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Thomas Sankara
An African Revolutionary
Häftad, 2014
230 kr
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Thomas Sankara, often called the African Che Guevara, was president of Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in Africa, until his assassination during the military coup that brought down his government. Although his tenure in office was relatively short, Sankara left an indelible mark on his …
Julius Nyerere
Av Paul Bjerk
Häftad, 2017
230 kr
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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 …
Patrice Lumumba
Häftad, 2014
230 kr
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Patrice Lumumba was a leader of the independence struggle in what is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the country's first democratically elected prime minister. After a meteoric rise in the colonial civil service and the African political elite, he became a major figure in the …
Kwame Nkrumah
Visions of Liberation
Häftad, 2021
230 kr
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A new biography of Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, one of the most influential political figures in twentieth-century African history.As the first prime minister and president of the West African state of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah helped shape the global narrative of African decolonization. After leading Ghana …
Steve Biko
Av Lindy Wilson
Häftad, 2012
232 kr
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Steve Biko inspired a generation of black South Africans to claim their true identity and refuse to be a part of their own oppression. Through his example, he demonstrated fearlessness and self-esteem, and he led a black student movement countrywide that challenged and thwarted the culture of fear …
Spear of the Nation: Umkhonto WeSizwe
South Africa's Liberation Army, 1960s–1990s
Av Janet Cherry
Häftad, 2012
225 kr
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Umkhonto weSizwe, Spear of the Nation, was arguably the last of the great liberation armies of the twentieth century—but it never got to "march triumphant into Pretoria." MK—as it was known—was the armed wing of the African National Congress, South Africa's liberation movement, that challenged the …
South Africa's Struggle for Human Rights
Av Saul Dubow
Häftad, 2012
223 kr
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The human rights movement in South Africa's transition to a postapartheid democracy has been widely celebrated as a triumph for global human rights. It was a key aspect of the political transition, often referred to as a miracle, which brought majority rule and democracy to South Africa. The …
Epidemics
The Story of South Africa's Five Most Lethal Human Diseases
Häftad, 2012
223 kr
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This is the first history of epidemics in South Africa, lethal episodes that significantly shaped this society over three centuries. Focusing on five devastating diseases between 1713 and today—smallpox, bubonic plague, "Spanish influenza," polio, and HIV/AIDS—the book probes their origins, their …
ANC Youth League
Av Clive Glaser
Häftad, 2013
225 kr
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This brilliant little book tells the story of the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League from its origins in the 1940s to the present and the controversies over Julius Malema and his influence in contemporary youth politics. Glaser analyzes the ideology and tactics of its founders, some of …
San Rock Art
Häftad, 2013
223 kr
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San rock paintings, scattered over the range of southern Africa, are considered by many to be the very earliest examples of representational art. There are as many as 15,000 known rock art sites, created over the course of thousands of years up until the nineteenth century. There are possibly just …
Govan Mbeki
Av Colin Bundy
Häftad, 2013
230 kr
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Govan Mbeki (1910–2001) was a core leader of the African National Congress, the Communist Party, and the armed wing of the ANC during the struggle against apartheid. Known as a hard-liner, Mbeki was a prolific writer and combined in a rare way the attributes of intellectual and activist, political …
Ingrid Jonker
Poet Under Apartheid
Häftad, 2013
252 kr
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Nelson Mandela brought the poetry of Ingrid Jonker to the attention of South Africa and the wider world when he read her poem "Die kind" (The Child) at the opening of South Africa's first democratic parliament on May 24, 1994. Though Jonker was already a significant figure in South African literary …
Idea of the ANC
Häftad, 2013
159 kr
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The African National Congress (ANC) is Africa's most famous liberation movement. It has recently celebrated its centenary, a milestone that has prompted partisans to detail a century of unparalleled achievement in the struggle against colonialism and racial discrimination. Critics paint a less …
Emperor Haile Selassie
Häftad, 2014
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218 kr
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Emperor Haile Selassie was an iconic figure of the twentieth century, a progressive monarch who ruled Ethiopia from 1916 to 1974. This book, written by a former state official who served in a number of important positions in Selassie's government, tells both the story of the emperor's life and the …
Soweto Uprising
Häftad, 2014
171 kr
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The Soweto uprising was a true turning point in South Africa's history. Even to contemporaries, it seemed to mark the beginning of the end of apartheid. This compelling book examines both the underlying causes and the immediate factors that led to this watershed event. It looks at the crucial roles …
Short-Changed?
