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Author : Kwame Nkrumah
Release : 1960
Genre : Africa
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Book Synopsis Hands Off Africa! by : Kwame Nkrumah
Download or read book Hands Off Africa! written by Kwame Nkrumah. This book was released on 1960. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Hochschild
Release : 2019-05-14
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 202/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis King Leopold's Ghost by : Adam Hochschild
Download or read book King Leopold's Ghost written by Adam Hochschild. This book was released on 2019-05-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. . While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian. Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize in 1999, King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of this man’s brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. It is also the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity.
Author : Jason Stearns
Release : 2012-03-27
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 594/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dancing in the Glory of Monsters by : Jason Stearns
Download or read book Dancing in the Glory of Monsters written by Jason Stearns. This book was released on 2012-03-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "meticulously researched and comprehensive" (Financial Times) history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa's Congo, with first-hand accounts of the continent's worst conflict in modern times. At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal war in which millions have died. In Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, renowned political activist and researcher Jason K. Stearns has written a compelling and deeply-reported narrative of how Congo became a failed state that collapsed into a war of retaliatory massacres. Stearns brilliantly describes the key perpetrators, many of whom he met personally, and highlights the nature of the political system that brought these people to power, as well as the moral decisions with which the war confronted them. Now updated with a new introduction, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters tells the full story of Africa's Great War.
Author : Gilah Manolson
Release : 2013-12-01
Genre : Chastity
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Book Rating : 824/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hands Off! by : Gilah Manolson
Download or read book Hands Off! written by Gilah Manolson. This book was released on 2013-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this frank and eye-opening book, the author, an international speaker on relationships living in Jerusalem, offers a thought-provoking perspective on the power of touch--and the power of refraining from it. Including ancient Jewish sources coupled with modern wisdom, Hands Off! This May Be Love offers an enlightening perspective on how a radical old/new idea can help you achieve genuine and enduring love.
Author : Lee Wengraf
Release : 2018-02-19
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 763/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Extracting Profit by : Lee Wengraf
Download or read book Extracting Profit written by Lee Wengraf. This book was released on 2018-02-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extracting profit explains why Africa, in the first decade and a half of the twenty-first century, has undergone an economic boom. This period of “Africa rising” did not lead to the creation of jobs but has instead fueled the growth of the extraction of natural resources and an increasingly-wealthy African ruling class.
