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In The Last Resort, journalist Douglas Rogers tells the eye-opening, harrowing and, at times, surprisingly funny story of his parents' struggle for survival in war-torn Zimbabwe.

Wie sauber ist unsere Mobilitätswende wirklich? Es ist ein Rohstoff, der unseren batteriebetriebenen Alltag am Laufen hält: Kobalt. Abgebaut wird es überwiegend in der Demokratischen Volksrepublik Kongo – unter dramatischen Menschenrechtsverletzungen. Welche Industrie steckt hinter unseren sauberen E-Autos, Smartphones und Laptops? Der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler und Aktivist Siddharth Kara ist auf seinen Reisen in die von Milizen kontrollierten Bergbauregionen bis tief in das finstere Herz unseres fossilen Kapitalismus vorgedrungen.

Three attempts have been made by Cameroonian patriots in the history of the land to change the status quo and usher in freedom, democracy, liberty, prosperity and the rule of law. Unfortunately, the Cameroonians patriots otherwise known as the Kamerunists or union-nationalists, never succeeded. Today, the Cameroonian struggle against the French-imposed system under the leadership of Paul Biya is in its fourth Phase, haunted by the lessons of: • The First Phase of the Struggle where the German colonial army defeated it and executed Marin Paul Samba, Rudolf Duala Manga Bell and the rest of ...

In 1925, college student Zora Neale Hurston - the sole black student at Barnard College, New York - was living in the city, ‘desperately striving for a toe-hold on the world.’ During this period, she began writing short works that captured the zeitgeist of African American life and transformed her into one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Nearly a century later, this singular talent is recognised as one of the most influential and revered American artists of the modern period.

Why does feminism matter in Africa and how does African feminism relate to black liberation and global feminism? What does African feminism show about the individual and belonging? What are the challenges and opportunities of African feminism? Can African feminism transform society, or does postcolonial African identity clash with women’s freedom? Is there a tension in the very notion African feminist?

I meticulously outline the appalling extent to which the powerful few work behind the scenes to shamelessly plunder the resources of Nigeria. Up to eight billion dollars is lost annually to corruption, and no politician goes unexamined in this piercing review. From jungle justice to the corrupt kleptocracy that defines Nigeria’s ruling class today, I clearly give historical context to a modern but untenable problem. This important record speaks truth to power and documents the crushing consequences of political gaming.

Nigerian politicians are caught in an evil cycle, and the consequences are dire. The purpose of government should be to protect its people, but what is happening in a country where resources are so abundant yet so wasted? In this incisive look at years of corruption and project mismanagement, Dr. Darlington Akaiso clearly outlines the problems inherent in this vicious cycle.

Henning Mankell, mest kendt for sine Wallander-krimier, beretter her om sine besøg hos en række AIDS-ramte i Østafrika. Personligt, indtrængende og sobert fortæller han om de menneskelige tragedier, der gemmer sig bag det uhyrlige antal smittede og døde, som ofte efterlader sig gamle forældre og mindreårige. Mankell samarbejder med den internationale hjælpeorganisation PLAN om bogen, og alle Mankells royalties, såvel som enhver fortjeneste ved salget i det hele taget, går til PLAN's arbejde med de såkaldte "mindebøger".

Autentická zpověď českého chirurga Tomáše Šebka z mise v Jižním Súdánu Jižní Súdán, nejmladší stát světa, už celá desetiletí sužují ozbrojené konflikty. Na začátku roku 2017 se do míst s nedostatkem potravin, kde se až příliš daří infekčním a tropickým nemocem, vydává lékař Tomáš Šebek jako jeden ze zástupců mezinárodní organizace Lékaři bez hranic.

Per oltre sessant'anni, Ngugi wa Thiongb ha scritto dell'Africa con indomito coraggio, affrontando domande, ponendo sfide, raccogliendo storie e provando a immaginare un futuro possibile per il suo continente. Nella sua ampia produzione letteraria, "Scrivere per la pace" rappresenta il punto più alto della sua riflessione saggistica, raccogliendo per la prima volta i testi scritti dall'autore in oltre tre decenni su una vasta area di tematiche.

