39 Results for : somalis
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Music Night at the Apollo: A Memoir of Drifting , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 386min
What you’ve got to understand is that here in Southall, everyone’s up to something.In 2006, Lilian Pizzichini swaps life on dry land for a narrowboat on the Paddington arm of the Grand Union Canal. The Adam Bonny, moored between Newlocks and Shackleton Estates, is to be the place she can learn more about her extensive working-class London family – and the place where she will become pulled into a strange underbelly of drugs, vagrant neighbours and criminals.Lilian always found it easier to observe than join in. Abandoned by everyone around her, by the time she was fourteen she had developed a taste for Pernod and black. Speed allowed her to talk to boys, but she spent most of her time with her great-aunt Dolly, who had no regard for convention, sang songs and urinated on the street. Born into the slums of Lisson Grove, Dolly spoke like Eliza Doolittle when no-one was listening. With her, Lilian felt the bonds of mischief, gambling, madness and song.As the sad lives of her ancestors sprawl and take root in her head, Lilian drinks endless brandy and cokes in the Brickmaker’s Arms. Pete – ex-burglar and dealer – brings her heroin, skunk and bags of pills and, united by a desire to lose consciousness on a regular basis, becomes her boyfriend. He tells her about the Somalis and Punjabis and their rival gangs, about the honour killings happening under their bridges and they watch as the prostitutes and pimps run the streets.But addiction has a relentless appetite and Lilian soon realises that, just like the Adam Bonny, she is sinking and must, with her help of her ancestors, try to pull herself back. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Penny Scott-Andrews. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018159/bk_adbl_018159_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Gifts of Africa (eBook, ePUB)
"The West will begin to understand Africa when it realizes it's not talking to a child-it's talking to its mother."So writes Jeff Pearce in the introduction to his fascinating, groundbreaking work, The Gifts of Africa: How a Continent and Its People Changed the World.We learn early on in school how Europe and Asia gave us important literature, science, and art, and how their nations changed the course of history. But what about Africa? There are plenty of books that detail its colonialism, corruption, famine, and war, but few that discuss the debt owed to African thinkers and innovators. In The Gifts of Africa, we meet Zera Yacob, an Ethiopian philosopher who developed the same critical approach and several of the same ideas as René Descartes. We consider how Somalis traded with China, and we meet the African warrior queens who still inspire national pride. We explore how Liberia's Edward Wilmot Blyden deeply influenced Marcus Garvey, and we sneak into the galleries and theaters of 1920s Paris, where African art and dance first began to make huge impacts on the world. Relying on meticulous research, Pearce brings to life a rich intellectual legacy and profiles modern innovators like acclaimed griot Papa Susso and renowned economist George Ayittey from Ghana. From the ancient Nubians to a Nigerian superstar in modern painting and sculpture, from the father of sociology in the Maghreb to how the Mau Mau in Kenya influenced Malcom X, The Gifts of Africa is bold, engaging, and takes the reader on a journey of thousands of years up to the present day. Past works have reinforced misconceptions about Africa, from its oral traditions and languages to its resistance to colonial powers. Other books have treated African achievements as a parade of honorable mentions and novelties. This book is different-refreshingly different. It tells the stories behind the milestones and provides insights into how great Africans thought, and how they passed along what they learned. Provocative and entertaining, The Gifts of Africa at last gives the continent its due, and it should change the way we learn about the interactions of cultures and how we teach the history of the world.- Shop: buecher
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Mon voyage en Abyssinie
Mon voyage en Abyssinie - Et séjour chez les Somalis (côte orientale d'Afrique): ab 5.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Somalis in Minnesota
Somalis in Minnesota: ab 12.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Warriors
Warriors - Life and death among the Somalis: ab 12.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Fluchtgebiet Somalia - Was treibt die Somalis aus ihrer Heimat?
Fluchtgebiet Somalia - Was treibt die Somalis aus ihrer Heimat? - 1. Auflage: ab 12.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Transnational Nomads
Transnational Nomads - How Somalis Cope with Refugee Life in the Dadaab Camps of Kenya: ab 38.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
- Price: 38.49 EUR excl. shipping
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Seeking Salaam
Seeking Salaam - Ethiopians Eritreans and Somalis in the Pacific Northwest: ab 55.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Black Hawk Down
In 1993, an elite group of American Rangers and Delta Force soldiers are sent to Somalia on a critical mission to capture a violent warlord whose corrupt regime has lead to the starvation of hundreds of thousands of Somalis. When the mission goes quickly and terribly wrong, the men find themselves outnumbered and literally fighting for their lives. Starring Ewan McGregor, Josh Hartnett and Sam Shepard. Directed Ridley Scott. Includes: "Black Hawk Down: On the Set" Featurette, Trailers production notes and filmograpies.- Shop: odax
- Price: 3.81 EUR excl. shipping
