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Author: F. Massaquoi
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-11-18
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1137102500
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This critical edition of Princess Fatima Massaquoi's memoirs begins with her birth in southern Sierra Leone, continues through her childhood in Liberia, moves on to Hamburg, Germany, where she lived and experienced the rise of the Nazi movement, and ends with her life in the United States.
Author: Elizabeth (Princess of Toro.)
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 308
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Walter Dean Myers
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780590486699
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Myers pens this biography of an African princess saved from execution and taken to England where Queen Victoria oversaw her upbringing and where she lived for a time before marrying an African missionary.
Author: Elizabeth (Princess of Toro.)
Publisher: Touchstone
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780671673963
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sarah Culberson
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2010-05-11
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1429949740
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sarah Culberson was adopted one year after her birth by a loving, white, West Virginian couple and was raised in the United States with little knowledge of her ancestry. Though raised in a loving family, Sarah wanted to know more about the birth parents that had given her up. In 2004, she hired a private investigator to track down her biological father. When she began her search, she never imagined what she would discover or where that information would lead her: she was related to African royalty, a ruling Mende family in Sierra Leone and that she is considered a mahaloi, the child of a Paramount Chief, with the status like a princess. What followed was an unforgettably emotional journey of discovery of herself, a father she never knew, and the spirit of a war-torn nation. A Princess Found is a powerful, intimate revelation of her quest across the world to learn of the chiefdom she could one day call her own.
Author: Emilie Ruete
Publisher: London : Ward and Downey
Published: 1888
Total Pages: 338
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lyra Edmonds
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780763625955
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A child of mixed race background goes with her family to Africa, to meet her "African princess."
Author: Joyce Hansen
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781415560945
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Biographies in words and pictures of 6 royal women from different periods of African history: Hatshepsut (ancient Egypt), Amina of Zaria (16th-century Nigeria), Njinga of Matamba (17th-century West Central Africa), Tata Ajaché of Dahoney (19th-century), Taytu Betul of Ethiopia (19th-20th century) and Elizabeth of Toro (20th-century Uganda).
Author: O. Wright
Publisher:
Published: 2005-10
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781598860061
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'Lavina: The Saga of an African Princess' is a tender romance entwined with the overtones of one of the most horrific periods of American history: the time of colonial slavery. The author focuses on two specific victims of this evil practice: Lavina and Rabboni. This heartrending novel portrays their loving romance and how their faith helps them persevere and withstand the conditions despite the overwhelming forces marshaled against them.
Author: Nadine Cohodas
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 0807882747
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Born Eunice Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina, Nina Simone (1933-2003) began her musical life playing classical piano. A child prodigy, she wanted a career on the concert stage, but when the Curtis Institute of Music rejected her, the devastating disappointment compelled her to change direction. She turned to popular music and jazz but never abandoned her classical roots or her intense ambition. By the age of twenty six, Simone had sung at New York City's venerable Town Hall and was on her way. Tapping into newly unearthed material on Simone's family and career, Nadine Cohodas paints a luminous portrait of the singer, highlighting her tumultuous life, her innovative compositions, and the prodigious talent that matched her ambition. With precision and empathy, Cohodas weaves the story of Simone's contentious relationship with audiences and critics, her outspoken support for civil rights, her two marriages and her daughter, and, later, the sense of alienation that drove her to live abroad from 1993 until her death. Alongside these threads runs a more troubling one: Simone's increasing outbursts of rage and pain that signaled mental illness and a lifelong struggle to overcome a deep sense of personal injustice.
