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Counting Teeth

A Namibian Story

by Peter Midgley ...

With his nineteen-year-old daughter, a collection of maps and the help of an opinionated GPS, Peter Midgley sets out across Namibia. Visiting small-town museums and gravesites, crossing border checkpoints and changing tires, they travel its length and breadth. Stories about Portuguese explorers and the first genocide of the twentieth century collect on the back seat of their car alongside the ... Read more

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With his nineteen-year-old daughter, a collection of maps and the help of an opinionated GPS, Peter Midgley sets out across Namibia. Visiting small-town museums and gravesites, crossing border checkpoints and changing tires, they travel its length and breadth. Stories about Portuguese explorers and the first genocide of the twentieth century collect on the back seat of their car alongside the
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Counting Teeth: A Namibian Story

by Peter Midgley ...

With his nineteen-year-old daughter, a collection of maps and the help of an opinionated GPS, Peter Midgley sets out across Namibia. Visiting small-town museums and gravesites, crossing border checkpoints and changing tires, they travel its length and breadth. Stories about Portuguese explorers and the first genocide of the twentieth century collect on the back seat of their car alongside the ... Read more

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With his nineteen-year-old daughter, a collection of maps and the help of an opinionated GPS, Peter Midgley sets out across Namibia. Visiting small-town museums and gravesites, crossing border checkpoints and changing tires, they travel its length and breadth. Stories about Portuguese explorers and the first genocide of the twentieth century collect on the back seat of their car alongside the
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Eaten by White Ants

by Peter Midgley ...

Series series Robert Kroetsch Series
In the polyglot world of Eaten by White Ants, poet Peter Midgley explores the ways in which language can hide, obscure, and falsify pasts and heritages. He engages with what it means to learn, unlearn, and relearn language, and grapples with his own implication in the erasures caused by what has been eaten, literally and metaphorically, by greedy white ants. Midgley’s poems reflect a deep concern ... Read more

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In the polyglot world of Eaten by White Ants, poet Peter Midgley explores the ways in which language can hide, obscure, and falsify pasts and heritages. He engages with what it means to learn, unlearn, and relearn language, and grapples with his own implication in the erasures caused by what has been eaten, literally and metaphorically, by greedy white ants. Midgley’s poems reflect a deep concern
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let us not think of them as barbarians

by Peter Midgley ...

Series series Crow Said Poetry
Finalist for the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry at the 2020 Alberta Literary Awards!Peter Midgley’s let us not think of them as barbarians is a bold narrative of love, migration, and war hewn from the stones of Namibia. Sensual and intimate, these evocative poems fold into each other to renew and undermine multiple poetic traditions. Gradually, the poems assemble an ombindi—an ancestral ... Read more

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Finalist for the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry at the 2020 Alberta Literary Awards!Peter Midgley’s let us not think of them as barbarians is a bold narrative of love, migration, and war hewn from the stones of Namibia. Sensual and intimate, these evocative poems fold into each other to renew and undermine multiple poetic traditions. Gradually, the poems assemble an ombindi—an ancestral
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The Poetry of Nduka Otiono

by Nduka Otiono, Chris Dunton ...

Series Book 36 - Laurier Poetry
DisPlace: The Poetry of Nduka Otiono engages actively with a diasporic world: Otiono is equally at home critiquing petroculture in Nigeria and in Canada. His work straddles multiple poetic traditions and places African intellectual history at the forefront of an engagement with Western poetics.The poems in this selection are drawn from Otiono's two published collections, Voices in the Rainbow, and ... Read more

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DisPlace: The Poetry of Nduka Otiono engages actively with a diasporic world: Otiono is equally at home critiquing petroculture in Nigeria and in Canada. His work straddles multiple poetic traditions and places African intellectual history at the forefront of an engagement with Western poetics.The poems in this selection are drawn from Otiono's two published collections, Voices in the Rainbow, and
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Cape of Storms

The First Life of Adamastor, A Story

by Andre Brink ...

He is the chieftain leader of the Khoikhoi, a nomadic people derogatorily called "Hottentot"' by European colonists. She is a white woman left behind by Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama's crew when they rounded Africa's southern tip in 1498. Their romance is the core of this powerful novella.According to Portuguese myth, Zeus turned Adamastor into the rocky cape of the South African peninsula. ... Read more

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He is the chieftain leader of the Khoikhoi, a nomadic people derogatorily called "Hottentot"' by European colonists. She is a white woman left behind by Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama's crew when they rounded Africa's southern tip in 1498. Their romance is the core of this powerful novella.According to Portuguese myth, Zeus turned Adamastor into the rocky cape of the South African peninsula.
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Big Game Shooting - The Rhinoceros

by F. J. Jackson ...

