African Town

Author : Charles Waters,Irene Latham
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780593322895

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African Town by Charles Waters,Irene Latham Pdf

Chronicling the story of the last Africans brought illegally to America in 1860, African Town is a powerful and stunning novel-in-verse. Cover may vary. In 1860, long after the United States outlawed the importation of enslaved laborers, 110 men, women and children from Benin and Nigeria were captured and brought to Mobile, Alabama aboard a ship called Clotilda. Their journey includes the savage Middle Passage and being hidden in the swamplands along the Alabama River before being secretly parceled out to various plantations, where they made desperate attempts to maintain both their culture and also fit into the place of captivity to which they'd been delivered. At the end of the Civil War, the survivors created a community for themselves they called African Town, which still exists to this day. Told in 14 distinct voices, including that of the ship that brought them to the American shores and the founder of African Town, this powerfully affecting historical novel-in-verse recreates a pivotal moment in US and world history, the impacts of which we still feel today.

Author : Bill Freund
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139459556

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The African City by Bill Freund Pdf

This book is comprehensive both in terms of time coverage, from before the Pharaohs to the present moment and in that it tries to consider cities from the entire continent, not just Sub-Saharan Africa. Apart from factual information and rich description material culled from many sources, it looks at many issues from why urban life emerged in the first place to how present-day African cities cope in difficult times. Instead of seeing towns and cities as somehow extraneous to the real Africa, it views them as an inherent part of developing Africa, indigenous, colonial, and post-colonial and emphasizes the extent to which the future of African society and African culture will likely be played out mostly in cities. The book is written to appeal to students of history but equally to geographers, planners, sociologists and development specialists interested in urban problems.

Author : Arianna Huhn
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781789208900

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Nourishing Life by Arianna Huhn Pdf

In this accessible ethnography of a small town in northern Mozambique, everyday cultural knowledge and behaviors about food, cooking, and eating reveal the deeply human pursuit of a nourishing life. This emerges less through the consumption of specific nutrients than it does in the affective experience of alimentation in contexts that support vitality, compassion, and generative relations. Embedded within central themes in the study of Africa south of the Sahara, the volume combines insights from philosophy and food studies to find textured layers of meaning in a seemingly simple cuisine.

Author : Kristin Mann
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253117083

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Slavery and the Birth of an African City by Kristin Mann Pdf

As the slave trade entered its last, illegal phase in the 19th century, the town of Lagos on West Africa's Bight of Benin became one of the most important port cities north of the equator. Slavery and the Birth of an African City explores the reasons for Lagos's sudden rise to power. By linking the histories of international slave markets to those of the regional suppliers and slave traders, Kristin Mann shows how the African slave trade forever altered the destiny of the tiny kingdom of Lagos. This magisterial work uncovers the relationship between African slavery and the growth of one of Africa's most vibrant cities.

Author : Jeffrey Butler
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813940595

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Cradock by Jeffrey Butler Pdf

Cradock, the product of more than twenty years of research by Jeffrey Butler, is a vivid history of a middle-sized South African town in the years when segregation gradually emerged, preceding the rapid and rigorous implementation of apartheid. Although Butler was born and raised in Cradock, he avoids sentimentality and offers an ambitious treatment of the racial themes that dominate recent South African history through the details of one emblematic community. Augmenting the obvious political narrative, Cradock examines poor infrastructural conditions that typify a grossly unequal system of racial segregation but otherwise neglected in the region’s historiography. Butler shows, with the richness that only a local study could provide, how the lives of blacks, whites, and mixed-race coloreds were affected by the bitter transition from segregation before 1948 to apartheid thereafter.

Author : Adeline Masquelier
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253003461

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Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town by Adeline Masquelier Pdf

In the small town of Dogondoutchi, Niger, Malam Awal, a charismatic Sufi preacher, was recruited by local Muslim leaders to denounce the practices of reformist Muslims. Malam Awal's message has been viewed as a mixed blessing by Muslim women who have seen new definitions of Islam and Muslim practice impact their place and role in society. This study follows the career of Malam Awal and documents the engagement of women in the religious debates that are refashioning their everyday lives. Adeline Masquelier reveals how these women have had to define Islam on their own terms, especially as a practice that governs education, participation in prayer, domestic activities, wedding customs, and who wears the veil and how. Masquelier's richly detailed narrative presents new understandings of what it means to be a Muslim woman in Africa today.

