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  • Lagos

    A Cultural History

    par Kaye Whiteman ...
    Collections series Interlink Cultural Histories
    AN ENGAGING AND WELL-WRITTEN CULTURAL AND LITERARY HISTORY. Lagos is one of the fastest growing cities in the world. Kaye Whiteman explores a city that has constantly re-invented itself, from the first settlement on an uninhabited island to the creation of the port in the early years of the twentieth century. Lagos is still defined by its curious network of islands and lagoons, where erosion and ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Lagos

    A Cultural and Literary History

    par Kaye Whiteman ...
    Collections Livre 5 - Landscapes of the Imagination
    Lagos is one of the fastest growing cities in the world, expected in some projections to have a population of 25 million by 2025. This will make it the biggest metropolis in sub-Saharan Africa and possibly the world's third largest city. This phenomenal and continuing growth gives it a heady turbulence, especially as it only took on the form of a coherent urban entity in the eighteenth century. ... En savoir plus

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  • Lose Your Mother

    A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

    par Saidiya Hartman ...
    In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast. She retraces the history of the Atlantic slave trade from the fifteenth to the twentieth century and reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy.There were no survivors of Hartman's lineage, nor far-flung relatives in Ghana of whom she had ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

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  • Echoes of the Ashanti Empire Part 1

    par Dennis Mensah ...
    This interesting research publication traces the origins of the Ashanti people, their historical links to the mining and trading of the precious mineral of gold and their migration into the Southern Forests of what is now the modern-day country of Ghana. This publication reveals the origins of trade relations with the European nations in the 15th Century, the truth about the role played by the ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • A Kind of Homecoming

    par E. R. Braithwaite ...
    From the bestselling author of To Sir, With Love comes the moving personal memoir of a westernized black man who journeys to Africa in search of his roots and discovers a vibrant and extraordinary society on the verge of monumental changeIn the early 1960s acclaimed British Guianese author E. R. Braithwaite embarked on a pilgrimage to the West African countries of Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and ... En savoir plus

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  • A Rainy Season

    par Nnaziri Ihejirika ...
    It is the rainy season of 1998. An autocratic and corrupt ruler has just died in the arms of courtesans at the presidential villa leaving one hundred million citizens of Africa’s most populous country in comingled states of joy, grief and uncertainty. Through the eyes of eight fictional characters, A Rainy Season tells the story of Nigeria’s latest journey to democracy. Hamed, the government ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD

  • Granma Nineteen and the Soviet's Secret

    par Ondjaki, Stephen Henighan ...
    Collections Livre 12 - Biblioasis International Translation Series
    Ondjaki was ranked by The Guardian in 2012 as one of their Top Five African WritersYoung writer (35), already the author of 12 books in 8 languagesKnown for his charming personality and charming young protagonistsLike Mia Couto, he is already a star-figure in Portugal, & Brazil, & his work is well-known in Mexico, Uruguay, Argentina, Italy, and GermanyHas spoken at Brown, Rutgers, Stanford, and ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Cracking the Code: The Confused Traveler's Guide to Liberian English

    par John Mark Sheppard ...
    "Cracking the Code: The Confused Traveler's Guide to Liberian English" is the brainchild of John Mark Sheppard, who moved with his family from the United States to Liberia when he was just three years old. He learned Liberian English as a second language as he spent his childhood and teen years immersed in the Liberian culture. After college in the United States, John Mark returned to Liberia and ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Ghana Reader

    History, Culture, Politics

    Modifié par Kwasi Konadu, Clifford C. Campbell ...
    Collections series The World Readers
    Covering 500 years of Ghana's history, The Ghana Reader provides a multitude of historical, political, and cultural perspectives on this iconic African nation. Whether discussing the Asante kingdom and the Gold Coast's importance to European commerce and transatlantic slaving, Ghana's brief period under British colonial rule, or the emergence of its modern democracy, the volume's eighty selections ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • Guinea Conakry Democratic Governance, a History

    par Sekou Traore ...
    Guinea Conakry Democratic Governance, A History. Guinea Political Book. With an area of almost 246,000 square kilometers Guinea forms a rough crescent from its western border on the Atlantic Ocean curving towards the east and south. It shares its northern border with Guinea-Bissau, Senegal and Mali, and a southern border with Sierra Leone, Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire. Until France colonized it in ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • Speculative Markets

    Drug Circuits and Derivative Life in Nigeria

    par Kristin Peterson ...
    Collections series Experimental Futures
    In this unprecedented account of the dynamics of Nigeria's pharmaceutical markets, Kristin Peterson connects multinational drug company policies, oil concerns, Nigerian political and economic transitions, the circulation of pharmaceuticals in the Global South, Wall Street machinations, and the needs and aspirations of individual Nigerians. Studying the pharmaceutical market in Lagos, Nigeria, she ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • A Socialist Peace?

    Explaining the Absence of War in an African Country

    par Mike McGovern ...
    For the last twenty years, the West African nation of Guinea has exhibited all of the conditions that have led to civil wars in other countries, and Guineans themselves regularly talk about the inevitability of war. Yet the country has narrowly avoided conflict again and again. In A Socialist Peace?, Mike McGovern asks how this is possible, how a nation could beat the odds and evade civil war ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD