330円 Never before in the history of archaeological inquiry has any event excited such immediate and world-wide interest as Mr Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb in November 1922. Very little is known as yet of the king himself, but twelve months hence no doubt his mummy will give up its ...

1,408円 Beautifully illustrated, Portrait Photography in Africa offers new interpretations of the cultural and historical roles of photography in Africa. Twelve leading scholars look at early photographs, important photographers' studios, the uses of portraiture in the 19th century, and the current passi...

1,408円 A Dance of Assassins presents the competing histories of how Congolese Chief Lusinga and Belgian Lieutenant Storms engaged in a deadly clash while striving to establish hegemony along the southwestern shores of Lake Tanganyika in the 1880s. While Lusinga participated in the east African slave tra...

11,772円 This book offers the first concentrated examination of the representation of the black female subject in Western art through the lenses of race/color and sex/gender. Charmaine A. Nelson poses critical questions about the contexts of production, the problems of representation, the pathways of circ...

1,657円 This is a book about life stories reflected in Art and poetry, as a catalyst for personal examination and reflection. The book’s life lessons will inspire the readers to revisit their own past and appreciate the importance of their own life lessons. Most importantly the book opens up a new way as...

2,177円 This landmark book shows how five African civilizationsーYoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross Riverーhave informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions (music, sculpture, textiles, architecture, religion, idiogrammatic writing) of black people in the United St...

1,062円 Few travellers through the relentless expanse of the Karoo take in much beyond the band of tar stretching arrow-straight ahead of them through the endlessness. Yet this ancient land hides a treasure trove of rock art: the scorched mountains at its southern edge contain countless overhangs and cav...

5,777円 The Kwagh-hir Theater: A Weapon for Social Action represents a significant milestone in the documentation and theorization of non-Western theater. The book describes how the Tiv people of Nigeria used their indigenous theater to fight against British colonialism and oppression by dominant groups ...

12,038円 Impossible Mourning argues that while the HIV/AIDS epidemic has figured largely in public discourse in South Africa over the last ten years, particularly in debates about governance and constitutional rights post-apartheid, the experiences of people living with HIV for the most part remain invisi...

700円 "Don't Beat Your Children Or They'll Turn Out Like Me," is a book of poems, Haikus, jokes and random thoughts that has captured Harlem living completely and not once did the author loose street creditability. The author (BLUE) has taken the ugliness of the ghetto and brought humor and beauty to t...

2,395円 San rock paintings, scattered over the range of southern Africa, are considered by many to be the very earliest examples of representational art. There are as many as 15,000 known rock art sites, created over the course of thousands of years up until the nineteenth century. There are possibly jus...

1,408円 African Fashion, Global Style provides a lively look at fashion, international networks of style, material culture, and the world of African aesthetic expression. Victoria L. Rovine introduces fashion designers whose work reflects African histories and cultures both conceptually and stylistically...