Sea Salt, Kola & Grains of Paradise: The Untold History of Liberia's Early Ancestors

Liberian history has been polarized between scholarly works that many people find hard to read and propaganda tracts backed by little evidence. Sea Salt, Kola and Grains of Paradise is different. It distills over 30 years of research on several millennia of history into 150 pages. The book collates evidence from oral histories collected in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea together with Arabic, Portuguese, Dutch, French and other written sources collected from research centers in Paris, Lond...