African Freedom

African Freedom

Author: Phyllis Taoua

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-07-26

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1108427413

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A comprehensive synthesis of the ideal of freedom in African culture from a pan-African perspective after independence.


Long Walk to Freedom

Long Walk to Freedom

Author: Nelson Mandela

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2008-03-11

Total Pages: 598

ISBN-13: 0759521042

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"Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history – and then go out and change it." –President Barack Obama Nelson Mandela was one of the great moral and political leaders of his time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. After his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela was at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is still revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. Long Walk to Freedom is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela told the extraordinary story of his life -- an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph. The book that inspired the major motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.


Unfinished Business

Unfinished Business

Author: Terry Bell

Publisher: Verso

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9781859845455

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This book pulls back the curtain on the 'political miracle' of the new South Africa.


The Long Emancipation

The Long Emancipation

Author: Rinaldo Walcott

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04-16

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9781478011910

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Rinaldo Walcott posits that Black people globally live in the time of emancipation and that emancipation is definitely not freedom, showing that wherever Black people have been emancipated from slavery and colonization, a potential freedom became thwarted.


Geographies of Liberation

Geographies of Liberation

Author: Alex Lubin

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1469612887

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Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary


For Land and Liberty

For Land and Liberty

Author: Merle L. Bowen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-04-22

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1108936156

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For Land and Liberty is a comparative study of the history and contemporary circumstances concerning Brazil's quilombos (African-descent rural communities) and their inhabitants, the quilombolas. The book examines the disposition of quilombola claims to land as a site of contestation over citizenship and its meanings for Afro-descendants, as well as their connections to the broader fight against racism. Contrary to the narrative that quilombola identity is a recent invention, constructed for the purpose of qualifying for opportunities made possible by the 1988 law, Bowen argues that quilombola claims are historically and locally rooted. She examines the ways in which state actors have colluded with large landholders and modernization schemes to appropriate quilombo land, and further argues that, even when granted land titles, quilombolas face challenges issuing from systemic racism. By analyzing the quilombo movement and local initiatives, this book offers fresh perspectives on the resurgence of movements, mobilization, and resistance in Brazil.


A Chance for Change

A Chance for Change

Author: Crystal R. Sanders

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2016-02-10

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1469627817

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In this innovative study, Crystal Sanders explores how working-class black women, in collaboration with the federal government, created the Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM) in 1965, a Head Start program that not only gave poor black children access to early childhood education but also provided black women with greater opportunities for political activism during a crucial time in the unfolding of the civil rights movement. Women who had previously worked as domestics and sharecroppers secured jobs through CDGM as teachers and support staff and earned higher wages. The availability of jobs independent of the local white power structure afforded these women the freedom to vote in elections and petition officials without fear of reprisal. But CDGM's success antagonized segregationists at both the local and state levels who eventually defunded it. Tracing the stories of the more than 2,500 women who staffed Mississippi's CDGM preschool centers, Sanders's book remembers women who went beyond teaching children their shapes and colors to challenge the state's closed political system and white supremacist ideology and offers a profound example for future community organizing in the South.


Archie Mafeje

Archie Mafeje

Author: Bongani Nyoka

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780796925640

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Voices of Liberation: Archie Mafeje should be understood as an attempt to contextualise Mafeje's work and thinking and adds to gripping intellectual biographies of African intellectuals by African researchers. Mafeje's scholarship can be categorised into three broad areas: a critique of epistemological and methodological issues in the social sciences; the land and agrarian question in sub-Saharan Africa; and revolutionary theory and politics (including questions of development and democracy). Noted for his academic prowess, genius mind, incomparable wit and endless struggle for his nation and greater Africa, Mafeje was also hailed by his daughter, Dana El-Baz, as a `giant' not only in the intellectual sense but as a human being. Part I discusses Mafeje's intellectual and political influences. Part II consists of seven of Mafeje's original articles and seeks to contextualise his writings. Part III reflects on Mafeje's intellectual legacy.