Modern African Women offers powerful and unforgettable tales from Senegal to South Africa, from the nineteenth century to the present. These modern African rulers, leaders, and visionaries include Madam Yoko, Queen of the Kpaa Mende and national heroine of Sierra Leone; Princess Kesso, a Fulani Muslim princess from Guinea who became one of the world’s first black models; Alice Lenshina, who fought British colonial rule in Zambia and was considered a prophet in the Lumpa Church; Ellen Kuzwayo, member of the African National Congress whose struggle for civil and women’s rights landed her in prison; Dulcie September, the ANC representative in France, killed for her ardent support for the cause of freedom; Miriam Makeba, internationally loved singer South African singer; Winnie Mandela, who carried on the struggle during Nelson Mandela’s long imprisonment; and many others.

In Praise of Black Women, Volume 3: Modern African Women

Schwarz-Bart, Simone

Schwarz-Bart, André

Turner, Stephanie

Arts & Photography

University of Wisconsin Press

A magnificently illustrated tribute to Black women in art and story; In Praise of Black Women is a magnificent tribute to women in Africa and the African Diaspora from the ancient past to the present. Lavishly illustrated, with text written and selected by the celebrated Guadeloupean novelist Simone Schwarz-Bart, this four-volume series celebrates remarkable women who distinguished themselves in their time and shaped the course of culture and history. Volume 1: Ancient African Queens weaves together oral tradition, folk legends and stories, songs and poems, historical accounts, and traveller's' tales from Egypt to southern Africa, from prehistory to the nineteenth century. These extraordinary women's stories, narrated in the style of African oral tradition, are absorbing, informative, and accessible. The abundant illustrations, many of them rare archival images, depict the diversity among Black women and make this volume a unique treasure for every art lover, every school, and every family.

In Praise of Black Women, Volume 4: Modern Women of the Diaspora (Volume 4)

Like his previous book Last of the Just, which traced the Jewish experience of martyrdom, this book recreates through fact and myth people's enslavement, humiliation and survival.

A woman named Solitude;

Literature & Fiction

Secker and Warburg

A Woman Named Solitude

Scribner

The newly discovered masterpiece from internationally bestselling author Andre Schwarz-Bart. The Last of the Just, Andre Schwarz-Bart's debut masterpiece, won him international acclaim and the Prix Goncourt. Now, four years after his death, Schwarz-Bart's last novel The Morning Star has been rescued by his widow from his papers. The story begins in the aftermath of a nuclear war that has reduced our world to ashes. Luckily, a few found their way to the stars and into immortality. In the year 3000, nostalgic for the past, they return to earth in an effort to reconstruct the lives of the people who lived there. They discover the records of the wandering Jews of Judea, Palestine and Israel and an accounting of a mysterious massacre that had occurred ten centuries earlier. The Morning Star flows between the poetic, the fantastic and the realistic as it weaves the tale of the Jewish people from Abraham to the Holocaust and into the future.

The Morning Star

Gerald Duckworth

Gerald Duckworth Co Ltd

Like André Schwarz-Bart's previous book, Last of the Just, which traced the Jewish experience of martyrdom, this book recreates through fact and myth people's enslavement, humiliation and survival.

United States

Syracuse University Press

Contemporary

Creative Arts Book Co.

by Andre Schwarz-Bart Translated from the French by Stephen Becker. A worldwide literary sensation before its American release. Winner of France's leading literary award, the Prix Goncourt. Hardcover. Original jacket. Stated First American Edition. Red cloth. Toning along the edge. Jacket has light edge wear on the corners. $4.95 price intact. Very Good/Very Good. Published by Atheneum, 1960

The Last of the Just

History

World

Atheneum House

According to Jewish tradition, 36 "just men" are born in every generation to take the burden of the world's suffering upon themselves. This book tells the story of two Jews, divided by eight centuries, who are persecuted to death, becoming part of the catastrophic history of the Jewish people.

The Last of the Just (Library of the Holocaust)

Genre Fiction

Fine Communications

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