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Ten African heroes : the sweep of independence in Black Africa / Thomas Patrick Melady and Margaret Badum Melady.

Title
Ten African heroes : the sweep of independence in Black Africa / Thomas Patrick Melady and Margaret Badum Melady.
Author
Melady, Thomas Patrick
Publication
Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, 2011.

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Melady, Margaret Badum.
Description
xviii, 205 p. : ill., ports.; 22 cm.
Summary
Up close and personal, a look at African leaders who ignited independence in Black Africa during the 1960s through the eyes of two American forerunners who knew them well. Thomas Melady, a legendary diplomat, went with his wife Margaret to Africa as a young man to serve others and found himself involved with leaders who would change the face of the continent.
Alternative Title
Sweep of independence in Black Africa
Subject
  • Nationalists > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Biography
  • Statesmen > Biography. > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Statesmen
  • National liberation movements > Africa, Sub-Saharan
  • Statesmen > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Biography
  • Africa, Sub-Saharan > Biography
  • Africa, Sub-Saharan > Autonomy and independence movements
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Beginnings -- Leopold Sedar Senghor : poet, philosopher, and founding president of Senegal -- Julius Kambarage Nyerere : the patient architect -- Kenneth David Kaunda : navigator for freedom -- Seretse Khama : courageous advocate for racial reconciliation -- Thomas Joseph Mboya : young man in a hurry -- Holden Roberto : an Angolan patriot -- Eduardo C. Mondlane : martyr for Mozambique -- William V.S. Tubman : new deal for Liberia -- Sylvanus Olympio : West African leader brutally killed in Togo -- Ahmadou Ahidjo : the serene leader of a multiethnic state -- Epilogue -- Appendices. I. Protestant and Catholics speak to leaders of Portugal in 1961 -- II. Senghor's address on the civilization of the universe -- III. Khama's address on racial reconciliation.
ISBN
  • 9781570759291 (pbk.)
  • 1570759294 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2010035612
OCLC
  • 660087902
  • SCSB-11819277
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library