A new translation ''The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman 9780691164212, 0691164215

The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman 9780691164212, 9781400874149

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The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman 9781400874149

This is the first English translation of the earliest-known book-length biography of an African woman, and one of the fe

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The Life of Walatta-Petros: A Seventeenth-Century Biography of an African Woman, Concise Edition 9780691188898, 9780691182919

Translated into English here for the first time, The Life of Walatta-Petros (1672) tells the story of an Ethiopian saint

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The Biography of Empress Menen Asfaw: The Mother of the Ethiopian Nation 0985270306, 9780985270308

Over the years little has been written about the remarkable life of Empress Menen Asfaw (April 3, 1891-February 15, 1962

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Mother of the Saviour and Our Interior Life [1.0] 9781618904416

Written by a pre-eminent authority, with brevity, economy and absence of novelty, speculation or merely "metaphoric

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Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman 9780674043596

This is the story of the life of Nisa, a member of the !Kung tribe of hunter-gatherers from southern Africa's Kalah

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The Earth: A Biography of Life: The Story of Life On Our Planet through 47 Incredible Organisms 9781529413991, 9781529413984

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Conversations in the house of life: a new translation of the ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth

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A Respectable Woman: The Public Roles of African American Women in 19th-Century New York 9780814785188

In the nineteenth century, New York City underwent a tremendous demographic transformation driven by European immigratio

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Our Own Way in This Part of the World: Biography of an African Community, Culture, and Nation 9781478005636

Kwasi Konadu centers the life of Ghanaian healer, spiritual leader, and farmer Kofi Dᴐnkᴐ (1913–1995) to tell the biogra

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