Product Description: Describes seven monumental ancient African architectural sites that still exist today, including the Great Sphinx, the Swahili trading coast, and the mosque and university of Timbuktu.

Product Description: Two of the most ambitious religious edifices of the 20th century are the Our Lady of Peace Basilica in the West African country of the Ivory Coast and the Hassan II Mosque in Morocco. Nnamdi Elleh not only provides a substantial architectural and pictorial analysis of the buildings themselves...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

More than eighty color plates survey the full range of African creativity, from sophisticated bronze sculptures and exaborate shell and bead headdresses, to carved wooden thrones and richly colored textiles.