Murder Of An African King

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Murder Of An African King

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Author : Ibrahim Mahama
language : en
Publisher: Vantage Press, Inc
Release Date : 2009

Murder Of An African King written by Ibrahim Mahama and has been published by Vantage Press, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Chiefdoms categories.

In this compelling book, author Ibrahim Mahama traces the events leading up to the horrific murder of Ya Na, the Dagomba King in the Republic of Ghanaand its aftermath. A detailed passionate account of a major historical event that remains unsolved.

The Making Of An African King

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Author : Anthony Ephirim-Donkor
language : en
Publisher: University Press of America
Release Date : 2009-08-04

The Making Of An African King written by Anthony Ephirim-Donkor and has been published by University Press of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-04 with Social Science categories.

The Making of An African King is a study examining the causes of the kingship internecine struggle among the Effutu by exploring the two traditional systems of succession, the patrilineal and the matrilineal, among the Effutu (Awutu-abe), and how best to end political violence. Kingship or chieftaincy disputes in Ghana may begin as rivalry among members of the same family, or when ineligible elders are elected caretaker kings because of their invaluable services to a royal family. However, upon the demise of the caretakers, their descendants refuse to cede power back to the royal family; thus creating protracted power struggles. This is exactly the situation among the Effutu. Fortunately, new information became available when the author was researching in Ghana from 1997-1999. As a result, this edition provides for the first time accounts of colonial administrators about the royal internecine struggle, in ways that confirm Awutu orthodoxy and put concocted histories, false genealogies, and outright lies to rest.

Murder And Politics In Colonial Ghana

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Author : Richard Rathbone
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1993-01-01

Murder And Politics In Colonial Ghana written by Richard Rathbone and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-01 with Social Science categories.

In 1943, ritual murder was committed in a large African kingdom in the south of Ghana, then a colony of Great Britain. Palace officials and close kin of a recently deceased king had reputedly killed one of his chiefs in order to smooth the king's passage into the afterlife. This riveting study tells the story of the murder, the trials and appeals of those accused of the crime, and the effect of the case on politics in Ghana and Great Britain. In recounting this fascinating case, the book also provides important insights into law and politics in the colonial Gold Coast, the clash between traditional and modern values, and the nature of African monarchy in the colonial period. Drawing on newly available oral and written evidence from Ghana and Britain, Richard Rathbone builds a detailed picture of the leading characters in the case, as well as of the thirty-year rule of Nana Ofori Atta, the king. He shows how the death of the king destroyed the economic, social, and moral fabric of the kingdom, and how this destruction was further exacerbated by legal proceedings resulting from the murder. The case set the indigenous royal family against the colonial government, challenging the authority of each. Close kinsmen of the accused, hitherto in the vanguard of moderate nationalism, were radicalized by their extended confrontation with the colonial justice system. It was their political initiatives that accelerated the formation of the Gold Coast's first national political party in the late 1940s, and which led in turn to the struggle for self-government and to the achievement of Ghanian independence in 1957.

The Door Of No Return

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Author : Sarah Mussi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009

The Door Of No Return written by Sarah Mussi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Adventure stories categories.

Sixteen-year-old Zac never believed his grandfather's tales about their enslaved ancestors being descended from an African king, but when his grandfather is murdered and the villains come after Zac, he sets out for Ghana to find King Baktu's long-lost treasure before the murderers do.

The King S Day

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Author : Margaret Plass
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981

The King S Day written by Margaret Plass and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with categories.

The Murder Of Martin Luther King

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Author : United States Department of Justice
language : en
Publisher: e-artnow sro
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The Murder Of Martin Luther King written by United States Department of Justice and has been published by e-artnow sro this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.

A White King In East Africa

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Author : John Boyes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1912

A White King In East Africa written by John Boyes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1912 with Africa, East categories.

Death In The Congo

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Author : Emmanuel Gerard
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2015-02-10

Death In The Congo written by Emmanuel Gerard and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-10 with History categories.

