OK so its my Dad's Birthday in a couple weeks and he's very interested in african history - he has a lot of books about modern history (post-colonialism) but I want to get him a really nice book about the Ancient Civilizations in Africa, Kush, Songhai, Mali etc, preferably all in one book. But every search I do just gives my information about Egypt!!

Does anyone know of any bookshops online or IRL (south london) that I could go to - or, even better, does anyone have a book that they could recommend to me - searching for a specific title may make my life easier.

Thanx

http://www.blackchat.co.uk/theblackf...m37/17839.html

Check the book recomendention at the bottom of the thread.

Also, there is The Destruction of Black Civilisations by Chancellor William...i beleive this book and the one recomended by Aryek should keep your dad very busy for a long while.niceone.gif

I got this information from a Nuwaubian website called www.outformation.co.uk

p.s the Islington bookshop is called All Eyes on Egypt



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this is always a good gift

wow - u guys aren't playing - those were some quick responses - so thank you!!

DandJ - that book looks like a pretty good coffee table book so I might look into that as well as something more carryable on the train.

Judge J - i'll be on my way to Brixton quicktime to check out those bookshops, and maybe islington too as thats down the road from my uni. Thanx for the heads up!

Mezmerized - i checked out the other thread - didnt even know it existed so nxt time i'll actually use the search function! After plenty googling i found the book that was suggested - also looks pretty good.

Thank god I now have a choice!

they just released paperback version of the africana encyclopedia..but it is a pretty big book.....not really train reading material



hold tight, have some other suggestions to come later....

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The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali and Songhay. Life in Medieval Africa.



http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080...e&n=283155



I found that one quite decent.

YEMANJA
A Window to Afrika
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Something I've always looked for are visuals of these civilizations. Reconstructed images etc etc. I've seen a few but it'd be so cool to have drawings along with photos of what they look like now.... I won't go into being pro African Rennissance and how the 'ruins' should be reconstucted to revive an understanding.

That book store dosen't seem to work btw... the links on the page don't work.

I'd reccomend Credo Mutwas books but although I was impressed cause I hadn't read into Bantu folklore before, I think his stuff could do with a bit of touching up in some places. Some stories seemed shaky, prehaps my westernized mind could belive some of it. Does anyone on here know of any Bantu folklore? If the story of the one eyed child is true, as in is really part of the folklore then its an amazing story that religious people in the west would be afraid of.

I might make a thread and ask about it or something.

Thatsa cool peice of artwork btw honey, do you have a site?

Peace

Rebel-lion posing as The Sphinx

Ok thanx again guys

@ En Sabah Nur, that book really looks like it could be what I wanted - thanx for the amazon link

@MGL - I'll look into the shop in Finsbury Park but a lot of the links on the site arent functional yet - I would love to know when they will be though.

@The Sphinx, I agree totally - I would love to see visualisations of these societies. The closest I've been to africa is southern spain - so I find it really hard to picture the past in my head because the present is based on 2nd hand information.

As for the artwork - I wish I could lay claim to it, but its just a picture that has been on my computer for sometime - I have no idea where I got it from, the file name is soul sista - so try googling it.

Some cool stuff.

The one in your sig is probably her best though.

I've always been on the look out for reconstructed images. There are a few but its the proper ones I'm more intrested in, easy enough to imagine stepped pyramids or the buildings of Timbuctoo butproperlyplanned outreconstucted images are hard to come by.

Plz keep the book reccomendations coming. I wouldn't mind buying a few myself, I've got a small libary starting, ranging from history to parapsycology and philosophy. Up to a good twenty by now.

Keep it rolling plz!

Peace