A simple account about animal rescuer Chryssee Perry Martin who rescues orphaned animals in Kenya.

For a year in the early 1990s, Peter Chilson traveled across Niger by automobile to experience West African road culture. In this compelling story, he uses the road not to reinforce Africa's worn image of decay and corruption but to reveal how people endure political and economic chaos, poverty, and disease.

Searching for even more wild places and new experiences, Dan became determined to explore 'off the map' in Africa. From the mighty Sahara Desert in the north to the dense equatorial jungles of the Congo and the open grasslands of Southern Africa, Dan turned his biggest dream into reality. Over the course of three years Dan's second major expedition spanned fifty-four thousand miles through thirty-five unique African countries. THE ADVENTURE WAS A THOUSAND TIMES BIGGER THAN HE DREAMED POSSIBLE. After exploring the Pan-American Highway from Alaska to Argentina Dan became hooked on the freedom of global overland travel, and he only wanted more. New languages, exotic foods, stunning landscapes and local people with an entirely different outlook became Dan's everyday life. As the months turned into years, through highlights and despair Dan gained a new appreciation for what it truly means to be alive. Viewing our modern world through African eyes gave Dan a new perspective, and he was pulled in by the endless joy, laughter and kindness at every turn. While the landscapes and wildlife are undeniably breathtaking, it is the natural warmth of the African people that is truly unforgettable. All across the continent Dan was welcomed with love and generosity, and now he will never be the same.

'A superb book...genuinely innovative' Jack Spence OBE, King's College London Over the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but many. Histories that have intertwined, converged and diverged. They have involved a continuing process of decolonization and state-building, conflict, economic problems but also progress and the perpetual interplay of structure and agency. This new view of those histories looks in particular at the relationship between territorial, economic, political and societal structures and human agency in the complex and sometimes confusing development of an independent Africa. The story starts well before the granting of independence to Ghana in 1957, but the book also looks at Africa in the closing decades of the old millennium and opening ones of the new. This is a book, too, about the history of the peoples of Africa and their struggle for economic development against the global economic straitjacket into which they were strapped by colonial rule and decolonisation. The importance of imposed or inherited structures, whether the global capitalist system, of which Africa is a subordinate part, or the artificial and often inappropriate state borders and political systems is discussed in the light of the exercise of agency by African peoples, political movements and leaders.

Silk Road to Africa How China will Influence Africa in the 21st Century It is now in place. 40 years ago, China and Africa where in the same place economically, and socially due to imperialism. China today is a Super Power; Africa below the Sub-Sahara is still in a quagmire. My vision for over 20 years has been to write and promote the book, "Silk Road 2 Africa". In it I show how bridging the gap between two mighty cultures; China and Africa has been on a path of destiny. I was given this vision as a young child at the age of 14. I see myself as the person of passion, vision and knowledge to promote this concept. As I travel and speak with people from all over the world it is time to have a spokesperson to send the message that has been written in the stones of the great Pyramids of Egypt. Jet Set Global Publishing, LLC is the entity that has been established to promote the book, and the on-line dating service for the Afro-Asian Connection, (www.afroasianconnection.com), also (www.afroasianconnection.com/socializer). The funding for the above project is Affiliate Marketing under the entity of S.E.E.K. Marketing, LLC (Search Engine Entrepreneur Knowledge). Promoting other peoples products, i.e., Sears, Nordstrom, Citi Bank, and a host of other companies from around the world, also helping local small businesses harness the power of the internet to promote and bring in revenue for their business. Generating money for JetSet Global Publishing, LLC, to build the online dating service into the largest niche of people interested in the exotic mixture of the AfroAsian Connection from around the world. Tiger Woods and Kumara Lee Simons are just two of the high profile Afro Asians that are featured on the web website.

* An ode to South Africa's stunning nature and to its people. A story of magnificent discoveries and meeting new friendsFor the past twenty years, photographer Mirjam Bleeker and stylist Frank Visser have traveled around the world together many times. They prefer to travel without a fixed plan, so they can be surprised by unexpected adventures and encounters. A few years ago they fell in love with South Africa. This book is an ode to South Africa's stunning nature and to its people. It's a report of Mirjam's and Frank's road trip along the coasts and through the inland, passing vast nature reserves and bustling cities. Along the way they catch up with old friends and make new ones, forging bonds for life. South Africa: A Road Trip holds beautiful photos of these inspiring people and their homes, as well as breathtaking photos of nature scenes. The book is divided into chapters corresponding with the different regions. The last pages form a practical guide, with useful addresses and tips.

naware that hunger, sickness and deprivation were awaiting him, a young idealist leaves the United States and embarks on a spiritual journey to West Africa. Repeatedly challenged by a world beyond his understanding and thrown into harsh, critical self-reflections, he is repulsed by the image of himself that Africa forces him to confront. Road of Ash and Dust: Awakening of a Soul in Africa is a deeply intimate and, somewhat, voyeuristic unveiling of aspects of The African-American Experience rarely committed to print. ROAD allows you access to one of the most universal rites of passage, the discovery of self. Author E.L. Cyrs channels voices from a distant and muted past, guiding us into understanding that many of the answers to our most troubling questions do, truly, come from within.

China’s emphasis on infrastructure development has received support from African leaders. Its focus on infrastructure development in Africa was endorsed by the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between China and the African Union on 27 January 2015. The agreement outline plans for connecting African countries through transportation infrastructure projects, including modern highways, airports, and high speed railways. At the heart of Belt and Road Initiative lies the creation of an economic land belt that includes countries on the original Silk Road through Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe, as well as a maritime “road” that links China’s port facilities with the African coast, pushing up through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean. China has from the outset emphasised that the Belt and Road Initiative will be developed within the framework of the five principles. These entails mutual respect for each other’s territorial integrity and sovereignty; non-aggression; non-interference in each other’s internal affairs; equality and mutual benefit; and peaceful coexistence. This volume provides an analysis of this stance by both African and Chinese scholars. Africa through its Agenda 2063 has been driving, among others, the re-industrialisation of its economies, improved connectivity and infrastructure development, diversification of energy sources, technology transfer and skills development. The Belt and Road Initiative provides an alternative path for Africa to realise some of these milestones.

China and India's new-found interest in trade and investment with Africa - home to 300 million of the globe's poorest people and the world's most formidable development challenge - presents a significant opportunity for growth and integration of theSub-Saharan continent into the global economy. Africa's Silk Road finds that China and India's South-South commerce with Africa isabout far more than natural resources, opening the way for Africato become a processor of commodities and a competitive supplier of goods and services to these countries - a major departure from its long established relations with the North. A growing number of Chinese and Indian businesses active in Africa operate on a global scale, work with world-class technologies, produce products and services according to the most demanding standards, and foster the integration of African businesses into advanced markets.There are significant imbalances, however, in these emerging commercial relationships. These can be addressed through a series of reforms in all countries: 'At-the-border' reforms, such as elimination of China and India's escalating tariffs on Africa's leading exports, and elimination ofAfrica's tariffs on certain inputs that make exports uncompetitive 'Behind-the-border' reforms in Africa, to unleash competitive market forces and strengthen its basic market institutions 'Between-the-border' improvements in trade facilitation mechanisms to decrease transactions costs Reforms that leverage linkages between investment and trade, toallow African businesses to participate in global productionnetworks that investments by Chinese and Indian firms can generate.