Ten African heroes : the sweep of independence in Black Africa / Thomas Patrick Melady and Margaret Badum Melady.
By: Melady, Thomas Patrick
Contributor(s): Melady, Margaret Badum
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TextPublisher: Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, 2011Description: xviii, 205 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781570759291 (pbk.); 1570759294 (pbk.)Other title: Sweep of independence in Black AfricaSubject(s): Nationalists -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Biography | Statesmen -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Biography | Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Biography | Africa, Sub-Saharan -- History | National liberation movements -- Africa, Sub-SaharanDDC classification: 967.03/260922 LOC classification: DT352.6 | .M45 2011Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| DT352 .K48 Tropical Africa / | DT352.2 .P37 1985 An African journey : stories and photographs / | DT352.5 .M67 1989 Understanding Black Africa : data and analysis of social change and nation building / | DT352.6 .M45 2011 Ten African heroes : the sweep of independence in Black Africa / | DT352.65 .V36 1990 Paths in the rainforests : toward a history of political tradition in equatorial Africa / | DT352.8 .L28 1985 The Africans / | DT352.8 .M77 Beyond independence : the face of the New Africa / |
Includes bibliographical references.
Beginnings -- Leopold Sedar Senghor : poet, philosopher, and founding president of Senegal -- Julius Kambarage Nyerere : the patient architect -- Kenneth David Kaunda : navigator for freedom -- Seretse Khama : courageous advocate for racial reconciliation -- Thomas Joseph Mboya : young man in a hurry -- Holden Roberto : an Angolan patriot -- Eduardo C. Mondlane : martyr for Mozambique -- William V.S. Tubman : new deal for Liberia -- Sylvanus Olympio : West African leader brutally killed in Togo -- Ahmadou Ahidjo : the serene leader of a multiethnic state -- Epilogue -- Appendices. I. Protestant and Catholics speak to leaders of Portugal in 1961 -- II. Senghor's address on the civilization of the universe -- III. Khama's address on racial reconciliation.
