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Author | : David Lamb |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2011-08-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307797929 |
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During the four years he spent in black Africa as the bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, David Lamb traveled through almost every country south of the Sahara, logging more than 300,000 miles. He talked to presidents and guerrilla leaders, university professors and witch doctors. He bounced from wars to coups oceans apart, catching midnight flights to little-known countries where supposedly decent people were doing unspeakable things to one another. In the tradition of John Gunther's Inside Africa, The Africans is an extraordinary combination of analysis and adventure. Part travelogue, part contemporary history, it is a portrait of a continent that sometimes seems hell-bent on destroying itself, and of people who are as courageous as they are long-suffering.
Author | : Patrick Manning |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2010-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0231144717 |
Download The African Diaspora Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Patrick Manning follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In joining these stories, he shows how the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Indian Ocean fueled dynamic interactions among black communities and cultures and how these patterns resembled those of a number of connected diasporas concurrently taking shaping across the globe. Manning begins in 1400 and traces the connections that enabled Africans to mutually identify and hold together as a global community. He tracks discourses on race, changes in economic circumstance, the evolving character of family life, and the growth of popular culture. He underscores the profound influence that the African diaspora had on world history and demonstrates the inextricable link between black migration and the rise of modernity. Inclusive and far-reaching, The African Diaspora proves that the advent of modernity cannot be fully understood without taking the African peoples and the African continent into account.
Author | : Charles Johnson |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780156008549 |
Download Africans in America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Chronicles the lives of Africans as slaves in America through the eve of the Civil War.
Author | : Frank M. Snowden |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674076266 |
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Investigates the participation of black Africans, usually referred to as "Ethiopians," by the Greek and Romans, in classical civilization, concluding that they were accepted by pagans and Christians without prejudice.
Author | : Helon Habila |
Publisher | : Granta Books |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2011-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1847084389 |
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Presenting a diverse and dazzling collection from all over the continent, from Morocco to Zimbabwe, Uganda to Kenya. Helon Habila focuses on younger, newer writers - contrasted with some of their older, more established peers - to give a fascinating picture of a new and more liberated Africa. These writers are characterized by their engagement with the wider world and the opportunities offered by the end of apartheid, the end of civil wars and dictatorships, and the possibilities of free movement. Their work is inspired by travel and exile. They are liberated, global and expansive. As Dambudzo Marechera wrote: 'If you're a writer for a specific nation or specific race, then f*** you." These are the stories of a new Africa, punchy, self-confident and defiant. Includes stories by: Fatou Diome; Aminatta Forna; Manuel Rui; Patrice Nganang; Leila Aboulela; Zo Wicomb; Alaa Al Aswany; Doreen Baingana; E.C. Osondu.
Author | : Herman L. Bennett |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2005-02-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 025321775X |
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From secular and ecclesiastical court records, Bennett reconstructs the lives of slave and free blacks, their regulation by the government and by the Church, the impact of the Inquisition, their legal status in marriage and their rights and obligations as Christian subjects.
Author | : Sherwin K. Bryant |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2012-02-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0252093712 |
Download Africans to Spanish America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Africans to Spanish America expands the Diaspora framework that has shaped much of the recent scholarship on Africans in the Americas to include Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Cuba, exploring the connections and disjunctures between colonial Latin America and the African Diaspora in the Spanish empires. While a majority of the research on the colonial Diaspora focuses on the Caribbean and Brazil, analysis of the regions of Mexico and the Andes opens up new questions of community formation that incorporated Spanish legal strategies in secular and ecclesiastical institutions as well as articulations of multiple African identities. Editors Sherwin K. Bryant, Rachel Sarah O'Toole, and Ben Vinson III arrange the volume around three themes: identity construction in the Americas; the struggle by enslaved and free people to present themselves as civilized, Christian, and resistant to slavery; and issues of cultural exclusion and inclusion. Across these broad themes, contributors offer probing and detailed studies of the place and roles of people of African descent in the complex realities of colonial Spanish America. Contributors are Joan C. Bristol, Nancy E. van Deusen, Leo J. Garofalo, Herbert S. Klein, Charles Beatty-Medina, Karen Y. Morrison, Rachel Sarah O'Toole, Frank "Trey" Proctor III, and Michele Reid-Vazquez.
Author | : James H. Sweet |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2011-02-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0807878049 |
Download Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Between 1730 and 1750, powerful healer and vodun priest Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South America to Europe--addressing the profound alienation of warfare, capitalism, and the African slave trade through the language of health and healing. In Domingos Alvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World, James H. Sweet finds dramatic means for unfolding a history of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world in which healing, religion, kinship, and political subversion were intimately connected.
Author | : Lawrence Barham |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-06-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521847966 |
Download The First Africans Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A synthesis of the record left by Africa's earliest inhabitants combining archaeology, genetics and palaeo-environmental science.
Author | : Emmanuel Iduma |
Publisher | : Mantle |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : African literature (English) |
ISBN | : 9780996577076 |
Download Gambit Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
...Is a unique collection of nine interviews and original short stories by emerging writers from across Africa. The stories in this anthology reflect the nuances that arise from living in a post-postcolonial Africa, where stereotypes are crumbling and writers are willing to tackle themes that are more social than political. Unlike other anthologies of African writing, Gambit's contributors are mostly based in their home countries, putting them closer to the themes they lyrically confront. The interviews provide insight into the writers' inspirations, fears, hopes, and craft. The short stories reveal a range of experiences that are alive with grace, resilience, and humor. Gambit is one way to rediscover today's writing from the African continent. Book jacket.