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An omnibus collection of concise and up-to-date biographies of four influential figures from modern African history.
Chris Hani, by Hugh Macmillan
Chris Hani was one of the most highly respected leaders of the African National Congress, the South African Communist Party, and uMkhonto we Sizwe. His assassination in 1993 threatened to upset the country's transition to democracy and prompted an intervention by Nelson Mandela that ultimately accelerated apartheid's demise.
Wangari Maathai, by Tabitha Kanogo
This concise biography tells the story of Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner who devoted her life to campaigning for environmental conservation, sustainable development, democracy, human rights, gender equality, and the eradication of poverty.

Josie Mpama/Palmer: Get Up and Get Moving, by Robert R. Edgar
Highly critical of the patriarchal attitudes that hindered Black women's political acti

African Activists of the Twentieth Century

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      Publisher Ohio University Press
      Published 28 March 2023
      ISBN-13 9780821425145
      978-0821425145
      ISBN-10 0821425145
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      Collected biographies African history

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      An omnibus collection of concise and up-to-date biographies of four influential figures from modern African history.
      Chris Hani, by Hugh Macmillan
      Chris Hani was one of the most highly respected leaders of the African National Congress, the South African Communist Party, and uMkhonto we Sizwe. His assassination in 1993 threatened to upset the country's transition to democracy and prompted an intervention by Nelson Mandela that ultimately accelerated apartheid's demise.
      Wangari Maathai, by Tabitha Kanogo
      This concise biography tells the story of Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner who devoted her life to campaigning for environmental conservation, sustainable development, democracy, human rights, gender equality, and the eradication of poverty.

      Josie Mpama/Palmer: Get Up and Get Moving, by Robert R. Edgar
      Highly critical of the patriarchal attitudes that hindered Black women's political acti

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