Author: Thato Mwosa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736829301
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book celebrates phenomenal African women who have made tremendous contributions in advancing African society.
14 African Women Who Made History
Author: Thato Mwosa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736829301
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book celebrates phenomenal African women who have made tremendous contributions in advancing African society.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736829301
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book celebrates phenomenal African women who have made tremendous contributions in advancing African society.
14 African Women Who Made History
Author: Thato Mwosa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736829318
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book celebrates phenomenal African women who have made tremendous contributions in advancing African society.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736829318
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book celebrates phenomenal African women who have made tremendous contributions in advancing African society.
Women Leaders in African History
Author: David Sweetman
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
"Women have played a far more central role in Africa than the history books often suggest. Here are lively portraits of twelve key figures. Their periods of influence range from ancient Egypt to the colonial era. This book offers informative reading for secondary school and university students not only in Africa, but in the rest of the world. It will also have an appeal to the general audience interested in the role of women in history." -- Back cover.
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
"Women have played a far more central role in Africa than the history books often suggest. Here are lively portraits of twelve key figures. Their periods of influence range from ancient Egypt to the colonial era. This book offers informative reading for secondary school and university students not only in Africa, but in the rest of the world. It will also have an appeal to the general audience interested in the role of women in history." -- Back cover.
Sisters in the Struggle
Author: Bettye Collier-Thomas
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814716024
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Tells the stories and documents the contributions of African American women involved in the struggle for racial and gender equality through the civil rights and black power movements in the United States.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814716024
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Tells the stories and documents the contributions of African American women involved in the struggle for racial and gender equality through the civil rights and black power movements in the United States.
African Icons
Author: Tracey Baptiste
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616209003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Every year, American schoolchildren celebrate Black History Month. They study almost exclusively American stories, which are not only rooted in struggle over enslavement or oppression, but also take in only four hundred years of a rich and thrilling history that goes back many millennia across the African continent. Through portraits of ten historical figures - from Menes, the first ruler to be called Pharaoh, to Queen Idia, a sixteenth-century power broker, visionary, and diplomat - African Iconstakes readers on a journey across Africa to meet some of the great leaders and thinkers whose ideas built a continent and shaped our world.
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616209003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Every year, American schoolchildren celebrate Black History Month. They study almost exclusively American stories, which are not only rooted in struggle over enslavement or oppression, but also take in only four hundred years of a rich and thrilling history that goes back many millennia across the African continent. Through portraits of ten historical figures - from Menes, the first ruler to be called Pharaoh, to Queen Idia, a sixteenth-century power broker, visionary, and diplomat - African Iconstakes readers on a journey across Africa to meet some of the great leaders and thinkers whose ideas built a continent and shaped our world.
She Led the Way
Author: Suzanne Curtis Briggs
Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company
ISBN: 9780800741983
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
"This nonfiction book celebrates the contributions of 14 Black women in history who have had a profound impact on the lives of all Americans"--
Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company
ISBN: 9780800741983
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
"This nonfiction book celebrates the contributions of 14 Black women in history who have had a profound impact on the lives of all Americans"--
Life Histories of African Women
African Women
Author: Kathleen Sheldon
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253027314
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
African women's history is a topic as vast as the continent itself, embracing an array of societies in over fifty countries with different geographies, social customs, religions, and historical situations. In African Women: Early History to the 21st Century, Kathleen Sheldon masterfully delivers a comprehensive study of this expansive story from before the time of records to the present day. She provides rich background on descent systems and the roles of women in matrilineal and patrilineal systems. Sheldon's work profiles elite women, as well as those in leadership roles, traders and market women, religious women, slave women, women in resistance movements, and women in politics and development. The rich case studies and biographies in this thorough survey establish a grand narrative about women's roles in the history of Africa.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253027314
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
African women's history is a topic as vast as the continent itself, embracing an array of societies in over fifty countries with different geographies, social customs, religions, and historical situations. In African Women: Early History to the 21st Century, Kathleen Sheldon masterfully delivers a comprehensive study of this expansive story from before the time of records to the present day. She provides rich background on descent systems and the roles of women in matrilineal and patrilineal systems. Sheldon's work profiles elite women, as well as those in leadership roles, traders and market women, religious women, slave women, women in resistance movements, and women in politics and development. The rich case studies and biographies in this thorough survey establish a grand narrative about women's roles in the history of Africa.
A History of the African People
Author: Robert William July
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Holding the World Together
Author: Nwando Achebe
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 029932110X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Featuring contributions from some of the most accomplished scholars on the topic, Holding the World Together explores the rich and varied ways in which women have wielded power across the African continent, from the precolonial period to the present. Suitable for classroom use, this comprehensive volume considers such topics as the representation of African women, their role in national liberation movements, their experiences of religious fundamentalism (both Christian and Muslim), their incorporation into the world economy, changing family and marriage systems, impacts of the world economy on their lives and livelihoods, and the unique challenges they face in the areas of health and disease. Contributors: Nwando Achebe, Ousseina Alidou, Signe Arnfred, Andrea L. Arrington-Sirois, Henryatta Ballah, Teresa Barnes, Josephine Beoku-Betts, Emily Burril, Abena P. A. Busia, Gracia Clark, Alicia Decker, Karen Flint, December Green, Cajetan Iheka, Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Elizabeth M. Perego, Claire Robertson, Kathleen Sheldon, Aili Mari Tripp, Cassandra Veney
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 029932110X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Featuring contributions from some of the most accomplished scholars on the topic, Holding the World Together explores the rich and varied ways in which women have wielded power across the African continent, from the precolonial period to the present. Suitable for classroom use, this comprehensive volume considers such topics as the representation of African women, their role in national liberation movements, their experiences of religious fundamentalism (both Christian and Muslim), their incorporation into the world economy, changing family and marriage systems, impacts of the world economy on their lives and livelihoods, and the unique challenges they face in the areas of health and disease. Contributors: Nwando Achebe, Ousseina Alidou, Signe Arnfred, Andrea L. Arrington-Sirois, Henryatta Ballah, Teresa Barnes, Josephine Beoku-Betts, Emily Burril, Abena P. A. Busia, Gracia Clark, Alicia Decker, Karen Flint, December Green, Cajetan Iheka, Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Elizabeth M. Perego, Claire Robertson, Kathleen Sheldon, Aili Mari Tripp, Cassandra Veney