ISBN-13: 9780307377401

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Publisher: arrow books

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Publisher: penguin books

Year: 1972

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ISBN-13: 9780893274054

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Publisher: New York Botanical Garden Press

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Publisher: Greenwood

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Publisher: pathfinder

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Publisher: the women press domont press graphix

Year: 1974

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Publisher: twayne publishers

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Publisher: east african educational publishers

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Publisher: heinemann kenya

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Publisher: virago press

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Publisher: foreighn languages publishing house

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Publisher: fountain publisher

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ISBN-13: 9789913620062

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Publisher: editor house facility ltd

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ISBN-13: 9780393302905

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Publisher: penguin books

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Publisher: canongate

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Publisher: east african educational publishers

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ISBN-13: 9780822369004

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Publisher: duke university press

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Publisher: VINTAGE BOOKS

Year: 1990

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ISBN-13: 9780822330219

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Publisher: duke university press

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ISBN-13: 9781592216918

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Publisher: africa world press

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ISBN-13: 9780230116276

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Publisher: risk publications

Year: 1984

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ISBN-13: 9781906387914

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Publisher: pambazuka press

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ISBN-13: 9780241364901

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Publisher: penguin books

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ISBN-13: 9781874613107

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Publisher: harpal brar

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ISBN-13: 9781988832012

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Publisher: daraja press

Year: 2018

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ISBN-13: 9789966028815

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Publisher: twaweza communications

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Publisher: manufesto press cooperative limited

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Publisher: VINTAGE BOOKS

Year: 2010

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Publisher: spears books nairobi

Year: 1980

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ISBN-13: 9781784706784

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Publisher: east african publishing house

Year: 1969

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ISBN-13: 9780415909952

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Publisher: Amnesty international publications

Year: 1995

Pages: None

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Publisher: harpercollins publishers

Year: 2021

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ISBN-13: 9781250031327

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Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Year: 2010

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French African prose can be given a beginning with the publication in 1921 of the novel Batouala . . . its sensitive portrayal of African life, with its evocation of the natural environment, could not but make a profound impression upon its African readers and offered a vivid example of what an African novel in French could be. -Abiola Irele Source: Publisher Batouala is a 1921 novel by French writer René Maran, which follows an African chieftain named Batouala over a few days of his life. The novel won the Prix Goncourt, one of France's highest literary awards, making Maran the first black author to win that honor. Wikipedia

ISBN-13: 9780435901356

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: Heinemann

Year: 1973

Pages: 149

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Set in the southern Persian town of Shiraz in the last years of World War II with the British army in occupation, the novel chronicles the life of Zari, a traditional, anxious, and superstitious woman whose husband, Yusef is an idealistic feudal landlord. A web of political intrigue and hostility is created. In the background, tribal leaders are in open rebellion against the government and British occupation. In the midst of this turbulence Zari carries on normal life within the beautiful courtyard of her house, attempting to keep the family safe from external events. The corruption engendered by occupation is pervasive as Zari's family life is shattered and disaster strikes. An immensely moving story, the novel is a powerful indictment of colonization." Source: Publisher Savušun is a 1969 Persian novel by Iranian writer Simin Daneshvar. It is the first novel in Persian written by a female author. The story is about the life of a landowning family in Shiraz faced to the occupation of Iran during World War II. Savušun has sold over five hundred thousand copies in Iran. Wikipedia

ISBN-13: 9781870015783

ISBN-10: 1870015789

Language: English

Publisher: Halban Publishers

Year: 2002

Pages: 279

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Literally written as a long letter, as the novel begins, Ramatoulaye Fall is beginning a letter to her lifelong friend Aissatou Bâ. The occasion for writing is Ramatoulaye's recent widowhood. As she gives her friend the details of her husband's death, she recounts the major events in their lives. Source: Publisher So Long a Letter is a semi-autobiographical epistolary novel originally written in French by the Senegalese writer Mariama Bâ. It was her first novel. Its theme is the condition of women in Western African society. As the novel begins, Ramatoulaye Fall is beginning a letter to her lifelong friend Aissatou Bâ. Wikipedia

ISBN-13: 9780435902483

ISBN-10: 0435902482

Language: English

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books

Year: 1981

Pages: 90

Cataloged: Dec. 9, 2024, 2:06 p.m.

"His pictures of Harlem life are as fresh today as they were when they were first set down . . . " —Long Beach Press-Telegraph Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9780253201218

ISBN-10: 0253201217

Language: English

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Year: 1963

Pages: 258

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ISBN-13: None

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Language: English

Publisher: Tanzania Publishing House

Year: 1974

Pages: 127

Cataloged: Dec. 9, 2024, 2 p.m.

"Obi Okonkwo is an Ibo from Eastern Nigeria, a promising representative of his generation, the bright boy of his village who returns from his studies in England to try to live up to the expectations of his family and his tribe and at the same time to breathe the heady atmosphere of Lagos, a city whose tempo and temptations are fast increasing. As a Civil Servant Obi holds a respected job; as the fiancé of Clara, the girl he met on the boat, he has much to look forward to; yet nevertheless Obi falls, a victim of the corruption of the capital."--Book jacket. Source: Publisher No Longer at Ease is a 1960 novel by Chinua Achebe. It is the story of an Igbo man, Obi Okonkwo, who leaves his village for an education in Britain and then a job in the Colonial Nigeria civil service, but is conflicted between his African culture and Western lifestyle and ends up taking a bribe. Wikipedia

ISBN-13: 9780839210771

ISBN-10: 0839210779

Language: English

Publisher: Astor-Honor Incorporated

Year: 1960

Pages: 170

Cataloged: Dec. 9, 2024, 1:54 p.m.

Nairobi in the 1990s. Three families. Their lives interweave as the find themselves living across from each other in an idyllic middle-class neighbourhood, Malaba Estate, South B. As the decade charges on, their lives begin to show similarities in the secrets they keep and the mistakes they make. Funny. Thought-provoking. Surprising. Endearing. This is a coming of age story about friendship in all of its varied shades and intrigues. It is the kind of story that you try to savour only to gallop through the pages -- enchanted by characters, gripped by the authorʼs enticing style. Makena Maganjo is definitely a worthy addition to the corpus of African writers, and South Bʼs Finest is a fine work of art! DR. JOYCE NYAIRO Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9781922355034

ISBN-10: 1922355038

Language: English

Publisher: Tablo Pty Limited

Year: 2019

Pages: 292

Cataloged: Dec. 4, 2024, 11:04 a.m.

Anthills of the Savannah is a 1987 novel by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. It was his fifth novel, first published in the United Kingdom 21 years after Achebe's previous one, and was credited with having "revived his reputation in Britain". Wikipedia

ISBN-13: 9789966463753

ISBN-10: 9966463755

Language: English

Publisher: East African Educational Publishers

Year: 1987

Pages: 233

Cataloged: Dec. 4, 2024, 9:38 a.m.

This anthology brings together a variety of short stories from Africa and other parts of the world. A rigorous and informed selection has ensured that it combines the confidence of classic with freshness that contemporary writers bring to their craft. The collection is a grain-store of memories that seek to entertain, provoke, empower and educate. The themes are as wide ranging as the authors' backgrounds but they share a common belief - enhancing values and integrity in today's society in an effort to preserve human and social dignity. The short story is probably the world's secret weapon in the way that the oral culture is interwoven into the written text, to be enjoyed for education as well as good read.

ISBN-13: 9789966349705

ISBN-10: 9966349707

Language: English

Publisher: Moran Publishers

Year: 2016

Pages: 164

Cataloged: Dec. 4, 2024, 9:29 a.m.

In 'White Egrets', Derek Walcott treats his characteristic subjects - the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, the Western artistic tradition, the blessings and withholdings of old Europe (Andalucia, the Mezzogiorno, Amsterdam), the unaccomodating sublime of the new world, and more. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9780571254736

ISBN-10: 057125473X

Language: English

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Year: 2010

Pages: 89

Cataloged: Dec. 4, 2024, 9:26 a.m.

As orator, writer, and abolitionist leader, Frederick Douglass was one of the most powerful voices for freedom in the U.S. His autobiographies have shaped our view of slavery. Now, in a majestic new biography, McFeely goes behind Douglass' skillfully created public image to bring readers for the first time a full portrait of this commanding figure.

ISBN-13: 9780393028232

ISBN-10: 0393028232

Language: English

Publisher: Norton

Year: 1991

Pages: 465

Cataloged: Dec. 4, 2024, 9:21 a.m.

Hitherto the human rights debate in Africa has concentrated on the legal and philosophical. The author, Professor of Law at the University of Dar es Salaam, here moves the debate to the social and political planes. He attempts to reconceptualise human rights ideology from the standpoint of the working people in Africa. He defines the approach as avoiding the pitfalls of the liberal perspective as being absolutist in viewing human rights as a central question and the rights struggle as the backbone of democratic struggles. The author maintains that such a study cannot be politically neutral or intellectually uncommitted. Both the critique of dominant discourse and the reconceptualisation are located within the current social science and jurisprudential debates. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9781870784023

ISBN-10: 1870784022

Language: English

Publisher: Codesria Book Series

Year: 1989

Pages: 126

Cataloged: Dec. 4, 2024, 9:17 a.m.

A thought-provoking and important book that raises essential issues crucial not only for our past but also the present day. In this panoramic history, Jeremy Black tells how slavery was first developed in the ancient world, and reaches all the way to present day and the contemporary crimes of trafficking and bonded labour. He shows how slavery has taken many forms throughout history and across the world - from the uprising of Spartacus, the plantations of the Indies, and the murderous forced labour of the gulags and concentration camps. Slavery helped consolidated transoceanic empires and helped mould new world societies such as America and Brazil. In the Atlantic trade, Black also looks at the controversial area of how complicit the African peoples were in the trade. He then charts the long fight for abolition in the 19th century, including both the campaigners as well as the lost voices of the slaves themselves who spoke of their misery. Finally, as Black points out, slavery has not been completely abolished today and coerced labour can be found closer to home than is comfortable. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9781849017329

ISBN-10: 1849017328

Language: English

Publisher: Hachette UK

Year: 2011

Pages: 336

Cataloged: Dec. 4, 2024, 12:02 a.m.

"One of the most informative books about contemporary African life that I have read." Alice Walker. Source: Publisher Second Class Citizen is a 1974 novel by Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta. It was published in London, England, by Allison and Busby and subsequently in the United States in 1975 by George Braziller. Wikipedia

ISBN-13: 9780006145172

ISBN-10: 0006145175

Language: English

Publisher: Fontana Press

Year: 1977

Pages: 192

Cataloged: Dec. 3, 2024, 7:33 p.m.

Tells the classic story of the Zulu hero Chaka. Source: Publisher Chaka is the third and final novel by Lesotho writer Thomas Mofolo. Written in Sesotho, it is a mythic fictional retelling of the story of the rise and fall of the Zulu emperor-king Shaka. Following its first publication in 1925, it was published in English translation in 1931. Wikipedia

ISBN-13: 9780435902292

ISBN-10: 0435902296

Language: English

Publisher: Heinemann

Year: 1981

Pages: 168

Cataloged: Dec. 3, 2024, 7:30 p.m.

Contemporary writings illuminating the struggles and achievements of African Americans since the seventeenth century are presented with brief historical notes

ISBN-13: 9780806510064

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: Citadel Press

Year: 1951

Pages: 324

Cataloged: Dec. 3, 2024, 7:24 p.m.

From the makers of the major motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, a completely unique biography and thematic telling of the story of Nelson Mandela. This book, which provided key source material for the film, is an unexpurgated collection of the views and opinions of South Africa's first Black president, and it draws on Danny Schechter’s forty-year relationship with "Madiba," as Nelson Mandela is known in his native South Africa. Each chapter of this unique portrait corresponds to a letter of the alphabet, and the letters cover major and minor, unexpected and fascinating themes in Mandela’s life and his impact on others: Athlete, Bully, Comrade, Forgiveness, Indigenous, Jailed, Militant, and President, to name a few. The book quotes liberally from Mandela himself, his ex-wives and other family members, global leaders, Mandela's cellmates and guards on Robben Island, the team behind Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, former president F. W. de Klerk, members of the South African Police, and his comrades including his successor Thabo Mbeki. Madiba A to Z reveals sides of Nelson Mandela that are not often discussed and angles of the anti-apartheid movement that most choose to brush under the table in order to focus on the happy-ending version of the story. As Schechter reports in the book, according to Mandela's successor as president of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, “the fundamental problems of South Africa, poverty, inequality, have remained unchanged since 1994.” This is partly because, as Schechter writes, “six months before the 1994 elections, when South Africa was being governed jointly by the ANC and the National Party under a Transitional Executive Council (TEC), there were secret negotiations about the economic future.” There are many rarely spoken of revelations in Madiba A to Z, a book about Mandela’s brilliance, his courage, his tremendous impact in saving his country and its people of all races, but one that also shows how far South Africa still has to go. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9781609805579

ISBN-10: 1609805577

Language: English

Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Year: 2013

Pages: 272

Cataloged: Dec. 3, 2024, 7:17 p.m.

