Download or read book Book of African American Quotations written by Joslyn Pine and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original collection of quotations cites approximately 100 well-known African Americans from all walks of life, including Maya Angelou, Louis Armstrong, Muhammad Ali, Julian Bond, George Washington Carver, Frederick Douglass, and Ralph Ellison.
Download or read book The Book of African Proverbs written by Gerd De Ley and published by Hatherleigh Press. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of African Proverbs collects over 1,200 of the best, most profound and illuminating proverbs from Africa, its nations and its people. Back in the 19th century, Africa was often referred to as "the Dark Continent" in the sense that Africa's culture and people were largely mysterious and unknown to Europeans. Even today with all the information we have at our disposal, Africa is still viewed by many as a monolithic entity instead of a great continent with a myriad of diverse nations, cultures, and inhabitants. The Book of African Proverbs seek to illuminate these different cultures by highlighting the wisdom, humor, and character of people from all over Africa. The insights within The Book of African Proverbs are simultaneously unique and universal making it a wonderful starter collection for anyone interested in Africa's rich culture.
Download or read book Best Quotes from Great African Leaders Vol I written by Michelle Winfrey and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-22 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The selection of short, presidential quotes provides the words of the men and women who have helped Shaped Africa. Their thoughts and wisdom are expressed in these presidential quotes. These short quotations by the Presidents are inspirational and motivationsThis list compiles some of the best quotes from great leaders who have left a legacy in the history of Africa, from most the oldest to the most recent Presidents and change-makersTags: african american children's booksafrican american urban booksafrican american authors african american romanceafrican black soap from africaafrica calendar 2020africa historyafrica travelafrica is not a countryafrica is my homeafrica a biography of the continent by john readerafrica and world war iiafrica atlasafrica as a living laboratoryjubilee recipes from two centuries of african-american cookingafrica books for kidsafrica biography of a continentafrica bookafrica birdsafrica coloring bookafrica cookbookafrica coloring book for adultsafrica dreamafrica developmentafrica doesnt matterafricans and native americans by jack d forbesrichard d. cohen lectures on african & african american artafrica explorationafrica every dayafrica eye to eye with the unknownafrica encyclopediaafrica ethicsafrica for kidsafrica field guideafrica fictionafrica foreign policysharon f. patton, african-american artafrica geographyafrica guideafrica geopoliticsafrica geographies of changeafrica groszintroduction to african civilizations, john g. jacksonafrica history bookafrica hunting booksafrica huntingafrica healthafrica in global history with sourcesafrica is not a country bookafrica is my home a child of the amistadi dreamed of africai didn't do it for you how the world betrayed a small african nationi lost my tooth in africaafrica journalafrica john readerafrica jewelryhebrewisms of west africa by joseph j williamsafrica kids booksafrica kidsafrica lonely planetafrica mapafrica mother of western civilizationafrica memoirafrica miaafrica michael polizaafrica national geographicafrica notebookafrica novelsafrica naturethe falsification of african consciousness by amos n wilsonafrica on the moveafrica orphanageafrica politicsafrica photographyafrica photography bookafrica picture bookafrican queenafrican queen bookafrica risingafrica rise and shineafrica readerafrica ritualsafrica road atlasafrica safariafrica study bibleafrica speaksafrica since 1940africa since 1800s africa adaptorafrica travel guideafrica travel journalafrica the art of a continentafrican unconsciousafrican urban fiction bookafrican unionpedrito u. maynard-reid. diverse worship african-americanafrica villeafrica volume 1 african history and culture before 1900africa wildlifeafrica warafrica war seriesafrica why economists get it wrongafrica workscount your way through africaarts of africa 7000 years of african artafrican zionafrica 1914 map1 african black soapafrican 2020 wall calendarafrican 2020 calendarnorton anthology of african amer literature vs1 & 2major problems in african american history volume 2norton anthology of african american literature volume 2africa 393 african americanafrica 4th edition4 african violet potunderstanding contemporary africa 5th editionthe bird of africa volume 5african american childrens books by age 5-8african american children's books ages 3-5books for african american boys 5-7the bird of africa volume 6african american children's books ages 6-8african american girls books ages 6-8books for 6 year old girls african americanafrica 707 african powersthe government and politics of the middle east and north africa 8th9 african american inventors
Download or read book I Am Because We Are written by Betty Press and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Am Because We Are features 125 black-and-white photographs by Betty Press taken all over East and West Africa since 1987, combined with related African proverbs compiled by Annetta Miller, an American born in Tanzania. The book highlights the importance of proverbs in educating members of African societies on how to think, how to behave, and how to have a better life. Press took these photographs with the goal of making a significant educational and artistic contribution to the appreciation and understanding of African culture and society as well as our own. The photographs of daily life deal with knowledge, cooperation, love, beauty, friendship, hope, humor, sorrow, happiness, gratitude, dance, tradition, faith, peace, war, death, and human relationships. These are the same themes found in African proverbial language. Thus came the natural idea of coupling images with proverbs. Together they offer a powerful expression of African life and the universality of human emotions, ideas, and knowledge.
