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| Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in Africa and Beyond
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Ekow Eshun.
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| Publisher: Pantheon. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780375424182. Daedalus Item Code: 83654 |
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| At the age of 33, Ekow Eshun leaves a London that has never felt like home and travels to Ghana, in order to search for his roots. Along the way he reflects on others who have made the same journey, ... (Read More)
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| Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth
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Susan Walker & Peter Higgs, eds.
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| Publisher: Princeton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780691088358. Daedalus Item Code: 21452 |
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| Fabled for her sexual allure and cunning intelligence, Cleopatra VII of Egypt has fascinated generations of admirers and detractors since her tumultuous life ended in suicide in 30 BC. This lavishly ... (Read More)
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| Contemporary Architecture : South Africa: (English/Italian Languages)
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Ines Tolic.
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| Publisher: Motta. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9788861161238. Daedalus Item Code: 30846 |
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| In the 20 years since independence from white minority rule, South African planners have given architectural form to the foundations of the nation's new constitution and the vision of a new South ... (Read More)
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| Conversations with Myself
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Nelson Mandela. Barack Obama, foreword.
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| Publisher: Picador. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780312611682. Daedalus Item Code: 31990 |
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| Not many figures could inspire the President of the United States to pen a foreword for a memoir, but Nelson Mandela certainly is one. This singular record collects key items from Nelson Mandela's ... (Read More)
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| Eternal Egypt: Masterworks of Ancient Art from the British Museum
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Edna R. Russman et al.
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| Publisher: California. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780520230866. Daedalus Item Code: 30490 |
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| An ideal introduction to the enormous and varied legacy of ancient Egypt, this oversized book presents more than 140 objects in detailed descriptions and color photographs, many with multiple views. ... (Read More)
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| The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martydom of Zimbabwe
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Peter Godwin.
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| Publisher: Little, Brown. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780316051736. Daedalus Item Code: 31665 |
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| (Named a Best Book of 2011 by The New Yorker, The Economist, and Publishers Weekly) This is Peter Godwin's stunning account of the siege of terror that dictator Robert ... (Read More)
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| A Fork in the Road: A Memoir
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Andre Brink.
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| Publisher: Harvell Secker. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781846552441. Daedalus Item Code: 24054 |
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| A three-time winner of the prestigious Central News Agency Literary Award (an honor he shares with J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, and Chris Barnard) and twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, André ... (Read More)
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| The Granta Book of the African Short Story
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Helon Habila, ed.
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| Publisher: Granta. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781847082473. Daedalus Item Code: 32034 |
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| This anthology introduces a group of African writers described by editor Helon Habila as "the post-nationalist generation." Disdaining the narrowly nationalist and political preoccupations of ... (Read More)
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| Guro: Masks, Performances and Master Carvers in Ivory Coast
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Eberhard Fischer.
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| Publisher: Prestel. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9783791339412. Daedalus Item Code: 22815 |
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| The Guro people of Africas Ivory Coast are renowned for their rich mask and sculpture traditions, creating objects of joyful and sublime beauty for a variety of social and spiritual ceremonies. Art ... (Read More)
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| Ivory's Ghosts: The White Gold of History and the Fate of Elephants
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John Frederick Walker.
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| Publisher: Atlantic Monthly/QPB. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781615233991. Daedalus Item Code: 23473 |
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| Long before gold and gems were known and coveted, humans have desired ivory tusks, the "jewels of the elephant," for their beauty, rarity, and ability to be finely carved. The author who championed ... (Read More)
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| Life and Afterlife in Benin
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Alex Van Gelder, ed.
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| Publisher: Phaidon. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780714845135. Daedalus Item Code: 12411 |
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| It is a commonly held belief in many non-Western cultures that a person's soul lives on, as if trapped, within a photograph. In the West African country of Benin, with its rich spiritual traditions ... (Read More)
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