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Blood Diamonds, Revised Edition: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /First discovered in 1930, the diamonds of Sierra Leone have funded one of the most savage rebel campaigns in modern history. These "blood diamond...
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A History of the Yoruba People
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /A History of the Yoruba People is a comprehensive exploration of the founding and growth of one of the most influential groups in Africa. With a ...
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Rage and Carnage in the Name of God: Religious Violence in Nigeria
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In Rage and Carnage in the Name of God, Abiodun Alao examines the emergence of a culture of religious violence in postindependence Nigeria, where...
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Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, sent an expedition to the German colony of Togo in West Africa, with the purpos...
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Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings of Amilcar Cabral
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Cabral is among the great figures of our time — these texts provide the evidence. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780853456254 Media Type: Paperback Pu...
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Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In this new edition of Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution, C. L. R. James tells the history of the socialist revolution led by Kwame Nkrumah, the f...
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The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670: A Documentary History
PaperbackOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415–1670 brings together a collection of documents – all in new English translation – that illustrate aspects of ...
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Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its horrors. Stephanie E....
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The Ghana Reader: History, Culture, Politics
PaperbackOriginal price $30.95Original price $30.95 - Original price $30.95Original price $30.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Covering 500 years of Ghana's history, The Ghana Reader provides a multitude of historical, political, and cultural perspectives on this iconic A...
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Mississippi in Africa: The Saga of the Slaves of Prospect Hill Plantation and Their Legacy in Liberia Today
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /When wealthy Mississippi cotton planter Isaac Ross died in 1836, his will decreed that his plantation, Prospect Hill, should be liquidated and th...
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Medieval West Africa / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /This book tells the story of West Africa south of the Sahara from the ninth to the fourteenth century from the viewpoint of Arab geographers, his...
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African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /A groundbreaking book that puts early and medieval West Africa on the map of global history Pick up almost any book on early and medieval world h...
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Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /“Paul Farmer brings his considerable intellect, empathy, and expertise to bear in this powerful and deeply researched account of the Ebola outbre...
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Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /While most studies of the slave trade focus on the volume of captives and on their ethnic origins, the question of how the Africans organized the...
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Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $48.95 - Original price $48.95Original price $48.95$54.99$54.99 - $54.99Current price $54.99| /From the eighth century onwards, the Muslim townsfolk of North Africa were well aware that fifty stages away across the desert to the south lay a...
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Dark Voyage: An American Privateer's War on Britain's African Slave Trade
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /At the start of the American War of Independence, Great Britain dominated overseas commerce and was the leading slave-trading nation in the world. ...
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Environing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Even leaving aside the vast death and suffering that it wrought on indigenous populations, German ambitions to transform Southwest Africa in the ...
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A Little Bigfoot: On the Hunt in Sumatra: Or, How I Learned There Are Some Things That Really Do Not Taste Like Chicken
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /In the course of Pat Spain's time filming wildlife-adventure TV series, he's gotten pretty used to being uncomfortable. There've been rabid raccoon...
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Hebrewisms of West Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /In this massive work, Joseph J. Williams documents the Hebraic practices, customs, and beliefs, which he found among the people of Jamaica and the ...
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Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa: with Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People, and of the Chace of the Gorilla, the Crocodi
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Written by Paul du Chaillu, the explorer who was the first outsider to confirm the existence of the Pygmy people of central Africa and of the goril...
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The Igbo: People, History and Worldview
PaperbackOriginal price $37.69Original price $37.69 - Original price $37.69Original price $37.69Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The origin, history, worldview of the Igbo, one of the three major ethnic groups in Nigeria, is shrouded in mystery. Also, there is the controversy...
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Decolonising the Hajj: The Pilgrimage from Nigeria to Mecca Under Empire and Independence
HardcoverOriginal price $130.00 - Original price $130.00Original price $130.00$151.99$151.99 - $151.99Current price $151.99| /This book recounts the effects of British colonial rule and decolonization on the transformation of the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj) from Nigeria ove...
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Mansa Musa: The Golden King of Mali
PaperbackOriginal price $6.99 - Original price $6.99Original price $6.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Embark on a time-traveling journey with 'Mansa Musa: The Golden King of Mali', an exceptional biographical masterpiece that breathes life into the ...
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Ghana Travel Guide 2023: Unveiling The Hidden Treasures And Unforgettable Adventure
PaperbackOriginal price $12.00 - Original price $12.00Original price $12.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /This thorough guide book reveals the hidden jewels and famous monuments that make Ghana a must-visit destination, from the busy streets of Accra to...
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