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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 hasn’t 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...
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Sundiata an Epic of Old Mali Rev Edition
by D T Niane Synopsis This is a revision of Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali, a best seller for 30 years. Retold by griots, the guardians of African Culture, this oral tradition has been handed down from the thirteenth century and captures all the mystery and majesty of medieval...
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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...
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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...
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The Trickster in West Africa
by Robert D Pelton Synopsis 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, Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle have captured the splendor and decay of one of...
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Travels in West Africa
by Mary Kingsley Synopsis Born in 1862, Mary Kingsley was the daughter of an explorer who was freed to follow in her father's footsteps following her parents' death. She made two trips in the 1890s, and her lively and witty account, reproduced here, was an immediate bestseller...
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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...
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Do They Hear You When You Cry
by Fauziya Kassindja Publisher Comments For Fauziya Kassindja, an idyllic childhood in Togo, West Africa, sheltered from the tribal practices of polygamy and genital mutilation, ended with her beloved father's sudden death. Forced into an arranged marriage at age seventeen, Fauziya...
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Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946-1958 (Western African Studies)
by Elizabeth Schmidt Publisher Comments In September 1958, Guinea claimed its independence, rejecting a constitution that would have relegated it to junior partnership in the French Community. In all the French empire, Guinea was the only territory to vote “No.” Orchestrating the...
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Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, the African (04 Edition)
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...
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Themes in West Africa's History (06 Edition)
by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong Publisher Comments There has long been a need for a new textbook on West Africa’s history. In Themes in West Africa’s History, editor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and his contributors meet this need, examining key themes in West Africa’s prehistory to the...
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France and Islam in West Africa, 1860-1960
by Christophe Harrison Publisher Comments A major contribution to the social, political and intellectual history of the French West African Federation....
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The Abandoned Baobab: The Autobiography of a Senegalese Woman (Caribbean and African Literature)
by Ken Bugul Publisher Comments The subject of intense admiration--and not a little shock, when it was first published-- The Abandoned Baobab has consistently captivated readers ever since. The book has been translated into numerous languages and was chosen by QBR Black Book Review as...
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Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century (Politics, History, and Culture)
by Gregory Mann Publisher Comments For much of the twentieth century, France recruited colonial subjects from sub-Saharan Africa to serve in its military, sending West African soldiers to fight its battles in Europe, Southeast Asia, and North Africa. In this exemplary contribution to the...
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Life of Olaudah Equiano
by Olaudah Equiano Synopsis This is the autobiography of an African slave and the story of his experiences. It was first published in 1789....
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Designing West Africa (04 Edition)
by Peter Schwab Publisher Comments Africa continues to be headline news, and this book makes a provocative statement about the cause of the current situation....
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The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold
by Frank T. Kryza Publisher Comments In the first decades of the nineteenth century, no place burned more brightly in the imagination of European geographers– – and fortune hunters– – than the lost city of Timbuktu. Africa's legendary City of Gold, not visited by...
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Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century
by Catherine Coles Synopsis The Hausa are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa, with populations in Nigeria, Niger, and Ghana. Their long history of city-states and Islamic caliphates, their complex trading economies, and their cultural traditions have attracted the attention...
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West African Challenge to Empire: Culture and History in the Volta-Bani Anticolonial War (Western African Studies)
by Mahir Saul Book News Annotation The Volta-Bani anticolonial war of 1915-1916 was one of the largest armed oppositions to colonialism in Africa and was put down by the French at great cost. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, the authors examine the origins of...
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