Dirt Like Blood Stories From Southern Africa

Author : Matt Artz
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304117820
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dirt Like Blood: Stories from Southern Africa written by Matt Artz and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-06-08 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American teenager moves to southern Africa in the 1970s during a time of great change, and comes back changed himself. After a 35 year absence, he returns to southern Africa to volunteer for a conservation and research program in the Tuli Wilderness of Botswana. Despite close encounters with lions, hyenas, and elephants, it's the people of southern Africa that once again left the biggest impression on him.

Author : Christine Jeske
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1575674785
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Into the Mud written by Christine Jeske and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2009-12-17 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unbelievable circumstances. Believable hope. If we follow media accounts, the continent of Africa may seem to be little more than AIDS patients, malnourished babies, child soldiers, and a failing attempt to imitate the West. Though Christians today are increasingly concerned about injustice and human suffering, their effectiveness in Africa is limited by only knowing this "bad news" and the trite, feel-good solutions sometimes bandied about in response. Into the Mud takes readers below the headlines, into real stories of real people living neck-deep in some of Africa's most difficult issues -- but with hands, minds, and hearts rooted in God's kingdom. Each of the interwoven stories and related discussion questions addresses a broader issue of missions and development, including evangelism, literacy and education, microfinance, health services, urbanization and refugee assistance, and more. Reflection questions at the end of each chapter help readers to apply lessons from the chapters to their own ministry contexts. Where the world sees despair, author Christine Jeske sees God writing stories of hope. Study groups, development students, mission teams, and everyday activists alike will be challenged by her stories to enter more deeply into the thick of life's mud.

Author : Cynthia Stockley
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Honey: Stories of South Africa written by Cynthia Stockley and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the rich tapestry of South African life as author Cynthia Stockley weaves beautiful short stories in 'Wild Honey: Stories of South Africa'. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this collection takes you on a journey through the untamed landscapes and diverse cultures of the region. Discover the extraordinary lives of ordinary folk in 'Common or Garden Earth' and encounter mysterious 'Watchers by the Road' who hold silent vigil over passing souls. With each story, this book unfurls the vibrant spirit of South Africa, leaving you spellbound by its wonders and complexities.

Author : Carli Coetzee
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1847012213
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Written Under the Skin written by Carli Coetzee and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2019 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 ALA Book of the Year Award - Scholarship The author uses the image of blood under the skin as a way of understanding cultural and literary forms in contemporary South Africa. Chapters deal with the bloodied histories of apartheid and blood as trope for talking about change.

Author : John Clark Ridpath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of South Africa written by John Clark Ridpath and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patrick Phillips
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393293025
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America written by Patrick Phillips and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] vital investigation of Forsyth’s history, and of the process by which racial injustice is perpetuated in America." —U.S. Congressman John Lewis Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century, was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children. But then in September of 1912, three young black laborers were accused of raping and murdering a white girl. One man was dragged from a jail cell and lynched on the town square, two teenagers were hung after a one-day trial, and soon bands of white “night riders” launched a coordinated campaign of arson and terror, driving all 1,098 black citizens out of the county. The charred ruins of homes and churches disappeared into the weeds, until the people and places of black Forsyth were forgotten. National Book Award finalist Patrick Phillips tells Forsyth’s tragic story in vivid detail and traces its long history of racial violence all the way back to antebellum Georgia. Recalling his own childhood in the 1970s and ’80s, Phillips sheds light on the communal crimes of his hometown and the violent means by which locals kept Forsyth “all white” well into the 1990s. In precise, vivid prose, Blood at the Root delivers a "vital investigation of Forsyth’s history, and of the process by which racial injustice is perpetuated in America" (Congressman John Lewis).

Author : Edward R. Landa
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048129605
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soil and Culture written by Edward R. Landa and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-01-28 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOIL: beneath our feet / food and fiber / ashes to ashes, dust to dust / dirt!Soil has been called the final frontier of environmental research. The critical role of soil in biogeochemical processes is tied to its properties and place—porous, structured, and spatially variable, it serves as a conduit, buffer, and transformer of water, solutes and gases. Yet what is complex, life-giving, and sacred to some, is ordinary, even ugly, to others. This is the enigma that is soil. Soil and Culture explores the perception of soil in ancient, traditional, and modern societies. It looks at the visual arts (painting, textiles, sculpture, architecture, film, comics and stamps), prose & poetry, religion, philosophy, anthropology, archaeology, wine production, health & diet, and disease & warfare. Soil and Culture explores high culture and popular culture—from the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch to the films of Steve McQueen. It looks at ancient societies and contemporary artists. Contributors from a variety of disciplines delve into the mind of Carl Jung and the bellies of soil eaters, and explore Chinese paintings, African mud cloths, Mayan rituals, Japanese films, French comic strips, and Russian poetry.

Author : Harvey Tyson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780620431613
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood on the Path written by Harvey Tyson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fast-moving historic novel: encompassing the events and all the people of southern Africa who became the first South Africans, 100 years ago.

Author : David Cox
Publisher : EveningPostBooks
ISBN 13 : 9780981873503
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dirty Secrets, Dirty War written by David Cox and published by EveningPostBooks. This book was released on 2008 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1976-1983, an estimated 30,000 people disappeared in Argentina. They were victims of the "Dirty War" - a brutal campaign designed by the government to root out possible subversives. Robert J. Cox, editor of the Buenos Aires Herald, did what few others were willing to do - he told the truth about what was happening every day in his newspaper. He challenged those in power - asking questions and demanding answers.

Author : Adekaye Adebajo
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1780329458
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa's Peacemakers written by Adekaye Adebajo and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Africa and its diaspora commemorate fifty years of post-independence Pan-Africanism, this unique volume provides profound insight into the thirteen prominent individuals of African descent who have won the Nobel Peace Prize since 1950. From the first American president of African descent, Barack Obama, whose career was inspired by the civil rights and anti-apartheid struggles promoted by fellow Nobel Peace laureates Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, and Albert Luthuli; to influential figures in peacemaking such as Ralph Bunche, Anwar Sadat, Kofi Annan, and F.W. De Klerk; as well as Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, Wangari Maathai, and Mohamed El-Baradei, who have been variously involved in women's rights, environmental protection, and nuclear disarmament, Africa's Peacemakers reveals how this remarkable collection of individuals have changed the world - for better or worse.