Follow AllAfrica News: Books, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/all-africa-news-books Mon, 27 Mar 2023 16:04:33 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LD2efNAwBtQbuGkz6RCC25z [New Times] Teachers have expressed their frustration over the lack of books on the history of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. This history has been taught in primary and secondary schools for almost eight years, but history teachers have faced difficulties in implementing the program due to a shortage of resources.]]> Mon, 27 Mar 2023 08:31:59 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LD2efNAwBtQbuGkz6RCC25z https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LCzyHQNun6Xrv9M7fKGWt0o [The Conversation Africa] Noni Jabavu was the first black South African woman to publish memoirs and one of the first African women to pursue a literary career abroad. She left the country as a teenager to pursue an education and returned intermittently throughout her life. She returned to South Africa in 1977 to research her father's biography. Some of her best known work became the witty, insightful and politically charged columns she wrote for the Daily Dispatch newspaper. But this pioneering figure had been all but forgotten un]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 06:45:04 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LCzyHQNun6Xrv9M7fKGWt0o https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LBCUuHV2pec5eQEmsPXZ5C9 [allAfrica] The African continent's main political body has dealt with a myriad of issues since its inception, including a resurgence of coups, conflict, Ebola and Covid-19 emergencies.]]> Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:46:59 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LBCUuHV2pec5eQEmsPXZ5C9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LD1shVaEd3RpS1Ly282xAAw [L'Express] Mauritius used to be acknowledged as a model of democracy, good governance and robust economic development. We were the pride of the African continent and acclaimed as an economic poster boy by the world. Today, a harsh reality is sinking in, marked by abuse of political power.]]> Fri, 17 Mar 2023 15:28:20 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LD1shVaEd3RpS1Ly282xAAw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LBoW2wgKN7zWa8qfTAM-Smm [FrontPageAfrica] Washington -- Bankole Thompson, one of America's most distinguished and nationally renowned Black journalists, and significant voice on the cultural landscape, whose work is known for probing uncomfortable issues of race, freedom and justice, will headline the Washington, DC book launch of FrontPageAfrica's Editor Rodney D. Sieh's latest book, George Weah, The Story of Africa's Footballer President - An Unofficial Biography.]]> Fri, 17 Mar 2023 09:36:19 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LBoW2wgKN7zWa8qfTAM-Smm https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LCpwkrTqXk4Vlw3HFUzDTIP [The Conversation Africa] Toyin Falola, distinguished professor of history, is one of Africa's most accomplished intellectuals. Born Oloruntoyin Falola in 1953 in the Nigerian city of Ibadan, he grew up in a sprawling, polygamous household that practised Islam, Christianity and ancient Yoruba spirituality.]]> Thu, 16 Mar 2023 06:29:58 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LCpwkrTqXk4Vlw3HFUzDTIP https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LDg_PBCL1O2_ASngkwrdsok [African Arguments] A new book on the Congo recycles stereotypes of Africa as a wasteland in need of saving in all its promo. It's been rapturously received in the West.]]> Thu, 09 Mar 2023 06:51:39 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LDg_PBCL1O2_ASngkwrdsok https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LCPSeJqZ3Na9v9M7fKGWt0o [The Conversation Africa] Wake Up, This is Joburg is a collaboration between photographer Mark Lewis and urban planner and writer Tanya Zack. Striking images and beautiful texts follow 10 stories the team discovered in urban Johannesburg, South Africa. Each chapter captures many overlapping stories that come together around a character, a place or an activity. The book is an ethnographic portrait of one of Africa's most vibrant and intriguing cities. We asked for the stories behind six of its images.]]> Tue, 07 Mar 2023 06:43:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LCPSeJqZ3Na9v9M7fKGWt0o https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LAGE3HQ6pW7AUFW8UNEQjUn [FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Very few books nowadays keep my attention to every sentence, paragraph, page, and chapter. Rodney Dean Sieh's unofficial biography of Africa's football star-turned President is an exception. Rodney is an award-winning journalist, editor and publisher of Liberia's largest independent print and online daily, FrontPage Africa.]]