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[2022]
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The remarkable story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a ferocity unlike anything the world has ever seen. Inspired by true events, it follows the emotionally epic journey of General Nanisca as she trains the next generation of recruits and prepares them for battle against an enemy determined to obliterate their way of life. Some things are worth fighting for.
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This vintage book contains a biographical account of the author's life and missionary travels in and around South Africa. First published in 1868, this volume offers a fascinating insight into South Africa in the late nineteenth century, and is highly recommended for those with an interest in historical literature of this ilk. Contents include: "Personal Sketch", "Highland Ancestors", "Family Traditions", "Grandfather Removes to the Lowlands", "Parents",...
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In 1652 a small group of Dutch farmers landed on the southernmost tip of Africa. Sent by the powerful Dutch India Company, their mission was simply to grow vegetables and supply ships rounding the cape. The colonists, however, were convinced by their strict Calvinist faith that they were among God's “Elect,” chosen to rule over the continent. Their saga-bloody, ferocious, and fervent-would culminate three centuries later in one of the greatest...
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St. Martin's is proud to present a new series of the greatest classics in the literature of hunting and adventure, chosen from the personal library of writer and big game hunter Peter Hathaway Capstick. These showcase volumes will once again make available the true masterpieces of Africana to collectors, armchair hunters, sportsmen, and readers at large.
Considered one of the greatest man-eating sagas of all time, The Man-Eaters of Tsavo is the firsthand...
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In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in WW II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the riveting story of the war in North Africa. The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. That first year of the Allied war was a pivotal point in American history, the moment when the United States began to act like a great...
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The vast areas of North and Central Africa include the contrasting countries of Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, and Western Sahara in the north of the continent, to Chad, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, S o Tom and Pr ncipe, Republic of Congo, South Sudan, and Sudan in Africa s central zone. All the countries examined here, while very different in their physical nature, are blessed with strikingly...
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"Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history. In a sweeping narrative that traverses 600 years, one that eloquently weaves precise historical detail with poignant personal reportage, Pulitzer Prize finalist Howard W. French retells the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe,...
10) Afterlives
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"From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal colonization of east Africa. When he was just a boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents on the coast of east Africa by German colonial troops. After years away, fighting against his own people, he returns home to find his parents gone and his sister, Afiya, abandoned into de facto slavery. Hamza too, is...
12) West Africa
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The subcontinent of West Africa is a vast area of land which includes the countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, C te d Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo. The region is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the south, and the Sahara desert to the north. The eastern border is less precise cutting across an area from Mount Cameroon to Lake...
13) Smokescreen
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Edward Lincoln is a famous British actor, but when his godmother becomes worried that someone is interfering with her racehorses, her request for help brings him to South Africa.
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This classic of anthropological literature is a dramatic, revealing account of an anthropologist's first year in the field with a remote African tribe. Simply as a work of ethnographic interest, Return to Laughter provides deep insights into the culture of West Africa-me subtle web of its tribal life and the power of the institution of witchcraft. However, the author's fictional approach gives the book its lasting appeal. She focuses on the human...
15) Southern Africa
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Presents information about the countries of Southern Africa, discussing each country's history, politics, and natural resources.
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"Most people think World War II battles raged in Europe and the Pacific. One-lesser front was in Northern Africa. Control of that area allowed supply ships to get much needed food, weapons, and supplies to forces in Europe. You have joined the Allied Forces in fighting for this land. YOU CHOOSE what to do amidst the action. See if you have what it takes to help control the area!"--
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"As here, after twenty-five years, I again take up episodes of my life in Africa, one figure, straight, candid, and very fine to look at, stands as doorkeeper to all of them: my Somali servant Farah Aden. Were any reader to object that I might choose a character of greater importance, I should answer him that that would not be possible." --Amazon.
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Africa, the cradle of mankind, is a continent of extraordinary beauty and endless fascination. Africa s history has seen the rise and fall of empires and kingdoms. It has experienced the power of religion and the injustice of slavery. It has endured the struggle against colonialism and the celebration of independence. Modern Africa has enormous manpower and resources at its disposal, and is modernizing at a rapid rate, so fast that the next few decades...
20) Hippopotamus
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IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Offers information about hippopotamuses, including where they live, what they eat, and what they look like.--
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