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Additional authors

1. Melady, Margaret Badum.

Description

1. xviii, 205 p. : ill., ports.; 22 cm.

Summary

1. 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

1. Sweep of independence in Black Africa

Subject

1. Nationalists > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Biography
2. Statesmen > Biography. > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Statesmen
3. National liberation movements > Africa, Sub-Saharan
4. Statesmen > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Biography
5. Africa, Sub-Saharan > Biography
6. Africa, Sub-Saharan > Autonomy and independence movements

Genre/Form

1. Biographies
2. History

Contents

1. 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.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

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