History - Africa - West

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 population of nearly 40 million spread across Western Africa - and diaspora communities in Europe, the Caribbean, Latin...

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 and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government...

Abrégé de l'Histoire Générale des Voyages (Tome 2)Aprs avoir parcouru les principales les places dans l'Ocan atlantique vis--vis le continent africain, et dont les Europens se sont empars la mme poque o ils commencrent reconnatre (p. 002) la cte occidentale de cette partie du...

Africa and the American FlagCONTENTS.Preface.Introduction.Czarism: its historical origin.The Czar Nicholas.The Organization of the Government.The Army and Navy.The Nobility.The Clergy.The Bourgeoisie.The Cossacks.The Real People, the Peasantry.The Rights of Aliens and Strangers.The Commoner.Emancipation.Manifest Destiny.Appendix.The Amazons.The Fourteen Classes of the Russian Public Service; or, the Tschins.The Political...

In this sweeping, foundational work, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the early United States. African Founders explores the little-known...

First made and worn 120,000 years ago, beads were originally made of natural materials -- stones, shells, wood -- and have been used for adornment, currency and burial offerings. Trade beads of polished stones and shells have a history thousands of years old, but...

A dazzling memoir of an African childhood from Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian novelist, playwright, and poet Wole Soyinka. Aké The Years of Childhood gives us the story of Soyinka's boyhood before and during World War II in a Yoruba village in western Nigeria called Aké....

Alone in West Africa To those who have helped me I dedicate this record of my travels in West Africa. Without their help I could have done nothing; it was always most graciously and kindly given and I know not how to show my...

Beiträge zur Entdeckung und Erforschung Africa's. - Berichte aus den Jahren 1870-1875 1. Der Kanal von Suez. 2. Bauten in Afrika. 3. Lagos an der Westkste von Afrika. 4. Das Gora-Gebirge in Central-Afrika. 5. Hflichkeitsformen und Umgangsgebruche bei den 6. Beitrag zur Kenntni der...

Author: Victor DrekePublisher: PathfindeerPublished: 12/01/2025Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.49h x 5.61w x 0.42dISBN: 9781604882162About the AuthorVíctor Dreke (1937- ) joined the July 26 Movement in June 1956; joined Revolutionary Directorate column that integrated into Che Guevara's Rebel Army column in October 1958. Commanded forces...

Mangrove rice farming on West Africa's Rice Coast was the mirror image of tidewater rice plantations worked by enslaved Africans in 18th-century South Carolina and Georgia. This book reconstructs the development of rice-growing technology among the Baga and Nalu of coastal Guinea, beginning more...

The Story of the Visionary Who Led Ghana to Independence"No race, no people, no nation can exist freely and be respected at home and abroad without political freedom," writes Ghanaian prime minister Kwame Nkrumah in his 1957 autobiography. From humble beginnings in a small...

Hebrewisms of West Africa Author: Joseph J. WilliamsPublisher: Lushena BooksPublished: 06/08/2017Pages: 364Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.75dISBN: 9781631825910This title is not returnable

Journal of an African Cruiser - Comprising Sketches of the Canaries, the Cape De Verds, Liberia, Madeira, Sierra Leone, and Other Places of Interest on the West Coast of Africa The following pages have afforded occupation for many hours, which might else have been...

Langs de kust van Afrika - De Aarde en haar Volken, 1875Ik houd u omvat Afrika! Het was met deze woorden, dat de groote veldheer der oudheid, Caesar, het slechte voorteeken trachtte af te wenden voor zijne bijgeloovige romeinsche soldaten, toen hij ter aarde...

Lost in the Jungle; Narrated for Young People THE COUNTRY OF THE DWARFS. Illustrated. 12mo, Cloth, $1 75. MY APINGI KINGDOM. Illustrated. 12mo, Cloth, $1 75. LOST IN THE JUNGLE. Illustrated. 12mo, Cloth, $1 75. WILD LIFE UNDER THE EQUATOR. Illustrated. 12mo, Cloth, $1...

A groundbreaking exploration of 500,000 years of African history, cultures and identity. Historian, archaeologist, and anthropologist Luke Pepera takes us on a personal journey discovering 500,000 years of African history and cultures in order to reclaim and reconnect with this extraordinary heritage. He tackles...

Observations on the slave trade and a description of some part of the coast of Guinea, during a voyage, made in 1787, and 1788, in company with Doctor A. Sparrman and Captain ArreheniusIN communicating to the publick the result of my observations lately made...

Observations Upon the Windward Coast of Africa - The religion, character, customs, &c. of the natives; with a system upon which they may be civilized, and a knowledge attained of the interior of this extraordinary quarter of the globe; and upon the natural and...

Stories of the Gorilla Country, Narrated for Young PeopleIn this book I have attempted to relate some of the incidents of life in Africa for the reading of young folks. In doing this I have kept no chronological order, but have selected incidents and...