African Novels in the Classroom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African Novels in the Classroom write by Margaret Jean Hay. This book was released on 2000. African Novels in the Classroom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many teachers of African studies have found novels to be effective assignments in courses. In this guide, teachers describe their favourite African novels - drawn from all over the continent - and share their experiences of using them in the classroom.
Teaching the African Novel
Teaching the African Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Teaching the African Novel write by Gaurav Desai. This book was released on 2009-01-01. Teaching the African Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is the African novel, and how should it be taught? The twenty-three essays of this volume address these two questions and in the process convey a wealth of information and ideas about the diverse regions, peoples, nations, languages, and writers of the African continent. Topics include Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's favoring of indigenous languages and literary traditions over European; the special place of Marxism in African letters;the influence of Frantz Fanon; women writers and the sub-Saharan novel;the Maghrebian novel;the novel and the griot epic in the Sahel;Islam in the West African novel;novels in Spanish from Equatorial Guinea;apartheid and postapartheid fiction;African writers in the diaspora;globalization in East African fiction; teaching Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart to students in different countries;the Onitsha market romance. The volume editor, Gaurav Desai, writes, "The point of the volume is to encourage a reading of Africa that is sensitive to its history of colonization but at the same time responsive to its present multiracial and multicultural condition."
Chike and the River
Chike and the River - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chike and the River write by Chinua Achebe. This book was released on 2011-08-09. Chike and the River available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After an 11-year-old Nigerian boy leaves his small village to live with his uncle in the city, he is exposed to a range of new experiences and becomes fascinated with crossing the Niger River on a ferry boat.
Endangered
Endangered - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Endangered write by Eliot Schrefer. This book was released on 2012-10-01. Endangered available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From National Book Award Finalist Eliot Schrefer comes the compelling tale of a girl who must save a group of bonobos -- and herself -- from a violent coup. Congo is a dangerous place, even for people who are trying to do good.When Sophie has to visit her mother at her sanctuary for bonobos, she's not thrilled to be there. Then Otto, an infant bonobo, comes into her life, and for the first time she feels responsible for another creature.But peace does not last long for Sophie and Otto. When an armed revolution breaks out in the country, the sanctuary is attacked, and the two of them must escape unprepared into the jungle. Caught in the crosshairs of a lethal conflict, they must struggle to keep safe, to eat, and to live. In ENDANGERED, Eliot Schrefer plunges us into a heart-stopping exploration of the things we do to survive, the sacrifices we make to help others, and the tangled geography that ties us all, human and animal, together.
I Lost My Tooth in Africa
I Lost My Tooth in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook I Lost My Tooth in Africa write by Penda Diakité. This book was released on 2006. I Lost My Tooth in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Penda Diakité joins forces with her award-winning author/artist father to give a charming peek at everyday life in Africa. "This fact-based story of losing a tooth while visiting family in Mali rings with authenticity and good humour...[T]he illustrations exude happiness and togetherness." - The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
