Africa has a rich history, and there are numerous other personalities who have made significant contributions in various fields. From conquerors and explores, to scientist and activists and the myths themselves . You’ll be able to learn their names.
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Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
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COMPLETE ETHIOPIAN BIBLE in English | LARGE PRINT: The Utmost Authentic Apocrypha Edition with Enoch, Jubilees, All Lost Scriptures and Rejected Texts (ILLUSTRATED)
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Ancient Egypt: The Definitive Visual History (DK Classic History)
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The Ethiopian Bible in English in Complete Large Print: The Apocrypha of the Orthodox Tewahedo Church With The Missing Deuterocanonical Books Like ... Ethiopic Didascalia, and Many others
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A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest
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Ethiopian Bible in English Complete | LARGE PRINT: The African Scriptures with the Full and Missing Deuterocanonical Apocrypha, Book of Enoch, ... Judith, Bel and the Dragon and Much More
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Long Way Gone
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An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence – An International Bestseller Told Through the Voices of Africans
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From Babylon to Timbuktu
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Ethiopian Bible in English Complete LARGE PRINT: The Definitive Collection of all the Rejected Apocrypha Scriptures and Lost Books
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The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II
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Governing Sound: The Cultural Politics of Trinidad's Carnival Musics (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
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No Bond but the Law: Punishment, Race, And Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780-1870
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Guinea's Other Suns: The African Dynamic in Trinidad Culture (Second Edition)
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Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil, Vol. 1: With a Full Account of the Gold and Diamond Mines; Also, Canoeing Down 1500 Miles of the Great ... From Sabará to the Sea (Classic Reprint)
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In Plenty and in Time of Need: Popular Culture and the Remapping of Barbadian Identity (Critical Caribbean Studies)
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Dominica of the Leeward Islands: Postal History Mid -1700s to World War II The Philatelic Exhibitppm RDP
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The Jamaica Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers)
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A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados (Hackett Classics)
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The 1619 Project: A Visual Experience
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No Future Without Forgiveness
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Three Sips of Gin: Dominating the Battlespace with Rhodesia's famed Selous Scouts
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A History of South Africa, Third Edition
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Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
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Good Morning, Mr. Mandela: A Memoir
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A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid
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African Temples of the Anunnaki: The Lost Technologies of the Gold Mines of Enki
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South Africa's Brave New World: The Beloved Country Since the End of Apartheid
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Like Wolves on the Fold: The Defence of Rorke’s Drift
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Sugar Man: The Life, Death and Resurrection of Sixto Rodriguez
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The History of Tanzania: From Kilimanjaro to Zanzibar
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Kenya: A History Since Independence
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First Footsteps in East Africa: Or, An Exploration of Harar; Volume 1
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I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation – Italy, Britain, US, and Soviet Colonialism in Eritrea
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Strength in What Remains
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Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State
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The legend of a hunter in a bygone era
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The First Victory: The Second World War and the East Africa Campaign
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The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
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Out of Africa
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Introduction to African Civilizations
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Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak
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Why Comrades go to War: Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa's Deadliest Conflict
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Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
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Precolonial Black Africa
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In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
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Blood River: The Terrifying Journey through the World's Most Dangerous Country
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Motherland: A Journey through 500,000 Years of African Culture and Identity
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Dragon Rouge: the rescue of hostages in the Congo
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Sufferings in Africa
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Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962–1979
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Carthage: A New History
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White Slavery in the Barbary States: A lecture before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, Feb. 17, 1847.
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Egyptian Mythology: Captivating Stories of the Gods, Goddesses, Monsters and Mortals (Norse Mythology - Egyptian Mythology - Greek Mythology Book 2)
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Great Kingdoms of Africa
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The Arabs: A History
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Hannibal: Rome’s Greatest Enemy
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Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccan
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A Concise History of the Arabs
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American Warlord: A True Story
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No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky: The Liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, 1963-74 (African History Archive)
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Hiding the Hebrews (2nd Edition): Did America Kidnap the Lost Tribes of Israel?
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Indigo: In Search of the Color That Seduced the World
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Class Struggle In Africa
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Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It
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African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
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Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
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Fortson's Encyclopedia of Israelite History, Claims, and Culture (Undeniable)
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