Beloved African

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present. Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison’s unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature.

Cry My Beloved Africa is a compendium of essays having as locus the continent of Africa. It comprises insightful observations on the politics, governmental systems, political economy, cultural practices, educational systems and natural phenomena that impact on the lives of Africans. True to the tradition of French novelist Stendhal, the author intends this work to serve as a mirror that reflects the day-to-day living of the different peoples that inhabit the fifty-three nation-states in Africa. It is directed to contemporary Africa and to the relationship between Africa and the rest of the globe. The didactic value of the book resides in its suitability to the young and the old. The language is clear and free of sophistry.

About the Book Arise and Walk, O Beloved Africa recounts the main events and happenings of the African Union (AU) since its creation under the then Organization of African Unity (OAU) from 1963 to 2020. As we recall the past history of the OAU/AU, we learn of successive leaders and main decisions taken and challenges encountered since its establishment in 1963. This book is a recollection at a one go of what main issues the African continent is facing, how they were approached by different leaders at different times over the last sixty years. Read Arise and Walk, O Beloved Africa to find inspiration to be more focused on how to apprehend problems faced by Africa and possible solutions to overcome them. Let’s make Africa more relevant and responsive of the challenges facing humanity. About the Author Ambassador Jean Mfasoni is much involved in community matters wherever he has served in his country and abroad, notably holding leadership positions in various communities, including at school/university, the workplace, etc. Through his involvement in the OAU/AU work for over forty years, he has become an institutional memory as several leaders, colleagues, and friends have relied on him to enlighten them on past OAU/AU experiences and that of the continent at large. Jean loves music, humor, the sharing of information, walking, reading, and social events. His special interests include continuous learning and intellectual debates about societal problems. He is very interested in building strong family and community relationships.

This is a new paperback edition of Beloved African, originally launched at Adelaide Writer's Week in 2000, in response to a sudden and gratifying swell of demand, as this powerful story taps into a constantly increasing pool of readers. Original hard cover and paperback issues are now out of print. An immensely powerful love story it is certainly - but with such insight into how Headmaster John Hammond battled first, to persuade Africans to send their sons to school in the 1930's, then rode the whirlwind as demand grew out of all proportion to the country's capability to meet it. He strode an increasingly political stage - fighting to educate and skill enough youngsters for the critically important task of running a new country. First at Tjolotjo - agriculture, leatherwork, metal work carpentry - then to Mzingwane, as the pupils themselves built the school as a project - ending as Head of Goromonzi with 6 years of academic learning. The story comes to life through Nancy Hammond's precise memory for detail, hundreds of letters written and lovingly preserved since they met and a series of tape recordings with John,18 months before his death 1996. The agonies of what occurred and the effects it had are described with candour and clarity. Absorbing tales of dedication and effort, so often thwarted by political duplicity. READER REVIEWS Peter Winhall: Cape Town: I write to say this book is terrific, and some of the published speeches from headmaster John Hammond are simply stunning! Where else does one find the reality of those times expressed so clearly? What a man; what dedication! What tough times!... staggering. The power of "Beloved African" apart from being a true love story, is that it gets across the enormity of the task of not only creating the infrastructure, but actually educating the indigenous natives in an endeavour to bridge the gap and create a thriving and prosperous nation. Bearing in mind that every piece of galvanised steel, every nut and bolt, and virtually everything one can imagine that didn't come from an animal's hide, or from mud, grass or wood, had to be brought in by ox wagon from 1000 miles away! "Beloved African" delights in bringing the gigantic task to life and what people did through unbelievable dedication. Scott Hatfield: Penticton, Canada My good friend Joe Hermann, kindly mailed me a copy of your wonderful book, Beloved African, in 2003. Born in Southern Rhodesia in 1936 I lived every well-written episode in the book. John Hammond was a hero. Lima Hotel: 5* This completely truthful and deeply insightful biography of John Hammond has thrilled, informed, moved me to tears, filled me with joyful nostalgia, made me seethe with anger. A truly brilliant historical read. Helen Bowyer: 5* A terrific book with so much information in it that describes the agony of people like Hammond whose only desire was to see the African race progress in all areas of life. Oh if only all teachers had the same heart. CRIT: South African best sellers: Guardian March 2000 Antoinette Bain Respect, honesty and integrity were values John Hammond regarded highly and which he tried to instil in his pupils and staff. Many became leaders in their fields of expertise. The subject matter is serious, but the book reads easily and moves along at a sufficiently fast pace to keep the reader interested without losing sight of the importance of the issues concerned. Beloved African is a book filled with thought provoking material. In a time when Africa's history is being re-written to reflect a more balanced view a valuable addition to the reading lists of historians, politicians and concerned citizens ali...

Writers as diverse as Carolivia Herron, Charles Johnson, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Derek Walcott have addressed the history of slavery in their literary works. In this groundbreaking new book, Arlene R. Keizer contends that these writers theorize the nature and formation of the black subject and engage established theories of subjectivity in their fiction and drama by using slave characters and the condition of slavery as focal points. In this book, Keizer examines theories derived from fictional works in light of more established theories of subject formation, such as psychoanalysis, Althusserian interpellation, performance theory, and theories about the formation of postmodern subjects under late capitalism. Black Subjects shows how African American and Caribbean writers' theories of identity formation, which arise from the varieties of black experience re-imagined in fiction, force a reconsideration of the conceptual bases of established theories of subjectivity. The striking connections Keizer draws between these two bodies of theory contribute significantly to African American and Caribbean Studies, literary theory, and critical race and ethnic studies.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Here is the Nobel Prize winner in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades that "speaks to today’s social and political moment as directly as this morning’s headlines” (NPR). These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. She looks deeply into the fault lines of culture and freedom: the foreigner, female empowerment, the press, money, “black matter(s),” human rights, the artist in society, the Afro-American presence in American literature. And she turns her incisive critical eye to her own work (The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby, Jazz, Beloved, Paradise) and that of others. An essential collection from an essential writer, The Source of Self-Regard shines with the literary elegance, intellectual prowess, spiritual depth, and moral compass that have made Toni Morrison our most cherished and enduring voice.

The most substantial collection of critical essays on Morrison to appear since her death in mid-2019, this book contains previously unpublished essays which both acknowledge the universal significance of her writing even as they map new directions. Essayists include pre-eminent Morrison scholars, as well as scholars who work in cultural criticism, African American letters, American modernism, and women's writing. The book includes work on Morrison as a public intellectual; work which places Morrison's writing within today's currents of contemporary fiction; work which draws together Morrison's “trilogy” of Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise alongside Dos Passos' USA trilogy; work which links Morrison to such Black Atlantic artists as Lubaina Himid and others as well as work which offers a reading of “influence” that goes both directions between Morrison and Faulkner. Another cluster of essays treats seldom-discussed works by Morrison, including an essay on Morrison as writer of children's books and as speaker for children's education. In addition, a “Teaching Morrison” section is designed to help teachers and critics who teach Morrison in undergraduate classes. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison is wide-ranging, provocative, and satisfying; a fitting tribute to one of the greatest American novelists.