IRIN film: The Long Journey Home: Angola’s Refugee Return - February 2005

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The Long Journey Home: Angola’s Refugee Return - February 2005

In April 2002, Angola’s 30 year civil war finally came to an end. And with the advent of peace millions of Angolans displaced by the fighting began to make the long journey home to an uncertain future. View Transcript

[English] [English] [Duration: 15:25]

Angolan author Ondjaki to launch his latest book in UK

Angolan author Ondjaki to launch his latest book in UK

Aflame Books takes the pleasure in inviting you to meet Ondjaki, the author of the inspiring Angolan novel The Whistler, at the launch of the book in London.
On a short visit to the UK to participate in a lecture tour at Kings College London, Ondjaki will also be promoting the latest of his works to be made available in English.
The Whistler is a spellbinding, irreverent and hilarious masterpiece from Angola. The Whistler, is a triumph of joy over adversity in a country ravaged by sorrow.
It offers a vision of hope and humanity to a people suffering the painful after-effects of the civil war that traumatised the author’s homeland.
You can read a review of The Whistler at
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/poafrica/ondjaki.htm

The launch of The Whistler will be attended by David Brookshaw of the University of Bristol’s Portuguese department who will highlight Ondjaki’s place in contemporary African writing.

Many of you receiving this newsletter live in places too distant to attend. However, The Whistler is easily available through online bookstores and later this year Ondjaki will be visiting the USA, or which we will keep you informed.

The Whistler, translated from the Portuguese-language original, will be launched on February 19 2008 at
Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road London, N1 9DX - just round the corner from Kings Cross station.
The event starts at 6pm. Refreshments will be served.
For more info or if you wish to attend the launch please email: info@aflamebooks.com

Information Sheet
The Whistler
A novel from Angola by Ondjaki
A stranger wafts into a village with no name and sets to
whistling as he wanders idly through the church, hypnotising
the doves in the rafters and bringing the priest to
tears with his haunting tune.
Thus begins a week of whispers and gossip that culminates
in a Sunday Mass celebrated with orgasmic fervour
as the whistler’s enchanting tune bewitches the frustrated
faithful. Spellbinding, irreverent and hilarious, Ondjaki’s
comic masterpiece from Angola, The Whistler, is a triumph
of joy over adversity in a country ravaged by sorrow.
The Whistler offers a vision of hope and humanity to a
people suffering the painful after-effects of the civil war
that traumatised the author’s homeland.
 The Whistler is a fresh and charming tale by one of Africa’s most
promising writers in the Portuguese language.
● It makes a valuable and original contribution to contemporary
fiction in Africa as a whole.
● This book will be of value in to those teaching or studying
contemporary southern African and Lusophone literature and
Angolan history and society.
● Ondjaki is visiting the UK in February 2008 to promote this title.
Reviews and recommendations
● “In a village in some corner of the world, one day a
man with a divine whistle appears and seeks refuge in the
church. And so begins the story which ends with the
whistler’s departure. In the interim, many things will have
changed in the village. Not the donkeys, nor the pigeons,
they endure until eternity, but the people. Some humans
will realise their most hidden dreams…and it takes a great
deal to tell the tale.” - Pepetela, Winner of the Camoes
prize for literature
● “As a product of Angola, a country riven by civil war
and its after-effects for the past 30 years, a novel of such
laughter and unmitigated hope comes as a welcome
shock.” – African Review of Books
Ondjaki (1977-)
Born in Luanda, he is a versatile young talent who has also exhibited
paintings and given public performances as an actor. He has published
one other novel, the autobiographical Bom dia camaradas (2003 and
forthcoming in English), as well as a number of poetry and short story
collections, and a children’s book.
Richard Bartlett (translator)
He is a South African journalist, translator and publisher.
PRODUCT DETAILS
Title: The Whistler
Author: Ondjaki
Translator: Richard Bartlett
Publication Date: 4 Feb 2008
Price: £7.99
Extent: 104 pages
Size: 216mmx140mm
ISBN: 9780955233975
Paperback
Distribution by Central Books
99Wallis Road, London, E9 5LN
Tel: 020 8986 4854
Fax: 020 8533 5821
orders@centralbooks.com
www.centralbooks.com
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SP1 1QS,Wiltshire, UK
Tel: (+44) 01722 421522
www.aflamebooks.com
E-mail: info@aflamebooks.com

ICT in Education in Angola

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Excerpted from infoDev’s Survey of ICT and Education in Africa (Volume2): 53 Country Reports

For more information about this project, please see Survey of ICT and Education in Africa.

This short report provides a general overview of current activities and developments related to ICT use in education in the country.

African book: Drawings from Angola

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• ISBN: 978-1-4303-2313-6

Publisher: Lulu.com

Rights Owner: paulus gerdes

Copyright: © 2007  Standard Copyright License

Language: English

Country: Mozambique

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Printed: 72 pages, 6″ x 9″, perfect binding, black and white interior ink

Description:

For children from age 8 to 14. “Drawings from Angola” present an introduction to an African story telling tradition. The tales are illustrated with marvelous drawings made in the sand. The book conveys the stories of the stork and the leopard, the hunter and the dog, the rooster and the fox, and others. It explains how to execute the drawings. The reader is invited to draw tortoises, antelopes, lions, and other animals. The activities proposed throughout the book invite the reader to experiment and to explore the ‘rhythm’ and symmetry of the illustrations. Surprising results will be playfully obtained, such as in arithmetic, a way to calculate quickly the sum of a sequence of odd numbers. Children will live the beautiful mathematics of the Angolan sanddrawings. Answers to the activities are provided. The book can be used both in classrooms and at home.

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Angola: Angolan Sans Want Their Children Integrated in Education System

Source: allAfrica.com

Angola: Angolan Sans Want Their Children Integrated in Education System

The chieftain of the Khoisan community, Antonio Cassanga, has

 defended the need for the government of the south-eastern Kuando-Kubango

 Province to outline feasible strategies meant to improve the integration

 process of their children in the normal education system, ANGOP has

 learnt.

Antonio Cassanga, who was speaking to ANGOP, said the Cassela

 locality, in Menongue, district, about 28 children did not finish class as

 they were discriminated by other children that go to the same school,

 because of their physical characteristics.

Full story:

http://allafrica.com/stories/200712130486.html

Angola: Over 12,000 Malaria Cases Detected in First Quarter in one district

The following article is from the Angola Press

http://www.angolapress-angop.ao/noticia-e.asp?ID=527104

Over 12,000 Malaria Cases Detected in First Quarter

Luanda, 04/25 - About 12,983 cases of malaria have been diagnosed during the first quarter of 2007, in Sambizanga district, here, ANGOP learnt Wednesday from the local health delegate, Monteiro António, in the light of the Africa Malaria Day.

According to the delegate the appearance of these cases in the region were caused by the latest downpours that fell in the Angolan capital city (Luanda), as well as the rubbish spread throughout the district, with highlight to the wards of Mota, Lixeira and Santos Rosa.

The continuance of rains and the poor drainage state are some of the factors that hinder the action of health authorities to curb the disease, affirmed the source.

However, health authorities of the district continue inserting efforts to control the disease by distributing mosquito nets and holding of seminars on the disease.