Ancient Ghana: The Land of Gold
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ISBN | : 9780780755727 |
Author | : Philip Koslow |
Publisher | : Chelsea House Pub |
Total Pages | : 63 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780791031261 |
Discusses the settlement of West Africa, the spread of Islam, the establishment of the gold trade, and the rise, civilization, and fall of the Soninke states known as Ghana
Author | : David C. Conrad |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 1604131640 |
Explores empires of medieval west Africa.
Author | : Patricia McKissack |
Publisher | : Square Fish |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2016-03-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1250113512 |
For more than a thousand years, from A.D. 500 to 1700, the medieval kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay grew rich on the gold, salt, and slave trade that stretched across Africa. Scraping away hundreds of years of ignorance, prejudice, and mythology, award-winnnig authors Patricia and Fredrick McKissack reveal the glory of these forgotten empires while inviting us to share in the inspiring process of historical recovery that is taking place today.
Author | : Robert Z. Cohen |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2013-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1477718826 |
The empire of Ghana was a wealthy trading empire in West Africa located south of the Sahara Desert. Made up of a federation of the Soninke people, its richest historical record spans from about 750 until 1076 CE, due to the writings of Arab travelers and geographers from that period. The author explains what we know about this mysterious and fascinating empire, whose main city Kumbi Saleh was a link on the Saharan trade routes. Readers learn about the traditions, beliefs, and lifestyle of the Soninke and other indigenous peoples, as well as the effects of contact with Islam.
Author | : Nehemia Levtzion |
Publisher | : Holmes & Meier Publishers |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9780841904323 |
Author | : Holly Littlefield |
Publisher | : Millbrook Press |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2009-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0761357971 |
What color is Ghana? It's brown like cocoa beans, blue like Lake Volta, and orange like the background threads in the Kyeretwie Kente Cloth pattern. Get to know Ghana in this beautifully illustrated introduction to a land once known as the Gold Coast.
Author | : Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1992-11-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520066984 |
"The book first places Africa in the context of world history at the opening of the seventh century, before examining the general impact of Islamic penetration, the continuing expansion of the Bantu-speaking peoples, and the growth of civilizations in the Sudanic zones of West Africa"--Back cover.
Author | : Marq De Villiers |
Publisher | : McClelland & Stewart |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2012-11-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1551992779 |
The first book for general readers about the storied past of one of the world’s most fabled cities. Timbuktu — the name still evokes an exotic, faraway place, even though the city’s glory days are long gone. Unspooling its history and legends, resolving myth with reality, Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle have captured the splendour and decay of one of humankind’s treasures. Founded in the early 1100s by Tuareg nomads who called their camp “Tin Buktu,” it became, within two centuries, a wealthy metropolis and a nexus of the trans-Saharan trade. Salt from the deep Sahara, gold from Ghana, and money from slave markets made it rich. In part because of its wealth, Timbuktu also became a centre of Islamic learning and religion, boasting impressive schools and libraries that attracted scholars from Alexandria, Baghdad, Mecca, and Marrakech. The arts flourished, and Timbuktu gained near-mythic stature around the world, capturing the imagination of outsiders and ultimately attracting the attention of hostile sovereigns who sacked the city three times and plundered it half a dozen more. The ancient city was invaded by a Moroccan army in 1600, beginning its long decline; since then, it has been seized by Tuareg nomads and a variety of jihadists, in addition to enduring a terrible earthquake, several epidemics, and numerous famines. Perhaps no other city in the world has been as golden — and as deeply tarnished — as Timbuktu. Using sources dating deep into Timbuktu’s fabled past, alongside interviews with Tuareg nomads and city residents and officials today, de Villiers and Hirtle have produced a spectacular portrait that brings the city back to life.
Author | : Lauren Coyle Rosen |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0520343336 |
Fires of Gold is a powerful ethnography of the often shrouded cultural, legal, political, and spiritual forces governing the gold mining industry in Ghana, one of Africa's most celebrated democracies. Lauren Coyle Rosen argues that significant sources of power have arisen outside of the formal legal system to police, adjudicate, and navigate conflict in this theater of violence, destruction, and rebirth. These authorities, or shadow sovereigns, include the transnational mining company, collectivized artisanal miners, civil society advocacy groups, and significant religious figures and spiritual forces from African, Islamic, and Christian traditions. Often more salient than official bodies of government, the shadow sovereigns reveal a reconstitution of sovereign power--one that, in many ways, is generated by hidden dimensions of the legal system. Coyle Rosen also contends that spiritual forces are central in anchoring and animating shadow sovereigns as well as key forms of legal authority, economic value, and political contestation. This innovative book illuminates how the crucible of gold, itself governed by spirits, serves as a critical site for embodied struggles over the realignment of the classical philosophical triad: the city, the soul, and the sacred.