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Respect for human dignity : an inaugural address
A pamphlet of a political nature, 'Respect for Human Dignity', is Nnamdi Azikiwe's Inaugural Address as the first African Governor-General and Commander in Chief of the Federation of Nigeria. Addressing his fellow Nigerians on 16 November 1960,…
Gao Xingjian 高行健
Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in 1940 in Jiangxi province in eastern China, and has lived in France since 1987. Gao Xingjian is that rare artist who excels as novelist, playwright, essayist,…
Mashimo ya mfalme Sulemani [King Solomon's mines]
Abridged Swahili translation of Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines.
Call Number: PR4731 .K5 S9 1948
Call Number: PR4731 .K5 S9 1948
Utenzi wa vita vya uhuru, 1939 hata 1945 [Poem of the war of freedom, 1939 to 1945]
Utenzi wa vita vya uhuru, composed by the noted and prolific Tanzanian author, Shaaban Robert, is possibly the longest utenzi poem ever written. In 3,000 stanzas, Robert recounts the events of World War II from the German invasion of Czechoslovakia…
"Guilty or Not Guilty?": Speeches from the dock, or Protests of Irish Patriotism.: The Manchester Tragedy and the Cruise of the Jacknell Packet.: "The Wearing of the Green," or The Prosecuted Funeral Procession, &c
Illustration of Manchester Martyrs, captioned "God Save Ireland", facing page 38.
Polygamy and sublime passion sexuality in China on the verge of modernity
The author provides a thought provoking literary history of the normative ideal of polygamy from the late Ming to the late Qing, countering the ideal with the theme of sublime love between two people. McMahon argues that the fantasies of polygamy had…