Who are the 100 greatest Africans of all time? This book provides an answer. It profiles the leading Africans from all walks of life from the Egyptian Pharaohs to present times and covers the entire African continent. New maps show how empires rose and fell, the adventures of the great travelers, the conquests of the kings and the campaigns against colonialism.
Manufacturer: Scarecrow PrWritten By: Alan Rake
African Leaders for the Millennium provides short profiles of Africa's leaders and their main challengers. It concentrates on the presidents and military rulers in power and those most likely to replace them. Each profile has a short assessment of the character and career followed by a comprehensive life history. This is told in strict chronological order, on a country by country basis. The ...
Manufacturer: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.Written By: Alan Rake
Spotlights the political leaders of the ever-changing African continent. Containing lively descriptions of Black Africa's top leadership, the book gives essential curricula vitae and goes much further, weighing the political importance and potential of hundreds of top personalities. ...welcome...will fill a gap in most African collections...For public and academic libraries.--LIBRARY JOURNAL ...