Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : fr
Pages : 396
Book Description
Actes du colloque inter-universitaire sur la coexistence des langues en Afrique de l'Ouest
Author: Actes du 5e colloque inter-universitaire sur la coexistence des langues en Afrique de l'Ouest
Author: Annual Report
Author: University of GhanaMélanges en l'honneur des professeurs Bakary Coulibaly et Hyacinthe Sanwidi à l'occasion de leur départ à la retraite
Author: Norbert NikiémaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : fr
Pages : 358
Book Description
Chomsky on Democracy & Education
Author: Noam ChomskyPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415926324
Category : Critical pedagogy
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Allah is Not Obliged
Author: Ahmadou KouroumaPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307793842
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
ALLAH IS NOT OBLIGED TO BE FAIR ABOUT ALL THE THINGS HE DOES HERE ON EARTH.These are the words of the boy soldier Birahima in the final masterpiece by one of Africa’s most celebrated writers, Ahmadou Kourouma. When ten-year-old Birahima's mother dies, he leaves his native village in the Ivory Coast, accompanied by the sorcerer and cook Yacouba, to search for his aunt Mahan. Crossing the border into Liberia, they are seized by rebels and forced into military service. Birahima is given a Kalashnikov, minimal rations of food, a small supply of dope and a tiny wage. Fighting in a chaotic civil war alongside many other boys, Birahima sees death, torture, dismemberment and madness but somehow manages to retain his own sanity. Raw and unforgettable, despairing yet filled with laughter, Allah Is Not Obliged reveals the ways in which children's innocence and youth are compromised by war.
Safeguarding Traditional Cultures
Author: Peter SeitelPublisher:
ISBN: 9780966552010
Category : Biens culturels - Politique gouvernementale - Congrès
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Proceedings from a conference "A global assessment of the 1989 recommendation on the safeguarding of traditional culture and folklore" held at the Smithsonian Institution June 27-30 1999. The purpose of the conference was to assess the implementation of the Recommendation (an international normative instrument adopted by UNESCO in 1989), to bring together points of view and perspectives on the Recommendaion from around the world, and suggest ways in which the Recommendation might develop in the future so that its purpose, the safeguarding of traditional culture and folklore, might be achieved.
The Suns of Independence
Author: Ahmadou KouroumaPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1804543403
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Ahmadou Kourouma's award winning novel, The Suns of Independence is one of the great classics of Francophone African literature, capturing the dreams and struggles of a newly independent nation. Fama is the last of an ancient line of Dumbuya princes who, before the Europeans came, reigned undisputed over the Malinke tribe. Yet even after independence, Fama is forced to beg for his place amongst the bureaucratic elite. Meanwhile, his wife, Salimata, is desperately attempting to save the Dumbuya legacy from extinction. Beyond the gripping political intrigue, Ahmadou Kourouma weaves together an in-depth tapestry of Malinke culture, blending the everyday experience of 1960s postcolonial life with age-old myths and traditions. 'Perhaps the most remarkable African novelist writing in French.' Guardian
Handbook of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism
Author: Geneviève ZaratePublisher: Archives contemporaines
ISBN: 2813000396
Category : Language and culture
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Built around the concept of linguistic and cultural plurality, this book defines language as an instrument of action and symbolic power. Plurality is conceived here as : a complex array of voices, perspectives and approaches that seeks to preserve the complexity of the multilingual and multicultural enterprise, including language learning and teaching ; a coherent system of relationships among various languages, research traditions and research sites that informs qualitative methods of inquiry into multilingualism and its uses in everyday life ; a view of language as structured sociohistorical object, observable from several simultaneous spatiotemporal standpoints, such as that of daily interactions or that which sustains the symbolic power of institutions. This book is addressed to teacher trainers, young researchers, decision makers, teachers concerned with the role of languages in the evolution of societies and educational systems. It aims to elicit discussion by articulating practices, field observations and analyses based on a multidisciplinary conceptual framework.
Waiting For The Wild Beasts To Vote
Author: Ahmadou KouroumaPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446444309
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Ahmadou Kourouma's remarkable novel is narrated by Bingo, a West African sora - storyteller and king's fool. Over the course of five nights he tells the life story of Koyaga, President and Dictator of the Gulf Coast. Orphaned at the age of seven, Koyaga grows up to be a terrible hunter; he fights mythical beasts, and is a shape-shifter, capable of changing himself into beasts and birds. He fights in the French colonial armies, in Vietnam and Algeria, but on his return he mounts a coup and becomes ruler and dictator of the Gulf Coast. For thirty years he runs a corrupt but 'clean' state, surviving repeated assassination attempts and gaining support and investment from abroad. But when the 'First World' decides it no longer want to support dictatorships and call for democracy, he needs another ruse to maintain himself in power... Part magic, part history, part savage satire, Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote is nothing less than a history of post-colonial Africa itself.