The Autobiography Of An African Princess

Author : F. Massaquoi
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780230609587
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of an African Princess written by F. Massaquoi and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical edition of Princess Fatima Massaquoi's memoirs begins with her birth in southern Sierra Leone, continues through her childhood in Liberia, moves on to Hamburg, Germany, where she lived and experienced the rise of the Nazi movement, and ends with her life in the United States.

Author : F. Massaquoi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137102500
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of an African Princess written by F. Massaquoi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical edition of Princess Fatima Massaquoi's memoirs begins with her birth in southern Sierra Leone, continues through her childhood in Liberia, moves on to Hamburg, Germany, where she lived and experienced the rise of the Nazi movement, and ends with her life in the United States.

Author : Elizabeth (Princess of Toro.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth of Toro written by Elizabeth (Princess of Toro.) and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walter Dean Myers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780590486699
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At Her Majesty's Request written by Walter Dean Myers and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myers pens this biography of an African princess saved from execution and taken to England where Queen Victoria oversaw her upbringing and where she lived for a time before marrying an African missionary.

Author : Sarah Culberson
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429949740
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Princess Found written by Sarah Culberson and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Culberson was adopted one year after her birth by a loving, white, West Virginian couple and was raised in the United States with little knowledge of her ancestry. Though raised in a loving family, Sarah wanted to know more about the birth parents that had given her up. In 2004, she hired a private investigator to track down her biological father. When she began her search, she never imagined what she would discover or where that information would lead her: she was related to African royalty, a ruling Mende family in Sierra Leone and that she is considered a mahaloi, the child of a Paramount Chief, with the status like a princess. What followed was an unforgettably emotional journey of discovery of herself, a father she never knew, and the spirit of a war-torn nation. A Princess Found is a powerful, intimate revelation of her quest across the world to learn of the chiefdom she could one day call her own.

Author : Emilie Ruete
Publisher : London : Ward and Downey
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of an Arabian Princess, an Autobiography written by Emilie Ruete and published by London : Ward and Downey. This book was released on 1888 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth (Princess of Toro.)
Publisher : Touchstone
ISBN 13 : 9780671673963
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth of Toro written by Elizabeth (Princess of Toro.) and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1989 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nadine Cohodas
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807882747
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Princess Noire written by Nadine Cohodas and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born Eunice Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina, Nina Simone (1933-2003) began her musical life playing classical piano. A child prodigy, she wanted a career on the concert stage, but when the Curtis Institute of Music rejected her, the devastating disappointment compelled her to change direction. She turned to popular music and jazz but never abandoned her classical roots or her intense ambition. By the age of twenty six, Simone had sung at New York City's venerable Town Hall and was on her way. Tapping into newly unearthed material on Simone's family and career, Nadine Cohodas paints a luminous portrait of the singer, highlighting her tumultuous life, her innovative compositions, and the prodigious talent that matched her ambition. With precision and empathy, Cohodas weaves the story of Simone's contentious relationship with audiences and critics, her outspoken support for civil rights, her two marriages and her daughter, and, later, the sense of alienation that drove her to live abroad from 1993 until her death. Alongside these threads runs a more troubling one: Simone's increasing outbursts of rage and pain that signaled mental illness and a lifelong struggle to overcome a deep sense of personal injustice.

Author : Jacob S. Dorman
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807067482
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Princess and the Prophet written by Jacob S. Dorman and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The just-discovered story of how two enigmatic circus performers and the cultural ferment of the Gilded Age sparked the Black Muslim movement in America Delving into new archives and uncovering fascinating biographical narratives, secret rituals, and hidden identities, historian Jacob Dorman explains why thousands of Americans were enthralled by the Islamic Orient, and why some came to see Islam as a global antiracist movement uniquely suited to people of African descent in an era of European imperialism, Jim Crow segregation, and officially sanctioned racism. The Princess and the Prophet tells the story of the Black Broadway performer who, among the world of Arabian acrobats and equestrians, Muslim fakirs, and Wild West shows, discovered in Islam a greater measure of freedom and dignity, and a rebuttal to the racism and parochialism of white America. Overturning the received wisdom that the prophet was born on the East Coast, Dorman has discovered that Noble Drew Ali was born Walter Brister in Kentucky. With the help of his wife, a former lion tamer and “Hindoo” magician herself, Brister renamed himself Prophet Noble Drew Ali and founded the predecessor of the Nation of Islam, the Moorish Science Temple of America, in the 1920s. With an array of profitable businesses, the “Moors” built a nationwide following of thousands of dues-paying members, swung Chicago elections, and embedded themselves in Chicago’s dominant Republican political machine at the height of Prohibition racketeering, only to see their sect descend into infighting in 1929 that likely claimed the prophet’s life. This fascinating untold story reveals that cultures grow as much from imagination as inheritance, and that breaking down the artificial silos around various racial and religious cultures helps to understand not only America’s hidden past but also its polycultural present.

Author : Tony Fitzjohn
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307716058
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Born Wild written by Tony Fitzjohn and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tony Fitzjohn, part missionary, part madman, has been called “one of the world’s most endangered creatures.” An internationally renowned field expert on African wildlife, he is best known for the eighteen years he spent helping Born Free’s George Adamson return more than forty leopards and lions—including the celebrated Christian—to the wild in central Kenya. Born Wild is the memoir of Fitzjohn’s extraordinary life. It shows how a man driven by an impossibly restless spirit can do almost anything, from being a bouncer in a brothel, to surviving a vicious lion attack, to fighting with the Tanzanian government, to being appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by the Queen. A notorious hell-raiser given to scrapes with bandits, evil policemen, and wicked politicians, who has been shot at by poachers and chewed up by lions, Fitzjohn is also a wonderful raconteur. Shenanigans aside, he belongs to that rare species of humans who have sought refuge and meaning in a life truly dedicated to the restoration of the animal kingdom. Many times Tony Fitzjohn has put his life on the line for the cause in which he believes. Born Wild is the story of that passion.