Summary: In an unidentified French-speaking West African country, chaos reigns as civil war erupts. For the rebels, it's time to banish the 'white material' -- white folk and the trappings of white life. Among these is the Vial coffee plantation inhabited by Maria, her ex-husband Andre, their son Manuel, and his grandfather Bernard, a white family of French origin. Their terrified workers have fled,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WHISummary: The nightmare of war is seen through the eyes of one of its most tragic casualties, a child soldier, in this harrowing vision of innocence lost from Cary Joji Fukunaga. Based on the acclaimed novel by Uzodinma Iweala and starring Idris Elba.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2021
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD BEACopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEAPreston, Richard
Summary: The 2013-2014 Ebola epidemic was the deadliest ever--but the outbreaks continue. Now comes a gripping account of the doctors and scientists fighting to protect us, an urgent wake-up call about the future of emerging viruses--from the #1 bestselling author of The Hot Zone, soon to be a National Geographic original miniseries. This time, Ebola started with a two-year-old child who likely had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5 PREPaul, Miranda
Summary: Plastic bags are cheap and easy to use. But what happens when a bag breaks or is no longer needed? In Njau, Gambia, people simply dropped the bags and went on their way. One plastic bag became two. Then ten. Then a hundred.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CEECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE PAUAttah, Ayesha Harruna
Summary: In 1890s West Africa, when a brutal raid leaves their home in ruins, twin sisters Hassana and Husseina are kidnapped, sold into slavery, and separated, remaining connected through shared dreams of water, but will their fates ever draw them back together?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Lab 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ATTObono, Trifonia Melibea
Summary: "The story of an orphan, Okomo, who lives with her grandmother and dreams of finding her father. She enlists the help of outcasts in the village including a gang of girls. She finds herself falling in love with the gang leader and rebelling against the norms of Fang culture."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feminist Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBOShaffer, Tanya.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966.03 SHAFFER, TANYA SHASummary: Ossei is a strong-willed young man who sets out to rescue his mother when their village is raided. His quest leads him to the stronghold of the dreaded King Adanggaman, an arrogant despot who thrives on the slave trade and uses fierce female warriors to enforce his power. One of these Amazons, herself a former slave, falls in love with Ossei, and they escape to the bush.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ADASearcey, Dionne
Summary: "In 2015, Dionne Searcey was covering the economy for The New York Times, living in Brooklyn with her husband and three young children. Saddled with the demands of a dual-career household and motherhood in an urban setting, her life was in a rut. She decided to pursue a job as the paper's West Africa bureau chief, landing with her family in Dakar, Senegal, where she found their lives turned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEARCEY, DIONNE SEASummary: The remarkable story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a ferocity unlike anything the world has ever seen. Inspired by true events, it follows the emotionally epic journey of General Nanisca as she trains the next generation of recruits and prepares them for battle against an enemy determined to obliterate...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2022
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE WOMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie WomanCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOMContents: Allah l'aake (Kolda, Senegal) -- Sunjata (Tabato, Guinea-Bissau) -- Sinyaro (Brikama, The Gambia) -- Mariama (Kolda) -- Spring waterfall -- Jula faso (Brikama) -- Sunjata (Kolda) -- Lanmbasy dub -- Jula jekereh (Brikama) -- Lambango (Gabu, Guinea-Brissau) -- Samma -- Sorrie (Brikama) -- Yata kaya (Kolda) -- Lambango (Tabato) -- Allah l'aake (Brikama).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ellipsis Arts 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN JALStevens, Stuart.
Summary: Recounts an adventure, by Stevens and a companion, across the wildest part of Africa that includes Cameroon, Lake Chad, Niger, Timbuktu, the Sahara, and ends at the shores of the Mediterranean.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 916.604 STEKaplan, Robert D.
Summary: Robert D. Kaplan now travels from West Africa to Southeast Asia to report on a world of disintegrating nation-states, warring nationalities, metastasizing populations, and dwindling resources. He emerges with a gritty tour de force of travel writing and political journalism. Whether he is walking through a shantytown in the Ivory Coast or a death camp in Cambodia, talking with refugees, border...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.9181 KAPAtinuke
Summary: "One morning after breakfast, Baby's big brother is getting ready to take the basket of bananas all the way to Baba's bungalow in the next village. He'll have to go along the bumpy road, past the baobab trees, birds, and butterflies, and all the way over the bridge. But what he doesn't realize is that his very cute, very curious baby sibling has stowed away on his bicycle"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Tamikrest (Musical group)
Contents: Mawarniha tartit -- Wainan adobat -- Manhouy inerizhan -- War toyed -- Atwitas -- Tanakra -- War tila eridaran -- Ehad wad nadorhan -- Erres hin atouan -- Adoutat salilagh -- Adad osan itabat.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Glitterbeat Records 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN TAMSummary: As the Ebola epidemic threatens to spiral out of control, NOVA reports from the hot zone, where courageous medical teams struggle to cope with a flood of victims, to labs where scientists are racing to test vaccines and find a cure. Surviving Ebola includes chilling firsthand interviews of what it's like to catch and survive this terrible affliction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2014
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SURAbouet, Marguerite
Summary: Collects the adventures of Akissi, a young West African girl who is always getting into trouble.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC ABOBarron, Rena
Summary: Immortal magic, shocking twists, and star-crossed romance collide in the electrifying conclusion to Rena Barron's trilogy. A king with a score to settle. A demon sowing rebellion. A girl who holds the power of the gods. Arrah has sacrificed almost everything in her battle against the Demon King. Now, forced to give up the gift of magic she'd sought for so long, she must decipher the legacy of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BARMoss, Todd.
Summary: Stymied by infighting and turf battles after being appointed director of the new State Department Crisis Reaction unit, Judd Ryker attempts to prove himself during a coup in Mali that becomes a violent maelstrom of dominating personalities and shifting loyalties.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSSummary: Disc 1: The story of a remarkable child who, on the day he is born, embarks on a mission to rid his village of a sorceress. The sorceress has caused the local spring to dry up and has devoured all the men of the village. Based on traditional West African story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Remstar 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KIR1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF KIR
Contents: Dombolo -- Mansa soyari -- Doona -- La dame et ses valises -- Nebao -- Deep in love -- Anisokoma -- Wedding -- Kounani -- Full moon -- I play the kora -- Desert storm.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN AMAContents: Al jbal li dargoug aaaliya / (Compagnie Jellouli & Gdih) (7:45) -- Jraad / (Malouma) (4:42) -- Alkhar dessouf / (Tinariwen) (4:52) -- Hakmet lakdar / (Hasna El Becharia) (5:48) -- Tadzi-out / (Chet Féwet) (6:57) -- Dios mio / (Aziza Brahim) (2:12) -- Bleida / (Nayim Alal) (3:45) -- Id chab / (Mariem Hassan) (3:34) -- Ikruhwaten / (Tartit Ensemble) (3:58) -- Malfa sibori / (Seckou Maïga) (6:10)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: World Music Network 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ROUAtinuke
Summary: From the stellar team of Atinuke and Lauren Tobia comes the third Anna Hibiscus picture book title brimming with all the best-loved Hibiscus family members - and Anna's two brand new baby brothers! Everything is changing for Anna Hibiscus, she's a sister! But - oh dear - everyone is now so busy! Uncle Bizi-Sunday is shopping for the babies, Aunty Joli and Aunty Grace are rocking the babies and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2015