To Strive For African Greatness

Author : Vincent Mapesi Gondwe
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781612041643

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To Strive for African Greatness by Vincent Mapesi Gondwe Pdf

To Strive for African Greatness is about a people emerging from slavery, but continuing to be victims of socio-political ills that must be overcome. The problems include widespread strife, dictatorships, corruption, rising crime rates, rampant disease, starvation, economic disparity and mushrooming slums. According to Vincent Mapesi Gondwe, We, the Africans, more than any other people, should strive to make significant contributions toward perfecting our life as human beings. The author hopes his autobiographical novel portrays a dream that will awaken and nourish similar dreams in young Africans. He writes of his heightened awareness nurtured during his secondary school and university years spent in the U.S. while reaching for his dreams. I began it in the early 1950s, with the introduction of Western formal education into my life, which stirred higher aspirations. To Strive for African Greatness is a story made all the stronger by its use of a narrator, and for the pictures and sketches that strengthen the narration about revolutionaries.

Author : Nigel L. Walker,Sheets Hulbert
Publisher : Swallow Publishing, LLC
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 0999902644

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STRIVE for Greatness by Nigel L. Walker,Sheets Hulbert Pdf

Author : Atinuke
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781536205374

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Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke Pdf

Discover the exhilarating diversity of the African continent in storyteller Atinuke’s kaleidoscopic nonfiction guide to the people, flora, and fauna of all fifty-five countries. A Nigerian storyteller explores the continent of Africa country by country: its geography, peoples, animals, history, resources, and cultural diversity. The book is divided into five distinct sections—South, East, West, Central, and North—and each country is showcased on its own bright, energetic page brimming with friendly facts on science, industry, food, sports, music, wildlife, landscape features, even snippets of local languages. The richest king, the tallest sand dunes, and the planet’s largest waterfall all make appearances along with drummers, cocoa growers, inventors, balancing stones, salt lakes, high-tech cities, and nomads who use GPS! Atinuke’s lively and comprehensive introduction to all fifty-five African countries—a celebration scaled to dazzle and delight even very young readers—evokes the continent’s unique blend of modern and traditional. Complete with colorful maps, an index, and richly patterned and textured illustrations by debut children’s book artist Mouni Feddag, Africa, Amazing Africa is both a beautiful gift book and an essential classroom and social studies resource.

Author : Gerald D. Curry
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781475984804

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Striving for Perfection by Gerald D. Curry Pdf

The success of todays military officers rests squarely on the shoulders of the men and women of the past. In Striving for Perfection, author Gerald D. Curry, a former US Airforce Colonel, reaches back through the annals of history to help todays professional military officers navigate a successful career. Curry shares rarely known insights on historical accomplishments from every major war in US history, from the Revolutionary War through the Global War on Terrorism. He pulls unique examples of success strategies, cultural understandings, and sage advice from African American servicemen and women who have worn the uniform. Striving for Perfection goes beyond the typical leadership principles by offering significant experiences told from an African American perspectivefrom the only people deliberately brought to America for the sole purpose of servitude. Curry shows how black American patriots consistently looked beyond their current circumstances and served gallantly while seeking equality and social justice. This guide describes the barriers that have existed within most African American communities, and it narrates how these neighborhoods continually birth great leaders. Although geared toward military professionals, Striving for Perfection can help all leaders in any profession who supervise and work with African Americans. Introducing proven success strategies, it provides a better understanding of diversity and inclusion.

Author : William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : African Americans
ISBN : OCLC:593560803

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Strivings of the Negro People by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois Pdf

Author : Hlumelo Biko
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781868425228

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The Great African Society by Hlumelo Biko Pdf

Only a dramatic, imaginatively crafted intervention - a massive redistribution programme managed by the private sector, far-reaching policy changes in schooling, housing and health, and better, disciplined governance - will deliver the genuine liberation South Africa's still-poor millions expected from the 1994 settlement. Without it, without the real promise of a free, meritocratic society, South Africa will flounder and fail as corruption, crime, social decay, hopelessness and anger engulf society. This is the compelling thesis of Hlumelo Biko's hard-hitting, thoughtful analysis of South Africa's past, present and future, a sobering assessment of where we stand today, and where we need to go. At once unnervingly candid and inspiring, The Great African Society demolishes the complacent optimism that underpins much soft thinking about South Africa's future and places at the service of public debate practical, achievable objectives for business, government and civil society. South Africa's challenge, the book argues, is to act now to avoid the mounting threat of revolt and decline that would devalue every political and economic achievement of the past decade-and-a-half and leave Nelson Mandela's feted rainbow nation staring decrepitude in the face. No debate from here on about the South African future can be taken seriously without weighing Biko's insights and his warnings. The Great African Society is vividly moral in its intentions, but sober and unsentimental in examining political and economic imperatives. It is guaranteed to make the reader sit up and take stock afresh.

Author : William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-21
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781948436816

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Biography of Dr. Percy Lavon Julian (1899-2022): Greatest African-American Chemist of the 20th Century by William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi Pdf

For the best story (enactment) of the life of Dr. Percy Lavon Julian, the greatest African-American chemist of the 20th century, google PBS NOVA "Forgotten Genius" YouTube. The present book is a good bibliography and sourcebook, with 48 photographs and illustrations, many in color.

