Cultural Region/West Africa
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The Ghana Reader: History, Culture, Politics
$30.95 Add to cartCovering 500 years of Ghana’s history, The Ghana Reader provides a multitude of historical, political, and cultural perspectives on this iconic African nation. Whether discussing the Asante kingdom an… [more below]
- Series: World Readers
- Author: Konadu, Kwasi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 03 2016
- ISBN10: 0822359928
- Language: English
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The Black Joke: The True Story of One Ship’s Battle Against the Slave Trade
$29.00 Read moreA groundbreaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of the British Royal Navy’s anti-slavery squadron, and the long fight to end the transatlantic slave trade.
The most feared ship in B- Author: Rooks, A. E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1982128267
- Language: English
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Mansa Musa: A Captivating Guide to the Emperor of the Islamic Mali Empire in West Africa and How He Developed Timbuktu into a Majo
$25.99 Add to cartWho was Mansa Musa? And why was he important?
In the grand scheme of things, very little is known of Mansa Musa’s life. We know that he was one of the greatest emperors of the Mali Empire. And we know
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: April 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1637162626
- Language: English
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The Igbos and Israel: An Inter-Cultural Study of the Largest Jewish Diaspora
$27.99 Add to cartJewish Igbo scholar Remy Ilona presents and analyzes Judaic history, practices and concept within the Igbo culture of Nigeria. Remy has been honored and supported by Kulanu, an American Jewish organiz… [more below]
- Author: Ilona, Remy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 12 2014
- ISBN10: 193860900X
- Language: English
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Mansa Musa: A Captivating Guide to the Emperor of the Islamic Mali Empire in West Africa and How He Developed Timbuktu into a Majo
$16.97 Add to cartWho was Mansa Musa? And why was he important?
In the grand scheme of things, very little is known of Mansa Musa’s life. We know that he was one of the greatest emperors of the Mali Empire. And we know
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: March 31 2021
- ISBN10: 163716260X
- Language: English
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The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
$21.99 Add to cart“Theroux is at his best when he tells [people’s] stories, happy and sad . . . Theroux’s great mission had always been to transport us beyond that reading chair, to challenge himself–and thus, to chal… [more below]
- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 13 2014
- ISBN10: 054422793X
- Language: English
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The Science of the Dogon: Decoding the African Mystery Tradition
$18.95 Read moreA look at the close resemblance between the creation and structure of matter in both Dogon mythology and modern science
– Reveals striking similarities between Dogon symbols and those used in both the- Author: Scranton, Laird
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1594771332
- Language: English
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The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670: A Documentary History
$30.00 Add to cartThe Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670 brings together a collection of documents – all in new English translation – that illustrate aspects of the encounters between the Portuguese and the peoples o… [more below]
- Author: Newitt, Malyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: June 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0521159148
- Language: English
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African Narratives of Orishas, Spirits and Other Deities
$68.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 722
- Publish Date: December 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1977235719
- Language: English
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Yoruba-English/ English-Yoruba Dictionary & Phrasebook
$14.95 Add to cartYoruba, one of the national languages of Nigeria, is spoken by more than 30 million people worldwide. It is the most widely spoken language in Nigeria after English, and is also spoken in Benin and To
- Author: Odoje, Clement
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 0781813891
- Language: English
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The Nigerian Nightmare: My Journey Out of Africa to the Kansas City Chiefs and Beyond
$30.00 Read moreAn essential and improbable football story that crosses continents, cultures, and sports
Christian Okoye never dreamed of playing football. He passed hours playing soccer each day in Enugu, Nigeria,- Author: Okoye, Christian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1637272618
- Language: English
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Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
$26.90 Add to cart“A well-rendered and -documented tale of exploitation in the
developing world” (Kirkus Reviews) with deep resonance in the present dayIn a book Paul Farmer called “a gem of a social history linking t
- Author: Mitman, Gregg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977966
- Language: English
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Beneath the Tamarind Tree: A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram
$22.99 Add to cart“It is no accident that the places in the world where we see the most instability are those in which the rights of women and girls are denied. Isha Sesay’s indispensable and gripping account of the br
- Author: Sesay, Isha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062686615
- Language: English
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Sufferings in Africa: The Astonishing Account Of A New England Sea Captain Enslaved By North African Arabs
$14.95 Add to cartPreviously published: New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1965. First published in 1817 under title: An authentic narrative of the loss of the American brig Commerce.
- Author: Riley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1599212110
- Language: English
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This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa’s First Woman President
$19.99 Add to cart“Exceptionally well written, a true story that seems as much a thriller as the remembrances of an ambitious and brave woman. . . . This timely book. . . is a lesson in courage and perseverance.” — Wa
- Author: Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 13 2010
- ISBN10: 0061353485
- Language: English
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The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
$22.99 Add to cartThe thrilling and definitive history of World War I in the Middle East
By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they pulled the Middle East along with them into one of the- Author: Rogan, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0465097421
- Language: English
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Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide
$35.00 Add to cartSince the mid-nineteenth-century abolition of slavery, the call for reparations for the crime of African enslavement and native genocide has been growing. In the Caribbean, grassroots and official voi
- Author: Beckles, Hilary MCD
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 25 2013
- ISBN10: 976640268X
- 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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You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir
$21.00 Add to cartThe first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka now follows his modern classic Ake: The Years of Childhood with an equa
- Author: Soyinka, Wole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 13, 2007
- ISBN10: 0375755144
- 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