Author : Fiona Macdonald
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0531144801

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Ancient African Town by Fiona Macdonald Pdf

A tour of Benin City, a West African town and capital of the Edo Empire, located in present-day Nigeria.

Author : Imbolo Mbue
Publisher : Random House
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593132432

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How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue Pdf

A fearless young woman from a small African village starts a revolution against an American oil company in this sweeping, inspiring novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Behold the Dreamers. ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, People • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, The Christian Science Monitor, Marie Claire, Ms. magazine, BookPage, Kirkus Reviews “Mbue reaches for the moon and, by the novel’s end, has it firmly held in her hand.”—NPR We should have known the end was near. So begins Imbolo Mbue’s powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of cleanup and financial reparations to the villagers are made—and ignored. The country’s government, led by a brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interests. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight back. Their struggle will last for decades and come at a steep price. Told from the perspective of a generation of children and the family of a girl named Thula who grows up to become a revolutionary, How Beautiful We Were is a masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghost of colonialism, comes up against one community’s determination to hold on to its ancestral land and a young woman’s willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people’s freedom.

Author : Amelia Boman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1674519834

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Cape Town South Africa by Amelia Boman Pdf

Enjoy the beautiful curated photographs (in color) of Cape Town in South Africa The photos captures the quintessential stunning landmarks, scenery and architectural buildings of the country and city from day to night without no words (texts) This full page picture book will make a great home coffee table decor accessory or as a gift for a loved one 8.5" x 11" / large size Glossy softcover

Author : Fiona MacDonald
Publisher : Spectacular Visual Guides
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-03
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1908973668

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African Town by Fiona MacDonald Pdf

Take an incredible tour through an African Town, exploring its relevance to the people who built it and the lives that they lead. Stunning cut-away illustrations and a clear, concise writing style help lead the reader through the often complex social and historical context

Author : Fiona MacDonald,Gerald Wood
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0531153606

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An Ancient African Town by Fiona MacDonald,Gerald Wood Pdf

A tour of Benin City, a West African town and capital of the Edo Empire, located in present-day Nigeria.

Author : Joseph Forsyth Ingram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Pietermaritzburg
ISBN : NYPL:33433082467246

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The Story of an African City by Joseph Forsyth Ingram Pdf

On the rise and progress of Maritzburg.

Author : Sylviane A. Diouf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199723980

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Dreams of Africa in Alabama by Sylviane A. Diouf Pdf

In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded group of Africans deported to the United States as slaves. Timothy Meaher, an established Mobile businessman, sent the slave ship, the Clotilda , to Africa, on a bet that he could "bring a shipful of niggers right into Mobile Bay under the officers' noses." He won the bet. This book reconstructs the lives of the people in West Africa, recounts their capture and passage in the slave pen in Ouidah, and describes their experience of slavery alongside American-born enslaved men and women. After emancipation, the group reunited from various plantations, bought land, and founded their own settlement, known as African Town. They ruled it according to customary African laws, spoke their own regional language and, when giving interviews, insisted that writers use their African names so that their families would know that they were still alive. The last survivor of the Clotilda died in 1935, but African Town is still home to a community of Clotilda descendants. The publication of Dreams of Africa in Alabama marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. Winner of the Wesley-Logan Prize of the American Historical Association (2007)

Author : William Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Australia
ISBN : UCAL:$B717785

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William Taylor of California, Bishop of Africa by William Taylor Pdf

Author : Alicia Davids
Publisher : HSRC Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : AIDS (Disease) in children
ISBN : 0796921415

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A Situational Analysis of Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Four Districts of South Africa by Alicia Davids Pdf

In 2002, the Human Sciences Research Council was commissioned by the WK Kellogg Foundation to develop and implement a five-year intervention project focusing on orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in southern Africa. In collaboration with several partner organizations, the project currently focuses on how children, families and communities in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe are coping with the impact of HIV/AIDS. The aim of the project is to develop models of best practise so as to enhance and improve support structures for OVC in the southern African region as a whole. This report forms part of a series that examines the work undertaken as part of the Kellogg OVC Intervention Project from 2002 to 2005.