Author : Randal D. Pinkett,Jeffrey A. Robinson,Philana Patterson
Publisher : AMACOM
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780814416815

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Black Faces in White Places by Randal D. Pinkett,Jeffrey A. Robinson,Philana Patterson Pdf

Discover how African-American professionals can combine their personal strengths with the wisdom of others to plant the seeds of a positive, lasting legacy in the workplace. Randal Pinkett was the first African-American winner on The Apprentice. When he won, he also became the only contestant to be asked to share his victory with a white woman. For generations, African-Americans have been told that they need to work twice as hard as everyone else to succeed. However, as millions of black Americans were reminded by Pinkett's experience, sometimes hard work is not enough. Black Faces in White Places is about "the game", the competitive world in which we all live and work. The book offers 10 revolutionary strategies for playing, mastering, and changing the game for the current generation, while undertaking a wholesale redefinition of the rules for those who will follow. In this book, you will: Expand yourself beyond your comfort zone Recognize and demonstrate the four facets of excellence Build beneficial relationships and powerful networks Identify different mentors and learn from others' experiences Discover ways of working with others to facilitate collective action Based on the authors' considerable experiences in business, in the public eye, and in the minority, the book shows how African-American professionals can (and must) think and act both entrepreneurially and "intrapreneurially". Black Faces in White Places not only explains shattering the old "glass ceiling” and changing the concept of success, but also examines the four dimensions of the contemporary black experience: identity, society, meritocracy, and opportunity.

Author : Emmanuel D. Babatunde,Abdul Karim Bangura
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527585775

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Great Books Written by Africans across the Academic Disciplines by Emmanuel D. Babatunde,Abdul Karim Bangura Pdf

This volume is the first text to provide a comprehensive account of the great books across the academic disciplines written by Africans born in the continent and those who became naturalized citizens of African countries. These great books are those that have had a powerful, important or affecting influence on the author of a chapter in this book, as an individual, and on society. The books included here are mostly of the storytelling type and, thus, not representative of most of the academic disciplines. This volume allows each contributor to write a chapter on a discipline showcasing five great books written by African authors. Each selection is appraised and suggestions made by other experts in a discipline, while every chapter entails an introduction to the topic, a conceptual discussion of the discipline, a book-by-book review of the five books, and a conclusion and recommendations for research using the selected books.

Author : Roslyn Wallach Bologh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135156435

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Love Or Greatness (Routledge Revivals) by Roslyn Wallach Bologh Pdf

This work, first published in 1990, reissues the first thorough examination of the essentially masculine nature of Max Weber's social and political thinking. Through a detailed examination of his central texts, the author demonstrates Weber's masculine reading of 'social life' and shows how his work advocates a masculine form of life that poses a challenge to contemporary women and to feminism. In particular, she addresses the patriarchal implications of Weber's belief in the need to relegate the ethic of brotherly love to a private sphere in order to make possible rational action and the achievement of greatness in the public sphere.

Author : Daniel Chu,Elliott Percival Skinner
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0865431671

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A Glorious Age in Africa by Daniel Chu,Elliott Percival Skinner Pdf

Illustrated by Monetta Barnett. Tells the story of the rise of the great African empires - Ghana, Mali, and Songhay - and charts their progress from the eighth to the sixteenth century.

Author : IBP USA
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781433006210

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Central African Republic Foreign Policy and Government Guide Volume 1 Strategic Information and Developments by IBP USA Pdf

2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. Central African Republic Foreign Policy and Government Guide

Author : Katherine Clay Bassard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400822591

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Spiritual Interrogations by Katherine Clay Bassard Pdf

The late eighteenth century witnessed an influx of black women to the slave-trading ports of the American Northeast. The formation of an early African American community, bound together by shared experiences and spiritual values, owed much to these women's voices. The significance of their writings would be profound for all African Americans' sense of their own identity as a people. Katherine Clay Bassard's book is the first detailed account of pre-Emancipation writings from the period of 1760 to 1863, in light of a developing African American religious culture and emerging free black communities. Her study--which examines the relationship among race, culture, and community--focuses on four women: the poet Phillis Wheatley and poet and essayist Ann Plato, both Congregationalists; and the itinerant preacher Jarena Lee, and Shaker eldress Rebecca Cox Jackson, who, with Lee, had connections with African Methodism. Together, these women drew on what Bassard calls a "spirituals matrix," which transformed existing literary genres to accommodate the spiritual music and sacred rituals tied to the African diaspora. Bassard's important illumination of these writers resurrects their path-breaking work. They were cocreators, with all black women who followed, of African American intellectual life.

Author : Dumani Mandela,Warren Goldstein
Publisher : Jacana Media
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1919931546

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African Soul Talk by Dumani Mandela,Warren Goldstein Pdf

These upbeat discussions between Dumani Mandela and Rabbi Warren Goldstein cover politics, culture, religion, and nation building in South Africa.

Author : Moky Makura
Publisher : Penguin Global
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132443800

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Africa's Greatest Entrepreneurs by Moky Makura Pdf

Comprises of a series of profiles on some of the most successful and dynamic businesspeople operating in Africa. This work focuses on the personality as well as the story of how they achieved their success in their particular environment or field.