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History
African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic (The Early Modern Americas)
Herman L. Bennett • 2018
The Kingdom of God in Africa
Mark Shaw • 2020
African Christianity is not an imported religion but rather one of the oldest forms of Christianity in the world. In The Kingdom of God in Africa, Mark Shaw and Wanjiru M. Gitau trace the development and spread of African Christianity through its two-thousand year history, demonstrating how the African church has faithfully testified to the power and diversity of God’s kingdom. Both history students and casual readers will gain greater understanding of how key churches, figures and movements across the continent conceptualized the kingdom of God and manifested it through their actions. The only up-to- date, single-volume study of its kind, this book also includes maps and statistics that aid readers to absorb the rich history of African Christianity and discover its impact on the rest of the world.
Hebrewisms of West Africa
Williams • 2017
Hebrewisms of West Africa
Medieval West Africa
Nehemia Levtzion • 2011
West Africa (Discovering Africa)
Annelise Hobbs • 2017
Britain at War with the Asante Nation, 1823–1900: "The White Man's Grave"
Stephen Manning • 2021
<p>Britain fought three major wars, and two minor ones, with the Asante people of West Africa in the nineteenth century. Only the Sudanese and Zulu campaigns saw a greater loss of life, both for the British and the indigenous population. Like the Zulus, the Asante were a warrior nation who offered a tough adversary for the British regulars – they were respected for their martial skills and bravery. And yet these wars have rarely been written about and are little understood. That is why Stephen Manning’s vivid, detailed new history of this neglected colonial conflict is of such value. In the war of 1823-6 the British were defeated – the British governor’s head was severed and his skull was taken to the Asante king who made a cast of gold and this trophy was paraded once a year during an Asante ceremony. The years 1873-4 witnessed the brilliance of Sir Garnet Wolseley in overcoming the logistical problems of sending a large British expedition deep into the jungle where it faced not only a formidable foe but a climate so unforgiving that the region became known as ‘The White Man’s Grave’.Finally, the 1900 campaign culminated in the epic siege of the British fort in Kumasi which must rank as one of the great Victorian escapades alongside the more famous sieges of Peking and Mafikeng. Stephen Manning’s account, which is based on Asante as well as British sources, offers a fascinating view from both sides of one of the most remarkable and protracted struggles of the colonial era.<br></p>
Crowns and Kingdoms: Nok: Book Three: Nok
Norris Bloom • 2015
In Norris Bloom's third book of the Crowns and Kingdoms series, Sundiata receives a letter from his best friend, Queen Zora. He knows at once that he must leave the cottage in Tarshish and travel to the far away kingdom of Nok on the dark continent. Sundiata finds the medieval kingdom of Nok vastly different from that of Tarshish, particularly for the people of Nok, who live in constant fear of a ghost ship that takes people in the night. As Sundiata unravels the mystery of the ghost ship, he befriends Princess Tahtahme and helps solve the mystery of her missing twin brother.
The Journey of the Songhai People
Calvin Russell Robinson • 2020
Ethics and Society in Nigeria
Nimi Wariboko • 2019
Across the Sahara: From Tripoli to Bornu
Hanns Vischer • 1995
Babur-Nama: Memiors of Babur
Zahir al-Din Babur • 2001
Biu Plateau
Delmar Thomas C. Stawart • 2011
Norse Mythology
Neil Gaiman • 2017
A History of Borno: Trans-Saharan African Empire to Failing Nigerian State
Vincent Hiribarren • 2017
Borno (in northeast Nigeria) is notorious today as the home of an Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram, whose insurgency is a major security threat, but it was once the heartland of the Kanuri-speaking royal empire of Kanem-Borno, renowned throughout Africa and beyond, which in its later incarnation, the Bornu Empire, lasted from 1380 to 1893. This book offers the reader the first modern history of Borno, drawing upon sources in London, Berlin, Paris, Kaduna and Maiduguri and recently released 'migrated archives'.<br/><br/>As its longevity suggests, what is particularly remarkable about Borno is the permanence of its boundaries-its territorial integrity-which dates back centuries, and the political and social identities that such borders framed in the minds of its inhabitants.
