Africa
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A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid
$15.99 Add to cartAn acutely nuanced and original study of a state-sanctioned mass murderer, A Human Being Died That Night explores what it means to be human–both the good and the evil within us.
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- Author: Gobodo-Madikizela, Pumla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 193
- Publish Date: April 19 2004
- ISBN10: 0618446591
- Language: English
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Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
$19.99 Read moreA powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do Not Disturb upends the narrative that Rwanda sold the world after one of the deadliest genocides of t… [more below]
- Author: Wrong, Michela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1541703219
- Language: English
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Introduction to African Civilizations
$17.95 Add to cartTimely, relevant, and illuminating, this essential book by respected cultural historian, teacher, and author John G. Jackson sheds long overdue light on standard Eurocentric and distorting approaches … [more below]
- Author: Jackson, John G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0806521899
- Language: English
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The Enduring Relevance of Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
$10.99 Add to cartSoon after its publication in 1972, Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (HEUA) gained global popularity among progressive students, scholars and activists, and people concerned with Afric
- Author: Hirji, Karim F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0995222398
- Language: English
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Yoruba Mythology Coloring Book: The Gods and Goddesses of Yorubaland
$9.99 Add to cartYoruba mythology is often studied and yet many questions remain about the ancient gods and goddesses, or Orishas, of West Africa. As the Orisha stories were passed down orally through the centuries, t
- Author: Reid, Nzinga-Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 26
- Publish Date: November 27 2017
- ISBN10: 0692967028
- Language: English
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African Narratives of Orishas, Spirits and Other Deities
$78.95 Add to cartStories from West Africa and the African Diaspora: a journey into the realm of deities, spirits, mysticism, spiritual roots and ancestral wisdom. Acknowledging that the Yor b are one of the largest a
- Author: Cuoco, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 722
- Publish Date: December 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1977235735
- Language: English
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Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown
$21.99 Add to cartThe legendary travel writer’s thrilling and dangerous account of his journey across Africa
A rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train. In the course of his epic and en… [more below]
- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 485
- Publish Date: April 05 2004
- ISBN10: 0618446877
- Language: English
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Scramble for Africa…
$24.99 Add to cartWhite Man’s Conquest of the Dark Continent
from 1876 to 1912- Author: Pakenham, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: December 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0380719991
- Language: English
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
$19.99 Add to cartSkeletons on the Zahara chronicles the true story of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815, captured by desert nomads, sold into slavery, and subjected to a hell… [more below]
- Author: King, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 12 2005
- ISBN10: 0316159352
- Language: English
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Soldier Boy
$17.99 Add to cartA searing, shocking book–part non-fiction, part novel–based on the true story of a child soldier in Uganda who survived war and enslavement and went on to create a haven for others who suffered a si
- Author: Hutton, Keely
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1250158443
- Language: English
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Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
$22.00 Add to cartThe first full-scale history of Hannibal’s Carthage in decades and “a convincing and enthralling narrative.” (The Economist )
Drawing on a wealth of new research, archaeologist, historian, and master- Author: Miles, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 26 2012
- ISBN10: 0143121294
- Language: English
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It’s a Continent: Unravelling Africa’s History One Country at a Time
$21.99 Read more‘. . . we need this book. Of course Africa needs it as well, because no other huge area of the planet is treated as such a singular region, and that has to change. But the rest of the planet needs It’
- Author: Ukata, Chinny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1529376785
- Language: English
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The Kingdom of God in Africa: A History of African Christianity
$29.99 Add to cartAfrican Christianity is not an imported religion but rather one of the oldest forms of Christianity in the world. In The Kingdom of God in Africa, Mark Shaw and Wanjiru M. Gitau trace the development
- Author: Shaw, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 31 2020
- ISBN10: 1783688114
- Language: English
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The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa
$19.99 Add to cartThe path to progress in Africa lies in the surprising and innovative solutions Africans are finding for themselves.
“A hopeful narrative about a continent on the rise.” —New York Times Book ReviewDay… [more below]
- Author: Olopade, Dayo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0544483995
- Language: English
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Twi-English/English-Twi Concise Dictionary
$19.95 Add to cartA concise Twi-English/ English-Twi dictionary is an unbeatable reference guide for travelers and students. It features over 8,000 entries (each with commonsense phonetics) and useful vocabulary and ex… [more below]
- Series: Hippocrene Concise Dictionary
- Author: Kotey, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: January 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0781802644
- Language: English
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Toward the African Revolution
$17.00 Add to cartThis powerful collection of articles, essays, and letters spans the period between Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961), Fanon’s landmark manifesto on the psychology of … [more below]
- Series: Fanon, Frantz
- Author: Fanon, Frantz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 11 1994
- ISBN10: 0802130909
- Language: English
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Islam’s Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora
$22.00 Add to cartA comprehensive study of the Eastern slave trade by an eminent British scholar
A companion volume to The Black Diaspora, this groundbreaking work tells the fascinating and horrifying story of the Islam
- Author: Segal, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 273
- Publish Date: October 05 2006
- ISBN10: 0374527970
- Language: English
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The Ancient Orishas
$14.44 Add to cartThe Ancient Orishas
Make no mistake, the sacred knowledge and energy of our ancestors thrives today. Keep reading to find out more…
Are you constantly fascinated by the spirituality of indigenous trib
- Author: Asikiwe, Jade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: July 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1087896029
- Language: English
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Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization
$19.94 Add to cartThe history of Ethiopia could also be called the history of humanity. The question is not if this history is well documented, but why it is not thought widely in schools. The time necessary to study t
- Author: Jackson, John G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: May 24 2020
- ISBN10: 0592438848
- Language: English
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Crumbs from the Table of Joy and Other Plays
$19.95 Read moreThis collection includes Lynn Nottage’s best known work, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, which has been produced widely since its premiere in May 1995 and which the Chicago Tribune hailed as “a complex
- Author: Nottage, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1559362146
- Language: English
