Addresses the issues surrounding disengagement and its consequences in African society. Africans have long resorted to a range of strategies to escape domination - they have migrated, they have dropped out, and they have developed second economies. In this text, the author takes examples from across the continent toestablish a discussible model. North America: Africa World Press

Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin's 1946 autobiography The Making of a Southerner is considered a classic testament of a white southerner's commitment to racial justice in a culture where little was to be found. Lumpkin's unpublished novel Eli Hill, which was discovered in Lumpkin's papers after her death, contributes to the same struggle by imaginatively re-creating a historical figure and a moment in the violent white resistance to Reconstruction. Born to enslaved parents in York County, South Carolina, Elias Hill (1819-1872) learned to read and write and became a popular Baptist minister. Owing to his influence, Hill was one of many victims of a series of vicious attacks by the Ku Klux Klan. After testifying before a congressional committee that emigration was the only solution, Hill and 135 other formerly enslaved people emigrated to Liberia. Lumpkin had trained as a sociologist and historian to use archival sources and data in arguing for socioeconomic change. In her autobiography, she uses the lens of an individual life, her own, to understand how racism was inculcated in white children and how they could free themselves from its grip. With Eli Hill, she turns to imagination, informed by archival research, to put an African American man at the center of a story about Reconstruction. In curating this important work of historical recovery for use in the classroom, Bruce Baker and Jacquelyn Dowd Hall have included the full text of the original manuscript and an introduction that contextualizes the novel in both its historical setting and its creation.

Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin's 1946 autobiography The Making of a Southerner is considered a classic testament of a white southerner's commitment to racial justice in a culture where little was to be found. Lumpkin's unpublished novel Eli Hill, which was discovered in Lumpkin's papers after her death, contributes to the same struggle by imaginatively re-creating a historical figure and a moment in the violent white resistance to Reconstruction. Born to enslaved parents in York County, South Carolina, Elias Hill (1819-1872) learned to read and write and became a popular Baptist minister. Owing to his influence, Hill was one of many victims of a series of vicious attacks by the Ku Klux Klan. After testifying before a congressional committee that emigration was the only solution, Hill and 135 other formerly enslaved people emigrated to Liberia. Lumpkin had trained as a sociologist and historian to use archival sources and data in arguing for socioeconomic change. In her autobiography, she uses the lens of an individual life, her own, to understand how racism was inculcated in white children and how they could free themselves from its grip. With Eli Hill, she turns to imagination, informed by archival research, to put an African American man at the center of a story about Reconstruction. In curating this important work of historical recovery for use in the classroom, Bruce Baker and Jacquelyn Dowd Hall have included the full text of the original manuscript and an introduction that contextualizes the novel in both its historical setting and its creation.

This insightful book is a collection of short stories, poems, musings and jokes. Discover the man who liked to sit in dark rooms with strangers and stare at the wall. The Infinite Library has up-to-the-second books of everyone. Learn to fly in a Lesson from an Angel. Go to the Federal Supermax Prison and meet Blanket Bob, Jimmy the Grinder and the Crunch Monster. Travel to Time, Arizona that has day on one side of town and night on the other. Sheriff Daily runs the town. One Sheriff Daily only works the dayshift and the other Sheriff Daily only works the nightshift. They look alike but they are not twins. Laugh at The World's Funniest Joke and The World's Second Funniest Joke. And shiver to the World's Scariest Scary Story. There's the story of a HUGE spider bigger than a human hand and rats in Ecuador that are as big as cats. Discover the conspiracy of planes being flown to America from Afghanistan filled with a billon dollars of heroin backed by The President of The United States. This conspiracy is uncovered by the reporter (who is later murdered) and two spies, Steve Barrister and Phun Hung Lo, and is reported in The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and The New York Times. Read about The Invisible Murder and the secret black op fund involving hundreds of millions of dollars. Visit My Spacious House that is ten thousand acres square. Thrill to the story of the baby that walked to glory and how the whole world shook. Find out The One and Only Question Women Should Never Ask Men AND The One and Only Question Men Should Never Answer. Try out the experiment that involves watching the 1990 movie "Flatliners" with The Flatliners Reality Check. This book is funny, amusing, touching and may even make you cry. Enjoy

Policing is crucial to how Africans experience the freedoms of democracy and determines to a large degree the levels of economic investment they will enjoy. Yet it is a neglected area of study. Based on field research, this book reveals the surprising variety of people involved in policing besides the state police. Indeed many Africans are faced with a wide choice of public and private, legal and illegal, effective and ineffective policing. Policing in Africa is very much more than what the police do. It concerns the activities of business interests, residential communities, cultural groups, criminal organisations, local political figures and governments. How people negotiate this 'multi-choice' of policing options, and the implications of this for government and donor security policy, is the subject of this book It covers policing in all its forms in Sub-Saharan Africa, including two case studies of Uganda and Sierra Leone.

The book takes you inside the misadventures of living in Hollywood. This is a humorous look at Hollywood with all its foibles. Discover about driving the Hollywood Cruiser, the scandalous cover-up of Pottergate and why a hat is always the best gift for studio heads. Amazingly, he survives being thrown from a car, going through a car windshield, nearly dying on the Hollywood freeway (twice) besides surviving earthquakes, riots and fires. His ex-wives include a murderer, a spy, a hooker, a ballerina, a lesbian, Cinderella and even an Alien. Also included are Elvis, Marilyn Monroe and even Donny & Marie. Fantastic political conspiracy theories concern President Daddy Bush teaching Baby Bush about the CIA, the intelligence community and the Boys in the Basement. Uncover the infamous ex-spy Frank Terpil. Find out how to try and take over the world. Voted Best True Fiction Book of 2011 by the American True Fiction Book Club (three years in a row ) Bruce Baker is President of the American True Fiction Book Club and is the only member. Review for the book: "WOW What a great book Best Damn thing I've ever read." --the author- Always entertaining. You never know what will happen next.

For decades, Chafer's He That is Spiritual guided the Christian in spiritual growth, but it remains out of reach for many modern believers who struggle with the 1918 text or no longer have the general Bible knowledge that the book assumes. Now, Spiritual Maturity: The Road to Wonderland brings those same critical lessons prefaced by quotes and illustrations from Lewis Carroll's timeless tales. Interwoven throughout the text is Christine, a fictional character, whose life and questions mirror those of today's reader. We need to be sure we are walking in the direction and in the manner God would choose. And on any journey, a map-correctly understood-can be enormously helpful. Thankfully, God has provided us one. Designed for individual and/or classroom use with study questions for each chapter.