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Abangma: Modes in Denya Discourse. Paperback (Cameroon) 
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  • Modes in Denya Discourse. Paperback
  • by Samson Negbo Abangma
  • xii, 123 pages. 1987


0883120070
Adive: The Verbal Piece in Ebira. Paperback 
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  • Verbal Piece in Ebira. Paperback
  • John R. Adive
  • 174 pages, with sample spectograms, map, bibliography. Ebira is a language spoken in Nigeria
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0883120372-13
Agbasiere: Women in Igbo Life and Thought. Paperback 
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  • Women in Igbo Life and Thought. Paperback
  • Joseph Therese Agbasiere
  • 216 pages, 8 plates, 4 maps, 4 tables. This ethnographic study of the Igbo tribe of Nigeria examines kinship practices, marriage customs, and women's responsibilities in the house and the community, establishing the tremendous influence that Igbo women wield in public affairs

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0415227046-22
Anderson: Africa's Urban Past. Hardback for paperback price! 
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  • Africa's Urban Past. Paperback sold out, now: Hardback for the paperback price
  • David M. Anderson
  • x, 320 pages, with 17 maps, 3 figures, 9 photos. 2000. Urbanization has been an important feature of Africa's history for over 2000 years. Towns and cities have been arenas around which societies have organized themselves. This collection reveals the depth of urbanization in African history

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0852557604, 0852557612
Anderson: Revealing Prophets: Prophecy in Eastern African History. Paperback 
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  • Revealing Prophets. Prophecy in Eastern African History. Paperback
  • by David M. Anderson Douglas H. Johnson
  • x, 310 pages, with 7 maps, 1995


0852557175, 082141089x18
Asante: Egypt vs. Greece and the American Academy. Paperback 
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  • Egypt vs. Greece and the American Academy. Paperback
  • edited by Molefi Kete Asante and Ama Mazama
  • v, 186 pages. 2002. This book analyses the inconsistencies erupting from academic and Eurocentric reports on ancient culture. For example, if the pyramids were built in 2800 BC and Greek civilisation began around 700 BC, how could the Greeks have contributed or taught Africans maths and science? And if the Greeks built pyramids in Egypt, why did they not build a few in Greece? These questions and more are raised in this informative collection.


091354377215
Ashforth: Madumo. A Man Bewitched. Paperback 
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  • Madumo. A Man Bewitched. Paperback
  • Adam Ashforth
  • 262 pages. 2005. This true story of witchcraft and friendship is set against the turbulent backdrop of contemporary Soweto. Adam Ashworth finds his friend Madumo in dire circumstances: his family has accused him of using witchcraft to kill his mother.


9780226029726 0226029727
Aubin: The Rescue of Jerusalem: The Alliance Between Hebrews and Africans in 701 B.C.. Paperback 
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  • Rescue of Jerusalem: The Alliance Between Hebrews and Africans in 701 B.C.
  • by Henry Trocme Aubin
  • 464 pages. 2003. In the summer of 701 B.C. Jerusalem faced a siege from Assyrian forces that had razed countless walled cities, pillaging and looting them, dispersing the defeated populations to distant places, and torturing the leaders to death.


9781569473368
Awde: Swahili-English, English-Swahili Practical Dictionary. Paperback 
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  • Swahili: Awde: Swahili-English, English-Swahili Practical Dictionary. Paperback
  • by Nicholas Awde
  • 596 pages. 2000


0781804809
Banham: A History of Theatre in Africa. Hardback 
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  • History of Theatre in Africa. Hardback
  • Edited by Martin Banham
  • 496 pages. 2004. This book aims to offer a broad history of theatre in Africa. The roots of African theatre are ancient and complex and lie in areas of community festival, seasonal rhythm, and religious ritual, as well as in the work of popular entertainers and storytellers. ...


9780521808132, 05218081381 912160

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Barber: Readings in African Popular Culture. Paperback 
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  • Readings in African Popular Culture. Paperback
  • edited by Karin Barber
  • viii, 184 pages. 1997


0253211409-25, 085255236x 16
Berliner: The Soul of Mbira. Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe. Paperback 
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  • Soul of Mbira. Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe. Paperback
  • Paul F. Berliner
  • 330 pages, with 5 figures, 5 tables, 22 musical examples, 50 plates, index, bibliography, discography


9780226043791, 0226043797-21
Blier: African Vodun. Art, Psychology and Power. Paperback 
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  • African Vodun. Art, Psychology and Power. Paperback. By Suzanne Blier
  • 486 pages, with 8 color plates, 161 illustrations, 4 maps. 1996
  • Beads, bones, rags, straw, leather, pottery, fur, feathers and blood—these are the raw materials of vodun artworks. The power of these images lies not only in their aesthetic, and counter-aesthetic, appeal but also in their psychological and emotional effect. As objects of fury and force, these works are intended to protect and empower people and cultures that have long been oppressed.


