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Amilcar Cabral: Revolutionary Leadership and People's War by Patrick Chabal Synopsis This book, first published in 1983 by Cambridge University Press and now issued for the first time in paperback with a new preface, tells the story of Amilcar Cabral who, as head of PAIGC, Guinea-Bissau's nationalist movement, became one of Africa's... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Family Identity & the State in the Bamako Kafu, c. 1800-c.1900 by B Marie Perinbam Publisher Comments This groundbreaking book explores the history and the cultural context of family claims to power in the Bamako kafu, or state (located in contemporary Mali in West Africa), primarily during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Perinbam argues that... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village by Sarah Erdman Publisher Comments The village of Nambonkaha in the Ivory Coast is a place where electricity hasnt yet arrived, where sorcerers still conjure magic, where the tok-tok sound of women pounding corn fills the morning air like a drumbeat. As Sarah Erdman enters the social fold... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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African Studies Series #92: Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade by Boubacar Barry Publisher Comments This authoritative study of 400 years of Senegambian history is unrivaled in its detailed grasp of published and unpublished materials. Taking as his subject the vast area covering the Senegal and Gambia river basins, Boubacar Barry explores the changing... (read more) List Price $63.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Warrior Women Amazons of Dahomey & Natur by Robert Edgerton Publisher Comments Some prominent anthropologists have been joined by an eminent military historian in declaring that military combat - at all times and in all places - has been a male activity. They advance many reasons for this pattern, some more plausible than others... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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My Heart Will Cross This Ocean: My Story, My Son, Amadou by Kadiatou Diallo Publisher Comments Descended from West African kings and healers, Kadiatou Diallo was married off at the age of 13. Twenty-three years later, her son--a gentle, innocent young man named Amadou--was gunned down in New York City. Now Diallo tells the astonishing, inspiring... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Society for the Study of Human Biology Symposium Series #75: Pragmatism in the Age of Jihad by Michael A Gomez Publisher Comments A full history of Bundu, a Muslim state which developed a uniquely pragmatic outlook.... (read more) List Price $144.50 Your price: $30.00 Used - Hardcover
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Travels in West Africa by Mary H Kingsley Publisher Comments A sheltered Victorian spinster trades her mundane middle-class existence in the 1890s for an incredible expedition in the Congo. Recounted with an infectious good humor, the journey draws her into the diverse customs and beliefs of the area, its natural... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Village of Waiting by George Packer Publisher Comments Now restored to print with a new Foreword by Philip Gourevitch and an Afterword by the author, this book is a frank, moving, and vivid account of contemporary life in West Africa. Stationed as a Peace Corps instructor in the village of Lavié (the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experiences with Development and Decadence in Deepest Africa by Robert Klitgaard Publisher Comments Selected as one of the six best nonfiction books of 1990 by the editors f the New York Times Book Review, this is a compelling and entertaining account of the authors two-and-a-half year adventure in Equatorial Guinea, and his efforts to get this small... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Or, Gustavus Vassa, the African (Modern Library Classics) by Olaudah Equiano Publisher Comments Edited and with Notes by Shelly Eversley Introduction by Robert Reid-Pharr In this truly astonishing eighteenth-century memoir, Olaudah Equiano recounts his remarkable life story, which begins when he is kidnapped in Africa as a boy and sold into slavery... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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West African Slavery and Atlantic Commerce: The Senegal River Valley, 1700-1860 by James F Searing Publisher Comments The author shows how the societies of West Africa were transformed by the slave trade. The growth of the Atlantic trade stimulated the development of slavery within the region, with slaves working in the river and coasting trades or producing surplus... (read more) List Price $60.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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African Studies Series #94: Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa by Martin Klein Publisher Comments Using oral sources, as well as official and missionary archives, Martin Klein describes the history of slavery during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in three former French colonies. He considers the impact of the Atlantic slave trade and the... (read more) List Price $44.75 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The World and a Very Small Place in Africa (Sources & Studies in World History) by Donald R Wright Publisher Comments This study looks at the effects of "global" phenomena -- trans-Saharan trade, European expansion, the rise of an Atlantic plantation complex, industrialization, imperialism, colonialism, world wars, growth of a world market, political independence and... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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My Mercedes Is Not for Sale: From Amsterdam to Ouagadougou...an Auto-Misadventure Across the Sahara by Jeroen Van Bergeijk Publisher Comments “Oh Lord, wont you buy me a Mercedes Benz?” Janis Joplin A journalists intrepid endeavor to sell his used car abroad results in a high-spirited and revealing look at West Africa. “Look, theres my car,” I say, pointing at my... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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My Friend the Mercenary by Tom Brabazon Review “Among the most exciting true stories of adventure—and misadventure—Ive ever read about modern Africa; a beautifully written adrenaline rush by one of our generations bravest journalists.” —Aidan Hartley, author of The Zanzibar... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Abongui My People Cote D'Ivoire My Country America My Home: The Ethno-History of a Small African Kingdom by Kouassi P. Soman Publisher Comments An economist with the World Bank Group, Kouassi admits his addiction to the fishing his daddy taught him early on the Djoreh river. An eligible heir to the throne of the Abongui kingdom in northeastern... (read more) List Price $3.99 Your price: $3.54 Google eBooks - Electronic
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West Africa Islam & the Arab World by John O Hunwick Book News Annotation A specialist in the history of Timbuktu, Hunwick (Northwestern U.) takes the three elements in turn, but in fact is concerned with how they interact. The nine studies are principally based on talks he has given at conferences and universities, but has... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Designing West Africa: Prelude to 21st Century Calamity by Peter Schwab Publisher Comments Many African countries are now described as "Fourth World nations," ones which essentially have no future. How could this have happened? Through the scope of the 1960s, the first decade of African independence, Peter Schwab presents a compelling and... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village by Sarah Erdman Publisher Comments A portrait of a resilient African village, ruled until recently by magic and tradition, now facing modern problems and responding, often triumphantly, to change. When Sarah Erdman, a Peace Corps volunteer, arrived in Nambonkaha, she became the first... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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