Goodbye Bafana
Author: James Gregory
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 503
ISBN-13: 9780747253426
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From Terrorism to Politics
Author: Anisseh Van Engeland
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-22
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1317131746
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow do terrorists become politicians? This book embraces a series of comparative case studies in order to examine important issues regarding the relationship between terrorism and political processes. It identifies the characteristics necessary for the transition from a 'terrorist' organization to a political party and situates this within broader debates about substantive ethical concerns motivating the distinction between legitimate politics and illegitimate violence. The volume offers a presentation of how some terrorist groups see the world in which they live. It also provides an understanding of how established democracies such as the US react to the phenomenon of the terrorist-politician transition. This is a useful resource for students and scholars of international relations, political ethics and comparative politics.
Promoting Peace, Inciting Violence
Author: Jolyon Mitchell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-04
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1136512209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores how media and religion combine to play a role in promoting peace and inciting violence. It analyses a wide range of media - from posters, cartoons and stained glass to websites, radio and film - and draws on diverse examples from around the world, including Iran, Rwanda and South Africa. Part One considers how various media forms can contribute to the creation of violent environments: by memorialising past hurts; by instilling fear of the ‘other’; by encouraging audiences to fight, to die or to kill neighbours for an apparently greater good. Part Two explores how film can bear witness to past acts of violence, how film-makers can reveal the search for truth, justice and reconciliation, and how new media can become sites for non-violent responses to terrorism and government oppression. To what extent can popular media arts contribute to imagining and building peace, transforming weapons into art, swords into ploughshares? Jolyon Mitchell skillfully combines personal narrative, practical insight and academic analysis.
Mandela
Author: Anthony Sampson
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2012-01-11
Total Pages: 1037
ISBN-13: 0307814025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNelson Mandela, who emerged from twenty-six years of political imprisonment to lead South Africa out of apartheid and into democracy, is perhaps the world's most admired leader, a man whose life has been led with exemplary courage and inspired conviction. Now Anthony Sampson, who has known Mandela since 1951 and has been a close observer of South Africa's political life for the last fifty years, has produced the first authorized biography, the most informed and comprehensive portrait to date of a man whose dazzling image has been difficult to penetrate. With unprecedented access to Mandela's private papers (including his prison memoir, long thought to have been lost), meticulous research, and hundreds of interviews--from Mandela himself to prison warders on Robben Island, from Walter Sisulu and Oliver Tambo to Winnie Mandela and F. W. de Klerk, and many others intimately connected to Mandela's story--Sampson has composed an enlightening and necessary story of the man behind the myth.
Lessons To Be Learnt From The World's Great Icons Life Experiences.
Author: Bheki S.V. Ntshingila
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2016-11-23
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 1365553108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book is about the late Mr Nelson Mandela, the unrepentant crusader and freedom fighter against the obnoxious apartheid regime in South Africa who became an instant toast of the entire world which is a reminder that in each person there is a seed of greatness expected to be discovered and to be used to make this world a better one for all who live in it instead of experiencing hatrate and brutality. What makes a person to succeed is not how bad she or he thinks but is high optimism, thinking big, willingness to learn from other's mistakes and life experiences. There is a lot we can learn from Madiba's life experience and I don't doubt that the world is also learning something constructive or destructive from you. If you are not constructive to others, how would you be constructive to yourself? Remember, greatness is a phenomenon that could be associated with anyone with a positive mind.Good, better, best, never let it rest till your good is better and your better is best.
The Cambridge Companion to Nelson Mandela
Author: Rita Barnard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-01-31
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1139941127
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNelson Mandela was one of the most revered figures of our time. He committed himself to a compelling political cause, suffered a long prison sentence, and led his violent and divided country to a peaceful democratic transition. His legacy, however, is not uncontested: his decision to embark on an armed struggle in the 1960s, his solitary talks with apartheid officials in the 1980s, and the economic policies adopted during his presidency still spark intense debate, even after his death. The essays in this Companion, written by experts in history, anthropology, jurisprudence, cinema, literature, and visual studies, address these and other issues. They examine how Mandela became an icon during his lifetime and consider the meanings and uses of his internationally recognizable image. Their overarching concerns include Mandela's relation to 'tradition' and 'modernity', the impact of his most famous public performances, the oscillation between Africanist and non-racial positions in South Africa, and the politics of gender and national sentiment. The volume concludes with a meditation on Mandela's legacy in the twenty-first century and a detailed guide to further reading.
Long Walk to Freedom
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.
The Mandela Collection
Author: Various
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2014-12-18
Total Pages: 964
ISBN-13: 0191027081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNelson Mandela's death dominated our thinking at the close of 2013. These two short books provide informed, objective insight into the making of the man, and his unparalleled impact on our world. Tom Lodge's book presents a host of fresh insights about the influences that shaped the man.
Black Masculinity on Film
Author: Daniel O'Brien
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-09-06
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1137593237
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides wide-ranging commentary on depictions of the black male in mainstream cinema. O’Brien explores the extent to which counter-representations of black masculinity have been achieved within a predominately white industry, with an emphasis on agency, the negotiation and malleability of racial status, and the inherent instability of imposed racial categories. Focusing on American and European cinema, the chapters highlight actors (Woody Strode, Noble Johnson, Eddie Anderson, Will Smith), genres (jungle pictures, westerns, science fiction) and franchises (Tarzan, James Bond) underrepresented in previous critical and scholarly commentary in the field. The author argues that although the characters and performances generated in these areas invoke popular genre types, they display complexity, diversity and ambiguity, exhibiting aspects that are positive, progressive and subversive. This book will appeal to both the academic and the general reader interested in film, race, gender and colonial issues.