Download or read book African american Wisdom written by Elizabeth Quinn and published by Running Press. This book was released on 2001-12-31 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handsome palm-size volume presents a chorus of voices filled with jubilation, with memorable quotes from black writers, poets, athletes, entertainers, philosophers, and leaders. A treasury of African-American wisdom, observations, and proverbs, its contributors range from Coretta Scott King and W.E.B. Dubois to Satchel Paige.
Download or read book African Proverbs Parables and Wise Sayings written by Eyamidé Ella Lewis-Coker and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-05-06 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proverbs, parables and wise sayings are life experiences. In actual fact, these are wisdoms, truths, warnings, morals, experiences and traditional views passed down from generation to generation. These proverbs, parables and wise sayings express the wisdom of African people and are also the resources that are used to understand the Africans past and present lives. In Sierra Leone each ethnic group used proverbs, parables and wise sayings in their conversations as a way of life. The role and importance of proverbs, parables and wise sayings in each ethnic groups conversations provide a colorful and poetic picture of the culture and its characteristics.
Download or read book Still Rising written by Janet Cheatham Bell and published by Agate Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring collection of pithy, easy-to-recall one-liners and quotable short passages from historic and contemporary thought leaders throughout the African Diaspora. Famous Black Quotations, first published in 1986, has long been the go-to resource for the eloquent words of Black history makers. In this new, expanded edition, Famous Black Quotations for the Twenty-First Century, editor Janet Cheatham Bell includes the words of people who have come to prominence in recent decades, such as Barack and Michelle Obama, Alicia Garza, John Legend, Colin Kaepernick, Kamala Harris, and Nikole Hannah-Jones. Bestselling author Bell has curated more than five hundred quotes along with dates, sources, and biographical information of the people quoted. This guide to significant events in the experiences of people of African descent can be used to educate and inspire. Much has changed in the past few decades as Black Americans speak out to demand fair treatment and equal opportunity, and Famous Black Quotations for the Twenty-First Century has been updated and repackaged to inspire a new generation.
Download or read book African Quotes written by Kaia Kaia Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-16 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Best African Quotes and Phrases Book ever Published.Special EditionThis book of African quotes contains only the rarest and most valuable quotations ever recorded about African, authored by a team of experienced researchers. Hundreds of hours have been spent in sourcing, editing and verifying only the best quotations about African for your reading pleasure, saving you time and expensive referencing costs. This book contains over 128 pages of quotations which are immaculately presented and formatted for premium consumption. Be inspired by these African quotes; this book is a niche classic which will have you coming back to enjoy time and time again.Click Add to Cart and Enjoy!
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Download or read book Rhythm written by Paula Michele Adams and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Americans have a culture rich in diversity, knowledge, and wisdom. The valuable lessons learned from slavery through the present day will be passed on for generations, many times in the form of quotes, which implore us to expand our minds to reach a higher level of being. Quotes resonate within your soul in a way that opens your world to a whole new outlook. “Rhythm ... Uplifting Quotes from the African American Perspective” highlights inspirational, motivating, and encouraging life lessons from noteworthy African Americans. It takes you on a journey to enlightenment, insight, and self-awareness on a variety of life’s most important topics. This collection of quotes is not specific to any one race. All ethnicities can learn from the history, challenges, and obstacles that African Americans have had to endure. In essence, these quotes can aid all cultures into coming together and understanding our community more empathetically.
