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Author : Anup Sah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book African Odyssey written by Anup Sah and published by . This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A day-by-day photographic journal of the annual migration path taken by the animals of the Serengeti Plain as they follow the cycle of the rains.
Author : Angus Hyslop
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1409207277
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (92 download)
Download or read book An African Odyssey 2 written by Angus Hyslop and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-09-13 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BEYOND AFRICA... THE LONDON YEARS... A SON... HEARTBREAK... RETURN TO AFRICA... FARMING IN RHODESIA... ATTACKS BY TERRORISTS...
Author : Nathan Irvin Huggins
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307760243
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Black Odyssey written by Nathan Irvin Huggins and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-01-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work of scholarship and empathy tells the story of the self-creation of the African-American people. It assesses the full impact of the Middle Passage -- "the most traumatizing mass human migration in modern history" -- and of North American slavery both on the enslaved and on those who enslaved them. It explores the ways in which a nominally free society perverted its own freedoms and denied the fact that an inhuman institution lies at the heart of the American experience. The authority and eloquence of this work make it essential reading for all who want to understand the American past and present.
Author : Philip Braithwaite
Publisher : ShieldCrest
ISBN 13 : 1915657237
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (156 download)
Download or read book A Very South African Odyssey written by Philip Braithwaite and published by ShieldCrest. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will transport the reader through a sixteen year adventure that we as a family experienced, with all its trials and tribulations. How we learnt to live with and work alongside and try to understand apartheid and all the different cultures and customs of the people of South Africa, up to and past its transformation into democracy. Our interests, hobbies, activities and passions are described and journeys and travel are detailed with relevant history. Our love of the fauna and flora and wildlife are expressed as are passions for the railways and preservation. But above all is our love of this country- its wide diversity, cultures, customs and people. Phil and Helen Braithwaite.
Author : Kevin G. Lowther
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611171334
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)
Download or read book The African American Odyssey of John Kizell written by Kevin G. Lowther and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling biography of a South Carolina slave who returned to fight the slave trade in his African homeland The inspirational story of John Kizell celebrates the life of a West African enslaved as a boy and brought to South Carolina on the eve of the American Revolution. Fleeing his owner, Kizell served with the British military in the Revolutionary War, began a family in the Nova Scotian wilderness, then returned to his African homeland to help found a settlement for freed slaves in Sierra Leone. He spent decades battling European and African slave traders along the coast and urging his people to stop selling their own into foreign bondage. This in-depth biography—based in part on Kizell's own writings—illuminates the links between South Carolina and West Africa during the Atlantic slave trade's peak decades. Seized in an attack on his uncle's village, Kizell was thrown into the brutal world of chattel slavery at age thirteen and transported to Charleston, South Carolina. When Charleston fell to the British in 1780, Kizell joined them and was with the Loyalist force defeated in the pivotal battle of Kings Mountain. At the war's end, he was evacuated with other American Loyalists to Nova Scotia. In 1792 he joined a pilgrimage of nearly twelve hundred former slaves to the new British settlement for free blacks in Sierra Leone. Among the most prominent Africans in the antislavery movement of his time, Kizell believed that all people of African descent in America would, if given a way, return to Africa as he had. Back in his native land, he bravely confronted the forces that had led to his enslavement. Late in life he played a controversial role—freshly interpreted in this book—in the settlement of American blacks in what became Liberia. Kizell's remarkable story provides insight to the cultural and spiritual milieu from which West Africans were wrenched before being forced into slavery. Lowther sheds light on African complicity in the slave trade and examines how it may have contributed to Sierra Leone's latter-day struggles as an independent state. A foreword by Joseph Opala, a noted researcher on the "Gullah Connection" between Sierra Leone and coastal South Carolina and Georgia, highlights Kizell's continuing legacy on both sides of the Atlantic.
