Africa - West
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Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde: The Fall of the Last Colonial Empire in Africa
$12.00 Add to cart- Author: Dreke, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: December 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1604882166
- Language: English
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African Trade Beads: Their 10,000-Year History
$39.95 Add to cartFirst made and worn 120,000 years ago, beads were originally made of natural materials — stones, shells, wood — and have been used for adornment, currency and burial offerings.
Trade beads of poli
- Author: Traore, Issa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0228105005
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Era: Nigeria Before British Rule
$35.00 Read more‘Siollun’s books are gripping’ Financial Times
‘An essential book you’ll want to re-read many times – there is no more eloquent and informed guide than Max Siollun’ Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empirela
- Author: Siollun, Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0745350089
- Language: English
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Hope in Times of Horror: Memoirs of the Liberian Uncivil War
$24.95 Add to cartThis is a story about my experience from my early childhood until the moment that I left the soil of Liberia. The story is my perspective of living a secure life, enjoying interacting with my family a
- Author: Bull, Quemiline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 9798890431066
- Language: English
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Indigo: In Search of the Color That Seduced the World
$18.99 Read moreBrimming with rich, electrifying tales of the precious dye and its ancient heritage, Indigo is also the story of a personal quest: Catherine McKinley is the descendant of a clan of Scots who wore indi… [more below]
- Author: McKinley, Catherine E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 12 2012
- ISBN10: 1608195880
- Language: English
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A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
$26.00 Read moreBy the time the “Scramble for Africa” among European colonial powers began in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for centuries. Its gold had fueled the economies o… [more below]
- Author: Green, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 650
- Publish Date: March 05 2021
- ISBN10: 022678973X
- Language: English
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Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History
$46.67 Add to cartWinner, James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference, History, and Scholarship
A stunning work of popular history–the story of how a crop transformed the history of sla
Winner, Harriet Tubman Prize- Author: Lewis, Jori
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1620971569
- Language: English
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Jannah Jewels Book 1: The Treasure of Timbuktu
$12.50 Add to cartThe Jannah Jewels land in the ancient city of Timbuktu in Mali. Suddenly, they are caught in the middle of a mystery. Someone has stolen a priceless manuscript While following clues, they find the Gr… [more below]
- Author: Nura, Umm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0986720801
- 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 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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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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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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Women’s Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle
$5.00 Read more“There is no true social revolution without the liberation of women,” explains the leader of the 1983-87 revolution in Burkina Faso. Workers and peasants in that West African country established a pop… [more below]
- Author: Sankara, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0873489888
- Language: English
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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
$18.00 Add to cart**New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice**
To save ancient Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven in this “fast-paced narrative that is.- Author: Hammer, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 04, 2017
- ISBN10: 1476777411
- Language: English
