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Author: Phyllis Taoua
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-07-26
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1108427413
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive synthesis of the ideal of freedom in African culture from a pan-African perspective after independence.
Author: Nelson Mandela
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2008-03-11
Total Pages: 598
ISBN-13: 0759521042
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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.
Author: Terry Bell
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9781859845455
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book pulls back the curtain on the 'political miracle' of the new South Africa.
Author: Rinaldo Walcott
Publisher:
Published: 2021-04-16
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781478011910
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRinaldo 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.
Author: Alex Lubin
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1469612887
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 464
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Author: Merle L. Bowen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-04-22
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1108936156
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor 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.
Author: Crystal R. Sanders
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2016-02-10
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1469627817
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Author: Bongani Nyoka
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Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780796925640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVoices 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.
Author: Brian Baughan
Publisher: Mason Crest Publishers
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781422229422
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the history behind the struggle to secure fundamental rights and freedoms for all Africans, also explains the roles that can be played by organizations like the United Nations and the African Union, NGOs such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, and national governments in advancing the cause of human rights.
