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Kings and Queens of West Africa by Sylviane A. Diouf Pdf
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).
Kings and Queens of East Africa by Sylviane A. Diouf Pdf
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.
First Edition: 100 Great African Kings and Queens (Vol 1) by Pusch Komiete Commey Pdf
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.
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.
Kings and Queens of Central Africa by Sylviane A. Diouf Pdf
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).
Kings and Queens of Southern Africa by Sylviane A. Diouf Pdf
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.
100 Great African Kings and Queens ( Revised Enriched Edition ) by Pusch Komiete Commey Pdf
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.
100 Great African Kings and Queens Volume 1 ( Revised Enriched Edition ) by Pusch Komiete Commey Pdf
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.
The Female King of Colonial Nigeria by Nwando Achebe Pdf
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.
Author : Herman L. Bennett Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press Page : 329 pages File Size : 41,8 Mb Release : 2018-09-10 Category : History ISBN : 9780812295498
African Kings and Black Slaves by Herman L. Bennett Pdf
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.
Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa by Nwando Achebe Pdf
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.
Author : Anthony Ephirim-Donkor Publisher : University Press of America Page : 283 pages File Size : 55,6 Mb Release : 2014-11-24 Category : History ISBN : 9780761865049
The Making of an African King by Anthony Ephirim-Donkor Pdf
Kingship (chieftaincy) disputes are commonplace in Ghana. These disputes may begin as rivalries among eligible candidates, or when ineligible candidates are elected caretaker kings due to their invaluable services to a royal family. However, upon the demise of the caretaker rulers, sometimes their descendants refuse to cede power, thus creating protracted and sometimes violent power struggles. This is exactly what happened to the Ᾱwutu-ābe (Effutu) of Simpa. In 1898, twenty-seven years after the death of a caretaker ruler elected by the Otuano Royal Family for his invaluable service to the royal family, his nephew contested the throne plunging the Ᾱwutu into a cycle of contentious internecine struggle. The Making of an African King examines the source of the struggle as seen by colonial administrators, and the final court ruling in June 2013 between the patrilineal Otuano Royal Family against the non-royal Acquah faction that favors the matrilineal system of descent practiced by the Akan.
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.
