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Visions of Freedom

Author : Piero Gleijeses
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 146960969X
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Visions of Freedom written by Piero Gleijeses and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the final fifteen years of the Cold War, southern Africa underwent a period of upheaval, with dramatic twists and turns in relations between the superpowers. Americans, Cubans, Soviets, and Africans fought over the future of Angola, where tens of thousands of Cuban soldiers were stationed, and over the decolonization of Namibia, Africa's last colony. Beyond lay the great prize: South Africa. Piero Gleijeses uses archival sources, particularly from the United States, South Africa, and the closed Cuban archives, to provide an unprecedented international history of this important theater of the late Cold War. These sources all point to one conclusion: by humiliating the United States and defying the Soviet Union, Fidel Castro changed the course of history in southern Africa. It was Cuba's victory in Angola in 1988 that forced Pretoria to set Namibia free and helped break the back of apartheid South Africa. In the words of Nelson Mandela, the Cubans "destroyed the myth of the invincibility of the white oppressor . . . [and] inspired the fighting masses of South Africa."

African Voices, African Visions

Author : Olugbenga Adesida
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN 13 : 9789171065308
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book African Voices, African Visions written by Olugbenga Adesida and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 2004 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does Africa have a future? What are the visions, hopes, ambitions and fears of young Africans for the future of the world, the continent, their nation, and their communities? How do they envision this world and their roles within it? These issues have not previously been explored collectively by Africans because of the enormous challenges and the preoccupation with the present. But Africa must not allow the enormity of the problems to blind it to its past and future. Africa must chart its own vision of a desirable future, and therefore young Africans, born just before or after independence, were challenged to reflect on the future of the continent. This book presents the response to that challenge. In this book, the voices of a new generation of Africa are heard exploring the future from personal and diverse perspectives. The authors have enumerated the ills of Africa, analyzed the problems and explored the opportunities. Remarkably, despite the daunting nature of the challenges, they were all hopeful about the future. They provided their visions of the future, suggest numerous ideas on how to build a new Africa, and implored Africans to take responsibility for the transformation of the continent. Given the current emphasis on African renaissance and union, the ideas presented here could become the basis for a truly shared vision for the continent.

Freedom Dreams

Author : Robin D.G. Kelley
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807009784
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Freedom Dreams written by Robin D.G. Kelley and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2002-06-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora in the twentieth century. Focusing on the visions of activists from C. L. R. James to Aime Cesaire and Malcolm X, Kelley writes of the hope that Communism offered, the mindscapes of Surrealism, the transformative potential of radical feminism, and of the four-hundred-year-old dream of reparations for slavery and Jim Crow. From'the preeminent historian of black popular culture' (Cornel West), an inspiring work on the power of imagination to transform society.

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Author : Martin Luther King
Publisher : HarperOne
ISBN 13 : 9780063425811
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Letter from Birmingham Jail written by Martin Luther King and published by HarperOne. This book was released on 2025-01-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's essay "Letter from Birmingham Jail," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. With an afterword by Reginald Dwayne Betts On April 16, 1923, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., responded to an open letter written and published by eight white clergyman admonishing the civil rights demonstrations happening in Birmingham, Alabama. Dr. King drafted his seminal response on scraps of paper smuggled into jail. King criticizes his detractors for caring more about order than justice, defends nonviolent protests, and argues for the moral responsibility to obey just laws while disobeying unjust ones. "Letter from Birmingham Jail" proclaims a message - confronting any injustice is an acceptable and righteous reason for civil disobedience. This beautifully designed edition presents Dr. King's speech in its entirety, paying tribute to this extraordinary leader and his immeasurable contribution, and inspiring a new generation of activists dedicated to carrying on the fight for justice and equality.

African Books in Print

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1448 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Visions of African Unity

Author : Matteo Grilli
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030529118
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Visions of African Unity written by Matteo Grilli and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays analyzes different iterations of African unity, exploring the political and cultural visions that informed projects aimed at African unification. It explores the cultural, economic and non-state aspects of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) as the principal institution dedicated to the cooperation of African states, from its establishment in 1963 to its transformation into the African Union (AU) in 2000, as well as how ideas of African unity shaped the Cold War and African liberation struggles. Bringing together contributors from a diverse range of disciplinary backgrounds across Africa, Europe and the US, this book investigates the ideological origins and historiography of Pan-African and unification projects, and considers how African intellectuals, leaders and populations engaged with these ideas.

