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Author : Shabaka Wo'se
Release : 1982
Genre : Africa
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis In Praise of African Women, African Queens, African Gods by : Shabaka Wo'se
Download or read book In Praise of African Women, African Queens, African Gods written by Shabaka Wo'se. This book was released on 1982. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simone Schwarz-Bart
Release : 2001
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 503/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis In Praise of Black Women: Ancient African queens by : Simone Schwarz-Bart
Download or read book In Praise of Black Women: Ancient African queens written by Simone Schwarz-Bart. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Praise of Black Women is a magnificent tribute to women in Africa and the African diaspora from the ancient past to the present. Lavishly illustrated, with text written and selected by the celebrated Guadeloupian novelist Simone Schwarz-Bart, this four-volume series celebrates remarkable women who distinguished themselves in their time and shaped the course of culture and history. Volume 1: Ancient African Queens weaves together oral tradition, folk legends and stories, songs and poems, historical accounts, and travelers tales from Egypt to southern Africa, from prehistory to the nineteenth century. These women rulers, warriors, and heroines include Amanirenas, the queen of Kush who battled Roman armies and defeated them at Aswan; Daurama, mother of the seven Hausa kingdoms; Amina Kulibali, founder of the Gabu dynasty in Senegal; Ana de Sousa Nzinga, who resisted the Portuguese conquest of Angola; Beatrice Kimpa Vita, a Kongo prophet burned at the stake by Christian missionaries; Nanda, mother of the famous warrior-king Shaka Zulu; and many others. These extraordinary women's stories, narrated in the style of African oral tradition, are absorbing, informative, and accessible. The abundant illustrations, many of them rare archival images, depict the diversity among Black women and make this volume a unique treasure for every art lover, every school, and every family."
Author : Rashaad Singleton
Release : 2019-10-05
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Book Rating : 079/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ode to the Black Queen by : Rashaad Singleton
Download or read book Ode to the Black Queen written by Rashaad Singleton. This book was released on 2019-10-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written for the praise and empowerment of black women worldwide. The author highlights some of the black Queens in history who Western scholars failed to acknowledge. He goes into detail about why Black Queens are purposefully left out of the education curriculums all around the world and he exposes who and what is behind it. From Africa to America, he covers numerous black women through a timeline of events who were powerful leaders during their time. If one did not know much about powerful black women in history before reading this book, they definitely will have a good understanding after finishing it. With no apologies, the author shares his overall love and appreciation for black women; the original and eternal Queens of the Earth.
Author : Simone Schwarz-Bart
Release : 2001
Genre :
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ancient African Queens by : Simone Schwarz-Bart
Download or read book Ancient African Queens written by Simone Schwarz-Bart. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nwando Achebe
Release : 2020-07-14
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 802/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa by : Nwando Achebe
Download or read book Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa written by Nwando Achebe. This book was released on 2020-07-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unapologetically African-centered monograph that reveals physical and spiritual forms and systems of female power and leadership in African cultures. Nwando Achebe’s unparalleled study documents elite females, female principles, and female spiritual entities across the African continent, from the ancient past to the present. Achebe breaks from Western perspectives, research methods, and their consequently incomplete, skewed accounts, to demonstrate the critical importance of distinctly African source materials and world views to any comprehensible African history. This means accounting for the two realities of African cosmology: the physical world of humans and the invisible realm of spiritual gods and forces. That interconnected universe allows biological men and women to become female-gendered males and male-gendered females. This phenomenon empowers the existence of particular African beings, such as female husbands, male priestesses, female kings, and female pharaohs. Achebe portrays their combined power, influence, and authority in a sweeping, African-centric narrative that leads to an analogous consideration of contemporary African women as heads of state, government officials, religious leaders, and prominent entrepreneurs.
