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Black People who changed the world

Acknowledgements

A special mention must be made for the website www.100greatblackbritons.com, which inspired and provided material for many of the Black British biographies listed here.

Adler, Phillip J.: ‘World Civilisation, Vol. 1: To 1600’

Al’ Daffa, A.A.: ‘The Muslim Contribution to Mathematics’

Allingham, Rob: ‘Hip Kings, Hip Queens: South African Jazz’

Angelou, Maya: ‘I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings’

BBC News South Asia: ‘Obituary- Sirimavo Bandaranaike: First Woman Premier’

Becker, Ryan: ‘Audre Lorde’ (www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/RYAN.HTML)

Bediz, David: ‘The Story Of Hatshepsut’ (www.bediz.com/hatshep/story.html)

Boscaurol, Mauriz: ‘Nina Simone- Biography’ (www.boscarol.com/nina/html/manual/bio.html)

Chang, Jung: ‘Wild Swans’

Dawkins, Richard: ‘River Out Of Eden’

Durán, Lucy: ‘Mandé Sounds: West Africa’s Musical Powerhouse’

Gao Xingjian: ‘Soul Mountain’

Goddard, Keith: ‘Behind The Mask’

Govindu, Venu: ‘The Face Of The Narmada’

Harridun, Said and King, Noël: ‘Ibn Battuta in Black Africa ’

Hawley, John Stratton: ‘Three Bhakti Voices: Mirabai, Surdas, and Kabir In Their Times and Ours’

Hsu, Elizabeth: ‘Innovations In Chinese Medicine’

Huntley Grayson, James: ‘Korea: A Religious History’

Jakobsh, Doris R.: ‘Relocating Gender In Sikh History’

Kassell, Lauren: ‘Medicine and Society, 1250-1750’

Koppes, Steven: ‘Lucy Goes To College’

Maor, Eli: ‘To Infinity And Beyond: A Cultural History Of The Infinite’

Needham, Joseph, with Wang Ling: ‘A History Of Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and Earth In China’; ‘History of Scientific Thought In China’

Needham, Joseph and Lu, Guijien, with Wang Ling and Robinson, Kenneth: ‘A History Of Physics And Physical Technology In China’

Sardar, Ziauddin: ‘Islam: Resistance And Reform’

Shiva, Vandana: ‘Staying Alive: Women, Environment and the Popular Consciousness Movement’

Sullivan Harper, Donna Akiba: ‘Langston Hughes’ (www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/hughes_l.htm)

Wadud, Amina: ‘A’ishah’s Legacy’

the Wangari Maathai Foundation (www.wangarimaathai.or.ke)

Whitfield, Susan: ‘Life Along The Silk Road’

Wyatt, David K.: ‘Thailand: A Short History’

 

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