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The Pilgrim's Progress

John Bunyan

1678 ★ 4.3

First Steps in Egyptian

E. A. Wallis Budge

1895

Moderne Sprachforschung in Afrika

Carl Meinhof

1915

Black Africa

Vladimír Klíma, K.F. Ruzicka, P. Zima et al.

1976

Cracking codes

Parkinson, Richard, R. B. Parkinson

1999

Storytelling in Northern Zambia

Robert Cancel

2013

Africanderisms

Charles Pettman

1913

Furaha Means Happy: A Book of Swahili Words

Ken Wilson-Max

2000

As they say in Zanzibar

David Crystal

2006

Swahili

Martin Benjamin, Lonely Planet Phrasebooks

2005

An international bibliography of African lexicons

Melvin K. Hendrix

1982

Amharic-English/English-Amharic Dictionary

Ahmed., Ahmed Zekaria, A. Zekaria

1997

The power of Babel

Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui, Alamin M. Mazrui

1998

Historical linguistics and the comparative study of African languages

Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal

2011

Language and colonial power

Johannes Fabian

1986

The Eẇe-speaking peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa

Alfred Burdon Ellis

1890

Understanding African American Rhetoric

R. Jackson Ii

2003

Dinka vowel system

Job Malou

1988

The Yoruba-speaking peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa

Alfred Burdon Ellis

1894

Africanisms in Afro-American language varieties

Salikoko S. Mufwene

1993

Pulaar-English/English-Pulaar

Mamadou Ousmane Niang, Niang

1997

Language in Africa

Edgar A. Gregersen

1977

The languages of Africa

Joseph Harold Greenberg

1963

Jambo means hello

Muriel L. Feelings

1974

Bemba, Bemba-English, English-Bemba

E. Hoch

1998

Beyond Ebonics

John Baugh

2000

Signs of diaspora/diaspora of signs

Grey Gundaker

1998

Swahili phrase book & dictionary

Berlitz Publishing Company, Berlitz

1986

The Mission Song

John le Carré

2006 ★ 4.0

Liberia

Harry Hamilton Johnston

1906

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