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Book Synopsis At Her Majesty's Request by : Walter Dean Myers
Download or read book At Her Majesty's Request written by Walter Dean Myers and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myers pens this biography of an African princess saved from execution and taken to England where Queen Victoria oversaw her upbringing and where she lived for a time before marrying an African missionary.
Book Synopsis The Royal Arts of Africa by : Suzanne P. Blier
Download or read book The Royal Arts of Africa written by Suzanne P. Blier and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1998-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in an undergraduate or graduate course in African Art; also suitable as a supplementary reading for art history surveys. Lavishly illustrated, this historically grounded text draws together key traditions from West, Central, Eastern and Southern Africa to present an informative and captivating survey of the most important royal arts in the great sub-Saharan African kingdoms. Exploring the diverse ways that African rulers employed art and architecture to define individual and state identity, it provides an overview of the major themes in royal African art and discusses what these arts reveal about the nature of kingship.
Book Synopsis Terrific Majesty by : Carolyn Hamilton
Download or read book Terrific Majesty written by Carolyn Hamilton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since his assassination in 1828, King Shaka Zulu--founder of the powerful Zulu kingdom and leader of the army that nearly toppled British colonial rule in South Africa--has made his empire in popular imaginations throughout Africa and the West. Shaka is today the hero of Zulu nationalism, the centerpiece of Inkatha ideology, a demon of apartheid, the namesake of a South African theme park, even the subject of a major TV film. Terrific Majesty explores the reasons for the potency of Shaka's image, examining the ways it has changed over time--from colonial legend, through Africanist idealization, to modern cultural icon. This study suggests that "tradition" cannot be freely invented, either by European observers who recorded it or by subsequent African ideologues. There are particular historical limits and constraints that operate on the activities of invention and imagination and give the various images of Shaka their power. These insights are illustrated with subtlety and authority in a series of highly original analyses. Terrific Majesty is an exceptional work whose special contribution lies in the methodological lessons it delivers; above all its sophisticated rehabilitation of colonial sources for the precolonial period, through the demonstration that colonial texts were critically shaped by indigenous African discourse. With its sensitivity to recent critical studies, the book will also have a wider resonance in the fields of history, anthropology, cultural studies, and postcolonial literature.
Book Synopsis Power and Majesty by : Larry Laverty
Download or read book Power and Majesty written by Larry Laverty and published by Lid Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book by wildlife photographer and writer Larry Laverty, Power and Majesty features extraordinary images and informative text that capture the life of African elephants. The book focuses on these majestic animals and features stunning photographs from the most remote corners of Africa, from the savannahs and deserts to the rivers and jungles. The text introduces various elephant habitats, explores the magical qualities of elephants, and underscores the immense challenges they face for survival in a world dominated by humans. The photographs and information showcased in this book will help increase our appreciation and understanding of the African elephant's significant place in the animal kingdom, and Larry Laverty will be donating all of his profits to this worthy cause. Their abilities to love, to remember, to function as families, and to survive under some of the harshest conditions will change the way we think about elephants, with the hope that this knowledge will encourage more people to help save those who remain in the wild.
Book Synopsis Kongo: Power and Majesty by : Alisa LaGamma
Download or read book Kongo: Power and Majesty written by Alisa LaGamma and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating account of the effects of turbulent history on one of Africa’s most storied kingdoms, Kongo: Power and Majesty presents over 170 works of art from the Kingdom of Kongo (an area that includes present-day Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angola). The book covers 400 years of Kongolese culture, from the fifteenth century, when Portuguese, Dutch, and Italian merchants and missionaries brought Christianity to the region, to the nineteenth, when engagement with Europe had turned to colonial incursion and the kingdom dissolved under the pressures of displacement, civil war, and the devastation of the slave trade. The works of art—which range from depictions of European iconography rendered in powerful, indigenous forms to fearsome minkondi, or power figures—serve as an assertion of enduring majesty in the face of upheaval, and richly illustrate the book’s powerful thesis.
Book Synopsis The Map of Africa by Treaty by : Sir E. Hertslet
Download or read book The Map of Africa by Treaty written by Sir E. Hertslet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1895, this is a guide to the stages and bargains by which the present African frontiers have been created.
Book Synopsis The Map of Africa by Treaty ... by : Sir Edward Hertslet
Download or read book The Map of Africa by Treaty ... written by Sir Edward Hertslet and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Samboe; or, The African Boy by : Mary Ann Hedge
Download or read book Samboe; or, The African Boy written by Mary Ann Hedge and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Samboe; or, The African Boy" is a novel examining in detail the horrors of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. The history is relayed in form of a fictional story of an Englishman as he travels to Africa for trade purposes. Charles Irving had received an order from the Cape Coast Castle, for the collection and purchase of slaves; who, dreadful as was his occupation, yet at all times faithfully endeavoured to obey the orders of his employers. But his conscience is piqued when he sees a little boy and his grief stricken mother among the slaves. He hopes to save them and in the process moves around in the different stages of the slave trade, giving the reader a poignant reminder of its abominable horrors...
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of African Religion by : Molefi Kete Asante
Download or read book Encyclopedia of African Religion written by Molefi Kete Asante and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2009 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects almost five hundred entries that cover the African response to spirituality, taboos, ethics, sacred space, and objects.
Book Synopsis Dress in the Making of African Identity: A Social and Cultural History of the Yoruba People by : Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi
Download or read book Dress in the Making of African Identity: A Social and Cultural History of the Yoruba People written by Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book on the social and cultural history of Yoruba people, a people in southwest Nigeria. As the first to provide a comprehensive treatment of Yoruba dress in historical perspective, this book is an important contribution to African history in general and the Yoruba cultural history in particular. The book illuminates the impact of Christianity, Islam, and British colonialism on the construction of Yoruba identity, and how dress was entangled in that construction. It also provides insightful discussions of the transformations in dress culture since independence and demonstrates the importance of dress as a site for contesting and articulating postcolonial Yoruba identity and class structure within the Nigerian national space. This book provides many insights into these issues and is thus an invaluable addition to Africana studies, anthropology, and history.
Book Synopsis Report by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Council of the League of Nations on the Administration of Tanganyika Territory by : Great Britain. Colonial Office
Download or read book Report by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Council of the League of Nations on the Administration of Tanganyika Territory written by Great Britain. Colonial Office and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Politician's Handbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Select Documents Relating to the Unification of South Africa by : Arthur Percival Newton
Download or read book Select Documents Relating to the Unification of South Africa written by Arthur Percival Newton and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Her Majesty's Other Children by : Lewis Ricardo Gordon
Download or read book Her Majesty's Other Children written by Lewis Ricardo Gordon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1997 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gordon provides an explosive critique of contemporary popular and intellectual cultures.
Book Synopsis South African Republic by : Great Britain. Colonial Office
Download or read book South African Republic written by Great Britain. Colonial Office and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Council of the League of Nations on the Administration of the British Cameroons for the Year ... by :
Download or read book Report by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Council of the League of Nations on the Administration of the British Cameroons for the Year ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report by His Majesty's Government to the Council of the League of Nations on the Administration of the Tanganyika Territory by : Great Britain. Colonial Office
Download or read book Report by His Majesty's Government to the Council of the League of Nations on the Administration of the Tanganyika Territory written by Great Britain. Colonial Office and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
