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Privileged Minorities - A History Of Wealth Concentration In South Africa

by Mesrob Vartavarian

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 This book explores how anticolonial victories in South Africa sustained inequality, revealing how small groups of select elites gained exclusive wealth-building privileges. It introduces the concept of privileged minorities as a framework for analyzing similar dynamics across Africa and beyond.
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African Activists Of The Twentieth Century - Hani, Maathai, Mpama/Palmer, Saro-Wiwa

by Hugh Macmillan, Robert R. Edgar, Roy Doron, Tabitha Kanogo e Toyin Falola

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 This omnibus edition brings together concise and up-to-date biographies of Chris Hani, Wangari Maathai, Josie Mpama/Palmer, and Ken Saro-Wiwa. The volume complements history, social justice, and political science courses and is a useful collection for general readers interested in learning about Africaâ€™s most influential historical figures.
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African Leaders Of The Twentieth Century, Volume 2 - Cabral, Machel, Mugabe, Sirleaf

by Allen F. Isaacman, Barbara S. Isaacman, Martin Plaut, Pamela Scully, Peter Karibe Mendy e Sue Onslow

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 This omnibus edition brings together concise and up-to-date biographies of AmÃlcar Cabral, Samora Machel, Robert Mugabe, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. African Leaders of the Twentieth Century, Volume 2 complements courses in history and political science and serves as a useful collection for general readers.
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Kwame Nkrumah - Visions Of Liberation

by Jeffrey S. Ahlman

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 This new biography of Kwame Nkrumah (1909â€"72), Ghanaâ€™s first president, demonstrates how his accomplishments extend well beyond his role in Ghanaian decolonization, state-building, and the promotion of pan-Africanism to include his broader anticolonialist work toward an independent, unified Africa.
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Female Monarchs And Merchant Queens In Africa

by Nwando Achebe

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 Drawing from distinctly African source materials and methods, Achebeâ€™s groundbreaking historical account examines the shared power, influence, and authority that uniquely African, female-gendered entitiesâ€"people, diviners, and deitiesâ€"exert across Africaâ€™s interconnected physical and spiritual worlds.
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Amilcar Cabral - A Nationalist And Pan-Africanist Revolutionary

by Peter Karibe Mendy

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 AmÃlcar Cabralâ€™s charismatic and visionary leadership, his pan-Africanist solidarity and internationalist commitment to â€œevery just cause in the world,â€ remain relevant to contemporary struggles for emancipation and self-determination. This concise biography is an ideal introduction to his life and legacy.
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Mozambique'S Samora Machel - A Life Cut Short

by Allen F. Isaacman e Barbara S. Isaacman

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 From his anti-colonial military leadership to the presidency of independent Mozambique, Samora Machel held a reputation as a revolutionary hero to the oppressed. Although killed in a 1987 plane crash, for many Mozambicans his memory lives on as a beacon of hope for the future.
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Kwame Nkrumah - Visions Of Liberation

by Jeffrey S. Ahlman

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 This new biography of Kwame Nkrumah (1909â€"72), Ghanaâ€™s first president, demonstrates how his accomplishments extend well beyond his role in Ghanaian decolonization, state-building, and the promotion of pan-Africanism to include his broader anticolonialist work toward an independent, unified Africa.
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Chris Hani

by Hugh Macmillan

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 Chris Hani was one of the most highly respected leaders of the African National Congress, the South African Communist Party, and uMkhonto we Sizwe. His assassination in 1993 threatened to upset the transition to democracy but also prompted an intervention by Nelson Mandela, which accelerated the process.
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Female Monarchs And Merchant Queens In Africa

by Nwando Achebe

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 Drawing from distinctly African source materials and methods, Achebeâ€™s groundbreaking historical account examines the shared power, influence, and authority that uniquely African, female-gendered entitiesâ€"people, diviners, and deitiesâ€"exert across Africaâ€™s interconnected physical and spiritual worlds.
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Josie Mpama/Palmer - Get Up And Get Moving

by Robert R. Edgar

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 The latest in the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series, Josie Mpama/Palmer: Get Up and Get Moving tells the story of Josie Mpama/Palmerâ€™s activism and political legacy in South Africa and around the world.
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Wangari Maathai

