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Author: Margy Burns Knight
Publisher: First Avenue Editions
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 0761316477
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Demonstrates the diversity of the African continent by describing daily life in some of its fifty-three nations.
Author: Sylvester I. Okoro
Publisher:
Published: 2012-11
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9781432787530
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Is Africa a continent or country? This book helps to answer this seemly question. Africa Is A Continent, Not A Country book is designed to get readers thinking about their knowledge of Africa. It is a quick read. You can finish the book in less time. Africa is the 2nd largest continent besides Asia. Many readers would agree with me that they know little about Africa except what the "elite" western media principally focus on developmental challenges and crisis in some African countries. Not only that, many of these western media including some politicians collectively use Africa as if it is just one country. Consequently, this book is aimed at letting its readers know that Africa is a 54 countries continent. Each country has it's successes and challenges like any other country. After reading this book, you will be able to know: - Names of 54 different African countries and when they became politically independent. - Names of some notable pre and post-independence African Leaders. - Map of Africa with each country. - Some causes of arm conflict in Africa. - Africa hosted World soccer (football) Championship in South Africa in 2010. - That the world's largest desert is Africa's Sahara. - Africa is the second largest continent, next to Asia. - Africa's longest river Nile is the world's longest river.
Author: Dipo Faloyin
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 2022-04-07
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781787302969
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Definitive proof that Africa is *not* a country. A lively, entertaining and informative portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes. Over a billion people have been reduced to one simple story. Africa Is Not a Country fills in the gaps. So often Africa is depicted simplistically as a red landscape of safaris and famines. In this funny, insightful book Dipo Faloyin corrects this view to create a fresh and positive view of the continent. By turns intimate and political, he looks at buzzy urban life in Lagos and the lively West African rivalry over who makes the best jollof rice, before giving us the story of democracy in seven dictatorships, an insight into different regional accents and the colonial foundation of many countries which are still younger than your grandparents. We learn about the dangers of white saviours and the cultural significance of Aunties, and he provides us with a tour guide of where citizens of several African countries need to travel to visit their own cultural artefacts - 90% of which are in museums outside the continent. We immerse ourselves in the energy and fabric of many different cultures and communities as Dipo shows his deep love of the region - as a concept, as a promise and as a reality.
Author: Dipo Faloyin
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2022-09-06
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 0393881547
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2022 An exuberant, opinionated, stereotype-busting portrait of contemporary Africa in all its splendid diversity, by one of its leading new writers. So often, Africa has been depicted simplistically as a uniform land of famines and safaris, poverty and strife, stripped of all nuance. In this bold and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective, weaving a vibrant tapestry of stories that bring to life Africa’s rich diversity, communities, and histories. Starting with an immersive description of the lively and complex urban life of Lagos, Faloyin unearths surprising truths about many African countries’ colonial heritage and tells the story of the continent’s struggles with democracy through seven dictatorships. With biting wit, he takes on the phenomenon of the white savior complex and brings to light the damage caused by charity campaigns of the past decades, revisiting such cultural touchstones as the KONY 2012 film. Entering into the rivalries that energize the continent, Faloyin engages in the heated debate over which West African country makes the best jollof rice and describes the strange, incongruent beauty of the African Cup of Nations. With an eye toward the future promise of the continent, he explores the youth-led cultural and political movements that are defining and reimagining Africa on their own terms. The stories Faloyin shares are by turns joyful and enraging; proud and optimistic for the future even while they unequivocally confront the obstacles systematically set in place by former colonial powers. Brimming with humor and wit, filled with political insights, and, above all, infused with a deep love for the region, Africa Is Not a Country celebrates the energy and particularity of the continent’s different cultures and communities, treating Africa with the respect it deserves.
