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The Adventures of Ibn Battuta, A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century
• Ross E. Dunn
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A modern historian's account of Ibn Battuta's travels in the medieval Islamic world. When Battuta left his native Morocco in 1325, he intended a pilgrimage to Mecca; however his travels ultimately took him as far as Mali in the west and Malaysia in the east, stopping in China, the Middle East, and much of Africa along the way.
(AFR103, $21.95)
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Africa
• Michael Lewis
• John Reader
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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An informative survey of the geography, culture and wildlife of Africa featuring 175 color photographs and accompanying text by John Reader; organized geographically.
(AFR111, $50.00)
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African Predators
• M.G.L. Mills
• Gus Mills
• Martin Harvey
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A natural history of the giant cats and other predators of Africa.
(AFR114, $39.95)
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African Silences
• Peter Matthiessen
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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In this narrative of Equatorial Africa, Matthiessen recounts several trips to The Gambia, Senegal, Zaire and the Congo Basin in search of rhinos, elephants and other endangered wildlife.
(WAF36, $13.00)
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African Vodun: Art, Psychology and Power
• Susanne Preston Blier
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A detailed study of West African vodun traditions, particularly in Togo and Benin. Blier compares the psychological and visual elements of Vodun with related voodoo traditions of Haiti and New Orleans.
(WAF74, $45.00)
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African Wildlife
• Raymond Leung
• James Kavanaugh
• FIELD GUIDE
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A laminated foldout guide.
(AFR109, $5.95)
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Ake, the Years of Childhood
• Wole Soyinka
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A Nobel Prize-winning playwright, recalls his Yoruba childhood in Nigeria during World War II.
(WAF47, $14.95)
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All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
• Maya Angelou
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A candid memoir of Angelou's experiences in Ghana in the 1960s, just five years after the country's independence from Britain.
(WAF24, $13.00)
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Ambiguous Adventure
• Cheikh Hamidou Kane
• LITERATURE
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This classic novel follows a Senegalese man in France, where he finds his Islamic faith at odds with a culture of materialism.
(WAF118, $10.95)
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Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat and Camel
• Jeffrey Tayler
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The eye-opening account of an American journalist's trek across the Sahel, the southern region of the Sahara Desert, which encompasses Niger, Nigeria, Mali, Cameroon, Chad and Senegal.
(WAF83, $25.00)
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Black Gold of the Sun, Searching for Home in Africa And Beyond
• Ekow Eshun
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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(WAF109, $13.95)
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The Black Man's Burden, Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State
• Basil Davidson
• HISTORY
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An evocative work that traces the origins of Africa's independence movement, placing the continent's current political instability in a historical perspective.
(AFR92, $15.00)
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Bogolan, Shaping Culture Through Cloth in Contemporary Mali
• Victoria Rovine
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• COMING IN NOVEMBER
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A beautifully illustrated survey of the transformation of bogolanfini (mudcloth) textiles in Mali from its traditional rural roots to contemporary symbol. With 24 color and 33 black-and-white photographs and maps.
(WAF62, $24.95)
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Bradt Guide Benin
• Stuart Butler
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive guide in the growing series by Bradt, noteworthy for its focus on culture, nature and responsible travel. The author includes sights and activities throughout the country.
(WAF91, $23.95)
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Bradt Guide Burkina Faso
• Katrina Manson
• James Knight
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide in the popular Bradt series, noted for publishing travel guides to remote and little-visited destinations.
(WAF92, $23.95)
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Bradt Guide Cape Verde Islands
• Aisling Irwin
• Colum Wilson
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical travel guide to the Cape Verde islands, including its cultural and natural history.
(ATL07, $22.95)
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Bradt Guide Ghana
• Philip Briggs
• Hilary Bradt
• Annabel Milne
• GUIDEBOOK
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Complete with maps and town plans, this guide to Ghana features practical information on the country's history, culture and attractions.
(WAF27, $26.99)
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Burkina Faso Map
• ITMB
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A colorful traveler's map of the country at a scale of 1:1,000,000.
(WAF101, $10.95)
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The Camel and the Wheel
• Richard Bulliet
• HISTORY
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Bulliet draws on archaeology, art,anthropology and camel husbandry to explore the implications -- from the Middle Ages to the present -- of the dependence on the camel for transport in the Middle East.
(MDE96, $29.00)
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Captain Sir Richard Burton, A Biography
• Edward Rice
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A splendid, absorbing account of the Victorian explorer.
(AFR99, $27.50)
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Changes, A Love Story
• Ama Ata Aidoo
• LITERATURE
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Aidoo creates a moving portrait of womens' lives in Africa and the problems that are all too familiar in almost every culture.
(WAF35, $15.95)
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The Commodore
• Patrick O'Brian
• LITERATURE
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The 17th in the series, With Aubrey back home in England and in battle off West Africa.
