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African Profiles

Ronald Segal

Segal, Ronald;

African Profiles

Penguin Books, 1962, 406 pages

topics: |  africa | history-modern | biography


Brief biographies of the leaders of Africa by a writer born in South Africa,
but forced into exile. Includes:
South Africa: Hendrik Verwoerd, Sir de Villiers Graaff, Harry Oppenheimer,
	Peter Brown, Albert  Lutuli;, Robert Sobukwe;
South West Africa (Namibia): Hosea Katako [Kutako]
Portuguese Africa (Angola): Holden Roberto, Ilidio Machado, Dr Antonio Neto, Mario
	Pinto de Andrade, Monseigneur Sebastiao de Resende;
Nigerian Nationalism: Dr Benjamin Asikiwe. Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa.
	Obafemi Awolowo.
Ghana: Kwame Nkrumah
Ivory Coast: Felix Houphouet-Boigny
Guinean Experiment: Sekou Toure
Senegal: Leopold Sedar Senghor
Moroccan Monarchy: Hassan II,
Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser...


amitabha mukerjee (mukerjee [at] gmail.com) 17 Feb 2009