Africa & Africans In Antiquity is a fascinating and informative compilation of ten scholarly essays surveying and showcasing historical research and archaeology currently underway in Egypt, North Africa, the Sudan, and the horn of Africa. The contributors take issue with Afrocentric scholars with regard to the racial makeup of the Egyptian populations of antiquity. What emerges is the picture of a region that was an ethnic and cultural mosaic populated by Phoenicians, Berbers, Greeks, Egyptians, and Nubians. Africa & Africans In Antiquity is an impressive and very highly recommended contribution to Egyptology, archaeology, and antiquarian studies.

This is an extremely desirable, comprehensive volume detailing the musical aspects of African culture. Erudite, clear entries on every related topic -- a prize for any musician's bookshelf.

This is a very good, and concise history of African states. The book includes great photos and maps. It is a great reference piece. Easy to read and very interesting. Especially helpful to a student of African society, or someone with little knowledge about the continent.

While living in a few African countries and during graduate school, I found this book to be an extremely useful guide to literature about Africa - and African literature. Its abundant with extracts from books and biographies of authors.

This was an excellent source of information. My first gradeclass enjoyed the pictures. I enjoyed the view it gave to thelifestyles of African people. We learned alot!

CONGRATULATIONS TO MS.BARBARA BROWN & MS. SHIRLEY BROWN ON THEIR BOOK ON THEIR EXPERIENCES IN AFRICA. AFTER READING THIS BOOK, I FELT I WAS THERE. I REALLY ENJOYED THE PHOTOS AND VIDEO THAT WAS TAKEN. CONTINUED SUCCESS. -T BROWN

I found a 1st edition of this while in the Peace Corps serving in west africa and found it to be the best to present a dynamic and interesting ethnohistory of the whole african continent. It reminds the reader often that africa isnt a monolithic culture but a diverse mix of people and histories. This book is an excellent read for anyone looking for more information on the continent and it's people.

Ninsel Warner is a man who has lived several lifetimes, it seems, from his youth growing up in a small tribal village in Liberia, to a post in the Liberian government, to working in the General Mills travel agency in Minneapolis, and now as a franchise owner in ServiceMaster in the Twin Cities.

Ninsel wrote this book after he took a writing course while still living in Liberia. The book chronicles what it is like to grow up in a village where the witch doctor can actually cast spells on people, causing them to die without seeming cause. When Charles Taylor began his revolution against the government in which Ninsel was serving, Warner faced a foe even more devastating than the witch doctor. He was captured by the rebels, who agreed not to take his life only after he asked them if they had sons they would not like to see killed. He said his mother would be very troubled if they took his life, and they relented and released him. Shortly thereafter, he fled the country and moved to the United States.

His children still live in Africa, continually in flight from the forces of war and devastation that pursue them wherever they go. If you want to obtain an understanding of what it is like to grow up in rural Africa, this book should be a "must" reading.

I understand that Ninsel is working on a sequel to the book. When (and if) it is released, I strongly recommend that you buy a copy and read it. You will be treated to a highly authentic piece of folk literature from a culture that is different from any you have ever known--unless, of course, you grew up in a small tribe in Liberia.

This book gives the most exciting evidence of the origins of the African xylophone, which the author believes to have been in Indonesia. It goes into great, but intelligible, detail regarding the morphology and tuning of xylophones, and continues with useful pointers to other fields of research regarding Indonesia's role in Africa from the early first millenium AD onwards.... a fascinating subject about which little is known.

The big argument in the biased academic community is about the Olmec enigma. People were shocked when they found heads in Central America that did not look like aztecs or Mayans,but pre dates their civilzation by many years. The head they found seem to resemble a African. People have seemed to critize people like Van sertima,but never seem to do any reserch about Africans themselves. Western academia knows that Columbus was not the first to America,but we keep getting feed the same dogmatic material. It seems in the academic world we are back to the world is flat argument when it comes to history. The academic just don't see any plausibility in Africans reaching America before the Europeans,even though Thor Heydral has made it clear with his experiments of Tirgris,Ra,and Konticki it does not take alot to sail to the new worlrd.
The king of a African empire called Mali was Abubakari,which was brothers to Mansa Musa. MUsa told a scholar in Cario about the plan of his brother to sail betond the Atlantic. Musa had enough skill and money to complete this mission. The question is however how far did Abu bakari make it to sea. People around Mopti Mali still construct vessels worthy of sea travel. They build and use these boats to transport salt up and down the Nigera river. The other thing which makes this possible in Brazil they have found markings which are very similar to the Made langue of Vai. The other clue that leads people to believe this is the winds which are around the Atlantic seem to lead right to Brazil. Accounts by Cristobal Columbo himself seem to describe a black race of people described to have traded with the Taino Natives of Hispanola as it was named by the spainish invading forces. Devaca also desrcibes maninka living around Texas area.
In the recent conquistidors this is explored by the narrator. He also read quotes from the conquestidors themselves.

So Abubakar equipped 200 ships filled with men and the same number equipped with gold, water, and provisions, enough to last them for years…they departed and a long time passed before anyone came back. Then one ship returned and we asked the captain what news they brought.

He said, 'Yes, Oh Sultan, we travelled for a long time until there appeared in the open sea a river with a powerful current…the other ships went on ahead, but when they reached that place, they did not return and no more was seen of them…As for me, I went about at once and did not enter the river.'

The Sultan got ready 2,000 ships, 1,000 for himself and the men whom he took with him, and 1,000 for water and provisions. He left me to deputise for him and embarked on the Atlantic Ocean with his men. That was the last we saw of him and all those who were with him.

And so, I became king in my own right."
Mansa Musa, talking to Syrian scholar Al-Umari.

I also recommend checking out the PBS documentary THe conquestidors,because it clarifies quite a bit also. In Brazil there exist a species of plantins called Musa X. What is the only explanatory reason that has the name it does. You makie the judgement,but I am convinced. Not bad for a skeptic of Afrocentrism