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Virtually anyone, anywhere knows that six million Jewish human beings were killed in the Jewish Holocaust. But how many African human beings were killed in the Black Holocaust - from the start of the European slave trade (c. 1500) to the Civil War (1865)? And how many were enslaved? The Black Holocaust, a travesty that killed millions of African human beings, is the most underreported major event in world history. A major economic event for Europe and Asia, a near fatal event for Africa, the seminal event in the history of every African American - if not every American! - and most of us cannot answer the simplest question about it. Here is a sample of what you will get from the painstakingly researched, painfully honest The Black Holocaust For Beginners:
The total number of slaves imported is not known. It is estimated that nearly 900,000 came to America in the 16th Century, 2.75 million in the 17th Century, 7 million in the 18th, and over 4 million in the 19th - perhaps 15 million in total. Probably every slave imported represented, on average, five corpses in Africa or on the high seas. The American slave trade, therefore, meant the elimination of at least 60 million Africans from their fatherland.
The Black Holocaust For Beginners - part indisputably documented chronicle, part passionately engaging narrative, puts the tragic event in plain sight where it belongs! The long overdue book answers all of your questions, sensitively and in great depth.
There's nothing like being unstuck from space and time to make you seriously rethink your life plans.
Sally just wanted a nice Florida vacation, but between literal jump-scares, internet scammers, and the not-FBI hot on their tail, just can't seem to find the time to relax. Will she and Zander ever have that candlelight dinner?
When a mystery lands on their doorstep in the middle of the night, it seems like the answer to all their problems. From Florida malls to the dark side of the moon, the trio needs to stall their nervous breakdowns in order to save the planet from an extra-terrestrial murderer - and, apparently, themselves.
Sally Webber's dream is coming true: Zander is back and taking her out for a night on the town--on a planet hundreds of light years away from Earth. But when an accident separates her from her alien tour guide, she's thrown into the seedy underbelly of an insane city where nothing is as it seems. Suddenly lost and desperate to get back home, Sally is willing to do anything to get out, even if it means accepting spontaneous marriage proposals, crashing some fancy parties, or joining what appears to be the space mob. All she wanted was some decent interstellar pizza, but now it might be the end of the world as evil nanobots and an out of control AI try to take the universe by force, and the only one who can stop them is missing in action. Sally has no choice but to try to stop them herself--if she can stay alive that long.
Ding Dong, the Technowitch is dead.
As an illegal clone of the murdered galactic princess, Dora's face would get her killed the minute she steps off her dull farming moon. She spends her days tinkering with gadgets and gears, with Tau, her kitchen-timer-bot, for company. But when forces close in and threaten her family, her escape attempt lands her deep in the Outer Zone - and on top of the Technowitch of Night, crushing her in the process.
Now a fugitive in two solar systems, Dora's only chance of survival is to find her way to the mysterious Technomage on his Emerald moon. In a place where science has advanced to be indistinguishable from magic, she must accept the help of an unlikely trio: a cryogenically-preserved girl with no memory, an obsolete theme park droid, and a bioengineered beast with a penchant for the dramatic.
As Dora realizes there's more to the princess's death than what the universe has been told, she must choose - save her family, or risk everything to right a centuries-old wrong.
She wanted a holiday. They needed a chosen one.
Sally, Zander, and Blayde, accompanied by their new friend Nim, have only one request: no more bizarre distractions on their hunt for Earth.
But before their cells can complete a single jump, the team is shoved off course and crash into a dreary old temple. Worse yet, there seems to be some confusion over Sally's face, as it looks exactly like that the local deity, Selena, goddess of the moon and omniscient absentee. Sally's ticking every box on the ancient prophecies checklist.
Fresh off of her meds and riding the withdrawal, and Sally must choose between embracing the role of Goddess so as to protect the planet from mysterious Sky People, or being thrown in a Volcano. Not the best way to start a tropical vacation. It's not going to be easy uniting warring factions, dealing with excitable whispering forests, or fighting both literal and figurative demons. Not to mention keeping up the appearance of divinity when all Sally wants is a nap.
