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In this magical account, Janvier T. Chando brilliantly establishes the threads that made the young Thomas Sankara one of Africa’s iconic leaders in the twentieth century, and the revolutionary changes he brought to Burkina Faso that transformed it into Sub-Saharan Africa’s most self-reliant country. The author leads the reader hand-in-hand to the path of the trail of the young Sankara’s catapult into the limelight of Burkina Faso’s politics, his travails, his rise to power as the head of state, and his lucid notion of his mission. Sankara comes across as one of those rare African ...

In a Europe dominated by empires in the early years of the twentieth century, ethnic nationalism is challenging the status quo, threatening to throw the continent into an unfathomable turmoil. To hedge against this impending war, the different European leaders embarked on strengthening the alliances they had formed. Appearing the most vulnerable to this phenomenon is the multi-ethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire, which is situated at the heart of Europe and whose citizens come from Europe's three major language groups. But strangely enough, its emperor Franz Josef is loved by the majority of all...

This succinct narrative effortlessly takes us through a millennium and a half of the formative history of the land that is at the center of geopolitics today. As the first part of a breathtaking account that takes us hand-in-hand through the landmark history of the land variously described as "The Holy Land", “The Promised Land", Israel and Palestine, this narrative provides unique insight into plans — attempted and not yet articulated — to resolve the conflict between two peoples or nations with deep connections to the land, but who are not living there in peace because they are ...

No continent has experienced half the political assassinations, coup d’états, internal and external wars, civil unrest, and economic upheaval s since the second half of the twentieth century that Africa suffered. Yet, hardly any serious pundit would say that the hands of foreign forces that are out to secure their “so-called interests” in the continent or that want to gain new ones, were not in most of these setbacks. That these external forces have roughly been succeeding with the help of Africans with the evil disposition or Africans ignorant of their game plan is true. Opposed to ...

PREVAILED: Donald Trump’s 2024 Victory makes a compelling read right from the opening chapters, as it encapsulates the political journey of Donald Trump in an insightful and electrifying manner. The author takes the reader hand-in-hand through the 45th president of the United States of America's journey to become the 47th president in a process that seems to defy lawsuits, assassination attempts, the machinery of the legacy media, the political establishment, and the “Powers without a Face”. Defying propaganda, staying indifferent to opinions not based on facts, ignoring outright lies...

HEGEMON IN THE MAKING is the first part of the account of the hegemons that shaped the Western World, a thousand-year story per se about ancient Rome and the nature of its world. This involves the empires it fought against, the lands and people it conquered, the “Barbarian” invasions it defeated and failed to stop, and the influence it exerted in Europe, Africa, and East Asia (The Middle East), making it the target of other powerful forces determined to bring it down while cherishing its civilization, the positive attributes that constitute the bedrock of Western civilization today ...

The name Gandhi towers above every other in the political landscape of India for very good reasons. The “Soul” of modern India—Mahatma Gandhi— bore that last name; India’s first and only female prime minister or head of state—Indira Gandhi—married into the name; and Rajiv Gandhi reluctantly made it into politics and became the Prime Minister of India as a Gandhi. They left positive legacies, yet they were assassinated by extremists with exclusive and twisted agendas. And as it turned out, their deaths contributed to the advancement of humanity. What was it about these three ...

En "Fuego y Lamentaciones", Janvier T. Chando ofrece a los lectores relatos sucintos de las vidas, los ideales y las muertes prematuras de las destacadas figuras políticas cuyos asesinatos conmocionaron a la sociedad estadounidense, desencadenaron transformaciones políticas internas y alteraron fundamentalmente la política exterior de los Estados Unidos de America, de modo que el país perdiera para siempre su inocencia. A lo largo de un siglo, las muertes a tiros de cuatro presidentes de los Estados Unidos (Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, James A. Garfield y John F. Kennedy) y del ...

In this succinct account, the author reveals the threads that weave the controversial legacy of the Egyptian military leader and head of state Anwar Al-Sadat, prying into his motivations that led him to war against Israel and that saw him shortly afterwards become an iconic leader for peace in the Middle East by stirring his country onto a path that not only began the transformation of Egypt into a modern state, but that equally alienated Egypt from the rest of the Arab world. The unequivocal nature of Janvier T. Chando’s account sheds a unique light into the legacy of one of Africa’s ...

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being the real thing, the true inheritor of a legacy, the upholder of the identity others strive to be attached to. In this account, we see two narratives that oppose one another, but that ought to complement each other. How do a people so divided by history embrace their common heritage or denominator as the children of Kievan Rus, but who later became known as the frontier people (Ukrainians)? "The Real Ukrainians" is the first part of an account that would take us hand-in-hand through our journey that would make us enlightened regarding the ...

PREVALECIÓ: La Victoria de Donald Trump en 2024 es una lectura convincente desde los primeros capítulos, ya que encapsula el viaje político de Donald Trump de una manera perspicaz y electrizante. El autor lleva al lector de la mano a través del viaje del 45º presidente de los Estados Unidos de América para convertirse en el 47º presidente en un proceso que parece desafiar las demandas, los intentos de asesinato, la maquinaria de los medios de comunicación tradicionales, el establishment político y los "Poderes sin rostro". Desafiando la propaganda, permaneciendo indiferente a las ...

