Gladyy Casely-Hayford, poet, musician, dramatist, painter and story-teller, was born in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) in 1904 and died there in 1950, though she spent most of her life in Freetown, Sierra Leone and became the cultural luminary of her day. Her place in the cultural history of Sierra Leone and even of Ghana seems to have been lost. This book which is an attempt to remedy that situation and tell her life story.

Showcasing the treasures of Howard University's Moorland Springarn Research Center.

From the heart of the harsh and unforgiving Zambezi Valley, Jeremy's journey starts and leads us on an adventure to search and find the fabled treasure of the last great Chief of the Ndebele people, Lobengula. Losing everything Jeremy goes to South Africa to start a new beginning, a new life. He meets up with an African by the name of David who Jeremy captured in the War, and they begin to smuggle arms in Africa. It is during this time that Jeremy hears the story of the Great Chief Lobengula and his Diamond and Gold treasure, which has never been found by any one. And so the hunt begins to find the treasure. The trail leads us through lies, deception, politics, love and hate. This is Africa, beautiful but harsh and unforgiving. Jeremy's trail leads to the finding of a highly developed people the world never knew about, which lived in the magical granite formations of the Matopas formations. In the end it is love which prevails above all else.

William Brody an Ex-Special Forces Major, is looking for some downtime, after his years of war and missions across Africa and the Middle East. A hard drinking hard living veteran who is looking peace wandering the coast of Africa. All he wants is some R 'n R on a remote tropical Island off the coast of Tanzania, he wants to dive and spearfish in the crystal clear tropical waters. In Brody's second adventure on Pemba Island off Tanzania he is unintentionally entwined in a hunt for some long lost Treasure from an East Indiaman which sank off the coast. He gets involved with a group of Muslim Radicals trying to claim back land rightfully owned by the Sultan of Zanzibar. The Kaya Bombo threaten Brody the nuns and the whole island in this fast paced action adventure series. If you like boats, diving, fishing and fighting then this is a good read for you.

This paperback edition, accompanied by the supplemental video content available on the Gallaudet University Press YouTube channel, presents the first empirical study that verifies Black ASL as a distinct variety of American Sign Language. This volume includes an updated foreword, a new preface that reflects on the impact of this research, and an extended list of references and resources on Black ASL.

Issued in conjunction with the exhibition Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time, held January 26, 2019-July 21, 2019, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.