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The Hidden Voice of Africa

Author : Sebastian Joseph
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1543708293
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Voice of Africa written by Sebastian Joseph and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa: You Must Cast Off Your Colonialist Oppressors! What is the wealthiest continent in the world? Would it surprise you to learn that the answer is Africa? Every country in Africa has vast riches in the form of gems, gold, minerals, hydrocarbon resources, and more . . . and yet, in most African countries, the standard of living is abysmal, except for those who collaborate with colonialists to keep the African people poor, their wealth exploited and stolen from them. The Hidden Voice of Africa is an urgent call for change. It provides a concise history of colonialism in Africa and an examination of ongoing humanitarian and civil rights abuses, as well as a practical, exciting template for sweeping reform to return Africa’s wealth to her people. Whether you are a member of the Black diaspora living in another country, a citizen of Africa seeking a better life, or an ally who wants to support justice for Africa, this book will enlighten and inspire you.

Locating the Hidden Voices in African Museum Exhibitions

Author : Kathy Littles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Locating the Hidden Voices in African Museum Exhibitions written by Kathy Littles and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

African Europeans

Author : Olivette Otele
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541619935
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book African Europeans written by Olivette Otele and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent One of the Best History Books of 2021 — Smithsonian Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned historian Olivette Otele debunks this and uncovers a long history of Europeans of African descent. From the third century, when the Egyptian Saint Maurice became the leader of a Roman legion, all the way up to the present, Otele explores encounters between those defined as "Africans" and those called "Europeans." She gives equal attention to the most prominent figures—like Alessandro de Medici, the first duke of Florence thought to have been born to a free African woman in a Roman village—and the untold stories—like the lives of dual-heritage families in Europe's coastal trading towns. African Europeans is a landmark celebration of this integral, vibrantly complex slice of European history, and will redefine the field for years to come.

Mama Africa!

Author : Kathryn Erskine
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1466897465
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Mama Africa! written by Kathryn Erskine and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring picture-book biography of iconic singer and activist Miriam Makeba by National Book Award winner Kathryn Erskine. Miriam Makeba, a Grammy Award–winning South African singer, rose to fame in the hearts of her people at the pinnacle of apartheid—a brutal system of segregation similar to American Jim Crow laws. Mama Africa, as they called her, raised her voice to help combat these injustices at jazz clubs in Johannesburg; in exile, at a rally beside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; and before the United Nations. Set defiantly in the present tense, this biography offers readers an intimate view of Makeba’s fight for equality. Kathryn Erskine’s call-and-response style text and Charly Palmer’s bold illustrations come together in a raw, riveting duet of protest song and praise poem. A testament to how a single voice helped to shake up the world—and can continue to do so.

African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade: Volume 1, The Sources

Author : Alice Bellagamba
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110732808X
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade: Volume 1, The Sources written by Alice Bellagamba and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the history of slavery is a central topic for African, Atlantic world and world history, most of the sources presenting research in this area are European in origin. To cast light on African perspectives, and on the point of view of enslaved men and women, this group of top Africanist scholars has examined both conventional historical sources (such as European travel accounts, colonial documents, court cases, and missionary records) and less-explored sources of information (such as folklore, oral traditions, songs and proverbs, life histories collected by missionaries and colonial officials, correspondence in Arabic, and consular and admiralty interviews with runaway slaves). Each source has a short introduction highlighting its significance and orienting the reader. This first of two volumes provides students and scholars with a trove of African sources for studying African slavery and the slave trade.

African Town

Author : Charles Waters
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593322894
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book African Town written by Charles Waters and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicling the story of the last Africans brought illegally to America in 1860, African Town is a powerful and stunning novel-in-verse. Cover may vary. In 1860, long after the United States outlawed the importation of enslaved laborers, 110 men, women and children from Benin and Nigeria were captured and brought to Mobile, Alabama aboard a ship called Clotilda. Their journey includes the savage Middle Passage and being hidden in the swamplands along the Alabama River before being secretly parceled out to various plantations, where they made desperate attempts to maintain both their culture and also fit into the place of captivity to which they'd been delivered. At the end of the Civil War, the survivors created a community for themselves they called African Town, which still exists to this day. Told in 14 distinct voices, including that of the ship that brought them to the American shores and the founder of African Town, this powerfully affecting historical novel-in-verse recreates a pivotal moment in US and world history, the impacts of which we still feel today.

