Download or read book Lion of the Congo written by Patrice Lumumba and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrice Lumumba in his own words. A compilation of speeches, interviews, poetry and correspondences by one of the greatest heroes of the 20th century.
Download or read book King Leopold s Ghost written by Adam Hochschild and published by Picador. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. . While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian. Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize in 1999, King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of this man’s brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. It is also the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity.
Download or read book Missionary Heroes of Africa written by Sarah Geraldina Stock and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Season in the Congo written by Aimé Césaire and published by French List. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This play by renowned poet and political activist Aime Césairerecounts the tragic death of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Congo Republic and an African nationalist hero. A Season in the Congofollows Lumumba's efforts to free the Congolese from Belgian rule and the political struggles that led to his assassination in 1961. Césaire powerfully depicts Lumumba as a sympathetic, Christ-like figure whose conscious martyrdom reflects his self-sacrificing humanity and commitment to pan-Africanism. Born in Martinique and educated in Paris, Césaire was a revolutionary artist and lifelong political activist, who founded the Martinique Independent Revolution Party. Césaire's ardent personal opposition to Western imperialism and racism fuels both his profound sympathy for Lumumba and the emotional strength of A Season in the Congo. Now rendered in a lyrical translation by distinguished scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Césaire's play will find a new audience of readers interested in world literature and the vestiges of European colonialism.
Download or read book African Heroes of the Congo Rebellion written by Hal C. Olsen and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of true stories of African Christians who went through the Simba rebellion in Congo.
Download or read book The Hero with an African Face written by Clyde W. Ford and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2000-01-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable book, Clyde Ford restores to us the lost treasure of African mythology, bringing to life the ancient tales and showing why they matter so much to us today. African myths convey the perennial wisdom of humanity: the creation of the world, the hero's journey, our relationship with nature, death, and resurrection. From the Ashanti comes the moving account of the grief-stricken Kwasi Benefo's journey to the underworld to seek his beloved wives. From Uganda we learn of the legendary Kintu, who won the love of a goddess and created a nation from a handful of isolated clans. The Congo's epic hero Mwindo is the sacred warrior who shows us the path each person must travel to discover his true destiny. These and other important African myths show us the history of African Americans in a new light--as a hero's journey, a courageous passage to a hard-won victory. The Hero with an African Face enriches us all by restoring this vital tradition to the world.
Download or read book This is a Good Country written by Albert Makelele and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Marcus Carrington Introducing a dynamic fresh face in the world of Christianity. Marcus Carrington is the champion of God that many young adolescents and teens will find delightful. He is determined in his faith of our Lord Jesus. You will read adventure after adventure of good will, courage, and outstanding faith in the face of adversity. Witness how a young person with high morals can be happy and co-exist in his community. In this day and age where many young minds are subject to worldly influence and darkness, Marcus Carrington brings a new light and life to the young hero of today. Readers of all ages will love to share in the adventures of this Champion of God as he does the work of God in his daily life. Many of the adventures will promote discussion with parents and peers. Prayerfully, reading this series will lead many "unsaved" youths to take a look at how great the Christian life can be. Here is the first set of many adventures of Marcus. Many more will follow. God Bless, Terry J. Martin
Download or read book Hero of the Congo written by Archibald Rae and published by . This book was released on with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Congo from Leopold to Kabila written by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people of the Congo have suffered from a particularly brutal colonial rule, American interference after independence, decades of robbery at the hands of the dictator Mobutu and periodic warfare which continues even now in the East of the country. But, as this insightful political history makes clear, the Congolese people have not taken these multiple oppressions lying down and have fought over many years to establish democratic institutions at home and free themselves from foreign exploitation; indeed these are two aspects of a single project. Professor Nzongola-Ntalaja is one of his country's leading intellectuals and his panoramic understanding of the personalities and events, as well as class, ethnic and other factors, make his book a lucid, radical and utterly unromanticized account of his countrymen's struggle. His people's defeat and the state's post-colonial crisis are seen as resulting from a post-independence collapse of the anti-colonial alliance between the masses and the national leadership . This book is essential reading for understanding what is happening in the Congo and the Great Lakes region under the rule of the late President Kabila, and now his son. It will also stand as a milestone in how to write the modern political history of Africa.
Download or read book The Missionary Heroes of Africa written by James Horne Morrison and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Heroes of Empire written by Edward Berenson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines, through the lives of five important English and French figures, the history of the exploration and colonization of Africa between 1870 and 1914, and the role the mass media played in promoting colonial conquest.
Download or read book Congo Saga written by David William Truby and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African Heroes of the Congo Rebellion written by Hal C. Olsen and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mwindo Epic from the Banyanga written by Daniel Biebuyck and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynamic translation of the timeless African epic. The feats of the hero Mwindo are glorified in this epic work, sung and narrated in a Bantu language and acted out by a member of the Nyanga tribe in the remote forest regions of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Beautifully structured and richly poetic, the epic is in prose form, interspersed with song and proverbs in verse. As an example of the classic tradition of oral folk literature, the tale provides profound insights into the social structure, values, and cosmology of this African people.
Download or read book The River Congo written by Peter Forbath and published by Boston : Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1991 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronicle of the primitive splendor, historical atrocities, explorations, and modern-day struggles associated with the African river
Download or read book Stringer written by Anjan Sundaram and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the powerful travel-writing tradition of Ryszard Kapuscinski and V.S. Naipaul, a haunting memoir of a dangerous and disorienting year of self-discovery in one of the world's unhappiest countries.
Download or read book Heroes of Africa written by Vivian Ezeife Van Gorder and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the inspirational, dramatic stories of many important heroes of Africa. The goal of this book is to help people appreciate the effort and skill that has helped create all that is good in modern Africa. This book tells the vivid stories of courage and wisdom that will motivate and encourage future generations of Africans and those of the African diaspora. It also creates engaging activities to help us understand each hero. Our youth must continue to dream and add dedicated insight in the work of strengthening Mother Africa. In spite of all odds and opponents, Africans must look back in order to look forward. This book provides a creative and clear context for conversations about the rich diversity and noble character of the heroes Africans and those of the African diaspora.
