Download or read book First Edition 100 Great African Kings and Queens Vol 1 written by Pusch Komiete Commey and published by Real African Books. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa written by Nwando Achebe and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book African Kings and Queens written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents profiles of African royalty, from Menes (fl. c. 3100 B.C.-3038 B.C.) to Menelik II (1889-1913).
Download or read book Njinga of Angola written by Linda M. Heywood and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The fascinating story of arguably the greatest queen in sub-Saharan African history, who surely deserves a place in the pantheon of revolutionary world leaders.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Though largely unknown in the West, the seventeenth-century African queen Njinga was one of the most multifaceted rulers in history, a woman who rivaled Queen Elizabeth I in political cunning and military prowess. In this landmark book, based on nine years of research and drawing from missionary accounts, letters, and colonial records, Linda Heywood reveals how this legendary queen skillfully navigated—and ultimately transcended—the ruthless, male-dominated power struggles of her time. “Queen Njinga of Angola has long been among the many heroes whom black diasporians have used to construct a pantheon and a usable past. Linda Heywood gives us a different Njinga—one brimming with all the qualities that made her the stuff of legend but also full of all the interests and inclinations that made her human. A thorough, serious, and long overdue study of a fascinating ruler, Njinga of Angola is an essential addition to the study of the black Atlantic world.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates “This fine biography attempts to reconcile her political acumen with the human sacrifices, infanticide, and slave trading by which she consolidated and projected power.” —New Yorker “Queen Njinga was by far the most successful of African rulers in resisting Portuguese colonialism...Tactically pious and unhesitatingly murderous...a commanding figure in velvet slippers and elephant hair ripe for big-screen treatment; and surely, as our social media age puts it, one badass woman.” —Karen Shook, Times Higher Education
Download or read book Kings and Queens of East Africa written by Sylviane A. Diouf and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys historical regions and kingdoms of East Africa, with biographies of Ranavalona I, Queen of Madagascar; Yambio, King of the Azande; and Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia.
Download or read book Kings and Queens of Central Africa written by Sylviane A. Diouf and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).
Download or read book All Things Are Possible written by Sean Liburd and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Things Are Possible: Learn from Great African Kings and QueensThe book All Things Are Possible: Learn from Great African Kings and Queens features 14 former African Queens and Kings (Shaku King of the Zulu, Queen Amina of Zaria, Mansa (Emperor) KanKan Musa King of Mali, Queen Nzingha of Angola, Osei Tutu King of Asante, Queen Nanny of Ghana/Jamaica, Menelek II King of Kings of Abyssinia, Queen Nehanda of Zimbabwe, Sunni Ali Ber (the Great) King of Songhai, Queen Makeda of Ethiopia, Hannibal Ruler of Carthage, Queen Yaa Asantewaa, Akhenaton - The Creator of Monotheism, Queen Tiye of Egypt, ) and their contributions to history. In addition, various character traits (leadership, bravery, conviction, intelligence, unification, selflessness, education, inspiring, independent thinking, curiosity, reliability, cooperation, and courage) are discussed that exemplify these leaders and help to illustrate how the reader can develop these traits in their own lives. A variety of fun activities are included to reinforce key concepts about these leaders' contributions.
Download or read book The Glory of African Kings and Queens written by Pusch Commey and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The glory of African Kings and Queens is adapted from Volume one of 100 Great African Kings and Queens. This amazing journey through the sands of time opens a rich African world to a younger age group and celebrates with them a shared humanity without borders.
Download or read book Kings and Queens of Southern Africa written by Sylviane A. Diouf and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book 100 GREAT AFRICAN KINGS AND QUEENS Volume 1 written by Pusch Komiete Commey and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume One of 100 Great African Kings and Queens is a fascinating account of ten illustrious African monarchs through the sands of time. This revised edition of the original book offers a detailed fact-filled narrative with corresponding images that opens up a whole new world to the reader. The images of this edition are in black and white, and therefore better priced. Volume two of another ten great African monarchs is not far behind, both in colour as well as black/white. Volume ten will complete this thrilling historical adventure of 100 Great African Kings and Queens. After all, if Africa is the origin of humanity, then without African history, there is no history.
