An incredible photography book!!!! Hoberman's photos of the landscape, widelife, architecture, and people do justice to the beauty of Namibia. Having traveled through Namibia, I wanted to find a photography book which captures the beauty of the sights I saw. This is the book.

A wonderful book that use page shapes to help define the environment. My two year old son loves to look at all the differnet animals, big and small, and follow Nanta's adventure. I first bought this book in Kenya and am happy to know that it is available to others through Amazon.com

I am a starving college student at UCLA, so of course I don't have the [amount of money] for this book, but Professor Thomas is very articulate and intelligent. I'm in his seminar about Africa in a global context and his classes have been extremely relevant and inspiring. Buy his book!

It's too bad that this timeless work, still surprisingly fresh despite its 1956 publication, is out of print. In it Hodgkin, a pioneer of African Studies in the UK, identifies the primary forces shaping politics in late colonial Africa: peasants, urban workers and rising educated intellectuals among others. His optimism over the approach of freedom remains refreshing. It loses half a star in its rating because Hodgkin failed to anticipate the negative effect of the military and security forces after independence, but then so did most other contemporary observers....Hodgkin, a peer of Basil Davidson, was less prolific but more scholarly than Davidson, and just as readable. For some very acute insights on the early decades of the post-independence era, don't miss the outstanding article by Michael Crowder, "Whose Dream Was It Anyway? Twenty Five Years of African Independence," AFRICAN AFFAIRS (1987), 7-24.

I saw this book at the home of an artist friend once. These portraits of East African women and their exquisitely painted homes are rare gems indeed. What I also appreciate about this work is that photographer Margaret Courtney-Clarke lavishes such attention and respect to the other cultural aspects of these beautiful people that she could be labeled a sociologist as well.

The publisher, Rizzoli, sows an appropriately generous amount of quality into this book; even the paper is noticeably superior.

My only question is, when will this magnificent work be made available again? I've had it on order at several stores for well over a year now!

This book was great! My name is Paola, and I am in 6th grade. This month (January) my class had 3 weeks to do a report on any Egyptian Leader. I picked Nefertiti! I found this book, "Nefertiti; Mystery Queen", and it was the formula to all my sources! I needed to write my report in first-person point-of-view, and this book gave me the right idea on how I should write my report. The pictures in it also helped me think of props I could use for my report. This book is great, I recommend it! (Oh, by the way, my report is due this week! Can't wait for my grade!)

The Art of Africa NEGRO ART From the Institute of Ethnography, Leningrad with text by Dmitry Olderogge, photography by Werner Forman. List of Contents: Introduction - Prehistoric Africa - Benin Art - Notes on the Plates - Bibliography - Map of Africa - Plates.
©1969 PUBL: Paul Hamlyn, London. Dimensions (in inches): 9.5 x 11.0. Includes 168 plates in colour and black/white.
...This text refers to an out of print or unavailable Hard Cover edition of this title.

Mandela has made us as an African people proud. The book was a good revies of the S. African struggle and Mandela's part in it.
A must read for all Africans.

Captain William Snelgrave's "New Account" is the eye-witness narrative of an early eighteenth century British sea captain who spent much of his career as a slave trader between Africa's Guinea coast and the West Indies. The book provides a fascinating inside view of the African side of the slave trade. Snelgrave was the first European visitor of the crafty and powerful King of Dahomey who was waging a war of conquest against his African neighbors. Snelgrave paints a graphic portrait of the villages he visits, the societies of the various kingdoms (the cultures were quite different), the rituals including widespread human sacrifice, and of course the very competative and mercantile-based slave trade. Most of the slaves of this region were the captives of the interminable wars and intrigues between the kingdoms. Malefactors of a given tribe were also enslaved, but were usually kept for a kind of indentured servitude at home rather than being sold to the white slave traders. Snelgrave set down many amazing first-hand vignettes, including the time, while the guest of a chieftain, he witnessed a mass human sacrifice. When the villagers started to sacrifice a infant boy, Snelgrave could stand it no more, and asked the chieftain to desist. At grave risk to himself and his men, Snelgrave took up arms and stated clearly that he would not allow this sacrifice to take place. The chief reluctantly sold the boy to Snelgrave. When he brought the child aboard his ship, he was witness to a touching reunion between the boy and one of the female slaves aboard his ship, who turned out to be the boy's mother. Later, at Barbadoes, Snelgrave purchased the boy and his mother out of his personal funds and granted them their freedom. The biographical information about the subtle King of Dahomey and his conquests and strategies make for very interesting reading. For all of his fierceness and policy, this redoubtable king wilted in the face of the periodic attacks of the people of the Loes from beyond the great eastern lake. The Loes warriors came mounted on horses, and the Dahomeys did not know how to contend with them. The interior of Africa was very mysterious to Snelgrave and his associates. The Europeans were not allowed to penetrate more than 50 miles into the interior, and only rumors and legends reached them about these mysterious lands. The last third of the book contains the spellbinding account of Snelgrave's capture by pirates. His ship was taken by the pirate Cocklyn off the coast of Africa. The account of his captivity among the bloodthirsty, foulmouthed crew is harrowing. The drunken quartermaster had a grudge against Snelgrave for trying to rally his crew to fight off the pirates during the capture, and made at least three attempts to murder Snelgrave, most of which were foiled by his own inebrity or the chance intercession of other pirates who were better disposed toward Snelgrave. Another of the pirate captains, Davis, sailed away from Cocklyn's ship, with Davis later being killed by the Portugese while visiting one of their African colonies. The man who took over Davis' ship was none other than the infamous Bartholomew Roberts, one of history's more renowned pirates. This book is captivating, not only telling a compelling true action story, but revealing history from the perspective of one who witnessed it first hand.

Superb. In a single volume, the writer and the photographer present stories and images that break the heart and then help put it back together again. They offer a rare look at Africa--a telling mix of broad stroke historical analysis and intimate personal portraits. Reading it, I met people who have endured extraordinary struggles--warfare, famine, political assault. I also encountered individuals involved in grass roots efforts to claim their human rights and rebuild their communities and their nations in the twin wakes of colonial and post-colonial devastations. Throughout, I was pulled by the lively urgency of Robert Press' prose--a tone suggesting that the author is not only well-acquainted with his subject, but deeply concerned about Africa and its peoples. That quality is reinforced by Betty Press' striking, and sometimes haunting, photographs. While this book is well equipped to pass muster with scholars and long-time Africa watchers/commentators, it offers much for a more general public that may be struggling to sort through the tangle of news coming from the continent.