This work looks at relations between Africans and African Americans from the perspective of an African, and of shared perceptions on both sides of the Atlantic. Incorporated into the analysis are stories of individuals who have interacted, worked and lived with members of both groups in Africa and in the United States, including the author himself. Stereotypes and misunderstandings of each other constitute an integral part of this study, explained from both perspectives, African and African-American. The author, a former journalist in Tanzania and now an academic author whose books are found in public and university libraries around the world, lived in the United States, mostly in the black community, for more than 30 years. He articulates his position from the vantage point of someone who has lived on both sides of the Atlantic, focusing on a subject that has generated a lot of interest among Africans and African Americans through the years. And it continues to be one of great misunderstanding between the two sides, in spite of increased contacts and communication between Africa and Black America, and between individual Africans and African Americans in the United States and in Africa. What is the state of relations between Africans and African Americans? How do Africans see black Americans, and how do black Americans see them? What is their experience with American blacks and what is the experience of black Americans with them, individually and collectively, and in general? How are Africans accepted by black people in the United States? And how are black Americans accepted in Africa? Do Africans see American blacks as fellow Africans, cousins or distant cousins, or just as Americans? These are some of the questions answered in this book, written by an African, and based on his experience of more than 30 years interacting with African Americans, and on the experiences of many Africans and African Americans quoted in this study.

Relations Between Africans And African Americans: Misconceptions, Myths And Realities

Politics & Social Sciences

Mwakikagile, Godfrey

Social Sciences

Continental Press: An imprint of Pan-African Books

Diagnosis and prescription. What went wrong since independence in the sixties, and what can be done to alleviate misery and suffering on the least developed and poorest continent, yet one endowed with an abundance of natural resources and hundreds of millions of people.  The author critically examines the views of many people on the subject, including "recolonization" of the continent as advocated by some - among them a number of African diplomats and scholars as well as politicians including the prime minister of Sierra Leone in the nineties - and offers innovative solutions to Africa's perennial problems.  A hard-hitting book by a Tanzanian academic author, the work is written in simple yet captivating prose, without scholarly pretensions or jargon, and is intended for members of the general public as much as it is for those of the academic community. Brutally frank and lucid in argument articulated from a Pan-African perspective.

Africa Is In A Mess: What Went Wrong And What Should Be Done

History

Africa

Fultus Corp

This is the fourth edition of 'Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era. It is also the largest and includes new material not found in previous editions. The work is a comprehensive study of the political career of President Julius Nyerere spanning half a century. The author takes a critical look at Nyerere's policies and influence in the domestic and international arenas for an objective evaluation of the life and times of one of the most influential leaders in the twentieth century. The major role he played in the liberation of southern Africa is just one of the subjects addressed by the author. He also provides insights into Nyerere's personality from some of the people who knew him best. Included in the book are interviews with some of the people who knew Nyerere since his childhood. Some of them were his teachers. And they outlived him. Others were his schoolmates and colleagues in government and when he was a teacher. And some of them were his students. Also included are interviews with some of his family members. This is an essential study of post-colonial Africa. It is also a study in political leadership and Cold War politics in the African context, among many other subjects addressed in the book which should serve as a reference text for scholars and laymen alike interested in Africa and the Third World in general.

Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

New Africa Pr

This is a comprehensive look at what happened in Africa and in the United States in the sixties.      Subjects covered include Lumumba and the Congo crisis; the civil rights movement; Dr. Martin Luther King; Malcolm X; the Kennedy and Johnson administrations; the Cuban missile crisis; the Peace Corps; assassinations; the anti-war movement; counterculture; the Organization of African Unity (OAU); The Rivonia Trial of Nelson Mandela others; the Rhodesian crisis and unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) by the white minority rulers.      Nkrumah's downfall and the role of the CIA and Britain's M15 in his ouster; army mutinies in East Africa - Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika; the Zanzibar revolution; the secession of Biafra and the Nigerian civil war; military coups; the Black Power movement; riots, the Great Society and the War on Poverty in the United States; African liberation movements and the liberation struggle in southern Africa, and much more.      Includes photos from those turbulent years.

Africa and America in the Sixties: A Decade That Changed the Nation and the Destiny of a Continent

The author, born and brought up in Africa, looks at relations between Africans and African Americans which have sometimes been described by different observers as "stormy," "complex," "sticky," and even "hostile" as one Nigerian professor put it. This is the third edition which includes information about African immigrants in the United States. Together with foreign students from Africa, they constitute the largest number of continental Africans who interact with African Americans on daily basis.

