The central story in this book tells of an upright man resisting the temptations of easy bribes and easy satisfactions and winning for his honesty nothing but scorn.

The beautyful ones are not yet born: A novel

Ayi Kwei Armah

Collier Books

Osiris Rising, A Novel

Per Ankh

The text takes preschool children, parents and teachers on a journey to the African origins of writing in ancient Egypt. (written in English and French). Written by Ayi Kwei Armah & Aboubacry Mousa Lam

Hieroglyphics for Babies

<p>A member of the African elite groping its way out of the background of slavery and colonialism, Baako see his education as reparation for the lifework of a socially innovative artist. His family, more pragmatic, expects an elite resume to convert into power and wealth in the real world here and now. Unable to harmonize countervailing needs with wider social aspirations, both family and individual drift toward confrontation and inexorable loss.</p>

Fragments

<p>1885, Berlin: European and American globalizers set up colonies that impoverished Africans by exporting raw resources to fuel European and American prosperity.1960s: "Independent" Africa's rulers, far from uniting Africa to create prosperity by processing the continent's fabulous resources, opted to maintain the colonial system in return for loans and grants, while chanting Pan-Africanism at hotel conferences.In this destructive drift, a minority of lucid scholars, spearheaded by Cheikh Anta Diop and Théophile Obenga, argued that instead of following Europe and America, we'd do better to retrieve Africa's own multi-millennial heritage of philosophical and cultural values, the best of which, like Maât, centered on political unity and social justice, would be our surest guide into a regenerative future. These essays show exactly why. They also suggest ways in which we can heed the call of our most creative thinkers, to prepare for the long-postponed rebirth of African society.</p>

Remembering the Dismembered Continent

The Story of Sanhat, an Official of Kemet SANHAT, among Africa's oldest written literary texts, comes from the time of King Sehotepibre, three thousand eight hundred years ago. Sanhat, an officer returning from Libya after a military expedition, hears messengers summon the prince Senwosret urgently to the capital: The pharaoh is dead. Sanhat overhears other messengers summoning other, younger princes back. Fearing a bloody palace coup, he flees to Palestine. There he prospers. But dreading the prospect of dying abroad, he obtains a royal pardon, and returns to Egypt, bringing his life to a satisfactory close. This tale, over four thousand years old, is here transliterated and translated into French and English by the SHEMSW BAK hieroglyphic study group (Yopreka Somet, Jacques Depelchin, Ayi Kwei Armah) and then translated into Akan, Kikongo, Kiswahili, Portuguese, Wolof and Zulu by freelancers working from the French and English versions.

Sanhat

History

Jacques Depelchin

Yoporeka Somet

J Yedu Bannerman

Ernest Wamba dia Wamba

Ramenga Mtaali Osotsi

Simone Santos

Mustafaa Joob

Gugulethu Mazibuko

Africa

Per Ankh Publishers

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