Books On African History

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Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart 3.98 avg rating β€” 11,890 ratings
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The Destruction of Black Civilization
The Destruction of Black Civilization 4.46 avg rating β€” 2,108 ratings
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The Kraals of Ulundi: A Novel of the Zulu War
The Kraals of Ulundi: A Novel of the Zulu War 4.48 avg rating β€” 33 ratings
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"The Shining Ones"
"The Shining Ones" really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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The Keys of Egypt: The Race to Crack the Hieroglyph Code
The Keys of Egypt: The Race to Crack the Hieroglyph Code 4.01 avg rating β€” 434 ratings
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They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America 4.47 avg rating β€” 2,737 ratings
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Zulu Rising: The Epic Story of iSandlwana and Rorke's Drift
Zulu Rising: The Epic Story of iSandlwana and Rorke's Drift 4.30 avg rating β€” 309 ratings
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A History of Ethiopia
A History of Ethiopia 3.54 avg rating β€” 226 ratings
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The Emperor: Downfall of An Autocrat
The Emperor: Downfall of An Autocrat 4.08 avg rating β€” 8,968 ratings
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In Ethiopia with a Mule
In Ethiopia with a Mule 3.95 avg rating β€” 462 ratings
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Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds (Story of Elsa, #1)
Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds (Story of Elsa, #1) 4.16 avg rating β€” 33,673 ratings
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Black Man of the Nile
Black Man of the Nile 4.51 avg rating β€” 237 ratings
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Worlds Great Men of Color
Worlds Great Men of Color 4.66 avg rating β€” 438 ratings
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives 4.36 avg rating β€” 14,151 ratings
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The Sirius Connection
The Sirius Connection 3.75 avg rating β€” 59 ratings
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Redeeming the Past: My Journey from Freedom Fighter to Healer
Redeeming the Past: My Journey from Freedom Fighter to Healer 3.96 avg rating β€” 55 ratings
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Memoirs of a Prisoner of War in Shewa (March 1896 - January 1897)
Memoirs of a Prisoner of War in Shewa (March 1896 - January 1897) 4.20 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
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Desta: To Whom the Lions Bow (Desta, #3)
Desta: To Whom the Lions Bow (Desta, #3) 4.25 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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When We Ruled: The Ancient and Medieval History of Black Civilisations
When We Ruled: The Ancient and Medieval History of Black Civilisations 4.41 avg rating β€” 205 ratings
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The First Americans Were Africans: Revisited
The First Americans Were Africans: Revisited 4.49 avg rating β€” 72 ratings
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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts 3.49 avg rating β€” 12,189 ratings
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A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1991
A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1991 3.93 avg rating β€” 139 ratings
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Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth
Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth 3.60 avg rating β€” 643 ratings
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History of Africa
History of Africa 3.76 avg rating β€” 322 ratings
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The Lost Cities of Africa
The Lost Cities of Africa 3.95 avg rating β€” 115 ratings
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Italy's War for a Desert: Being Some Experiences of a War-Correspondent with the Italians in Tripoli (1913)
Italy's War for a Desert: Being Some Experiences of a War-Correspondent with the Italians in Tripoli (1913) 4.25 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
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The Quest for Socialist Utopia: The Ethiopian Student Movement, c. 1960-1974 (Eastern Africa Series, 33)
The Quest for Socialist Utopia: The Ethiopian Student Movement, c. 1960-1974 (Eastern Africa Series, 33) 4.40 avg rating β€” 20 ratings
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River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile 3.84 avg rating β€” 16,069 ratings
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An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence 4.03 avg rating β€” 1,645 ratings
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Frontiers: The Epic of South Africa's Creation and the Tragedy of the Xhosa People
Frontiers: The Epic of South Africa's Creation and the Tragedy of the Xhosa People 4.29 avg rating β€” 106 ratings
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Ancient Egypt: Its Culture and History
Ancient Egypt: Its Culture and History 3.57 avg rating β€” 51 ratings
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Layers of Time: A History of Ethiopia
Layers of Time: A History of Ethiopia 3.73 avg rating β€” 41 ratings
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Ladysmith
Ladysmith 3.44 avg rating β€” 256 ratings
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Frontiers: The Epic of South Africa's Creation and the Tragedy of the Xhosa People
Frontiers: The Epic of South Africa's Creation and the Tragedy of the Xhosa People 4.29 avg rating β€” 106 ratings
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Everyday Life in an Early West African Empire
