Art,
Innovation, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Benin
by Ben-Amos, Paula Girshick
The Art of Benin
by Paula Girshick Ben-Amos
Listed under African Art
Benin
Country Study Guide (World Country Study Guide
by USA International Business Publications
The
Benin Kingdom of West Africa (Celebrating the Peoples and Civilizations
of Africa)
by John Peffer-Engels
At
Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England
by Walter Dean Myers
Once there was a little girl--an orphaned African princess--who narrowly
escaped death by human sacrifice in a West African village in 1850. A British
sea captain named Frederick E. Forbes saved her life by talking King Gezo
of Dahomey into giving the girl to Queen Victoria of England as a gift:
"She would be a present from the King of the blacks to the Queen of the
Whites." As impossible as this tale sounds, it is a true one. Award-winning
author Walter Dean Myers--piecing together her story from letters he found
in a rare book and ephemera shop in London--paints a hauntingly detached
portrait of the small African princess whom the heroic captain named Sarah
Forbes Bonetta.
We follow her charmed but unlucky life as the Queen's protégée through
a succession of British middle-class households, beginning with the Forbes
home. Because of her celebrated association and frequent visits with the
Queen, Sarah grows up in an unusual position of privilege, education, and
celebrity. On the flip side, she is keenly aware that her decisions are
not her own, and as a rescued orphan under the Queen's protection, her
life's path is dictated by those acting in what they perceive to be her
best interests. It is hard not to feel that it was cruel of her protectors
to wrench her (more than once in her life) from the adopted family she
adores, and eventually to encourage her to marry a West African businessman
whom she clearly stated she could never love, and who would take her away
from her adopted country. As the epilogue states, "She was both unfortunate
in her losses, and fortunate that those losses were not greater.... She
seemed to find a measure of comfort wherever she was, but was destined
to be apart from the world in which she lived." This story, rich with historic
prints, photographs, newspaper clippings, excerpts from Queen Victoria's
diary, and Sarah's letters, is both fascinating and tragic. We have Myers
to thank for rescuing this fine woman again--this time from the forgotten
shelf of a London bookstore. (Ages 11 and older) Amazon.com.
Antiquities
from the City of Benin & from Other Parts of West Africa in the British
Museum
by Charles H. Read, Ormonde, M. Dalton
Divine
Inspiration : From Benin to Bahia
by Phyllis Galembo et al.
Dawn
to Dusk : Folk Tales from Benin
by Iro Eweka
Edo
: The Bini People of the Benin Kingdom (Heritage Library of African Peoples.
West Africa)
by Chukwuma Azuonye
The
Emergent Independent Press in Benin and Cote d'Ivoire
by W. Joseph Campbell (Author)
Palace
Sculptures of Abomey: History Told on Walls (Conservation and Cultural
Heritage)
by Francesca Pique, Leslie H. Rainer
(Paperback)
Wives
of the Leopard: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey
by Edna G. Bay
(Paperback)
Ife
Akan and Benin: Awest African Art from 2000 Years
by Fritz Falk (Preface)
(Hardcover)
The
Yoruba Artist: New Theoretical Perspectives on African Arts
by Rowland Abiodun (Editor), et al
(Hardcover)
In
The Niger Country: Benin--The Surrounding Country, Inhabitants, Customs
and Trade
(Hardcover)
African
Vodun: Art, Psychology, and Power
by Suzanne Preston Blier
(Hardcover)
Historical
Dictionary of Benin
by Samuel Decalo
(Hardcover)
King
Guezo of Dahomey 1850-52: The Abolition of the Slave Trade on the West
Coast of Africa
by Tim Coates (Editor)
Paperback: 240 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.76 x
7.34 x 4.48
Publisher: The Stationery Office;
ISBN: 0117024600
The
Viceroy of Ouidah
by Bruce Chatwin
Paperback from Viking Press
1988
Archaeology and history in southern Nigeria : the ancient linear
earthworks of Benin and Ishan
by P. J. Darling
Out of Print - Try Used
Books
Benin : Royal Art of Africa from the Museum Fur Volkerkunde, Vienna
by Armand Duchateau
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Books
City of Blood Revisited : A New Look at the Benin Expedition of 1897
by Robert Home
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Books
Oyo, Benin, Ashanti : The Guinea Coast (African Kingdoms of the Past)
by Kenny Mann
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Books
The archaeology of Benin : excavations and other researches in and
around Benin City, Nigeria
by Graham Connah
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Books
Royal Art of Benin The Perls Collection
by Kate Ezra
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Books
Warrior Women: The Amazons of Dahomey and the Nature of War
by Robert B. Edgerton
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