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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
My fathers' daughter	Hannah Pool	In 1974 Hannah Pool was adopted from an orphanage in Eritrea and brought to England by her white adoptive father. She grew up unable to imagine what it must be like to look into the eyes of a blood …	OL11971838W
The ancient Africans	Virginia Schomp	"A retelling of several ancient African myths, with background information describing the history, geography, belief systems, and customs of various peoples of Africa"--Provided by publisher.	OL15039613W
African culture	Rob Bowden	Discusses the various influences, from the physical environment to colonialization, that have helped shape African culture throughout its history, as well as its most common cultural characteristics.	OL16065546W
Born in the Big Rains	Fadumo Korn,Sabine Eichhorst	Fadumo's childhood ends at seven when an "excisor" cuts out her "impurity", i.e., she undergoes FGM. Beset with infections, she moves in with her uncle, brother of Somalia's president. Eventually in …	OL17633551W
Discovering the Asante kingdom	Robert Z. Cohen	Located in what is today the Republic of Ghana, the Asante kingdom was one of the richest and most powerful empires in precolonial Africa. The author explores the fascinating history, important cultu…	OL19741919W
Count on your fingers African style	Claudia Zaslavsky	Describes how finger counting is used for communication of price and quantity in an East African market place.	OL1997946W
Unwrapping the Textile Traditions of Madagascar	J. Claire Odland,Bennet Bronson,Chapurukha Kusimba	>Unwrapping the Textile Traditions of Madagascar presents the first extensive treatment of Madagascar’s textile traditions region by region, giving a systematic overview of the woven products of each…	OL21229814W
A gift from childhood	Baba Wagué Diakité	A memoir in which Baba Diakité recalls the time he spent as a child with his grandparents in a tiny Malian village where he learned to catch a catfish with his bare hands, listened to his grandmother…	OL26196975W
Chokwe	Manuel Jordán	Surveys the history, culture, and contemporary life of the Chokwe people of Angola, Zaire, and Zimbabwe.	OL2662209W
Kongo	Chika Okeke	A look at the culture, history, and contemporary life of the Kongo people of the Republic of Congo, western Zaire, and northern Angola.	OL2785444W
Mossi	Kibibi Mack-Williams	Describes the history, surroundings, politics, customs, religion, and current situation of the Mossi people, who live in the West African country of Burkina Faso.	OL2927715W
Makonde	Stoner, John M. Phil.	A look at the culture, history, and contemporary life of the Makonde people of Tanzania and Mozambique.	OL3244900W
Ejagham	Ute Röschenthaler	A look at the culture, history, and contemporary life of the Ejagham people of the Cross River area of Cameroon and Nigeria.	OL3257667W
Zulu	Zolani Ngwane	Surveys the culture, history, and contemporary life of the Zulu people of South Africa.	OL3341532W
Daily Life of the Nubians (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series)	Robert Steven Bianchi	Until recently little was known about ancient Nubia and day-to-day lives of the Nubian people aside from knowing it was a civilization contemporary with, distinct from, and living under the shadow of…	OL3916807W
Song from the Forest	Louis Sarno	"For twenty-five years Louis Sarno has been recording the polyphonic and hypnotic music of the Bayaka people in Central Africa. Here is his account of his efforts to protect the Bayakas' fragile exis…	OL4298920W
Anthropology and the Bushman	Alan Barnard	'The Bushman' is a perennial but changing image. The transformation of that image is important. It symbolizes the perception of Bushman or San society, of the ideas and values of ethnographers who ha…	OL572122W
Religion & art in Ashanti	Robert Sutherland Rattray	art and religion that reflect history	OL6572465W
Africa Brothers and Sisters	Virginia L. Kroll	At lunchtime Daddy and Jesse play their favorite game: a question and answer game about people who live in Africa and the ways in which they are connected to Jesse.	OL7984006W
Twenty Chickens for a Saddle	Robyn Scott	A glorious new voice on Africa, Robyn Scott's adventures growing up in Botswana in a loving but eccentric family will be one of the season's most talked-about memoirs Robyn Scott's story of moving at…	OL9324609W