VENETS: the Belogradchik journal for local history, cultural heritave and folk studies

170-194

Authors: V. Kachev

The present text is an excerpt from a new, still unpublished book by Valentin Kachev, entitled “The Spirit of the Old House”, written by him in the summer of 2011. The passage contains author’s recollections and reflections about events occurred with close to him people over the years in Belogradchik.

227-251

Authors: C.B. Ogunyemi

The paper examines the various voices in African poetry. African poets use their themes as echoes to salvage various inherences found in the decaying political, economic and social landscape. The paper argues textually the cultural ethos and the contemporary post-independence disillusionment on the African psyche as a result of colonilization. Using the meta-critical approach combined with realism, within sociological approach, the research calls for a concerted effort to stimulate originality and harness the benefits of globalization for the development of humanity in Africa.

256-256

Authors: B.V. Toshev (Ed.)

B. Kolev (1906-1982)