Relations Between Africans and African Americans: Misconceptions, Myths and Realities

Americas

This is a revised and updated edition in which the author examines the problems of post-colonial Africa. He contends that the problems have existed since independence in the sixties and have been made worse through the years by a combination of factors. It is a blunt assessment and prescribes some solutions to Africa's problems focusing on internal factors but without exonerating external forces from what has happened on the continent through the decades.

Africa Is in a Mess: What Went Wrong and What Should Be Done

Nyerere's economic policies, his successes and failures in pursuit of economic development under socialism, are some of the subjects addressed by the author in this book. A Tanzanian himself., he also looks at how life was under Nyerere since the sixties. The work is also a critical examination of the political situation in Tanzania since independence when the country was known as Tanganyika before uniting with Zanzibar. The author also looks at the transition that has taken place in Tanzania from one-party rule to multiparty democracy, and from socialism to capitalism since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. He also takes a critical look at globalization and the negative impact of structural adjustment programmes in Tanzania and Africa as a whole. The work is also a study of Tanzania's history since the advent of colonial rule and of the struggle for independence in one of Africa's largest countries.

Tanzania Under Mwalimu Nyerere: Reflections on an African Statesman

This work is an examination of the black conservative phenomenon in the United States in contemporary times. The author looks at the role black conservatives play in American politics and at their attempts to have an impact on the lives of black Americans, also known as African Americans. Subjects covered include perspectives black conservatives share on issues such as affirmative action, racism, poverty, self-reliance, welfare, drugs, crime and illegitimacy among blacks; the criminal justice system and how it affects blacks; and why black conservatives differ with other blacks on those issues. It is also a critique of "The Bell Curve," a book that has inflamed passions especially among blacks, and of the views some black conservatives have expressed on racial IQ differences which have fueled debate on this highly explosive subject. The author also looks at the policy and philosophical differences and at differences in perceptions between black conservatives and their brethren in the black community. Why do black conservatives oppose affirmative action? Why do they support the Republican party? Why don't they have much support in the black community? Those are just some of the issues addressed in this book. The author writes from personal experience after living and interacting with African Americans of all ideological stripes for more than 30 years. His interest in Black America spans the ideological spectrum and covers other aspects of life including relations between Africans and African Americans. He has written a book about those relations in which he also addresses the black conservative phenomenon in the United States. Like all his others books, "Black Conservatives in the United States" is intended for members of the general public and the academic community.

Black Conservatives in the United States

The author, who lived and grew up under Nyerere's leadership, remembers how life was in those days in his home country of Tanganyika, later Tanzania. It is more than just a sentimental journey into the past. It is also an assessment of Nyerere's leadership and policies from the perspective of a former journalist. The author worked as a reporter at Tanzania's leading newspaper, "The Daily News," when Nyerere was president. Included in the book is one of the last interviews Nyerere gave not long before he died in which he reflected on his leadership and even on his student days at Makerere University College in Uganda and at Edinburgh University in Scotland. Also included is an interview with former Ugandan President Milton Obote in which he talked about Nyerere and failure of the East African federation.

Life Under Nyerere

This work looks at South Africa in contemporary times since the end of apartheid. It is also a short history of South Africa since the arrival of the first Dutch settlers at the Cape more than 300 years ago. The author also look at some of the main events in the struggle against apartheid which were important milestones in the transformation of South Africa from a white-dominated country to a multiracial democratic society. Other subjects covered include structural reforms and institutional accountability in the post-apartheid era and the problems of immigration, with South Africa being the main destination for immigrants from other African countries. The influx of immigrants from other parts of Africa into South Africa is a contentious subject within South Africa and has caused tensions between many South Africans and these immigrants. The author has addressed the subject from both perspectives, shedding some light on the strains and constraints Africans are bound to face when they deal with each other even in the context of Pan-African solidarity. The work is also an excellent introduction for students and others including those who are going to South Africa for the first time. It can also be used as a supplementary text in college in the study of post-apartheid South Africa under the new dispensation and how the country is coping with some of the main challenges it faces in the 21st century, not only as a nation but also as the continent's most developed and most powerful country destined to inflluence the course of events across Africa for many years to come.

South Africa in Contemporary Times

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