In this compelling biography, Mustafa Abdelwahid tells Duse Mohamed Ali's incredible story - and what a story it is. Born in Alexandria to an Egyptian father and Sudanese mother, Duse Mohamed Ali was one of the most fervent early Pan-African nationalists. After attending King's College in London, he started a career as an actor, playwright and producer that was to last for over 20 years and take him across England, Ireland, Scotland and the US. He then embarked on a new path of journalism and political activism, again earning himself worldwide recognition.
This autobiography details the life and works of Duse Mohamed Ali (1866-1945), an influential political figure in the Pan-Africanism and Afro-Asian Solidarity movements in the early twentieth century. It examines the rise of nationalistic ideas among African, Middle Eastern, and Indian intellectuals and their struggle for self-rule and independence.
Dusé Mohamed Ali (Bey Effendi), (21 November 1866 - 25 June 1945) (____ ____ ___), was an African nationalist. Note* Bey (Moorish: Used by the Moors __, Beg, Be_) is a title for chieftain/ Moorish Chief, traditionally applied to the leaders of small tribal groups. (See Almohades and Almoravides) The word "Bey" means "Rabb" (Arabic) or Lord. Beys ruled provinces which were called "beyliks." Ali was also an actor, historian, journalist, editor, lecturer, traveller, publisher, and founder of the Comet Press Ltd, and The Comet newspaper in Nigeria. Duse Ali's Early life He was born in Alexandria, Egypt (Kemet). His father, Abdul Salim Ali, was an Officer in the Egyptian Army and died in active service at the battle of Tel-el-Kiber Egypt, in the year 1882. His mother was Sudanese.
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In the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United States, and the world. With almost 200 million people, a 500,000-man army, nuclear weapons, and a large diaspora in Britain and North America, Pakistan is central to the hopes of jihadis and the fears of their enemies. Yet the greatest short-term threat to Pakistan is not Islamist insurgency as such, but the actions of the United States, and the greatest long-term threat is ecological change. Anatol Lieven's book is a magisterial investigation of this highly complex and often poorly understood country: its regions, ethnicities, competing religious traditions, varied social landscapes, deep political tensions, and historical patterns of violence; but also its surprising underlying stability, rooted in kinship, patronage, and the power of entrenched local elites. Engagingly written, combining history and profound analysis with reportage from Lieven's extensive travels as a journalist and academic, Pakistan: A Hard Country is both utterly compelling and deeply revealing.
In three parts, Norman Coomb's addresses the history of the African Americans beginning with the slave trade to the fight for freedom and lastly to the search for equality.
Challenges the view still held by many in Britain that a Black presence was only established there very recently. The text consists of a series of essays which consider the trials and achievements of Britain's historic Black community and the responses of the state and society to Black people.
The United States has more than two million people locked away in federal, state, and local prisons. Although most of the U.S. population is non-Hispanic and white, the vast majority of the incarcerated—and policed—is not. In this compelling collection, scholars, activists, and current and former prisoners examine the sensibilities that enable a penal democracy to thrive. Some pieces are new to this volume; others are classic critiques of U.S. state power. Through biography, diary entries, and criticism, the contributors collectively assert that the United States wages war against enemies abroad and against its own people at home. Contributors consider the interning or policing of citizens of color, the activism of radicals, structural racism, destruction and death in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, and the FBI Counterintelligence Program designed to quash domestic dissent. Among the first-person accounts are an interview with Dhoruba Bin Wahad, a Black Panther and former political prisoner; a portrayal of life in prison by a Plowshares nun jailed for her antinuclear and antiwar activism; a discussion of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement by one of its members, now serving a seventy-year prison sentence for sedition; and an excerpt from a 1970 letter by the Black Panther George Jackson chronicling the abuses of inmates in California’s Soledad Prison. Warfare in the American Homeland also includes the first English translation of an excerpt from a pamphlet by Michel Foucault and others. They argue that the 1971 shooting of George Jackson by prison guards was a murder premeditated in response to human-rights and justice organizing by black and brown prisoners and their supporters. Contributors. Hishaam Aidi, Dhoruba Bin Wahad (Richard Moore), Marilyn Buck, Marshall Eddie Conway, Susie Day, Daniel Defert, Madeleine Dwertman, Michel Foucault, Carol Gilbert, Sirène Harb, Rose Heyer, George Jackson, Joy James, Manning Marable, William F. Pinar, Oscar Lòpez Rivera, Dylan Rodríguez, Jared Sexton, Catherine vön Bulow, Laura Whitehorn, Frank B. Wilderson III
