Download or read book Kings and Queens of West 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 West Africa including biographies of Mansa Musa, Emperor of Mali (c. 1280-1337); Osei Tutu, King of Asante (c. 1660-1717); and Ndate Yalla Mbodj, Queen of Walo (c. 1810-1860).
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 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 The Last of the African Kings written by Maryse Condä and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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 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 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 The Last of the African Kings written by Maryse Condä and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book African Kings and Black Slaves written by Herman L. Bennett and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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 Njinga of Angola written by Linda M. Heywood and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of history’s most multifaceted rulers but little known in the West, Queen Njinga rivaled Elizabeth I and Catherine the Great in political cunning and military prowess. Today, she is revered in Angola as a heroine and honored in folk religions. Her complex legacy forms a crucial part of the collective memory of the Afro-Atlantic world.
Download or read book The Female King of Colonial Nigeria written by Nwando Achebe and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-21 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While providing critical perspectives on women, gender, sex and sexuality, and the colonial encounter, she considers how it was possible for this woman to take on the office and responsibilities of a traditionally male role.
Download or read book 100 Great African Kings and Queens Volume 1 Revised Enriched Edition written by Pusch Komiete Commey and published by Real African Books. This book was released on with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book 100 Great African Kings and Queens Revised Enriched Edition written by Pusch Komiete Commey and published by Pedelo CC. This book was released on 2020-08-21 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Dahomey written by Philip Koslow and published by Chelsea House. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the history of Dahomey from its beginnings around 1300 through modern times, looking at the legends, rulers, warriors, art, and religion of the West African kingdom--now known as Benin.
Download or read book African American History Great Kings and Queens of Africa written by Monica Reed and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a series of African American history books for kids. Children all over the world need to know and understand the importance of the African American experience, and not just the heroes we learn about every black History Month. I want to celebrate the wonderful achievements black history brings, starting from the beginning of time to the present. This series will be great for those who can read it on their on, but I encourage adults and family members to read it with and to their children. Remember "we learn something new everyday.." and you'd be surprised at how much, as adults we don't know about some of the African Americans that have paved the way for us, and continue to break barriers for each generation.
Download or read book The Eight Zulu Kings written by John Laband and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Eight Zulu Kings, well-respected and widely published historian John Laband examines the reigns of the eight Zulu kings from 1816 to the present. Starting with King Shaka, the renowned founder of the Zulu kingdom, he charts the lives of the kings Dingane, Mpande, Cetshwayo, Dinuzulu, Solomon and Cyprian, to today's King Goodwill Zwelithini whose role is little more than ceremonial. In the course of this investigation Laband places the Zulu monarchy in the context of African kingship and tracks and analyses the trajectory of the Zulu kings from independent and powerful pre-colonial African rulers to largely powerless traditionalist figures in post-apartheid South Africa.
