[PDF] The African Knights eBook

Author : Conrad Cairns
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 14,39 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN :

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In the 19th century the eastern Savannah (now divided between the countries of Nigeria, Niger, Mali, and Cameroon) was one of the most neglected parts of the African continent, and yet at the same time one of the most culturally sophisticated. During this period warfare among the peoples of the eastern Savannah, and in particular the three most significant native states - the Sokoto Caliphate, the ancient kingdom of Bornu, and the somewhat less ancient state of Bagirmi - was largely dominated by cavalry, and a significant proportion of these mounted troops were armored. This groundbreaking book covers the period that began with the Sokoto jihad in 1804 and ended with the extinction of the Savannah states by the European colonial powers at the turn of the 20th century. In addition to providing a brief outline history of the three states, it examines in detail the arms, equipment and methods of warfare used by their armored 'knights' and infantry, and includes in addition sections on their horses, artillery, flags, fortifications, and clothing. It is illustrated throughout with contemporary photographs and engravings.

Author : Clifford Worthy
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 21,17 MB
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781641800303

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In the 1940s, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point was out of reach for most African Americans due to racial barriers. Clifford Worthy was one of the first who was accepted and excelled as a Black Knight of the Hudson. His courageous Army service around the world balanced military and family life, even as they raised a child with special needs.

Author : Douglas Walter Bristol
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 19,46 MB
Release : 2009-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 080189283X

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They advocated economic independence from whites and founded insurance companies that became some of the largest black-owned corporations.--L. Diane Barnes "Alabama Review"

Author : Lynn Homan
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 26,16 MB
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 145560125X

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Through veteran interviews, this illustrated history explores the contributions, experiences, and legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen from 1941–1946. What became known as the Tuskegee Experience began in 1931 with a letter from the head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to the War Department asking that blacks be allowed to join the military. The efforts of early African American aviators, the struggle of organizations and individuals against the military's segregation policies, and the hard work of thousands of young men and women, military and civilian, black and white, all combined to make the Tuskegee Airmen an important but often overlooked part of America's military history. Through fascinating interviews with veterans and historical photographs, Black Knights tells the story of the men and women who served in the training program at Tuskegee Army Air Field from 1941 to 1946. The pilots' stories are here, but so are the experiences of the mechanics, band members, armorers, staff officers, nurses, and more who proved that they had courage and perseverance, not only in war, but in peacetime as well.

Author : Emeka Aniagolu
Publisher :
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Igbo (African people) in literature
ISBN : 9780975520819

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Ozo: A Story of an African Knighthood, is a historical fiction about a traditional Igbo warrior aristicrats of titled holders. It blends social anthroplogy with narrative fiction in a beautiful and illuminating style.

Author : Michael Muhammad Knight
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 31,40 MB
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0271088532

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The Ansaru Allah Community, also known as the Nubian Islamic Hebrews (AAC/NIH) and later the Nuwaubians, is a deeply significant and controversial African American Muslim movement. Founded in Brooklyn in the 1960s, it spread through the prolific production and dissemination of literature and lecture tapes and became famous for continuously reinventing its belief system. In this book, Michael Muhammad Knight studies the development of AAC/NIH discourse over a period of thirty years, tracing a surprising consistency behind a facade of serial reinvention. It is popularly believed that the AAC/NIH community abandoned Islam for Black Israelite religion, UFO religion, and Egyptosophy. However, Knight sees coherence in AAC/NIH media, explaining how, in reality, the community taught that the Prophet Muhammad was a Hebrew who adhered to Israelite law; Muhammad’s heavenly ascension took place on a spaceship; and Abraham enlisted the help of a pharaonic regime to genetically engineer pigs as food for white people. Against narratives that treat the AAC/NIH community as a postmodernist deconstruction of religious categories, Knight demonstrates that AAC/NIH discourse is most productively framed within a broader African American metaphysical history in which boundaries between traditions remain quite permeable. Unexpected and engrossing, Metaphysical Africa brings to light points of intersection between communities and traditions often regarded as separate and distinct. In doing so, it helps move the field of religious studies beyond conventional categories of “orthodoxy” and “heterodoxy,” challenging assumptions that inform not only the study of this particular religious community but also the field at large.

Author : A. G. Smith
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,86 MB
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780486248431

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Tegninger, som kan farvelægges

Author : Matthew X. Vernon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3319910892

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The Black Middle Ages examines the influence of medieval studies on African-American thought. Matthew X. Vernon focuses on nineteenth century uses of medieval texts to structure racial identity, but also considers the flexibility of medieval narratives more broadly in the medieval period, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book engages disparate discourses to reassess African-American positionalities in time and space. Utilizing a transhistorical framework, Vernon reflects on medieval studies as a discipline built upon a contended set of ideologies and acts of imaginative appropriation visible within source texts and their later mobilizations.

Author : Stephen Mark Spence
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,45 MB
Release : 2005-03-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780970532442

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Adventure novel for young readers. A 10-year-old Ethiopian boy travels to Jerusalem with his father who is one of the African knights. There he befriends the prophet Jeremiah and helps rescue the Ark of the Covenant. Narrated by the boy's pet bird Hoopoe.