Scary African History Facts, Skriuwer Com, Auke de Haan (9783565076758) — Readings Books

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Scary African History Facts
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Scary African History Facts

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From the Nile's silted banks, where Tutankhamun's tomb exhaled a plague that felled archaeologists like dominoes, Africa's annals open with hexes etched in hieroglyphs-spells promising boils and blindness to any fool prying at eternity's latch. Deeper south, Carthaginian priests stoked Baal's maw with tots wrapped in salt, their wails a bargain for victory over Rome, while Zulu impis herded captives into cannon fodder lines, turning kin against kin in a frenzy of spear and shadow. These weren't fairy-tale fiends; they were the pulse of power, where gods demanded the tenderest toll and warriors wove terror into war chants that echoed across the veldt.

Colonial claws dug next, Belgium's Leopold carving a private hell in the Congo-whips cracking over backs till hands piled like market wares, villages gutted for latex that greased Europe's tires. Ethiopia's throne room reeked of it too: Haile Selassie's red terror, where dissidents vanished into mass graves under palace orders, their ghosts pacing Addis alleys still. Sharpeville's dust clouds hid the spray that mowed down marchers, apartheid's boot grinding futures into the dirt while the world tuned in late. It was empire's ugly math: profit tallied in limbs and loyalty bought with lead.

Fast to the fractures-Rwanda's hundred days of hacked-up hell, where radio venom turned friends to butchers overnight, rivers running red with the math of a million gone. These facts aren't footnotes; they're the burrs under the safari saddle, reminders that Africa's roar came from throats too often silenced. Crack this open if you're game for the grit that makes headlines feel like half-told lies.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
de Fryske Wrald
Date
12 November 2025
Pages
180
ISBN
9783565076758

This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.

From the Nile's silted banks, where Tutankhamun's tomb exhaled a plague that felled archaeologists like dominoes, Africa's annals open with hexes etched in hieroglyphs-spells promising boils and blindness to any fool prying at eternity's latch. Deeper south, Carthaginian priests stoked Baal's maw with tots wrapped in salt, their wails a bargain for victory over Rome, while Zulu impis herded captives into cannon fodder lines, turning kin against kin in a frenzy of spear and shadow. These weren't fairy-tale fiends; they were the pulse of power, where gods demanded the tenderest toll and warriors wove terror into war chants that echoed across the veldt.

Colonial claws dug next, Belgium's Leopold carving a private hell in the Congo-whips cracking over backs till hands piled like market wares, villages gutted for latex that greased Europe's tires. Ethiopia's throne room reeked of it too: Haile Selassie's red terror, where dissidents vanished into mass graves under palace orders, their ghosts pacing Addis alleys still. Sharpeville's dust clouds hid the spray that mowed down marchers, apartheid's boot grinding futures into the dirt while the world tuned in late. It was empire's ugly math: profit tallied in limbs and loyalty bought with lead.

Fast to the fractures-Rwanda's hundred days of hacked-up hell, where radio venom turned friends to butchers overnight, rivers running red with the math of a million gone. These facts aren't footnotes; they're the burrs under the safari saddle, reminders that Africa's roar came from throats too often silenced. Crack this open if you're game for the grit that makes headlines feel like half-told lies.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
de Fryske Wrald
Date
12 November 2025
Pages
180
ISBN
9783565076758