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Ten African heroes : the sweep of independence in Black Africa / Thomas Patrick Melady and Margaret Badum Melady.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Melady, Thomas Patrick.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nationalists--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Biography.
- Nationalists.
- Statesmen--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Biography.
- Statesmen.
- National liberation movements--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
- National liberation movements.
- Africa, Sub-Saharan--Biography.
- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
- Africa, Sub-Saharan--History--Autonomy and independence movements.
- Place of Publication:
- Orbis
- 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:
- 1-60833-016-8
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