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This book brings together multiple voices and positions from Africa. These voices, assembled during a 2003 Soap Summit held in Nairobi, are powerful and varied and suggest ways in which issues of health could be tackled in an entertaining manner. The summit organised by Population Communications International - Africa. highlighted the critical role that the arts can play in ensuring better health, especially among the youth. It resulted from the recognition that young people in Africa are faced with a myriad of problems and complications as they struggle to deal with growth and identity formation, within a globalising social and economic setup. They are in dire need of information on their own sexuality and how to deal with it and are getting conflicting signals from the mass media, as well as their immediate environment. The youth are under intense pressure from their peers to engage in premarital sex, which is in most cases unprotected. The HIV/AIDS epidemic presents frightening challenges and all health programs should look for ways of dealing with it. Of great to concern is the vulnerability of women and girls in Africa due to rising poverty, gender violence, lack of access to youth-friendly reproductive health facilities, and lack of a conducive infrastructure especially in informal settlements and in the rural areas. The myriad problems presented by the pandemic require a multi-sectoral approach. This book brings together a number of strategies being undertaken in Africa that combine entertainment and education in a positive way. The voices from the Soap Summit are interspersed with those of the Editor to create a dialogue on entertainment-education that contributes to the discussion on the way social change might be undertaken.
Chairman of Fools
(2005)
Chairman of Fools explores the plight of Farai Chari, a supposedly successful writer, professor and self-acclaimed artist, living in an African culture in which tradition weighs heavy and middle class aspirations are crude. Farai yearns for a world in which men and women can freely associate with one another and gratify their passions without moral chastisement.
The sequel to the award-winning Writing Still, this new collection of stories paints an engaging - and sometimes challenging - picture of contemporary life and concerns in Zimbabwe. Like its predecessor, Writing Now combines well-established writers - Chinodya, Mupfudzi, Eppel, Chingono - with several new voices. Although the stories emerge from lives of economic hardship and privation, their tone is by no means uniformly. Zimbabwean writers continue to demonstrate that sharp humour and surreal fantasy can grow from the bleakest of roots.
Zimbabwe's Cultural Heritage
(2005)
' Zimbabwe's Cultural Heritage won first prize in the Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association Awards in 2006 for Non-fiction: Humanities and Social Sciences. It is a collection of pieces of the culture of the Ndebele, Shona, Tonga, Kalanga, Nambiya, Xhosa and Venda. The book gives the reader an insight into the world view of different peoples, through descriptions of their history and life events such as pregnancy, marriage and death. ''...the most enduring book ever on Zimbabwean history. This book will help people change their attitude towards each other in Zimbabwe.'' - Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association Awards citation'
Short Writings from Bulawayo won the Literature in English category at the 2005 Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association awards. It is a book of stories, poems and non-fiction pieces that are evocative of Zimbabwe's second city and its rural surroundings. The collection from 23 contributors tells of many things: of family and friendship, or fear and death, or witches and spirits, of hunger and drought, of dreams and aspirations, of leaving home and leaving Zimbabwe, of queues and loneliness, of football and bicycles and of growing old and of love. A unifying theme of many of the stories and poems is loss - of innocence, of purpose, of love, of culture, of belonging, and of life.
"Hans Holbein. Portrait of an Unknown Man": So lautet der Titel der im Jahre 1996 erschienenen Monographie von Derek Wilson, einer der zahlreichen Neuerscheinungen zu Leben und Werk Hans Holbeins des Jüngeren (1497/98-1543), die mit Blick auf dessen 500. Geburtstag in den letzten Jahren publiziert worden sind. ...
Bei dem Wettstreit zwischen Europas Metropolen spielen spektakuläre Museumsneubauten eine zentrale Rolle. Dieser für die städtische Imagebildung so wichtige Bau-Boom wird nun zum Gegenstand einer Studie, die sich mit Neubauten von Museen in den vergangenen drei Jahrzehnten in Amsterdam, Frankfurt am Main und Prag beschäftigt. Im Zentrum des Interesses stehen die urbane Prägung und die internationale Vermarktung der neuen Häuser durch die Medien. Darüber hinaus gibt der Band einen differenzierten Überblick über die Pläne und Ziele der in diesen drei Städten verwirklichten Museumsbauten, wobei auch die Konzepte der Eröffnungsausstellungen berücksichtigt werden. Die Ergebnisse der materialreichen Studie, die sich gleichermaßen an Kulturpolitiker, Architekten, Stadtplaner und Museumsdirektoren wendet, können einen wertvollen Beitrag dazu leisten, bei zukünftigen Museumsplanungen Fehler zu vermeiden und aus den Erfahrungen der Kollegen zu lernen.