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  • AA WHO CDC booklet

    Alcoholic But Not Addicted

    by Apiwe Mahola ...
    Series series Today's Weather Report
    Published lyrics from before Unknown Soldiers until AA WHO CDC Alcoholic But Not AddictedApiwe Mahola introduces himself with this digitized booklet using a connection to some of his released music linked with lyrics that were not lost, quickly the last 20years to 10 years publication for print upto the upcoming releases of Alcoholic Not Addicted and the series titled Today's Weather Report, an ... Read more

    $12.37 CAD

  • Heroes Of The Struggle [Forgotten Bastards]

    [Forgotten Bastards]

    If the cruel reality which was instituted by law and was so defended through brute force by the past Apartheid South African system is as this writing by Mzi states, why must that be forgotten, by those who fought with spirit, limb and mind against it with the objective to defeat and destroy it; or why must its perpetrators, who now become the citizens of the new dispensation, be encouraged or ... Read more

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  • Strange Things

    Mzi Mahola's childhood was spent at the foot of the Hogsback. He was educated in Port Elizabeth Lovedale and Healdtown and at the time of publication, he was an educational officer with the Port Elizabeth Museum. His life spans the experience of a whole Eastern Cape generation - a peaceful though poverty-stricken rural family with its traditions intact, coexisting with the political awareness and ... Read more

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  • Weep Not, Child

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    The Nobel Prize–nominated Kenyan writer’s powerful first novelTwo brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage heap and look into their futures: Njoroge is to attend school, while Kamau will train to be a carpenter. But this is Kenya, and the times are against them: In the forests, the Mau Mau is waging war against the white government, and the two brothers and their family need to decide where ... Read more

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  • Springboard

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    This is a collection of 25 poems by James Bickle. The poetry discusses profound issues with insight, James does not shy away from brutally honest social commentary. Poems included are: The Ego, The Manager, Those who win, Seven Billion, Why does God allow suffering, Local Countryside, New Year, Cool, Escapism, You're not allowed, Social Housing, Christmas Day, The Entrepreneur, A week in the life, ... Read more

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  • My Traitor's Heart

    A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience

    by Rian Malan ...
    An Afrikaner crime reporter returns home to face the evil and complex legacy of South African apartheid in " a witness-bearing act of the rarest courage" (Michael Kerr).Rian Malan's classic work of reportage, My Traitor's Heart is at once beautiful, horrifying, and profound in ways that earned him comparisons to Michael Herr and Ryszard Kapuściński, and inspired the London Times to call him "South ... Read more

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  • House of Stone

    The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe

    A powerful and intensely human insight into the civil war in Zimbabwe, focusing on a white farmer and his maid who find themselves on opposing sides.One bright morning Nigel Hough, one of the few remaining white farmers in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, received the news he was dreading – a crowd were at the gate demanding he surrender his home and land. To his horror, his family's much-loved nanny Aqui was ... Read more

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  • The Tear-Drop Prince

    Mihai Eminescu is considered Romania's greatest poet. The Tear-Drop Prince is his only children's story and is popular throughout Romania. This is the tale of the Prince searching for true love, adventure and honour. Eminescu was born in 1850 and died in 1889. As a Romantic poet, his language reflects the sweetness in his language. The cover is illustrated by Emil Childescu and translated into ... Read more

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    A White Boy in Africa

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    Mukiwa opens with Peter Godwin, six years old, describing the murder of his neighbor by African guerillas, in 1964, pre-war Rhodesia. Godwin's parents are liberal whites, his mother a governement-employed doctor, his father an engineer. Through his innocent, young eyes, the story of the beginning of the end of white rule in Africa unfolds. The memoir follows Godwin's personal journey from the eve ... Read more

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  • Voice Over

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  • Country Of My Skull

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