Limited copies of the following teaching materials are available free of cost to individuals and organisations in developing countries. If you wish to receive these please send an email to [email protected] specifying the number of copies needed and the exact postal address. The requested books will be sent by airmail parcel. Up to five copies of each book can be given to organisations if they can justify their need. The books will be provided as long as the stocks last.
1. Leprosy in the light skin - a photographic atlas by DL Leiker & E Nunzi, (English, 1994)
2. Promoting independence following a stroke - manual for mid-level rehabilitation workers (WHO and AIFO, English, 2000)
3. Poverty, Health and Development - volume 17, International Health Cooperation papers (AIFO, English, 2003)
4. Community-based Rehabilitation in Vietnam (CBR/MoH Vietnam, English, 2002)
5. Guia para a reabilitacao socio-economica de pessoas afetadas pela hanseniase (ILEP, Portuguese, 1999)

'A Thousand Flowers', a project of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa, is published by African World Press and edited by Silvia Federici, George Caffentzis and Ousseina Alidou. The book is a collection of articles that chronicles the social struggles against Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAP) in African universities from the 1980’s into the 90’s. It deals with experiences that are central to the lived experience on many African campuses but which almost never appear in donor funded 'research'. In the realms of academic publishing and research, so thoroughly dominated by the money of the World Bank and others and so removed from the lived experience of ordinary people, this book is, indeed, an insurrection of subjugated knowledge.

Children race through a field, school bags thrown over their shoulders, for a one-day escape from Kibera - their home and Nairobi's largest slum. As they compete in tug-o-war and jump rope, enjoying a day of play and abandon, their laughing faces are caught in still photos. Francesco Fantini, an Italian photojournalist, travelled through Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo to capture the lives of people who face extreme poverty, civil war and HIV/AIDS. The result, a collection of 65 images in black and white, is on display from Sept. 24 to Oct. 9 at the U.N. headquarters in Geneva.

Mounting hostility to the hegemony of the United States. Stock markets around the world falling to unanticipated lows. Environmental destruction continuing unchecked. Sluggish economic growth. Unprecedented income inequality. Ever larger numbers of desperately poor people. Something is fundamentally wrong. Globalisation is a system in crisis. This book explores this crisis as the United States tries to impose itself on the world under the guise of its war on terrorism. It examines its economic, ecological and political manifestations, and shows how resistance to capitalist globalisation is being organised among very diverse social sectors.

Niketche: Uma História de Poligamia (Niketche: A Story of Polygamy), is Paulina Chiziane’s latest novel, and comes twelve years after Balada de Amor ao Vento (1990), her first work and the first novel by a Mozambican woman. This groundbreaking aspect remains central to Chiziane’s career; for not only has she now made her mark in Mozambican literature, she is also becoming one of the most interesting African women writers to follow. The focus on controversial and provocative themes, and the overt concern with ‘women’s issues’ told from an outspoken perspective make Chiziane someone to watch in years to come.

People's Popular Theatre (PPT) is a community-based group that uses theatre to raise awareness about discrimination on the basis of gender, religion, or disability. The organisation conducts research on traditional cultural art forms and practices, exploring how they affect gender relations and then working to correct gender imbalances in society through performance art. In addressing these issues, PPT uses African artistic modes to strengthen cultural identity. PPT focuses most of its activities in Kenya.

Social and cultural norms and traditions in Lesotho are hampering efforts to combat the rising HIV/AIDS epidemic, government officials told IRIN. Ignorance about HIV/AIDS has been a major stumbling block for efforts at halting the spread of the disease, she said.

The history of Zimbabwe has always been reflected in its oral and written literature. Much of the serious fiction written in the 1980s and early 1990s focused on the effects of Zimbabwe's war of liberation. Little has yet been written about post-independence Zimbabwe and the complex and challenging issues that have arisen in the last twenty years. This anthology of twenty-two short stories provides a representative sample of the range and quality of writing in Zimbabwe at the turn of the century, and an impressionistic reflection of the years since independence in 1980.

“It cuts across genders, but it seems to be more prevalent with young males. Maybe it has to do with the faceless formless masculine thing, whatever that 'thing' is. What appears to be the case, though, it that it is more difficult to break the 'streetness' in boys from the streets than in girls.” This socially committed and subtle novel presents in a convincing and realist style, a bird's eye view of life in the slums of Accra. Amma Darko is one of the most significant contemporary Ghanaian literary writers and this is her third novel.

