Ten African heroes
Subtitle: the sweep of independence in Black Africa
By: Thomas Patrick Melady and Margaret Badum Melady
Contributors: Melady, Margaret Badum
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Maryknoll, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781570759291
Subjects: Nationalists; National liberation movements; History; Autonomy and independence movements; Biography; Statesmen
Other titles: Sweep of independence in Black Africa
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Beginnings; title: Leopold Sedar Senghor : poet, philosopher, and founding president of Senegal; title: Julius Kambarage Nyerere : the patient architect; title: Kenneth David Kaunda : navigator for freedom; title: Seretse Khama : courageous advocate for racial reconciliation; title: Thomas Joseph Mboya : young man in a hurry; title: Holden Roberto : an Angolan patriot; title: Eduardo C. Mondlane : martyr for Mozambique; title: William V.S. Tubman : new deal for Liberia; title: Sylvanus Olympio : West African leader brutally killed in Togo; title: Ahmadou Ahidjo : the serene leader of a multiethnic state; title: Epilogue; title: Appendices. I. Protestant and Catholics speak to leaders of Portugal in 1961; title: II. Senghor's address on the civilization of the universe; title: III. Khama's address on racial reconciliation.