tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46598539403276915812024-03-08T00:06:23.090-08:00accraGiuseppe Evahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05848180089896107347noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659853940327691581.post-77817911873870835412009-03-16T00:21:00.001-07:002009-03-16T00:21:32.386-07:00Accra Street And Ghana Road Maps <b><a href="http://store.dokkaew.com/AccraStreetAndGhanaRoadMaps/">Accra Street and Ghana Road Maps</a></b><br>Binding :Paperback<br>Label :Surf Publications<br>Manufacturer :Surf Publications<br>ProductGroup :Book<br>Studio :Surf Publications<br>Publisher :Surf Publications<br> Giuseppe Evahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05848180089896107347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659853940327691581.post-64484091928920573592009-03-14T03:26:00.001-07:002009-03-14T03:26:43.559-07:00Gender, Social Change And Spiritual Power: Charismatic Christianity In Ghana (Studies Of Religion In Africa) <b><a href="http://store.dokkaew.com/GenderSocialChangeAndSpiritualPowerCharismaticChristianityInGhanaStudiesOfReligionInAfrica/">Gender, Social Change and Spiritual Power: Charismatic Christianity in Ghana (Studies of Religion in Africa)</a></b><div style="padding:7px;float:left;"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41cBvha9B2L._SL160_.jpg"></div><h2>Product Description</h2><br>Charismatic Christianity is the most recent and fastest growing expression of Pentecostal religion in Sub-Saharan Africa. 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Deborah Pellow explores the relationships among community members both in terms of the built structuresrooms, doors, communal structures, and hallwaysand of the social networks, institutions, and routine activities that define this unique urban neighborhood. This volume will be useful to students and scholars of the relationships between architecture, migration, and social change.<BR><BR>This richly observed and lovingly constructed portrait of a distinctive community will be of interest to spatially informed scholars of religion, immigration, minority communities, and gender.<I>Gender, Place and Culture</I><BR><I></I><BR>This theoretically informed, well-researched, and closely written book should be quite useful. . . . A fine case study of urban sense of place in a unique, yet in some ways emblematic, West African neighborhood.Gareth Myers, <I>Professional Geographer</I><I></I></DIV><br>Binding :Paperback<br>Label :University Of Chicago Press<br>Manufacturer :University Of Chicago Press<br>ProductGroup :Book<br>Studio :University Of Chicago Press<br>Publisher :University Of Chicago Press<br>EAN :9780226653976<br>Price :$22.50USD<br>Lowest Price :$16.09USD<br><li><a href="http://store.dokkaew.com/OutlineofaTheoryofPracticeCambridgeStudiesinSocialandCulturalAnthropology/">Outline of a Theory of Practice (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)</a></li> Giuseppe Evahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05848180089896107347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659853940327691581.post-61239376075904796892009-02-24T00:39:00.001-08:002009-02-24T00:39:41.884-08:00Kukuwa Dance Workout <b><a href="http://store.dokkaew.com/KukuwaDanceWorkout/">Kukuwa Dance Workout</a></b><div style="padding:7px;float:left;"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AXJ42783L._SL160_.jpg"></div><h2>Product Description</h2><br>Studio: Mpi Home Video Release Date: 09/27/2005 Run time: 135 minutes<br>Rate Points :4.5<br>Binding :DVD<br>Brand :MPI<br>Label :Mpi Home Video<br>Manufacturer :Mpi Home Video<br>MPN :MPID7681D<br>ProductGroup :DVD<br>Studio :Mpi Home Video<br>Publisher :Mpi Home Video<br>UPC :030306768199<br>EAN :9780788607066<br>Price :$19.98USD<br>Lowest Price :$10.32USD<br><b>Customer Reviews</b><b>Great workout!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</b> <br><small>Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :2 </small><br>The Kukuwa Dance Workout is very exciting to me. It keeps you moving and I learned some pretty cool dances at the same time. I dont usually break a sweat, but this Dance Workout changed all of that. I am so glad my friend introduced me to this so a quickly made this puchase. It is worth it. It is something quick and anyone can keep up with it. Trust me, if I can keep up so can you lol.<br> <div style="padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;border-bottom:1px dashed #cccccc;"></div><b>Easy moves, nonstop cardio</b> <br><small>Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :1 </small><br>I usually make up my own cardio dance. I would never take a dance class because I am not good at remembering tricky sequences. This is a nice dance DVD because the moves are so simple and you move right and left and forward and back and shake your hips which is pretty much a no brainer. I also appreciate that you dont need too much space. I like the third dance best and Kukuwa is very encouraging and motivating.I didnt think it was so much like other African Dance. Seems more Latin and I like that because it is better on my back.