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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 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 ...

Ningún continente ha experimentado la mitad de asesinatos políticos, golpes de estado, guerras internas y externas, disturbios civiles y trastornos económicos desde la segunda mitad del siglo XX que África. Sin embargo, casi ningún experto serio diría que las manos de las fuerzas extranjeras que están dispuestas a asegurar sus "supuestos intereses" en el continente o que quieren ganar nuevos intereses, no estaban en la mayoría de estos reveses. Que estas fuerzas externas hayan tenido éxito con la ayuda de los africanos con la disposición malvada o los africanos que ignoran su plan...

In "UNBROKEN II: From Alexander the Great and Hellenization to the Hasmoneans, Herod the Great, and the Romans in the Holy Land," the author takes the reader on a guided journey of the land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River that has been fought over more than any other real estate on earth. It covers half a millennium of the history of this territory variously described as "The Holy Land," The Promised Land," Israel, and Palestine. This challenging expedition made-simple portrays the domination of four Near Eastern Empires of the Holy Land before Alexander the Great ...

En "Fuego y Lamentaciones", Janvier T. Chando ofrece a los lectores relatos sucintos de las vidas, los ideales y las muertes prematuras de las destacadas figuras políticas cuyos asesinatos conmocionaron a la sociedad estadounidense, desencadenaron transformaciones políticas internas y alteraron fundamentalmente la política exterior de los Estados Unidos de America, de modo que el país perdiera para siempre su inocencia. A lo largo de un siglo, las muertes a tiros de cuatro presidentes de los Estados Unidos (Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, James A. Garfield y John F. Kennedy) y del ...

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 ...

PREVAILED: Donald Trump’s 2024 Victory makes a compelling read right from the opening chapters, as it encapsulates the political journey of Donald Trump in an insightful and electrifying manner. The author takes the reader hand-in-hand through the 45th president of the United States of America's journey to become the 47th president in a process that seems to defy lawsuits, assassination attempts, the machinery of the legacy media, the political establishment, and the “Powers without a Face”. Defying propaganda, staying indifferent to opinions not based on facts, ignoring outright lies...

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...

Janvier T. Chando ofrece un relato sucinto y esclarecedor de la transformación de hombres de guerra en líderes de paz en una región con una historia crónica de conflicto. El lector sale de esta presentación de los orígenes humildes y el ascenso a la prominencia de Yitzhak Rabin de Israel y Anwar Sadat de Egipto con una mejor comprensión del conflicto árabe-israelí, las motivaciones de los actores clave, sus esperanzas, sus temores y sueños, así como las fuerzas ocultas e incalculables que obligan a los jugadores a buscar la salvación o la condenación. Esta brillante narración ...

In this succinct account, the author reveals the threads that weave the controversial legacy of the Egyptian military leader and head of state Anwar Al-Sadat, prying into his motivations that led him to war against Israel and that saw him shortly afterwards become an iconic leader for peace in the Middle East by stirring his country onto a path that not only began the transformation of Egypt into a modern state, but that equally alienated Egypt from the rest of the Arab world. The unequivocal nature of Janvier T. Chando’s account sheds a unique light into the legacy of one of Africa’s ...

Dubbed by many pundits as “The Most Stupid War in the World,” the Ukraine conflict is one that hardly anyone saw coming back in 2010. However, it is close to a decade old already. In this conflict in the evenly divided Ukraine, brinkmanship by the local players in the country, by the West that wants to drag Ukraine into its orbit, and by Russia that fears losing Ukraine and its security in the process, is the norm. At the same time, the world watches in a seemingly helpless manner as Ukraine gets torn apart at the seams. Most of the governments in the West blame Russia for instigating ...

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...

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being the real thing, the true inheritor of a legacy, the upholder of the identity others strive to be attached to. In this account, we see two narratives that oppose one another, but that ought to complement each other. How do a people so divided by history embrace their common heritage or denominator as the children of Kievan Rus, but who later became known as the frontier people (Ukrainians)? "The Real Ukrainians" is the first part of an account that would take us hand-in-hand through our journey that would make us enlightened regarding the ...

PREVALECIÓ: La Victoria de Donald Trump en 2024 es una lectura convincente desde los primeros capítulos, ya que encapsula el viaje político de Donald Trump de una manera perspicaz y electrizante. El autor lleva al lector de la mano a través del viaje del 45º presidente de los Estados Unidos de América para convertirse en el 47º presidente en un proceso que parece desafiar las demandas, los intentos de asesinato, la maquinaria de los medios de comunicación tradicionales, el establishment político y los "Poderes sin rostro". Desafiando la propaganda, permaneciendo indiferente a las ...

The name Gandhi towers above every other in the political landscape of India for very good reasons. The “Soul” of modern India—Mahatma Gandhi— bore that last name; India’s first and only female prime minister or head of state—Indira Gandhi—married into the name; and Rajiv Gandhi reluctantly made it into politics and became the Prime Minister of India as a Gandhi. They left positive legacies, yet they were assassinated by extremists with exclusive and twisted agendas. And as it turned out, their deaths contributed to the advancement of humanity. What was it about these three ...

HEGEMON IN THE MAKING is the first part of the account of the hegemons that shaped the Western World, a thousand-year story per se about ancient Rome and the nature of its world. This involves the empires it fought against, the lands and people it conquered, the “Barbarian” invasions it defeated and failed to stop, and the influence it exerted in Europe, Africa, and East Asia (The Middle East), making it the target of other powerful forces determined to bring it down while cherishing its civilization, the positive attributes that constitute the bedrock of Western civilization today ...

INCLUSO SUS ENEMIGOS LLORARON: El asesinato de Yitzhak Rabin de Israel, Janvier T. Chando proporciona al lector un relato sucinto y perspicaz de Yitzhak Rabin que nos ayuda a entender su mundo, la región turbulenta en la que nació, la complejidad de la geopolítica y lo que implica el liderazgo --- confianza, coraje, compasión, inspiración, conocimiento, comprensión, integridad, justicia, motivación. El alucinante relato nos lleva a través del viaje de Yitzhak Rabin como un niño tímido empujado por las exigencias de su tiempo para convertirse en soldado y desempeñar un papel ...

In this brave and chilling account of the post-Soviet space, the author provides us with a fascinating insight into Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and the other republics of the Soviet Union through the larger-than-life character of Boris Petrenkov who leads us by the hand through his world, his mind, and the characters he interacts with. This smooth and fascinating ride into a part of the world that people find mysterious comes with explosive revelations that take us through history from the times of Kievan Rus a millennia ago, to the Golden Horde of the Mongols, czarist Russia, the Soviet ...

Janvier T. Chando provides a succinct and illuminating account of the transformation of men of war into leaders of peace in a region with a chronic history of conflict. The reader comes out from this presentation of the humble origins and rise to prominence of Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Anwar Sadat of Egypt with a better understanding of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the motivation of the key players, their hopes, their fears, and dreams, as well as the hidden and untold forces compelling the players to seek salvation or damnation. This brilliant narration of the two assassinated heads of ...

Cameroon is the only country in Africa where those who campaigned, fought and died for the country's freedom and independence from colonial rule have never made it to power, where the ideas and ideals of these union-nationalists are still being suppressed by the unpopular system the colonial master put in place in the country after defeating these civic-nationalists in a bloody war variously described as France’s genocidal war in Africa. This retarding French-imposed system keeps the country trapped in poverty, corruption, underdevelopment, dictatorship, despondence, and cynicism, thereby...