Author : Roger Stewart
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1775848167
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (758 download)
Download or read book Burchell’s African Odyssey written by Roger Stewart and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English botanist William Burchell arrived in Cape Town in June 1811 to explore the flora and fauna of the vast southern African interior. Over a four-year period, and travelling in a custom-built ox wagon, he amassed an astonishing 63 000 specimens of plants, bulbs, insects, reptiles and mammals – many not previously documented for science – as well as over 500 paintings and illustrations. While the outbound trek is well described in Burchell’s famous Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, little has been published about the challenges and discoveries made on his return journey to Cape Town, from 1812–1815. This pioneering book traces the homeward leg of Burchell’s epic odyssey – through the arid northern Cape, the Great Karoo, the war-ravaged eastern Cape, and along the Eden-like southern Cape coast. Drawing on primary and secondary sources, including Burchell’s letters and the detailed map he created to record his trek, the authors have crafted a thought-provoking and beautifully illustrated account that encompasses both the genius of the man and the natural history of the region that so intrigued him. Sales points: Fills a major gap in what is known of Burchell’s travels in southern Africa; sheds new light on Burchell’s character and his discoveries; contains information, illustrations and watercolours not published before; coincides with the bicentenary of the publication of Vol. 1 of Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa.
Author : Jonny Steinberg
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099524228
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Little Liberia written by Jonny Steinberg and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In his latest book, Little Liberia: An African Odyssey in New York, Steinberg takes us to Park Hill Avenue on Staten Island, where a community of Liberians have made their home. Through interviews and shadowing of two community leaders, Steinberg strives to understand the peculiarities of this community; while it appears at times as if a piece of Liberia has been sliced off and dropped in New York, the Park Hill community is ravaged by conflict between different interest groups. To understand what is going on in 2008 New York, Steinberg travels back - back to Liberia and back to the country's tragic recent history of civil war, military coups and mass exterminations. The story of Liberia is a gruesome and miserable one but Steinberg's empathy for his subjects never allows the narrative to descend into voyeurism. The combination of hard nosed investigative journalism, a gift for storytelling and an obvious empathy for the characters that he shadows makes Steinberg an author who demands to be read, whatever the subject matter. A brilliant and important book which will delight Steinberg's thousands of followers and doubtless earn him many more"--Book Lounge.
Author : Darlene Clark Hine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780137588220
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (882 download)
Download or read book The African-American Odyssey written by Darlene Clark Hine and published by . This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This clearly written, comprehensive textbook explores the African-American experience in the United States from its African origins to the present. It highlights the pivotal role African Americans have played in the nation's history, placing their experience in the context of national trends and events. Tracing their journey towards freedom and full participation in American democracy, The African-American Odyssey gives voice to leaders and ordinary men and women from all walks of life. It examines the rich and expressive culture and the independent institutions African Americans created to address their needs and ensure the survival of their communities. It explores the impact of African-American culture on the larger American culture. And it forthrightly discusses both the new opportunities and the deeply rooted inequalities confronting African Americans at the beginning of the new millennium.
Author : Titus Mafolo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781990901041
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (1 download)
Download or read book African Odyssey written by Titus Mafolo and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold Courlander
Publisher : Marlowe & Company
ISBN 13 : 9781569247891
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (478 download)
Download or read book The Master of the Forge written by Harold Courlander and published by Marlowe & Company. This book was released on 1996-10-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Master of the Forge tells the tale of Numukeba, a blacksmith from the village of Naradugu, who abandons his forge to seek honor and nobility as a soldier of fortune. Numukeba arms himself with the weapons of his forge and talismans of magical power and sets out on an eleven-year journey through the land. He undergoes frequent trial by combat, outwits kings, heroes and beasts, descends into the land of the dead, is turned into a dog, and is sold into slavery. Throughout his travels he is harassed by the sorcerer Etchuba, the personification of chance, against whom Numukeba struggles to prove that man's destiny is not a series of accidents, but is written in steel as unbending as the weapons born in his forge.
Author : Kim Pereira
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252064296
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (642 download)
Download or read book August Wilson and the African-American Odyssey written by Kim Pereira and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this critical study of four plays by Pulitzer Prize-winner August Wilson-- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, and The Piano Lesson--Pereira show how Wilson uses the themes of separation, migration, and reunion to depict the physical and psychological journeys of African Americans in the 20th century.
