Contents: Rufaa ya kiko (L'Orch. Dar International) (5:15) -- Hasara ya moto (Afro 70) (4:13) -- Rose atieno (Kauma Boys Band) (4:32) -- Nasalaki nini (Super Mambo Jazz Band "69") (4:53) -- Denise (Maquis Du Zaire) (5:26) -- Anyanga (Victoria Jazz Band) (5:05) -- Nakupenda sana (Orchestre Conga Internationale) (4:40) -- Rudi nyumbani (L'Orch. Dar International) (6:39) -- Taabu ya awendo (The Golden Kings...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ARMPapa Wemba.
Contents: Yolele -- Mandola -- Show me the way -- Fa fa fa fa fa (sad song) -- Rail on -- Shofele -- Image -- Sala keba = Be careful -- Awa y' okeyi = If you go away -- Epelo -- Ah ouais = Oh yes.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Real World Gold 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN WEMSummary: Pampered African Prince Akeem is a rebel who is against an arranged marriage and heads to Queens, New York to find a new bride. His regal father agrees to allow the prince 40 days to roam the U.S., sending the prince's faithful retainer Semmi along to make sure nothing untoward happens. To avoid fortune hunters, Prince Akeem conceals his true identity and gets a "regular" guy job at a fast-food...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Follows the journey of Frodo Baggins and his companions as they travel through Middle Earth towards Mount Doom in the quest to finally destroy the one ring.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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2 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY LORBrahim, Aziza
Contents: Cuatro proverbios -- Sahari -- Hada jil -- Lmanfa -- Mujayam -- Leil -- Masaa tufulati -- Ard el hub -- Las huellas -- Ahlami.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/WORLDBEAT BRAGurnah, Abdulrazak
Summary: The adventures of a 12-year-old African boy sold into slavery by his father to pay off a debt. The setting is East Africa, a place of trade caravans, tribal warfare and the beginnings of European colonization.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 1994
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Place a hold to request this item.Ennanga Vision (Musical group)
Summary: "Reconstructed Royal Court music from the forgotten Kindoms of Uganda. Reconstructed electronic wedding music, fluorescent pink African Pop, Crunched 8-bit drum machines and a 3m long monster xylophone... some of the sounds of Ennanga Vision" -- back cover package.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ENNMahlathini.
Contents: Mbaqanga (4:27) -- Vuya (4:11) -- Bayeza (4:39) -- Umasihlalisane (4:54) -- Jive motella (3:22) -- Thonthodi (3:53) -- Hayi kabi (5:38) -- Stop crying (4:01) -- Bon jour (4:18) -- Josefa (3:43) -- Noluthando (4:29) -- Kwa makhutha (3:57).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve World 1992
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN MAHFinkel, Michael.
Summary: Follows the experiences of a journalist who, after fabricating part of a story and losing his job, was mistaken for a murderer and fled to Cancun, where he lived under an assumed identity and forged a complex relationship with the real killer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 FINSummary: "From African salsa to Cuban son, Afro-Latin Party is a non-stop celebration of the Latin sounds heard in nightclubs from Dakar to Havana"--container.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Putumayo World Music 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN PUTSummary: Before entering a prestigious American university, Gabriel decides to travel the world for one year, his backpack full of dreams. After ten months on the road, he arrives in Kenya where he is joined by his girlfriend. But discovering Africa as a tourist is not enough for Gabriel. He decides to go deeper, leaving on his own for a journey across countries, new friendships and raw emotions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GABShah, Anup
Summary: Color photographs of wild animals taken from hidden cameras on the ground in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania and the Maasai Mara Natural Reserve in Kenya to capture the animals in their natural environment without the presence of human beings influencing their behavior.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2012
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779 SHAMukwege, Denis
Summary: "From Nobel laureate, world-renowned doctor, and noted human rights activist Dr. Denis Mukwege comes an inspiring clarion call-to-action to confront the scourge of sexual violence and better learn from women's resilience, strength, and power. At the heart of Dr. Mukwege's message will be the voices of the many women he has worked with over the years. Dr. Mukwege will use individual cases to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.82 MUKCalloway, Colin G. (Colin Gordon)
Summary: " ... A large number of Native leaders were well acquainted with city life. In fact, over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries they were in town often, regularly traveling to Albany, Boston, Charleston, Philadelphia, Montreal, Quebec, New York and New Orleans -- primarly to conduct diplomatic or trade business, but often from a sense of curiosity and adventure. Some were even...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.2 CALVarious artists
Contents: A side: Kotiya zolo te (Bowane) -- Mam'alobi na balayo (Bowane) -- Tembe na tembe (Liengo) -- Noko akomi mobali (Adikwa) -- Tika lofundu (Kalima Pierre) -- Menagere (Lisanga Pauline) -- Ah, ngai nzambe (Luyeye Gaston) -- Odjali na mouchoir? (Kitenge) -- Belito (Amba Josephine) -- Margarine fina (Tino Mab) -- Nyekese (De Wayon) -- Angelique (Luyeye Gaston) -- Nyokuma (Bowane) -- Prince Baudouin...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Crammed Discs 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ROOO'Malley, Padraig.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.0609 OMABarnes, Harper
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.389 BARAlfieri, Annamaria
Summary: It s 1911, and young Vera McIntosh is in love and out of place. Pale and Scottish, a missionary s daughter, she no longer fits in with the Kikuyu with whom she grew up. But she is too African, too native to be welcomed by Kenya s ex-pat community. It s only in Justin Tolliver s arms that Vera feels truly at home. Tolliver, too, is neither fish nor fowl. True, he s the son of an English earl,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Felony & Mayhem Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALFPatterson, J. H. (John Henry)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.296 PATTison, Ari
Summary: When brothers Max and Jay help a classmate in trouble, they struggle with the consequences of their violent actions and worry they may be more like their abusive father than they thought, so the brothers turn to their Bribri roots to find their way forward.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TISGodwin, Peter
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.9105 GODTouré, Vieux Farka
Contents: Sokosondou -- Aigna (feat. Derek Trucks) -- All the same -- Ali -- Lakkal (Watch out) (feat. Eric Krasno) -- Wonda guay -- The secret (feat. Ali Farka Toure) -- Borei -- Sankare diadje -- Gido (feat. John Scofield) -- Amana quai -- Touri.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Six Degrees 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN TOUBerkowitz, Leah Rachel
Summary: "A boy and his mom move to the city shortly before Sukkot and need to figure out where to build a sukkah and how to make new holiday traditions in an unfamiliar place"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Apples & Honey Press, an imprint of Behrman House Publishers 2023