African Leaders of the Twentieth Century: Biko, Selassie, Lumumba, Sankara (Ohio Short Histories of Africa)
Brand: Ohio University Press
Categories: Books, Biographies & Memoirs, Leaders & Notable People



Dimensions: 4.25 x 1.3 x 7 inches
ISBN-13: 978-0821421611
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0821421611
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Print length: 624 pages
Publication date: February 17, 2015
subtitle: Paperback – February 17, 2015
author: Lindy Wilson Bereket Habte Selassie Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja Ernest Harsch
review: Editorial Reviews About the Author Lindy Wilson is an independent South African documentary filmmaker and writer. Her films include Crossroads, Last Supper in Hortsley Street, and Robben Island Our University. Bereket Habte Selassie is William E. Leuchtenburg Professor of African Studies and Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and former attorney general of Ethiopia as well as associate justice of the Supreme Court of Ethiopia. Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja is a professor of African, African American, and diaspora studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and professor emeritus of African studies at Howard University. He is a past president of the African Studies Association and the author of The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People’s History. Ernest Harsch is a research scholar at the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University. He worked on African issues at the United Nations for more than twenty years and is the author of South Africa: White Rule, Black Revolt.