How do we restore African manhood to those whom our society has not viewed as the chosen people? Discover the startling prediction of the mystical tradition of ancient Africa. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9781555234287

ISBN-10: 1555234283

Language: English

Publisher: Winston-Derek Publishers

Year: 1991

Pages: 90

Cataloged: Dec. 3, 2024, 7:15 p.m.

What does it mean to be a leader? How does an individual create an unstoppable organization, reshape a struggle, a competition, or even a society? Why do we listen to one man's voice, and ignore another's? In the history of leadership in America, no one has galvanized a time, place, and people more forcefully than Martin Luther King, Jr. Now Donald T. Phillips has written an illuminating examination of the leadership style of Martin Luther King, Jr. A man who articulated a vision, crafted a strategy, and took defeats and turned them into victory, Dr. King and his life's work offer us powerful lessons that you can apply to your life, business, and any endeavor you undertake. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9780446523677

ISBN-10: 0446523674

Language: English

Publisher: Warner Books

Year: 1999

Pages: 374

Cataloged: Dec. 3, 2024, 7:11 p.m.

For the past 10 years, the Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) has been on the front line of the struggle for environmental justice, climate justice and food sovereignty in Africa and the globe. It has been a decade of non-stop probing of the exploitation of resources, peoples and nations, which has given rise to numerous environmental and climate injustices. HOMEF has had a decade of witnessing and standing against the injustice, the powers and structures (industries and policies) suffocating the rights of the people to a healthy environment and standing with the neglected to take charge of their once self-managed food and agricultural systems. The struggle has necessitated the reawakening of communities' consciousness to the injustices that besiege them and to their 'people power' - power to be utilized in seeking the desired change.mPolitics of Turbulent Waters is a compendium of selected articles in the 36 issues of the Eco-instigator published from 2013 to 2022. The Eco-instigator is yet another tool used by HOMEF to pull together thoughts and reports of activities that advance environmental justice and food sovereignty. Issue by issue, these thoughts and reports flow from within HOMEF and other environmental/climate justice and food sovereignty advocates from across Africa and the globe.They form this rich assemblage (Politics of turbulent waters) to commemorate HOMEF's 10th anniversary. The title of the book is one of Nnimmo Bassey's (the director of HOMEF) numerous articles that have graced some pages of the different issues of the Eco-instigator. The article cum title encapsulates the messages that the book intends to convey to you, the reader. It crystallizes the dire condition of Africa and its waters and the power imbalance together with the spatial disposition that plunged the continent into the calamitous environmental situation it faces. It speaks of the politics of economic development and market fundamentalism that avows to maintain the status quo in terms of destructive exploitation of Africa's marine and other natural resources. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9781990263750

ISBN-10: 1990263755

Language: English

Publisher: Daraja Press

Year: 2023

Pages: 230

Cataloged: Dec. 3, 2024, 7:08 p.m.

Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu was a writer, revolutionary and politician. He led the 1964 Zanzibar revolution and was a cabinet minister in Tanzania until 1972 when he was imprisoned by Nyerere. He was eventually released six years later with the aid of an international campaign. Babu taught at San Francisco State University and Amherst College and later moved to London at Birkbeck College. He became a friend and source of strength to struggling peoples all over the world, and he continued to play a unique role in African politics. In the face of the intensifying economic stranglehold and ideological dominance of Western agencies, he spoke and wrote of the need for a "second liberation" of Africa. A committed Marxist, he was a passionate believer in a socialist Pan-Africanism. Spanning almost forty years of the remarkable life of A. M. Babu, these seminal essays and witty articles, together with inspirational speeches delivered on various occasions, cast a clear and analytical light on many key political events and processes in Africa and elsewhere--and they suggest ways in which to move forward. The book is organized around several interlinked themes: 7Economic policies and development 7Pan-Africanism 7Democracy and human rights 7International relations and international solidarity 7National liberation in the era of neocolonialism 7Marxist theory "It was his belief in the power of the people that clearly stands out Babu still lives in our every effort to bring about social justice in Africa and the world." --Ngugi wa Thiong'o" He never stopped thinking of how to change life and society as it is lived the everlasting impression one is left with is an uncompromising zest for life, of anunending quest in every realm, personal as well as political." --Mahmood Mamdani "Some of us, mainly academics, try to analyze those events and spoke speak of a renaissance of Africa and a new world. I think Babu analyzed not only where we stand today but on what conditions national liberation can move ahead." --Samir Amin Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9780865438347

ISBN-10: 086543834X

Language: English

Publisher: Africa World Press

Year: 2002

Pages: 350

Cataloged: Dec. 3, 2024, 7:02 p.m.

Traces the struggle to make the Fourteenth Amendment's promise of equality for all a reality. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9780394920818

ISBN-10: 0394920813

Language: English

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Year: 1972

Pages: 120

Cataloged: Dec. 3, 2024, 6:57 p.m.

George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin is considered a classic narrative of the Black colonial experience. This poetic autobiographical novel juxtaposes the undeveloped, unencumbered life of a small Caribbean island with the materialism and anxiety of the twentieth century. Written when Lamming was twenty-three and residing in England, In the Castle of My Skin poignantly chronicles the author's life from his ninth to his nineteenth year. Through the eyes of a young boy the experiences of colonial education, class tensions, and natural disaster are interpreted and reinterpreted, mediated through the presence of the old villagers and friends who leave for the mainland. Source: Publisher In the Castle of My Skin is the first and much acclaimed novel by Barbadian writer George Lamming, originally published in 1953 by Michael Joseph in London, and subsequently published in New York City by McGraw-Hill. Wikipedia

ISBN-13: 9780582780194

ISBN-10: 0582780195

Language: English

Publisher:

Year: 1953

Pages: 303

Cataloged: Dec. 3, 2024, 6:54 p.m.

ISBN-13: 9781870169066

ISBN-10: 1870169069

Language: English

Publisher: Third World First

Year: 1989

Pages: 64

Cataloged: Dec. 3, 2024, 6:50 p.m.

'Great claims have been made for BEYOND A BOUNDARY since its first appearance in 1963- that it is the greatest sports book ever written; that it brings the outsider a privileged insight into West Indian culture; that it is a severe examination of the colonial condition. All are true.' Sunday TimesC L R James, one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century, was devoted to the game of cricket. In this classic summation of half a lifetime spent playing, watching and writing about the sport, he recounts the story of his overriding passion and tells us of the players whom he knew and loved, exploring the game's psychology and aesthetics, and the issues of class, race and politics that surround it. Part memoir of a West Indian boyhood, part passionate celebration and defence of cricket as an art form, part indictment of colonialism, BEYOND A BOUNDARY addresses not just a sport but a whole culture and asks the question, 'What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?'To say 'the best cricket book ever written' is piffingly inadequate praise. A mental landscape triangulated by literature, socialism and cricket represents an ideal we should all aspire to, and this ennobling and beautifully written book should be read by anyone with the slightest interest in any one of the above.' Guardian Source: Publisher Beyond a Boundary is a memoir on cricket written by the Trinidadian Marxist intellectual C. L. R. James, which he described as "neither cricket reminiscences nor autobiography". Wikipedia

ISBN-13: 9780224074278

ISBN-10: 022407427X

Language: English

Publisher: Yellow Jersey

Year: 2005

Pages: 355

Cataloged: Dec. 3, 2024, 12:44 p.m.

"An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author's interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative. Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X-all living siblings of the Malcolm Little family, classmates, street friends, cellmates, Nation of Islam figures, FBI moles and cops, and political leaders around the world. His goal was ambitious: to transform what would become over a hundred hours of interviews into an unprecedented portrait of Malcolm X, one that would separate fact from fiction. The result is this historic biography that conjures a never-before-seen world of its protagonist, a work whose title is inspired by a phrase Malcolm X used when he saw his Hartford followers stir with purpose, as if the dead were truly arising, to overcome the obstacles of racism. Setting Malcolm's life not only within the Nation of Islam but against the larger backdrop of American history, the book traces the life of one of the twentieth century's most politically relevant figures "from street criminal to devoted moralist and revolutionary." In tracing Malcolm X's life from his Nebraska birth in 1925 to his Harlem assassination in 1965, Payne provides searing vignettes culled from Malcolm's Depression-era youth, describing the influence of his Garveyite parents: his father, Earl, a circuit-riding preacher who was run over by a street car in Lansing, Michigan, in 1929, and his mother, Louise, who continued to instill black pride in her children after Earl's death. Filling each chapter with resonant drama, Payne follows Malcolm's exploits as a petty criminal in Boston and Harlem in the 1930s and early 1940s to his religious awakening and conversion to the Nation of Islam in a Massachusetts penitentiary. With a biographer's unwavering determination, Payne corrects the historical record and delivers extraordinary revelations-from the unmasking of the mysterious NOI founder "Fard Muhammad," who preceded Elijah Muhammad; to a hair-rising scene, conveyed in cinematic detail, of Malcolm and Minister Jeremiah X Shabazz's 1961 clandestine meeting with the KKK; to a minute-by-minute account of Malcolm X's murder at the Audubon Ballroom. Introduced by Payne's daughter and primary researcher, Tamara Payne, who, following her father's death, heroically completed the biography, The Dead Are Arising is a penetrating and riveting work that affirms the centrality of Malcolm X to the African American freedom struggle"-- Source: Publisher The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X is a biography of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne. The book was published in September 29, 2020 by Liveright in hardcover format while an audiobook, narrated by actor Dion Graham, was simultaneously released by Recorded Books. Wikipedia

ISBN-13: 9781631491672

ISBN-10: 1631491679

Language: English

Publisher: Liveright Publishing

Year: 2020

Pages: 656

Cataloged: Dec. 3, 2024, 12:39 p.m.

ISBN-13: None

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: African Council on Communication Education

Year: 1988

Pages: 116

Cataloged: Dec. 3, 2024, 12:38 p.m.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race” (Rolling Stone) NAMED ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY • NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNN • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, O: The Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post, People, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, New York, Newsday, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward. Source: Publisher Between the World and Me is a 2015 nonfiction book written by American author Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by Spiegel & Grau. It was written by Coates as a letter to his then-teenage son about his perception of what the feelings, symbolism, and realities associated with being Black in the United States are. Wikipedia

ISBN-13: 9780679645986

ISBN-10: 0679645985

Language: English

Publisher: One World

Year: 2015

Pages: 176

Cataloged: Dec. 3, 2024, 12:33 p.m.

"I have never placed my opposition to slavery on a basis so narrow as my own enslavement, but rather upon the indestructible and unchangeable laws of human nature, every one of which is perpetually and flagrantly violated by the slave system." -- Frederick Douglass Born and brought up in slavery, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) experienced the horrors of bondage but gained freedom and world renown as a lecturer, editor, and one of the most important men behind the American abolitionist movement. This book is the deeply moving story of his life -- as a slave, and as a free man.Douglass wrote three autobiographies, of which the 1855 edition is the most detailed on his life as a slave. In it, readers are not spared the fullest and most graphic descriptions of the cruelty of slavery. Douglass describes his life on a Maryland plantation: the excitement and danger of teaching himself to read and write, his demoralization under a cruel master, and his daring escape.In the second part of his tale, Douglass, now a fugitive, settles in Massachusetts and joins the anti-slavery movement. He recounts his travels to the British Isles and his first taste of freedom without prejudice, and his return to America to work as spokesman for his oppressed people. In addition to recording his sufferings and his protests, Douglass also provides a keen analysis of the effects of slavery on its victims as well as on society at large. Source: Publisher My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass and published in 1855. It is the second of three autobiographies written by Douglass and is mainly an expansion of his first, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Wikipedia

ISBN-13: 9780140439182

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: Dover Publications

Year: 1969

Pages: 464

Cataloged: Dec. 3, 2024, 12:30 p.m.