Everyday Life in an Early West African Empire 3.25 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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The Tutankhamun Deception: The True Story of the Mummy's Curse
The Tutankhamun Deception: The True Story of the Mummy's Curse 3.34 avg rating β€” 137 ratings
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Ancient Future
Ancient Future 4.47 avg rating β€” 186 ratings
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Pioneers Of Change In Ethiopia: The Reformist Intellectuals of the Early Twentieth Century
Pioneers Of Change In Ethiopia: The Reformist Intellectuals of the Early Twentieth Century 4.42 avg rating β€” 26 ratings
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The African Genius
The African Genius 3.82 avg rating β€” 40 ratings
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Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age
Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age 3.51 avg rating β€” 1,527 ratings
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The Penguin Atlas of African History
The Penguin Atlas of African History 3.74 avg rating β€” 141 ratings
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The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery 4.41 avg rating β€” 51 ratings
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The White Nile
The White Nile 4.12 avg rating β€” 1,441 ratings
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Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt
Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt 4.19 avg rating β€” 465 ratings
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The Church Struggle in South Africa
The Church Struggle in South Africa 3.83 avg rating β€” 24 ratings
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The Africa House: The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream
The Africa House: The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream 4.02 avg rating β€” 833 ratings
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The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 4.15 avg rating β€” 2,648 ratings
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Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt
Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt 4.19 avg rating β€” 465 ratings
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The Chains of Heaven: An Ethiopian Romance
The Chains of Heaven: An Ethiopian Romance 3.79 avg rating β€” 111 ratings
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We Are Not JUST Africans :
We Are Not JUST Africans : 3.69 avg rating β€” 13 ratings
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African Kingdoms
African Kingdoms 3.83 avg rating β€” 71 ratings
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Living Man from Africa: Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa Chief and Missionary, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century South Africa
Living Man from Africa: Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa Chief and Missionary, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century South Africa 4.20 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
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The Washing of the Spears: The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and Its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879
The Washing of the Spears: The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and Its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879 4.24 avg rating β€” 988 ratings
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Chronicle of The Pharaohs
Chronicle of The Pharaohs 4.21 avg rating β€” 391 ratings
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The Native School that caused all the trouble
The Native School that caused all the trouble 4.50 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
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Desert Royal
Desert Royal really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 8,760 ratings
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Intellectual Life and Legacy of Timbuktu
Intellectual Life and Legacy of Timbuktu 4.19 avg rating β€” 31 ratings
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Great Zimbabwe: The History and Legacy of the Medieval Kingdom of Zimbabwe’s Capital
Great Zimbabwe: The History and Legacy of the Medieval Kingdom of Zimbabwe’s Capital 3.67 avg rating β€” 21 ratings
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There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra 4.03 avg rating β€” 2,726 ratings
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Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali 3.65 avg rating β€” 2,711 ratings
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The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt 3.88 avg rating β€” 128 ratings
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Opening Men's Eyes
Opening Men's Eyes really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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The Girl Who Married a Lion and Other Tales from Africa
The Girl Who Married a Lion and Other Tales from Africa 3.47 avg rating β€” 2,195 ratings
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Exiled Egyptians: The Heart of Africa
Exiled Egyptians: The Heart of Africa 3.95 avg rating β€” 21 ratings
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The Kongo Kingdom: The Origins, Dynamics and Cosmopolitan Culture of an African Polity
The Kongo Kingdom: The Origins, Dynamics and Cosmopolitan Culture of an African Polity really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
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African History for Beginners
African History for Beginners
by: Herb Boyd
3.38 avg rating β€” 39 ratings
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Lost Trails of the Transvaal
Lost Trails of the Transvaal 3.90 avg rating β€” 20 ratings
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The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt
The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt 4.24 avg rating β€” 690 ratings
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The discarded people: An account of African resettlement in South Africa
The discarded people: An account of African resettlement in South Africa 3.17 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness
Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness 3.80 avg rating β€” 1,016 ratings
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Kingdoms of the Yoruba
Kingdoms of the Yoruba 3.87 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
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Congo: The Epic History of a People
Congo: The Epic History of a People 4.39 avg rating β€” 8,070 ratings
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The great Boer war
The great Boer war 4.13 avg rating β€” 561 ratings
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The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt
The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt 4.33 avg rating β€” 258 ratings
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African Initiatives in Healing Ministry
African Initiatives in Healing Ministry 4.50 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
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Cameroon with Egbert
Cameroon with Egbert 3.92 avg rating β€” 166 ratings
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The Art of Benin
The Art of Benin 3.44 avg rating β€” 9 ratings
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Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History 4.04 avg rating β€” 1,199 ratings
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Dark Safari: The Life Behind the Legend of Henry Morton Stanley
Dark Safari: The Life Behind the Legend of Henry Morton Stanley 3.83 avg rating β€” 84 ratings
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Ancient Egypt: An Illustrated Reference to the Myths, Religions, Pyramids and Temples of the Land of the Pharaohs
Ancient Egypt: An Illustrated Reference to the Myths, Religions, Pyramids and Temples of the Land of the Pharaohs 4.18 avg rating β€” 684 ratings
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William Chapman: Reminiscences
William Chapman: Reminiscences 3.33 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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Muddling through in Madagascar
Muddling through in Madagascar 3.82 avg rating β€” 253 ratings
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The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years of African Women
The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years of African Women 4.22 avg rating β€” 115 ratings
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Hill of Destiny The Life and Times of Moshesh, Founder of the Basotho
Hill of Destiny The Life and Times of Moshesh, Founder of the Basotho 3.82 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
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The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt
The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt
by: Ian Shaw
4.04 avg rating β€” 1,547 ratings
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Church versus state in South Africa: The case of the Christian Institute
Church versus state in South Africa: The case of the Christian Institute 4.67 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe
The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe 3.89 avg rating β€” 303 ratings
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Days of emperor and clown;: The Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936, (Crossroads of world history series)
Days of emperor and clown;: The Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936, (Crossroads of world history series) 3.87 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
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To the banks of the Zambezi
To the banks of the Zambezi 4.43 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt
The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt
by: Ian Shaw
4.04 avg rating β€” 1,547 ratings
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African Europeans: An Untold History
African Europeans: An Untold History 3.78 avg rating β€” 705 ratings
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Fall of the Asante Empire: The Hundred-Year War for Africa's Gold Coast
Fall of the Asante Empire: The Hundred-Year War for Africa's Gold Coast 3.74 avg rating β€” 62 ratings
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Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece 4.24 avg rating β€” 16,184 ratings
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Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat
Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat 4.13 avg rating β€” 158 ratings
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Evil Days: Thirty Years of War and Famine in Ethiopia
Evil Days: Thirty Years of War and Famine in Ethiopia really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
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The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind
The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind 3.90 avg rating β€” 2,205 ratings
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Cult of the Cat (Art and Imagination Series)
Cult of the Cat (Art and Imagination Series) 3.83 avg rating β€” 18 ratings
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Ancient Africa: A Global History, to 300 CE
Ancient Africa: A Global History, to 300 CE 3.68 avg rating β€” 91 ratings
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Amazons of Black Sparta : The Women Warriors of Dahomey
Amazons of Black Sparta : The Women Warriors of Dahomey 3.70 avg rating β€” 121 ratings
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The Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant
The Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant 3.91 avg rating β€” 2,891 ratings
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