978022605860323a45
Bohannan: Africa and Africans. Fourth Edition. Paperback 
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  • Africa and Africans, Fourth Edition. Paperback

  • Paul Bohannan and Philip Curtin

  • 301 pages. 1995


0881338400

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Bravmann: The Poetry of Form: The The Hans and Thelma Lehmann Collection of African Art. Catalogue to the exhibition, Seattle, 1982. Hardcover 
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  • Poetry of Form: The The Hans and Thelma Lehmann Collection of African Art. Catalogue to the exhibition, Seattle, 1982. Hardback with dustcover, ca. 22x29cm
  • Essay by Rene A. Bravmann
  • 78 pages, with 56 duotone illustrations and 4 maps. 1982


0935558098
Bright: The Miniature Epic in Vandal Africa. Cloth 
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  • Miniature Epic in Vandal Africa. Cloth
  • by David F. Bright
  • 310 pages, with a select bibliography, index. 1987


0806120754
Channa: Oracles, Omens and Dreams. Dream Beliefs among Tribals. Cloth 
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  • Oracles, Omens and Dreams. Dream Beliefs among Tribals. Cloth
  • Edited by S.M. Channa
  • 292 pages. 2002. 1. Navaho dreams. 2. Dreams and Omens among the Nagas. 3. Divination "Adaptive" from whose perspective? 4. Dreams and dream beliefs in north western Australia. 5. The dreaming of Kunukban. 6. Dreams of change: in traditional Melanesian religion. 7. Oracles and dreams among the Lepchas. 8. Ndembu divinatory symbolism. 9. Oracles among the Azande. 10. Manus religion. 11. A Zulu diviner


8177551930
Connah: African Civilizations. An Archaeological Perspective. 2nd edition. Paperback 
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  • African Civilizations. An Archaeological Perspective. 2nd edition. Paperback
  • by Graham Connah
  • 356 pages, 42 line diagrams,17 half-tones, 75 figures, 18 maps. 2001
  • This major new edition of African Civilizations re-examines the physical evidence for developing social complexity in tropical Africa over the last four thousand years.



9780521596909220130
Connah: Forgotten Africa: An Introduction to its Archaeology. Paperback 
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  • Forgotten Africa: An Introduction to its Archaeology. Paperback
  • by Graham Connah
  • 208 pages, with 25 line figures; 14 maps and 28 photos. 2004
  • Forgotten Africa introduces the general reader and beginning student to Africa's past, emphasizing those aspects only known or best known from archaeological and related evidence. It covers four million years of history across the continent, examining important aspects of Africa's momentous human story.


0415305918-19
Dettwyler: Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa. Paperback 
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  • Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa. Paperback
    by Katherine A. Dettwyler
  • 172 pages. 1995. Margaret Mead Award winner! This personal account by a biocultural anthropologist illuminates important, not-soon-forgotten messages involving the more sobering aspects of conducting fieldwork among malnourished children in West Africa. It presents informal, engaging, and oftentimes dramatic stories from the field that relate on infant feeding and health in Mali.


9780881337488, 088133748x-15
Donaldson: Colloquial Afrikaans. The Complete Course for Beginners. Paperback 
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  • Colloquial Afrikaans. The Complete Course for Beginners. Paperback
  • Bruce Donaldson
  • xii, 272 pages, key to exercises, glossaries, index. 2000. Colloquial Afrikaans is the ideal introduction the modern language as spoken in South Africa and Namibia.