This title looks at the degree to which recent reforms undertaken in Sub-Saharan Africa have enhanced institutional capacities across the breadth of government. It analyzes to what extent reforms have been internalized and defended by governments, paying special attention to the impact of public sector reforms on the economy. The question of whether ownership can be attained when countries continue to be heavily dependent on external support is also addressed.

Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has rejected the accusation that one of his books is pornographic. A Roman Catholic group, the Kenya Parents Caucus, has demanded that Achebe's book, A Man of the People, and two other texts in Kiswahili be removed from the school syllabus on the basis that they are pornographic.

Peter Makori knows the smell of a Kenyan prison which has been his home for the past two months. He is being detained in Nyanza province in Western Kenya for alleged implications in the murder of two tribal chiefs. But, Kang'ethe Mungai, a human rights activist and founder of Release Political Prisoners, says Makori has been detained for highlighting human rights abuses. He is an investigative journalist. Makori's case epitomises the extent of human rights abuses in Kenya and the urgent need of a body to monitor such excesses.

This powerful book is based on interviews with (former) prisoners that were conducted by Zimbabwe Women Writers. The stories that are told are revelatory. Women who find themselves in prison are too often driven by circumstances into a situation where the emotional or material poverty of their lives makes breaking the law appear the only option. The vivid particularity of these personal stories, often told with unexpected candour, is balanced by essays written by experts in law, gender, and prison reform. A Tragedy of Lives is a book which will demand that we ask how much responsibility should be borne by the culprits, and how much by society; and, what can be done both to prevent the ‘crime’ and create a more compassionate environment.

On March 18, 1975, Herbert Chitepo, a Zimbabwean nationalist in exile and chairman of the war council that struggled to liberate Africans in white-ruled Rhodesia, was killed by a car bomb. Since then, there have been four separate published confessions to his assassination and at least as many accusations and innuendos about who was responsible for the crime. Luise White in The Assassination of Herbert Chitepo, does not set out to resolve questions about who was guilty and who was accountable for this horrible murder. Instead, with a presentation that is as much murder mystery as history writing, she uncovers what is at stake in so many confessions to Chitepo's murder and why his assassination continues to incite conflict and controversy in Zimbabwe's national politics today.

Among the tasks ahead for President Paul Kagame is to find ways to build and develop consistently a democratic culture in Rwanda, ensuring that the needs of the Rwandese people are understood and reflected at the highest level of government. This endeavour must begin almost immediately for the forthcoming Parliamentary Elections, according to an analysis of the recent presidential elections by African Rights.

There are some books that are surprising because they are so completely unexpected - not in their appearance, but in their method. O Assobiador (The Whistler) is one such book. As a product of Angola, a country riven by civil war and its after effects for the past 30 years, a novel of such laughter and unmitigated hope comes as a welcome shock. The story is set in an African village, far from the sea, with a church on one side, a smiling baobab tree on the other and filled with inhabitants who treat their many donkeys as Hindus treat cows.

Sympathetic accounts of the rise and rise of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe are few and far between. The anger that he has managed to generate has left little room for debate, and even more frightening, for criticism in Zimbabwe itself. He has ruled by fear and patronage, and he has maintained his political isolationism through invoking the unresolved land question and suppressing dissent. Stephen Chan is not a Mugabe hack. He does however attempt a reasoned look at history, politics, economics and war to develop a profile of arguably one of the most controversial leaders in Africa today.

Where do people earn Per Capita Income?
More than one poor starving soul would like to know.
In our countries, numbers live better than people.
How many people prosper in times of prosperity?
How many people find their lives developed by development?

Palaver Finish is a collection of essays written by one of Zimbabwe's top writers and published originally in the Zimbabwe Standard, an independent local newspaper. Having read these journalistic musings one can expect the Mugabe government to not take kindly to the writings of Chenjerai Hove.

A monumental work, epic in scope and design, and clearly the result of extensive research, which has been skilfully woven into an enchanting narrative. This panoramic story, with its vividly realised characters and heroic action, restores the ancient link between history and literature. - African Book Centre