TY  - BOOK
AU  - Melady,Thomas Patrick
AU  - Melady,Margaret Badum
TI  - Ten African heroes: the sweep of independence in Black Africa 
SN  - 9781570759291 (pbk.)
AV  - 500 DT 352.6 M517t 2011
U1  - 967.03 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Maryknoll, N.Y.
PB  - Orbis Books
KW  - Nationalists
KW  - Africa, Sub-Saharan
KW  - Biography
KW  - Statesmen
KW  - Nacionalistas
KW  - Africa, Sub-sahariana
KW  - Biografía
KW  - Estadistas
KW  - National liberation movements
KW  - History
KW  - Autonomy and independence movements
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Beginnings -- Leopold Sedar Senghor : poet, philosopher, and founding president of Senegal -- Julius Kambarage Nyerere : the patient architect -- Kenneth David Kaunda : navigator for freedom -- Seretse Khama : courageous advocate for racial reconciliation -- Thomas Joseph Mboya : young man in a hurry -- Holden Roberto : an Angolan patriot -- Eduardo C. Mondlane : martyr for Mozambique -- William V.S. Tubman : new deal for Liberia -- Sylvanus Olympio : West African leader brutally killed in Togo -- Ahmadou Ahidjo : the serene leader of a multiethnic state -- Epilogue -- Appendices. I. Protestant and Catholics speak to leaders of Portugal in 1961 -- II. Senghor's address on the civilization of the universe --  III. Khama's address on racial reconciliation
ER  -