by Tabitha Kanogo

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 This concise biography tells the story of Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner who devoted her life to campaigning for environmental conservation, sustainable development, democracy, human rights, gender equality, and the eradication of poverty.
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Amilcar Cabral - A Nationalist And Pan-Africanist Revolutionary

by Peter Karibe Mendy

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 AmÃlcar Cabralâ€™s charismatic and visionary leadership, his pan-Africanist solidarity and internationalist commitment to â€œevery just cause in the world,â€ remain relevant to contemporary struggles for emancipation and self-determination. This concise biography is an ideal introduction to his life and legacy.
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Ken Saro-Wiwa

by Roy Doron e Toyin Falola

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 A penetrating, accessible portrait of the activist whose execution galvanized the world.
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Short History Of Chinua Achebe'S Things Fall Apart

by Terri Ochiagha

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 In the accessible and concise A Short History of Chinua Achebeâ€™s Things Fall Apart, Terri Ochiagha asks new questions and brings wider attention to unfamiliar but crucial elements of the story, including new insights into questions of canonicity, and into literary, historiographical, and precolonial aesthetic influences.
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Boko Haram

by Brandon Kendhammer e Carmen Mccain

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 Going beyond the headlines, including the groupâ€™s 2014 abduction of 276 girls in Chibok and the ensuing international outrage, Boko Haram provides readers new to the conflict with a clearly written and comprehensive history of how the group came to be, the Nigerian governmentâ€™s failed efforts to end it, and its impact on ordinary citizens.
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Albert Luthuli

by Robert Trent Vinson

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 In an excellent addition to the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series, Robert Trent Vinson recovers the forgotten story of Albert Luthuli, Africaâ€™s first Nobel Peace Prize winner, who linked South African antiapartheid politics with international human rights campaigns and was a leading advocate of nonviolent civil disobedience techniques.
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African Leaders Of The Twentieth Century - Biko, Selassie, Lumumba, Sankara

by Bereket Habte Selassie, Ernest Harsch, Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja e Lindy Wilson

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 This omnibus edition brings together concise and up-to-date biographies of Steve Biko, Emperor Haile Selassie, Patrice Lumumba, and Thomas Sankara. African Leaders of the Twentieth Century will complement courses in history and political science and serve as a useful collection for the general reader.
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Emperor Haile Selassie

by Bereket Habte Selassie

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 Emperor Haile Selassie was an iconic figure of the twentieth century, a progressive monarch who ruled Ethiopia from 1916 to 1974. This book, written by a former state official who served in a number of important positions in Selassieâ€™s government, tells both the story of the emperorâ€™s life and the story of modern Ethiopia.After
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Patrice Lumumba

by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja

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 Patrice Lumumba was a leader of the independence struggle in what is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the country?s first democratically elected prime minister. After a meteoric rise in the colonial civil service and the African political elite, he became a major figure in the decolonization movement of the 1950s.
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Robert Mugabe

by Martin Plaut e Sue Onslow

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 For some, Zimbabweâ€™s President Mugabe is a liberation hero who confronted white rule and oversaw the radical redistribution of land. For others, he is a murderous dictator who drove his country to poverty. This concise biography, in a highly successful series, reveals the complexity of the man who led Zimbabwe for its first decades of independence.
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Robert Mugabe

by Martin Plaut e Sue Onslow

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 For some, Zimbabweâ€™s President Mugabe is a liberation hero who confronted white rule and oversaw the radical redistribution of land. For others, he is a murderous dictator who drove his country to poverty. This concise biography, in a highly successful series, reveals the complexity of the man who led Zimbabwe for its first decades of independence.
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Thabo Mbeki

by Adekeye Adebajo

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 In this concise biography, ideally suited for the classroom, Adekeye Adebajo seeks to illuminate former South African president Thabo Mbeki's contradictions and situate him in a pan-African pantheon.
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Julius Nyerere

by Paul Bjerk

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 With vision, hard-nosed judgment, and biting humor, Julius Nyerere confronted the challenges of nation building in modern Africa. Constructing Tanzania out of a controversial Cold War union between Tanganyika and Zanzibar, Nyerere emerged as one of independent Africa's most influential leaders.
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