Book Description
Presents a collection of photographs of seventy African monarchs along with information on each of their tribes.
Author : Daniel Lainé
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 29,48 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580082242
Presents a collection of photographs of seventy African monarchs along with information on each of their tribes.
Author : Maryse Condä
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 11,49 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780803214897
An African family's saga, from the day its ancestors left for the New World, to the day their descendants return in search of roots. By a Guadeloupean writer, author of Segu.
Author : Pusch Komiete Commey
Publisher : Real African Books
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 32,36 MB
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0987034723
A chronicle of ten great African monarchs; from Makeda the Ethiopian Queen of Sheba to the richest man who ever lived, Emperor Mansa Musa of Mali. This easy-read original edition narrates the journey of these magnificent monarchs through the sands of time of time, and will amaze, delight, and make the world stand up to celebrate a shared humanity without borders.
Author : Sylviane A. Diouf
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 18,23 MB
Release : 2001-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780531165355
Surveys historical regions and kingdoms of Southern Africa, with biographies of Nzinga Mbande, Queen of Angola; Shaka, King of the Zulu Nation; and Moshoeshoe, King of the Sotho.
Author : Herman L. Bennett
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,45 MB
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0812295498
A thought-provoking reappraisal of the first European encounters with Africa As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying the coast of West Africa, where they conducted business with African kingdoms that possessed significant territory and power. In the process, Iberians developed an understanding of Africa's political landscape in which they recognized specific sovereigns, plotted the extent and nature of their polities, and grouped subjects according to their ruler. In African Kings and Black Slaves, Herman L. Bennett mines the historical archives of Europe and Africa to reinterpret the first century of sustained African-European interaction. These encounters were not simple economic transactions. Rather, according to Bennett, they involved clashing understandings of diplomacy, sovereignty, and politics. Bennett unearths the ways in which Africa's kings required Iberian traders to participate in elaborate diplomatic rituals, establish treaties, and negotiate trade practices with autonomous territories. And he shows how Iberians based their interpretations of African sovereignty on medieval European political precepts grounded in Roman civil and canon law. In the eyes of Iberians, the extent to which Africa's polities conformed to these norms played a significant role in determining who was, and who was not, a sovereign people—a judgment that shaped who could legitimately be enslaved. Through an examination of early modern African-European encounters, African Kings and Black Slaves offers a reappraisal of the dominant depiction of these exchanges as being solely mediated through the slave trade and racial difference. By asking in what manner did Europeans and Africans configure sovereignty, polities, and subject status, Bennett offers a new depiction of the diasporic identities that had implications for slaves' experiences in the Americas.
Author : Sylviane A. Diouf
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 31,97 MB
Release : 2001-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780531165331
A survey of the historical regions and kingdoms of Central Africa including biographies of Afonso I, King of the Kongo (1456-1493); Shamba Bolongongo, King of the Bakuba (17th century); and Njoya, King of the Bamun (1867-1933).
Author : Nwando Achebe
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 26,65 MB
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0821440802
An unapologetically African-centered monograph that reveals physical and spiritual forms and systems of female power and leadership in African cultures. Nwando Achebe’s unparalleled study documents elite females, female principles, and female spiritual entities across the African continent, from the ancient past to the present. Achebe breaks from Western perspectives, research methods, and their consequently incomplete, skewed accounts, to demonstrate the critical importance of distinctly African source materials and world views to any comprehensible African history. This means accounting for the two realities of African cosmology: the physical world of humans and the invisible realm of spiritual gods and forces. That interconnected universe allows biological men and women to become female-gendered males and male-gendered females. This phenomenon empowers the existence of particular African beings, such as female husbands, male priestesses, female kings, and female pharaohs. Achebe portrays their combined power, influence, and authority in a sweeping, African-centric narrative that leads to an analogous consideration of contemporary African women as heads of state, government officials, religious leaders, and prominent entrepreneurs.
Author : Pusch Komiete Commey
Publisher : Real African Books
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 41,35 MB
Release :
Category : History
ISBN : 1643702343
An amazing chronicle of the exploits of ten illustrious African Kings and Queens through the sands of time. From Khufu, the builder of the Pyramid of Giza, to Nzinga the Warrior Queen of Angola.
Author : Pusch Komiete Commey
Publisher : Pedelo CC
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,66 MB
Release : 2020-08-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781636254142
Africa's astounding civilization is brought to life in the revised edition of 100 Great African Kings and Queens ( Volume one). This more detailed and scintillating account of awesome historical exploits, with beautiful colour imagery, will grace many bookshelves around the world.
Author : Patricia McKissack
Publisher : Square Fish
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 37,57 MB
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1250113512
For more than a thousand years, from A.D. 500 to 1700, the medieval kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay grew rich on the gold, salt, and slave trade that stretched across Africa. Scraping away hundreds of years of ignorance, prejudice, and mythology, award-winnnig authors Patricia and Fredrick McKissack reveal the glory of these forgotten empires while inviting us to share in the inspiring process of historical recovery that is taking place today.