A Continent for the Taking

Author : Howard W. French
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307424308
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book A Continent for the Taking written by Howard W. French and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Continent for the Taking Howard W. French, a veteran correspondent for The New York Times, gives a compelling firsthand account of some of Africa’s most devastating recent history–from the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, to Charles Taylor’s arrival in Monrovia, to the genocide in Rwanda and the Congo that left millions dead. Blending eyewitness reportage with rich historical insight, French searches deeply into the causes of today’s events, illuminating the debilitating legacy of colonization and the abiding hypocrisy and inhumanity of both Western and African political leaders. While he captures the tragedies that have repeatedly befallen Africa’s peoples, French also opens our eyes to the immense possibility that lies in Africa’s complexity, diversity, and myriad cultural strengths. The culmination of twenty-five years of passionate exploration and understanding, this is a powerful and ultimately hopeful book about a fascinating and misunderstood continent.

The Bright Continent

Author : Dayo Olopade
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547678339
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book The Bright Continent written by Dayo Olopade and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “For anyone who wants to understand how the African economy really works, The Bright Continent is a good place to start” (Reuters). Dayo Olopade knew from personal experience that Western news reports on conflict, disease, and poverty obscure the true story of modern Africa. And so she crossed sub-Saharan Africa to document how ordinary people deal with their daily challenges. She found what cable news ignores: a continent of ambitious reformers and young social entrepreneurs driven by kanju—creativity born of African difficulty. It’s a trait found in pioneers like Kenneth Nnebue, who turned cheap VHS tapes into the multimillion-dollar film industry Nollywood. Or Ushahidi, a technology collective that crowdsources citizen activism and disaster relief. A shining counterpoint to conventional wisdom, The Bright Continent rewrites Africa’s challenges as opportunities to innovate, and celebrates a history of doing more with less as a powerful model for the rest of the world. “[An] upbeat study of development in Africa . . . The book is written more in wonder at African ingenuity than in anger at foreign incomprehension.” —The New Yorker “A hopeful narrative about a continent on the rise.” —The New York Times Book Review

Re-Inventing Africa

Author : Ifi Amadiume
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781856495349
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Re-Inventing Africa written by Ifi Amadiume and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 1997-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals how conventional anthropology has consistently imposed European ideas of the "natural" nuclear family, women as passive object, and class differences on a continent with a long history of women with power doing things differently. Amadiume argues for an end to anthropology and calls instead for a social history of Africa, by Africans.

The Healing Wisdom of Africa

Author : Malidoma Patrice Some
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 087477991X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Healing Wisdom of Africa written by Malidoma Patrice Some and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-09-13 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through The Healing Wisdom of Africa, readers can come to understand that the life of indigenous and traditional people is a paradigm for an intimate relationship with the natural world that both surrounds us and is within us. The book is the most complete study of the role ritual plays in the lives of African people--and the role it can play for seekers in the West.

The Dna of African Diaspora

Author : Sebastian Joseph
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1543708420
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book The Dna of African Diaspora written by Sebastian Joseph and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What image comes to your mind when you think of Africa? A group of insecure and none developing emerging countries? Have you ever wondered if you can safely return from Africa if you go to Africa? The land of thieves and murderers? Haven't you heard so many? If this is how you feel in your mind, the advertisement of those who have been looting Africa for more than five hundred years has been successful. But how many of you know until today that over 60% of the natural resources and precious metals such as Diamond, Gold, Platinum, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Sulphur, Phosphate, Bauxite, Nickel, Copper, Iron, Tantalite, Tin, Uranium, Limestone, Oil & Gas, Coal and many more are exported officially or looted from Africa to Europe, United States, China, United Kingdom, Russia, Asia and more such leading countries? How many of you know Cocoa, the raw material for most of the chocolate we eat, is 80% produced in Africa? Some 67 million tourists visited Africa in 2018, representing a rise of 7% from a year earlier, making Africa the second-fastest-growing region for tourism after the Asia Pacific. To the best of your knowledge, have you ever heard of these tourists being harassed or killed by any Africans or even African wild animals? This is just one example of who is behind the scandal surrounding Africa. As you read this book, you will find more evidence that the African continent is feeding on the big countries mentioned above.

The Masque of Africa

Author : V. S. Naipaul
Publisher : Knopf Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307399974
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Masque of Africa written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Africa is critical for all concerned with the world today: in what promises to be his final great work of reportage, one of the keenest observers of the continent surveys the effects of belief and religion on the disparate peoples of Africa. The Masque of Africa is Nobel Prize-winning V. S. Naipaul's first major work of non-fiction to be published since his internationally bestselling Beyond Belief. Like all of Naipaul's great works of non-fiction, The Masque of Africa is superficially a book of travels — full of people, stories and landscapes he visits — but it also encompasses a larger narrative and purpose: to judge the effects of belief (whether in indigenous animisms, faiths imposed by other cultures, or even the cults of leaders and mythical history) upon the progress of civilization.