9780415206723 0415206723 bk
Evans-Pritchard: Kinship and Marriage Among the Nuer. New edition. Paperback 
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  • Kinship and Marriage Among the Nuer. New edition. Paperback
  • by Sir Edward E. Evans-Pritchard, with a new introduction by Wendy James
  • 210 pages, with 8 plate figures, 9 maps. This is the second in a trilogy of books about the society and culture of the Nuer, a pastoral people of southern Sudan. First published half a century ago, the authors writings created a new agenda for social anthropology and ethnography


0198278470-23a50
February: And Bid Him Sing. Essays in Literature and Cultural Domination. Cloth 
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  • And Bid Him Sing. Essays in Literature and Cultural Domination. Cloth
  • Vernon February
  • 238 pages, with maps, tables, index. 1988


0710302789-45
Frankenberg: Der Schwarze Kontinent: Pharaonensymbolik. Nommologische Semester - Reihe 
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  • Schwarze Kontinent: Pharaonensymbolik. Nommologische Semester - Reihe Band III.
  • Gisela von Frankenberg
  • 164 Seiten, sehr viele Abbildungen. Mit u.a. Schoepfungsgeschichte. Die Sirius-Genese. Das Afrikanische Kunstprinzip. Feste und Mysterienspiele. Aegyptische Goettersysteme. Die Pyramide. Das Land Aegypten. Totenbuch / Dynastienliste. Pharaonensymbolik I, II, und III. Motion-Art


3922129160
Fyfe: Narrative of 2 Voyages To the River Sierra Leone; with: Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa. Paperback 
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  • Narrative of 2 Voyages To the River Sierra Leone; with: Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa. Two books in one volume. Paperback
  • Christopher Fyfe, editor. Newly edited and annotated
  • viii, 222 pages, with 10 illustrations. First ca. 1788, reprint 2000
  • Anna Maria Falconbridge’s Narrative of Two Voyages, consisting of fourteen letters to a friend about her experiences, is the first published Englishwoman’s narrative of a visit to West Africa. Alexander Falconbridge’s Account of the Slave Trade describes the horrific conditions he had witnessed in West Africa. Published in 1788 by the London Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, it was the first piece of published abolitionist propaganda.


0853236437
Gerosa: Afrika - geheimnisvoller, schwarzer Kontinent. Gebunden 
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  • Afrika - geheimnisvoller, schwarzer Kontinent. Gebunden, Grossformat: 26x34cm. Mit Schuber (slipcase)
  • Guido Gerosa
  • 176 Seiten, mit über 170 eindringliche Farbphotographien. 1990. NEU/NEW reduzierte Preis


3524670288
Gilley: An Autosegmental Approach to Shilluk Phonology. Paperback 
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  • Autosegmental Approach to Shilluk Phonology. Paperback
  • Leoma G. Gilley
  • 221 pages, with references, index. 1992. (Shiluk is spoken in the Sudan)


9780883121061 0883121069
Guyer: Marginal Gains: Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa. Paperback 
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  • Marginal Gains: Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa. Paperback
  • by Jane I. Guyer. Foreword by Anthony T. Carter
  • xvii, 207 pages. 2004


9780226311166
Harms: Games against Nature. An Eco-Culture History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa. Paperback 
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  • Games against Nature. An Eco-Culture History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa. Paperback
  • by Robert Harms
  • 296 pages 1 line diagram 10 maps. First paperback edition 1999, with a new preface. Africa's equatorial rain forests cover an area roughly the size of continental Western Europe, and yet the history of this area remains largely unexplored...


9780521655354, 0521655358-1726

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Hein, Kleidt: Äthiopien, christliches Afrika. Kunst, Kirchen und Kultur. 29,5 cm. Gebunden 
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  • Äthiopien, christliches Afrika. Kunst, Kirchen und Kultur. 29,5 cm. Gebunden
  • Ewald Hein, und Brigitte Kleidt
  • 234 Seiten mit 269 meist farbigen Fotos und 1 Übersichts-Karte. 1999


9783929255270 3929255278
Hinnebusch: Swahili, a Foundation for Speaking, Reading and Writing. 2nd edition. Paperback 
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  • Swahili, a Foundation for Speaking, Reading and Writing. Kiswahili, Msingi WA Kusema Kusoma Na Kuandika. Paperback
  • by Thomas Hinnebusch and Sarah M. Mirza, illustrated by Adelheid U. Stein
  • 288 pages. 2nd edition. 1997


9780761809722 0761809724
Holloway: Monique and the Mango Rains. Two Years with a Midwife in Mali 
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  • Monique and the Mango Rains. Two Years with a Midwife in Mali. Paperback
  • Kris Holloway
  • 212 pages. 2007. Monique and the Mango Rains is the compelling story of the author’s decade-long friendship with Monique, an extraordinary midwife in rural Mali. It is a tale of Monique’s unquenchable passion to better the lives of women and children in the face of poverty, unhappy marriages, and endless backbreaking work, as well as her tragic and ironic death.


9781577664352, 1577664353-18
Hutchinson: Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War, and the State. Paperback 
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  • Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War, and the State. Paperback
  • Sharon E. Hutchinson