Death in the Congo is a gripping account of a murder that became one of the defining events in postcolonial African history. It is no less the story of the untimely death of a national dream, a hope-filled vision very different from what the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of the Congo became in the second half of the twentieth century. When Belgium relinquished colonial control in June 1960, a charismatic thirty-five-year-old African nationalist, Patrice Lumumba, became prime minister of the new republic. Yet stability immediately broke down. A mutinous Congolese Army spread havoc, while Katanga Province in southeast Congo seceded altogether. Belgium dispatched its military to protect its citizens, and the United Nations soon intervened with its own peacekeeping troops. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, both the Soviet Union and the United States maneuvered to turn the crisis to their Cold War advantage. A coup in September, secretly aided by the UN, toppled Lumumba’s government. In January 1961, armed men drove Lumumba to a secluded corner of the Katanga bush, stood him up beside a hastily dug grave, and shot him. His rule as Africa’s first democratically elected leader had lasted ten weeks. More than fifty years later, the murky circumstances and tragic symbolism of Lumumba’s assassination still trouble many people around the world. Emmanuel Gerard and Bruce Kuklick pursue events through a web of international politics, revealing a tangled history in which many people—black and white, well-meaning and ruthless, African, European, and American—bear responsibility for this crime.

The Conjure Man Dies A Mystery Tale Of Dark Harlem

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992

The Conjure Man Dies A Mystery Tale Of Dark Harlem written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with categories.

An African king with a degree from Harvard who set himself up as a "conjure-man", a fortune teller, is murdered in 1930s Harlem. This is the first known mystery novel written by an African American.

The Man Who Killed Martin Luther King

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Author : Mel Ayton
language : en
Publisher: Frontline Books
Release Date : 2023-04-06

The Man Who Killed Martin Luther King written by Mel Ayton and has been published by Frontline Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-06 with History categories.

Doubts about James Earl Ray, Dr. Martin Luther King’s lone assassin, arose almost immediately after the civil rights leader was fatally shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on 4 April 1968. From the start, his aides voiced suspicions that a conspiracy was responsible for their leader’s death. Over time many Americans became convinced the government investigations covered up the truth about the alleged assassin. Exactly what led Ray to kill King continues to be a source of debate, as does his role in the murder. However, Mel Ayton believe the answers to the many intriguing questions about Ray and how conspiracy ideas flourished can now be fully understood. Missing from the wild speculations over the past fifty-two years has been a thorough investigation of the character of King’s assassin. Additionally, the author examines exactly how the conspiracy notions came about and the falsehoods that led to their promulgation. The Man Who Killed Martin Luther King is the first full account of the life of James Earl Ray based on scores of interviews provided to government and non-government investigators and from the FBI’s and Scotland Yard’s files plus the recently released Tennessee Department of Corrections prison record on Ray. Most importantly, the testimony of Anna Sandhu has often been ignored by writers but her story is crucial in gaining an understanding of Ray’s deceptive ways. A courtroom artist, who, after listening to Ray’s story, later married him. Also missing from accounts of the alleged ‘conspiracy’ is the story told to this author by Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary Deputy Warden Rolland H. Cisson, which decisively renders Ray’s claims of innocence to be bogus. In the short-lived freedom he acquired after escaping from the Missouri State Penitentiary in 1967, following being sentenced to twenty years in prison for repeated offenses, he traveled to Los Angeles and decided to seek notoriety as the one who would stalk and kill Dr. King, who he had come to hate vehemently. From the time of King’s murder, the reader will follow Ray to solitary confinement in a Nashville prison. Then, six years later, on 10 June 1977, James Earl Ray again escaped from prison, this time with five others. Ray was the last to be recaptured, having survived only on wheatgerm. Finally, the book relays Ray’s stabbing by several black inmates, then his resulting diagnosis with Hepatitis C, which caused his death twelve years later, in 1998.