By the author of Fragments and The Healers.

    This collection of his articles, speeches, letters from underground, and the transcripts from his trials, vividly demonstrate the charisma and determination of a towering figure in the struggle for racial equality in South Africa. Now in a new edition, No Easy Walk to Freedom is both a vital historical document, and a chronicle of the life and thoughts of one of the greatest campaigners for freedom the world has known.

    Under his leadership, the PAIGC liberated three-quarters of the countryside of Guinea in less than ten years of revolutionary struggle. Cabral distinguished himself among modern revolutionaries by the long and careful preparation, both theoretical and practical, which he undertook before launching the revolutionary struggle, and, in the course of the preparation, became one of the world's outstanding theoreticians of anti-imperialist struggle. This volume contains some of the principal speeches Cabral delivered in his last years during visits to the United States. The first is his speech to the fourth Commission of the United Nations General Assembly on October 16, 1972, on "Questions of Territories Under Portuguese Administration." His brilliant speeches on "National Liberation and Culture" (1970) and "Identity and Dignity in the Context of the National Liberation Struggle" (1972) follow.

    In 1973 this book was banned by the Apartheid South African Government.Looking On Darkness tells the story of black actor Joseph Malan as he awaits execution for the murder of his white lover.

    Peter Beard, photograher. Eyelids of Morning. The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles and Men. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, [1990]. First Chronicle Books edition. Quarto. 260 pages. Photographs by and other illustrations compiled by Peter Beard. Publisher's binding and dust jacket.This reissued classic, hailed by reviewers as "enthralling" and "vividly dramatic" when it was first published in 1974, chronicles Graham's three years in Kenya researching the habits, history, and dubious future of one of the last great crocodile populations on earth. 9" x 12". Color & b&w photos & illus.

    REVOLUTIONARY PATH Kwame Nkrumah This book was compiled during the last two years of the author's life.

    Abiola IreleWinner of the Grand Prix Litteraire de l'Afrique Noire"I think this is perhaps the best African novel on colonialism and it draws very richly on various modes of oral literature." --Ralph Austen, University of Chicago"It is a wonderful introduction to colonial rule as experienced by Africans, and in particular, to the rule of African middlemen." --Martin A. Klein, University of Toronto"The Fortunes of Wangrin is not only a wonderful novel by one of Africa's most renowned intellectuals, it is also literally filled with information about French colonization and its impact on traditional African societies, African resistance and collaboration to colonization, the impact of French education in Africa, and a host of other subjects of interest." --Francois Manchuelle, New York UniversityWangrin is a rogue and an operator, hustling both the colonial French and his own people. He is funny, outrageous, corrupt, traditional, and memorable. Ba's book bridges the chasm between oral and written literature. The stories about Wangrin are drawn from oral sources, but in the hands of this gifted writer these materials become transformed through the power of artistic imagination and license.The Fortunes of Wangrin is a classic in Franchophone African literature.Amadou Hampate Ba was a distinguished Malian poet and scholar of African oral tradition and precolonial history.Aina Pavolini Taylor is an independent translator with wide experience of Africa, now living and working in Italy.F. Abiola Irele is a professor in the Department of Black Studies at Ohio State University.

    At its centre was a man who bore the Hausa name Shehu Usuman dan Fodio - the Shaikh 'Uthman, son of Fodio. The movement he led, and the successful jihad, or holy war, he fought to reform Islam in Hausaland, brought about significant changes in Africa.

    

    With a new introduction by Julian Rademeyer and a ‘missing chapter’ never before published, a new generation of readers can enjoy and learn from the extraordinary story of how the white rhino was saved from extinction four decades ago.From Ian Player’s first visit to the Umfolozi Game Reserve in South Africa’s Zululand in 1952, the salvation of the white rhino from extinction became an obsession with him. The white rhino, the second largest animal in the world, had roamed over the southern half of the African continent in large numbers during the nineteenth century and before. By the 1960s fewer than five hundred remained, confined to 72 000 acres, not nearly enough territory for them to remain healthy and alive.The problem confronting Ian Player and his coworkers was twofold: how to repopulate the game reserves of Africa where white rhinos had once lived, and how to supply white rhinos to the zoos of the world. The techniques for capturing and transporting the huge animals are fascinating.The White Rhino Saga, Alan Paton writes in his foreword, ‘is a book for every lover of the wild. The danger of captures, the disappointments, the ultimate successes, makes a splendid tale.’ It is a tale of adventure, of Africa, of animals – and of the man who set out to save them.

    Expelled from Uganda and arriving in a cold and overcast London, Mahmood Mamdani shares his experiences in a camp run by the UK government’s resettlement board and explores the theme of political identity—the politicization of racial identity and its reproduction after independence. A telling and gripping story that will be familiar to refugees and those seeking asylum in Britain, this vivid autobiography is as pertinent today as when it was first published in 1973.

    Curtain sought to discover the British image of Africa for the years 1780-1850.

    Provides descriptions of the characteristics, habits, distribution, and migration patterns of African mammals.

    Ranging from prehistoric time to independence it covers the former French as well as British colonies.

    This book is an important and delightful contribution to mythology, folklore, history, African culture and black studies. Included in the appendix are some Yoruba songs and takes know among Afro-American communities in the West Indies and Brazil.

    He has chosen to entitle this volume The Gambler because it deals with the most significant decision of his life - the decision to become a writer.The first part of The Gambler is a story of post-war rehabilitation, of adjustment to civilian life, to marriage. This took place on a farm in Northern France, where childhood memories and family ties made him feel at home. But increasingly Stuart Cloete felt a compulsion to identify with the land of his forebears - South Africa. Thus he bade Europe goodbye, and went out to the Transvaal, where he spent a number of years, building up run-down farms, and creating a home for himself and his wife.Temperamental differences and growing incompatibility gradually drove a wedge between the couple, and it was at this time that Stuart Cloete first felt the urge to write. In the mid-1930s he took the fateful decision, returned to England, and wrote his famous novel Turning Wheels It was an instant success in America also. It was on his way to New York to celebrate that he met his second wife.

    

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    1973 Ballantine mass market paperback, L.S.B. Leakey (Adam's ancestors: The evolution of man and his culture ). The author shares his life and his work as an archaeologist and naturalist whose discoveries in the Olduvai Gorge played a major role in human evolutionary theory.