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The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /An NPR Best Book of the Year The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors f...
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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /To save ancient Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven in this “fast-paced narrative ...
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The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in...
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Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A stunning work of popular history—the story of how a crop transformed the history of slaveryAmericans consume over 1.5 billion pounds of peanut ...
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Return to the Source: Selected Texts of Amilcar Cabral, New Expanded Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /A classic collection of essays calling for decolonization through self-liberation "For us," said Amilcar Cabral, "freedom is an act of culture"-an...
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Return to the Source: Selected Texts of Amilcar Cabral, New Expanded Edition
HardcoverOriginal price $89.00 - Original price $89.00Original price $89.00$111.99$111.99 - $111.99Current price $111.99| /A classic collection of essays calling for decolonization through self-liberation "For us," said Amilcar Cabral, "freedom is an act of culture"-an...
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Recaptioning Congo: African Stories and Colonial Pictures
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00Original price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00Current price $47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Congolese fiction and memoir writers, and everyday voices revisit the photographic archives of the colonial CongoWith contributions from celebrated...
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Ransoming Prisoners in Precolonial Muslim Western Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /Examines African debates on captivity, legal and illegal enslavement, and religious and ethnic identity in the era of West African jihads. This stu...
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Newsprint Literature and Local Literary Creativity in West Africa, 1900s - 1960s
HardcoverOriginal price $105.00 - Original price $105.00Original price $105.00$123.99$123.99 - $123.99Current price $123.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781847013828 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: James Currey Publication Date: 10-17-2023 Pages: 216 Series: African Articul...
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New Orleans, Louisiana, and Saint-Louis, Senegal: Mirror Cities in the Atlantic World, 1659-2000s
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /This book explores the intertwined histories of Saint-Louis, Senegal, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Although separated by an ocean, both cities wer...
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Minurso United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara: Peace Operation Stalled in the Desert, 1991-2021
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The conflict in Western Sahara is one of the oldest ones of recent times, dating back to 1975, when Morocco and Mauritania attacked and occupied th...
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Independent Africa: The First Generation of Nation Builders
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Independent Africa explores Africa's political economy in the first two full decades of independence through the joint projects of nation-building,...
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Independent Africa: The First Generation of Nation Builders
HardcoverOriginal price $80.00 - Original price $80.00Original price $80.00$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /Independent Africa explores Africa's political economy in the first two full decades of independence through the joint projects of nation-building,...
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In Dependence
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"A graceful and astonishing achievement." - Henry Louis Gates Jr. "In Dependence, is a riveting love story across the challenges of race, geography...
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Formation: The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /What do you get when dare-devil Jihadists, mad English missionaries and proud, stubborn, warring natives meet in a clash? Nigeria. Formation: From ...
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Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"A well-rendered and -documented tale of exploitation in the developing world" (Kirkus Reviews) with deep resonance in the present day In a book Pa...
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Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /An ambitious and shocking expos of America's hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadow In the early ...
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Amílcar Cabral: The Life of a Reluctant Nationalist
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /On 20 January 1973, the Bissau-Guinean revolutionary Amílcar Cabral was killed by militants from his own party. Cabral had founded the PAIGC in 196...
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Amazons of Black Sparta, 2nd Edition: The Women Warriors of Dahomey
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /The only thoroughly documented Amazons in world history are the women warriors of Dahomey, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western African ki...
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African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Notes From Black ReadsFrom the esteemed author of Paul Revere's Ride and Champlain's Dream, African Founders is a work of extraordinary scope, a...
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /In the #1 New York Times bestseller, A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels an...
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Ghana
PaperbackOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /This 8th edition of Bradt’s Ghana remains the only dedicated guidebook on the market and the most comprehensive source of travel information on t...
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Mansa Musa I: Kankan Moussa: from Niani to Mecca
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Mansa Musa I - Kankan Moussa: from Niani to Mecca vividly recounts, in an intense and almost cinematic manner, the unique story of the young West...
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Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A “remarkable chronicle” of a journey back to this West African nation after years of exile (The New York Times Book Review).Noo Saro-Wiwa was br...
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