Armed only with some high school improv' classes and a basic knowledge of foreign pop songs, Sally must save the planet - before everything goes up in flames.
Sally's search for Earth isn't off to a good start: chased out of her hotel room and into the broom closet of a spaceship, she's accidentally become a stowaway on the Alliance Flagship, Traveler.
But when sabotage and murder show the crew's true colors, Zander and Blayde are forced to stay and help them out of their mess. Lies, drama, and deceit lead them light years away to a mysterious planet on the edge of the galaxy, where the crew must band together just to stay alive. Which would be much easier if they didn't have to deal with a diva first-mate, a droid with a religious obsession, and Blayde's Ex whose brain is a spaceship.
Finding Earth has to be put on the back burner, as Sally's stuck tending alien boo-boos - and she still has no idea what she's doing. And she might not live long enough to get off the planet in one piece.
Framed for a murder you actually did commit? Rude.
Sally's saved the Earth from another alien predator only to be rewarded with a jail cell. With her family threatened by the Agency if she doesn't rat out Zander and Blayde, her only option to escape the Alliance is to plead 'aliens' in a court of law. At least at the Hill Institute for the Criminally Insane, she'll have time to clear her mind and focus - on revenge.
Finding a way to break out of an institution and cross half the galaxy would be much easier if it weren't for the midnight screams of terror and eerie doppelgangers lurking at the Hill. With the Agency too focused on capturing the siblings to actually protect the planet, it's up to Sally to save the day.
Between murder-clown apparitions, alien advocacy groups, and a new translator with compulsive corporate branding, Sally's got her work cut out for her. Too bad the best plan she can come up with amounts to faux-regicide with the help of an exasperated starship captain. Will she ever find the time to just Netflix and chill?
In case of breakup, saving the universe is not a healthy alternative to ice cream.
Freshly single and with more free time than she knows what to do with, Sally Webber thought she was done with aliens, interstellar crises, and planet-saving heroics. But when mysterious texts lead her on a quest to save James Felling's soul, Sally realizes the universe is teetering on the brink, thanks to a time paradox her ex-boyfriend, Zander, unwittingly unleashed in a misguided attempt to play hero.
With her not-quite-dead brother as collateral damage and the higher-dimensional unicorns seemingly on a coffee break from managing cosmic order, Sally's not just fighting for her own sanity - she's battling for the soul of the universe. Along with her glitch-prone emotional support AI hologram and a rockstar whose career's seen better days, it's up to them to take on the final frontier: saving the universe from itself.
But as they weave through the fabric of time and space, Sally is forced to confront not just the chaos Zander has left in his wake, but her own place within the cosmos. With every jump, every battle, and every unlikely alliance, she inches closer to a confrontation with the very forces that keep the universe ticking.
Can Sally ascend to a higher plane of existence and knit the fraying fabric of reality back together? Or will the final chapter of her starstruck journey end not with a bang, but with a whimper?
Dive into the climactic installment of the Starstruck Saga, where the leap from existential dread to interdimensional heroism is but a jump away. When life hands you a universe of trouble, sometimes the only thing to do is face it head-on, armed with a little humor, a touch of defiance, and a whole lot of desperation. After all, when you've hit existential rock bottom, the only way out is up-into the stars.
Home is where the heart is. Or maybe the pizza.
There's no better feeling than being back home after a long week exploring the galaxy, though being abandoned by one's friends and left to fend off a glitching evil robot spoils it. All that's left is to settle back into life, preparing Marcy's wedding and job hunting. If only mysterious midnight SWAT teams and crop-circle crafting-sessions weren't constantly getting in Sally's way.
When an old foe returns and Sally is the only person on the planet to recognize it, it's up to her, her sullen ex, and an overly-excitable FBI agent to save the planet. But first, they have to get the president safely out of his favorite sushi bar without starting the war of the worlds.