<br> <div style="padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;border-bottom:1px dashed #cccccc;"></div><b>Outstanding way to do cardio for those with dance background</b> <br><small>Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :9 </small><br>I disagree with the reviewer who said the instructor slowed down too much, doing high fives and the frequent interruptions. Everybody knows if you dont want to stop moving, you run in place or jump rope. Or get water or wipe the sweat off your face. Not hard to figure out.<br /><br />In terms of the workout, cueing could be better, however, it is a DVD and rewind is always an option. It is presupposed with ownership of the DVD that you will do this more than once and, therefore, you will pick up the moves.<br /><br />This DVD dovetails nicely with other types of dance instruction, including W. African and Latin/Caribbean. I like the music. It is really one heck of a workout....sweat, sweat, sweat, and the movement IS constant. She does a good job of addressing the core with fun moves that dont really feel like hard work until you wake up the next day.<br /><br />I have an excellent W. dance background (ballet mostly) and find this to be a very challenging routine, have done it more than half a dozen times and am still mastering the moves for segment one. This is exactly what I need to keep it fun and challenging. However, I also take W. African dance twice a week in my local community, as well as samba, so maybe this tape will not resonate with folks who arent into the moves or music of Africa.<br /><br />An excellent purchase, IMHO. FANTASTIC instructor!!!!!!!<br> <div style="padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;border-bottom:1px dashed #cccccc;"></div><b>be ready to sweat!</b> <br><small>Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :0 </small><br>I really enjoy this dvd. The music encourages you to keeping moving. The dances are pretty easy to catch on and Im not a great dancer. The first time I used the dvd, I was sweating in the inside of my elbows! And it was just the warmup. Worth the investment!<br> <div style="padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;border-bottom:1px dashed #cccccc;"></div><b>FUN</b> <br><small>Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :0 </small><br>This is a just plain fun. Im ordering my second copy of this workout because my old one is worn out.<br> <div style="padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;border-bottom:1px dashed #cccccc;"></div><div style="width:500px;"><b>Similar Item</b><li><a href="http://store.dokkaew.com/DanceFitnessforBeginnerswithMaDonnaGrimesAfricanBeatLatinHeat/">Dance Fitness for Beginners with MaDonna Grimes: African Beat - Latin Heat</a></li> <li><a href="http://store.dokkaew.com/AfricanHealingDance/">African Healing Dance</a></li> <img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518SYWCBZFL._SL75_.jpg" style="float:left;padding:5px;width:41px;height:41px;">Amazon.comAfrican Healing Dance, with lead dancer Wyoma and the dancers and drummers of the Damballa dance troupe, is a step-by-step dance course on healing traditions and spiritual movements that are special to the African dance heritage. 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Engaging the total body with every step, samba reggae is the perfect aerobic workout - a great way to shake off stress, burn calo</div> Giuseppe Evahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05848180089896107347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659853940327691581.post-26031330527623929432009-02-22T02:46:00.001-08:002009-02-22T02:46:12.579-08:00African Healing Dance <b><a href="http://store.dokkaew.com/AfricanHealingDance/">African Healing Dance</a></b><div style="padding:7px;float:left;"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518SYWCBZFL._SL160_.jpg"></div><h2>Amazon.com</h2><br><I>African Healing Dance</I>, with lead dancer Wyoma and the dancers and drummers of the Damballa dance troupe, is a step-by-step dance course on healing traditions and spiritual movements that are special to the African dance heritage. An African proverb teaches, "If you can talk, you can sing, and if you can walk, you can dance." Thus <I>African Healing Dance</I> is suited for beginning to advanced dancers, students of dance, instructors, and choreographers studying and/or performing African dance. The instructional video and included manual provide an effective guide for a dance or exercise program at home or in a workshop setting. Director of the Damballa dance troupe as well as head dancer, Wyoma begins with a simple warm-up, including breathing techniques body articulation movements for the hips, chest, shoulders, and feet and stretching. She then artistically integrates the teaching of six traditional African dances with the passion and joy of connecting dance movements that have the spirit and energy of nature and the elements (water, wind, fire, and earth) and animals such as the snake, elephant, and bird. A final portion of the 70-minute video is called "The Healing Journey," in which Wyoma encourages personal exploration of inner rhythms and feelings through improvisational