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28: Stories of AIDS in Africa
From one of our most widely read, award-winning journalists – comes the powerful, unputdownable story of the very human cost of a global pandemic of staggering scope and scale. It is essential reading for our times.In 28, Stephanie Nolen, the Globe...
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20 Years of Medical Missionary Work in Africa
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
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The 1964 Army Mutinies and the Making of Modern East Africa
This book provides a new concept framework for understanding the factors that lead soldiers to challenge civil authority in developing nations. By exploring the causes and effects of the 1964 East African army mutinies, it provides novel insights into the...
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The 18Th Hussars in South Africa: The Records of a Cavalry Regiment During the Boer War, 1899-1902
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
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The 18Th Hussars in South Africa: The Records of a Cavalry Regiment During the Boer War, 1899-1902
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
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18th HUSSARS IN SOUTH AFRICA The Records of a Cavalry Regiment During the Boer War
This book is an extreme rarity - an account of cavalry service in the Boer War by one of their officers. The 18th Hussars were deployed to South Africa in 1899 and served throughout the conflict until 1902. The Regiment...
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1897 Benin-British War: The Empire That Refused to Kneel: A Tale of Ambush, Sovereignty, and the Plunder of Africa's Richest Kingdom
In 1897, a battle raged that would forever change the course of history. A proud African kingdom, rich in culture, art, and divine power, stood strong against the rising tide of British imperialism. The Kingdom of Benin, with its fearless warriors,...
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1000 Whys About Africa: Big Questions and Clear Answers About Countries, Cultures, Wildlife, History, Geography, Civilizations, and African Innovation
Have you ever looked at a map and wondered how one continent could hold so many nations, languages, ancient stories, breathtaking landscapes, powerful ideas, and world-changing achievements? Too many people grow up with a narrow picture shaped by brief news...
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... Africa
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
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... Africa
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
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The Little Adinkra Dictionary
Intended as an abridged version of The Adinkra Dictionary, The Little Adinkra Dictionary blossomed into a 210-page pictorial analysis of the beautiful geometric symbols created by the Akan people of Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. Seventy adinkra symbols and definitions are...
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Great African Thinkers (Great African Thinkers #1)
ISBN: 0887386806 EAN: 9780887386800
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The Limits of Faith: The Failure of Faith-based Religions and the Solution to the Meaning of Life (Paperback)
This volume is a compilation of essays related to the nature of religious faith in the context of its inception in human history as well as its meaning for religious practice and relations between religions in modern times. (Christian)
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Solomon Northup -- Hope Out of Darkness: Commemorating "12 Years a Slave" (Hardcopy)
Solomon Northup's story did not end with freedom. It continues in memory, movement, and meaning. Hope Out of Darkness chronicles the remarkable journey of a monumental bronze statue created to honor Solomon Northup--the free Black man kidnapped into slavery whose memoir, Twelve...
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Solomon Northup -- Hope Out of Darkness: Commemorating "12 Years a Slave" (Paperback)
Solomon Northup's story did not end with freedom. It continues in memory, movement, and meaning. Hope Out of Darkness chronicles the remarkable journey of a monumental bronze statue created to honor Solomon Northup--the free Black man kidnapped into slavery whose memoir, Twelve...
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Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America by Howard Bryant
Kings and Pawns is the untold story of sports and fame, Black America and the promise of integration through the Cold War lens of two transformative events. The first occurred July 18, 1949 in Washington, D.C., when a reluctant Jackie Robinson,...
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Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery (Paperback)
Despite their own legacy of torment in Egypt, Jews in the U.S. varied in their attitudes toward the slave system, even after it provoked secession and rebellion in their new promised land. This discomfiting anomaly has been probed by scholars...
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