"German-born ruth weiss expands her poetry into performance, stories, film, and painting. She innovated poetry to jazz in San Francisco's North Beach, at The Cellar when it opened in 1956. This book is a selection of work from 1958-1998. In Czech and English. With numerous photographs. No American poet has remained so faithful to jazz in the construction of poetry as ruth weiss. Her poems are scores to be sounded with all her riffy ellipses and open-formed phrasing swarming the senses ... Others read to jazz or write from jazz. ruth weiss writes jazz in words."--Jack Hirschman, poet

A child of a Jewish family fleeing Nazi-Germany and settling in apartheid South Africa in the 1930s, Ruth Weiss journalistic career starts in Johannesburg of the 1950s. In 1968 banned from her home country, and then also from Rhodesia for her critical investigative journalism, she starts reporting from Lusaka, London and Cologne on virtually all issues which affect the newly independent African countries. Peasants and national leaders in southern Africa Ruth Weiss met them all, travelling through Africa at a time when it was neither usual for a woman to do so, nor to report for economic media as she did. Her writing gained her the friendship of diverse and interesting people. In this book she offers us glimpses into some of her many long-nurtured friendships, with Kenneth Kaunda or Nadine Gordimer and many others. Her life-long quest for tolerance and understanding of different cultures shines through the many personalized stories which her astute eye and pen reveals in this book. As she put it, one never sheds the cultural vest donned at birth, but this should never stop one learning about and accepting other cultures.

Monograph on the economic implications, strategic importance and political aspects of road networks, railway networks and rivers in Africa - covers the Southern African complex, Central Africa and West Africa, and discusses the proposed trans-african highway. Bibliography pp. 166 and 167, maps and references.

This volume analyses and charts the tortuous process of negotiation leading to the present flawed but largely welcomed peace in the troubled territories of northern Ireland and southern Africa.

Based on a true tale, My Sister Sara begins in December 1948. The Leroux family stands on Cape Town's docks to welcome their newest member, a blonde, blue-eyed war orphan that patriotic Pa has "ordered" from Germany. The God-fearing clan falls in love with the bright four-year-old. Even stern Pa, an architect of Apartheid, is softened by the orphan's presence until a document arrives revealing a terrible secret. Everything changes. The truth must never come out. Pa swears the family to secrecy. Sara is fed and clothed but never shown affection again. And never told the reason why. Told through the eyes of her adoptive brother Jo, Sara's past underscores her present against the heinous backdrop of Apartheid in the 1950's and 60's. She must call on Anne Frank-like courage to resist her enemies, even those with the Leroux name, if she is to have any hope of finding her place in the world.