movement. As one watches this video, it is difficult not to feel the pulse of the drumbeat and the spiritual strength of Wyoma and her celebration of life through dance. <I>--Christine Aiken</I> <h2>Product Description</h2><br>Studio: Wea-des Moines Video Release Date: 04/27/2004<br>Rate Points :5.0<br>Binding :DVD<br>Label :Gemini Sun Records<br>Manufacturer :Gemini Sun Records<br>MPN :RKOD350764D<br>ProductGroup :DVD<br>Studio :Gemini Sun Records<br>Publisher :Gemini Sun Records<br>UPC :600835076425<br>EAN :9781591791300<br>Price :$19.97USD<br>Lowest Price :$11.52USD<br><b>Customer Reviews</b><b>Im glad I brought it</b> <br><small>Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :0 </small><br>I love the instruction and the drum beats. I especially like the healing dance it allows me to let go of daily stress and come back to self. Strange how the sounds of Africa bring out the movements of my soul. I am Malian American and give respect to my ancestors who dance the same dance with vigor and spirit. Much love<br> <div style="padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;border-bottom:1px dashed #cccccc;"></div><b>Wow wow wow! everybody dance!</b> <br><small>Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :0 </small><br>This presentation of dance, and African dance, is truly Incredible! Dont miss out - its a Real Beauty!<br> <div style="padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;border-bottom:1px dashed #cccccc;"></div><b>wow</b> <br><small>Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :0 </small><br>it really helps get reed of all the stress and tension by just mooving with your own flow and energy, on good music, step shown by a cool smiling teacher <br />ps: its really cool stuff to do with friends<br> <div style="padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;border-bottom:1px dashed #cccccc;"></div><b>I agree with all the good reviews</b> <br><small>Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :0 </small><br>This video is excellent. <br /><br />I discovered this video off of another customer who reviews a lot of salsa DVDs. He said it was one of the best dance videos hes ever purchased. And recommended it to salsa dancers.<br /><br />used copies are cheap so ...<br /><br />I agree completely. This is a top quality video. THANK YOU<br> <div style="padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;border-bottom:1px dashed #cccccc;"></div><b>Excelente!!!!!!!!</b> <br><small>Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :0 </small><br>All I can say is wow!!! I did read some reviews before purchasing this dvd but you know what you have to experience doing the movements yourself and give your own review. I love this dvd!!! I did take some african dance classes when I was young. So I did recognize some of the movements and let me tell you I was looking for something I could sweat to and believe me when I say I have found it. This dvd is fun and will get you to sweating from the warm into the dances. I am glad I brought it and will be working out to it every chance I get.<br> <div style="padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;border-bottom:1px dashed #cccccc;"></div><div style="width:500px;"><b>Similar Item</b><li><a href="http://store.dokkaew.com/BrazilianDanceWorkoutwithVanessaIsaac/">Brazilian Dance Workout with Vanessa Isaac</a></li> <img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MNTC3X6AL._SL75_.jpg" style="float:left;padding:5px;width:41px;height:41px;">The Brazilian Dance Workout By Vanessa is already a classic. 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Nana Yaw Koranteng, a master dancer and choreographer, breaks down all the steps<li><a href="http://store.dokkaew.com/KukuwaDanceWorkout/">Kukuwa Dance Workout</a></li> </div> Giuseppe Evahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05848180089896107347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659853940327691581.post-24773220946497258432009-02-20T05:53:00.001-08:002009-02-20T05:53:27.606-08:00African Grace: A West African Dance For Cardio Fitness <b><a href="http://store.dokkaew.com/AfricanGraceAWestAfricanDanceForCardioFitness/">African Grace: A West African Dance For Cardio Fitness</a></b><div style="padding:7px;float:left;"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51pFxWax3iL._SL160_.jpg"></div><br>Rate Points :4.0<br>Binding :DVD<br>Label :Bayview Films<br>Manufacturer :Bayview Films<br>MPN :366<br>ProductGroup :DVD<br>Studio :Bayview Films<br>Publisher :Bayview Films<br>UPC :828303773663<br>EAN :0828303773663<br>Price :$19.99USD<br>Lowest Price :$12.17USD<br><b>Customer Reviews</b><b>a west african dance for cardio fitness</b> <br><small>Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :0 </small><br>a great all round workout, not an easy one for sure. I just love all the moves, its great. My sister & niece tried it with me, we have alot of fun!<br> <div style="padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;border-bottom:1px dashed #cccccc;"></div><b>Instructions are lacking</b> <br><small>Rating Point :2 Helpful Point :1 </small><br>I love watching African dance and thought that this would be a great way to learn some of the moves and get a good workout at the same time.