Santiago, a young shepherd living in the hills of Andalucia, feels that there is more to life than his humble home and his flock. One day he finds the courage to follow his dreams into distant lands, each step galvanised by the knowledge that he is following the right path: his own. The people he meets along the way, the things he sees and the wisdom he learns are life-changing. With Paulo Coelho's visionary blend of spirituality, magical realism and folklore, The Alchemist is a story with the power to inspire nations and change people's lives. Source: Publisher The Alchemist is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho which was first published in 1988. Originally written in Portuguese, it became a widely translated international bestseller. Wikipedia

ISBN-13: 9780062884107

ISBN-10: 0062884107

Language: English

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Year: 2018

Pages: 182

Cataloged: Dec. 3, 2024, 12:23 p.m.

ISBN-13: None

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: Universal Publishing House

Year: 1923

Pages: None

Cataloged: Dec. 3, 2024, 12:20 p.m.

Here, eagerly anticipated, is the definitive biography of Elijah Muhammad (ne Elija Poole), a sharecropper's son with a fourth- grade education who became one of the most controversial Americans of the twentieth century, the founder and "Prophet" of the Nation of Islam, a movement dedicated to black separatism and self-empowerment. Though Muhammad's main argument--that white people were innately evil ("devils," he called them)--ran counter to the precepts of orthodox Islam, he was the chief influence in the conversion of nearly four million African Americans to Islam, touching in the process the lives of figures ranging from Muhammad Ali and Jesse Jackson to Malcolm X and Louis Farrakhan. But in his desperate grasp for power, Muhammad also amassed a huge personal fortune at the expense of his followers. He was a party to ritualistic homicides, had illicit affairs galore, and was quick to betray his friends and charges, most notably Malcolm X. In brief, he violated every ideal and principle that he espoused. With the cooperation of some of Elijah Muhammad's children and former apostles and with access to previously unreleased FBI files, Karl Evanzz gives us an unprecedented account of the life of the man whose philosophy continues, long after his death, to shape race relations in America. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9780679442608

ISBN-10: 067944260X

Language: English

Publisher: Pantheon Books

Year: 1999

Pages: 688

Cataloged: Dec. 3, 2024, 12:14 p.m.

ISBN-13: 9780099122203

ISBN-10: 0099122200

Language: English

Publisher:

Year: 1975

Pages: 222

Cataloged: Dec. 2, 2024, 6:22 p.m.

Now a major BBC drama starring Forest Whitaker, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Laurence Fishburne Tracing his ancestry through six generations - slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects - back to Africa, Alex Haley discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man, who had been torn from his homeland and in torment and anguish brought to the slave markets of the New World, who held the key to Haley's deep and distant past. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award Source: Publisher Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a 1976 novel written by Alex Haley. It tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century Mandinka, captured as an adolescent, sold into slavery in Africa, and transported to North America. It explores his life and those of his descendants in the United States, down to Haley. Wikipedia

ISBN-13: 9780099362814

ISBN-10: 0099362813

Language: English

Publisher: Vintage

Year: 1976

Pages: 688

Cataloged: Dec. 2, 2024, 6:19 p.m.

The half century since the Ethiopian marathon runner, Abebe Bikila, won the Olympic gold medal in world record time in Rome in 1960 has been a golden period for African athletics. Since then, Africans have won 57 Olympic gold medals, numerous IAAF World Championships gold and established a string of world records in international competition. Most, but not all, come from the Eastern African highlands of Kenya and Ethiopia with other notable successes from Mediterranean athletes especially Morocco; and they are amongst the very elite of the world s athletes. Running for Black Gold documents in both text and statistics the African dominance in the middle and long distance events in international athletics competition, highlighting the successes of over 100 male and female athletes, their gold medals and world records. Amateur sportsman and writer Kevin Lillis focuses on the on-track performances of these athletes at the Olympic Games and the IAAF World Championships exclusively, as the black gold standard against which supreme performance is measured. Written from the viewpoint of a keen observer of both Africa and athletics, Lillis provides a broad map of the key moments in the history of African runners running for black gold culminating in the dominance of the Kenyans at the last IAAF World Championships in Daegu, Korea. The text and accompanying statistics are illustrated with stunning photographs of the outstanding gold medal winners and world record holders by internationally acclaimed photographer Mark Shearman. Sports enthusiasts especially those with an interest in the development of African athletics and the history of the Olympics as well as journalists, broadcasters and sport statisticians will revel in this revealing and easily read account of African athletics achievement from Bikila to Bekele .

ISBN-13: 9789766375980

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher:

Year: 2012

Pages: None

Cataloged: Dec. 2, 2024, 6:16 p.m.

RICHARD REDDIE is Project Director for the Churches Together in England's initiative to mark the bicentenary of the 1807 Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. Previously he was Education Policy Officer for Race on the Agenda. He has a BA in Caribbean Studies and Spanish, and an MA in Information Management. Google Books

ISBN-13: 9780749552299

ISBN-10: 0749552298

Language: English

Publisher: Lion Publishing Plc

Year: 2007

Pages: 256

Cataloged: Dec. 2, 2024, 6:08 p.m.

The Big Conservation Lie' is a wake up call focused on a field that has been 'front and centre' of many people's hearts and minds in recent years; The conservation of Africa's wildlife. It is a pursuit whose power to inspire is only rivalled by it's ability to blind it's audience to reality. This book takes the reader through Kenya's conservation 'industry' and the players therein with all their prejudices, weaknesses and commitment to causes, many of which are indistinguishable from their personalities. It is a call to indigenous Africans to claim their place at the table where the management of their natural resources is being discussed and invites well-meaning donors to look beyond the romantic images and detect the possible role of their money in the disenfranchisement of a people.

ISBN-13: 9780692787212

ISBN-10: 0692787216

Language: English

Publisher: Lens & Pens Publishing

Year: 2016

Pages: 200

Cataloged: Dec. 2, 2024, 3:39 p.m.

This compelling look at the relationship between the majority of African American students and their teachers provides answers and solutions to the hard-hitting questions facing education in today's black and mixed-race communities. Are teachers prepared by their college education departments to teach African American children? Are schools designed for middle-class children and, if so, what are the implications for the 50 percent of African Americans who live below the poverty line? Is the major issue between teachers and students class or racial difference? Why do some of the lowest test scores come from classrooms where black educators are teaching black students? How can parents negotiate with schools to prevent having their children placed in special education programs? Also included are teaching techniques and a list of exemplary schools that are successfully educating African Americans.

ISBN-13: 9780913543818

ISBN-10: 0913543810

Language: English

Publisher: African American Images

Year: 2002

Pages: 164

Cataloged: Dec. 2, 2024, 3:35 p.m.

A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year As seen on the Netflix series Explained From the best-selling author of Cosmopolitanism comes this revealing exploration of how the collective identities that shape our polarized world are riddled with contradiction. Who do you think you are? That’s a question bound up in another: What do you think you are? Gender. Religion. Race. Nationality. Class. Culture. Such affiliations give contours to our sense of self, and shape our polarized world. Yet the collective identities they spawn are riddled with contradictions, and cratered with falsehoods. Kwame Anthony Appiah’s The Lies That Bind is an incandescent exploration of the nature and history of the identities that define us. It challenges our assumptions about how identities work. We all know there are conflicts between identities, but Appiah shows how identities are created by conflict. Religion, he demonstrates, gains power because it isn’t primarily about belief. Our everyday notions of race are the detritus of discarded nineteenth-century science. Our cherished concept of the sovereign nation—of self-rule—is incoherent and unstable. Class systems can become entrenched by efforts to reform them. Even the very idea of Western culture is a shimmering mirage. From Anton Wilhelm Amo, the eighteenth-century African child who miraculously became an eminent European philosopher before retiring back to Africa, to Italo Svevo, the literary marvel who changed citizenship without leaving home, to Appiah’s own father, Joseph, an anticolonial firebrand who was ready to give his life for a nation that did not yet exist, Appiah interweaves keen-edged argument with vibrant narratives to expose the myths behind our collective identities. These “mistaken identities,” Appiah explains, can fuel some of our worst atrocities—from chattel slavery to genocide. And yet, he argues that social identities aren’t something we can simply do away with. They can usher in moral progress and bring significance to our lives by connecting the small scale of our daily existence with larger movements, causes, and concerns. Elaborating a bold and clarifying new theory of identity, The Lies That Bind is a ringing philosophical statement for the anxious, conflict-ridden twenty-first century. This book will transform the way we think about who—and what—“we” are. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9781631493843

ISBN-10: 1631493841

Language: English

Publisher: Liveright Publishing

Year: 2018

Pages: 272

Cataloged: Dec. 2, 2024, 3:31 p.m.

The now-classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience. By turns shocking and lyrical, unblinking and raw, the searingly honest memoirs of Eldridge Cleaver are a testament to his unique place in American history. Cleaver writes in Soul on Ice, " I'm perfectly aware that I'm in prison, that I'm a Negro, that I've been a rapist, and that I have a Higher Uneducation." What Cleaver shows us, on the pages of this now classic autobiography, is how much he was a man. Source: Publisher Soul on Ice is a memoir and collection of essays by Eldridge Cleaver. Originally written in Folsom State Prison in 1965, and published three years later in 1968, it is Cleaver's best known writing and remains a seminal work in African-American literature. Wikipedia

ISBN-13: 9780070113077

ISBN-10: 0070113076

Language: English

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies

Year: 1967

Pages: 210

Cataloged: Dec. 2, 2024, 3:26 p.m.

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DELIVERED his powerful "I Have a Dream" speech on August 28, 1963. Fifty years later, the speech endures as a defining moment in the civil rights movement. It continues to be heralded as a beacon in the ongoing struggle for racial equality. This gripping book is rooted in new and important interviews with Clarence Jones, a close friend of and draft speechwriter for Martin Luther King Jr., and Joan Baez, a singer at the march, as well as Angela Davis and other leading civil rights leaders. It brings to life the fascinating chronicle behind "The Speech" and other events surrounding the March on Washington. Younge skillfully captures the spirit of that historic day in Washington and offers a new generation of readers a critical modern analysis of why "I Have a Dream" remains America's favorite speech. _________ "It was over eighty degrees when Martin Luther King Jr. took the stage at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963. King was the last speaker. By the time he reached the podium, many in the crowd had started to leave. Not all those who remained could hear him properly, but those who could stood rapt. 'Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed, ' said King as though he were wrapping up. 'Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.' Then he set his prepared text aside. [Clarence] Jones saw his stance turn from lecturer to preacher. He turned to the person next to him: 'Those people don't know it but they're about to go to church.' A smattering of applause filled a pause more pregnant than most. 'So even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.'" --from the introduction

ISBN-13: 9781608463220

ISBN-10: 1608463222

Language: English

Publisher: Haymarket Books

Year: 2013

Pages: 178

Cataloged: Nov. 28, 2024, 10:14 a.m.

With knowledge, spirit, good humor, and passion, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. brings to life a remarkable man whose thoughts and actions speak to our most burning contemporary issues and still inspire the desires, hopes, and dreams of us all. Written in his own words, this history-making autobiography is Martin Luther King: the mild-mannered, inquisitive child and student who chafed under and eventually rebelled against segregation; the dedicated young minister who continually questioned the depths of his faith and the limits of his wisdom; the loving husband and father who sought to balance his family's needs with those of a growing, nationwide movement; and the reflective, world-famous leader who was fired by a vision of equality for people everywhere. Relevant and insightful, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. offers King's seldom disclosed views on some of the world's greatest and most controversial figures: John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Lyndon B. Johnson, Mahatma Gandhi, and Richard Nixon. It also paints a rich and moving portrait of a people, a time, and a nation in the face of powerful change. Finally, it shows how everyday Americans from all walks of life confronted themselves, each other, and the burden of the past-and how their fears and courage helped shape our future.

ISBN-13: 9780759520370

ISBN-10: 0759520372

Language: English

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Year: 2001

Pages: 416

Cataloged: Nov. 28, 2024, 10:12 a.m.

Compilation of essays and articles on nationalist movements, social movements, political problems and accession to independence in Africa, with particular reference to the role of France in Algeria - covers historical and political aspects, cultural factors, racial discrimination, etc. UN mentioned. Source: Publisher Toward the African Revolution is a collection of essays written by Frantz Fanon, which was published in 1964, after Fanon's death. The essays in the book were written from 1952 to 1961, between the publication of his two most famous works, Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth. Wikipedia

ISBN-13: 9780802130907

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: Penguin

Year: 1970

Pages: 207

Cataloged: Nov. 28, 2024, 10:04 a.m.

Frantz Fanon's seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution. Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern revolutionary theory as The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks. He has had a profound impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black consciousness movements around the world. A Dying Colonialism is Fanon's incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria changed centuries-old cultural patterns and embraced certain ancient cultural practices long derided by their colonialist oppressors as "primitive," in order to destroy those oppressors. Fanon uses the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution as a point of departure for an explication of the inevitable dynamics of colonial oppression. This is a strong, lucid, and militant book; to read it is to understand why Fanon says that for the colonized, "having a gun is the only chance you still have of giving a meaning to your death." Source: Publisher A Dying Colonialism is a 1959 book by the psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, in which the author provides an account of the Algerian War. The book details cultural and political changes that emerge due to the rejection of French colonial oppression by the Algerian.

ISBN-13: 9780802150271

ISBN-10: 0802150276

Language: English

Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Year: 1967

Pages: 181

Cataloged: Nov. 26, 2024, 2:25 p.m.

This book "The secret Terrorists" is a clear explication about a dangerous secret society call "the jesuits".

ISBN-13: 9781087931364

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: Triumphant Truth

Year: 2002

Pages: 151

Cataloged: Nov. 26, 2024, 12:39 p.m.

General study of the economies of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco since independence, and the obstacles to economic development - examines the role of France in the maghreb, economic structures, social structures, development policies, foreign policies toward Arab country, international relations, economic relations, political systems, the role of foreign investments, etc. Bibliography pp. 247 to 251, maps and statistical tables.

ISBN-13: 9780140410297

ISBN-10: 0140410295

Language: English

Publisher: Penguin

Year: 1970

Pages: 256

Cataloged: Nov. 26, 2024, 12:30 p.m.

ISBN-13: None

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: East African Literature Bureau

Year: 1976

Pages: 175

Cataloged: Nov. 26, 2024, 12:28 p.m.

ISBN-13: 9780837185712

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: Praeger

Year: 1961

Pages: 291

Cataloged: Nov. 26, 2024, 11:50 a.m.

Challenge of the Congo Kwame Nkrumah First published in 1967, this book provides a contemporary account of Congo's recent history by one of the Heads of State most closely involved.

ISBN-13: 9780901787101

ISBN-10: 0901787108

Language: English

Publisher: Panaf

Year: 1967

Pages: 304

Cataloged: Nov. 26, 2024, 11:44 a.m.

If you boil a kettle twice today, you will have used five times more electricity than a person in Mali uses in a whole year. How can that be possible? Decades after the colonial powers withdrew Africa is still struggling to catch up with the rest of the world. When the same colonists withdrew from Asia there followed several decades of sustained and unprecedented growth throughout the continent. So what went wrong in Africa? And are we helping to fix it, or simply making matters worse? In this provocative analysis, Tom Young argues that so much has been misplaced: our guilt, our policies, and our aid. Human rights have become a cover for imposing our values on others, our shiniest infrastructure projects have fuelled corruption and our interference in domestic politics has further entrenched conflict. Only by radically changing how we think about Africa can we escape this vicious cycle.

ISBN-13: 9781786070647

ISBN-10: 1786070642

Language: English

Publisher: Oneworld Publications

Year: 2018

Pages: 240

Cataloged: Nov. 26, 2024, 11:39 a.m.

FEW people will recognise the title Inqaba Yabasebenzi. Nor did many back in November 1987 when Inkatha, as the partial price of participation in peace talks in the growing Natal civil war, demanded that the UDF and COSATU repudiate an article published in it the previous month.[i] The journal was produced by the Marxist Workers Tendency, a splinter group expelled from the ANC at its Kabwe conference in 1985. Repudiation was not possible as no one knew anything about it. In any case this was simply a red herring designed to stall talks. Fast forward 34 years and history seems to be repeating itself. One of the IFP’s requirements for local government coalitions with the ANC is that it should apologise for naming its Zululand region after Jabulani Nxumalo (also known as Mzala, brother or comrade. Nxumalo was a prominent ANC member, one of the movement’s intellectuals, and an MK soldier. He died in London on 22 February 1991 and is famous for his book Gatsha Buthelezi: Chief with a Double Agenda published by Zed Books in 1988. Zed had treated the manuscript with circumspection. It was read by two teams of lawyers and amended accordingly after which the publishers were confident enough to go for a print run of 12,000. They were wary about the South African market, though, after their local agent David Philip was threatened about distribution of the book. It arrived in this country and was distributed in unorthodox ways, qualifying it as tamizdat (clandestinely imported) literature. Libraries simply used their regular overseas suppliers but according to John Daniel, Africa editor at Zed, the book was carried in the backpacks of infiltrating MK soldiers, adding extra meaning to its eventual reading. Daniel compared Mzala’s intellectual contribution to that of Anton Lembede, who also died young, and described his book as a ‘richly documented analysis of Zulu history and culture, and a devastating critique of the self-proclaimed anti-apartheid credentials of [Mangosuthu] Buthelezi’. Buthelezi reacted to reviews published in 1988 by threatening legal action and saying that he held the book ‘in contempt’. In spite of Mzala’s widely known ANC and SACP credentials there is no evidence that the state ever contemplated banning his book. It was well reviewed by respected academics such as Shula Marks, Roger Southall, Norman Etherington and Nicholas Cope in established journals and judged to be based on sound evidence and interpretation. Shaun Johnson in the Weekly Mail described Mzala as a ‘considerable scholar’ and his book ‘a reasoned, informative, well-researched and tightly argued attack on a political opponent’. In general, reviewers agreed that Mzala had dealt comprehensively with the paradoxes and contradictions of Buthelezi’s political position: an anti-apartheid bantustan leader and man of peace leading a party that specialised in warlike rhetoric. However, the author was criticised for failing to give enough credit to Inkatha as a political organisation. Three months after Mzala’s death, Buthelezi’s lawyers, Friedman & Friedman, sent out a letter to a reported nine university libraries demanding that the book be withdrawn from their shelves on the grounds they were circulating defamatory material.[ii] Active state censorship had ended, but Buthelezi was using the threat of defamation law to the same effect, KwaZulu bantustan style. In an extraordinary response to protest, Inkatha advised complainants to go to court. Why had Buthelezi waited so long to threaten to act against this book? In 1989, in a letter to Frontline in which he gave his full name and (royal) family connections, Mzala addressed this question by arguing that what he had written was the truth based in part on an interview with Buthelezi in London and on material elicited from Zulu elders. Now he was no longer alive to defend his book. Jenny Friedman believed that continued circulation of material claimed to be defamatory amounted to publication and was thus actionable. Librarians disagreed on the basis that no court had ruled on the book. The Anti-Censorship Action Group was more forthright comparing Buthelezi to the ‘book burning despots of the past’. Friedman used a well-known excerpt from Othello referring to the ‘value of my good name’ forgetting that it was uttered by Iago, regarded as a sinister villain capable of betrayal while protecting his tarnished reputation. This hardly assisted her client, but university authorities in the face of opposition from librarians and academics caved in. The details of the legal advice on which they depended was never revealed. Faced by powerful litigants with deep pockets, caution ‒ and censorship ‒ are often the outcome. This was definitely the view of academics at University of Natal, one of whom was using Mzala’s book as recommended coursework reading. The Natal Witness weighed in with a forthright editorial on the importance of academic freedom; while the Inkatha Institute continued a full-frontal attack on named staff at the university and described academics in general as ‘ANC fetch-and-carry boys’. This rhetoric fell flat as the lid was lifted on police links with Inkatha warlords and government funding of Inkatha’s trade union arm. The best critique of this stand-off was provided by historian Paul Maylam and published in the Daily News. He pointed out that claims about defamatory content were ‘vague and general’ and unsubstantiated and that a genuine democrat would prefer debate to threats of litigation. The latter approach featured Buthelezi as combined ‘complainant, jury and judge’ when as a public figure he should be prepared to defend his position, not suppress opposing viewpoints. There has never been an explanation of precisely what is believed to be defamatory: a word, sentence, paragraph or chapter? The fact that the book offends Buthelezi (or anyone else) does not render it defamatory. This is dependent on untrue content written with malicious intent. For a prominent figure the bar is set relatively high with public interest a factor ‒ as would soon be demonstrated in the 1990s by Lothar Neethling’s failed defamation case. All these years later Nxumalo’s book is not only in the spotlight but part of political trading. Ironically it is widely available in South African university and public libraries, although booksellers tended to avoid it so effectively consigned it to limbo. For instance, in 1994 Phambili Books in Johannesburg was threatened with legal action and an extraordinary demand for a list of purchasers. The book is now out of print after a failed attempt at republication in 2019. It is curious that the IFP is so concerned about a writer who died 30 years ago and whose book is not easy to access when focus is needed on the governance of collapsing municipalities. But it is indicative of the personality driven nature of South African politics and the neglect of issues that affect the general public. This article first appeared in the Witness, 16 November 2021.

ISBN-13: 9780862327927

ISBN-10: 086232792X

Language: English

Publisher: Zed Books

Year: 1988

Pages: 240

Cataloged: Nov. 26, 2024, 11:14 a.m.

In the middle of January 1964 banner headlines all over the world proclaimed the overthrow of the Sultan of Zanzibar's government. The leader of the revolution was an enigmatic figure called John Okello. Variously described by baffled reporters as a professional Cuban-trained revolutionary, a Kenya policeman or part of an East-Africa-wide conspiracy, he was none of these. Who he was, where he came from and how he came to lead a group of brave and desperate men in bitter struggle against the well-armed forces of a despotic regime are revealed for the first time in this astonishing testament. With simplicity and surprising candour John Okello has unfolded the hardships and tragedies of his early life and the long journey which brought him from herding cows in the grasslands of Uganda to the leadership of Zanzibar's nine-hour revolution. He also reveals the long planning, the hopes and the ideals that lay behind this event. John Okello's story is not only a valuable contribution to historical knowledge: it is a great human document.

ISBN-13: None

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: East African Publishing House

Year: 1967

Pages: 222

Cataloged: Nov. 26, 2024, 10:57 a.m.

A history of Britain's West Indian and Asian communities, covering their cultures, the reasons for their arrival in Britain, and the prejudice they have encountered. White attitudes are related to the historical experiences of the slave trade, colonization and imperial rule.

ISBN-13: 9780246136183

ISBN-10: 0246136189

Language: English

Publisher: Grafton

Year: 1991

Pages: 355

Cataloged: Nov. 26, 2024, 9:59 a.m.

Mayombe is the background for a story of relationships in the Angolan liberation war. Ondine, a teacher at an MPLA base, is engaged to the Political Commissar. Tensions flare when she is unfaithful to him with another guerilla.

ISBN-13: 9780435902698

ISBN-10: 0435902695

Language: English

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books

Year: 1983

Pages: 184

Cataloged: Nov. 26, 2024, 9:55 a.m.

Emperor Shaka the Great is an epic poem based on the Zulu oral tradition, compiled in Zulu then translated by South African Poet Mazisi Kunene. The epic follows the life of Shaka Zulu. The poem documents his exploits as a king of the Zulu people, produced considerable advances in State structure and military technologies of the Zulu. Some critics express concern over the historicity of the retelling. However, Kunene's embrasure of an African perspective on Shaka's Rule expresses an attempt at understanding the apparent horrors observed by Europeans in the Shaka's history. Source: Publisher Emperor Shaka the Great is an epic poem based on the Zulu oral tradition, compiled in Zulu then translated by South African poet Mazisi Kunene and published in 1979 in the Heinemann African Writers Series. Wikipedia

ISBN-13: 9780435906481

ISBN-10: 0435906488

Language: English

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers

Year: 1979

Pages: 438

Cataloged: Nov. 26, 2024, 9:40 a.m.

ISBN-13: 9780608133638

ISBN-10: 0608133639

Language: English

Publisher: International Publishers

Year: 1967

Pages: 133

Cataloged: Nov. 26, 2024, 9:29 a.m.

A unique collection of the last writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa that reveals the indomitable mind and spirit of the legendary campaigner for justice in the last months before his execution. The letters and poems collected here are the last writings of a man on trial for his life. They were smuggled out of military detention in food baskets.. Nigerian author and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, facing execution by the military regime on trumped-up charges, corresponded extensively with Irish nun and solidarity worker Majella McCarron during the last 18 months of his life. Clear and direct, these letters and poems are the last expression of a voice the regime was determined to silence: a voice for indigenous rights, environmental survival and democracy, many of whose battles were won despite his death and whose voice comes alive today again in these extraordinary letters. Saro-Wiwa was a leading figure in the world of Nigerian and African letters, as novelist, playwright, non-fiction writer, author of children's books and television writer. He was also a major figure in Nigerian politics, when his support for the autonomy of his own, indigenous Ogoni people led to his removal from office. Following this Saro-Wiwa threw himself into business to provide the financial basis for the movement which from 1990 took the shape of MOSOP, the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People. MOSOP raised not only the issue of indigenous autonomy but also that of environmental survival in the face of massive oil and gas extraction in the Niger Delta and the associated oil leaks, gas flaring and other environmental crises threatening traditional livelihoods in the area. This was a direct challenge to those who benefitted from the situation: the oil and gas multinationals and the Nigerian military government.

ISBN-13: 9781493590223

ISBN-10: 1493590227

Language: English

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Year: 2013

Pages: 202

Cataloged: Nov. 26, 2024, 9:22 a.m.

Amílcar Lopes Cabral was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, political organizer, and diplomat. He was one of Africa's foremost anti-colonial leaders. He was also a pan-Africanist and intellectual nationalist revolutionary poet.

ISBN-13: 9780850350241

ISBN-10: 0850350247

Language: English

Publisher:

Year: 1974

Pages: 142

Cataloged: Nov. 26, 2024, 9:17 a.m.

Ralph Korngold was a Polish-born author and businessman. He is best remembered as a leading public propagandist for the Socialist Party of America during the decade of the 1910s and as a biographer of Maximilien Robespierre.

ISBN-13: 9780809013265

ISBN-10: 0809013266

Language: English

Publisher: Hill and Wang

Year: 1965

Pages: 338

Cataloged: Nov. 26, 2024, 9:11 a.m.

Africa has been coveted for its riches ever since the era of the Pharaohs. In past centuries, it was the lure of gold, ivory, and slaves that drew fortune-seekers, merchant-adventurers, and conquerors from afar. In modern times, the focus of attention is on oil, diamonds, and other valuable minerals. Land was another prize. The Romans relied on their colonies in northern Africa for vital grain shipments to feed the population of Rome. Arab invaders followed in their wake, eventually colonizing the entire region. More recently, foreign corporations have acquired huge tracts of land to secure food supplies needed abroad, just as the Romans did. In this vast and vivid panorama of history, Martin Meredith follows the fortunes of Africa over a period of 5,000 years. With compelling narrative, he traces the rise and fall of ancient kingdoms and empires; the spread of Christianity and Islam; the enduring quest for gold and other riches; the exploits of explorers and missionaries; and the impact of European colonization. He examines, too, the fate of modern African states and concludes with a glimpse of their future. His cast of characters includes religious leaders, mining magnates, warlords, dictators, and many other legendary figures--among them Mansa Musa, ruler of the medieval Mali empire, said to be the richest man the world has ever known. "I speak of Africa," Shakespeare wrote, "and of golden joys." This is history on an epic scale.

ISBN-13: 9781610394598

ISBN-10: 1610394593

Language: English

Publisher: Public Affairs

Year: 2014

Pages: 745

Cataloged: Nov. 26, 2024, 9:06 a.m.

In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Not since W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1907 Economic Co-operation Among Negro Americans has there been a full-length, nationwide study of African American cooperatives. Collective Courage extends that story into the twenty-first century. Many of the players are well known in the history of the African American experience: Du Bois, A. Philip Randolph and the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Jo Baker, George Schuyler and the Young Negroes’ Co-operative League, the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panther Party. Adding the cooperative movement to Black history results in a retelling of the African American experience, with an increased understanding of African American collective economic agency and grassroots economic organizing. To tell the story, Gordon Nembhard uses a variety of newspapers, period magazines, and journals; co-ops’ articles of incorporation, minutes from annual meetings, newsletters, budgets, and income statements; and scholarly books, memoirs, and biographies. These sources reveal the achievements and challenges of Black co-ops, collective economic action, and social entrepreneurship. Gordon Nembhard finds that African Americans, as well as other people of color and low-income people, have benefitted greatly from cooperative ownership and democratic economic participation throughout the nation’s history.

ISBN-13: 9780271064260

ISBN-10: 0271064269

Language: English

Publisher: Penn State University Press

Year: 2015

Pages: 328

Cataloged: Nov. 26, 2024, 9:02 a.m.

Jesse Ndwiga Kanyua Mugambi, is a professor of philosophy and religious studies at the University of Nairobi with professional training in education and philosophy of religion.

ISBN-13: 9789966888761

ISBN-10: 9966888764

Language: English

Publisher: Acton Publishers

Year: 2003

Pages: 225

Cataloged: Nov. 26, 2024, 8:58 a.m.

ISBN-13: None

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: Department of Rural Economy and Extension, Makerere University College

Year: 1969

Pages: 151

Cataloged: Nov. 26, 2024, 8:54 a.m.

ISBN-13: None

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher:

Year: 1967

Pages: 21

Cataloged: Nov. 26, 2024, 8:49 a.m.

ISBN-13: 9781868405329

ISBN-10: 186840532X

Language: English

Publisher: Center for Civil Society

Year: 2004

Pages: 12

Cataloged: Nov. 25, 2024, 5:29 p.m.

Uhuru means freedom, the word so frequently abused in Africa. This is a true story of the politics and struggle in Kenya and the African continent, following the book, Something of value.

ISBN-13: 9781568490250

ISBN-10: 1568490259

Language: English

Publisher: Buccaneer Books

Year: 1962

Pages: 555

Cataloged: Nov. 25, 2024, 5:25 p.m.

ISBN-13: 9780901787248

ISBN-10: 0901787248

Language: English

Publisher: Panaf Books Limited

Year: 1972

Pages: 174

Cataloged: Nov. 25, 2024, 5:23 p.m.

Africa is forever on our TV screens, but the bad-news stories (famine, genocide, corruption) massively outweigh the good (South Africa). Ever since the process of decolonialisation began in the mid-1950s, and arguably before, the continent has appeared to be stuck in a process of irreversible decline. Constant war, improper use of natural resources and misappropriation of revenues and aid monies contribute to an impression of a continent beyond hope. How did we get here? What, if anything, is to be done? Weaving together the key stories and characters of the last fifty years into a stunningly compelling and coherent narrative, Martin Meredith has produced the definitive history of how European ideas of how to organise 10,000 different ethnic groups has led to what Tony Blair described as the 'scar on the conscience of the world'. Authoritative, provocative and consistently fascinating, this is a major book on one of the most important issues facing the West today.

ISBN-13: 9780743232227

ISBN-10: 0743232224

Language: English

Publisher: Free Press

Year: 2006

Pages: 752

Cataloged: Nov. 25, 2024, 5:20 p.m.

Portrays the cruelty of white "justice" and the courage of African men and women in preindependent Angola. It is the story of a tractor driver with nationalist sympathies who is arrested, tortured and murdered by the colonial police.

ISBN-13: 9780435902025

ISBN-10: 0435902024

Language: English

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers

Year: 1978

Pages: 84

Cataloged: Nov. 25, 2024, 4:41 p.m.

An intense and lively debate on literature and art between thinkers who became some of the great figures of twentieth-century philosophy and literature. With an afterword by Fredric Jameson No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature and art during these years are assembled in a single volume. They do not form a disparate collection but a continuous, interlinked debate between thinkers who have become giants of twentieth-century intellectual history.

ISBN-13: 9781788738583

ISBN-10: 1788738586

Language: English

Publisher: Verso Books

Year: 2020

Pages: 256

Cataloged: Nov. 25, 2024, 4:37 p.m.

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. From the Trade Paperback edition.

ISBN-13: 9780807009789

ISBN-10: 0807009784

Language: English

Publisher: Beacon Press

Year: 2002

Pages: 264

Cataloged: Nov. 25, 2024, 4:33 p.m.

"Diop compares the political and social systems of Europe and black Africa from antiquity to the formation of modern states. Throughout, his intent is not to provide a history as such, but rather guidelines for historians and others who seek a scientific understanding of precolonial societies in Africa, the Mediterranean, and Europe and their links with the earliest known stages of human development. Students and scholars of Africa and world history will be challenged by Diop's original -- thought controversial == analysis of the similarities and striking differences between black Africa and the West." -- Back cover.

ISBN-13: 9780882081878

ISBN-10: 088208187X

Language: English

Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books

Year: 1987

Pages: 240

Cataloged: Nov. 25, 2024, 4:30 p.m.

The Pan-Africanist debate is back on the historical agenda. The stresses and strains in the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar since its formation some forty years ago are not showing any sign of abating. Meanwhile, imperialism under new forms and labels continues to bedevil the continent in ever-aggressive, if subtle, ways. The political federation of East Africa, which was one of the main spin-offs of the Pan-Africanism of the nationalist period, is reappearing on the political stage, albeit in a distorted form of regional integration. It is in this context that the present study is situated. Backgrounding the major dramas of the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar this book studies the personalities involved and their politics, and includes an account of the Dodoma CCM conference that toppled President Jumbe. It is also a detailed legal analysis of the union incorporating powerful new material.

ISBN-13: 9789987081059

ISBN-10: 9987081053

Language: English

Publisher: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers

Year: 2008

Pages: 336

Cataloged: Nov. 25, 2024, 1:20 p.m.

In Rwanda in 1994 one million people were killed in a planned, public and political campaign. For six years Linda Melvern has worked on the story of this horrendous crime, and this book, a classic piece of investigative journalism, is the result. Its new and startling information has the making of an international scandal. The book contains a full narrative account of how the genocide unfolded and describes its scale, speed and intensity. And the book provides a terrible indictment, not just of the UN Security Council, but even more so of governments and individuals who could have prevented what was happening but chose not to do so. Drawing on a series of in-depth interviews, the author also tells the story of the unrecognized heroism of those who stayed on during the genocide - volunteer UN peacekeepers, their Force Commander the Canadian Lt.-General Romeo A. Dallaire, and Philippe Gaillard, the head of a delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross, helped by medical teams from Medecins Sans Frontieres. The international community, which fifty years ago resolved that genocide never happened again, not only failed to prevent it happening in Rwanda, but, as this book shows, international funds intended to help the Rwandan economy actually helped to create the conditions that made the genocide possible. Documents held in Kigali, the Rwandan capital, as well as hitherto unpublished evidence of secret UN Security Council deliberations in New York, reveal a shocking sequence of events. What happened in Rwanda shows that despite the creation of an organisation set up to prevent a repetition of genocide - for the UN is central to this task - it failed to do so, even when the evidence was indisputable. At a time when increasing attention is being given to the need for UN reform, this book provides evidence to urgently accelerate and focus that process. Only by understanding how and why the genocide happened can there be any hope that this new century will break with the dismal record of the last.

ISBN-13: 9781856498319

ISBN-10: 185649831X

Language: English

Publisher: Zed Books

Year: 2000

Pages: 272

Cataloged: Nov. 25, 2024, 1:15 p.m.

Like the brilliant sun, the October Revolution shone over all five continents, awakening millions of oppressed and exploited people around the world. There has never existed such a revolution of such significance and scale in the history of humanity.' - Hồ Chí Minh From Cuba to Vietnam, from China to South Africa, the October Revolution remains as an inspiration. After all, that Revolution proved that the working class and the peasantry could not only overthrow an autocratic government but that it could form its own government, in its image. It proved decisively that the working class and the peasantry could be allied. It proved as well the necessity of a vanguard party that was open to spontaneous currents of unrest, but which could guide a revolution to completion. This book explains the power of the October Revolution for the Third World. It is not a comprehensive study, but a small book with a large hope - that a new generation will come to see the importance of this revolution for the working class and peasantry in that part of the world that suffered under the heel of colonial domination.

ISBN-13: 9789380118666

ISBN-10: 938011866X

Language: English

Publisher: Leftword

Year: 2020

Pages: 132

Cataloged: Nov. 25, 2024, 1:13 p.m.

Dubbed the "Marikana Massacre," the Marikana miners’ strike was the single most lethal use of force by South African security forces against civilians since the end of apartheid; those killed were mineworkers in pursuit of a pay raise. Through a series of interviews conducted with workers who survived the attack, this account documents and examines the controversial shootings in great detail. In addition, it includes a narrative of the preceding events as well as of the violence itself written from the perspective of the strikers. Unique and revealing, his book tells of police murders, sadness, bravery, and pride.

ISBN-13: 9781431407330

ISBN-10: 143140733X

Language: English

Publisher: Jacana Media

Year: 2012

Pages: 210

Cataloged: Nov. 25, 2024, 12:44 p.m.

ISBN-13: 9780934143738

ISBN-10: 0934143730

Language: English

Publisher: Lawyers Committee for Human Rights

Year: 1995

Pages: 266

Cataloged: Nov. 25, 2024, 12:41 p.m.

2016 NAACP Image Award Winner An award-winning journalist reveals a little-known and shameful episode in American history, when an African man was used as a human zoo exhibit—a shocking story of racial prejudice, science, and tragedy in the early years of the twentieth century in the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Devil in the White City, and Medical Apartheid. In 1904, Ota Benga, a young Congolese “pygmy”—a person of petite stature—arrived from central Africa and was featured in an anthropology exhibit at the St. Louis World’s Fair. Two years later, the New York Zoological Gardens displayed him in its Monkey House, caging the slight 103-pound, 4-foot 11-inch tall man with an orangutan. The attraction became an international sensation, drawing thousands of New Yorkers and commanding headlines from across the nation and Europe. Spectacle explores the circumstances of Ota Benga’s captivity, the international controversy it inspired, and his efforts to adjust to American life. It also reveals why, decades later, the man most responsible for his exploitation would be hailed as his friend and savior, while those who truly fought for Ota have been banished to the shadows of history. Using primary historical documents, Pamela Newkirk traces Ota’s tragic life, from Africa to St. Louis to New York, and finally to Lynchburg, Virginia, where he lived out the remainder of his short life. Illuminating this unimaginable event, Spectacle charts the evolution of science and race relations in New York City during the early years of the twentieth century, exploring this racially fraught era for Africa-Americans and the rising tide of political disenfranchisement and social scorn they endured, forty years after the end of the Civil War. Shocking and compelling Spectacle is a masterful work of social history that raises difficult questions about racial prejudice and discrimination that continue to haunt us today.

ISBN-13: 9780062201010

ISBN-10: 0062201018

Language: English

Publisher: HarperCollins

Year: 2015

Pages: 333

Cataloged: Nov. 25, 2024, 12:34 p.m.

According to politicians, we now live in a radically interconnected world. Unless there is international stability – even in the most distant places – the West's way of life is threatened. In meeting this global danger, reducing poverty and developing the unstable regions of the world are now imperative. In what has become a truism of the post-Cold War period, security without development is questionable, while development without security is impossible. In this accessible and path-breaking book, Mark Duffield questions this conventional wisdom and lays bare development not as a way of bettering other people but of governing them. He offers a profound critique of the new wave of Western humanitarian and peace interventionism, arguing that rather than bridging the lifechance divide between development and underdevelopment, it maintains and polices it. As part of the defence of an insatiable mass consumer society, those living beyond its borders must be content with self-reliance. With case studies drawn from Mozambique, Ethiopia and Afghanistan, the book provides a critical and historically informed analysis of the NGO movement, humanitarian intervention, sustainable development, human security, coherence, fragile states, migration and the place of racism within development. It is a must-read for all students and scholars of development, humanitarian intervention and security studies as well as anyone concerned with our present predicament.

ISBN-13: 9780745635804

ISBN-10: 0745635806

Language: English

Publisher: Polity Press

Year: 2007

Pages: 266

Cataloged: Nov. 25, 2024, 12:31 p.m.

The moving last memoir of the outspoken critic of the Nigerian regime and international oil companies he held responsible for the destruction of his homeland-who lost his life in the campaign for the basic rights fo the Ogoni people of Nigeria.

ISBN-13: 9780140259148

ISBN-10: 0140259147

Language: English

Publisher: Penguin Group

Year: 1995

Pages: 237

Cataloged: Nov. 25, 2024, 9:25 a.m.

Ahmed Sékou Touré was a Guinean political leader and African statesman who was the first president of Guinea from 1958 until his death in 1984. Touré was among the primary Guinean nationalists involved in gaining independence of the country from France. He would later die in the United States in 1984.

ISBN-13: None

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: Jihad Publishing Company

Year: 1973

Pages: 40

Cataloged: Nov. 25, 2024, 9:19 a.m.

This book presents a thought-provoking examination of the group personality of Europeans, as manifest in their behaviour towards Black people. In the essay "The Psychopathic Racial Personality", Dr Bobby Wright contends that viewing white behaviour towards non-whites as psychopathic provides a new lens through which to analyse and combat the actions and aims of Europeans. The essay "Black Suicide: Lynching by Any Other Name" positions the phenomenon of Black suicide within the context of centuries of white genocide. In other essays Wright discusses ways in which to best educate Black children and sheds new light on the evolution of white supremacy.

ISBN-13: 9780883780718

ISBN-10: 0883780712

Language: English

Publisher: THIRD WORLD Press

Year: 1994

Pages: 40

Cataloged: Nov. 25, 2024, 9:16 a.m.

ISBN-13: None

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart

Year: 1961

Pages: 301

Cataloged: Nov. 23, 2024, 12:30 p.m.

"This book is composed of transcriptions of radio interviews conducted by the Voice of America with African authors from 1974-1978. A total of 78 interviews were broadcast in the series from 1975-1979. .. The series itself was organized by VOA African Division Special Projects Officer Lee Nichols ... The programs were produced by the Production Branch of the VOA African Division"--Page v.

ISBN-13: None

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: Voice of America

Year: 1981

Pages: 302

Cataloged: Nov. 22, 2024, 2:23 p.m.

Hugh Heyne Smythe was an American author, sociologist, diplomat and professor. He was an authority on African anthropology and East Asian studies. He served as the United States Ambassador to Syria from 1965 to 1967 and United States Ambassador to Malta from 1967 to 1969.

ISBN-13: None

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Year: 1960

Pages: 196

Cataloged: Nov. 22, 2024, 2:20 p.m.

From the "An authoritative book about the social and economic causes of the 'winds of change' which is now sweeping the African continent. It is a detailed objective examination of the impact of colonialism on the African people. Jack Woodis find the basis of the contemporary revolt against white domination in the conditions of land tenure and labor, which were imposed by the Colonial Powers. Mr Woodis has spent a number of years studying African development and has had close contact with many of Africa's political and trade union leaders. It rests its arguments on a careful sociological analysis of the position of the peasant and the worker in African society…… Its author has a quite enviable command of the sources of information and by bring them together had made a real contribution to colonial sociology. ...through his close contact with many Africans he allow them to speak for themselves....a mountain of information.

ISBN-13: None

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart

Year: 1960

Pages: 285

Cataloged: Nov. 22, 2024, 11:35 a.m.

Essays on Pan-Africanism begins with essays by Shiraz Durrani, Abdilatif Abdulla, Issa Shivji, Firoze Manji, Sabatho Nyamsenda, Willy Mutunga and Noosim Naimasiah on various aspects of Pan-Africanism. This is followed by Remembering the Champions of African Liberation, with articles on Patrice Lumumba by Antoine Lokongo, Abdulrahman Babu by Amrit Wilson, Makhan Singh by Hindpal Singh and Piyo Rattansi, followed by Tajudeen Abdul Raheem's last Pan African Postcard (2009) and Debating and Documenting Africa - A Conversation. The Preface, Pan-African Thought, is by Prof. Issa Shivji. The book incorporates Karim Essack's compilation, The Pan African Path (1993) with historical records and documents on Pan-African history, with a new Preface by Prof. Issa Shivji. The final section has documents on Pan-Africanism, including the Kampala Declaration (1994)

ISBN-13: 9789914992106

ISBN-10: 9914992102

Language: English

Publisher: Vita Books

Year: 2022

Pages: 276

Cataloged: Nov. 21, 2024, 9:54 a.m.

‘Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories...’ – Amílcar Cabral Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories showcases the intellectual foundations and practices underpinning the liberation of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde. From the importance of culture in decolonisation, to biting critiques of Portuguese colonialism, and strategies for guerrilla warfare in tropical forests, this new collection brings together select interviews, official speeches and PAIGC party directives from 1962 to 1973. Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories reveals Cabral to be a skilled diplomat and lively and pragmatic thinker, concerned with national liberation in the context of Pan-Africanism and international struggle. This edition features an exclusive foreword by Grant Farred and introduction by Sónia Vaz Borges, bringing Cabral’s contributions sharply into focus for today’s bids for freedom.

ISBN-13: 9781776421503

ISBN-10: 1776421507

Language: English

Publisher: Digital on Demand

Year: 2022

Pages: 352

Cataloged: Nov. 21, 2024, 9:49 a.m.

In The Great Climate Robbery highly respected non-profit Grain connects analysis of the food system to larger issues affecting the planet, and links peoples' struggles over food to climate change. The collected articles in this book will help readers to understand the ways in which corporations seek to control the food system, and give information and analysis to challenge this control. This book features endorsements from Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben, and Vandana Shiva. Henk Hobbelink is a member of the Grain collective, an international non-profit that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems.

ISBN-13: 9781780263403

ISBN-10: 1780263406

Language: English

Publisher: New Internationalist

Year: 2016

Pages: 224

Cataloged: Nov. 21, 2024, 9:32 a.m.

Recent African history has exposed the close links between the interests of imperialism and neo-colonialism and the African bourgeoisie. This book reveals the nature and extent of the class struggle in Africa, and sets it in the broad context of the African Revolution and the world socialist revolution. 86pp; 1 map

ISBN-13: 9780901787125

ISBN-10: 0901787124

Language: English

Publisher: Panaf Books Limited

Year: 1970

Pages: 96

Cataloged: Nov. 20, 2024, 7:07 p.m.

A foreign correspondent’s chronicle of the Ugandan warlord and his Lord’s Resistance Army of abducted child soldiers: “a readable and compelling account” (Independent, UK). Somewhere in the jungles of Uganda, there hides a fugitive rebel leader: he is said to take his orders directly from the spirit world and, together with his ragged army of brutalized child soldiers, he has left a bloody trail of devastation across his country. Joseph Kony is now an internationally wanted criminal, and yet nobody really knows who he is or what he is fighting for. To get the truth behind the rumors and myths, Matthew Green ventures into the war zone, meeting the victims, the peacemakers and the regional powerbrokers as he tracks down the man himself. The Wizard of the Nile is the first book to peel back the layers of mysticism and murky politics surrounding Kony, to shine a searching light onto this forgotten conflict, and to tell the gripping human story behind an inhumane war and a humanitarian crisis. Winner of the Jerwood Award Long-listed for the Orwell Prize

ISBN-13: 9781846274817

ISBN-10: 1846274818

Language: English

Publisher: Granta Publications

Year: 2012

Pages: 352

Cataloged: Nov. 20, 2024, 7:05 p.m.

The history of a radical group of intellectuals who founded the New Era Fellowship, which shaped human rights precedents and social justice policy in South Africa In 1937 a group of young Capetonians, socialist intellectuals from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, embarked on a project they called the New Era Fellowship (NEF). In doing so they sought to disrupt and challenge not only prevailing political narratives but the very premises – class and ‘race’ – on which they were based. In different forums – public debates, lectures, study circles and cultural events – the seeds of radical thinking were planted, nurtured and brought to full flower. Taking a position of non-collaboration and non-racialism, the NEF played a vital role in challenging society’s responses to events ranging from the problem of taking up arms during the Second World War for an empire intent on stripping people of colour of their human rights to the Hertzog Bills, which foreshadowed apartheid in all its ruthless effectiveness. In subsequent narratives of liberation their significance has been overlooked, even disparaged, and has never been fully understood and acknowledged. By shining a contemporary light on the NEF and locating its contribution in current sociological and political discourse, educationist Crain Soudien shows how its members were at the forefront of redefining the debate about social difference in a racially divided society.

ISBN-13: 9781776144686

ISBN-10: 1776144686

Language: English

Publisher: Wits University Press

Year: 2019

Pages: 212

Cataloged: Nov. 20, 2024, 7:01 p.m.

Seeking to reclaim a history that has remained largely ignored by most historians, this dramatic and stirring account examines each of the definitive American cooperative movements for social change—farmer, union, consumer, and communalist—that have been all but erased from collective memory. Focusing far beyond one particular era, organization, leader, or form of cooperation, For All the People documents the multigenerational struggle of the American working people for social justice. While the economic system was in its formative years, generation after generation of American working people challenged it by organizing visionary social movements aimed at liberating themselves from what they called wage slavery. Workers substituted a system based on cooperative work and constructed parallel institutions that would supersede the institutions of the wage system. With an expansive sweep and breathtaking detail, this scholarly yet eminently readable chronicle follows the American worker from the colonial workshop to the modern mass-assembly line, from the family farm to the corporate hierarchy, ultimately painting a vivid panorama of those who built the United States and those who will shape its future. John Curl, with over forty years of experience as both an active member and scholar of cooperatives, masterfully melds theory, practice, knowledge, and analysis, to present the definitive history from below of cooperative America. This second edition contains a new introduction by Ishmael Reed; a new author’s preface discussing cooperatives in the Great Recession of 2008 and their future in the 21st century; and a new chapter on the role co-ops played in the Food Revolution of the 1970s.