When the ingenious Hugo made it his mission to save the souls and lives of his fellow humans, he is not like most sanctimonious people out there. So, when he tries to stop a massacre, he is only protecting the sanctity of life and preventing the tainting of a soul. However, his self-sacrificing act ignites a haunting impulse that sees him blazing a path through life in pursuit of a cause against evil, which raises mixed feelings and questions his beliefs. But who is the searching soul to himself in a conflict with his world that mirrors man's pilgrimage through life? Is Hugo a "Man of God",...

This account of Muammar Gaddafi takes us to his rise to power, to the moments when he was in the spotlight, and then to his travails and his swift elimination from the geopolitical developments in Libya in a procession that plunged the country into a turmoil that it is yet to recover from. With insight, lucidity, impartiality, breadth, and diligence, Janvier T, Chando manages to delineate the intricate threads that weaved the controversial character of Muammar Gaddafi. He not only finds the truth from the disparate accounts about the Libyan strongman, he shed light on him in a unique manner...

In this brave and chilling account of the post-Soviet space, the author provides us with a fascinating insight into Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and the other republics of the Soviet Union through the larger-than-life character of Boris Petrenkov who leads us by the hand through his world, his mind, and the characters he interacts with. This smooth and fascinating ride into a part of the world that people find mysterious comes with explosive revelations that take us through history from the times of Kievan Rus a millennia ago, to the Golden Horde of the Mongols, czarist Russia, the Soviet ...

1 Corinthians 7:23 You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of human beings. When bright-eyed child prodigy Gavin Njike loses his family and pursues a hazy path of vengeance, he never imagined he could end up serving his family’s killers. However, that is the case after he joins the country’s intelligence. Things start to go wrong when he finds himself in the dark about operations. But, it is the death of the dissident visionary Vincent Chi that opens the floodgates of his memory, forcing him to grapple with the tragedies suffered by his family. Now, there is unrest boiling ...

El mundo de Hans Wette Heinrich se pone patas arriba cuando el gobierno nazi promulga las Leyes de Núremberg, que le obligan a abandonar Alemania y buscar refugio en África. Su padre, su nueva familia camerunesa y un amigo de la infancia le ayudan a convertir su refugio en un nuevo hogar. Sin embargo, rápidamente aprende que su papel como el primer hijo de una leyenda africana tiene un precio, ya que doma sus impulsos y acepta la realidad de su nuevo mundo más allá de su familia. Incluso mientras fomenta un noble sueño que está atormentado por pesadillas, e incluso mientras intenta ...

Este relato de un hombre que finalmente se distinguió del resto de las élites de su país como alguien que no aceptaría la ocupación de Nicaragua y que no haría el papel de perro faldero o títere, explica de una manera muy sencilla los matices en la evolución sociopolítica del país centroamericano que influyó mucho en otras luchas de América Latina. En Augusto C. Sandino vemos el desarrollo de una leyenda que surgió de orígenes humildes y cuyo sentido de la justicia lo guió en su épico viaje de resistencia a las fuerzas opresoras de su país. A pesar de que su traición y ...

Esta primera parte del relato de los poderes hegemónicos que dieron forma al mundo occidental es una historia milenaria que involucra a la antigua Roma y la naturaleza de su mundo, que involucra los imperios contra los que luchó, las tierras y las personas que conquistó, las invasiones "bárbaras" que derrotado y no pudo detener, y la influencia que ejerció en Europa, África y el Medio Oriente, convirtiéndolo en el objetivo de poderosos no romanos decididos a controlarlo mientras aprecian su civilización, los atributos positivos que constituyen el núcleo del mundo occidental hoy ...

En este valiente y escalofriante relato del espacio postsoviético, el autor nos proporciona una visión fascinante de Rusia, Ucrania, Bielorrusia y las otras repúblicas de la Unión Soviética a través del personaje más grande que la vida de Boris Petrenkov que nos lleva de la mano a su mundo, su mente y los personajes con los que interactúa. Este viaje suave y fascinante a una parte del mundo que la gente encuentra misteriosa viene con revelaciones explosivas que nos llevan a través de la historia desde los tiempos de la Rus de Kiev hace un milenio, hasta la Horda de Oro de los ...

En este breve relato, el autor revela los hilos que tejen el controvertido legado del líder militar egipcio y jefe de estado Anwar Al-Sadat, al proporcionar una idea de sus motivaciones que lo llevaron a la guerra contra Israel y que lo vieron poco después convertirse en un líder icónico para la paz en el Medio Oriente al impulsar a su país en un camino que comenzó la transformación de Egipto en un estado moderno, y que igualmente alejó a Egipto del resto del mundo árabe. La naturaleza inequívoca de la cuenta de Janvier T. Chando arroja una luz única sobre el legado de uno de los...