<br /><br />Im sure this is a wonderful DVD for those who have done African dance before or who pick up dance steps REALLY quickly. My problem was that the insructor would demonstrate the step very briefly, launch into the move at full speed, and then go on to the next step without much opportunity for the student to practice. I need to do a new step 3-4 times before Im ready to tackle the next one. The pace was lightening speed which is too bad because the moves are beautiful.<br> <div style="padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;border-bottom:1px dashed #cccccc;"></div><b>I like this one</b> <br><small>Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :1 </small><br>Although I was afraid this would be easy because of the title "African Grace" I quickly discoverd that this DVD is very invigorating workout. (I thought is would be graceful and flowing) I have completed it three times so far and I sweat!<br />I appreciate the encouraging, clear instructions and the fact that the actual cardio workout is longer than 30 minutes (about 45 minutes total cardio with a 5 minutes warm-up and cool-down) If you want to work out for the 30 minutes, there is a break at about that point so that you can skip the second cardio section and go straight to cool down.<br />The moves are adv. beg to intermediate because of the steps and rhythms, but nothing to difficult that cant be mastered after a few plays.<br /><br> <div style="padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;border-bottom:1px dashed #cccccc;"></div><b>Great Dance, Lackluster Instruction</b> <br><small>Rating Point :2 Helpful Point :10 </small><br>I had high hopes for the African Grace: A West African Dance For Cardio Fitness DVD. Im afraid I have been spoiled by the high quality instructions in some other dance DVDs (e.g., Crunch - Cardio Salsa by Giselle Roque de Escobar, Brazilian Dance Workout with Vanessa Issac).<br /><br />Although the actual West African dance is beautiful, I had a hard time following the instructions. Some of my favorite dance DVDs first demonstrate a new step in full-tempo, then the viewer is asked to dance along to the new step in half-tempo, then full-tempo, then transitioned with the previous step, before dancing to everything learned up to that point. Other favorite DVDs have you repeat a step 8 times, then 4 times, then 2 times, then 1 time in order to get it. There were only a few steps in the African Grace DVD that offered such helpful instruction. <br /><br />Another problem with the African Grace DVD was the costumes. Although the pants worn were attractive, their bagginess made it difficult for me to interpret what the instructor and other dancers were actually doing with their legs. <br /> <br />I would consider buying a version 2 of this same DVD if the instructions were improved, but could not recommend it as is.<br> <div style="padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;border-bottom:1px dashed #cccccc;"></div><b>The warm up was not very sufficient</b> <br><small>Rating Point :3 Helpful Point :1 </small><br>Just thought Id share my two cents here, I thought the video was great but what she said was the warm up section should have been much slower. It felt like I was jumping right into the faster aerobics portion. Muscles need time to be warmed up, stretched, etc., before jumping into fast paced work. I liked Debra and her helpers, and the dance is fun and great exercise. 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We have spend a romantic trip to Ghana. We have stayed at Golden Tulip Accra Hotel at Accra which we booked from www.ghanahotels.us/. It is just five minutes driving distance from airport and from <br> <a href="http://dokkaew.com/travel/VoyageToAccra/">Voyage To Accra</a><br> to kitchenware, shop at Accra business center, Makola Market.The most highly recommended hotels in Accra, Ghana hotels range in price from less than $20 U.S. to about $208 U.S. The modern African-designed Golden Tulip boasts luxurious <br> <a href="http://dokkaew.com/travel/MovingToGhanaWhatYouNeedToKnow/">Moving To Ghana: What You Need To Know</a><br> the neighborhood and facilities. Popular upscale areas in Accra include Airport Residential, Osu, Cantonments, and Labadi. If you simply need a month-to-month room and are unwilling to stay in a hotel or hostel, be prepared to tap into <br> <a href="http://dokkaew.com/travel/AccraGhanaAVacationDestination/">Accra Ghana, A Vacation Destination</a><br> tourists.Here is a list of well-liked places to stay and eat during your trip to Accra, Ghana.Accra HotelsThere are many hotels to choose from in Accra including the most popular Golden Tulip Hotel. Also recommended are the La Badi <br> Giuseppe Evahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05848180089896107347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659853940327691581.post-41552877851740161482009-01-11T12:26:00.001-08:002009-01-11T12:26:53.291-08:00Changes: A Love Story <b><a href="http://store.dokkaew.com/ChangesALoveStory/">Changes: A Love Story</a></b><div style="padding:7px;float:left;"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TK5ZOwN-L._SL160_.jpg"></div><h2>Product Description</h2><br><I>Changes</I> explores the complex world in which the lives of professional working women have changed sharply, but the cultural assumptions of mens lives have not. Witty and compelling, Aidoos novel, according to Manthia Diawara, "inaugurates a new realist style in African literature." <BR><BR>"Aidoo writes with intense power in a novel that, in examining the role of women in modern African society, also sheds light on womens problems around the globe."