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In this magical account, Janvier T. Chando brilliantly establishes the threads that made the young Thomas Sankara one of Africa’s iconic leaders in the twentieth century, and the revolutionary changes he brought to Burkina Faso that transformed it into Sub-Saharan Africa’s most self-reliant country. The author leads the reader hand-in-hand to the path of the trail of the young Sankara’s catapult into the limelight of Burkina Faso’s politics, his travails, his rise to power as the head of state, and his lucid notion of his mission. Sankara comes across as one of those rare African ...

This thoughtful account of Patrice Lumumba provides an insight into why the swift elimination of the legend from the geopolitical developments involving his country plunged Congo into turmoil that it is yet to recover from. Janvier T. Chando highlights Congo's deep trauma as the private possession of King Leopold of Belgium, later as a Belgian colony, and afterward, as a so-called independent state that got disarrayed by a tug-of-war between the cold war rivals. That resulted in the inhuman dictatorship of pro-Western Mobutu Sese Seko, in wars during which millions of Congolese died, in the...

No continent has experienced half the political assassinations, coup d’états, internal and external wars, civil unrest, and economic upheaval s since the second half of the twentieth century that Africa suffered. Yet, hardly any serious pundit would say that the hands of foreign forces that are out to secure their “so-called interests” in the continent or that want to gain new ones, were not in most of these setbacks. That these external forces have roughly been succeeding with the help of Africans with the evil disposition or Africans ignorant of their game plan is true. Opposed to ...

Countries, continents, and the world at large experience jolts that move them away from their evolutionary if not reformatory paths, resulting in seismic changes that transform them fundamentally. Assassinations are one of the potent catalysts for these changes as they lead to wars, political changes, and even economic transformations. Below is an insight into far-reaching political assassinations that are still haunting the world today: Franz Ferdinand: Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian-Serb nationalist kills the Archduke and heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, thereby sparking off World War One...

This succinct narrative effortlessly takes us through a millennium and a half of the formative history of the land that is at the center of geopolitics today. As the first part of a breathtaking account that takes us hand-in-hand through the landmark history of the land variously described as "The Holy Land", “The Promised Land", Israel and Palestine, this narrative provides unique insight into plans — attempted and not yet articulated — to resolve the conflict between two peoples or nations with deep connections to the land, but who are not living there in peace because they are ...

In questo breve racconto, l'autore rivela i fili che tessono la controversa eredità del leader militare Egiziano e del capo di stato Anwar Al-Sadat, nelle sue motivazioni che lo hanno portato alla guerra contro Israele e che lo ha visto poco dopo diventare un capo iconico per la pace in Medio Oriente, spingendo il suo paese su un percorso che non solo ha iniziato la trasformazione dell'Egitto in uno stato moderno, ma che ha egualmente alienato l'Egitto dal resto del mondo Arabo.La natura inequivocabile del racconto di Janvier T. Chando getta una luce unica sull'eredità di uno dei leader ...

Cameroon, a beautiful country situated opposite the middle portion of Brazil, on the eastern side of the Atlantic Ocean, is bordered by six countries, of which Nigeria is the most prominent neighbor. It appears on maps like a heavily pregnant mother carrying a baby on her back. Apportioned to Germany during the 1884 Berlin conference that carved up Africa, Berlin treated German Kamerun as a treasured colony until Great Britain and France captured the land during the First World War, partitioned it into British Cameroons and French Cameroun and then lorded it over the people for four decades...

Dans COUPS DE FEU ET LAMENTATIONS, Janvier T. Chando offre aux lecteurs des récits succincts de la vie, des idéaux et des décès prématurés des personnalités politiques imposantes dont les assassinats ont choqué la société américaine, déclenché des transformations politiques nationales et fondamentalement modifié la politique étrangère américaine, de sorte que les États-Unis de l'Amérique a perdu son innocence pour toujours.Sur un siècle, la mort par balle de quatre présidents des États-Unis — Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, James A. Garfield et John F. Kennedy —...

The independence fervor that gripped African colonies in the 1940s and 1950s was supposed to give birth to a "New Africa" that was expected to play a major role in advancing world civilization. What happened to make Africa fail so abysmally? By the end of the 1980s, a culture of political monolithism, dictatorship, corruption, coup d’état, mismanagement, underdevelopment and violence was dominating the political leadership of most African countries, fuelled by leaders with the evil disposition and their foreign puppeteers keeping them in power. The era of Mikhail Gorbachev’s Glasnost ...

In a Europe dominated by empires in the early years of the twentieth century, ethnic nationalism is challenging the status quo, threatening to throw the continent into an unfathomable turmoil. To hedge against this impending war, the different European leaders embarked on strengthening the alliances they had formed. Appearing the most vulnerable to this phenomenon is the multi-ethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire, which is situated at the heart of Europe and whose citizens come from Europe's three major language groups. But strangely enough, its emperor Franz Josef is loved by the majority of all...

When bright-eyed child prodigy Gavin Njike loses his family and pursues a hazy path of vengeance, he never imagined he could end up serving his family’s killers. However, that is the case after he joins the country’s intelligence. Things start to go wrong when he finds himself in the dark about operations. But it is the death of the dissident visionary Vincent Chi that opens the floodgates of his memory, forcing him to grapple with the tragedies suffered by his family. Now, there is unrest boiling beneath the surface of Cameroonian society. President Pablo-Nero Essomba, the leader of ...

