This fascinating study of mathematical thinking among sub-Saharan African peoples covers counting in words and in gestures; measuring time, distance, weight, and other quantities; manipulating money and keeping accounts; number systems; patterns in music, poetry, art, and architecture; and number magic and taboos. African games such as mankala and elaborate versions of tic-tac-toe show how complex this thinking can be. An invaluable resource for students, teachers, and others interested in African cultures and multiculturalism, this third edition is updated with an introduction covering two decades of new research in the ethnomathematics of Africa.
Black-on-Black Violence: The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilation in Service of White Domination represents a distinct milestone in criminology and Afrikana Studies. Its explanatory perspectives on the sociopsychological and politicoeconomic causes of Black-on-Black violence are exceptionally insightful, incisive and iconoclastic. The...
The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews is a three-volume work of pseudo-scholarship, published by the Nation of Islam. The first volume, which was released in 1991, asserts that Jews dominated the Atlantic slave trade.The Secret Relationship has been widely criticized for being antisemitic and for failing to provide an...
The Sensational Book of the Century... They Lived Before Adam delves deep into the valleys of time and showcases the history of the Igbo people Nigeria who have Never been ruled. **Please note: This is an import book and...