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Historical Dictionary of Guinea
Scarecrow Press 2005; US$ 84.99Thoroughly updated and extensively revised, this 4th edition provides a very solid and substantial guide to a better understanding of this richly endowed but poorly understood nation. Students and others seeking information about the country will find an introductory narrative accounting of Guinea's political and economic history, a chronology that... more...
Historical Dictionary of Mauritania
Scarecrow Press 2008; US$ 149.99The third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Mauritania_through its chronology, introductory essay, maps, bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, institutions, and significant political, economic, social, and cultural aspects_provides an important reference on Mauritania. more...
Mauritania Society & Culture Complete Report
World Trade Press 2010; US$ 28.50Need to know it all? Our all-inclusive culture report for Mauritania will get up to speed on all aspects of culture in Mauritania, including lifecycle, religion, women, superstitions & folklore, sports, holidays & festivals, and etiquette. more...
Benin Society & Culture Complete Report
World Trade Press 2010; US$ 28.50Need to know it all? Our all-inclusive culture report for Benin will get up to speed on all aspects of culture in Benin, including lifecycle, religion, women, superstitions & folklore, sports, holidays & festivals, and etiquette. more...
Cote d'Ivoire Women in Culture, Business & Travel
World Trade Press 2010; US$ 7.45Women often occupy different roles in a foreign culture. Avoid offensive assumptions and behavior by understanding the position of women in Ivoirian society: their legal rights; access to education and health care; workforce participation; and their dating, marriage, and family life. more...
Guinea-Bissau Society & Culture Complete Report
World Trade Press 2010; US$ 28.50Need to know it all? Our all-inclusive culture report for Guinea-Bissau will get up to speed on all aspects of culture in Guinea-Bissau, including lifecycle, religion, women, superstitions & folklore, sports, holidays & festivals, and etiquette. more...
To Timbuktu for a Haircut
Dundurn 2008; US$ 26.99Timbuktu: the African city known to legend as a land of scholars, splendour and mystery, a golden age in the Sahara Desert. But to many it is a vaguely recognizable name. With this fabled city as his goal, author Rick Antonson began a month-long trek. His initial plan? To get a haircut. more...
Oursi hu-beero
Sidestone Press 2011; US$ 29.35This final report describes the study of an exceptionally well-preserved Iron Age building discovered in northern Burkina Faso, West Africa. The site of Oursi hu-beero, meaning "the big house of Oursi" in the locally spoken Songhay language, was excavated in 2000 and 2001 by a scientific team from the universities of Frankfurt am Main and... more...
Libyan Sands
Eland Publishing 2012; US$ 14.57In the 1920s and 30s, a band of British officers stationed in Egypt began to explore the Western Desert which straddles the borders with Libya and the Sudan. Adapting a series of Model T Fords, Bagnold and his colleagues set out across territory hitherto traversed only by camel caravans. They mapped new routes across ?impassable? sand seas, in ?regions... more...
Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa 1880-1995
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 30.00A revised edition of Manning's 1988 Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa, 1880-1985. Covering the French-speaking countries of west and central Africa, it focuses on the development of new African institutions and a new African culture, based on precolonial African heritage and the connections of Africa with French and Belgian colonial powers. more...









