Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Africa - West    3. African Americans    4. Civil rights movements    5. Emigration & Immigration    6. Ethnic Issues    7. Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General    8. Ghana    9. History    10. Social Science    11. Sociology    12. United States    13. Social Science / African-American Studies    14. expatriates; black expatriates; Kwame Nkrumah; Ghana; citizenship; civil rights; pan-Africanism; decolonization; African nationalism; black nationalism; Malcolm X; nonalignment; black intellectuals; Cold War; Martin Luther King Jr.; George Padmore; W. E. B. Du Bois; Maya Angelou; Richard Wright; Pauli Murray; C. L. R. James; St. Clair Drake; Muhammad Ali; James Baldwin; Julian Mayfield   

Subjects:  1. Africa - General    2. Business & Economics    3. Business/Economics    4. Commerce    5. Deforestation    6. Forest policy    7. Ghana    8. Natural Resources    9. Nature    10. Nature / Field Guide Books    11. Economics, Finance, Business and Industry    12. History / Africa    13. Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects   

Subjects:  1. Africa - General    2. Ghana    3. History    4. History - General History    5. History: World    6. African history    7. History / Africa   

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Nkrumah Lives
This is a good book on one of Africa's greatest sons who had a clear vision of the direction that the continent should follow. Nkrumah led Ghana to its independence but as far as he was concerned, Ghana could not be fully independent until the whole continent was free. He also believed in economic emancipation of the African continent as well as African unity.
Hopes,Dreams and Aspirations.
This book is excellent! It provided a wonderful insight into an icon's hopes, dreams and aspirations for his country. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1909-1972    2. 20th century    3. Africa    4. Biography    5. Biography & Autobiography    6. Biography / Autobiography    7. Biography/Autobiography    8. Ghana    9. Historical - General    10. History    11. Nationalism    12. Nkrumah, Kwame,    13. Pan-Africanism    14. People of Color    15. Presidents    16. West Africa - History    17. ASIA    18. Biography & Autobiography / Historical    19. Biography: general    20. Nkrumah, Kwame   

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a key part of the Cold War elucidated
Gray's book does a masterful job of elucidating a key part of the Cold War.In looking at the Cold War in Europe,historians, both academic and popular/armchair, often overlook what America's allies were doing as they fought their own fronts in the larger Cold War.While NATO allies like Britain, Germany, and Italy were loyal supporters of the U.S., and they played a role in Washington's strategy, they also had their own agendas.Nowhere was this more important than in West Germany.
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Subjects:  1. 1945-    2. Economic policy    3. Europe - Germany    4. Foreign relations    5. General    6. Germany (East)    7. Germany (West)    8. Hallstein, Walter,    9. History    10. History: World    11. International Relations - General    12. Politics / Current Events    13. Recognition (International law)    14. World politics    15. East Germany, DDR    16. European history: postwar, from c 1945 -    17. Germany    18. Hallstein, Walter    19. History / Germany    20. International relations    21. West Germany    22. West Germany; Hallstein Doctrine; East Germany; Konrad Adenauer; Walter Ulbricht; German identity; German nationalism; Cold War; Third World; Ludwig Erhard; Willy Brandt; Ostpolitik; Yugoslavia; Egypt; Syria; Iraq; Guinea; Ghana; Tanzania; India; Indonesia; Ceylon; Cambodia    23. c 1945 to c 1960    24. c 1960 to c 1970   

Subjects:  1. 1957-    2. 1960-    3. Africa    4. Ghana    5. History    6. Pan-Africanism    7. Politics/International Relations   

Subjects:  1. Africa - General    2. History    3. History - General History    4. History: World    5. Ghana    6. History / Africa    7. Islam    8. World history   

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Christianity    3. Christianity - Evangelism    4. Church history    5. Ghana    6. Pentecostalism    7. Religion    8. Sociology    9. Sociology of Religion   

Subjects:  1. Africa - General    2. Dictionaries    3. Ghana    4. History    5. History - General History    6. History: World    7. Reference    8. West Africa - History    9. African history    10. Reference works    11. Social Science / Reference   

Subjects:  1. Anlo (African people)    2. Ethnic Studies - General    3. Ewe (African people)    4. Gender Studies    5. Ghana    6. History: World    7. Sex role    8. Slavery    9. Social conditions    10. Africa    11. Social history   

Subjects:  1. Church history    2. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints    3. Ghana    4. Missions    5. Mormon Church    6. Nigeria   

