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Pour la première fois, des enregistrements historiques de Léopold Sédar Senghor sont remis à la disposition du public sous la direction de Philippe Sainteny dans le cadre des émissions radiophoniques de RFI. Les archives sonores, ici réunies, de l'Institut National de l'Audiovisuel et de Radio France Internationale, nous permettent de redécouvrir l'une des figures marquantes de l'Afrique contemporaine.

Academy Award-winner Athol Fugard, one of theatre's most acclaimed playwrights, finds humor and heartbreak in the friendship of Harold, a 17-year-old white boy in 1950s South Africa, and the two middle-aged black servants who raised him. Racism unexpectedly shatters Harold's childhood and friendships in this absorbing, affecting coming-of-age play. The play, initially banned from production in South Africa, is a Drama Desk Award winner for Outstanding New Play.

Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, 44-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had no idea that he would spend the next 27 years in jail. During his 10,052 days of incarceration, Mandela wrote hundreds of letters to unyielding prison authorities, fellow activists, government officials, and, most memorably, his courageous wife, Winnie, and his five children. Now, 255 of these letters, a majority of which were previously unpublished, provide the most intimate portrait of Mandela since Long Walk to Freedom.

An audiobook about time and distance and the essence of love.

The anticipated second installment of In These Streets: Koi’s Saga is here. It picks up where the first installment has left off, informing you of the events after young Koi and older boyfriend Griff were rushed to the hospital. This second installment is just as hot as the first, introducing you to a new cast of characters with even more secrets and scandals. Find out what happens when their paths collide as the saga continues.

The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave is a study of slave making. It describes the rationale and the results of Anglo Saxon's ideas and methods of insuring the master/slave relationship. The infamous Willie Lynch letter gives both African and Caucasian students and teachers some insight, concerning the brutal and inhumane psychology behind the African slave trade.

For readers and viewers of The Perfect Storm, opening this long-awaited new work by Sebastian Junger will be like stepping off the deck of the Andrea Gail and into the inferno of a fire burning out of control in the steep canyons of Idaho. Here is the same meticulous prose brought to bear on the...

This succinct account the life of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott focuses on his development as poet, playwright, and man of the theater: director, producer, teacher. Friends and colleagues who figured in his career are recalled. The importance of his native St Lucia and family influences in the shaping of his creativity and his view of the world are highlighted, as these evolved in synergy with his receptivity to the poetry and theater of the wider world.

Ezzel a művével tört be annak idején az irodalmi életbe Arany János és nyerte el Petőfi barátságát. Toldi története, melyet korábban csak a néphagyomány őrzött, végérvényesen a szépirodalom része lett.

Auftakt der Trilogie von drei Frauen über drei Generationen. Mathilde, eine junge Elsässerin, verliebt sich am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Amine Belhaj, einen marokkanischen Offizier im Dienst der französischen Armee. Die beiden heiraten und lassen sich auf einem abgelegenen Hof am Fuß des Atlas-Gebirges nieder. Voller Freiheitsdrang hatte sie den Aufbruch in ein neues, unbekanntes Leben gewagt und muss doch bald ernüchternde Erfahrungen machen.

Eine abenteuerliche Reise, eine geheime Mission, eine fast perfekte Rache - ein echter Jonasson! Wunderbar verrückt und respektlos komisch: Profitgieriger schwedischer Galerist, der für Geld über Leichen geht, trifft auf kenianischen Massai-Krieger, der nicht genau weiß, was Geld ist, dafür aber ein millionenschweres Gemälde besitzt... In seiner einzigartigen Erzählweise beschreibt Jonasson einen Kultur-Clash der Extraklasse und hält den Menschen den Spiegel vor.

Der zwölfjährige Felix ist verzweifelt. Seine Mutter, die wunderbare Fatou, die im Pariser Stadtteil Belleville ein gemütliches kleines Café betreibt, ist in eine Depression verfallen. Sie, die das Glück verkörperte und der Dreh- und Angelpunkt einer bunten, liebenswerten, schrulligen Gemeinschaft war, ist nicht mehr als ein Schatten ihrer selbst. Was ist mit ihrer Seele passiert? Um sie zu retten, unternimmt Felix mit seiner Mutter eine abenteuerliche Reise, die sie zu ihren afrikansichen Wurzeln und den geheimen Quellen des Lebens führt.

"La notte ci vestiva. In un altro mondo, si sarebbe detto che era piena di attenzioni per noi. Nessunissima luce. Mai il benché minimo filo di luce. Ma i nostri occhi, pur avendo perso lo sguardo, si erano adattati. Vedevamo nelle tenebre, o credevamo di vedere." Il 10 luglio 1971 un commando militare irrompe nella residenza estiva del re a Skhirate, in Marocco. Ma il colpo di Stato fallisce. I soldati che hanno preso parte alla missione vengono rinchiusi in una prigione sotterranea, sepolti nelle tenebre per diciott'anni.

Les proverbes sont une véritable sagesse populaire. Ils sont le fruit de centaines d'années d'histoires, de légendes, de spiritualité d'un peuple. Transmis oralement pendant des siècles, leur vérité et leur simplicité nous parlent immédiatement. Ces proverbes visent à donner accès à un peuple, une culture populaire, dans un format accessible à tous. Un proverbe est plus qu'une phrase anodine, ce peut être un trait d'esprit, un résumé d'une pensée complexe, une maxime, une ouverture sur une réflexion plus profonde.

Queste 100 proverbi mirano a fornire l'accesso a un'opera o a una vita eccezionale, attraverso una selezione dei pensieri più eclatanti, in un formato accessibile a tutti. Una citazione è più di un estratto di un'affermazione, può essere un colpo di mente, una sintesi di un pensiero complesso, una massima, un'apertura a una riflessione più profonda. Si dice che certe frasi possono cambiare la vita. Altri ragioneranno dentro di voi per un tempo infinito, facendo eco a una personale ricerca intellettuale o spirituale.

Named after the first man at the creation of the world in Malagasy mythology, Ietsy Razak was raised to perpetuate the glory of his namesake and expected to be as illuminated as his Great Ancestor. But in the chaos of modernity, his young life is marked only by restlessness, maddening insomnia, and an adolescent apathy.

Horace Mungin’s brave attempt to fight against the multiple manifestations of injustice imposed by the conscious erasure of African American history is in keeping with the best of contemporary African American literature. 

A well-meaning American diplomat in South Africa tries to pacify his ferociously combative wife and anti-apartheid activist son by being reassigned to The Hague. But peace is hard to come by and, at an elegant New Year's Eve party, a harrowing betrayal is revealed. Judith Ivey recreates her acclaimed performance from the Lincoln Center production in this masterful drama from the author of The Substance of Fire.

Tensions run high as Caleb de Leon, a young Jewish Confederate soldier, celebrates Passover with his family's newly freed slaves in the de Leons' crumbling antebellum mansion. This gripping drama explores a little-known aspect of the Civil War, unearthing dark family secrets on the way to a shocking climax.

When her husband dies, aging Miss Helen begins to fill her home in the remote South African bush with strange sculptures made from beer cans and old headlights. A local clergyman and a young woman visitor try to decide whether Miss Helen's peculiar art is an outpouring of creativity or an outbreak of madness.