Dictionary of African Biography: Hailu
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Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Africa |
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Author | : Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong |
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Total Pages | : 3382 |
Release | : 2012-02-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0195382072 |
From the Pharaohs to Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa's history. Unprecedented in scale, DAB covers the whole continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatsheput of Egypt (1490-1468 BC) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (243-183 BC), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1909-1972), Miriam Makeba and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (1918 -).
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Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1970 |
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Author | : L. H. Ofosu-Appiah |
Publisher | : New York : Reference Publications, c1977-c1979 |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : Gebreyesus Hailu |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 93 |
Release | : 2012-01-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 082144445X |
Eloquent and thought-provoking, this classic novel by the Eritrean novelist Gebreyesus Hailu, written in Tigrinya in 1927 and published in 1950, is one of the earliest novels written in an African language and will have a major impact on the reception and critical appraisal of African literature. The Conscript depicts, with irony and controlled anger, the staggering experiences of the Eritrean ascari, soldiers conscripted to fight in Libya by the Italian colonial army against the nationalist Libyan forces fighting for their freedom from Italy’s colonial rule. Anticipating midcentury thinkers Frantz Fanon and Aimé Césaire, Hailu paints a devastating portrait of Italian colonialism. Some of the most poignant passages of the novel include the awakening of the novel’s hero, Tuquabo, to his ironic predicament of being both under colonial rule and the instrument of suppressing the colonized Libyans. The novel’s remarkable descriptions of the battlefield awe the reader with mesmerizing images, both disturbing and tender, of the Libyan landscape—with its vast desert sands, oases, horsemen, foot soldiers, and the brutalities of war—uncannily recalled in the satellite images that were brought to the homes of millions of viewers around the globe in 2011, during the country’s uprising against its former leader, Colonel Gaddafi.
Author | : L. H. Ofosu-Appiah |
Publisher | : New York : Reference Publications, c1977-c1979 |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : David H. Shinn |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 2013-04-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0810874571 |
Ethiopia is clearly one of the most important countries in Africa. First of all, with about 75 million people, it is the third most populous country in Africa. Second, it is very strategically located, in the Horn of Africa and bordering Eritrea, Sudan, Kenya, and Somalia, with some of whom it has touchy and sometimes worse relations. Yet, its capital – Addis Ababa – is the headquarters of the African Union, the prime meeting place for Africa’s leaders. So, if things went poorly in Ethiopia, this would not be good for Africa, and for a long time this was the case, with internal disruption rife, until it was literally suppressed under the strong rule of the recently deceased Meles Zenawi. The Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia, Second Edition covers the history of Ethiopia through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has several hundred cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Ethiopia.
Author | : Zewde Gabre-Sellassie |
Publisher | : Red Sea Press(NJ) |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781569020432 |
Since 1855, Ethiopia has had four remarkable emperors who have left a deep mark on the evolution of the country's politics over the last 140 years. Yohannes IV (1872-89) alone has not hitherto had serious and sustained scholarly attention and this present study aims to fill this deficit. 'Magnificent biography makes a significant contribution to Ethiopian studies. This work on a notable ruler, who did much to defend his country against foreign invasion, deserves to be read by all students of Ethiopia' - Richard Pankhurst
Author | : Mohammed Hassen |
Publisher | : Red Sea Press(NJ) |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780932415950 |
A history of the Oromo peoples of Ethiopia; their culture, religion and political institutions.
Author | : Bahru Zewde |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2022-11-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0821447939 |
In this exciting new study, Bahru Zewde, one of the foremost historians of modern Ethiopia, has constructed a collective biography of a remarkable group of men and women in a formative period of their country’s history. Ethiopia’s political independence at the end of the nineteenth century put this new African state in a position to determine its own levels of engagement with the West. Ethiopians went to study in universities around the world. They returned with the skills of their education acquired in Europe and America, and at home began to lay the foundations of a new literature and political philosophy. Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia describes the role of these men and women of ideas in the social and political transformation of the young nation and later in the administration of Haile Selassie.