Content tagged with “africa”

There are 5 item(s) tagged with “africa” on this site.

Other tags used by these items: geography, history, fiction, bible

Abyssinia
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Stuff I Looked Up
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“An ancient name for Ethopia, or the Ethiopian Empire or Kingdom, which historically included the present-day country of Eritrea. It existed from the 1200s to the mid-1970s when Haile Selassie died. Ethiopia controlled Eritrea from the 1950s to the 1990s, which is re-gained independence. Not to be…”

Barbary
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Date
May 26, 2024
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262

“This comes from the Latin word barbarus meaning foreign. ‘Barbary’ referred to foreign lands (lands not of ones own). And ‘barbarian’ referred to the people who lived there. The northern coast of Africa was named ‘The Barbary Coast’ by English speakers after attacks from pirates based in Tripoli…”

The Covenant
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
May 23, 2022
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407

“There are ‘epic’ novels, and then there’s this. It’s the history of South Africa, starting in 14,000 BC and ending in 1978. There are 14 chapters, and each chapter handles a different time period. We start about 10,000 years back with cave dwellers wandering the southern part of the continent,…”

Cutting for Stone
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Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
September 21, 2021
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218

“Absolutely stunning novel. I had heard of the book for years. My mother was born in Ethiopia in the 1940s (my grandparents were missionaries from New Zealand), and several people had told me that the story in the novel resembled my mother’s experience there as a child. The book was purchased for me…”

Sheba
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“This is an ancient kingdom thought to exist in the southern Arabia or Eastern Africa. In the Hebrew Bible, Sheba and her queen are mentioned in 1 Kings, Chapter 10: When the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon and his relationship to the Lord, she came to test Solomon with hard…”