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Voices Made Night (African Writers Series)
In this collection of stories, the Mozambican poet, Mia Couto, expresses, through striking poetic metaphors, the emptiness and absurdity of lives bound by poverty and subject to arbitrary incursions of extreme violence. The frustrated longing of the lipless snake catcher who surrounds his lady’s house with snakes; or the man who fears his wife is a witch and scalds her with boiling water, are caught in dual tension. In Voices Made Night, an African cosmology portrays a surreal world defined by its contradictions, set against a background of political instability.₵45.00 -
Shameful Sacrifice (Pacesetters)
During the Biafran War, each person has to fight for survival in whatever way seems best. For Ije-ego life is particularly hard. She has an extended family to support and care for – and nothing but herself to give in return for help. Will she be able to return to normality when the War ends?
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Bittersweet (Pacesetters)
Ayorinde Campell returns to Sierra Leone after four years of studying in England. On board ship she meets the dashing, handsome Raymond Thomas and falls in love. It seems that she is destined for a life of happiness, but there are dark clouds on the horizon.
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Operation Rhino (Pacesetters)
Throughout the world the rhino population has been exterminated by ruthless men, greedy for their own wealth. Only in East Africa is there any hope of stemming the tide. A band of dedicated conservationists, led by Dr Hanna Mwaura, are determined to save the species. There is no room in Hanna’s life for anything else – even for love. But ranged against them are the forces of evil – and they seem always to be one step ahead of the conservationists…
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Trolley Trouble (Junior African Writers Series Level 1)
Level 1 is for readers who have been studying for three to four years. The content and language have been carefully controlled to increase fluency in reading.
When Tito disobeys the supermarket Manager’s order to help someone, he is fired from his job. How will he ever buy the soccer ball he dreams of?
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The Little Blue Boy (Junior African Writers Series Level 2)
Level 2 is suited to learners who have been studying English for 4-5 years. Short sentences and a large number of illustrations combine to make these books both enjoyable and easy to read, either individually or in class. Learners have a wide variety of stories to choose from.
A little boy is born in the heart of Africa. He is a beautiful, healthy little boy – but he is blue! All the other children laugh at him. But he has an important lesson to teach them.
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The Bright Lights (Junior African Writers Series Level 1)
Level 1 is for readers who have been studying for three to four years. The content and language have been carefully controlled to increase fluency in reading.
Naledi is very happy when she comes to live in the city with her aunt and uncle — she loves the bright lights. Then everything goes wrong and she wants to run away.
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Lulama’s Penfriend (Junior African Writers Series Level 2)
Level 2 is suited to learners who have been studying English for 4-5 years. Short sentences and a large number of illustrations combine to make these books both enjoyable and easy to read, either individually or in class. Learners have a wide variety of stories to choose from.
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Adefe and the Old Chief (Junior African Writers Series Level 2)
Level 2 is suited to learners who have been studying English for 4-5 years. Short sentences and a large number of illustrations combine to make these books both enjoyable and easy to read, either individually or in class. Learners have a wide variety of stories to choose from.
Adefe is a beautiful young girl living in a village in Ghana. She works hard at school, and hopes to go to university. But the village chief does not approve. He wants her to marry him instead! Winner of the British Council 1998 Ghana Write-a-Story Competition.
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Double Trouble (Junior African Writers Series Level 2)
Level 2 is suited to learners who have been studying English for 4-5 years. Short sentences and a large number of illustrations combine to make these books both enjoyable and easy to read, either individually or in class. Learners have a wide variety of stories to choose from.
Honey and Mersian live on a farm in Namibia. They are twins – their mother calls them ‘Double Trouble’! But one day there is real trouble when their father is accused of poaching. The twins are determined to clear his name…
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Every Man Is A Race (African Writers Series)
‘A man’s story is always badly told. That’s because a person never stops being born. Nobody leads one sole life, we are all multiplied into different and ever-changeable men.’ So it is with all the stories in this collection, which never make a definitive judgement on the individual life, but only suggest its possibilities.Set in Mozambique, the stories reflect the legacy of Portuguese colonialism and the tragedy of the subsequent civil war.Mia Couto’s first collection, Voices Made Night, was described as ‘lyrical’, ‘magical’ and ‘compassionate’ by the reviewers, who were unanimous in identifying a significant new talent from the continent. This volume confirms that judgement.
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What The Future Holds (Pacesetters)
What the Future Holds follows the life of Lobenguni “Kiki” Mkhatshwa, a young Swazi woman of Nguni descent who, at the beginning of the novel, has brought her baby into town to confront the child’s father, Menzi Dlamini (Dlamini is a common Swazi clan name), at his place of work, in order to ensure that he pays child support.
We then flash back to 1961, before Kiki was born, and meet her mother, LaMsibi, and father, Gezani, who struggle to make a life for themselves as farmers in a small village in the Maphakane valley. Gezani is determined to ensure that his child has a better life than he has so he decides to have her educated. Gezani is a traditional Nguni who does not approve of Christianity and the foreign missionaries who bring it. However, he does appreciate the need for Swazi children to be able to read and write, and only missionary schools provide this education. Despite having convinced his father to disown her twenty years earlier when she converted to Christianity, Gezani seeks out his sister, Saraphina, a teacher at a missionary school, and asks that she takes in Kiki and sends her to school. Gezani then decides to leave his homestead and go back to working in the mines of Johannesburg in order to pay for Kiki’s education.
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The Worshippers (Pacesetters)
Paul Okoro is in hospital having lost his leg in a skirmish with a crocodile. He tells a strange and sinister tale of darkness and mystery in the back streets of Ibadan. A man is brutally murdered; Paul’s beautiful girlfriend is kidnapped by thugs (who get more than they bargained for) and Paul finds himself up to his neck in trouble.
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The Camera Never Lies (Pacesetters)
Kevin Moyo, a professional photographer, and Charlotte Kandavika are deeply in love, but fate in the guise of the evil Wellington Mhlanya seems destined to part them forever. When Kevin meets with a terrible accident, Charlotte has only one choice.
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Moses and the Gunman (Pacesetters)
Cries of ‘Bang! Bang!’, ‘Get em up!’ and ‘Everybody freeze!’ filled the air.
Suddenly Dorm 3 was full of would-be cowboys, gangsters and cops.
Only the irrepressible Moses and his friends could make a day of work experience into an adventure with an unlikely gunman.
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