-<I>Publishers Weekly</I> (starred review)<BR><BR><B>Suggested for course use in:</B><BR>African literature<BR>African studies<BR>Family Studies<BR><BR><B>Ama Ata Aidoo</B>, one of Ghanas most distinguished writers, is the author of two other works of fiction, <I>Our Sister Killjoy</I> and <I>No Sweetness Here</I> (The Feminist Press), as well as plays, poems, and childrens books. <I>Tuzyline Jita</I> Allan is associate professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY.<br>Rate Points :4.5<br>Binding :Paperback<br>Label :The Feminist Press at CUNY<br>Manufacturer :The Feminist Press at CUNY<br>ProductGroup :Book<br>Studio :The Feminist Press at CUNY<br>Publisher :The Feminist Press at CUNY<br>EAN :9781558610651<br>Price :$15.95USD<br>Lowest Price :$9.75USD<br><b>Customer Reviews</b><b>Ghanian women and Modernity: Independence?</b> <br><small>Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :14 </small><br>Modern Ghanaian women suffer daily sacrifices, lifelong barriers to their advancement, and an emerging modernity which has multiplied their duties but not simplified their lives. Changes focuses on a three year period in the lives of Esi Sekyi, Opokuya Dakwa, and Fusena Kondey, three women approaching their mid thirties in Accra, Ghana. <br>In Changes we can see the evidence of a complex struggle in the name of modernity between African women and society, families, traditions, and their own desires. From the perspectives of Esi, Opokuya, and Fusena, Aidoo shows us how such modern African women view their lives, and with what methods they are willing to fight to improve their lives.<br>Esi, Opokuya, and to a lesser degree the much-suppressed Fusena, fight against more than just an accumulation of oppressive tradition that favors men. They struggle for appreciation of their talents and for an equal part in guiding their marriages. Esi and Opokuya struggle to build marriages and relationships that allow them to reap their benefits of their individuality and their educations, and exercise their own free wills, without making them overworked, or being labeled mad women and witches. The reaction of their families, husbands and communities to these women reveal modern dilemmas for educated African women.<p> Aidoos love story traces Esis distinctly rebellious and independent path to love and marriage, as contrasted to the more traditional married lives of Opokuya and Fusena. in doing so, the novel illustrates women challenging a postcolonial African society on all fronts. This front is as diverse as the workplace, in hotel bars, in the kitchen, on the road driving alone in their new cars, in the rural traditional village, and in the bedroom. Despite often finding that lonely independence is untenable, Esi and Opokuya achieve moderate success in their fight. Their resiliency indicates shifting gender roles in Africa, and some compatibility between tradition and these new roles. <p>I give this book 5 stars because ot is an extremely rich story told frankly and believably. The material even seems politically important (perhaps all novels should try to be so?) in that it addresses real problems facing Africa and does not always provide answers, although it certainly proveds a rich cast of characters attempting to do so.<br> <div style="padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;border-bottom:1px dashed #cccccc;"></div><b>wow!</b> <br><small>Rating Point :4 Helpful Point :9 </small><br>"...that is why we do the serious business of living with our heads, and never our hearts" <p>Ama Ata Aidoos second novel is the story of a woman discovering herself - trying unsuccessfully to balance her need for independence with her need for attention and love within the constraints of Ghanaian culture. <p>What she finds is that Ghanaian culture is wise "Esi, why do you think they took so much trouble with a girl on her wedding day?... She was made much of, because the whole ceremony was a funeral of the self that could have been." <p>Changes - the love story Ama Ata Aidoo professed she would never write - conveys the clutter of the zongo, the frustrations of working life in Accra, and the disillusionment of love. Peppered with the uncanny wisecracks of African culture: on love "when we have to count pennies for food for our stomachs... love is nothing", on hypocrisy "How can anyone go about, eating the heads of cows, and still maintain that he is afraid of eyes?" Changes is a delightful trance. One of those pleasures that is indefinable but defining. <p>It is written without fuss in the language that Ghanaians call English - adapted to suit the whims and imaginings of the local mind. Ama Ata Aidoo flows with ease, occasionally returning (for effect) to the drama format with which she is unquestionably comfortable. <p>Read this or weep!