A Really Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson • 2020
Bad Days in History: A Gleefully Grim Chronicle of Misfortune, Mayhem, and Misery for Every Day of the Year
Michael Farquhar • 2015
Bizarre and Curious Inventions: An Image Archive for Artists and Designers
Kale James • 2019
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
David Mitchell • 2023
The Book Your Church Doesn't Want You to Read
Tim C. Leedom • 2001
The Black Aesthetic
Addison Gayle • 1972
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Walter Rodney • 1974
The Mongols in the Islamic Lands
Reuven Amitai • 2024
When We Ruled
Robin Walker • 2005
African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
Michael Gomez • 2018
A groundbreaking history that puts early and medieval West Africa in a global context Pick up almost any book on early and medieval world history and empire, and where do you find West Africa? On the periphery. This pioneering book, the first on this period of the region’s history in a generation, tells a different story. Interweaving political and social history and drawing on a rich array of sources, including Arabic manuscripts, oral histories, and recent archaeological findings, Michael Gomez unveils a new vision of how categories of ethnicity, race, gender, and caste emerged in Africa and in global history more generally. Scholars have long held that such distinctions arose during the colonial period, but Gomez shows they developed much earlier. Focusing on the Savannah and Sahel region, Gomez traces the exchange of ideas and influences with North Africa and the Central Islamic Lands by way of merchants, scholars, and pilgrims. Islam’s growth in West Africa, in tandem with intensifying commerce that included slaves, resulted in a series of political experiments unique to the region, culminating in the rise of empire. A major preoccupation was the question of who could be legally enslaved, which together with other factors led to the construction of new ideas about ethnicity, race, gender, and caste—long before colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade. Telling a radically new story about early Africa in global history, African Dominion is set to be the standard work on the subject for many years to come.
The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages
François-Xavier Fauvelle • 2018
Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
Niane • 1965
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
Howard W. French • 2021
Self-help
Love: A Novel
Toni Morrison • 2005
Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs
Pearl Cleage • 2014
Forgotten Home Apothecary : 250 Powerful Remedies at Your Fingertips
Dr. Nicole Apelian • 2024
Ancient Remedies Revived: 300 Powerful Healing Herbs for All Ages
Sandra C. Schneider • 2025
Magical Herb Compendium
Aurora • 2023
Herb-Doctors and Physicians in the Ancient World: The Divine Origin of the Craft of the Herbalist
E. A. Wallis Budge • 1978
Book by Budge, E. A. Wallis
The Herbal Arts
Patricia Telesco • 2024
Packed full of herbal information and recipes, The Herbal Arts by Patricia Telesco is a magically informative, easy-to-follow grimoire that is sure to inspire those interested in green witchery. Herbal artistry is at your fingertips when you flip through the fact-filled pages of Patricia Telesco's book, The Herbal Arts: A Handbook of Plant Magic, Folklore, Recipes, Spells, & Charms. Utilizing nature's most abundant gift, The Herbal Arts explores over one hundred herbs, plants, and flowers while keeping practicality, ease of use, and accessibility in mind. Within its pages, you will find lore, historical uses, and magical insights alongside practical everyday applications to create a more meaningful and fulfilling magical practice.
The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
Jim Al-Khalili • 2019
Fasting the Mind: Spiritual Exercises for Psychic Detox
Jason Gregory • 2017
Imagining the World into Existence: An Ancient Egyptian Manual of Consciousness
Normandi Ellis • 2012
The Magic of Knowing What You Want: A Practical Guide to Unearthing the Wisdom of Your Desires
Tracey Gee • 2025
The Hidden Levels of the Mind: Swedenborg's Theory of Consciousness
DOUGLAS TAYLOR • 2011
The Five Archetypes: Discover Your True Nature and Transform Your Life and Relationships
Carey Davidson • 2020
Draconian Consciousness: The Book of Divine Madness
Michael Kelly • 2012
How to Read the Aura, Practice Psychometry, Telepathy and Clairvoyance
Walter Ernest Butler • 1978
The Philosophy and Literature of Existentialism
Wesley Barnes • 1968
The Book of Bad:: Stuff You Should Know Unless You’re a Pussy
Christopher Barish • 2011
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation
Padmasambhava • 2006
How to be a Drug Dealer
673126 • 2014
The Seven Purposes
Margaret Cameron • 2010
The Hidden Secrets of THE VEDA: Mystical Mythology of Ancient India
Dr Sukanta Bhattacharya • 2024
Religion is Not about God: How Spiritual Traditions Nurture our Biological Nature and What to Expect When They Fail
Loyal Rue • 2004
The Twelve Powers of Man
Charles Fillmore • 2011
Electromagnetics: It's not Black Magic
Eldon Gordon • 2015
An Uncommon Way to Wealth
Victor DÕArgent • 1994
Secret Power of Tantrik Breathing: Techniques for Attaining Health, Harmony, and Liberation
Swami Sivapriyananda • 2009
The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage
Renuka Gavrani • 2023
Anything Can Be Healed
Martin Brofman • 2003
The Laws of mental domination
Frank Rudolph Young • 2023
Cyclomancy: The Secret of Psychic Power
Frank Rudolph Young • 1966
Twelve Ways of Seeing the World: Philosophies and Archetypal Worldviews for Understanding Human Consciousness (Social Ecology)
Mario Betti • 2019
The "God" Part of the Brain: A Scientific Interpretation of Human Spirituality and God
Matthew Alper • 2001
The Energy of Money: A Spiritual Guide to Financial and Personal Fulfillment
Maria Nemeth Ph.D. • 2000
