African Nights

Author : Kuki Gallmann
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241018404
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Nights written by Kuki Gallmann and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stunningly repackaged, Kuki Gallmann's African Nights vividly portrays the harsh and beautiful landscapes of Africa. Africa evokes a deep sense of mystery. It is a place that retains what most of the world has lost: space, roots, traditions, awesome beauty, true wilderness, rare animals, and extraordinary people. In this wonderful and haunting collection of stories, Kuki Gallmann writes of her life in Africa, where every day brings challenge and adventure. African Nights is a treasury of memories, in which fascinating people and places are brought to life. It he healing powers Africa can have on those who embrace the land as a place of mystery, superstition, danger, and beauty. 'Captures perfectly the magic of Kenya, creating an almost overwhelming picture of beauty and drama, pain and joy, death and resurrection . . . Her discovery of African culture, with its mystery and danger, is recounted in spare, lyrical prose' New York Times 'Powerful, poetic, unbearably moving: I wept' Clare Francis (on I Dreamed of Africa) Kuki Gallmann was born near Venice and moved to Kenya in 1972 with her husband and young son. Following their deaths, she set up the Gallmann Memorial Foundation to promote new ways of combining development and conservation, and to provide sponsorship for the education of Kenyans. Her first book, I Dreamed of Africa, was published in 1991 to international acclaim and it became a world-wide bestseller. She lives in Kenya with her daughter and her dogs.

Author : Linda Louisa Dell
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244842353
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Nights: GeorginaÕs Story written by Linda Louisa Dell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgina's life is in turmoil. A broken relationship, a passionate love affair, a life threatening illness, her lover's disastrous trek into the wild lands of the Kalahari and the trauma of realising that she has made a great mistake. These are just some of the challenges she confronts in this gripping story. When Georgina's parents decided to take the family on a safari in South Africa, to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary they had little idea of the outcome. Georgina meets Sammy the enigmatic safari leader, they fall in love. During Georgina's visits she experiences the darker side of Africa when a boy is kidnapped and the culprits are found to be involved in obtaining body parts for witchcraft and poaching rhino horns and ivory.

Author : Alec John Dawson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Nights Entertainment written by Alec John Dawson and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cyprian Ekwensi
Publisher : Hodder Education
ISBN 13 : 9780719571268
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An African Night's Entertainment written by Cyprian Ekwensi and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 1996 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of desire and vengeance, this book starts with the longing of a wealthy man called Shehu for a child of his own and continues with the obsessive search by Abu Bakir for revenge on Shehu for luring away the woman he was to marry. It ends with the murder of Shehu by his own son..

Author : Kuki Gallmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780241971567
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Nights written by Kuki Gallmann and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stunningly repackaged, Kuki Gallmann's African Nights vividly portrays the harsh and beautiful landscapes of Africa.Africa evokes a deep sense of mystery. It is a place that retains what most of the world has lost: space, roots, traditions, awesome beauty, true wilderness, rare animals, and extraordinary people. In this wonderful and haunting collection of stories, Kuki Gallmann writes of her life in Africa, where every day brings challenge and adventure. African Nights is a treasury of memories, in which fascinating people and places are brought to life. It he healing powers Africa can have on those who embrace the land as a place of mystery, superstition, danger, and beauty.'Captures perfectly the magic of Kenya, creating an almost overwhelming picture of beauty and drama, pain and joy, death and resurrection . . . Her discovery of African culture, with its mystery and danger, is recounted in spare, lyrical prose' New York Times'Powerful, poetic, unbearably moving: I wept' Clare Francis (on I Dreamed of Africa)Kuki Gallmann was born near Venice and moved to Kenya in 1972 with her husband and young son. Following their deaths, she set up the Gallmann Memorial Foundation to promote new ways of combining development and conservation, and to provide sponsorship for the education of Kenyans. Her first book, I Dreamed of Africa, was published in 1991 to international acclaim and it became a world-wide bestseller. She lives in Kenya with her daughter and her dogs.

Author : Kuki Gallmann
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060954833
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Nights written by Kuki Gallmann and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2000-03-22 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyrical, beautifully written tales of life in Africa Africa evokes a deep sense of mystery. It is a place that retains what most of the world has lost: space, roots, traditions, awesome beauty, true wilderness, rare animals, and extraordinary people. In this wonderful and haunting collection of stories, Kuki Gallmann writes of her life in Africa, where every day brings challenge and adventure. African Nights is a treasury of memories, in which fascinating people and places are brought to life. The healing powers Africa can have on those who embrace the land as a place of mystery, superstition, danger, and beauty.

Author : ALEC JOHN. DAWSON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033922743
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book AFRICAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENT written by ALEC JOHN. DAWSON and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kuki Gallmann
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141966408
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Dreamed of Africa written by Kuki Gallmann and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Often, at the hour of day when the savannah grass is streaked with silver, and pale gold rims the silhouettes of the hills, I drive with my dogs up to the Mukutan, to watch the sun setting behind the lake, and the evening shadows settle over the valleys and plains of the Laikipia plateau.’ Kuki Gallmann’s haunting memoir of bringing up a family in Kenya in the 1970s first with her husband Paulo, and then alone, is part elegaic celebration, part tragedy, and part love letter to the magical spirit of Africa.

Author : Giselle Liza Anatol
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813565758
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Things That Fly in the Night written by Giselle Liza Anatol and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Things That Fly in the Night explores images of vampirism in Caribbean and African diasporic folk traditions and in contemporary fiction. Giselle Liza Anatol focuses on the figure of the soucouyant, or Old Hag—an aged woman by day who sheds her skin during night’s darkest hours in order to fly about her community and suck the blood of her unwitting victims. In contrast to the glitz, glamour, and seductiveness of conventional depictions of the European vampire, the soucouyant triggers unease about old age and female power. Tracing relevant folklore through the English- and French-speaking Caribbean, the U.S. Deep South, and parts of West Africa, Anatol shows how tales of the nocturnal female bloodsuckers not only entertain and encourage obedience in pre-adolescent listeners, but also work to instill particular values about women’s “proper” place and behaviors in society at large. Alongside traditional legends, Anatol considers the explosion of soucouyant and other vampire narratives among writers of Caribbean and African heritage who in the past twenty years have rejected the demonic image of the character and used her instead to urge for female mobility, racial and cultural empowerment, and anti colonial resistance. Texts include work by authors as diverse as Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, U.S. National Book Award winner Edwidge Danticat, and science fiction/fantasy writers Octavia Butler and Nalo Hopkinson.

Author : Nate Plageman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253007259
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Highlife Saturday Night written by Nate Plageman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlife Saturday Night captures the vibrancy of Saturday nights in Ghana—when musicians took to the stage and dancers took to the floor—in this penetrating look at musical leisure during a time of social, political, and cultural change. Framing dance band "highlife" music as a central medium through which Ghanaians negotiated gendered and generational social relations, Nate Plageman shows how popular music was central to the rhythm of daily life in a West African nation. He traces the history of highlife in urban Ghana during much of the 20th century and documents a range of figures that fueled the music's emergence, evolution, and explosive popularity. This book is generously enhanced by audiovisual material on the Ethnomusicology Multimedia website.