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NILE VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS: A Ten-Thousand Year History
"Conventional history places the beginnings of ancient Egypt at 3100 B.C. In this work, Dr. Charles Finch demonstrates that the civilization of ancient Egypt did not begin a mere 5,000 years ago, but rather was part of a much longer, much...
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Ghosts in Our Blood: With Malcolm X in Africa, England, and the Caribbean
Ghosts in Our Blood: With Malcolm X in Africa, England, and the Caribbean Lawrence Hill & Co
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The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality (Hardcover)
Paperback : 336 pages
SKU : 1005410626
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FULANI OPPRESS YORUBA: How Did We Get Under This Mess, and How Do We Get Out?
Attention! If you reside in the USA, Europe, or Canada, and are planning a visit to Yorubaland, this book is essential for you to understand the potential dangers. The current situation is far from safe! Why is that, you may...
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Fathers Work for Their Sons: Accumulation, Mobility, and Class Formation in an Extended Yoruba Community
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...
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Fathers Work for Their Sons: Accumulation, Mobility, and Class Formation in an Extended Yoruba Community
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...
$44.00
Cushites In Babylon: Did A Black Empire Once Rule Arabia? (Banned Black History Vol. 1)
Was there a black empire that ruled Mesopotamia and various parts of Arabia in the ancient past? There are many that believe there was, but there are many more that do not know about this very important period of history.1....
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African-American Classics (Graphic Classics, Vol. 22)
African-American Classics presents great stories and poems from America's earliest Black writers, illustrated by contemporary African-American artists. Featured are "Two Americans" by Florence Lewis Bentley, "The Goophered Grapevine" by Charles W. Chesnutt, "Becky" by Jean Toomer, two short plays by Zora...
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Introduction to African Civilizations
Timely, relevant, and illuminating, this essential book by respected cultural historian, teacher, and author John G. Jackson sheds long overdue light on standard Eurocentric and distorting approaches to the history of Africa from early African civilizations to Africa’s significance in...
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Women, Race & Class
From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the women’s liberation movement and the tangled knot of oppression facing Black women.“Angela Davis is herself a woman of undeniable courage. She should be...
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Chaka
Chaka is a genuine masterpiece that represents one of the earliest major contributions from black Africa to the corpus of modern world literature. Mofolo's fictionalized life-story account of Chaka (Shaka), translated from Sesotho by D. P. Kunene, begins with the future...
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
The Confessions of Nat Turner, told in his own words as related at his trial, is an inspiring and powerful account of the leader of the most significant slave rebellion in American history. A gripping and vivid narrative of Turner's...
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Encyclopedia of the Yoruba
The Yoruba people today number more than 30 million strong, with significant numbers in the United States, Nigeria, Europe, and Brazil. This landmark reference work emphasizes Yoruba history, geography and demography, language and linguistics, literature, philosophy, religion, and art. The...
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Encyclopedia of the Yoruba
The Yoruba people today number more than 30 million strong, with significant numbers in the United States, Nigeria, Europe, and Brazil. This landmark reference work emphasizes Yoruba history, geography and demography, language and linguistics, literature, philosophy, religion, and art. The...
$144.00
Mandela the Spear and Other Poems
The strength of Mandela the Spear and other Poems lies in Okai's burning desire to celebrate the black experience and culture, through the iconic figures who symbolize those struggles and triumphs. Thus, not surprisingly, one encounters names like Mandela, Nadine...
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Allah's Garden: A True Story of a Forgotten War in the Sahara Desert of Morocco
Allah's Garden is a true story of a Moroccan doctor's 25-year imprisonment in Sahara Desert. Told alongside the author's own time as a volunteer, the two stories combine to unveil secrets held deep within the desolate land known as "Allah's Garden."
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Making of the Whiteman: History, Tradition and the Teachings of Elijah Muhammad
Some staining/soiling to the book otherwise few if any text marks, covers/binding fair.
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King Leopold's Ghost, 1st, First Edition
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its...
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Ebenezer Obey e l'estetica del mondo Yoruba: Ebenezer Obey's Yoruba World (Italian Edition)
Ebenezer Obey and the Aesthetics of the Yoruba World è uno studio del rapporto tra gli artisti contemporanei e gli artisti orali tradizionali in termini di estetica, significati e contesto sociale. L'esempio della musica juju di Ebenezer Obey in termini...
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Dictionary Of The Yoruba Language: English-Yoruba, Yoruba-English (1913)
The Dictionary of the Yoruba Language is a comprehensive reference book that provides a complete translation of the Yoruba language to English and vice versa. It was published in 1913 by the Church Missionary Society and is considered an important...
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The Development of Yoruba Candomble Communities in Salvador, Bahia, 1835-1986 (Afro-Latin@ Diasporas)
This project is an attempt to bring together the many fragments of history concerning the Yoruba religious community and their rise to prominence in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, from the mid-nineteenth to the late-twentieth centuries.
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Contributions Of Yoruba People In The Economic & Political Developments Of Nigeria
Contributions of Yoruba People in the Economic & Political Developments of Nigeria by Jacob Oluwatayo Adeuyan
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Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba: Ife History, Power, and Identity, c. 1300
In this book, Suzanne Preston Blier examines the intersection of art, risk, and creativity in early African arts from the Yoruba center of Ife and the striking ways that ancient Ife artworks inform society, politics, history, and religion. Yoruba art...
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The Antiquities of the Yoruba Nation -Volume 1: Mythological Years to Oduduwa's Apogee
This book, among others, in a series of six volumes, is an attempt at digging into the antiquities of the Yoruba people, to give information and enlightenment to generations of men and women whose world is fast disappearing. A deep...
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Anagó: vocabulario lucumí: El yoruba que se habla en Cuba (Religión) (Spanish Edition)
Anagó: vocabulario lucumí. El yoruba que se habla en Cuba, de Lydia Cabrera y prologado por Roger Bastide, es junto al Catauro de cubanismos de Fernando Ortiz uno de los más completos vocabularios, o diccionario, de las lenguas de origen...
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Akoni: Yoruba (L'histoire du peuple noir) (French Edition)
Akoni, né au Bénin, a 12 ans, en 1770, dans son village de Dabeya, grandit dans le bonheur de sa famille, fils du Roi Djibali. Les journées sont remplies de jeux innocents, d'histoires partagées autour du feu. Akoni est un...
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AKONI: Yoruba
Akoni, born in Benin, is 12 years old, in 1770, in his village of Dabeya, growing up in the happiness of his family, son of King Djibali. Days are filled with innocent games and stories shared around the fire. Akoni...
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African Renaissance: Old Forms, New Images in Yoruba Art (Hardcover)
African Renaissance: Old Forms, New images in Yoruba Art describes, analyzes, and interprets the historical and cultural contexts of an African art renaissance using the twentieth- and twenty-first-century transformation of ancient Yoruba artistic heritage. Juxtaposing ancient and contemporary Yoruba art,...
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Acquisition Reversal: The Effects of Postlingual Deafness in Yoruba (Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA], 47)
This is the first comprehensive account of prolonged hearing loss and its impact on a language that was once spoken fluently. Although it is currently assumed that hearing loss results in speech deterioration, it is shown that language loss occurs...
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