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"Cracking the Code: The Confused Traveler's Guide to Liberian English" is the brainchild of John Mark Sheppard, who moved with his family from the United States to Liberia when he was just three years old. He learned Liberian English as a second language as he spent his childhood and teen years immersed in the Liberian culture. After college in the United States, John Mark returned to Liberia and began a more formal study of Liberia's history, customs and languages. In this truly fascinati...

A “remarkable chronicle” of a journey back to this West African nation after years of exile (The New York Times Book Review).Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to visit her father in Nigeria—a country she viewed as an annoying parallel universe where she had to relinquish all her creature comforts and sense of individuality. After her father, activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, was killed there, she didn’t return for several years. Then she ...

Bambara Language Audio Training CourseWelcome to the Bambara Language Audio Training Course. This course is designed to teach you the basics both before and during your visit to Mali. Learn essential words, phrases and vocabulary. This course is perfect for beginners and anyone interested in learning the Bambara language.Listen to the native speakers and practice your conversation skills, pronunciation and transliteration. This course is designed to be used over and over again...

Speak Swahili Instantly! Easy to follow; perfect for beginners. Over 1000 essential words and phrases. Perfect your pronunciation with transliteration. Practical and conversational. Easy reference dictionary included. No complex jargon or grammar. Over 1000 essential words and phrases in one handy guide. Transliteration and pronunciation guide to help you get started immediately.

Covering 500 years of Ghana's history, The Ghana Reader provides a multitude of historical, political, and cultural perspectives on this iconic African nation. Whether discussing the Asante kingdom and the Gold Coast's importance to European commerce and transatlantic slaving, Ghana's brief period under British colonial rule, or the emergence of its modern democracy, the volume's eighty selections emphasize Ghana's enormous symbolic and pragmatic value to global relations. They al...

Zulu Language Audio Training CourseWelcome to the Zulu Language Audio Training Course. This course is designed to teach you the basics both before and during your visit to South Africa. Learn essential words, phrases and vocabulary. This course is perfect for beginners and anyone interested in learning the Zulu language.Listen to the native speakers and practice your conversation skills, pronunciation and transliteration. This course is designed to be used over and over again ...

AN ENGAGING AND WELL-WRITTEN CULTURAL AND LITERARY HISTORY. Lagos is one of the fastest growing cities in the world. Kaye Whiteman explores a city that has constantly re-invented itself, from the first settlement on an uninhabited island to the creation of the port in the early years of the twentieth century. Lagos is still defined by its curious network of islands and lagoons, where erosion and reclamation lead to a permanently shifting topography, but history has thrust it into the role ...

Soninke Language Audio Training CourseWelcome to the Soninke Language Audio Training Course. This course is designed to teach you the basics both before and during your visit to Mauritania. Learn essential words, phrases and vocabulary. This course is perfect for beginners and anyone interested in learning the Soninke language.Listen to the native speakers and practice your conversation skills, pronunciation and transliteration. This course is designed to be used over and over...

The African slave trade, beginning in the fifteenth century, brought African languages into contact with Spanish and Portuguese, resulting in the Africans' gradual acquisition of these languages. In this 2004 book, John Lipski describes the major forms of Afro-Hispanic language found in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America over the last 500 years. As well as discussing pronunciation, morphology and syntax, he separates legitimate forms of Afro-Hispanic expression from those that result ...

This collection combines previously unpublished letters between African-American poet Langston Hughes and South-African writers of the 1950s and 1960s with scholarly commentary and criticism. The letters tell a fascinating story of the civil rights movement and apartheid and the struggle to overthrow it.

This publication, published by SamEnrico, covers Ultimate Handbook Guide to Abuja : (Nigeria) Travel Guide