This early guide is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. A detailed description of big game shooting that will prove of great interest to the hunting enthusiast or historian of the sport. Extensively illustrated with black and white drawings. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We ... Read more

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This early guide is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. A detailed description of big game shooting that will prove of great interest to the hunting enthusiast or historian of the sport. Extensively illustrated with black and white drawings. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We
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Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol

by Okot p’Bitek ...

Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol are among the most successful African literary works. Song of Lawino is an African womanís lamentation over the cultural death of her western educated husband - Ocol. In Song of Ocel the husband tries to justify his cultural apostasy. These songs were translated from Acholi by the author. They evince a fascinating flavour of the African rhythmical idiom. ... Read more

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Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol are among the most successful African literary works. Song of Lawino is an African womanís lamentation over the cultural death of her western educated husband - Ocol. In Song of Ocel the husband tries to justify his cultural apostasy. These songs were translated from Acholi by the author. They evince a fascinating flavour of the African rhythmical idiom.
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The Door of No Return

by Kwame Alexander ...

Series Book 1 - The Door of No Return series
An instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!From the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award winning author Kwame Alexander, comes a searing and breathtaking story of a boy, a village, and the epic odyssey of an African family.In his village in Upper Kwanta, 11-year-old Kofi loves his family, playing oware with his grandfather, and swimming in the river Offin. He’s warned though, to never g... ... Read more

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An instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!From the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award winning author Kwame Alexander, comes a searing and breathtaking story of a boy, a village, and the epic odyssey of an African family.In his village in Upper Kwanta, 11-year-old Kofi loves his family, playing oware with his grandfather, and swimming in the river Offin. He’s warned though, to never g...
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The Promise of Hope

New and Selected Poems, 1964–2013

by Kofi Awoonor ...

Series series African Poetry Book
Kofi Awoonor, one of Ghana’s most accomplished poets, had for almost half a century committed himself to teaching, political engagement, and the literary arts. The one constant that guided and shaped his many occupations and roles in life was poetry. The Promise of Hope is a beautifully edited collection of some of Awoonor’s most arresting work spanning almost fifty years.Selected and edited by ... Read more

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Kofi Awoonor, one of Ghana’s most accomplished poets, had for almost half a century committed himself to teaching, political engagement, and the literary arts. The one constant that guided and shaped his many occupations and roles in life was poetry. The Promise of Hope is a beautifully edited collection of some of Awoonor’s most arresting work spanning almost fifty years.Selected and edited by
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THE STORY OF AHUULA - A Polynesian tale from Hawaii

Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 82

by Anon E Mouse ...

Series Book 82 - Baba Indaba Children's Stories
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 82In Issue 82 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the tale of how the first feather cloak came to be created. Eleio was a kukini, or runner, in the service of Kakaalaneo, King of Maui. On one of his journeys he comes across a spirit in the form of a beautiful women. She gives him instructions and directs him to a house. Well, what happened next? Well, ... Read more

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ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 82In Issue 82 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the tale of how the first feather cloak came to be created. Eleio was a kukini, or runner, in the service of Kakaalaneo, King of Maui. On one of his journeys he comes across a spirit in the form of a beautiful women. She gives him instructions and directs him to a house. Well, what happened next? Well,
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Do Not Enter My Soul in Your Shoes

by Natasha Kanapé Fontaine ...

Translated from French by Howard ScottDo Not Enter My Soul in Your Shoes is a collection of great tenderness. It is especially a cry from the heart. As if the tenderness and poetry were dumbfounded before the eruption of a volcano. Natasha Kanapé Fontaine reveals herself as a poet and Innu woman. She loves. She cries. She shouts ... to come into the world again.This collection is primarily a ... Read more

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Translated from French by Howard ScottDo Not Enter My Soul in Your Shoes is a collection of great tenderness. It is especially a cry from the heart. As if the tenderness and poetry were dumbfounded before the eruption of a volcano. Natasha Kanapé Fontaine reveals herself as a poet and Innu woman. She loves. She cries. She shouts ... to come into the world again.This collection is primarily a
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