Travel Journal Brazzaville - Keep a diary of your holiday / vacation to Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo.
Includes diary, budget planner, activity planner, packing checklist and other useful... More > aids to help you record and remember every aspect of your trip.< Less
Jake Timrod, a successful trial lawyer, has a family and a thriving law practice in coastal South Carolina. He is consumed by his products liability practice, the lives of his two young daughters,... More > and the stories of his ancestors. He is doing well. One morning Jake arrives at his comfortable, well-appointed office and discovers a letter--a handwritten letter from an old girlfriend. As he reads her letter he does not suspect that these 750 words will take him from his family, his practice and put him into the middle of Sub-Saharan Africa. He does not know that he will be tested--in every conceivable way--by a tropical landscape torn asunder by anger and ambition. Nor does he know how this letter will change his perceptions, assumptions and his fundamental understanding of how the world works.< Less
Jake Timrod, a successful trial lawyer, has a family and a thriving law practice in coastal South Carolina. He is consumed by his products liability practice, the lives of his two young daughters,... More > and the stories of his ancestors. He is doing well. One morning Jake arrives at his comfortable, well-appointed office and discovers a letter--a handwritten letter from an old girlfriend. As he reads her letter he does not suspect that these 750 words will take him from his family, his practice and put him into the middle of Sub-Saharan Africa. He does not know that he will be tested--in every conceivable way--by a tropical landscape torn asunder by anger and ambition. Nor does he know how this letter will change his perceptions, assumptions and his fundamental understanding of how the world works.< Less
Travel Journal Congo-Brazzaville - Keep a diary of your holiday / vacation to Congo-Brazaville, includes diary, budget planner, activity planner, packing checklist and other useful aids to help you... More > record and remember every aspect of your trip.< Less
« Si Bacongo m’était conté » est un grand repère historique des événements qui ont marqué la vie non seulement des Bacongolais, les... More > habitants de Bacongo, mais aussi de tous les Congolais. L’humour y est présent ; les faits, les gestes et les événements très violents sont décrits sans détour, dans un langage franc et parfois dur. Ce livre est aussi un appel à la tolérance, à la paix et à la réconciliation.
« …le lendemain, il revint à la charge et leur demanda de lui raconter, afin de l’écrire, l’histoire de Bacongo dont certains blocs de maisons devaient être détruits à cause du programme dit de logements sociaux et économiques. Bazebizonza, instituteur retraité et féru d’histoire, après s’être concerté avec Tâ Batantou, infirmier retraité, appela Louzolo. Ils s’assirent dans la maison, pour être à l’abri des oreilles indiscrètes. Et Bazebizonza, soudain enchanté, pathétique et convaincant, lui raconta ce qui suit…. »< Less
A second collection from Alistair Coleman's award-winning weblog Scaryduck: Not Scary. Not a Duck. Although, to be honest, it should say "Neither scary nor a duck", for which the author is... More > very sorry. With a genuine foreword by a major world leader (this may be a lie).
Your money back if you do not laugh until body parts fall off. (Offer applies only to residents of Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, closes 19th October 1968)< Less
A second collection from Alistair Coleman's award-winning weblog Scaryduck: Not Scary. Not a Duck. Although, to be honest, it should say "Neither scary nor a duck", for which the author is... More > very sorry. With a genuine foreword by a major world leader (this may be a lie).
Your money back if you do not laugh until body parts fall off. (Offer applies only to residents of Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, closes 19th October 1968)< Less
Lingala language is spoken in Kinshasa, the capital city of the Congo RDC. It is also spoken in Lomami, and Ubangi regions. Besides from the Congo RDC, Lingala language is spoken in the Republic of... More > Congo (Brazzaville), as well as in the Central African Republic. Modern Lingala is a trade language. It is very easy to learn, because it has a standardized orthography, like many other Bantu peoples' languages. This book is a wonderful guide to everyone who intends to travel for research, business, or missionaries' activities in these countries.< Less
Acteur, auteur et réalisateur congolais, Léandre-Alain Baker est né à Bangui en Centrafrique. Dramaturge et romancier, il a également réalisé... More > plusieurs courts-métrages dont Un pygmée dans la baignoire, La couture de Paris, Au bout du couloir, Les oranges de Belleville, deux films documentaires : Diogène à Brazzaville, portrait de l’écrivain Sony Labou Tansi, Tchicaya, la petite feuille qui chante son pays, portrait de l’écrivain Tchicaya U Tam’si, et Ramata, un long-métrage de fiction adapté du roman éponyme d’Abasse Ndione paru chez Gallimard.
En 2005, il a obtenu une bourse du CNL (Centre National du Livre) pour une résidence d’écriture à la Maison des Auteurs de Limoges.
Le Vent secoue la montagne est son premier recueil de poésie.< Less
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