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Wait, there's more!A Video!
Stage-Shakers! Ghana's Concert Party Theatre Nothing short of superb
Cole's study of concert party, a traveling musical theater in Ghana, is nothing short of superb. Not only does she manage to show the history of these itinerant performers and the world they made and remade with every performance, but she uses her analysis of concert party as a way to talk about and problematize the theories and obsessions of our time that sometimes have overdetermined analyses of things African. That concert party performers imitated women, or wore blackface, all complicate our own academic ideas about the performance of gender, or of race, and how those might be different in Africa than in the US or Latin America. Cole's manuscript gives us a history of an African musical form in more detail than anything we have had before, and in so doing she gives us a history of class and culture in Ghana that I think will make a strong impact on African history. But it also challenges scholars to think anew about how to understand and interpret African cultural forms, and shows how limiting it is�for Africans and for academics� to pidgeon-hole those cultural expressions into examples of buzz words and jargon. This is a book that doesn't just interrogate culture and pronounce it complicated. This is a book that looks the complications firmly in the eye and encourages them to stare right back�.Cole animates the complexities and contradictions of popular African culture to make us think more seriously, more carefully, about how race and gender take on meanings and shed connotations in societies increasingly aware of their place in the world. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Comedy    3. General    4. Ghana    5. History    6. History: World    7. Music-halls (Variety theaters, cabarets, etc.)    8. Performing Arts    9. Pop Arts / Pop Culture    10. Popular Culture - General    11. Theater - History & Criticism    12. Traveling theater   

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A thoughtful narrative of modern development
I was unfamiliar with the trends in African and Southeast Asian development before reading this book ... the title and subject seemed interesting.However, during the course of my reading it, I have grown significantly more knowledgable about how "3rd world" nations are on their own tracts to develop and enter the ranks of "modern societies".
A must buy book for everyone
I am from Thailand and a native Thai.Read more

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Development - Economic Development    3. Development - Sustainable Development    4. Economic Conditions    5. Economics - Comparative    6. Ghana    7. Political Science    8. Political corruption    9. Political leadership    10. Politics/International Relations    11. Thailand    12. ASIA    13. Africa    14. Developing countries    15. Development economics    16. Development studies    17. History / Africa   

Subjects:  1. Africa    2. Art    3. Art & Art Instruction    4. Fanti (African people)    5. Flags    6. Ghana    7. History - African    8. Material culture    9. Textile Arts    10. Textile fabrics, Fanti   

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Not so much a biography, more a history of political struggle in Africa
Now, I had my reservations when my mother bought me this book, I don't tend to read biographies, least of all of C list celebrities.However I was surprised by this book - it is excellent. George Alagiah has an engaging writing style full of wit with a deeply humanistic sentiment, his experiences in Africa from the time he emigrated from Sri Lanka (as a Tamil) to Ghana up until his time as a BBC reporter are used as background to the history of a number of countries and their adjustment to a post-colonial world.He offers explanations of their frequent failures, examples of their successes and his optimistic hopes for the future. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Africa    2. Editors, Journalists, Publishers    3. Essays & Travelogues    4. Travel    5. Travel - Foreign    6. AFRICA_HISTORY    7. AFRICA_SOCIAL CONDITIONS    8. Biography & Autobiography / Editors, Journalists, Publishers    9. Biography: general    10. Ghana    11. JOURNALISTS_BIOGRAPHY    12. TELEVISION PERSONALITIES    13. Travel writing   

Subjects:  1. Africa - General    2. Akan (African people)    3. Ashanti (African people)    4. Ghana    5. Gold    6. History    7. History - General History    8. History: World    9. West Africa - History    10. Africa    11. African history    12. History / Africa    13. West Africa   

Subjects:  1. Africa - General    2. History - General History    3. Politics/International Relations   

Subjects:  1. Africa    2. Africa - General    3. Boahen, A. Adu    4. Ghana    5. History    6. History - General History    7. History: World    8. 20th century    9. African history: from c 1900 -   

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Fascinating material, but flawed writing style.
This book is quite enlightening in the history of the African slave trade.Contrary to what one might expect from the title and reviews, the author does not solely rely on oral stories from African elders.The stories that the author quotes, though, are always interesting.Especially, the Africans involvement with the slavery.
A hard-hitting alternative history
There has long been silence on the issue of slavery and the Atlantic Slave trade: author Anne Bailey experienced this silence growing up in Jamaica, and as an adult became determined to break this silence, first researching the topic, than interviewing chiefs and elders in Ghana. African Voices Of The Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond The Silence And The Shame focuses on the Anlo Ewe community in Ghana to examine the impact of slavery and slave traders, showing how the trade became unpredictable and moved from the control of Africans to the control of outsiders. Oral narratives reveal why Africans began selling others into transatlantic slavery, providing a hard-hitting alternative history.
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Subjects:  1. Africa - West    2. Africa, West    3. America    4. Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General    5. General    6. Ghana    7. History    8. History - General History    9. History: World    10. Slave trade    11. Slavery    12. History / General   

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A Beautiful, Literate, and Useful Book
I used this book as the text to give 28 6th Graders an introduction to the wealth of Africa's past--and they hung on every word.The mix of storytelling, political, economic, cultural and religious history served as the basis for several lively student presentations.In short, my only complaint about this book is the fact that its out-of-print status prevents me from ordering copies by the dozen for next year's class. Excellent reading.
This book is gorgeously illustrated with lots of graphics taken from authentic textiles and pottery. The legends are written in an easy to read narrative style and take readers from ancient myths through to modern theories on the history of this region. Highly recommended ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's 9-12 - History - General    2. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12)    3. Ghana (Empire)    4. History    5. History - Africa    6. Islam    7. People & Places - Africa    8. Songhai Empire