Download or read book African Culture Through Proverbs written by Emma Umana Clasberry and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proverbs are abbreviated but complete statements which convey our thought with dignity and precision. They are principles of life and provide guidance to our daily walk in areas of relationships with other human beings, physical nature such as animals and plants, spiritual phenomena and other non-spiritual elements in the universe. Proverbs give us some encouragement and hope when we are weak and in despair and feel hopeless. They give us words of admonition, warning and redirection when we fall or derail as we journey through life. In the face of threatening life encounter, we can invoke appropriate proverb to recharge our courage, energy and strength so as to squarely confront a given situation. We can also apply a proverb and act it out to get the best out of a pleasant or ugly situation. Even when we are ambivalent about a certain experience, there is always a word of wisdom to invoke and act accordingly to achieve the expected outcome. We can confidently use these wise sayings only if we know and understand their meanings. It is even better if we know their origins. Otherwise, the proverb can confuse us the more and understanding the message they intended to convey can also elude us. These African-Ibibio proverbs depict how observant our ancestors were about nature, and their knowledge of and closeness to it. Our great grandparents used the proverbs effectively and appropriately because they knew their meanings. Using them did not only save their energy but provided vividness, brevity and force to the idea or thought they attempted to articulate. They were able to transmit this wisdom from generation to generation through oral history, that is, by words of mouth, until recently. The oral method sustained us for so long partly because in the past, children and grandchildren stuck around their parents and grandparents long enough to learn from them. Another reason is that the younger generations were also interested in learning them. At the time, using a lot of proverbs in one’s speeches in social meetings and in private conversations was an index of high intelligence and wisdom, and the speaker was held in high esteem in the community. It was a source of pride and honor for and conferred dignity on the speaker as well. This work comes out of my concern that this oral method may at some point in history cease to be as effective as before in passing these words of wisdom on to future generations of Ibibio sons and daughters. If these wise sayings continue to remain unwritten, the possibility of losing this aspect of our knowledge history is imminent. Here are some of my reasons for thinking this way: (1) Present day youth leave their parent’s home to pursue their education and then to employment in cities. By so doing, the amount of time for the youth to maintain regular contact with their parents and extended family elders from whom they could have learned these wise sayings is reduced. (2) Some of them leave their country of origin at tender ages to countries with different culture, while others are born in foreign countries. In some cases, both parents and children are born outside their cultural environments. (3) If parents themselves do not know much of these wise sayings, let alone use them, they cannot offer nor transmit to their children what they do not have or know, even if the children are around them up to adulthood. (4) Many, especially among the learned, tend to lack interest in preserving even the positive aspects of their ethnic cultures, partly because they do not know or suffer from what A. J. A. Esen describes in his Ibibio Profile as “Ours-Is-Bad” and the “Foreign Is Good” syndrome. This is a psychological feeling which demeans anything pertaining to one’s ethnic culture and hails what is foreign, no matter how filthy and obnoxious the latter is. Unlike many Ibibio persons of my age or older, I was blessed with parents who had a mastery of these proverbs and used them lavishly when admonishing us and talk
Download or read book Amazing Quotes about Africa written by Quote Octopus and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-29 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the best quotes about Africa
Download or read book How Europe Underdeveloped Africa written by Walter Rodney and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed 20th century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In his magnum opus, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Rodney incisively argues that grasping "the great divergence" between the west and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the former. This meticulously researched analysis of the abiding repercussions of European colonialism on the continent of Africa has not only informed decades of scholarship and activism, it remains an indispensable study for grasping global inequality today.
Download or read book African Proverbs written by Gerd de Ley and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extensive collection of 1755 proverbs spans all regions of the African continent, revealing much about the wisdom, humour, and character of its people and culture. Each proverb is arranged alphabetically by key words and includes the country, province, or tribe of origin. Charmingly illustrated with traditional African art from museums and collections around the world.
Download or read book Famous Black Quotations written by Janet Cheatham Bell and published by Grand Central Pub. This book was released on 1995 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two popular books--Famous Black Quotations and Famous Black Quotations 2--have been gathered together into this beautiful new giftbook edition. This all-new edition of Famous Black Quotations spotlights the wit and wisdom of black men and women who have achieved national prominence in the arts, sceinces, politics, education, sports and other fields.
Download or read book Quotations in Black written by Anita King and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1981 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Product information not available.
Download or read book Essential Black Wisdom written by Carol Kelly-Gangi and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Essential Black Wisdom gathers together hundreds of powerful quotations from people of African descent into a singularly resonant collection of thought. Arranged thematically, the selections are drawn from speeches, memoirs, novels, proverbs, and folk sayings, and cover subjects as universal and singular as the speakers themselves. The rich array of contributors include artists and activists; writers and poets; politicians and journalists; leaders and statesmen; athletes, musicians, and comedians; scientists, saints, and scholars."--Book jacket.