(WAF73, $13.95)
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Congo Map
• IGN
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(WAF04, $16.95)
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The Cruelest Journey, Six Hundred Miles to Timbuktu
• Kira Salak
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Adventurer Kira Salak's account of her journeys on the Niger River and her record-breaking 600-mile solo kayaking trip to Timbuktu.
(WAF75, $26.00)
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The Dark Child
• Camara Laye
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Laye, Africa's foremost Francophone novelist, writes about growing up in Guinea and the dissonance between the traditions of his village and the encroaching modern world.
(WAF120, $13.00)
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Eating Apes
• Dale Peterson
• Karl Ammann
• Janet K. Museveni
• NATURAL HISTORY
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In this powerful book, primatologist Peterson calls for a stop to the consumption of bush meat, especially chimps, bonos, and gorillas, in the forests of Central and Western Africa.
(AFR153, $15.95)
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Einstein and the Total Eclipse
• Peter Coles
• SCIENCE
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An account of the solar eclipse expedition that vindicated Einstein's theory of relativity. The success of the experiment immediately propelled Einstein onto the front pages of newspapers around the world.
(SCI28, $7.95)
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The Ends of the Earth, A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy
• Robert D. Kaplan
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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An insightful, opinionated odyssey to some of the world's poorer and more troubled nations.
(WLD26, $16.00)
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The Famished Road
• Ben Okri
• LITERATURE
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The haunting, Booker Prize-winning novel set in a Yoruba village in modern Nigeria.
(WAF39, $15.95)
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Flashman and the Tiger
• George MacDonald Fraser
• LITERATURE
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This 11th installment in The Flashman Papers (purportedly retrieved and not written by George Macdonald Fraser, a nice conceit), consists of three short adventures, which find our hero cavorting with Bismarck and Emperor Franz-Josef and the future Edward VI.
(WAF58, $14.95)
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Forests of Gold, Essays on the Akan and the Kingdom of Asante
• Ivor Wilks
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A collection of essays that explores the Akan peoples of Ghana and examines the Asante kingdom.
(WAF33, $25.00)
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The Fortunes of Wangrin
• Amadou Hampate Ba
• LITERATURE
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The classic 1976 story of Wangrin, a promising West African boy who leaves his tribal village only to confront the greed and corruption of the French and the colonial government.
(WAF108, $17.95)
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From Slavery to Freedom, A History of African Americans
• John Hope Franklin
• HISTORY
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A classic history of the African American experience.
(USA39, $75.00)
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Genii of the River Niger
• Jean-Marie Gibbal
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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An ethnography of the people south of Timbuktu, in the Lake Debo region, where water spirits play a vital role in folk traditions and culture.
(WAF86, $22.00)
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Ghana Map
• ITMB
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A colorful, folded map of Ghana at a detailed scale of 1:500,000.
(WAF37, $11.95)
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The Girl Who Married a Lion and Other Tales from Africa
• Alexander McCall Smith
• LITERATURE
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McCall Smith brings together folktales, often hilarious or bizarre, which he heard as a child growing up in Zimbabwe.
(AFR141, $22.00)
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God Alone Is King, Islam and Emancipation in Senegal : The Wolof Kingdoms of Kajoor and Bawol, 1859-1914
• James F. Searing
• HISTORY
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A history of French colonial policy, the slave trade, and the conflicts between Islam and the aristocracy in 19th century Senegal.
(WAF117, $27.00)
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The Golden Trade of the Moors
• E.W. Bovill
• HISTORY
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A lively scholarly history of over 1,000 years of trans-Saharan trade, originally published in 1968.
(NAF44, $24.95)
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Guinea Map
• IGN
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A colorful, French-produced map of the West African nation of Guinea at a scale of 1:1,000,000.
(WAF87, $16.95)
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Historical Dictionary of Mali
• Pascal James Imperato
• REFERENCE
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A dictionary of people, places, and events in Malian history.
(WAF49, $100.00)
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A History of Sub-Saharan Africa
• Robert O. Collins
• James M. Burns
• HISTORY
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A clear, brief survey of the history and development of Africa, aimed at undergraduates and interested readers, organized thematically. With chapters on climate and geography, the rise of states and empires, the slave trade within Africa and beyond to the Americas, the European conquest, and Africa in the 20th century.
(AFR174, $27.99)
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In Sorcery's Shadow
• Paul Stoller
• Cheryl Olkes
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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An anthropologist's account of his time in Niger and his experiences with local sorcerers and traditional healers. It's an excellent introduction to the role of magic and its moral complications in African culture.
(WAF55, $18.00)
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Islam's Black Slaves, The Other Black Diaspora
• Ronald Segal
• HISTORY
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An authoritative history of the Islamic slave trade.
