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Author : Mansfield Irving Smith
Release : 1966
Genre : African students
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Book Synopsis The East African Airlifts of 1959, 1960 and 1961 by : Mansfield Irving Smith
Download or read book The East African Airlifts of 1959, 1960 and 1961 written by Mansfield Irving Smith. This book was released on 1966. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mansfield Irving Smith
Release : 1999
Genre : African students
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Book Synopsis The East African Airlifts of 1959, 1960 and 1961 by : Mansfield Irving Smith
Download or read book The East African Airlifts of 1959, 1960 and 1961 written by Mansfield Irving Smith. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephens, Robert F.
Release : 2014-01-16
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 309/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Kenyan Student Airlifts to America 1959-1961 by : Stephens, Robert F.
Download or read book Kenyan Student Airlifts to America 1959-1961 written by Stephens, Robert F.. This book was released on 2014-01-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did it take to get hundreds of Kenyan students, thirsting for higher education, into US colleges in the late 1950s and early 1960s? It took perseverance, help from countless people, and the overwhelming desire of the students themselves. This is an engaging and insightful book about an important and ignored slice of history. When we think of vital historical airlifts, minds race back to the Berlin Airlift. Robert Stephens takes us to another American-sponsored airlift that brought a generation of future African leaders to American shores for higher education. This effort profoundly altered the lives of these men and women, the development of East African nations, and the perception of America. At a time when the world struggled to understand the value of 'soft' as opposed to military power, this book offers a valuable historical model. Set during the last days of colonialism in Kenya, the book documents the development of human talent that would foster a majority-ruled independent Kenya. Its focus on Africans ñ their individual and collective biographies, aspirations and intermittent assistance from the US and others - is the story.
Author : Tom Shachtman
Release : 2009-09-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 906/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Airlift to America by : Tom Shachtman
Download or read book Airlift to America written by Tom Shachtman. This book was released on 2009-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the long-hidden saga of how a handful of Americans and East Africans fought the British colonial government, the U.S. State Department, and segregation to transport to, or support at, U.S. and Canadian universities, between 1959 and 1963, nearly 800 young East African men and women who would go on to change their world and ours. The students supported included Barack Obama Sr., future father of a U.S. president, Wangari Maathai, future Nobel Peace Prize laureate, as well as the nation-builders of post-colonial East Africa -- cabinet ministers, ambassadors, university chancellors, clinic and school founders. The airlift was conceived by the unusual partnership of the charismatic, later-assassinated Kenyan Tom Mboya and William X. Scheinman, a young American entrepreneur, with supporting roles played by Jackie Robinson, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, and Martin Luther King, Jr. The airlift even had an impact on the 1960 presidential race, as Vice-President Richard Nixon tried to muscle the State Department into funding the project to prevent Senator Jack Kennedy from using his family foundation to do so and reaping the political benefit. The book is based on the files of the airlift's sponsor, the African American Students Foundation, untouched for almost fifty years.
Author : Jim C. Harper
Release : 2005-12-09
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 876/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Western-Educated Elites in Kenya, 1900-1963 by : Jim C. Harper
Download or read book Western-Educated Elites in Kenya, 1900-1963 written by Jim C. Harper. This book was released on 2005-12-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western-educated Elites in Kenya, proposes to conduct a critical examination of the emergence of the American-educated Kenyan elites (the Asomi) and their role in the nationalist movement and eventually their Africanization of the Civil and Private sectors in Kenya.
