Cultural Region/African
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The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony
$15.95 Add to cartWinner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony asks: Whose testimony is valid? Whose testimony is worth recording? Osman’s speakers, who are almost always
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Osman, Ladan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0803266863
- Language: English
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In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story
$23.99 Add to cartIn Search of Enemies is much more than the story of the only war to be found when the CIA sought to recoup its prestige after the Vietnam debacle. Though no American troops were committed to Angola, o… [more below]
- Author: Stockwell, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 08 2007
- ISBN10: 0393009262
- Language: English
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The Conquest of Morocco: A History
$29.00 Add to cartThe Conquest of Morocco tells the story of France’s last great colonial adventure. At the turn of the twentieth century, Morocco was a nation yet to emerge from the Middle Ages, ruled by local warlord
- Author: Porch, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: May 26 2005
- ISBN10: 0374128804
- Language: English
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A War Child: A Child Soldier’s Story
$20.99 Add to cartIn the mid-1980s, Emmanuel Jal was a seven year old Sudanese boy, living in a small village with his parents, aunts, uncles, and siblings. But as Sudan’s civil war moved closer–with the Islamic gover
- Author: Jal, Emmanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0312602979
- Language: English
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Defeating Dictators: Fighting Tyranny in Africa and Around the World
$22.99 Add to cartThe recent turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East disproves the idea that dictatorships are acceptable to the people of these nations. From the uprising in Tunisia to the overthrow of Egypt’s Hos
- Author: Ayittey, George B. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0230341624
- Language: English
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An African Prayer Book
$12.00 Read morePrayer, our conversation with God, needs no set formulas or flowery phrases. It often needs no words at all. But for most believers, the words of others can be a wonderful aid to devotion, especially … [more below]
- Author: Tutu, Desmond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0385516495
- Language: English
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Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire
$25.99 Add to cartA work of dazzling beauty…the rare coming together of historical scholarship and curiosity about distant places with luminous writing. —The New York Times Book Review
Since the Turks first shattere- Author: Goodwin, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0312420668
- Language: English
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Great Escapes Africa. the Hotel Book
$60.00 Read moreFrom the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean, the vast Sahara to the Cape Verde archipelago, Africa offers a lifetime of travel adventures. Whether you’re a wide-eyed newcomer or an ever-returning v
- Author: Taschen, Angelika
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 21 2019
- ISBN10: 3836578131
- Language: English
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History of Pan-African Revolt
$17.95 Add to cartOriginally published in England in 1938 (the same year as his magnum opus The Black Jacobins) and expanded in 1969, this work remains the classic account of global black resistance. Robin D.G. Kelley’
- Series: Charles H. Kerr Library
- Author: James, C. L. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 25 2012
- ISBN10: 1604860952
- Language: English
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After the Ceremonies: New and Selected Poems
$19.95 Add to cartAma Ata Aidoo is one of the best-known African writers today. Spanning three decades of work, the poems in this collection address themes of colonialism, independence, motherhood, and gender in intima… [more below]
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Aidoo, Ama Ata
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0803296940
- Language: English
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Desert Flower
$19.99 Add to cart“Waris’s story is one of remarkable courage. From the deserts of Somalia to the world of high fashion, she battles against oppression and emerges a real champion. She is the most beautiful inspiration
- Author: Dirie, Waris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0688172377
- Language: English
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Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure Int He African Wilderness
$35.00 Add to cart“Exciting. . . part adventure story, part wildlife tale”–The Boston Globe
Intelligent, majestic, and loyal, with lifespans matching our own, elephants are among the greatest of the wonders gracing t- Author: Owens, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 29 1993
- ISBN10: 0544310462
- Language: English
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El Anatsui: The Reinvention of Sculpture
$70.00 Read moreThe product of more than 30 years of research, this astounding and authoritative volume reveals the political metaphors underpinning El Anatsui’s magnificent abstract sculpture
Authored by two acclaime
- Author: Anatsui, El
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 8862087632
- Language: English
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Our Lady of Kibeho: Mary Speaks to the World from the Heart of Africa
$22.99 Add to cartThirteen years before the bloody 1994 genocide that swept across Rwanda and left more than a million people dead, the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ appeared to eight young people in the remote village … [more below]
- Author: Ilibagiza, Immaculee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1401927432
- Language: English
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Mini Saga in South Africa
$21.99 Add to cartHilary’s desire to explore South Africa and experience African culture, while helping to improve the lives of children, was inspired at school in England by a sermon given by visiting missionary, Fath… [more below]
- Author: Crowley, Hilary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1039181759
- Language: English
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A History of African Popular Culture
$45.33 Add to cartPopular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a j… [more below]
- Series: New Approaches to African History #11
- Author: Barber, Karin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 11 2018
- ISBN10: 1107624479
- Language: English
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Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters: The Early Years
$15.99 Add to cartA collection of anthropologist Goodall’s letters from her early years reveals the person only her friends and family knew until now. Here is the girl who punts at Oxford, who journeys to Africa for th… [more below]
- Author: Goodall, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0618127356
- Language: English
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African Myths and Folk Tales
$10.00 Add to cartHow was the earth formed, and where did animals come from? Why does the hippopotamus live in water, and why do cats chase rats? Imaginative answers to these and other age-old questions can be found am… [more below]
- Series: Dover Children’s Thrift Classics
- Author: Woodson, Carter Godwin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0486477347
- Language: English
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Sacrament of Bodies
$17.95 Add to cart2021 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist
In this groundbreaking collection of poems, Sacrament of Bodies, Romeo Oriogun fearlessly interrogates how a queer man in Nigeria can heal in a society where ever- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Oriogun, Romeo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496219643
- Language: English
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The Black Maria
$16.00 Add to cartTimely and necessary poems investigate the historical and current realities of blackness in America, elegizing and celebrating human life.
- Author: Girmay, Aracelis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: April 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1942683022
- Language: English