(AFR209, $21.00)
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It's a Jungle Up There, More Tales from the Treetops
• Margaret Lowman
• James Burgess
• Edward Burgess
• NATURAL HISTORY
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This engaging globe-skipping chronicle takes the tropical ecologist and her now-grown sons James and Edward to Samoa, West Africa, Peru, Panama, India and other great habitats.
(NAT92, $30.00)
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Ivory Coast Map
• Institut Geographique National
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The product of the French geographic institute, this detailed map at a scale of 1:1,000,000 covers roads, topography and parks in detail.
(WAF121, $16.95)
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The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals
• Jonathan Kingdon
• FIELD GUIDE
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A stunningly illustrated, comprehensive field guide to African mammals. This concise guide provides full information on more than 1,100 species. It includes 480 outstanding color illustrations by the author and 280 maps.
(AFR32, $47.50)
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Kwame Nkrumah, The Father of African Nationalism
• David Birmingham
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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The tale of the remarkable life of Kwame Nkrumah, the African statesman who championed for independence, won Africans the right to vote, and became the president of Ghana in 1960.
(WAF34, $14.95)
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The Last Place On Earth
• Mike Fay
• Michael Nichols
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A two-volume boxed set, this authoritative, spectacularly photographed book by National Geographic documents Michael Fay's 465-day, 2,000-mile Mega-Transect with photographer Nick Nichols from the Congo highlands to the Atlantic Ocean shore of Gabon. With Nichol's extraordinary color photographs (vol. 1) and a facsimile edition of Fay's diary (vol. 2).
(CAF38, $150.00)
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Leo Africanus
• Amin Maalouf
• LITERATURE
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A fictional memoir of the first 40 years in the life of Leo Africanus, a Muslim whose travels led him throughout the Mediterranean and North Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries.
(MED55, $16.95)
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Mali Map
• ITMB
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A fold-up map of Mali, shown at a scale of 1:2,400,000.
(WAF43, $11.95)
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Mande Music, Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western Africa
• Eric Charry
• MUSIC
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An in-depth examination of the rich musical traditions of Mali, Guinea, Senegal, and the Gambia, from the 13th century to the present day.
(WAF102, $29.00)
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Mande Potters and Leatherworkers, Art and Heritage in West Africa
• Barbara Frank
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A nicely illustrated scholarly cultural history of Mande-speaking craftspeople in West Africa. Dispersed throughout Mali and West Africa, Mande potters and leatherworkers form a distinct social class, where women make ceramics and the men work in leather.
(WAF61, $27.95)
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Mango Elephants in the Sun, How Life in an African Village Let Me Be in My Skin
• Susan Herrera
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The engaging account of a Peace Corps volunteer in northern Cameroon.
(WAF20, $22.95)
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Mauritania Map
• International Travel Maps
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A map of Mauritania, at a scale of 1:2,000,000.
(WAF63, $11.95)
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Medieval West Africa, Views from Arab Scholars and Merchants
• Jay Spaulding
• Nehemia Levtzion
• HISTORY
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A scholarly overview of Sub-Saharan Africa from the ninth to the fourteenth century, with a particular focus on Islamization.
(WAF103, $26.95)
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Memoirs of the Maelstrom, A Senegalese Oral History of the First World War
• Joe Lunn
• HISTORY
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A history of colonial military recruitment, training, war time service and repatriation, as told through oral histories of Senagalese veterans. A remarkable examination of a colony's wartime relationship with the mother country.
(WAF104, $25.95)
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Muslim Societies in African History
• David Robinson
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Robinson, a leading scholar, presents a good overview of Islam within the context of African, especially West African, history.
(ISL54, $22.99)
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New News Out of Africa, Uncovering Africa's Renaissance
• Charlayne Hunter-Gault
• HISTORY
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A PBS correspondant addresses the current state of affairs in South Africa, Rwanda, Mozambique, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Angola and Sierra Leone, incorporating his own experiences and the continent's troubled and tangled history.
(AFR203, $14.95)
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Nigeria Map
• Freytag & Berndt
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A shaded relief map of Nigeria.
(AFR39, $11.95)
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No Longer at Ease
• Chinua Achebe
• LITERATURE
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The story of an Ibo boy who leaves his village for a British education and then finds himself immersed in the corrupt Nigerian ruling elite he despises.
(WAF107, $10.95)
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Onions are My Husband, Survival and Accumulation by West African Market Women
• Gracia Clark
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A vivid ethnographic portrait of the women of the enormous open-air Kumasi Central Market in Ghana based on interviews and fieldwork by University of Indiana anthropologist Gracia Clark.
(WAF28, $37.50)
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Palace Sculptures of Abomey, History Told on Walls
• Francesca Pique
• Leslie Rainer
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An illustrated survey and history of the sculptures and bas-reliefs at the Dahomey palace with 120 color photographs.
