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2004.
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Neil Peart's travel memoir of thoughts, observations, and experiences as he cycles through West Africa reveals the subtle, yet powerful writing style that has made him one of rock's greatest lyricists. As he describes his extraordinary journey and his experiences - from the pains of dysentery, to a confrontation with an armed soldier, to navigating dirt roads off the beaten path - he reveals his own emotional landscape, and along the way, the different...
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2013.
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English
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Timbuktu: the African city known to legend as a land of scholars, splendor and mystery, a golden age in the Sahara Desert. But to many it is a vaguely recognizable name – a flippant tag for "the most remote place on earth." With this fabled city as his goal, author Rick Antonson began a month-long trek. His initial plan? To get a haircut.
Aided by an adventuresome spirit, Rick endures a forty-five hour train ride, a swindling travel agent,...
Aided by an adventuresome spirit, Rick endures a forty-five hour train ride, a swindling travel agent,...
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"Author Jori Lewis reveals how demand for peanut oil in Europe ensured that slavery in Africa would persist well into the twentieth century, long after the European powers had officially banned it in the territories they controlled. Delving deep into West African and European archives, Lewis recreates a world on the coast of Africa that is breathtakingly real and unlike anything modern readers have experienced. Slaves for Peanuts is told through the...
4) Ghana
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This 8th edition of Bradt's Ghana remains the only dedicated guidebook on the market and the most comprehensive source of travel information on the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence and the world's second-largest producer of chocolate. Covering everything from Ghana's 550km of Atlantic coastline to its remote and sparsely populated northern border with Burkina Faso, this new edition has been thoroughly updated and is an ideal...
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The Somber Years is a corpus celebrating the launch of the forceps of investigative Journalism into one of the world's most ailing social vices-commercial sex. While some advocates give the impression that sex workers have every right to denigrate themselves by staying in the trade, the book, on the contrary offers profound hope, offering the way out to a better and healthier living for those in the trade. The book recognizes that, as human beings,...
6) The Gambia
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With 16 well-researched chapters and 26 useful maps, this new thoroughly updated second edition of Bradt's The Gambia remains the most comprehensive guide available in any language to what is the smallest country on mainland Africa. Significant development has taken place in recent years and this new edition offers all the latest updates, including new restaurants and hotels, detailed coverage of the many new eco lodges and camps that have sprung...
7) Cape Verde
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This new 7th edition of Bradt's Cape Verde (Cabo Verde) has been fully revised and updated and remains the most comprehensive English-language guidebook available to the islands of this alluring Atlantic archipelago, described by some as 'Africa light'. The guide includes well-researched history and cultural sections, with a particularly strong section on music, and brings an honest approach to reporting the fragile balance between tourist developments...
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Bits And Pieces Of A Country x-rays segments of 20th-century Nigeria. The stories, set in different parts of Nigeria, depict the poverty, corruption, and greed that are commonplace in contemporary Nigeria. It is a sincere, exposition of the painful realities in an otherwise naturally endowed country.
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Get the Summary of Yepoka Yeebo's Anansi's Gold in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Anansi's Gold" by Yepoka Yeebo recounts the tale of Dr. John Ackah Blay-Miezah, a con artist who claimed to hold a vast fortune from Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah, intended to secure the nation's wealth. Blay-Miezah's story, rooted in the history of Ghana's struggle for independence and the exploitation by colonial powers,...
11) Madagascar
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Español
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Madagascar, el destino muchas veces soñado por muchos: una fauna impresionante (el país figura entre los diez primeros lugares del mundo por diversidad biológica), bellamente representada por los lémures, una no menos impresionante flora-en este caso singularizada por los imponentes baobabs-, resguardadas en distintos parques nacionales (Andringitra, Bemaraha, Isalo, Ranomafana), poblado por gentes de diversos orígenes (árabes, suajili, malayos,...
12) At Home! Abroad
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Having lived for two years in West Africa and two years in Mainland China, this book is my honest assessment of various situations in my life and travels which were happy, sad, angry, confusing, enlightening, spiritual, awesome, amazing and educational, that I encountered while traveling throughout various regions in Ghana, West Africa. My book talks about the economic opportunities available in Africa. I share my networking experiences between African...
13) Senegal
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Senegal es la tierra del eterno sol y la aventura, rica en paisajes, contrastes y encuentros fortuitos. Es la imagen del África icónica representada por sus cuentos, griots, cultura animista y pueblos de chozas. La que les contamos a los niños para que tengan dulces sueños. Senegal es también otra África, actual, donde la democracia es estable, donde las religiones coexisten armoniosamente, donde los grupos étnicos seculares perpetúan sus...
14) Benin
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Since Bradt first published a guide to Benin over 10 years ago, the country has become more popular with visitors to West Africa. Bradt's Benin remains the original and one of the only comprehensive guides in English to this French-speaking country, arguably the region's best wildlife destination and the birthplace of the much maligned and little understood religion of Vodou (voodoo).
This new edition includes coverage of the growing range of eco-travel...
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Moses E. Ochonu explores a rare system of colonialism in Middle Belt Nigeria, where the British outsourced the business of the empire to Hausa-Fulani subcolonials because they considered the area too uncivilized for Indirect Rule. Ochonu reveals that the outsiders ruled with an iron fist and imagined themselves as bearers of Muslim civilization rather than carriers of the white man's burden. Stressing that this type of Indirect Rule violated its primary...
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Lonely Planet West Africa is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Explore the Senegalese music scene in Dakar, sun yourself in the coastal paradise of Freetown, or hike through lush highlands in Kpalime; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of West Africa and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet West Africa Travel Guide: Colour maps and images...
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Situated along the Senegal River, the Kingdom of Waalo was the smallest of the Wolof states of Senegal, but it illustrates the broader consequences of a shift from trans-Saharan to trans-Atlantic commerce during a time of competing European, Muslim, and indigenous African forces. From the establishment of a French trading post in 1659 to the early nineteenth century, the history of Waalo was closely, tied to French interests in St. Louis, popular...
18) St Helena
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This fully revised fourth edition of Bradt's St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha remains the only guide to these three British Overseas Territories, tiny volcanic islands that are virtual specks in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and which thanks to the opening of a new airport in 2017 are more accessible than ever before. Rugged, volcanic and very remote, as Napoleon's place of exile following the Battle of Waterloo, St Helena has gained a...
19) Ivory Coast
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This edition of “Bradt's Ivory Coast” remains the only English-language guidebook to focus solely on this culturally rich West African country, a place of crimson savannas, sublime mountains and cream-hued beaches that is becoming increasingly popular for ecotourism and wildlife, surfing and off-the-beaten track travel. Written in easy-to-navigate geographical structure, chapters on background and practical information are followed by dedicated...
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'This book is the story of Nigeria's political journey between December 31, 1983 and August 27, 1993. This is the story of how things fell apart.' The years between 1983 and 1993 were momentous for Nigeria. Military rule was a time of increased violence, rampant corruption, coups, coup plotting and coup baiting. It molded the conditions and character of Nigeria today, forcing seismic changes on the political, economic and religious landscape that...
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