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.