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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Full-color portraits illustrate the stories of ten people-rulers, educators, inventors, scholars, and explorers-who helped shape the African continent and the world from ancient times through the tumultuous sixteenth century"--
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From the moment that white colonizers stepped onto the shore of Southern Africa, there was black resistance. This resistance continued unabated until apartheid was defeated. But the story of this resistance was suppressed and distorted because whites controlled the history books. This documentary was an attempt to give back to the black people of South Africa their lost history, a history of heroic struggle. Directed by: Peter Davis.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Each time Hector watches white boys playing soccer in Johannesburg, South Africa, he dreams of playing on a real pitch one day and after the fall of apartheid, when he sees the 1996 African Cup of Nations team, he knows that his dream can come true.
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
'In the Shadow of Slavery' explores the wealth of plant life brought to the Americas by slaves and slave ships as provisions, medicines, cordage and bedding, and afterwards cultivated in garden plots. These included coffee, watermelon and okra, as well as the constituents of many well-known products.
9) Afterlives
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal colonization of east Africa. When he was just a boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents on the coast of east Africa by German colonial troops. After years away, fighting against his own people, he returns home to find his parents gone and his sister, Afiya, abandoned into de facto slavery. Hamza too, is...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books, LTD
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Though global in scope, Enslaved makes the past personal through the divers' sadness, anger, reverence and awe as they hold in their hands tangible pieces of their ancestors' world. This book ensures that centuries of slave trading will always be remembered. Enslaved is the first book to tell the story of the transatlantic slave trade from the bottom of the sea.-From inside book cover
13) Nadine Gordimer
Author
Series
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Nadine Gordimer.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Hum if You Don't Know the Words comes a rich, unforgettable story of three unique women in post-Apartheid South Africa who are brought together in their darkest time, and discover the ways that love can transcend the strictest of boundaries. On the outskirts of Johannesburg, seventeen-year-old Zodwa Bambisa lives in desperate poverty in tiny metal shack in a squatter camp, under the shadowy threat of a civil war and a growing AIDS...
15) Doris Lessing
Author
Series
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1965.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Doris Lessing.
Author
Series
Twayne's world authors series. African literature volume TWAS 881
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Nadine Gordimer.
Author
Language
English
Description
"On board a ship bound for Natal, adventurer Allan Quatermain meets Sir Henry Curtis and Captain John Good. His new friends have set out to find Sir Henry's younger brother, who vanished while seeking King Solomon's legendary diamond mines in the African interior. By strange chance, Quatermain has a map to the mines, drawn in blood, and agrees to join the others on their perilous journey. The travellers face many dangers on their quest - the baking...
19) Tabu
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Winner of Critic's Prize at the Berlin Film Festival 2012, Tabu is the exquisitely surreal two-part tale of Aurora, who upon her death-bed will make a mysterious request to see a man no one had ever heard of, transporting us to the foothills of 1960s Africa in order to tell a story that occurred fifty years ago - the story of an irrational taboo and its extravagant consequences. Shot in lush black and white 16mm and 35mm.
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Few places have felt the weight of colonization and slavery the way South Africa has. The ruling powers of Dutch and British settlers set in place a legal system designed to keep the races separated and unequal. Readers will come to understand these laws, known as apartheid, and the terrible effects they had. They will also learn how the echoes of apartheid still resound in both culture and politics in South Africa. Stark, compelling photographs...
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