Cultural Region/West Africa
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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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Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons: The Story of Phillis Wheatley
$10.99 Add to cartKidnapped from her home in Senegal and sold as a slave in 1761, a young girl is purchased by the wealthy Wheatley family in Boston. Phillis Wheatley–as she comes to be known–has an eager mind and it
- Series: Great Episodes
- Author: Rinaldi, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 015205393X
- 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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The White Nile
$19.99 Add to cart“A truly great work–massive, monumental. . . . A wonderful story of heroism, a superb feat of research. . . . The best book of its kind.” —Baltimore Sun
Relive all the thrills and adventure of Alan M
- Author: Moorehead, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0060956399
- Language: English
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The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood
$17.00 Add to cartJournalist Helene Cooper examines the violent past of her home country Liberia and the effects of its 1980 military coup in this deeply personal memoir and finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics … [more below]
- Author: Cooper, Helene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0743266250
- Language: English
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Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
$22.00 Add to cart“Paul Farmer brings his considerable intellect, empathy, and expertise to bear in this powerful and deeply researched account of the Ebola outbreak that struck West Africa in 2014. It is hard to imagi
- Author: Farmer, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1250800234
- Language: English
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The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
$18.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2021 Elliott P. Skinner Book Award
“If you care about museums and the world, read this book”–New York Times
“Urgent, lucid, and brilliantly enraged…a long-awaited treatise on justi- Author: Hicks, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0745346227
- Language: English
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Hebrewisms of West Africa Hardcover
$43.00 Add to cartHebrewisms of West Africa
- Author: Williams, Joseph J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: June 08 2017
- ISBN10: 1639233903
- Language: English
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Days Come and Go
$24.95 Add to cartChronicling the beauty and turmoil of a rapidly changing Cameroon, Days Come and Go is the remarkable story of three generations of women both within and beyond its borders. Through the voices of Anna… [more below]
- Author: Boum, Hemley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 194964135X
- Language: English
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Someone Birthed Them Broken: Stories
$26.99 Read more“Delightfully assertive, subversive and vibrant… an original voice.” –Imbolo Mbue, author of the New York Times bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction winner Behold the Dreamers – “A compel
- Author: Diaka, Ama Asantewa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 02, 2024
- ISBN10: 0063259559
- Language: English
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Ghostroots: Stories
$26.99 Read moreIn this beguiling collection of twelve imaginative stories set in Lagos, Nigeria, ‘Pemi Aguda dramatizes the tension between our yearning to be individuals and the ways we are haunted by what came bef
- Author: Aguda, ‘Pemi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1324065850
- Language: English
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A Spell of Good Things
$17.00 Add to cartBOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE – A NEW YORKER AND NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – GMA BUZZ PICK – A dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession, and… [more below]
- Author: Adebayo, Ayobami
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1984898884
- Language: English
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A Kind of Madness
$16.95 Add to cartFinalist for NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Debut
Finalist for Caine Prize For African Writing An Oprah Daily Most Anticipated Book of 2024 “Steady-handed and gut-punching. I’m in awe.”- Author: Okonkwo, Uche
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1959030388
- Language: English
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Patience Is a Subtle Thief
$18.99 Add to cartHope and circumstance define a young woman’s life in this heartbreaking tale of lost innocence, set in politically volatile 1990s Nigeria, from an exciting and fresh voice in global literature.
For as
- Author: Ishola-Ayodeji, Abi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0063116928
- Language: English
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Dele Weds Destiny
$17.00 Read moreA VANITY FAIR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – The story of three once-inseparable college friends in Nigeria who reunite in Lagos for the first time in thirty years–a sparkling novel about the extraordinary … [more below]
- Author: Obaro, Tomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0593314506
- Language: English
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Under Our Skin
$18.00 Add to cart1570. A street teems with activity in Renaissance Lisbon: boatmen unload passengers as jugglers entertain the crowd and vendors hawk their goods. The crowd is large, and more than half of it is Black.
- Author: Soutar, Jethro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1951213521
- Language: English
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An African Night’s Entertainment
$14.99 Add to cart‘Put your money on this sheepskin, ‘ said the old man, ‘and if, by the time I finish my tale, there is one of you awake, that man shall claim everything we have collected.’ Follow this tale of love, d
- Author: Ekwensi, Cyprian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 196061102X
- Language: English
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Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories
$27.99 Read more“I couldn’t put this book down and I loved spending time in the lives of Nonso, Remi, Aisha, and Solape. Truly this book will grab hold of your heart and mind and everything in between.”–Roxane Gay,
- Author: Ogunyemi, Omolola Ijeoma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063117045
- Language: English
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Beasts of No Nation
$16.99 Add to cart“Remarkable. . . . Iweala never wavers from a gripping, pulsing narrative voice. . . . He captures the horror of ethnic violence in all its brutality and the vulnerability of youth in all its innocenc
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Iweala, Uzodinma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0060798688
- Language: English
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Akissi: More Tales of Mischief: Akissi Book 2
$14.99 Add to cartThe plucky, troublemaking Akissi is back with her mischief on The Ivory Coast! This time, she has to keep herself from drowning, stand up to a bully, make peace with her arch nemesis–the prettiest gi… [more below]
- Author: Abouet, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1912497174
- Language: English
