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.

Jesse Ndwiga Kanyua Mugambi, is a professor of philosophy and religious studies at the University of Nairobi with professional training in education and philosophy of religion.

ISBN-13: 9789966888761

ISBN-10: 9966888764

Language: English

Publisher: Acton Publishers

Year: 2003

Pages: 225

Cataloged: Nov. 26, 2024, 8:58 a.m.

ISBN-13: None

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: Department of Rural Economy and Extension, Makerere University College

Year: 1969

Pages: 151

Cataloged: Nov. 26, 2024, 8:54 a.m.

ISBN-13: None

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher:

Year: 1967

Pages: 21

Cataloged: Nov. 26, 2024, 8:49 a.m.

ISBN-13: 9781868405329

ISBN-10: 186840532X

Language: English

Publisher: Center for Civil Society

Year: 2004

Pages: 12

Cataloged: Nov. 25, 2024, 5:29 p.m.

Uhuru means freedom, the word so frequently abused in Africa. This is a true story of the politics and struggle in Kenya and the African continent, following the book, Something of value.

ISBN-13: 9781568490250

ISBN-10: 1568490259

Language: English

Publisher: Buccaneer Books

Year: 1962

Pages: 555

Cataloged: Nov. 25, 2024, 5:25 p.m.