Download or read book Seven Amazing African Queens and Dynasties written by Pusch Commey and published by Real African Books. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Queen Mothers of empires, Warrior Queens, and mothers of humanity, African women have largely shaped the history and civilization of mankind. From the story of the Kandakes of Nubia who confronted and repelled the Greek and Roman Empires ( Augustus Caeser and Alexander the Great ) , to the indomitable Nzinga of Matamba's campaign against the Portuguese, these truly amazing women will put the reader in awe.
Download or read book African Kings written by Daniel Lainé and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of photographs of seventy African monarchs along with information on each of their tribes.
Download or read book A Salute to Historic African Kings and Queens written by Richard L. Green and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents single-page biographies of twenty-four African rulers, from Menes, who lived 3000 years before Christ to Haile Selassie, a twentieth-century emperor.
Download or read book African Icons written by Tracey Baptiste and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year, American schoolchildren celebrate Black History Month. They study almost exclusively American stories, which are not only rooted in struggle over enslavement or oppression, but also take in only four hundred years of a rich and thrilling history that goes back many millennia across the African continent. Through portraits of ten historical figures - from Menes, the first ruler to be called Pharaoh, to Queen Idia, a sixteenth-century power broker, visionary, and diplomat - African Iconstakes readers on a journey across Africa to meet some of the great leaders and thinkers whose ideas built a continent and shaped our world.
Download or read book Black Tudors written by Miranda Kaufmann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new, transformative history – in Tudor times there were Black people living and working in Britain, and they were free ‘This is history on the cutting edge of archival research, but accessibly written and alive with human details and warmth.’ David Olusoga, author of Black and British: A Forgotten History A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a London church. Henry VIII dispatches a Mauritanian diver to salvage lost treasures from the Mary Rose. From long-forgotten records emerge the remarkable stories of Africans who lived free in Tudor England… They were present at some of the defining moments of the age. They were christened, married and buried by the Church. They were paid wages like any other Tudors. The untold stories of the Black Tudors, dazzlingly brought to life by Kaufmann, will transform how we see this most intriguing period of history. *** Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2018 A Book of the Year for the Evening Standard and the Observer ‘That rare thing: a book about the 16th century that said something new.’ Evening Standard, Books of the Year ‘Splendid… a cracking contribution to the field.’ Dan Jones, Sunday Times ‘Consistently fascinating, historically invaluable… the narrative is pacy... Anyone reading it will never look at Tudor England in the same light again.’ Daily Mail
Download or read book Mansa Musa The Richest African King written by King Ki'el and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-10 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urbantoons "The King Of Mali", is a story about the rise of a young African boy named Musa, who grew up humbly in the Mali Empire under the King Sundiata. Groomed to a royal guard for the king, Musa had a bigger dream. His dream was bigger and he lived to be richest king to ever live. Loosely Based on a true story. This is a great book for young boys for confidence building, overcoming obstacles, and reaching your goals.Urbantoons, "The King Of Mali" is 50 beautifully illustrated pages with bright and dazzling colors. It will strike the childs imagination and create the ultimate reading experience.
Download or read book 7 Amazing African Queens and Dynasties written by Pusch Commey and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As mothers of humanity and warrior queens, African women have played an extraordinary role in the civilization of mankind. The story of 7 amazing African Queens and Dynasties tracks the unsung heroics of powerful African women throughout history. The illustrious Kandakes of Nubia ably fought off and annihilated their enemies, leaving behind a lost civilization in the desert sands of Meroe. The Rain Queens of Southern Africa and their matrilineal rule inspired Sir Rider Haggard's bestselling book The Adventures of She, in print for over 100 years. Yaa Asantewaa of the Ashanti rallied frightened men into battle, while Nzinga of Matamba waged a protracted war for 30 years in defense of her kingdom. The list goes on and on. The chosen 7 Queens and Dynasties in this first volume is a foretaste of many more revelations to come. This amazing history of Africa, largely untold traces the common thread of humanity from the unrivaled ancient civilization of the Nile Valley to the world as we know it. The women who played an indispensable role are resurrected in this fantastic book.