Cameroon is the only country in Africa where those who campaigned, fought and died for the country's freedom and independence from colonial rule have never made it to power, where the ideas and ideals of these union-nationalists are still being suppressed by the unpopular system the colonial master put in place in the country after defeating these civic-nationalists in a bloody war variously described as France’s genocidal war in Africa. This retarding French-imposed system keeps the country trapped in poverty, corruption, underdevelopment, dictatorship, despondence, and cynicism, thereby...

This thoughtful account of Patrice Lumumba provides an insight into why the swift elimination of the legend from the geopolitical developments involving his country plunged Congo into turmoil that it is yet to recover from. Janvier T. Chando highlights Congo's deep trauma as the private possession of King Leopold of Belgium, later as a Belgian colony, and afterward, as a so-called independent state that got disarrayed by a tug-of-war between the cold war rivals. That resulted in the inhuman dictatorship of pro-Western Mobutu Sese Seko, in wars during which millions of Congolese died, in the...

Kamerun, Cameroun or Cameroon, a former German colony with a vibrant economy that Germany lost to Britain and France following its defeat in the First World War, a territory partitioned by Britain and France into British Cameroons (British Southern Cameroons and British Northern Cameroons) and French Cameroun, territories Kamerunian civic-nationalists sought to reunite and achieve independence for in a quest that was suppressed by French-led forces, resulting in the loss of half a million Cameroonian lives from 1956-1971. France’s clamp down on French Camerounian civic-nationalists ...

As a German colony from 1884-1916, Kamerun was called "The African Pearl" for its human and material potential, and for its strategic position in Africa. The defeat of Germany in the First World War and the partition of the colony into British Cameroons and French Cameroon did not diminish the area's outsize role in the political and economic evolution of the continent. So, the quest by the land's civic nationalists to reunite the British-controlled and French-controlled territories and make Cameroon independent, raised concerns among the colonialists in Britain and France, who planned to ...

In this account full of mind-blowing revelations, Janvier Tchouteu exposes the mechanism of election-rigging in a way that has not been seen before. It is a journey that takes us to the heart of voter fraud and election-rigging, revealing how they are not only the fundamental killers of civil rights, free and fair elections, and the rule of law, but how they also take countries down the path of autocracy, dictatorship and crime against humanity. For the first time, we get to understand how the country variously described as the “Microcosm of Africa” and “Africa in Miniature” is held...

As other African nations forge ahead tapping on the resources of their Diaspora, the French-imposed minority system in Cameroon is unique in limiting the economic, political and social influence of its Diaspora, seeing it as a threat to the mafia dictatorship. Even though it is variously described as Africa's most educated Diaspora percentage wise, this resourceful Cameroonian Diaspora risks giving up on Cameroon as the nation slowly heads into abyss.

As the unpopular regime of Cameroonian head of State Paul Biya cracks down on a popular protest by the people of the English-speaking regions of the country, the world wonders why a country that is Africa’s Number One Football (Soccer) Playing Nation, one that just won the continent’s most prestigious and most coveted sports trophy (The African Cup of Nations), and one that the powers that be would like to sell as the oasis of peace in a turbulent continent, would undermine the part of the country that realized its reunification. The area that was Südwesten Kamerun when the ...

Cameroon lost its way when France pacified the intellectual, dynamic and patriotic forces of the land― the people who were engaged in the cause to reunite the former German Kamerun, lead it to independence and build a modern, progressive, democratic, free and liberal state. Cameroon found itself held in bondage after that when France went on to impose a mafia system in Cameroon, a system that has always been headed by its puppets. However, it was only during the 32-year rule of the fathom and the puppet Paul Biya that Cameroon got gripped by futility, despondence and cynicism. What is the...

An account of the rise and the tribulations of the historic Social Democratic Front (SDF) of 1990-1997, and how the party's dominant ideology at the time, which was centered around Cameroonian civic-nationalism, led the SDF to capture the hearts of the majority of the Cameroonians people, to the point where the party's head from the minority English-speaking part of the country went on to win the 1992 Presidential Election, which the incumbent president Paul Biya usurped by proclaiming himself the winner.

Cameroon, the microcosm of Africa is a country that is still haunted by an unfinished liberation struggle where those in power are not the people who asked for independence, where the two heads of state in its entire history have not been the choice of the people, but rather the choice of France in a political mafia setup or system that keeps the human-and-material-resources-rich country bogged down in underdevelopment. When the wind of change generated by Mikhail Gorbachev's Glasnost and Perestroika started rattling the monolithic systems and dictatorships of the world, pundits expected ...