Interdisciplinary Studies/African
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The Bite of Mango
$12.95 Add to cartAs a child in a small rural village in Sierra Leone, Mariatu Kamara lived peacefully surrounded by family and friends. Rumors of rebel attacks were no more than a distant worry. But when 12-year-old M… [more below]
- Author: Kamara, Mariatu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 30 2008
- ISBN10: 1554511585
- Language: English
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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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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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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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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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Teff Love
$24.95 Read moreFor those unfamiliar with Ethiopian cooking, Kittee Berns is on a mission to demystify these delicous dishes, ibreaking through language and cultural barriers to show how these foods are traditionally… [more below]
- Author: Berns, Kittee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 185
- Publish Date: February 01 2015
- ISBN10: 157067311X
- Language: English
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The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth
$19.99 Read moreOne of Financial Times’ Books of the Year, 2015
The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. During the years when Brazil, India, China and the other “emerging- Author: Burgis, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1610397118
- Language: English
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The Nile: Travelling Downriver Through Egypt’s Past and Present
$19.00 Add to cartThe Nile, like all of Egypt, is both timeless and ever-changing. In these pages, renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us on a journey downriver that is both history and travelogue. We begin at t
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Wilkinson, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 03, 2015
- ISBN10: 0804168903
- Language: English
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We Are Heirs of the World’s Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87
$10.00 Add to cartOur revolution in Burkina Faso draws on the totality of man’s experiences since the first breath of humanity. We wish to be the heirs of all the revolutions of the world, of all the liberation struggl… [more below]
- Author: Sankara, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 111
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0873489896
- Language: English
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Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-1987
$20.00 Add to cart- Author: Sankara, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0873489861
- Language: English
