The Good Murungu

Author: Alan Butcher
Publisher: Pitch Publishing
ISBN: 9781785311314
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Former county cricketer and one-time England Test batsman Alan Butcher was looking for a new challenge after leaving his job coaching Surrey County Cricket Club. A phone call out of the blue from a Zimbabwean great alerted him to the possibility of coaching the nation's cricket team. His three years in charge presents an insight into the at times schizophrenic nature of cricket in this intriguing country. Starting at the point when Butcher was offered the job, he describes the process of molding a team out of a dispirited and disillusioned group of players. Part cricket memoir, part travelogue, part ode to Zimbabwe, part lament for a beautiful-but-troubled country, The Good Murungu? is a fascinating insight into Zimbabwean cricket.

Tell Me Friends. Contemporary Stories and Plays of Tanzania

Author: Lilian Osaki
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9987081444
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
This third volume of Tell Me, Friends collects stories and plays written by students and staff at the University of Dar es Salaam between 2006 and 2008. The stories in the collection are: "Our Man" by Saida Yahya-Othman; "The Window Seat" by Benjamin Branoff; "The Concealed Project" by Zuhura Badru; "The Total Crisis" by Simon Mlundi; and "Testimony" by Emmanuel Lema. The plays are: "The Monster" by Anna Chikoti; "Love is..." by Kimberly McLeod; "A Tanzanian Rooftop" by Benjamin Branoff; "Judges on Trial" by Frowin Paul Nyoni; "The Route to Success" by Yunus Ng'umbi; and "The Mop" by Vincensia Shule. Read and share these stories and plays, and enjoy how they depict some of the social-economic and political factors that condition and shape our societies today.

If Something is Wrong--

Author: GAPWUZ (Organization)
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 0797441425
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 86

Book Description
If Something is Wrong is the first in-depth report on the violations committed against farm workers during Zimbabwe's 'land-reform' programme. The report examines the preliminary results of a study conducted by field officers of the General Agriculture and Plantation Workers, Union of Zimbabwe (GAPWUZ). This publication presents statistical evidence alongside first-person testimony to provide a chilling account of the physical and psychological violence perpetrated against Zimbabwe's farm workers. It is not widely known that this huge population of some 1.8 million people has been the greatest victim of Zimbabwe's 'land-reform' programme. It is hoped that this report, and others that will follow it, will help to give voice to this large and vulnerable constituency, and to ensure that the experiences of Zimbabwe's farm-workers will not be forgotten.

The Beginnings of Religion

Author: E.O. James
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000156427
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 119

Book Description
In this book, first published in 1948, an attempt has been made to provide an intelligible introduction to a somewhat complex aspect of scientific inquiry. And secondly, to construct a background of ‘primitive’ ritual and belief against which the more developed religions can be placed. This book is a valuable, early attempt at explaining the beginnings of religion from a modern scientific viewpoint.

ZIMBABWE’S MYSTERIOUS MOUNTAIN DISAPPEARANCES - Hard Cover

Author: CLIFF McILWAINE
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326261215
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 731

Book Description
A riveting and profound read. This intriguing book retains its momentum from beginning to end. The mysterious disappearances of people in the mist-enshrouded mountains of the Eastern Highlands are used effectively to lay bare much of a dark past. It contrasts events in the new Zimbabwe of the nineties against Rhodesia and a fractured pre-colonial history. It kept me spellbound. Africa holds a unique fascination amidst its exotic landscape and Cliff McIlwaine captures and brings together an assortment of colourful characters from different cultural backgrounds which enhance the dramatic tensions. A magical combination of the prosaic and the spiritual creates fascinating insights into the social, political and historical ethos of Zimbabwe. An enjoyable novel which certainly held my attention. Prof C.H.Muller, MA (Wales), PhD (London), D.ED (SA), DLitt (UOFS), Editor.

Working on the Margins

Author: Blair Rutherford
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9781842770016
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
Explores the outer margins of postcolonial culture, state and economy. This fieldwork-rich study focuses on the flue-cured tobacco farms that produce Zimbabwe's number one export. Building on Foucault's concept of "government", the book addresses power, struggle, and accumulation on farms.

ZIMBABWE’S MYSTERIOUS MOUNTAIN DISAPPEARANCES

Author: CLIFF McILWAINE
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326182986
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 733

The Mobile Workshop

Author: Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262345862
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 432

Book Description
How the presence of the tsetse fly turned the African forest into an open laboratory where African knowledge formed the basis of colonial tsetse control policies. The tsetse fly is a pan-African insect that bites an infective forest animal and ingests blood filled with invisible parasites, which it carries and transmits into cattle and people as it bites them, leading to n'gana (animal trypanosomiasis) and sleeping sickness. In The Mobile Workshop, Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga examines how the presence of the tsetse fly turned the forests of Zimbabwe and southern Africa into an open laboratory where African knowledge formed the basis of colonial tsetse control policies. He traces the pestiferous work that an indefatigable, mobile insect does through its movements, and the work done by humans to control it. Mavhunga's account restores the central role not just of African labor but of African intellect in the production of knowledge about the tsetse fly. He describes how European colonizers built on and beyond this knowledge toward destructive and toxic methods, including cutting down entire forests, forced “prophylactic” resettlement, massive destruction of wild animals, and extensive spraying of organochlorine pesticides. Throughout, Mavhunga uses African terms to describe the African experience, taking vernacular concepts as starting points in writing a narrative of ruzivo (knowledge) rather than viewing Africa through foreign keywords. The tsetse fly became a site of knowledge production—a mobile workshop of pestilence.

The Zebra Crossings

Author: Tsitsi Tsopotsa
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291232176
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 412

Book Description
In the 1970s, somewhere in the rural areas of Rhodesia, a young man and woman fall in love. An unremarkable occurrence one might think- except Rob Du Toit is of affluent stock, and Rudo derives from a struggling family. They are living in a country in transition, but that fact does little to help their cause. Their path to happiness is a minefield of hurdles and prejudices that only intensify as time progresses. This is a tender story written with heartfelt feeling, a book that you will want to read from beginning to end.

With Captain Stairs to Katanga

Author: Joseph A. Moloney
Publisher: Jeppestown Press
ISBN: 0955393655
Category : Africa, East
Languages : en
Pages : 197

Book Description
The late 19th century saw practically the entire continent of Africa carved up and partitioned between a handful of European colonial powers. This is the story of the Stairs Expedition, related by the group's medical officer. First published in 1893, Moloney's fascinating narrative will transport readers to a world of cannibals, missionaries, and slave traders; a provocative military invasion and its bloody climax; and the mercenaries' nightmarish return march.