Warren Elofson, Jonah Weyessa

Slum City Africa

"A Very Bad Place with Good Teachings"

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Produktbeschreibung

Slum City Africa: "A Very Bad Place With Good Teachings" uses a combination of personal experience and stories passed down to Warren Elofson's co-author Jonah Weyessa to textualize the realities of living in Nairobi's poverty-stricken region, Kibera, one of the world's dirtiest and most dangerous city slums.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: First Hill Books
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9781839985799
• ISBN-10: 1839985798
• Artikelnr.: 63629771

Autorenporträt

Warren Elofson is a history professor at the University of Calgary. He has authored books in British constitutional history and western Canadian, western United States and northern Australian ranching frontier history.  Jonah Weyessa is a founder of a new tech start-up based out of British Columbia, Canada. He has a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alberta. Slum City Africa: A "Very" Bad Place with Good Teachings is Jonah's first novel. 

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
 Chapter 1 Ethiopia: A Fragile Life In The Countryside
 Chapter 2 The Last Hurrah
 Chapter 3 Fundamental Issues
 Chapter 4 The Call Of Duty
 Chapter 5 More Ways Than One?
 Chapter 6 Saving The World?
 Chapter 7 Only Little Fools
 Chapter 8 Off To "War"
 Chapter 9 Selling Out
 Chapter 10 Living In Fear
Chapter 11 The Trip Of A Lifetime
 Chapter 12 A Long Way from Home
 Chapter 13 Moyale
 Chapter 14 A Daunting New Life
 Chapter 15 Life Friends
 Chapter 16 The Facts of Life
 Chapter 17 "Public Transport"
 Chapter 18 Learning to Love: (Even the Hated)
 Chapter 19 The Evil Cousin
 Chapter 20 Life In The Compound
 Chapter 21 Settling In
 Chapter 22 Survival
 Chapter 23 Getting Straight
 Chapter 24 A Place of Our Own
 Chapter 25 Security
 Chapter 26 A Kid's Life
 Chapter 27 Home and School
 Chapter 28 Off to School
 Chapter 29 Barisso
 Chapter 30 A Slight Glimmer of Hope
 Chapter 31 Nostalgia
 Chapter 32 It Takes Guts
 Chapter 33 Help Me or Kill Me
 Chapter 34 Family Reunion
 Chapter 35 Resetting the Mind
Chapter 36 Adjusting
 Chapter 37 Still, We Gotta Get Out of This Place
 Chapter 38 Hell Hath Staying Power
 Chapter 39 More Of The Same
 Chapter 40 Off to School Again
 Chapter 41 Harmony Child Rescue Center
 Chapter 42 Stepping Up
 Chapter 43 Discipline: What's That?
 Chapter 44 Nice Club
 Chapter 45 On the Mend
 Chapter 46 Healing
 Chapter 47 Attending to Business
 Chapter 48 Thought to Action: Two Are Better than One
 Chapter 49 Off We Go
 Chapter 50 Down In The Dump
 Chapter 51 Give Us a Break Please!
 Chapter 52 The Last Straw
 Chapter 53 The Last Last Straw
 Chapter 54 The Final Last Straw
 Chapter 55 A Very Bad Place with Good Teachings
 Chapter 56 A Way Out for Good
 Epilogue
 Oromo Words and Phrases Used in the Text