History, Africa
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From The Frying Pan Into The Fire
Memoir of a Zimbabwean by Judith Mawoko
Told with clarity, humour and insight, From the Frying Pan into the Fire lets us look into the turbulent history of Zimbabwe through the eyes of a native Zimbabwean educator. Born in a rural village in 1965, in what was then Rhodesia, young...
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Better Than Some, Worse Than Others
The way it was: - Remembering the South African Border War in the 1980’s and 90’s. by Wayne Webster
Not yet seventeen, Wayne Webster, along with many young men around South Africa, abruptly leaves a life of relative peace and tranquility to fulfill his obligatory military service duties during the South African Border War. He has no idea what...
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Mawuli School
The Early Years by David C. K. Tay
Mawuli School was the first Secondary School founded by the Evangelical Presbyterian (E.P.) Church in 1950 at Ho in the Trans Volta Togoland Mandated Territory which was under the administration of the Gold Coast Colony. To illustrate the strong...
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Tears On The Equator
Muzungu by Gerasimos I. Kambites
In the beginning, in 1973, when a young couple met at a seminary in the city of Boston, during a time of great racial tension over an issue called bussing, they dared to share a dream and the dream was about faith, progress, unity, love and...
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A Rainy Season
by Nnaziri Ihejirika
It is the rainy season of 1998. An autocratic and corrupt ruler has just died in the arms of courtesans at the presidential villa leaving one hundred million citizens of Africa’s most populous country in comingled states of joy, grief and...
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Dr. William Edward Dillon, Navy Surgeon in Livingstone's Africa
by Julia Turner
“In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.” -Cicero It was the 1860s, and slave traders were slipping across the seas between Zanzibar and Arabia. Irish surgeon Dr. William Edward Dillion hunted them down in...
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RSVP Rice and Stew Very Plenty
The Story of an Ismaili Girl’s Expulsion from Uganda and Acceptance in Canada by Nazlin Rahemtulla with Margaret Fairweather
This compelling autobiography chronicles the life of Nazlin Rahemtulla, an Ismaili Muslim. Nazlin vividly depicts the origins of Ismailism, and traces her ancestry to the Gujarat in western India. The migration of her grandparents and parents to...