<br> <div style="padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;border-bottom:1px dashed #cccccc;"></div><b>One of the best books Ive ever read!</b> <br><small>Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :13 </small><br>I read this book in two days! This was a love story but much more. It was a well-written, fascinating book with an ending that I couldnt have predicted. I read somewhere that Ata Ama Aidoo was hesitant to write a love story, well Im glad she did. Ive recommended it to all of my friends!<br> <div style="padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;border-bottom:1px dashed #cccccc;"></div><div style="width:500px;"><b>Similar Item</b><li><a href="http://store.dokkaew.com/ThingsFallApartANovel/">Things Fall Apart: A Novel</a></li> <img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517cmQPMlxL._SL75_.jpg" style="float:left;padding:5px;width:41px;height:41px;">This is Chinua Achebes classic novel, with more than two million copies sold since its first U.S. publication in 1969. 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It is the story of a poor man in a material world who, despite the pressures around and within him, is able to maintain a sense of dignity within himself. The author manages to create vivd scenes of filth and vileness throughout the novel but the plot leaves something to be desired. Characters are vague and action begins very late in the text. Despite valiant attempts to create a classic, this book still belongs in the attic with all the other dusty volumes. The only people i would recommend this to would be those who love descriptions and those who act too perky.<br> <div style="padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;border-bottom:1px dashed #cccccc;"></div><b>The stuff that nobel literature prizes are made of.</b> <br><small>Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :3 </small><br>Not any one of Soyinkas or Achebes books can hold a candle to this particular work by Ayi Kwei Armah. I studied this book for a critical appreciation of Literature course at University in the 80s and until this moment the grating images of corruption and a derelict society that breeds corruption upon itself still erupts vividly in my head. Ayi Kwei Armah succinctly and subtly depicts corruption through his writing with bold imagery and flawless writing.<br />You would pick this book up to read three decades after it was written, and it would still seem like a novel that just came out it still rings true to this day in many corrupt societies and it is a book that should be up there with the greatest literary giants of our time.<br /><br />T.J. Nanna, Author: Mind Untamed: Collected Poems<br> <div style="padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;border-bottom:1px dashed #cccccc;"></div><b>Unforgettable....</b> <br><small>Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :7 </small><br>Beautiful Ones was required reading at secondary school. I didnt quite understand it, all the same it left an impression, and early this year i sought it out. It is an amazing book. Two weeks of careful reading, my copy is left heavily lined and dog-eared.<p>I strongly recommend it to all budding social revolutionaries. <p>It is one lone mans struggle against seemingly inescapable corruption and filth. A "settled mind"/resolved principles triumphs in the face of hunger, severe poverty, a nagging wife and his own conscience.<p>His stance is eventually justified when the corrupt government along with his much envied politician friend falls.<p>There is a lot of filth- environment, human nature, even language. Nothing is spared. Its easy to get caught up in its general ugliness. This is ironically the beauty of the book and does not rob it of its essence. For those who have not been exposed to widespread corruption, rotteness or had to struggle with "doing the right thing" and against all the odds, it may seem a "sick book".<br> <div style="padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;border-bottom:1px dashed #cccccc;"></div><b>Dont read this while eating lunch</b> <br><small>Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :2 </small><br>This is an utterly disgusting book, with major gratuitous bodily fluid scenes in almost every chapter. As I get grossed out easily, it was tough getting through this.<br /><br />But Armahs extraordinary ability to paint imagery is undeniable, and though you may get images stuck in your head that you didnt exactly want there, this book effectively portrays a culture of corruption and despair in the last months of Kwame Nkrumahs presidency before the coup.<br /><br />The draw to the story is following the protagonists noble battle, facing the unenviable dilemma of choosing between the love of those closest to him and preservation of his integrity in a society where corruption and accepting bribes is the norm.