It's hard maintaining a long-distance relationship when your crush is light years away and thinks you died of old age, but that hasn't stopped anyone yet. Sally must save the planet, the universe, and herself - though maybe she'll take a nap first.
After an incident with a hot-air balloon causes college-dropout Sally Webber to lose her job, she sets off to find direction in her life. Crashing into a teleporting alien, however, is not on her to-do list.
Now she's on the run from TV-drama-loving aliens, and things are just getting started. Zander won't stop reeling her into life-or-death situations to save her planet, as he waits for his laser-wielding sister to search the universe for him. Though Sally isn't quite sure if he wants to save Earth from annihilation, or just quell his curiosity of all things human.
Now she's got to find lost alien emissaries, as well as a job, and stop the planet from getting incinerated in the process. But with Zander as her roommate, what could possibly go wrong?
Sally's search for Earth isn't off to a good start: chased out of her hotel room and into the broom closet of a spaceship, she's accidentally become a stowaway on the Alliance Flagship, Traveler.
But when sabotage and murder show the crew's true colors, Zander and Blayde are forced to stay and help them out of their mess. Lies, drama, and deceit lead them light years away to a mysterious planet on the edge of the galaxy, where the crew must band together just to stay alive. Which would be much easier if they didn't have to deal with a diva first-mate, a droid with a religious obsession, and Blayde's Ex whose brain is a spaceship.
Finding Earth has to be put on the back burner, as Sally's stuck tending alien boo-boos - and she still has no idea what she's doing. And she might not live long enough to get off the planet in one piece.
Sally Webber's dream is coming true: Zander is back and taking her out for a night on the town--on a planet hundreds of light years away from Earth. But when an accident separates her from her alien tour guide, she's thrown into the seedy underbelly of an insane city where nothing is as it seems. Suddenly lost and desperate to get back home, Sally is willing to do anything to get out, even if it means accepting spontaneous marriage proposals, crashing some fancy parties, or joining what appears to be the space mob. All she wanted was some decent interstellar pizza, but now it might be the end of the world as evil nanobots and an out of control AI try to take the universe by force, and the only one who can stop them is missing in action. Sally has no choice but to try to stop them herself--if she can stay alive that long.
Home is where the heart is. Or maybe the pizza.
There's no better feeling than being back home after a long week exploring the galaxy, though being abandoned by one's friends and left to fend off a glitching evil robot spoils it. All that's left is to settle back into life, preparing Marcy's wedding and job hunting. If only mysterious midnight SWAT teams and crop-circle crafting-sessions weren't constantly getting in Sally's way.
When an old foe returns, and Sally is the only person on the planet to recognize it, it's up to her, her sullen ex, and an overly-excitable FBI agent to save the planet. But first they have to get the president safely out of his favorite sushi bar without starting the war of the worlds.
It's hard maintaining a long-distance relationship when your crush is light years away and thinks you died of old age, but that hasn't stopped anyone yet. Sally must save the planet, the universe, and herself - though maybe she'll take a nap first.
This book presents a story of school improvement activity in East Africa from 1985 to 2000, which focused on sustained teacher development. The core of the book consists of six evaluations of school-and district-wide school improvement projects (SIPs) supported by the Aga Khan Foundation in Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda. The case studies present an evolving body of knowledge about the successes and challenges of a comprehensive approach to school improvement grounded in a common set of strategic principles.
The strategic principles embody the belief that the chances for quality improvement in teaching and learning are greater when change efforts
*are school-based,
*involve whole schools as the unit of change,
*emphasize the ongoing professional development of teachers,
*attend to school management and organizational conditions affecting the capacity of teachers to implement change,
* prepare for the institutionalization of organizational structures and processes that enable continuous school development, and
*evolve through partnerships among relevant education stakeholders.
The book concludes with commentaries by international experts in school improvement and teacher development on the SIP project designs, implementation and outcomes, and on lessons that can be drawn from the projects and their evaluations for school improvement policy, practice and theory in developing and developed countries around the world.