Author : Darlene Clark Hine
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 : 9780205947041
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The African-American Odyssey written by Darlene Clark Hine and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Combined volume" includes both volumes 1 and 2.
Author : Darlene Clark Hine
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 : 0134491017
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book African-American Odyssey, The, Volume 2 written by Darlene Clark Hine and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2017-05-19 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. A compelling story of agency, survival, struggle and triumph over adversity More than any other text, The African-American Odyssey illuminates the central place of African-Americans in U.S. history by telling the story of what it has meant to be black in America and how African-American history is inseparably woven into the greater context of American history. From Africa to the 21st century, this book follows the long and turbulent journey of African-Americans, the rich culture they have nurtured throughout their history and the quest for freedom through which African-Americans have sought to counter oppression and racism. This text also recognizes the diversity within the African-American sphere, providing coverage of class and gender and balancing the lives of ordinary men and women with accounts of black leaders and the impact each has had on the struggle for freedom. A better teaching and learning experience This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience—for you and your students. Here’s how: Improve Critical Thinking–Features throughout the text encourage students to think critically about the material. Engage Students– Features such as “Voices from the Odyssey” engage students in the material. Note: This is just the standalone book.
Author : Robert G. O'Meally
Publisher : DC Moore Gallery, New York
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Romare Bearden written by Robert G. O'Meally and published by DC Moore Gallery, New York. This book was released on 2007 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by Bridget Moore. Text by Robert G. O'Meally.
Author : Lisa A. Lindsay
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 146963113X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Atlantic Bonds written by Lisa A. Lindsay and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A decade before the American Civil War, James Churchwill Vaughan (1828–1893) set out to fulfill his formerly enslaved father's dying wish that he should leave America to start a new life in Africa. Over the next forty years, Vaughan was taken captive, fought in African wars, built and rebuilt a livelihood, and led a revolt against white racism, finally becoming a successful merchant and the founder of a wealthy, educated, and politically active family. Tracing Vaughan's journey from South Carolina to Liberia to several parts of Yorubaland (present-day southwestern Nigeria), Lisa Lindsay documents this "free" man's struggle to find economic and political autonomy in an era when freedom was not clear and unhindered anywhere for people of African descent. In a tour de force of historical investigation on two continents, Lindsay tells a story of Vaughan's survival, prosperity, and activism against a seemingly endless series of obstacles. By following Vaughan's transatlantic journeys and comparing his experiences to those of his parents, contemporaries, and descendants in Nigeria and South Carolina, Lindsay reveals the expansive reach of slavery, the ambiguities of freedom, and the surprising ways that Africa, rather than America, offered new opportunities for people of African descent.
Author : Sitiki
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813047951
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Odyssey of an African Slave written by Sitiki and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2009-09-27 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently discovered as a hand-written document in the Buckingham Smith Collection at the New York Historical Society, this remarkable first-person narrative traces the life of Sitiki, whose name was changed to Jack Smith after his enslavement in America. Captured and sold into slavery in Africa as a five-year-old, Sitiki traveled to America as a cabin boy. Eventually sold by the ship's captain to Josiah Smith of Savannah, Georgia, he lived there and in Connecticut with his new master. Captured by the British during the War of 1812, he was returned to the Smiths, to be freed only after the Civil War. He went on to become the first black Methodist minister in St. Augustine, Florida, where he established his own church. Patricia Griffin does not leave the story at the conclusion of the slave narrative, but explores Sitiki's experiences and places them in clear and valuable context. She presents the narrative unencumbered, allowing Sitiki’s authority, compassion, and personality to speak for itself.
Author : Albert S. Broussard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book African-American Odyssey written by Albert S. Broussard and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illuminates the professional career and private lives of J. McCants Stewart--a Reconstruction-era lawyer, minister, politician, and political activist--and his descendants over three generations, providing an epic account of an African-American family in America. (Adapted from book jacket)
