Trefferliste "African Autobiography" - alle Bücher, CDs und LPs

Singers & Players

Staggering Heights

Re-Release des dritten Albumklassikers der Singers & Players, einem losen Kollektiv um Prince Far I und Bim Sherman. »Staggering Heights« gilt als Höhepunkt ihres Katalogs und als UK-Dub-Meisterwerk, an d…

Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand) (geb. 1934)

Autobiography

Patrice Nganang

Scale Boy

An extraordinary chronicle of youth that evokes the paradoxes of modern Africa-complex, contradictory, and full of conflict, tragedy, and joy. Patrice Nganang, the acclaimed author of Dog Days , Mount Ple…

Catherine Conybeare

Augustine the African

Augustine of Hippo (354-430), also known as Saint Augustine, was one of the most influential theologians in history. His writings, including the autobiographical Confessions and The City of God , helped s…

Patrice Nganang

Scale Boy

An extraordinary chronicle of youth that evokes the paradoxes of modern Africa-complex, contradictory, and full of conflict, tragedy, and joy. Patrice Nganang, the acclaimed author of Dog Days , Mount Ple…

Paula Akpan

When We Ruled

Discover the reigns of twelve African queens and warriors from across the continent in this immersive and pioneering history.Njinga Mbande. Nana Yaa Asantewaa. Makobo Modjadji VI. Ranavalona the First.The…

John Edgar Wideman

Slaveroad

"Master of language" (The New York Times ) John Edgar Wideman uses his unique generational position to explore what he calls the "slaveroad," offering "a fresh perspective of slav…

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw

Backtalker

New York Times BestsellerOne of the most influential public intellectuals in the world and the architect of the two biggest ideas to reshape the American conversation about fairness offers the intimate st…

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Survival Is a Promise

A Time Must-Read Book of the Year Winner of the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Winner of the 2025 Zora Award A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2025 Brooklyn Public …

Eugene Robinson

Freedom Lost, Freedom Won

Pulitzer Prize--winning former Washington Postcolumnist Eugene Robinson tells our nation's torturous racial history through his own family's story, starting with his great-grandfather's freedom from slave…

Daniel Blake Smith

Run

The incredible true story of how Wilmot Collins fled his war-torn African homeland to make a new home in America, becoming a community activist, a political leader, and an inspiration for hope in a time o…

Marcia Chatelain

How Bright the Path Grows

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Franchise comes the little-known story of the pioneering Black women artists and activists who were seen, but barely heard, at the 1963 March on Washington. "…

Arun Kundnani

I Rise in Fire

A rigorous account of the pivotal but little-studied civil rights leader Jamil Al-Amin, aka H. Rap Brown, stitches together new and profound connections. I Rise in Fire is a gripping, necessary addition t…

Ray E Boomhower

Wallace Terry

Award-winning biographer Ray Boomhower tells the story of a journalist who spent his life smashing barriers, from his childhood in Indiana and his Ivy League education at Brown to his reporting on the Civ…

Opal Lee

A Committee of One

A Committee of One: How Faith + Action = A PurposeFULL Life is an inspirational memoir/self-help book from the Grandmother of Juneteenth that will be a testament to the transformative power of resilience,…

Michaela Angela Davis

Tenderheaded

After working alongside iconic figures like Diana Ross, Prince, and Maya Angelou and as VIBE's founding fashion director, Michaela angela Davis provides both a celebration of Black media's vibrant history…

Michaela Angela Davis

Tenderheaded

After working alongside iconic figures like Diana Ross, Prince, and Maya Angelou and as VIBE's founding fashion director, Michaela angela Davis provides both a celebration of Black media's vibrant history…

Sasha Bonét

The Waterbearers

• One of NPR's "Nonfiction Books We Love from 2025" • One of Kirkus 's "Best Nonfiction Books of 2025" • A powerful new voice, telling the American story through three generations of B…

Nicole R Fleetwood

Between the River and the Railroad Tracks

Meticulously crafted and unflinchingly vulnerable, Nicole R. Fleetwood's multigenerational family portrait braids the intimate life of a neighborhood with the historic arc that shaped it to offer an untol…