ISBN-13: 9781604867329

ISBN-10: 1604867329

Language: English

Publisher: PM Press

Year: 2012

Pages: 582

Cataloged: Nov. 20, 2024, 6:55 p.m.

The leader of the Burkina Faso revolution recounts how peasants and workers in this West African country began confronting hunger, illiteracy, and economic backwardness prior to the 1987 coup in which Sankara was murdered.

ISBN-13: 9780873485272

ISBN-10: 0873485270

Language: English

Publisher: Pathfinder Press (NY)

Year: 1988

Pages: 260

Cataloged: Nov. 20, 2024, 6:53 p.m.

ISBN-13: 9780140410464

ISBN-10: 0140410465

Language: English

Publisher: Penguin Group

Year: 1975

Pages: 232

Cataloged: Nov. 20, 2024, 6:40 p.m.

Tishio la Ukombozi examines the role of the Umma Party of Zanzibar and its leader in the turbulent years of the Zanzibar revolution of the 1960s that was perceived in those Cold War years as a threat to the interests of the US and Europe. Based on declassified US and British documents, in-depth interviews and information released by WikiLeaks, Amrit Wilson offers an insightful and compelling analysis of the struggle against neo-colonialism as it played out in Zanzibar and what is now Tanzania. She introduces the reader to the movement that built unity across ethnic divisions and could have brought about the revolutionary transformation of Zanzibar and beyond. The book considers the contemporary relevance of such struggles in the context of the 'War on Terror' in East Africa. "Amrit Wilson has tapped a wide range of sources to tell a story of Zanzibar in modern times. As interesting as the narrative she puts together is the vantage point from which she tells it. This book deserves a wide audience." Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University, and Director, Makerere Institute of Social Research, Kampala, Uganda Kitabu hiki kinaturudisha katika kipindi cha kusisimuwa cha miaka ya vita baridi, kipindi ambacho, sambamba na kipindi cha leo, madola ya kibeberu yamekuwa yakifanya njama za kubadilisha serikali zilizokuwepo na kuziweka madarakani zile zenye kufuata amri. Kwa kutumia kumbukumbu za picha za Johari, nyaraka za siri za Marekani na Uingereza, pamoja na mahojiano ya kina, kitabu kinatowa uchambuzi juu ya nafasi na satwa ya Chama cha Umma Party nchini Zanzibar na kiongozi wake mwenye upeo mkubwa wa mambo, Mwanamapinduzi mfuasi wa Itikadi ya Karl Marx, Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu. Kwa kuangalia kwa njia ya uwiano wa mifano inayokwenda sambamba ya wahka wa Marekani kuhusu Uchina ya Kikomunisti katika miaka ya 1960 na woga walionao hivi sasa kuhusu ushawishi wa Uchina, kitabu kinatafakari juu ya mivutano mipya iliyopo katika kupigania rasilmali za Afrika, kuundwa kwa kikosi cha AFRICOM, na jinsi Wanasiasa wa Afrika Mashariki wanavyoshiriki katika kuimarisha udhibiti wa Marekani katika nchi zao, na "Vita dhidi ya Ugaidi" katika ukanda wa Afrika Mashariki hivi sasa.

ISBN-13: 9780995222328

ISBN-10: 0995222320

Language: English

Publisher: Daraja Press

Year: 2016

Pages: 204

Cataloged: Nov. 20, 2024, 6:37 p.m.

Mississippi, the poorest state in the U.S. with the highest percentage of Black people, a history of vicious racial terror and concurrent Black resistance is the backdrop and context for the drama captured in the collection of essays that is Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Self-Determination in Jackson Mississippi. Undeterred by the uncertainty, anxiety and fear brought about by the steady deterioration of the neoliberal order over the last few years, the response from Black activists of Jackson, Mississippi has been to organize. Inspired by the rich history of struggle and resistance in Mississippi and committed to the vision of the Jackson-Kush Plan, these activists are building institutions rooted in community power that combine politics and economic development into an alternative model for change, while addressing real, immediate needs of the people. The experiences and analyses in this compelling collection reflect the creative power that is unleashed when political struggle is grounded by a worldview freed from the inherent contradictions and limitations of reform liberalism. As such, Jackson Rising is ultimately a story about a process that is organized and controlled by Black people who are openly declaring that their political project is committed to decolonization and socialism. And within those broad strategic and ethical objectives, Jackson Rising is also a project unapologetically committed to self-determination for people of African descent in Mississippi and the South.

ISBN-13: 9780995347465

ISBN-10: 0995347468

Language: English

Publisher: Daraja Press

Year: 2017

Pages: 296

Cataloged: Nov. 20, 2024, 6:32 p.m.

The Travails of a Tanzanian Teacher is a riveting account of the bumpy first decade of the work life of Karim F Hirji, a retired Professor of Medical Statistics. Filled with a distinctive variety of eye-opening episodes, it covers lecturing at the University of Dar es Salaam, the life of a political exile in a remote rural area and the challenges of setting up from scratch a one-of-a-kind educational institute in Africa. With a style that seamlessly combines the personal with the general, Hirji provides an illuminating description of different aspects of the Tanzanian political, educational, economic and rural landscape during the 1970s. Starting with a commentary on teacher training, he concludes with a critical comparison of modern university education in the nation with that of the earlier era.

ISBN-13: 9781988832098

ISBN-10: 1988832098

Language: English

Publisher: Daraja Press

Year: 2018

Pages: 246

Cataloged: Nov. 20, 2024, 6:25 p.m.

In this text, international figures, such as Father Huddleston and Sir Shridath Ramphal, join with Tanzanian scholars to assess, not without criticism, the influential contributions of Julius Nyerere both within his own country and across the Third World. Part 1 provides an overview of the man and his thought. Part 2 focuses on those areas of policy in which Nyerere took a particular interest. Part 3 concentrates on the major social, economic and political issues that have been central to the unique Tanzanian experience - unique because of the man who shaped the first quarter of a century of independence.

ISBN-13: 9780852553879

ISBN-10: 0852553870

Language: English

Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press

Year: 1995

Pages: 205

Cataloged: Nov. 20, 2024, 6:22 p.m.

"The African national project has been defeated, and the imperial/globalisation project is on the offensive. And yet, as Issa Shivji, one of Africa's most distinguished public intellectuals, argues in this collection of essays, there is bound to be a backlash - witness Latin America. African scholars are already debating the resurgence of nationalism and Pan-Africanism, and searching for alternative paths of development and democracy. The ninety essays contained in this book are selected by the author from his writings published in newspaper columns during the period 1990-2005, a critical time in Tanzania that witnessed the rise and fall of nationalism, and transition to and consolidation of neo-liberalism. The essays give an overview of the intellectual history and traditions in Tanzania, one of the few countries in Africa which can still boast of political stability and reasonable openness. The writings reflect the hopes and fears of the progressive intellectual community, and project a strong sense of the enduring ideas and values in the period. The author's aims are to recover the history of the recent past in Tanzania, build a narrative of where the country is coming from, and provide a historical understanding of the events and climate of the present. The essays give an overview of the intellectual history and traditions in Tanzania, one of the few countries in Africa which can still boast of political stability and reasonable openness. The writings reflect the hopes and fears of the progressive intellectual community, and project a strong sense of the enduring ideas and values in the period. The author’s aims are to recover the history of the recent past in Tanzania, build a narrative of where the country is coming from, and provide a historical understanding of the events and climate of the present."--African Books Collective.

ISBN-13: 9782869781832

ISBN-10: 2869781830

Language: English

Publisher: African Books Collective

Year: 2006

Pages: 303

Cataloged: Nov. 20, 2024, 6:15 p.m.

ISBN-13: 9789966169433

ISBN-10: 9966169431

Language: English

Publisher: Asian African Heritage Trust

Year: 1963

Pages: 38

Cataloged: Nov. 20, 2024, 11:06 a.m.

The author joined Yowerri Museveni's rebel army in 1982, and was subsequently a member of the Constituent Assembly which produced Uganda's constitution. Published posthumously, the book tells the inside story of a truly successful revolution and the rise to power of President Museveni. He provides a detailed account of the overthrow of Milton Obote's oppressive regime and the military dictatorship of General Tito Okello. He explains how Museveni and the National Resistance Army were able to gain power in Uganda by principled leadership and a national programme that has eschewed sectarianism and factionalism, to facilitate a lasting and prosperous peace in what is now one of the fastest growing economies in Africa.

ISBN-13: 9789970021352

ISBN-10: 9970021354

Language: English

Publisher: Fountain Publishers

Year: 1998

Pages: 263

Cataloged: Nov. 20, 2024, 10:42 a.m.

With vision, hard-nosed judgment, and biting humor, Julius Nyerere confronted the challenges of nation building in modern Africa. Constructing Tanzania out of a controversial Cold War union between Tanganyika and Zanzibar, Nyerere emerged as one of independent Africa’s most influential leaders. He pursued his own brand of African socialism, called Ujamaa, with unquestioned integrity, and saw it profoundly influence movements to end white minority rule in Southern Africa. Yet his efforts to build a peaceful nation created a police state, economic crisis, and a war with Idi Amin’s Uganda. Eventually—unlike most of his contemporaries—Nyerere retired voluntarily from power, paving the way for peaceful electoral transitions in Tanzania that continue today. Based on multinational archival research, extensive reading, and interviews with Nyerere’s family and colleagues, as well as some who suffered under his rule, Paul Bjerk provides an incisive and accessible biography of this African leader of global importance. Recognizing Nyerere’s commitment to participatory government and social equality while also confronting his authoritarian turns and policy failures, Bjerk offers a portrait of principled leadership under the difficult circumstances of postcolonial Africa.

ISBN-13: 9780821445969

ISBN-10: 0821445960

Language: English

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Year: 2017

Pages: 168

Cataloged: Nov. 20, 2024, 10:39 a.m.

ISBN-13: 9780956814012

ISBN-10: 0956814018

Language: English

Publisher: Crossroads Books

Year: 2014

Pages: 347

Cataloged: Nov. 20, 2024, 9:42 a.m.

ISBN-13: 9781565182219

ISBN-10: 1565182219

Language: English

Publisher: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy

Year: 2005

Pages: 397

Cataloged: Nov. 20, 2024, 9:34 a.m.

Issa Gulamhussein Shivji is a Tanzanian author and academic, and an experts on law and development issues. He has taught and worked in universities all over the world. He is a writer and researcher, producing books, monographs and articles, as well as a weekly column printed in national newspapers.

ISBN-13: 9780853453833

ISBN-10: 0853453837

Language: English

Publisher: Monthly Review Press

Year: 1976

Pages: 182

Cataloged: Nov. 20, 2024, 9:29 a.m.

ISBN-13: 9789976990331

ISBN-10: 9976990332

Language: English

Publisher: Kavazi la Mwalimu Nyerere

Year: 2016

Pages: 73

Cataloged: Nov. 19, 2024, 2:36 p.m.

ISBN-13: None

ISBN-10: None

Language: Kiswahili

Publisher: Foundation Books

Year: 1981

Pages: None

Cataloged: Nov. 19, 2024, 2:29 p.m.

In this collection of essays on African and Caribbean literature, culture, and politics, Ngugi wa Thiong'o delivers a groundbreaking critique of colonialism and capitalism in postcolonial Africa. In these essays, Ngugi wa Thiong'o eloquently interweaves a range of issues including religious oppression, consumerism, and independence with the powerful intellect and passion that has come to characterise his writing. These pieces are essential for readers wishing to uncover a critical perspective on African society and culture. Homecoming is a groundbreaking collection intended to provoke and encourage thoughtful debate on how best to 'restore the creative glory of Africa and of all Africans' in the wake of postcolonialism. 'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 'A tremendous writer... It's hard to doubt the power of the written word when you hear the story of Ngugi wa Thiong'o.' Guardian 'One of Africa's greatest writers.' New York Times

ISBN-13: 9781035906024

ISBN-10: 1035906023

Language: English

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

Year: 2024

Pages: None

Cataloged: Nov. 19, 2024, 2:13 p.m.

Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye, the well-known Kenyan writer, is established as an important African woman's voice. Her novel explores further aspects of the making of modern Kenya. Two women, one white and one black, brought together by fate and common experiences, reminisce about a past spanning the colonial period, the heady independence and anti-climatic post-independence days. Through the story of the widow of a colonial settler, and her African maid and companion, she deals with the conflicts between black and white, and young and old.

ISBN-13: 9789966465474

ISBN-10: 9966465472

Language: English

Publisher: East African Educational Publishers

Year: 1994

Pages: 205

Cataloged: Nov. 19, 2024, 2:09 p.m.

