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.