Slave Owners of West Africa

Author : Sandra E. Greene
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253026024
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Slave Owners of West Africa written by Sandra E. Greene and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking book, Sandra E. Greene explores the lives of three prominent West African slave owners during the age of abolition. These first-published biographies reveal personal and political accomplishments and concerns, economic interests, religious beliefs, and responses to colonial rule in an attempt to understand why the subjects reacted to the demise of slavery as they did. Greene emphasizes the notion that the decisions made by these individuals were deeply influenced by their personalities, desires to protect their economic and social status, and their insecurities and sympathies for wives, friends, and other associates. Knowing why these individuals and so many others in West Africa made the decisions they did, Greene contends, is critical to understanding how and why the institution of indigenous slavery continues to influence social relations in West Africa to this day.

Heart of Whiteness

Author : June Goodwin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684813653
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Heart of Whiteness written by June Goodwin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1995 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When South Africa's present transitional government comes to an end, apartheid will be dead. But just as the demise of slavery did not solve America's race problems, so the abolition of apartheid will only begin South Africa's healing process. Heart of Whiteness examines the cataclysmic changes taking place among Afrikaners--the "white tribe" of South Africa.

Crazy River

Author : Richard Grant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439157642
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Crazy River written by Richard Grant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Dispatches From Pluto and Deepest South of All comes a rollicking travelogue from East Africa. NO ONE TRAVELS QUITE LIKE RICHARD GRANT and, really, no one should. In his last book, the adventure classic God’s Middle Finger, he narrowly escaped death in Mexico’s lawless Sierra Madre. Now, Grant has plunged with his trademark recklessness, wit, and curiosity into East Africa. Setting out to make the first descent of an unexplored river in Tanzania, he gets waylaid in Zanzibar by thieves, whores, and a charismatic former golf pro before crossing the Indian Ocean in a rickety cargo boat. And then the real adventure begins. Known to local tribes as “the river of bad spirits,” the Malagarasi River is a daunting adversary even with a heavily armed Tanzanian crew as travel companions. Dodging bullets, hippos, and crocodiles, Grant finally emerges in war-torn Burundi, where he befriends some ethnic street gangsters and trails a notorious man-eating crocodile known as Gustave. He concludes his journey by interviewing the dictatorial president of Rwanda and visiting the true source of the Nile. Gripping, illuminating, sometimes harrowing, often hilarious, Crazy River is a brilliantly rendered account of a modern-day exploration of Africa, and the unraveling of Grant’s peeled, battered mind as he tries to take it all in.

Voices Out of Africa in Twentieth-century Spanish Caribbean Literature

Author : Julia Cuervo Hewitt
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0838757294
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Voices Out of Africa in Twentieth-century Spanish Caribbean Literature written by Julia Cuervo Hewitt and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hewitt (Spanish and Portuguese, Pennsylvania State U.) explores the representation of Africa and "Afro-Caribbean-ness" in Spanish Caribbean literature of the 20th century. Her main argument "is that the literary representation of Africa and "Africanness," meaning practices, belief systems, music, art, myths, popular knowledge, in Spanish-speaking Caribbean societies, constructs a self-referential discourse in which Africa and African "things" shift to a Caribbean landscape as the site of the (M)Other." Or, in other words, these representations imaginatively rescue and simultaneously construct a "Caribbean cultural imaginary conceived as the Other within that associates Africa with a cultural womb." Among the texts she explores are Fernando Ortiz's interpretations of the "Black Carnival" in Cuba, the early Afro-Cuban poems of Alejo Carpentier, the Afro-Cuban stories of Lydia Cabrera, a number of literary representations of the figure of the runaway slave, and two works by Puerto Rican novelist Edgardo Rodiguez Julia.

Secure the Base

Author : Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
Publisher : Africa List
ISBN 13 : 9780857423139
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Secure the Base written by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo and published by Africa List. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than sixty years, Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been writing fearlessly the questions, challenges, histories, and futures of Africans, particularly those of his homeland, Kenya. In his work, which has included plays, novels, and essays, Ngugi narrates the injustice of colonial violence and the dictatorial betrayal of decolonization, the fight for freedom and subsequent incarceration, and the aspiration toward economic equality in the face of gross inequality. With both hope and disappointment, he questions the role of language in both the organization of power structures and the pursuit of autonomy and self-expression. Ngugi's fiction has reached wide acclaim, but his nonfictional work, while equally brilliant, is difficult to find. Secure the Base changes this by bringing together for the first time essays spanning nearly three decades. Originating as disparate lectures and texts, this complete volume will remind readers anew of Ngugi's power and importance. Written in a personal and accessible style, the book covers a range of issues, including the role of the intellectual, the place of Asia in Africa, labor and political struggles in an era of rampant capitalism, and the legacies of slavery and prospects for peace. At a time when Africa looms large in our discussions of globalization, Secure the Base is mandatory reading.