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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 activism, South Africa's
Josie Mpama/Palmer was an outspoken advocate for women's social and
political equality, a member of the Communist Party of South
Africa, and an antiapartheid activist. Ken Saro-Wiwa, by Roy Doron
and Toyin Falola A penetrating, accessible portrait of the Nigerian
activist whose execution galvanized the world. Ken Saro-Wiwa became
a martyr and symbolized modern Africans' struggle against military
dictatorship, corporate power, and environmental exploitation.
Hanged by the Nigerian government on 10 November 1995, Ken
Saro-Wiwa became a martyr for the Ogoni people, a human rights
activists and a symbol of modern Africans' struggle against
military dictatorship, corporate power and environmental
exploitation. Though he is rightly known for his human rights and
environmental activism, he wore many hats: writer, television
producer, businessman and civil servant, among others. While the
book sheds light on his many legacies, it is above all about
Saro-Wiwa the man, not just Saro-Wiwa the symbol. Roy Doron and
Toyin Falola portray a man who not only was formed by the complex
forces of ethnicity, race, class and politics in Nigeria, but who
drove change in those same processes. Like others in the Jacana
Pocket series, Ken Saro-Wiwa is written to be accessible to the
casual reader and student, yet indispensable to scholars.
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