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Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia [Paperback]

When we donate our unwanted clothes to charity, we rarely think about what will happen to them: who will sort and sell them, and finally, who will revive and wear them. In this fascinating look at the multibillion dollar secondhand clothing business, Karen Tranberg Hansen takes us around the world from the West, where clothing…

Zambia and Victoria Falls Travel Map (Globetrotter Travel Map) [Folded Map] [Map]

The highly successful “Globetrotter Travel Series”, which includes Travel Guides, Travel Maps, Road Atlases, Best Of Pocket Guides and In Your Pocket Language Guides, presently covers more than 90 destinations worldwide.”The Globetrotter Travel Map of Zambia and Victoria Falls” caters specifically for the needs of tourists who are new to a destination. The town plans…

The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa [Paperback]

From Publishers Weekly Although doctors diagnosed Swiller’s deafness early enough to fit him with hearing aids, the young man from Mantattan’s Upper West Side still felt different. As a young adult he drifted from college to college, job to job, relationship to relationship, never quite finding what he was looking for: a place beyond deafness.…

Kitwe Poetry Corner – Barney Kanjela

Barney Kanjela is one of Zambia’s most prolific literary heavy weights. The author of many scripts that have been translated into plays and performed in different countries. He is one of the forces behind Kitwe Poetry Corner.
Barney’s poem of the week is entitled CHANGES.

Zambia and Victoria Falls Travel Pack (Globetrotter Travel Packs) [Paperback]

The highly successful “Globetrotter Travel Series”, which includes ‘Travel Guides’, ‘Travel Maps’, ‘Road Atlases’, ‘Best Of Pocket Guides’ and ‘In Your Pocket Language Guides’, presently covers more than 90 destinations worldwide. The Packs are excellent value, including both a guidebook and a softcover version of the foldout Globetrotter map of the region, in a printed…

What Does The Future Hold For African Football After This Year’s World Cup? – Part 1

With the FIFA World Cup of 2010 almost concluded many will be turning their attentions to assessing the performances of the African hopes from this year’s competition and whether there were enough encouraging signs for the future of African football as a whole. In this the first part of a two part series we review each of the six competing African teams and how their performances may have affected football in their respective nations moving forward into the future.

Bitterness (An African Novel from Zambia) [Paperback]

This is one of the most realistic and passionate contemporary novels about the life of young people in today’s Africa, written by Malama Katulwende, a young Zambian poet and intellectual. It describes the seeming incompatibility of old African traditions and modern life, depicts the political struggle of Zambia’s students, and the hope and despair of…