Chinongwa

Author : Lucy Michot
Publisher : Real African Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1919855815
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinongwa written by Lucy Michot and published by Real African Publishers. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting and emotional portrait of abusive conditions in rural Zimbabwe during the 1920s, this novel follows the terrible misfortunes of a brave and likable young girl as she grows to womanhood. Chinongwa always has been told that her paternal grandfather was shot and beheaded in front of her father's eyes, but she can't be sure whether this story is real because it is so intertwined in her mind with fantastical tales of talking snakes and men buried alive with mice tied to their backs. At age nine, however, her own life becomes nightmare when, in exchange for food, she is given to a man older than her father, and at age 11 she has her first baby. Throughout her ordeal, Chinongwa is sustained by the natural beauty of the countryside and her hopes that better times lie ahead, but the story sadly foreshadows the plight of present-day Zimbabwe.

Author : Lucy Mushita
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925950816
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinongwa written by Lucy Mushita and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the village where Chinongwa lives, her family, displaced from their lands, are very poor. One desperate solution to hunger is to trade young daughters into marriage. At first, to their shame, her father's and aunt's attempts to marry off their youngest child fail. No one is interested in this small, thin girl. Eventually, a childless woman, Amai Chitsva, offers Chinongwa as a second wife to her own husband who is old enough to be the girl's grandfather. Chinongwa is forced to grow up very fast and rely on her survival instincts. She does her best to do what is expected of her and become a good wife and mother, but being very young, very alone, and a girl, the odds are stacked against her. Eventually, after spending her whole life doing the bidding of others, all Chinongwa wants is her independence. But how can one gain such a thing as a woman? Will she ever truly be free? Lucy Mushita's powerful novel is set in the early twentieth century, but sadly child marriage still occurs within Zimbabwe, driven by poverty, patriarchy, or faith in the healing properties of purity. Chinongwa will help us to understand and explore the effect of marriage on very young girls.

Author : Lucy Mushita
Publisher : Actes Sud Editions
ISBN 13 : 9782330008895
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinongwa written by Lucy Mushita and published by Actes Sud Editions. This book was released on 2012 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depuis que sa soeur aînée a été "cédée", c'est-à-dire donnée en mariage à un riche vieillard contre de la nourriture, Chinongwa, neuf ans, sait quel sort l'attend. Sa famille est la plus pauvre du village et elle sera échangée elle aussi. Mais quand son père et sa tante partent en quête d'un parti pour elle, la fillette est si maigre que leur entreprise ne suscite que pitié ou raillerie - en aucun cas intérêt. C'est finalement une femme stérile qui offre Chinongwa comme deuxième épouse à son propre mari, une femme d'abord bienveillante mais qui la voit bientôt comme une concurrente. Chétive, ignorante, la trop jeune Chinongwa puise sa force clans un entêtant instinct de survie. Baigné de légendes familiales et de superstitions rurales, son monde est comme éclairé par un merveilleux candide qui résonne jusque dans la langue de Lucy Mushita. C'est cette poésie fruste, cette simplicité, cet humour aussi, qui font de Chinongwa, bien plus qu'un témoignage sur un village d'Afrique australe au début du XXe siècle, un roman poignant sur l'accession d'un individu à l'indépendance, payée au prix fort.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zambezia written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Merlinda Bobis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925950304
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kindness of Birds written by Merlinda Bobis and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amidst COVID-19, planetary and personal upheavals, fourteen stories pay homage to kindness. From Australia to the Philippines and other corners of the world, across cultures and species, we meet, connect, console. Always there are birds that inspire us to remember kindness and remember kindly. We are consoled, because there is unkindness too, that snag in the breath, that shadow of a wing. An oriole sings to a dying father. A bleeding heart dove saves the day. A quarrel over cockatoos attends the laying of the dead. A crow wakes a woman's resolve. Kindness cannot self-isolate. It moves both ways and all ways, like breath.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1036 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Standard Shona Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Usha Akella
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925950281
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Will Not Bear You Sons written by Usha Akella and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-21 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poem can glisten like a fresh wound. Usha Akella pays tribute to her own life and to that of other women. Writing from her Niyogi Brahmin sensibility with which she grew up, her poems are the medium for the unsilenced voice both of her own story and those of women across various cultures. She calls for a united womanhood in her poems dedicated to women violated through rape, caste, FGM, foot binding, mysticism, politics, terrorism, and other patriarchal abuses to the women who have triumphed against subjugation building new ways of being. Rage has not caste, needs no algorithm, light a pyre with it of chopped thumbs and scripted dreams.

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ISBN 13 : 9781925581980
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Parallax written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Every yarn is made of strands, every story of worlds that can never ever be told, since no one could live long enough to spin them. Or hear them. And they keep unfolding, too, continuously, simultaneously, skeins living along the same yarn. You can spot one at a time and sometimes, very rarely, you can glimpse a multitude swarming - though no yarner can ever see both the individual tale and the swarm at the same moment. It's enough to strike any teller silent, dumbfounded with awe." In Parallax, Robin Morgan's most radiant prose, spare but sensuous, welcomes you into her dazzling imagination. This is a story about storytelling - a set of shorter tales which, like Russian dolls, nest and fit together to reveal a larger one. A fable for the future, a prediction about the past, Parallax is a luscious story that enfolds you and demands immediate rereading the moment you finish, a story that surprises you and invites you to play with the patterns inside its paradoxes, a story whose characters will accompany you for the rest of your life.

Author : Brighton Nyagadza
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1800623682
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agritourism for Sustainable Development written by Brighton Nyagadza and published by CABI. This book was released on 2024-01-29 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the lens of African emerging economies, this text examines empirical studies and the related practices of agritourism. By looking at tourism innovation, entrepreneurship ethics and responsibility of public and private organizational stakeholders, the text promotes an understanding of how radical novel sustainable agritourism might be implemented to help society's living become more sustainable with low usage of material resources, low energy and environmental cost. The book will be of interest to academics and postgraduate students interested in the challenges of sustainable agritourism and African emerging economies.

Author : Barry Feinberg
Publisher : Real African Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1920222340
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time to Tell written by Barry Feinberg and published by Real African Publishers. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dramatically revealing memoir follows Barry Feinberg's 45 years of activism, travel, relationships, and creative expression. While the twin narratives of private life and political doings are equally absorbing on their own, it is the relationship between the two—and the story of this relationship's expression through Feinberg's pen, brush, and lens—that provide a unique and compelling perspective on the most significant and volatile decades in South Africa's history.