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Under the Mango Tree
PaperbackOriginal price $12.49 - Original price $12.49Original price $12.49$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /This is the story of Bambay Sawaneh who at the age of 15 experienced the terror of rebels attacking his little village in Sierra Leone, West Africa...
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A Narrative of the Life and Adventure of Venture
PaperbackOriginal price $4.99 - Original price $4.99Original price $4.99$8.99$8.99 - $8.99Current price $8.99| /A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture (1798) is an autobiography by Venture Smith. Written while Smith was living in freedom on his own...
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Travels in West Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Mary Kingsley's "Travels in West Africa" has become a classic, and deservedly so. Her story is remarkable. In the 1890s, unmarried and no longer ha...
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African President's Daughter
PaperbackOriginal price $14.00 - Original price $14.00Original price $14.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /African President's Daughter is the incredible memoir of Dr. Iyabo Obasanjo, the daughter of a prominent African statesman. Dr. Obasanjo begins wi...
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Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Between 1730 and 1750, powerful healer and vodun priest Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from ...
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Black Christian Republicanism: The Writings of Hilary Teage (1805-1853) Founder of Liberia
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /This book explores the life and ideas of Hilary Teage, a Baptist pastor, merchant, statesman, and newspaper editor. A native of Virginia, Teage app...
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Sea of the Unknown: Monsters and Mishaps on my Journey to Paris
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /For anyone who ever launched themselves towards their dreams only to be rebuffed...The Sea of the Unknown lays before us, cold and callous. Behind ...
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A Certain Amount of Madness: The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$134.99$134.99 - $134.99Current price $134.99| /Thomas Sankara was one of Africa's most important anti-imperialist leaders of the late 20th Century. His declaration that fundamental socio-politic...
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Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
HardcoverOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecogni...
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Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa offers the first complete biography in English of the dynamic revolutionary leader from Burkina ...
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Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa offers the first complete biography in English of the dynamic revolutionary leader from Burkina ...
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Slave Owners of West Africa: Decision Making in the Age of Abolition
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /In this groundbreaking book, Sandra E. Greene explores the lives of three prominent West African slave owners during the age of abolition. These fi...
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This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /"Exceptionally well written, a true story that seems as much a thriller as the remembrances of an ambitious and brave woman. . . . This timely book...
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History of the Upper Guinea Coast: 1545-1800
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Walter Rodney is revered throughout the Caribbean as a teacher, a hero, and a martyr. This book remains the foremost work on the region.Product Det...
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A History of St. Edward's Church: Kent, Sierra Leone
PaperbackOriginal price $5.95 - Original price $5.95Original price $5.95$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /In this fully-revised third edition, the author sketches the history of a church in Kent, Sierra Leone that grew in indirect proportion to the tran...
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Yoruba Mythology Coloring Book: The Gods and Goddesses of Yorubaland
PaperbackOriginal price $8.99 - Original price $8.99Original price $8.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Yoruba mythology is often studied and yet many questions remain about the ancient gods and goddesses, or Orishas, of West Africa. As the Orisha sto...
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Black Power: Three Books from Exile: Black Power; The Color Curtain; And White Man, Listen!
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Three extraordinary and impassioned nonfiction works by Richard Wright, one of America's premier literary giants of the twentieth century, together...
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We Are the Heirs of the World's Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87
PaperbackOriginal price $10.00 - Original price $10.00Original price $10.00$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /"Our revolution in Burkina Faso draws on the totality of man's experiences since the first breath of humanity. We wish to be the heirs of all the...
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Under Our Skin
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /1570: A street teems with activity in Renaissance Lisbon: boatmen unload passengers as jugglers entertain the crowd and vendors hawk their goods. T...
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Twi-English/English-Twi Concise Dictionary
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A concise Twi-English/ English-Twi dictionary is an unbeatable reference guide for travelers and students. It features over 8,000 entries (each w...
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Tropical Dream Palaces: Cinema in Colonial West Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00$74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /Many studies focus on film in Africa. Few, however, study cinema as a leisure activity: one that has influenced several generations and opened up...
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Thomas Sankara Parle: La révolution au Burkina Faso 1983-1987 / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780873489874 Publisher: Pathfinder Press GA Publication Date: 10-01-2007 Pages: 480 Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) ...
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The Yoruba: A New History
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /The Yoruba: A New History is the first transdisciplinary study of the two-thousand-year journey of the Yoruba people, from their origins in a small...
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The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The “enlightening” (The Guardian) true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors’ founded aft...
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