In Fire and Lamentations, Janvier T. Chando offers readers succinct accounts of the lives, ideals, and untimely deaths of the towering political figures whose assassinations shocked American society, triggered domestic political transformations, and fundamentally altered America foreign policy, so that the United States of America lost its innocence forever. Spanning a century, the shooting deaths of four United States Presidents — Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, James A. Garfield, and John F. Kennedy — and the country’s soul and the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. brought...

En este relato innovador, el autor lleva al lector por el pasillo de los acontecimientos y la historia innovadores hasta la realidad de que hoy es Ucrania, el conflicto de Ucrania, la Europa posterior a la Guerra Fría y el controvertido mundo unipolar liderado por Estados Unidos. La complejidad de Ucrania, su historia, su política y la guerra multifacética que el dividido pueblo ucraniano no anticipó hace dos décadas se vuelve fácil de entender, sentando las bases para una solución a lo que muchos expertos piensan que es un conflicto intratable. El autor lo logró con una perspicacia...

Cette première partie du récit des hégémons qui ont façonné le monde occidental est une histoire millénaire impliquant la Rome antique et la nature de son monde qui impliquait les empires contre lesquels elle s'est battue, les terres et les peuples qu'elle a conquis, les invasions « barbares » qu'elle a vaincues et n'a pas réussi à arrêter, et l'influence qu'elle a exercée en Europe. L'Afrique et le Moyen-Orient, ce qui en fait la cible de puissants non-Romains déterminés à le contrôler tout en chérissant sa civilisation, les attributs positifs qui constituent le noyau du ...

PRÉVALU : La Victoire de Donald Trump en 2024 est une lecture captivante dès les premiers chapitres, car elle résume le parcours politique de Donald Trump d'une manière perspicace et électrisante. L'auteur emmène le lecteur main dans la main à travers le parcours du 45e président des États-Unis d'Amérique pour devenir le 47e président dans un processus qui semble défier les poursuites judiciaires, les tentatives d'assassinat, la machinerie des médias traditionnels, l'establishment politique et les « puissances sans visage ». Défiant la propagande, restant indifférent aux ...

En tant que colonie allemande de 1884 à 1916, Kamerun était surnommée «la perle africaine» pour son potentiel humain et matériel et pour sa position stratégique en Afrique. La défaite de l'Allemagne pendant la Première Guerre mondiale et la partition de la colonie dans le Cameroun britannique et le Cameroun français n'ont pas diminué le rôle démesuré de la région dans l'évolution politique et économique du continent. Ainsi, la quête par les nationalistes-civiques de la terre pour réunir les territoires sous contrôle britannique et français et rendre le Cameroun ...

Dans MÊME SES ENNEMIS ONT PLEURÉ : L'Assassinat d'Yitzhak Rabin d'Israël, Janvier T. Chando fournit au lecteur un récit succinct et perspicace d'Yitzhak Rabin qui nous aide à comprendre son monde, la région turbulente dans laquelle il est né, la complexité de la géopolitique et ce qu'implique le leadership --- confiance, courage, compassion, inspiration, connaissance, compréhension, intégrité, équité, motivation. Le récit époustouflant nous emmène à travers le parcours d'Yitzhak Rabin en tant que garçon timide poussé par les exigences de son temps pour devenir soldat et ...

Questo racconto di Muammar Gheddafi ci porta alla sua ascesa al potere, ai momenti in cui era sotto i riflettori, e poi ai suoi travagli e alla sua rapida eliminazione dagli sviluppi geopolitici in Libia in una processione che fece precipitare il paese in un tumulto da cui deve ancora riprendersi Con intuizione, lucidità, imparzialità, ampiezza e diligenza, Janvier T, Chando riesce a delineare gli intricati fili che intrecciano il controverso personaggio di Muammar Gheddafi. Non solo trova la verità dai racconti disparati sull'uomo forte libico, ma gli fa luce in un modo unico che rende ...

SYNOPSIS DE « ICÔNES ET MÉCHANTS » Les pays, les continents et le monde en général connaissent des secousses qui les éloignent de leurs voies évolutives, sinon réformatrices, entraînant des changements sismiques qui les transforment fondamentalement. Les assassinats sont l'un des puissants catalyseurs de ces changements, car ils conduisent à des guerres, des changements politiques et même des transformations économiques. Vous trouverez ci-dessous un aperçu des assassinats politiques de grande envergure qui hantent encore le monde aujourd'hui : François-Ferdinand : Gavrilo ...

Apodado por muchos expertos como "La guerra más estúpida del mundo", el conflicto de Ucrania es uno que casi nadie vio en el horizonte en 2010. Sin embargo, ahora tiene casi una década. En este conflicto en Ucrania dividida a partes iguales, la política arriesgada por parte de los actores locales en el país, por parte de Occidente que quiere arrastrar a Ucrania a su órbita, y por parte de Rusia que teme perder Ucrania y su seguridad, en el proceso es la norma. Al mismo tiempo, el mundo observa con aparente impotencia cómo Ucrania se desgarra por las costuras. La mayoría de los ...