The Open Sore of a Continent - 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 The Open Sore of a Continent write by Wole Soyinka. This book was released on 1996. The Open Sore of a Continent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The events that led up to dissident writer Ken Saro-Wiwa's execution in 1995 marked Nigeria's decline from a post-colonial success story to its current military dictatorship. Wole Soyinka, whose own Nigerian passport was confiscated by the Nigerian military in 1994, explores the history and future of Nigeria in a compelling jeremiad that is as intense as it is provocative, learned, and wide-ranging.
Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds
Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds - 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 Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds write by Nicholas J. Karolides. This book was released on 2014-05-14. Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Literature Suppressed on Religious Grounds, Revised Edition profiles the censorship of many such essential works of literature. The entries new to this edition include extensive coverage of the Harry Potter series, which has been frequently banned in the United States on the grounds that it promotes witchcraft, as well as entries on two popular textbook series, The Witches by Roald Dahl, Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran, and more. Also included are updates to such entries as The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie and On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.
Global Africans
Global Africans - 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 Global Africans write by Toyin Falola. This book was released on 2017-01-20. Global Africans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Black," "African," "African descendant" and "of African heritage," are just some of the ways Africans and Africans in the diaspora (both old and new) describe themselves. This volume examines concepts of race, ethnicity, and identity as they are ascribed to people of colour around the world, examining different case studies of how the process of identity formation occurred and is changing. Contributors to this volume, selected from a wide range of academic and cultural backgrounds, explore issues that encourage a deeper understanding of race, ethnicity and identity. As our notions about what it means to be black or of African heritage change as a result of globalization, it is important to reassess how these issues are currently developing, and the origins from which these issues developed. Global Africans is an important and insightful book, useful to a wide range of students and scholars, particularly of African studies, sociology, diaspora studies, and race and ethnic studies.
Africans
Africans - 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 Africans write by John Iliffe. This book was released on 2017-07-13. Africans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An updated and comprehensive single-volume history covering all periods from human origins to contemporary African situations.
Of Africa
Of 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 Of Africa write by Wole Soyinka. This book was released on 2012-11-01. Of Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A member of the unique generation of African writers and intellectuals who came of age in the last days of colonialism, Wole Soyinka has witnessed the promise of independence and lived through postcolonial failure. He deeply comprehends the pressing problems of Africa, and, an irrepressible essayist and a staunch critic of the oppressive boot, he unhesitatingly speaks out.In this magnificent new work, Soyinka offers a wide-ranging inquiry into Africa's culture, religion, history, imagination, and identity. He seeks to understand how the continent's history is entwined with the histories of others, while exploring Africa's truest assets: "its humanity, the quality and valuation of its own existence, and modes of managing its environment—both physical and intangible (which includes the spiritual)."Fully grasping the extent of Africa's most challenging issues, Soyinka nevertheless refuses defeatism. With eloquence he analyzes problems ranging from the meaning of the past to the threat of theocracy. He asks hard questions about racial attitudes, inter-ethnic and religious violence, the viability of nations whose boundaries were laid out by outsiders, African identity on the continent and among displaced Africans, and more. Soyinka's exploration of Africa relocates the continent in the reader's imagination and maps a course toward an African future of peace and affirmation.
