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  • PORTRAIT OF A NEW ANGOLA
    PORTRAIT OF A NEW ANGOLA
    GALLIANI, FRANCESCA / FERNANDES, WALTER
    This book is about the future, not a distant and elusive future, but a future that is being constructed day-by-day by the Angolan people.The pages of this book reveal an Angola transforming at an extraordinary pace. This ancient land, the birthplace of great civilizations, today is at the forefront of African culture. From agriculture to industry, from mining to oil production,...
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  • A HISTORY OF ETHIOPIA IN PICTURES
    A HISTORY OF ETHIOPIA IN PICTURES
    LAST, GEOFFREY / PANKHURST, RICHARD / ROBSON, ERIC
    A través de esta obra se ha querido plasmar la historia visual de Etiopía. Se muestran las reconstrucciones de Aksum en época precristiana, de Lalibela y de sus iglesias talladas en roca, de Gondar en los siglos XVII y XVIII y de las batallas de Maqdala y Adwa. A través de las imágenes visualizamos la gente que vivió en estos lugares: los sabeanos antiguos, la reina Yudit, el r...
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  • WANDERINGS IN THREE CONTINENTS
    WANDERINGS IN THREE CONTINENTS
    BURTON, RICHARD
    This posthumous volume of essays, first published in 1901, reveals Burton “in the aspect in which he was known best to the world – as a traveler and explorer”. Spanning the period from 1853 to 1870, the most active years of Burton’s life, the book includes chapters on Burton’s controversial pilgrimages to Mecca and Medina, his travels to the city of Harar (in present-day Ethiop...
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  • LIFE AND AFTERLIFE IN BENIN
    LIFE AND AFTERLIFE IN BENIN
    ENWEZOR, OKWUI
    This collection of portraiture, comprising the work of nine photographers from Benin, mostly working during the 1960's and 1970's, opens a new chapter in the history of African photography.Most people's knowledge of West African photography is limited to the Bamako school of Mali, whose masters Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibe were widely discovered at the beginning of the 1990's...
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  • VICEROY OF OUIDAH, THE
    VICEROY OF OUIDAH, THE
    CHATWIN, BRUCE
    In 1812, Francisco Manoel da Silva, escaping a life of poverty in Brazil, sailed to the African kingdom of Dahomey, determined to make his fortune in the slave trade. Armed with nothing but an iron will, he became a man of substance in Ouidah and the founder of a remarkable dynasty. His one remaining ambition is to return to Brazil in triumph, but his friendship with the mad, m...
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  • ARCHITECTURE FOR THE POOR
    ARCHITECTURE FOR THE POOR
    FATHY, HASSAN
    This volume describes Hassan Fathy's plan for building the village of New Gourna, near Luxor, Egypt, without the use of more modern and expensive materials such as steel and concrete. Using mud bricks, the native technique that Fathy learned in Nubia, and such traditional Egyptian architectural designs as enclosed courtyards and vaulted roofing, Fathy worked with the villagers ...
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  • YORUBA GURUS
    YORUBA GURUS
    FALOLA, TOYIN
    YORUBA GURUS ...
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  • HEART OF DARKNESS
    HEART OF DARKNESS
    CONRAD, JOSEPH
    Marlow, a seaman, tells of a journey up the Congo. His goal is the troubled European and ivory trader Kurtz. Worshipped and feared by invaders as well as natives, Kurtz has become a godlike figure, his presence pervading the jungle like a thick, obscuring mist. As his boat labours further upstream, closer and closer to Kurtz's extraordinary and terrible domain, so Marlow finds ...
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