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Author | : Galawdewos |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2018-11-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691188890 |
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This concise edition of the biography of Walatta-Petros (1672) tells the story of an Ethiopian saint who lived from 1592 to 1642 and led a successful nonviolent movement to preserve African Christian beliefs in the face of European protocolonialism. This is the oldest-known book-length biography of an African woman written by Africans before the nineteenth century, and one of the earliest stories of African resistance to European influence. Written by her disciples after her death, The Life of Walatta-Petros praises her as a friend of women, a devoted reader, a skilled preacher, and a radical leader, providing a rare picture of the experiences and thoughts of Africans—especially women—before the modern era. In addition to an authoritative and highly readable translation, this edition, which omits the notes and scholarly apparatus of the hardcover, features a new introduction aimed at students and general readers.
Author | : Galawdewos |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2015-10-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0691164215 |
Download The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A "geadl" or hagiography, originally written by Gealawdewos thirty years after the subject's death, in 1672-1673. Translated from multiple manuscripts and versions.
Author | : Wendy Laura Belcher |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2012-06-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 019979331X |
Download Abyssinia's Samuel Johnson Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Uncovers African influences on the Western imagination during the eighteenth century, paying particular attention to the ways Ethiopia inspired and shaped the work of Samuel Johnson.
Author | : Wendy Laura Belcher |
Publisher | : Dutton Adult |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780525245964 |
Download Honey from the Lion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Wendy Laura Belcher |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2009-01-20 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 141295701X |
Download Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book provides you with all the tools you need to write an excellent academic article and get it published.
Author | : Galawdewos |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2018-11-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691182914 |
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This concise edition of the biography of Walatta-Petros (1672) tells the story of an Ethiopian saint who lived from 1592 to 1642 and led a successful nonviolent movement to preserve African Christian beliefs in the face of European protocolonialism. This is the oldest-known book-length biography of an African woman written by Africans before the nineteenth century, and one of the earliest stories of African resistance to European influence. Written by her disciples after her death, The Life of Walatta-Petros praises her as a friend of women, a devoted reader, a skilled preacher, and a radical leader, providing a rare picture of the experiences and thoughts of Africans—especially women—before the modern era. In addition to an authoritative and highly readable translation, this edition, which omits the notes and scholarly apparatus of the hardcover, features a new introduction aimed at students and general readers.
Author | : Trevor R. Getz |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 0190238747 |
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This is an illustrated "graphic history" based on an 1876 court transcript of a West African woman named Abina, who was wrongfully enslaved and took her case to court. The main scenes of the story take place in the courtroom, where Abina strives to convince a series of "important men"--A British judge, two Euro-African attorneys, a wealthy African country "gentleman," and a jury of local leaders --that her rights matter.--Publisher description.
Author | : Wayétu Moore |
Publisher | : Graywolf Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2018-09-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1555978681 |
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A novel of exhilarating range, magical realism, and history—a dazzling retelling of Liberia’s formation Wayétu Moore’s powerful debut novel, She Would Be King, reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia’s early years through three unforgettable characters who share an uncommon bond. Gbessa, exiled from the West African village of Lai, is starved, bitten by a viper, and left for dead, but still she survives. June Dey, raised on a plantation in Virginia, hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. Norman Aragon, the child of a white British colonizer and a Maroon slave from Jamaica, can fade from sight when the earth calls him. When the three meet in the settlement of Monrovia, their gifts help them salvage the tense relationship between the African American settlers and the indigenous tribes, as a new nation forms around them. Moore’s intermingling of history and magical realism finds voice not just in these three characters but also in the fleeting spirit of the wind, who embodies an ancient wisdom. “If she was not a woman,” the wind says of Gbessa, “she would be king.” In this vibrant story of the African diaspora, Moore, a talented storyteller and a daring writer, illuminates with radiant and exacting prose the tumultuous roots of a country inextricably bound to the United States. She Would Be King is a novel of profound depth set against a vast canvas and a transcendent debut from a major new author.
Author | : John Parker |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2021-03-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691214905 |
Download In My Time of Dying Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An in-depth look at how mortuary cultures and issues of death and the dead in Africa have developed over four centuries In My Time of Dying is the first detailed history of death and the dead in Africa south of the Sahara. Focusing on a region that is now present-day Ghana, John Parker explores mortuary cultures and the relationship between the living and the dead over a four-hundred-year period spanning the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. Parker considers many questions from the African historical perspective, including why people die and where they go after death, how the dead are buried and mourned to ensure they continue to work for the benefit of the living, and how perceptions and experiences of death and the ends of life have changed over time. From exuberant funeral celebrations encountered by seventeenth-century observers to the brilliantly conceived designer coffins of the late twentieth century, Parker shows that the peoples of Ghana have developed one of the world’s most vibrant cultures of death. He explores the unfolding background of that culture through a diverse range of issues, such as the symbolic power of mortal remains and the dominion of hallowed ancestors, as well as the problem of bad deaths, vile bodies, and vengeful ghosts. Parker reconstructs a vast timeline of death and the dead, from the era of the slave trade to the coming of Christianity and colonial rule to the rise of the modern postcolonial nation. With an array of written and oral sources, In My Time of Dying richly adds to an understanding of how the dead continue to weigh on the shoulders of the living.
Author | : Michael Gomez |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2019-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691196826 |
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In a radically new account of the importance of early Africa in global history, Gomez traces how Islam's growth in West Africa, along with intensifying commerce that included slaves, resulted in a series of political experiments unique to the region, culminating in the rise of empire.