It was a cold, dark night. Everything was quiet. A Mawingo bus was travelling from Nairobi to Mombasa. It had big signs painted on the outside: Danger- man. It had travelled over two hundred kilometres and was approaching Mtito Andei. Everybody in the bus was fast asleep. Everyone, that is, except four people. So begins an adventure for four Kenyan youths, two boys and two girls, that explores the depth of deprivation and disaster that capitalism has been for working people in Kenya. Tricked into becoming forced workers for a factory with owners from USA, Britain and Japan, the youth live the harsh life of exploited workers. However, their sense of justice soon turns them into rebels seeking life and freedom. The story takes them through life-threatening adventures, fighting the armed forces summoned by the factory owners. Will they manage to survive the brutal attacks by fierce dogs and armed militia? Will they live to see the sea at Mombasa they had set out for?

ISBN-13: 9789914987515

ISBN-10: 9914987516

Language: English

Publisher: Vita Books

Year: 2021

Pages: 70

Cataloged: Nov. 19, 2024, 2:06 p.m.

ISBN-13: 9789966070814

ISBN-10: 9966070818

Language: English

Publisher: Asaph Office Publications (AOP), Book Division,

Year: 2014

Pages: 142

Cataloged: Nov. 19, 2024, 1:57 p.m.

ISBN-13: 9780713102475

ISBN-10: 0713102470

Language: English

Publisher: E. Arnold

Year: 1978

Pages: None

Cataloged: Nov. 19, 2024, 1:54 p.m.

"Learn Kalenjin the modern way with Kalenjin kasahorow!Start exploring the modern world with Kalenjin!The Modern Kalenjin Dictionary is a Kalenjin explorer's dictionary for English language speakers.Read Modern Kalenjin confidently. Contains all the words you need to understand every book in the kasahorow Kalenjin Library.Discover the joy of learning new things in Kalenjin.Suitable for everyone 13 years old and older."

ISBN-13: None

ISBN-10: None

Language: English, Nilo-Saharan languages

Publisher: Transafrica

Year: 1979

Pages: 121

Cataloged: Nov. 19, 2024, 1:50 p.m.

Bethwell Allan Ogot is a Kenyan historian and eminent African scholar who specialises in African history, research methods and theory. One of his works starts by saying that "to tell the story of a past so as to portray an inevitable destiny is, for humankind, a need as universal as tool-making.

ISBN-13: 9789966137913

ISBN-10: 9966137912

Language: English

Publisher: Anyange Press Limited

Year: 2020

Pages: 68

Cataloged: Nov. 19, 2024, 1:47 p.m.

Using oral histories to tell the stories of 15 uprisings instigated by Kenyan women during the 20th century, Land, Food, Freedom reveals Kenyan women's determination to get back their stolen land from the British colonial power. Local men who collaborated with British colonial officials and settlers found themselves repeatedly challenged by the organisations and actions of these women. In acting against their dispossession, they inspired a different set of men to stand in alliance with them to defend the gendered commons'.'

ISBN-13: 9781592216918

ISBN-10: 1592216919

Language: English

Publisher: Africa World Press

Year: 2009

Pages: 328

Cataloged: Nov. 19, 2024, 1:43 p.m.

This is a new title from the Kenyan publisher who is publishing works of scholarship on the oral literature of the different groups in Kenya. The background is the rich repository in oral literature of the enduring wisdom and cultural values of the peoples of Africa. Within the proverbs and riddles, oral narratives and songs, philosophical and material cultures are captured and expressed. These ethnic-based oral literature titles seek to preserve this wisdom in the written form. The literature of the Embu and Mbeere of Eastern Kenya is fully explored here by a renowned scholar and writer on oral literature. She covers the historical and cultural background; genres of oral literature and their performance; form and style; and the social functions of oral literature. Literary texts examined are narratives, oral poetry, proverbs, and riddles and puzzles.

ISBN-13: 9789966464071

ISBN-10: 9966464077

Language: English

Publisher: East African Educational Publishers

Year: 1997

Pages: 211

Cataloged: Nov. 19, 2024, 1:40 p.m.

This novel is in Swahili language, a translation of Crackdown! A Journalist's Personal Story of the Moi Era Purges (1986-1989), JC Press, 2010. It is true account of unjust imprisonment and torture under a dictatorship in Kenya during the 1980's. It is fast paced, spiced with humor and full of candor.

ISBN-13: 9780954396060

ISBN-10: 0954396065

Language: English

Publisher: Lulu Press

Year: 2012

Pages: 136

Cataloged: Nov. 19, 2024, 1:37 p.m.

ISBN-13: 9781869886011

ISBN-10: 1869886011

Language: English

Publisher: Vita Books

Year: 1986

Pages: 52

Cataloged: Nov. 19, 2024, 1:23 p.m.

ISBN-13: None

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: LSM Information Center

Year: 1974

Pages: 94

Cataloged: Nov. 19, 2024, 12:54 p.m.

Wangu wa Makeri was born in the second half of the nineteenth century into traditional Gikuyu society. She underwent customary rites and married. In 1901, she was appointed the 'headman' of Weithaga Location, the first and only female headman of the entire colonial period. The author outlines her character and background, and the kind of leadership Wangu showed her community; and discusses to what extent the stereotypical portrayals of her as a leader - as a whore or personification of evil - are true. The study also assesses the significance in her fall from power of the conflict between traditional society and the colonial political framework within which Wangu worked, as against her own role in her downfall.

ISBN-13: 9789966251121

ISBN-10: 996625112X

Language: English

Publisher: East African Educational Publishers

Year: 2002

Pages: 62

Cataloged: Nov. 19, 2024, 12:50 p.m.

The author was an ambassador to Africa during the era of Adlai Stevenson and John Kennedy. He observed the Soviet and Chinese efforts to exploit Africa, and the American efforts to stop them.

ISBN-13: None

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: Harper & Row

Year: 1967

Pages: 341

Cataloged: Nov. 19, 2024, 12:42 p.m.

CLASS STRUGGLE IN KENYATo understand social class in a society we should begin by making a scientific analysis of what certain groups or strata will or will not do, what they will or will not support, based upon our knowledge of their class background, interests, ideas and practices. An understanding of class forces in Kenya will lead to the conclusion that Kenya is a neocolonial, capitalist state with its base in imperialism. Further, it will tell Kenyans and the progressive world that under the capitalist system certain classes exist, each with a clear role in the production and maintenance or the destruction of capitalism, its political and military forces.Kenyan society is divided into five distinct socio-economic classes, and they are: a) the bourgeoisie, b) the proletariat, c) the lumpen-proletariat, d) the peasantry, e) the pastoralists. The Kenyan bourgeois class includes Africans, Europeans and Asia and consists of four main strata: 1) the imperialist bourgeoisie, 2)the comprador bourgeoisie, 3)the nationalist bourgeoisie and 4) the petty-bourgeoisie. all of them, with the possible exception of lower echelons of the petty-bourgeoisie, are exploiters of the working class people.Presently, the comprador bourgeoisie, though numerically small (1% of the population), is the ruling class in Kenya. it is the upholder of the capitalist mode of production. Its basic characteristics are that it lives on its parasitic connection with world imperialism, serving it faithfully in all social spheres. It has accumulated the most capital locally in its role as junior partner of world imperialism.Some members of this class, including the President of the Republic, cabinet ministers, members of parliament and judiciary, have unlimited accounts in swiss banks and other imperialist, capitalist shelters. Morally and intellectually, the comprador class is bankrupt and corrupt.In conclusion, this book aims at defining the class forces in Kenya as well as providing some directions in defining who is an ally and who is opposing the national democratic revolution, either overtly or through underhanded deversions and intrigues. Those Kenyans who see the necessity for a revolutionary change in the country must first deal with the fundamental question: "Who are the class enemy and who are the real friends of the Kenyan working class people?" or "the question potential enemies, or potential friends". What segment of population will be the major political force in the struggle for a national democratic revolution?

ISBN-13: 9781439263051

ISBN-10: 1439263051

Language: English

Publisher: CreateSpace

Year: 2008

Pages: 37

Cataloged: Nov. 19, 2024, 12:34 p.m.

This widely-acclaimed book on a troubled period of Kenyan history summarizes some of the more important Kikuyu customs, and a discussion of their break-down under the impact of European civilization. This discussion illustrates why and how the Mau Mau came into being and how the situation could be improved so that peace could once again come to Kenya.

ISBN-13: 9781136531019

ISBN-10: 1136531017

Language: English

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Year: 1953

Pages: 136

Cataloged: Nov. 15, 2024, 12:25 p.m.

ISBN-13: 9789966469816

ISBN-10: 9966469818

Language: English

Publisher: East African Educational Publishers

Year: 1997

Pages: 55

Cataloged: Nov. 15, 2024, 12:07 p.m.

Joseph Daniel Otiende, born in 1917, was a Kenyan nationalist, and a prominent figure in Kenya's fight for independence. He was a cabinet minister in the first independence government contributing to nation building and development. He is now accredited with laying the foundations of the health and education services, and held in high regard as one of the few Kenyan politicians to shun the theory and practice of corruption, and for bowing out of politics at the right moment. This concise biography relates his early life, his work as a teacher during the colonial period, his political activities and his life after politics. It further sets his life into the wider context of a key period in Kenya's history, mediating historical events through the story of an individual, and outlining an individual's contribution to the shaping of history.

ISBN-13: 9789966251565

ISBN-10: 9966251561

Language: English

Publisher: East African Educational Publishers

Year: 2002

Pages: 66

Cataloged: Nov. 15, 2024, noon

ISBN-13: 9789966940186

ISBN-10: 9966940189

Language: English

Publisher: Transafrica Press

Year: 1972

Pages: 200

Cataloged: Nov. 15, 2024, 11:55 a.m.

The Makers of Kenya's History series tells the stories of the sons and daughters of Kenya who have made an outstanding contribution to the unfolding of her history. Although cast in the traditional historical mould, the narrative is designed to be accessible to the lay reader. Tom Mboya, the prominent politician, was gunned down in 1969 at which time he was Minister for Economic Planning and Development. The story tells how he was born the son of a sisal farm labourer and rose to become one of the architects of Kenya's struggle for independence.

ISBN-13: 9789966464651

ISBN-10: 9966464654

Language: English

Publisher: East African Educational Publishers

Year: 1996

Pages: 55

Cataloged: Nov. 15, 2024, 11:48 a.m.

ISBN-13: None

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: East African Literature Bureau

Year: 1977

Pages: 171

Cataloged: Nov. 15, 2024, 11:35 a.m.

ISBN-13: None

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: East African Literature Bureau

Year: 1973

Pages: 177

Cataloged: Nov. 14, 2024, 12:40 p.m.

This series of biographies of some of the key-players in Kenya's modern history describes their individual roles and importance in historical context; and illustrates widely, and to a general readership, their contributions to the historical process, which may be little known outside Kenya. Alibhai Mulla Jeevanjee was born in Pakistan in 1856, and went to East Africa in 1890. He was a pioneering entrepreneur and philanthropist in Kenya, building the Jeevanje Gardens, and most of Nairobi when the city was a sprawling township. He provided many services to the Colonial Government; but grew to challenge the settler regime in search for greater equity and equality of opportunity, for Indians and eventually all Kenyans. He developed the East Africa Indian National Congress, and so laid the foundations for an organised anti-colonial movement.

ISBN-13: 9789966251114

ISBN-10: 9966251111

Language: English

Publisher: East African Educational Publishers

Year: 2002

Pages: 48

Cataloged: Nov. 14, 2024, 12:38 p.m.

ISBN-13: 9780860701248

ISBN-10: 0860701247

Language: English

Publisher: East African Literature Bureau

Year: 1961

Pages: 141

Cataloged: Nov. 14, 2024, 12:35 p.m.

ISBN-13: 9789966169440

ISBN-10: 996616944X

Language: English

Publisher: Asian African Heritage Trust

Year: 2015

Pages: 52

Cataloged: Nov. 14, 2024, 12:33 p.m.

ISBN-13: None

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: Nairobi Bookmen

Year: 1984

Pages: 85

Cataloged: Nov. 14, 2024, 12:31 p.m.

ISBN-13: 9780460078788

ISBN-10: 046007878X

Language: English

Publisher: Dent

Year: 1974

Pages: 226

Cataloged: Nov. 14, 2024, 12:28 p.m.

ISBN-13: None

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: East African Publishing House

Year: 1977

Pages: 100

Cataloged: Nov. 13, 2024, 7:47 p.m.