Presents a thorough overview of ancient African civilization from the world's oldest monarchy in Qustul to the incredible civilization of Egypt.

A lost history revealing that, for centuries, Christianity's center was actually in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, with significant communities extending as far as China.

Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth-century Age of Discovery and the maritime connection it established between West and East, others the accidental unearthing of the "New World." Still others point to the development of the scientific method, or the spread of Judeo-Christian beliefs, and so on, ad infinitum. The history of Africa, by contrast, has long been...

Set against the backdrop of the race to exploit Africa by the colonial powers, a story of courage and adventure brings to life the rivalry between two enemies--a decorated soldier and a young aristocrat/Army officer--as they set out to find the mysterious headwaters of the Nile River. For millennia the location of the Nile River's headwaters was shrouded in mystery. Expeditions to find it were stymied by a giant labyrinthine swamp. In the 19th century...

Jeffers' book chronicles Theodore Roosevelt's lifelong quests and expeditions-thrilling and often dangerous journeys that produced much important scientific research and took him across North America, South America, and Africa.

"A Nigerian storyteller explores the continent of Africa country by country: its geography, peoples, animals, history, resources, and cultural diversity. The book is divided into five distinct sections--South, East, West, Central, and North--and each country is showcased on its own bright, energetic page brimming with friendly facts on science, industry, food, sports, music, wildlife, landscape features, even snippets of local languages"--

"Students will discover the ancient markets of Africa by exploring Zanzibar, the ancient Swahili commercial hub off the coast of Tanzania that helped feed the West's demand for ivory and spices, and investigating the bustling port town of Lamu, an island off the Kenyan coast. Then it's off to Djenné in the heart of Mali, where, in this historic center of business, politics and art, merchants and their customers continue to exchange goods and opinions"--Container....

"Students will gain a deeper understandng of the African slave trade, one of the great tragedies of world history, while traveling to the royal palaces at Abomey, built with the wealth obtained from trafficking in human beings, and the slave fortresses in Accra, the site of holding cells for enslaved Africans awaiting transportation to the Americas. In South Africa, investigate the country's harsh colonial past at Robben Island, the infamous political...