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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 author’s two-and-a-half year adventure in Equatorial Guinea, and his efforts to get this...
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Politics in Nigeria 2ND Edition
by Oladimeji Aborisade Book News Annotation An introductory overview of contemporary Nigerian politics. The latest edition includes updated information on environmental, health, and human rights issues. New coverage focuses on heightened tension related to efforts to introduce Muslim law into...
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The Trickster in West Africa
by Robert D Pelton Publisher Comments The trickster appears in the myths and folktales of nearly every traditional society. Robert Pelton examines Ashanti, Fon, Yoruba, and Dogon trickster-figures in their social and mythical contexts and in light of contemporary thought, exploring the way...
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Timbuktu: The Sahara's Fabled City of Gold
by Marq De Villiers Publisher Comments Timbuktu--the name still evokes an exotic, faraway place even though its glory days are long gone. Unspooling its history and legends, resolving myth with reality, de Villiers and Hirtle have captured the splendor and decay of one of mankinds treasures....
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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, raised in the turbulence of Guinea in the 1960s, Kadiatou Diallo was married off at the age of thirteen and bore her first child when she was sixteen. Twenty-three years later, that child—a gentle...
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Dictionary of Afro-Latin American Civilization
by Benjamin Nuñez Review There has been much need for a dictionary of this kind, and Nunez is to be commended for producing a solid one. Drawing on 14 glossaries and dictionaries, 126 books, and 20 articles, the author has carefully selected for this attractively organized...
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Fusion of the Worlds: An Ethnography of Possession Among the Songhay of Niger
by Paul Stoller Publisher Comments This ethnography is more like a film than a book, so well does Stoller evoke the color, sight, sounds, and movements of Songhay possession ceremonies.--Choice Stoller brilliantly recreates the reality of spirit presence; hosts are what they mediate, and...
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Grand Slave Emporium Cape Coast Castle &
by William St Clair Publisher Comments Subtitled, "Emporium Of The British Slave Trade"....
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Governance as Conflict Management: Politics and Violence in West Africa
by I William Zartman Publisher Comments In examining the efforts of Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Nigeria to manage their conflicts, this book provides a greater understanding of governance and conflict management that is applicable well beyond the African continent....
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Under the Neem Tree
by Susan Lowerre Synopsis "Of the many descriptions I have read of Americans adapting to African culture, Ms. Lowerre's is one of the most honest. and absorbing" -- New York Times New American Writing...
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Cameroon (Cultures of the World)
by Sean Sheehan Publisher Comments Diversity is the spice of life, and the highly regarded Cultures of the World series celebrates just that in fully updated, and expanded editions. As has always been true of these outstanding titles, an abundance of vibrant photographs -- including those...
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Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa
by Katherine Dettwyler
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Thomas Sankara Speaks
by Thomas Sankara
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Introductory Algebra 9th Edition: Student Solutions Manual
by Judith A. Penna
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Heart of the Ngoni
by Harold Courlander TOC Introduction -- The dawning of Segu -- Ngolo Diara, who became a king of Segu --Bassadjalan Zambele and the heroes of Kala -- Sokufo Seriba, a djeli of Segu -- Da Djera and Da Monzon against Samaniana Bassi -- Da Monzon against Chiaro Mamari -- Sekuruna...
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A voyager out :the life of Mary Kingsley
by Katherine Frank Description Bibliography: p. [321]-324....
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The Heart of the Ngoni :heroes of the African kingdom of Segu
by Harold Courlander TOC The dawning of Segu -- Ngolo Diara, who became a king of Segu --Bassadjalan Zambele and the heroes of Kala -- Sokufo Seriba, a djeli of Segu -- Da Djera and Da Monzon against Samaniana Bassi -- Da Monzon against Chiaro Mamari -- Sekuruna Toto's proposal...
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Women Farmers in Africa: Rural Development in Mali & the Sahel
by Lucy Creevey
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Disaster in the Desert Failures of Inter
by Hal Sheets
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