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The First Black Boxing Champions
This volume presents fifteen chapters of biography of African American and black champions and challengers of the early prize ring. They range from Tom Molineaux, a slave who won freedom and fame in the ring in the early 1800s; to Joe Gans, the first African American world champion; to the flamboyant Jack Johnson, deemed such a threat to white society that film of his defeat of former champion and "Great White Hope" Jim Jeffries was banned across much of the country. Photographs, period drawings, cartoons, and fight posters enhance the biographies. Round-by-round coverage of select historic fights is included, as is a foreword by Hall-of-Fame boxing announcer Al Bernstein.
Africa in Europe
This volume explores the lives and activities of people of African descent in Europe between the 1880s and the beginning of the twenty-first century. It goes beyond the still-dominant Anglo-American or transatlantic focus of diaspora studies to examine the experiences of black and white Africans, Afro-Caribbeans and African Americans who settled or travelled in Germany, France, Portugal, Italy and the Soviet Union, as well as in Britain. At the same time, while studies of Africans in Europe have tended to focus on the relationship between colonial (or former colonial) subjects and their respective metropolitan nation states, the essays in this volume widen the lens to consider the skills, pr...
Les décharges d'ordures en Afrique
Cet ouvrage propose les résultats d'études visant à évaluer les impacts de la décharge de Mbeubeuss à Dakar (Sénégal) sur les ressources environnementales, l'économie locale, la santé et les conditions d'existence des populations riveraines et des récupérateurs de déchets. Il apporte des données nouvelles sur la qualité des ressources en eau souterraine et des sols autour de la plus grande décharge d'ordures du Sénégal. Il procède à une véritable radioscopie de cette dernière à travers une analyse des déchets qu'elle reçoit, des populations qui la fréquentent, des matières qu'on y extrait et des échanges qui s'y effectuent. Les contributions réunies dans ce volum...
Léopold Sédar Senghor and the Politics of Negritude
Monograph on the leadership role of leopold sedar senghor and other African intellectuals in the development of socialist ideology in Senegal - covers the philosophy and political aspects of negritude as a nationalist movement, the role of France, social change, political leadership, social structure, the role of cooperative organisation, economic development, education, the role of political parties, etc. Bibliography pp. 240 to 289. Biography senghor l.s.
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