South Africa Since Apartheid
Av Colin Bundy
Häftad, 2014
159 kr
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What have been the most significant developments—political, social, economic—in South Africa since 1994? How much has changed since the demise of apartheid, and how much remains stubbornly the same? Should one celebrate a robust democracy now two decades old, or lament the corrosive effects of …
ANC Women's League
Sex, Gender and Politics
Häftad, 2015
225 kr
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First formed in the early twentieth century, the ANC Women's League has grown into a leading organization in the women's movement in South Africa. The league has been at the forefront of the nation's century-long transition from an authoritarian state to a democracy that espouses gender equality as …
African Leaders of the Twentieth Century
Biko, Selassie, Lumumba, Sankara
Av Lindy Wilson, Bereket Habte Selassie m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
457 kr
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This omnibus edition brings together concise and up-to-date biographies of Steve Biko, Emperor Haile Selassie, Patrice Lumumba, and Thomas Sankara. African Leaders of the Twentieth Century will complement courses in history and political science and serve as a useful collection for the general …
Frantz Fanon
Toward a Revolutionary Humanism
Häftad, 2015
230 kr
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Psychiatrist, philosopher, and revolutionary, Frantz Fanon is one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century. He presented powerful critiques of racism, colonialism, and nationalism in his classic books, Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961). This …
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Häftad, 2016
230 kr
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Hanged by the Nigerian government on November 10, 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa became a martyr for the Ogoni people and human rights activists, and a symbol of modern Africans' struggle against military dictatorship, corporate power, and environmental exploitation. Though he is rightly known for his human …
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Häftad, 2016
232 kr
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In this timely addition to the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series, Pamela Scully takes us from the 1938 birth of Nobel Peace Prize winner and two-time Liberian president Ellen Johnson through the Ebola epidemic of 2014–15. Charting her childhood and adolescence, the book covers Sirleaf's …
South Sudan
A New History for a New Nation
Häftad, 2016
223 kr
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Africa's newest nation has a long history. Often considered remote and isolated from the rest of Africa, and usually associated with the violence of slavery and civil war, South Sudan has been an arena for a complex mixing of peoples, languages, and beliefs. The nation's diversity is both its …
Thabo Mbeki
Häftad, 2017
232 kr
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Former South African president Thabo Mbeki is a complex figure. He was a committed young Marxist who, while in power, embraced conservative economic policies and protected white corporate interests; a rational and dispassionate thinker who was particularly sensitive to criticism and dissent; and a …
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Häftad, 2017
225 kr
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In 1995, South Africa's new government set up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a lynchpin of the country's journey forward from apartheid. In contrast to the Nuremberg Trials and other retributive responses to atrocities, the TRC's emphasis on reconciliation marked a restorative approach to …
Robert Mugabe
Häftad, 2018
230 kr
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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe sharply divides opinion and embodies the contradictions of his country's history and political culture. As a symbol of African liberation and a stalwart opponent of white rule, he was respected and revered by many. This heroic status contrasted sharply, in the …
Albert Luthuli
Häftad, 2018
232 kr
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In an excellent addition to the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series, Robert Trent Vinson recovers the important but largely forgotten story of Albert Luthuli, Africa's first Nobel Peace Prize winner and president of the African National Congress from 1952 to 1967. One of the most respected …
Short History of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Häftad, 2018
249 kr
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The publication of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958) is heralded as the inaugural moment of modern African fiction, and the book remains the most widely read African novel of all time. Translated into dozens of languages, it has sold more than twelve million copies and has become a canonical …
Boko Haram
Av Brandon Kendhammer, Carmen McCain
Häftad, 2018
217 kr
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From its small-time origins in the early 2000s to its transformation into one of the world's most-recognized terrorist groups, this remarkable short book tells the story of Boko Haram's bloody, decade-long war in northeastern Nigeria. Going beyond the headlines, including the group's 2014 abduction …
Amílcar Cabral
A Nationalist and Pan-Africanist Revolutionary
Häftad, 2019
230 kr
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Amílcar Cabral was an agronomist who led an armed struggle that ended Portuguese colonialism in Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde. The uprising contributed significantly to the collapse of a fascist regime in Lisbon and the dismantlement of Portugal's empire in Africa. Assassinated by a close associate …
Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa
Häftad, 2020
206 kr
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An unapologetically African-centered monograph that reveals physical and spiritual forms and systems of female power and leadership in African cultures. Nwando Achebe’s unparalleled study documents elite females, female principles, and female spiritual entities across the African continent, from …
