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Jeevanjee. Mekatilili Wa Menza. Mwana Kupona. Bildad Kaggia. Dedan Kimathi. Elijah Masinde. Jaramogi Oginga Odinga. Jomo Kenyatta. Julius Nyerere. Mohamed Amin. Field Marshall Muthoni. Ronald Ngala. Mwai Kibaki.

African American Almanac features historical and current information on African American life and culture. Biography profiles hundreds of notable African Americans. Breakthroughs provides fascinating details on hundreds of milestones involving African Americans. Chronology features significant milestones in all aspects of African American history beginning in 1492. Voices contains 35 full or excerpted speeches and other notable spoken words of African Americans.

For Vincent Carretta, such disconnects between the public persona and actual life of Equiano only increase his importance as a window into a number of complex, overlapping worlds. Equiano was a sailor, adventurer, entrepreneur, and jack-of-all-trades. Carretta distills years of scholarly detective work on Equiano’s life and writings into a richly textured portrait of the man whose many transformations took him from slave to slave trader to anti-slave-trade advocate, and from pagan to Christian.

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Thurgood Marshall changed American history by challenging it. In the first half of the twentieth century, African Americans were often treated as ...

Pages: 600, Edition: 1, Hardcover, UXL

Essays and interviews from one of the most insightful and thought-provoking black intellectuals to emerge since the heyday of the civil rights move...

Description African American Lives offers up-to-date, authoritative biographies of some 600 noteworthy African Americans. These 1,000-3,000 word biographies, selected from over five thousand entries in the forthcoming eight-volume African American National Biography , illuminate African-American history through the immediacy of individual experience. From Esteban, the earliest known African to set foot in North America in 1528, right up to the continuing careers of Venus and Serena Williams, these...

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Mzee Ali Kalikilima was born near the present-day town of Tabora in western Tanzania, probably in the 1870s. After participating in slave-raiding safaris as a youth, he joined the German East African forces, seeing action at Salaita Hill near Mombasa and fighting as a guerrilla across much of southern Africa before joining the British Colonial Service as a game scout.

This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides reliable information in an easily comprehensible format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history.Dictionary of Literary Biography systematically presents career biographies and criticism of writers...

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