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…

Mahboob Qirvanian,

Life of an Enslaved African in the Ottoman Empire and Iran

The Life of an Enslaved African in the Ottoman Empire and Iran is a poignant and compelling account of one man’s journey through struggle, resilience, and unimaginable suffering. In the early t…

Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand) (geb. 1934)

Autobiography

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…

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…

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw

Backtalker

One 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 story of how her life gave …

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…

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 …

Kevin Waite

The Boundless Biddy Mason

How Biddy Mason crossed the continent, broke free from slavery, and built Black Los Angeles.Born in bondage, Biddy Mason endured one of the longest forced migrations in American history--three thousand mi…

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…

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…

Marcia Chatelain

How Bright the Path Grows

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

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…

Carla Power

The Lady Imam

The soul-stirring intersectional biography of the most famous Islamic woman scholar working today, from the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist author of If the Oceans Were Ink andHome, Land, Security."…

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…