<br> <div style="padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;border-bottom:1px dashed #cccccc;"></div><b>Style Not Exactly Beautiful, but Ultimately a Strong Description of the Powerless</b> <br><small>Rating Point :3 Helpful Point :3 </small><br>Published in 1968, this was Armahs first novel. It depicted corruption and societal breakdown in a newly independent African nation, seen through the eyes of a citizen disillusioned by the materialism and decay he encountered, who found himself struggling to maintain his integrity. <br /><br />The book was based on the experience of Ghanaians in the late 1950s and 1960s under the administration of Kwame Nkrumah. The nations first leader after independence, he mismanaged the economy and was overthrown two years before the novels publication. The works considered to be among the key novels that began to reflect criticism of newly established native African governments following the exhilaration of freedom from colonial rule.<br /><br />Regrettably, I found the first two-thirds of the book to be plodding and often obscure, and the action uninteresting. It took 60 pages, one-third of the novel, to get the main character from a bus to an office to his home, through conversations with a bus driver, a relative, his wife and a teacher. Initially, there was little description of the characters thoughts other than through dialogue. New characters were introduced abruptly, with little clue as to who they were for example, the woman named Manaan in Chapter 6. Sixty pages into the book, a nameless, first-person narrator began speaking for half a chapter before dropping out.<br /><br />Too many of these passages went something like this:<br /><br />"Question bounces off unheeded as the naked man gets up off the bed, takes a pencil from the top of the bookcase near the bed and sticks it in to mark the page. He puts the book on the case and sits back down on the bed, pushing his back against the head and drawing up his knees."<br /><br />And 40 pages later, this:<br /><br />"The naked man stood up on the bed and tried to reach over to the door and take down a pair of trousers hanging on a nail behind it, but at his touch the door swung left and away from him, and he had to jump down and go round to get the trousers. He slipped them on over his naked body and took down a T-shirt from another nail."<br /><br />Many of these passages called to mind the style of the French New Novelists: painstaking description of moment-by-moment action to create a certain atmosphere, combined with a deemphasis of character, background and plot. Maybe this style was considered suitable for conveying the atmosphere of powerlessness. Disliking the style, I found it tedious and hard to appreciate. <br /><br />Closer toward the books end, more of the main characters thoughts began to be gradually introduced. The last third of the novel, describing an important dinner at the main characters home with a corrupt representative of the regime and the fateful aftermath, was written in a more realistic way and told a more dramatic story, where plot and character came more sharply into focus. The ending seemed appropriate and was far from optimistic.<br /><br />For me, the novel was most memorable for its descriptions of the indignities of the new country: enslaving admiration for those with material wealth, no matter how it was gained the humiliation and envy of those who lacked it a dead-end job and the virtual absence of hope or an opportunity to better oneself corruption and the pressure to join in and trade integrity for scraps, for the sake of ones children. And the ultimate futility of it all, what the author called the "horrible cycle of the powerless."<br /><br />The novel was also memorable for its variety of pungent images of filth, which served to communicate both the urban atmosphere and moral decay:<br /><br />"Sounds arise and kill all smells as the bus pulls into the dormitory town. Past the big public lavatory the stench claws inward to the throat. Sometimes it is understandable that people spit so much, when all around decaying things push inward and mix all the bodys juices with the taste of rot . . . . Hot smell of caked s--- split by afternoons baking sun, now touched by still evaporating dew. The nostrils, incredibly, are joined in a way that is most horrifying direct to the throat itself and to the entrails right through to their end."<br /><br />Although I found much of the books style uninteresting until the last third, by the end the writer had managed to convey a strong sense of what life was like, physically and psychologically, under a corrupt regime.<br> <div style="padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;border-bottom:1px dashed #cccccc;"></div><div style="width:500px;"><b>Similar Item</b><li><a href="http://store.dokkaew.com/ChangesALoveStory/">Changes: A Love Story</a></li> <img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TK5ZOwN-L._SL75_.jpg" style="float:left;padding:5px;width:41px;height:41px;">Changes explores the complex world in which the lives of professional working women have changed sharply, but the cultural assumptions of mens lives have not. 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