The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay
The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay

Author: Patricia McKissack

Publisher: Square Fish

Published: 2016-03-01

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1250113512

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For more than a thousand years, from A.D. 500 to 1700, the medieval kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay grew rich on the gold, salt, and slave trade that stretched across Africa. Scraping away hundreds of years of ignorance, prejudice, and mythology, award-winnnig authors Patricia and Fredrick McKissack reveal the glory of these forgotten empires while inviting us to share in the inspiring process of historical recovery that is taking place today.

Balancing Written History with Oral Traditions
Balancing Written History with Oral Traditions

Author: Hassimi Oumarou Maiga

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-09-10

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1135227039

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This book offers a unique interpretation of Africa’s legacy to the world and the worldwide African Diaspora through bringing to light the sociocultural contributions of the Songhoy people and the cosmopolitan empire they established in West Africa.

Gonja, the Mandingoes of Ghana
Gonja, the Mandingoes of Ghana

Author: Solomon Salifu Tampuri

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2016-10-19

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1524593974

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The book traces the journey of the people of Gonja from their original home in the ancient Songhai Empire to their present location in the northern region of the Republic of Ghana. Gonja was once an important kingdom before the entire land mass known today as Ghana was colonised and brought under British rule. An important feature of this book is that it also touches on the history and relationships of the neighbours of Gonja including the Dagomba and other tribes in the northern region and the other parts of Ghana.

Into Africa
Into Africa

Author: Marq De Villiers

Publisher: Phoenix

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780753804605

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A brilliant picture of a rich, exotic, complex and fascinating continent in the style of Bruce Chatwin. Verbal snapshots, images, anecdotes, legends, tales, gossip, illustrations, photographs, art and maps lend insight and depth to this multi-layered portrait of a continent. Into Africa uses the ancient empires and trading patterns of prehistory as the primary framework, to explain how Africa was and is today. The book does not ignore the calamities, the collapse of civil authority, the wars, the famines, the human misery, the environmental degradation. But it does record the triumphs, small and large. More important, Into Africa goes beyond politics and tourism, into history and legend, art and culture, both popular and profound.

Angry Wind
Angry Wind

Author: Jeffrey Tayler

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9780618334674

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The Cruellest Journey
The Cruellest Journey

Author: Kira Salak

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0553816292

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In retracing explorer Mungo Park's fatal journey down West Africa's Niger River, author and adventuress Salak became the first person to travel alone from Mali's Old Segou to Timbuktu, the legendary "doorway to the end of the world." This is her story.

In Sorcery's Shadow
In Sorcery's Shadow

Author: Paul Stoller

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2013-08-09

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 022609829X

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The tale of Paul Stoller's sojourn among sorcerors in the Republic of Niger is a story of growth and change, of mutual respect and understanding that will challenge all who read it to plunge deeply into an alien world.