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For readers of Behind the Beautiful Forevers and Nothing to Envy, this is a breathtaking real-life story of four street children in contemporary Zambia whose lives are drawn together and forever altered by the mysterious murder of a fellow street child. Based on years of investigative reporting...

A prizewinning young author tells the moving story of growing up during Burundi’s ethnic civil war in this powerful memoir hailed as “a jewel of a book” (Margaret MacMillan). “There’s nothing like a great love song, and Pacifique Irankunda sings a beautiful one here to his homeland and...

This classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support the theory that ancient Egypt was a black civilization.

In 1972, when Alexandra Fuller was two years old, her parents finally abandoned their English life and returned to what was then Southern Rhodesia and to the beginning of a civil war. By the time she was eight, the war was in full swing. Her parents veered from being determined farmers to being blind drunk, whilst Alexandra and her sister, the only survivors of five children, alternately take up target practice and sing Rod Stewart songs from sun bleached rocks.

Los africanos tienen una larga historia, aunque no todo se ha conservado por escrito. Y muchas historias folklóricas se han transmitido de generación en generación. Las tribus africanas varían tanto como los colores del arcoíris. Es por estas razones, y también por entretenimiento, que se ha elaborado este libro. Incluye varios cuentos mitológicos que se refieren a dioses, criaturas y entidades africanas. Algunos de estos tienen moral. Otros son simbólicos de una cosa u otra. Con todo, este es un libro breve pero divertido e intrigante sobre la cultura africana.

"Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization" by John G. Jackson is a seminal work that challenges traditional Eurocentric perspectives on the origins of civilization. Originally published in 1939, Jackson's book seeks to highlight the significant contributions of African civilizations, particularly Ethiopia, to the development of human culture and civilization.