Travels in West Africa (National Geographic Adventure Classics)
by Mary Kingsley
Born in 1862, Mary Kingsley was the daughter of an explorer who was freed to follow in her father's footsteps following her parents' death. She made two trips in the 1890s, and her lively and witty account, reproduced here, was an immediate bestseller when first published in 1897.
Sao Tome Und Principe - Mein Reisetagebuch
by Voyage Libre Reisetagebuch
Namibia - Culture Smart! (Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture) (Culture Smart!)
by Sharri Whiting
The world's most acclaimed travel writer journeys through western Africa from Cape Town to the Congo.
This is a cross-cultural memoir by a former Peace Corps volunteer and Fulbright scholar. In February 2000, William Miles set off from Massachusetts for a Muslim village in West Africa with his ten-year-old son Samuel to settle an inheritance dispute over a horse. National Public Radio was so intrigued with this story that ""All Things Considered"" broadcast his pre-departure testament, as well as a follow-up commentary on what actually happened.""My African Horse Problem"" recounts the intricaci...
Voyage Dans l'Intérieur de l'Afrique, Fait En 1795, 1796 Et 1797, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
by Mungo Park
The only dedicated guide to Liberia covering practical travel details for the whole country.
The Ghana Reader (The World Readers)
Covering 500 years of Ghana's history, The Ghana Reader provides a multitude of historical, political, and cultural perspectives on this iconic African nation. Whether discussing the Asante kingdom and the Gold Coast's importance to European commerce and transatlantic slaving, Ghana's brief period under British colonial rule, or the emergence of its modern democracy, the volume's eighty selections emphasize Ghana's enormous symbolic and pragmatic value to global relations. They also demonstrate...
High priestesses are few and far between, white ones in Africa even more so. When Diane Esguerra hears of a mysterious Austrian woman worshipping the Ifa river goddess Oshun in Nigeria, her curiosity is aroused. It is the start of an extraordinary friendship that sustains Diane through the death of her son and leads to a quest to take part in Oshun rituals. Prevented by Boko Haram from returning to Nigeria, she finds herself at Ifa shrines in Florida amid vultures, snakes, goats' heads, machete...