How the fact of death powers the human drive to life
During our childhood, gradually through observation then perhaps all at once through our parents’ telling, we all come to learn that our life will not last forever. We become aware of death.
CHAPTER 2: CONTEXT
Introduction
A critical understanding of CP making in one nation requires an appreciation of the context within which the study is conducted.
I had started on a voyage of discovery, only to find that it was I who was being discovered,” writes Tété-Michel Kpomassie in this memoir of his time as “an African in Greenland”, first published in 1981 and now reissued by Penguin Modern Classics in a translation by James Kirkup.
John Sweeney’s book is not a disinterested biography of Vladimir Putin, the eponymous “Killer in the Kremlin”. It is, instead, a polemic relating not only to Russia’s president but to many other aspects of the politics of Russia and Ukraine. At its best it points to some of Putin’s most execrable traits and at its worst elevates the author to the position of the book’s leading character.
There are some books you don’t feel qualified to review.
Education Reports
From the 1930s onwards, education specialists were invited to review the education system and submit reports, with recommendations, on the state of education in The Gambia.
Sulayman M. Trawally, a former Permanent Secretary is set to launch his book titled: “Moral Reflections and Thoughts.
Barbara Walter does not expect to see a civil war in the US of the order of the conflict that tore the nation apart in the 1860s, but that’s chiefly because civil wars are fought differently these days. And it’s about the only comfort a concerned reader can take from this sobering account of how civil wars start and are conducted in our time.
November 1969
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Historical Background
The first schools in The Gambia were opened by Christian Missions shortly after the founding of Bathurst in 1816.
(The fifth edition was published in 2016 by David Perfect. He is presently compiling the sixth edition)
From the former Director of Research and Investigations of the Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) comes a behind-the-scenes narrative of investigating twenty-two years of human rights violations in the quest for accountability and reconciliation.
NEW BOOK IN THE HOOD – by Dr Cherno Omar BARRY
This book will be launched on Friday, 16 December 2022, at the Ebunjan Theatre, Kanifing Institutional Area @ 3 p.m. Come early to secure yourself a place.
The Netherlands Office in Dakar, funded programme: Theatre – an effective tool for Human Rights Education is a privileged opportunity to examine Human Rights issues focusing on children and, more importantly, what can be done to address those issues and bring positive change to the lives of children. The project is being implemented by Janet Badjan-Young, Artistic Director of Ebunjan Theatre Troupe.
