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SPIRITUALITY
Ritual: Power, Healing and Community
The stories within these books have the poignancy of new discoveries as well as the unworn imagination of the ancestors. The commentary has the sh…
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SPIRITUALITY
Indigeneity in African Religions: Oza Worldviews, Cosmologies and Religious Cultures
Based on religious ethnography, in-depth interviews and archival data, Indigeneity in African Religions explores the historical origins, worldview…
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WOMEN
Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal's African Empire
This book presents rare evidence about the lives of three African women in the sixteenth century--the very period from which we can trace the origi…
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BLACK HISTORY
Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen
A gorgeous collection of 145 original portraits that celebrates Black pioneers—famous and little-known--in politics, science, literature, music, a…
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FOOD
Exotic Nigerian Recipes: An Illustrated Cookbook of West African Dish Ideas!
What types of food are prepared in Nigeria? Would you and your family enjoy Nigerian dishes? Nigerians use some exotic ingredients that make their…
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SPIRITUALITY
Nupe Religion
Originally published in 1954, this book is a pentrating study of Nupe religion and the increasing influence that Islam has had on indigenous forms …
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SOUTH AMERICA
The People of the River: Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835–1945
In this history of the black peasants of Amazonia, Oscar de la Torre focuses on the experience of African-descended people navigating the transitio…
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