightful collection, 'we have owned our stories while owning so little else.'
Ellen Kuzwayo's autobiography Call Me Woman was an international bestseller. At last we hear her extraordinarily distinct voice again, this time in a series of stories culled from her rich personal experience as community leader, social worker, teacher and black woman in South Africa.
These tales explore the complex life of contemporary black South Africa through the traditional form of story-telling. But the stories themselves are no... continue
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Small Country : A Novel by Gaël Faye EN
BurundiDescription:
Already an international sensation and prize-winning bestseller in France, an evocative coming-of-age story of a young boy, a lost childhood and a shattered homeland. SHORTLISTED FOR THE ALBERTINE PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE • LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION • LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE Burundi, 1992. For ten-year-old Gabriel, life in his comfortable expatriate neighborhood of Bujumbura with his French father, Rwandan mother and little sister Ana, is something close to paradise. These are carefree days of laug... continue
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Snares Without End by Olympe Bhêly-Quénum EN
BeninDescription:
A novel, also a philosophical tale in which destiny entraps the innocent protagonist and holds him fast. Some readers have found an affinity in it with Camus' notion of the absurd, while others have preferred to dwell on its evocation of country life in northern Dahomey and the importance of music in the farmers' daily life. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Algeria