Author: Margy Burns Knight
Publisher: Millbrook Press TM
Published: 2023-08-01
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 1728490200
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Enter into the daily lives of children in the many countries of modern Africa. Countering stereotypes, Africa Is Not a Country celebrates the extraordinary diversity of this vibrant continent. This edition includes updates to the text, statistics, and illustrations to reflect Africa in the 2020s. “A lovely book about Africa that gets the issue of its enormous diversity right.” —Barbara Brown, Director, Africa in our Schools and Community Program, African Studies Center, Boston University “A book every school must have as we emerge into the global village. Gives good insights into Africa’s many cultures, with a balance of the contemporary and traditional that is the way of life now.” —Oscar Mokeme, Director, Museum of African Tribal Art, Portland, Maine
Author: Dr. Arthur Lewin
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780962891113
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Introduces various facts about the continent of Africa and the achievements of the black race.
Author: Pius Adesanmi
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Published: 2012-09-28
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 0143528653
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this wide-ranging collection of essays, Pius Adesanmi explores what Africa means to him as an African and as a citizen of the world. Examining the personal and the political, tradition and modernity, custom and culture, Adesanmi grapples with the complexity and contradictions of this vast continent, zooming in most closely on Nigeria, the country of his birth. The inspiration for the title of the collection, You're Not a Country, Africa, comes from a line of poetry: 'You are not a country Africa, you are a concept, fashioned in our minds, each to each'. The Africa fashioned in our minds - with our fears and our dreams - is the Africa that the reader will encounter in these essays. Through narratives and political and cultural reflections, Pius Adesanmi approaches the meaning of Africa from the perspective that you never actually define Africa: rather, it defines you in various contexts and for various people.
Author: Dr. Arthur Lewin
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9780962891199
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Introduces various facts about the continent of Africa and the achievements of the black race.
Author: Dayo Olopade
Publisher: HMH
Published: 2014-03-04
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 0547678339
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“For anyone who wants to understand how the African economy really works, The Bright Continent is a good place to start” (Reuters). Dayo Olopade knew from personal experience that Western news reports on conflict, disease, and poverty obscure the true story of modern Africa. And so she crossed sub-Saharan Africa to document how ordinary people deal with their daily challenges. She found what cable news ignores: a continent of ambitious reformers and young social entrepreneurs driven by kanju—creativity born of African difficulty. It’s a trait found in pioneers like Kenneth Nnebue, who turned cheap VHS tapes into the multimillion-dollar film industry Nollywood. Or Ushahidi, a technology collective that crowdsources citizen activism and disaster relief. A shining counterpoint to conventional wisdom, The Bright Continent rewrites Africa’s challenges as opportunities to innovate, and celebrates a history of doing more with less as a powerful model for the rest of the world. “[An] upbeat study of development in Africa . . . The book is written more in wonder at African ingenuity than in anger at foreign incomprehension.” —The New Yorker “A hopeful narrative about a continent on the rise.” —The New York Times Book Review
Author: Binyavanga Wainaina
Publisher: One World
Published: 2024-06-04
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 081298966X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From one of Africa’s most influential and eloquent essayists, a posthumous collection that highlights his biting satire and subversive wisdom on topics from travel to cultural identity to sexuality “A fierce literary talent . . . [Wainaina] shines a light on his continent without cliché.”—The Guardian “Africa is the only continent you can love—take advantage of this. . . . Africa is to be pitied, worshipped, or dominated. Whichever angle you take, be sure to leave the strong impression that without your intervention and your important book, Africa is doomed.” Binyavanga Wainaina was a pioneering voice in African literature, an award-winning memoirist and essayist remembered as one of the greatest chroniclers of contemporary African life. This groundbreaking collection brings together, for the first time, Wainaina’s pioneering writing on the African continent, including many of his most critically acclaimed pieces, such as the viral satirical sensation “How to Write About Africa.” Working fearlessly across a range of topics—from politics to international aid, cultural heritage, and redefined sexuality—he describes the modern world with sensual, emotional, and psychological detail, giving us a full-color view of his home country and continent. These works present the portrait of a giant in African literature who left a tremendous legacy.