Epistemic Freedom in Africa

Author : Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429960190
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Epistemic Freedom in Africa written by Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epistemic Freedom in Africa is about the struggle for African people to think, theorize, interpret the world and write from where they are located, unencumbered by Eurocentrism. The imperial denial of common humanity to some human beings meant that in turn their knowledges and experiences lost their value, their epistemic virtue. Now, in the twenty-first century, descendants of enslaved, displaced, colonized, and racialized peoples have entered academies across the world, proclaiming loudly that they are human beings, their lives matter and they were born into valid and legitimate knowledge systems that are capable of helping humanity to transcend the current epistemic and systemic crises. Together, they are engaging in diverse struggles for cognitive justice, fighting against the epistemic line which haunts the twenty-first century. The renowned historian and decolonial theorist Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni offers a penetrating and well-argued case for centering Africa as a legitimate historical unit of analysis and epistemic site from which to interpret the world, whilst simultaneously making an equally strong argument for globalizing knowledge from Africa so as to attain ecologies of knowledges. This is a dual process of both deprovincializing Africa, and in turn provincializing Europe. The book highlights how the mental universe of Africa was invaded and colonized, the long-standing struggles for 'an African university', and the trajectories of contemporary decolonial movements such as Rhodes Must Fall and Fees Must Fall in South Africa. This landmark work underscores the fact that only once the problem of epistemic freedom has been addressed can Africa achieve political, cultural, economic and other freedoms. This groundbreaking new book is accessible to students and scholars across Education, History, Philosophy, Ethics, African Studies, Development Studies, Politics, International Relations, Sociology, Postcolonial Studies and the emerging field of Decolonial Studies. The Open Access versions Chapter 1 and Chapter 9, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429492204 have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Legal Visions of the 21st Century

Author : Antony Anghie
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789041111166
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Legal Visions of the 21st Century written by Antony Anghie and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 1998-10-29 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Wouter de Vos.

Zik

Author : Nnamdi Azikiwe
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zik written by Nnamdi Azikiwe and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1961 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Vision of Africa's Future

Author : Giovanni Carbone
Publisher : Ledizioni
ISBN 13 : 8867058274
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book A Vision of Africa's Future written by Giovanni Carbone and published by Ledizioni. This book was released on 2018 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa is a fast-changing continent and an area of rising global relevance, where major transformation processes are currently underway, from demographic expansion to economic development, from social progress to environmental challenges, from technological innovation to continental integration, from political change to migratory pressures. How will these complex transformations shape the Africa of tomorrow? This Report sets out a vision for Africa’s future based on five key traits: an archipelago of heterogeneous growth trajectories; the revolutionary impact of technological leapfrogging; regional integration and the growing role of sub-regional processes; the clustering of instability mainly around the core of the region; and the migration movements that originate from – but also predominantly remain within – the African continent.

My Vision of Nigeria

Author : Aminu Tijjani
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136281819
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book My Vision of Nigeria written by Aminu Tijjani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1981, My Vision of Nigeria is a valuable contribution to the field of History.

Black Empire

Author : Michelle Ann Stephens
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822386895
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Black Empire written by Michelle Ann Stephens and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-18 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Black Empire, Michelle Ann Stephens examines the ideal of “transnational blackness” that emerged in the work of radical black intellectuals from the British West Indies in the early twentieth century. Focusing on the writings of Marcus Garvey, Claude McKay, and C. L. R. James, Stephens shows how these thinkers developed ideas of a worldwide racial movement and federated global black political community that transcended the boundaries of nation-states. Stephens highlights key geopolitical and historical events that gave rise to these writers’ intellectual investment in new modes of black political self-determination. She describes their engagement with the fate of African Americans within the burgeoning U.S. empire, their disillusionment with the potential of post–World War I international organizations such as the League of Nations to acknowledge, let alone improve, the material conditions of people of color around the world, and the inspiration they took from the Bolshevik Revolution, which offered models of revolution and community not based on nationality. Stephens argues that the global black political consciousness she identifies was constituted by both radical and reactionary impulses. On the one hand, Garvey, McKay, and James saw freedom of movement as the basis of black transnationalism. The Caribbean archipelago—a geographic space ideally suited to the free movement of black subjects across national boundaries—became the metaphoric heart of their vision. On the other hand, these three writers were deeply influenced by the ideas of militarism, empire, and male sovereignty that shaped global political discourse in the early twentieth century. As such, their vision of transnational blackness excluded women’s political subjectivities. Drawing together insights from American, African American, Caribbean, and gender studies, Black Empire is a major contribution to ongoing conversations about nation and diaspora.

