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Language: en
Pages: 312
Pages: 312
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-16 - Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Language: en
Pages: 335
Pages: 335
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-11-15 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
A unique and forward-thinking book that sheds new light on the origins, dynamics, and cosmopolitan culture of the Kongo Kingdom from a cross-disciplinary perspe
Language: en
Pages: 307
Pages: 307
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
This groundbreaking volume examines the extraordinary artistic and cultural traditions of the African region known as the western Sahel, a vast area on the sout
Language: en
Pages: 651
Pages: 651
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-21 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
By the time the “Scramble for Africa” among European colonial powers began in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for ce
Language: en
Pages: 328
Pages: 328
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-19 - Publisher: UNC Press Books
Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in the Atlantic w