(WAF77, $24.95)
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The Peoples of the Middle Niger
• Roderick James McIntosh
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A scholarly study of the ancient inhabitants of the Niger floodplain, incorporating archaeological discoveries and oral traditions.
(WAF93, $59.95)
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The Peopling of Africa, A Geographic Interpretation
• James L. Newman
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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An anthropological study of Africa, which considers, among other factors, genetics, religion, language and technology.
(AFR140, $18.00)
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Portuguese Style and Luso-African Identity, Precolonical Senegambia, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries
• Mark, Peter
• HISTORY
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A scholarly history of precolonial Portugese influence in Western Africa.
(WAF105, $24.95)
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Riding the Demon, On the Road in West Africa
• Peter Chilson
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Peter Chilson took to the road in Niger for this portrait of a turbulent and fascinating nation, where rickety bush taxis, packed to the gills with passengers, provide an eye-opening perspective on the nation.
(WAF54, $24.95)
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The River Where Blood Is Born
• Sandra Jackson-Opoku
• LITERATURE
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A complex, layered novel following the fate of several generations of women from 18th-century Africa to modern America and Barbados.
(WAF41, $12.95)
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Roots
• Alex Haley
• LITERATURE
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AThe 30th anniversary edition of Alex Haley's epic story of Kunta Kinte and his descendents.
(WAF21, $15.95)
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Rough Guide Music Nigeria & Ghana
• Various Artists
• MUSIC
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A carefully chosen sampling of the diverse sounds of Nigeria and Ghana. Includes the styles Highlife, Fuji, and Afrobeat.
(WAF97, $14.98)
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Rough Guide Music Youssou N'dour & Etoile de Dakar
• Youssou N'Dour
• MUSIC
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A guide to the music of the internationally acclaimed Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour and his band Etoile de Dakar. Youssou champions mbalax, the dance music of his Wolof people.
(WAF98, $14.98)
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Rough Guide to the Music of Senegal & Gambia
• Various Artists
• MUSIC
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A carefully chosen sampling of the diverse sounds of these West African nations. Includes the celebrated artists Youssou N'Dour, Baaba Maal, Cheikh Lo, Tata Dinding Jobarteh and Ifang Bondi.
(WAF96, $14.98)
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Rough Guides Africa 25 Ultimate Experiences
• Rough Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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Subtitled Make the Most of Your Time on Earth, these colorful pocket guides, 25 in all, published in celebration of the 25th anniversary of Rough Guides, celebrate remarkable, not-to-be-missed things to do and places to go, certain to inspire.
(AFR196, $5.99)
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The Scramble for Africa
• Thomas Pakenham
• HISTORY
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A well-written, meticulously researched history of the Victorian land grab in Africa. The book includes excellent portraits of the egomaniacal personalities that overran the continent.
(AFR26, $23.95)
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The Seasons of Beento Blackbird
• Akosua Busia
• LITERATURE
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A provocative novel dissecting the issues of marriage and African identity by the daughter of a former Ghanaian prime minister.
(WAF42, $21.95)
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Senegal and The Gambia Map
• ITMB
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A colorful map of Senegal and The Gambia, at a scale of 1:800,000.
(WAF69, $11.95)
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So Long a Letter
• Mariama Ba
• LITERATURE
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This poignant novel takes the form of a long letter, from a Senegalese woman who is rocked by her husband's decision to take a second wife.
(WAF119, $11.95)
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Still Waters in Niger
• Kathleen Hill
• LITERATURE
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An atmospheric novel set in America and Niger. After living for in the United States for 17 years, an Irish-American woman returns to a small village in Niger where she had once lived with her husband and three daughters.
(WAF53, $15.95)
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Togo Map
• IGN
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(AFR37, $16.95)
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The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi
• Arthur Japin
• Ina Rilke
• LITERATURE
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An acclaimed debut novel by a young Dutch writer, concerning the tragic fortunes of two Dutch-educated West African princes circa 1830, whose schooling renders them neither Dutch nor Ashanti.
(NTH45, $14.00)
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Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa, 1830-1914
• Bruce Vandervort
• HISTORY
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A scholarly history of European military activity in Africa and the impact of imperial wars on both European and African military practices.
(WAF106, $18.95)
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Wind, Sand and Stars
• Antoine de Saint Exupery
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• FAVORITE
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St. Exupery's luminous account of flying early postal routes over South America, Europe and the deserts of West Africa in the 1930s, including the classic tale of his crash in the Libyan desert.
(DES11, $13.00)
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Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon
• Makuchi
• Eloise A. Briere
• LITERATURE
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A collection of short stories from a native of Cameroon.
(CAF05, $16.95)
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