> Mon, 06 Mar 2023 11:36:06 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LAGE3HQ6pW7AUFW8UNEQjUn https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LCOEQI-i8_3I5ONpYks2fGs [The Conversation Africa] Not many African political leaders are known to have publicly declared their love of reading. US president Barack Obama popularised the idea of a recommended reading list and he still shares his annual choice.]]> Thu, 02 Mar 2023 06:29:57 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LCOEQI-i8_3I5ONpYks2fGs https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LCcojDsPxT4eJ8v71dCn6bG [L'Express] To follow the historical chronology of the arrival of Tamil-Indians first from Pondicherry and then from Madras the book was launched on 19th November 2022 by H.E. Mr N. Rengasamy, Chief Minister of Puducherry and on 19th January 2023 by Hon K.S. Masthan Minister of Minorities Welfare , and Non Resident Tamil Welfare. I offered to each State of Puducherry and Tamil Nadu a model ship of "John Allan" which brought my ancestors along with other indentured labourers to Mauritius in August 1884.]]> Mon, 27 Feb 2023 11:30:31 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LCcojDsPxT4eJ8v71dCn6bG https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LBNqW5KdpnNO4vmyuk5fxzE [RFI] The African presence in the world of comic books and graphic novels is sparse, but Ivorian author Marguerite Abouet is changing that. Thanks to her characters Aya and Akissi, both from the suburbs of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, a new generation of role models is on the way.]]> Sun, 19 Feb 2023 20:54:13 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LBNqW5KdpnNO4vmyuk5fxzE https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LDWpRcplmh1NWhamfNIiY2W [Daily News] Dodoma -- MINISTER for Education, Science and Technology, Prof Adolf Mkenda has banned 16 supplementary books from being used in schools and education institutions citing immoral content that violates the country's cultural norms, morals and good practices in upbringing children.]]> Tue, 14 Feb 2023 19:50:23 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LDWpRcplmh1NWhamfNIiY2W https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LCvdbAgfb25bwaB2UxGNFpJ [African Arguments] 2022 saw writers from Africa and the Diaspora bring us some literary gems (see our list of Best Books of 2022). 2023 promises to be no different. So here we bring you a list of some of the upcoming books by writers from Africa and the Diaspora that we are most looking forward to reading in 2023.]]> Sat, 11 Feb 2023 03:42:45 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LCvdbAgfb25bwaB2UxGNFpJ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LBcRLygxOOEQApx5_w21kha [ANGOP] Dundo -- Angolan journalist Guilherme Chihumbwe Martins released Tuesday, in the north-eastern Lunda Norte Province, a book entitled "History and Identity of the Cokwe people - a contribution to the history of Angola and Africa".]]> Wed, 08 Feb 2023 16:05:23 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LBcRLygxOOEQApx5_w21kha https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LDZs0eROwpB56gzzHWHxDTV [Ghanaian Times] The Member of Parliament (MP) for Gomoa West Constituency in the Central Region, Mr Richard Gyan-Mensah, on Friday donated 50,000 copies of branded exercise books to students in the constituency.]]> Wed, 08 Feb 2023 14:34:19 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LDZs0eROwpB56gzzHWHxDTV https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LBaBW767jb3FEQqW5gBv7mX [The Conversation Africa] Travel writing in Africa is often associated with colonial ventures of the past or white adventure pursuits of today. But Africans themselves have long produced captivating travel texts in oral and written forms. We need to look beyond narrowly western or white accounts as travel writing is produced across the world by an extensive range of writers. Literary ezines (electronic magazines on the internet) dedicated to diverse travel writing are thriving.]]> Fri, 03 Feb 2023 06:48:38 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LBaBW767jb3FEQqW5gBv7mX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LB7V0m2bBMWU2W0GqTRQSgk [Daily News] THE Ministry of Education, Science and Technology has directed education officers and quality controllers to visit all schools and libraries to identify unethical books being used by the institutions.]]> Wed, 25 Jan 2023 14:51:34 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LB7V0m2bBMWU2W0GqTRQSgk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LBEYwIOMvTtsmsGk81fO-bN [The Conversation Africa] There has been much comment recently on the lack of representation of minorities in the leadership structures of South Africa's governing party, the African National Congress (ANC).]]> Wed, 25 Jan 2023 06:23:51 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LBEYwIOMvTtsmsGk81fO-bN https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LApIWoUsipkA6rkJyTkC_2b [The Point] Sulayman M. Trawally, a former Permanent Secretary is set to launch his book titled: "Moral Reflections and Thoughts.]]> Mon, 23 Jan 2023 12:47:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/BoAXA72f1LApIWoUsipkA6rkJyTkC_2b