God Has a Dream

Author : Desmond Tutu
Publisher : Image
ISBN 13 : 0385512627
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book God Has a Dream written by Desmond Tutu and published by Image. This book was released on 2003-03-16 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu has long been admired throughout the world for the heroism and grace he exhibited while encouraging countless South Africans in their struggle for human rights. In God Has a Dream, his most soul-searching book, he shares the spiritual message that guided him through those troubled times. Drawing on personal and historical examples, Archbishop Tutu reaches out to readers of all religious backgrounds, showing how individual and global suffering can be transformed into joy and redemption. With his characteristic humor, Tutu offers an extremely personal and liberating message. He helps us to “see with the eyes of the heart” and to cultivate the qualities of love, forgiveness, humility, generosity, and courage that we need to change ourselves and our world. Echoing the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., he writes, “God says to you, ‘I have a dream. Please help me to realize it. It is a dream of a world whose ugliness and squalor and poverty, its war and hostility, its greed and harsh competitiveness, its alienation and disharmony are changed into their glorious counterparts. When there will be more laughter, joy, and peace, where there will be justice and goodness and compassion and love and caring and sharing. I have a dream that my children will know that they are members of one family, the human family, God’s family, my family.’” Addressing the timeless and universal concerns all people share, God Has a Dream envisions a world transformed through hope and compassion, humility and kindness, understanding and forgiveness.

Dreaming of Freedom in South Africa

Author : David Johnson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474430236
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Dreaming of Freedom in South Africa written by David Johnson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assembles for the first time the many different texts imagining the future after the end of apartheidExplores the history of how the future in South Africa after the end of apartheid was imagined Provides the first literary-cultural history of South African speculative fictionStudies the literary-political cultures of the five major traditions of South African anti-colonial/ anti-segregationist/ anti-apartheid thoughtFocusing on well-known and obscure literary texts from the 1880s to the 1970s, as well as the many manifestos and programmes setting out visions of the future, this book charts the dreams of freedom of five major traditions of anti-colonial and anti-apartheid resistance: the African National Congress, the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union, the Communist Party of South Africa, the Non-European Unity Movement and the Pan-Africanist Congress. More than an exercise in historical excavation, Dreaming of Freedom in South Africa raises challenging questions for the post-apartheid present.

Vision

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Vision written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Postnationalism Prefigured

Author : Charles V. Carnegie
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813530550
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Postnationalism Prefigured written by Charles V. Carnegie and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We do not consider it noteworthy when somebody moves three thousand miles from New York to Los Angeles. Yet we think that movement across borders requires a major degree of adjustment, and that an individual who migrates 750 miles from Haiti to Miami has done something extraordinary. Charles V. Carnegie suggests that to people from the Caribbean, migration is simply one of many ways to pursue a better future and to survive in a world over which they have little control Carnegie shows not only that the nation-state is an exhausted form of political organization, but that in the Caribbean the ideological and political reach of the nation-state has always been tenuous at best. Caribbean peoples, he suggests, live continually in breach of the nation-state configuration. Drawing both on his own experiences as a Jamaican-born anthropologist and on the examples provided by those who have always considered national borders as little more than artificial administrative nuisances, Carnegie investigates a fascinating spectrum of individuals, including Marcus Garvey, traders, black albinos, and Caribbean Ba'hais. If these people have not themselves developed a scholarly doctrine of transnationalism, they have, nevertheless, effectively lived its demand and prefigured a postnational life.

The New African-American Man

Author : Malcolm Kelly
Publisher : BYE Publishing Services
ISBN 13 : 9780965673907
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book The New African-American Man written by Malcolm Kelly and published by BYE Publishing Services. This book was released on 1996 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely inspirational book written by a renaissance empowerment writer & metaphysical philosopher, Malcolm Kelly. Mr. Kelly examines the victimization process of African American men. He introduces new ideas on how to use our inner power of intuition to discover the empowerment process. He uses vivid anecdotes to illustrate how he became a victim of fear, worry, alcohol, racism, equality, loneliness, religion & so on. The book examines empowerment from the perspective of a man taught by society to believe that his color made him a victim. He doesn't accept this belief & devotes his time to mastering intuition & creating new beliefs of empowerment. THE NEW AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN is a book for readers who desire to change by exploring new ideas. It also is a poignant depiction of the similarities between Mr. Kelly's victim beliefs & those of millions of African Americans who have internalized their beliefs as self-hatred, anger & powerlessness.