Best of
Africa

1970

African Presence in Early Asia


Runoko Rashidi - 1970
    Presenting their case with persuasive eloquence and research, the authors examine cultural forms, art motifs, weapons, scripts, and skeletal evidence to link Asian civilizations to Africa's Nile Valley. Articles detail both the physical and cultural presence of Africans in Asia. Topics covered include the black presence and heavy intermittent influence in Sumer, Elam, and Arabia; contributions of Dravidians and Ethiopian blacks to the Indus Valley civilizations; the history of first Chinese emperor, Fu-Hsi; the origin of martial arts; parallels between Krishna, Guatama Buddha, and Jesus; and the nature of slavery in Arabia and Asia. Five major chapters have been added to this new edition, adding substantially to the range and depth of the original volume.

Introduction to African Civilizations


John G. Jackson - 1970
    Jackson sheds long overdue light on standard Eurocentric and distorting approaches to the history of Africa from early African civilizations to Africa's significance in world history.With brilliantly objective scholarship, respected historian and author John G. Jackson reexamines the outdated, racist, and Westernized history of Africa that is still taught in schools, and presents one infinitely more rich, colorful, varied—and truthful. Challenging the standard dehumanizing and exploitive approaches to African history, from the dawn of prehistory to the resurgent Africa of today—including the portrayal of Africans as "savages" who ultimately benefitted from European enslavement with its "blessings of Christian civilization"—Jackson confronts the parochial historian, devastates the theoretical pretensions of white supremacists, and expands intellectual horizons.Accessible and informed, fascinating and candid, Introduction to African Civilizations is an important historical guide that will enhance antiracist teachings for the general reader and the scholar alike.Introduction by John Henrik Clarke, pioneer of African Studies and author of Christopher Columbus and the African Holocaust. Foreword by Runoko Rashidi, historian, activist, and author of Introduction to the Study of African Classical Civilizations.

Class Struggle in Africa


Kwame Nkrumah - 1970
    This book reveals the nature and extent of the class struggle in Africa, and sets it in the broad context of the African Revolution and the world socialist revolution.

The Great Ponds


Elechi Amadi - 1970
    By the author of The Concubine and Estrangement.

Simplified Swahili


Peter M. Wilson - 1970
    The easy-to-follow steps are backed up by regular exerciseswhich practice and develop the student's command ofSwahili. The book covers all the important grammar pointsand in addition includes both English-Swahili and Swahili-English vocabulary lists, a summary of verb tenses, asimplified glossary of grammatical terms and other usefulappendices.

Roberts Birds of Southern Africa


Austin Roberts - 1970
    The scope and depth of biological information in the Seventh edition of Roberts far exceeds that of any previous edition.It covers all 951 species recorded in the region and also illustrates these in 80 new plates commissioned from the region’s best bird artists. For scientists and conservationists it is a benchmark publication and will be a standard reference for years to come. For birdwatchers it will be an invaluable source of information to help them better understand and appreciate the birds around them.

Toads for Supper


Vincent Chukwuemeka Ike - 1970
    

The Prehistory of Africa (Ancient Peoples & Places)


J. Desmond Clark - 1970
    

History of West Africa, Vol. 1


J.F. Ajayi - 1970
    

Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea & the Holy Land


John Lloyd Stephens - 1970
    The present volume, his first effort in the genre, received wide acclaim from reviewers, including Edgar Allan Poe, who found it "written with a freshness of manner evincing manliness of feeling."Conversational and unpretentious, the book is a delightful narrative of the author's year-long journey through the Middle East, incorporating detailed observations of such architectural marvels as the Pyramids, the temples of Karnak, the red-rock city of Petra and more, and offering charming accounts of a Turkish bath, how to catch a crocodile, the wardrobe of a Nubian damsel, a night in a tomb, the hospitality of the Arabs, desert horses, Easter in Jerusalem, and much more.Enhanced by 38 superb illustrations by Frederick Catherwood and others, this Stephens volume will delight armchair travelers with the "easy, laughing, prose style which gives his books their charm."

The Kababish Arabs: Power, Authority And Consent In A Nomadic Tribe


Talal Asad - 1970
    

Livingstone's River


George Martelli - 1970
    

The African Dream


Brian Gardner - 1970
    From Cape to Cairo The Epic Adventure of the Conquest of Africa

Yoruba Poetry: An Anthology of Traditional Poems


Ulli Beier - 1970
    

The Barrel Of A Gun: Political Power In Africa And The Coup D'état


Ruth First - 1970
    

Creative Suffering: The Ripple of Hope


Alan Paton - 1970
    

Some Essential Features of NKRUMAISM


Kwame Nkrumah - 1970
    Part one, by the editors of the theoretical journal of the convention peoples party, deals with Nkrumah's policies to 1964. Part Two, by the editors of Panaf Books, concerns the period after 1964. Of particular significance in the new Part Two is a survey of the very important books written by Nkrumah during the Conakry period between March 1966 and August 1971. The themes include: forms of the independence struggle; colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism; economic development; the role of the vanguard party; class struggle; and the unification of Africa.

A Giant in Hiding


Lawrence G. Green - 1970
    

The Challenge of Nationhood


Tom Mboya - 1970