Hebrewisms of West Africa, Paperback

Reducere. Hebrewisms of West Africa

Until 1893, Mary Kingsley lived the typical life of a single Victorian woman, tending to sick relatives and keeping house for her brother. However,...

This lively collection comes from West Africa, a place 'where stories grow on trees'. Here are the famous tricksters: Hare, Tortoise, and the great...

Publisher: RCC Pilotage FoundationAuthor(s): Ed WheelerIllustration(s): 143 coloured illustrations & chartletsNumber of pages: 134Publication date:...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): A. G. (University of Cambridge) HopkinsIllustration(s): 17 Maps; 6 Line drawings, black and white; 5 Tabl...

Reducere. Zomo the rabbit, a trickster from West Africa, wants wisdom. But he must accomplish three apparently impossible tasks before Sky God will give him ...

Reducere. Africa has a way of luring you in, Scott Corey writes in the opening lines of Whistling for Hippos. It begins with a flash of dark eyes in the fire...

Reducere. In this groundbreaking book, Sandra E. Greene explores the lives of three prominent West African slave owners during the age of abolition. These fi...

Imaging Culture is a sociohistorical study of the meaning, function, and aesthetic significance of photography in Mali, West Africa, from the 1930s...

This Element closely examines Eden's assembly and framing of these accounts, engaging with issues of material culture, travel writing, new knowledg...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

DescriptionA groundbreaking book that puts early and medieval West Africa on the map of global historyPick up almost any book on early and medieval...

Reducere. This book presents a prototype of leadership that can be applicable to other societies and groups. This work is neither based on the comparison bet...

Exploring the origins, experiences and identities of 100, 000 Africans who landed in Sierra Leone following Britain's abolition of the trans-Atlant...

Reducere. The Yoruba speaking group inhabits Benin and Nigeria. This pioneering investigation, published in 1894, reveals the culture, history, spiritual bel...

Reducere. Spanning a thousand years of history--and bringing the story to the present through ethnographic fieldwork in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania--Rudo...

Reducere. The Herero campaign from the perspective of one of the invadersGermany's late development as a modern nation meant it missed the opportunity to col...

The sacred texts of Ifa, repository of the accumulated wisdom of countless generations of Yoruba people, are an invaluable source not only for all ...

The Nigerian and West African practice of aso ebi fashion invokes notions of wealth and group dynamics in social gatherings. This book investigates...

Reducere. Every single person occupies a point in the planet earth. Everyone belongs to a community of persons which starts with one's family and roots. This...

Based on substantial new research from primary sources and archives, this accessible interpretative history of West Central Africa from earliest ti...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Horace O. RussellIllustration(s): 7 ill.Number of pages: 323Collection: Research in Religion and Fam...

Representing a significant re-examination of the Tarikh al-fattash, proved to be one the most important nineteenth-century sources for the history ...

In Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions, a preeminent historian of Africa argues that scholars of the Americas and the Atlantic world...

Reducere. In Neocolonialism in West Africa, author Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, a journalist and political activist in Sierra Leone, demonstrates that imperial powe...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Based on substantial new research from primary sources and archives, this accessible interpretative history of West Central Africa from earliest ti...

Reducere. As a young man, the author unfolds his profound and vibrant reflections of his luminous, candid, and intensely personal account of living in rural ...

Reducere. This book provides a fascinating summary of African history over 5000 years, from the Stone Age to the classical Greek and Roman era, through the '...

Publisher: Jeppestown PressAuthor(s): Muriel R. TewIllustration(s): 15 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2007Dimensions: 232 x...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingBy the mid-15th century the Byzan...

West and North African Cooking.Get your copy of the best and most unique African recipes from BookSumo Press Come take a journey with us into the d...

Timbuktu is famous as a center of learning from Islam's Golden Age. Yet it was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial West Africa...