Somalia

Infidel
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of The Caged Virgin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening... (read more)
 
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Sierra Leone

Long Way Gone : Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (07 Edition)
by Ishmael Beah

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My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life. "Why did you leave Sierra Leone?" "Because there is a war." "You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?" "Yes, all the time." "Cool." I... (read more)
 
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Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone
by Martin Dugard

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With the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David... (read more)
 
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Sudan

The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
by Daoud Hari

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"I am the translator who has taken journalists into dangerous Darfur. It is my intention now to take you there in this book, if you have the courage to come with me." The young life of Daoud Hari-his friends call him David — has been one of... (read more)
 
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Rwanda and Burundi

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
by Philip Gourevitch

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Zimbabwe

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
by Peter Godwin

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Hailed by reviewers as powerful,haunting and a tour de force of personal journalism,When A Crocodile Eats the Sun is the unforgettable story of one man's struggle to discover his past and come to terms with his present. Award winning author and... (read more)
 
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Kenya

Unbowed : a Memoir (06 Edition)
by Wangari Maathai

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In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people’s environmental movement... (read more)
 
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Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
by Peter Allison

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Whatever You Do, Don’t Run is a hilarious collection of true tales from top ­safari guide Peter Allison. In a place where the wrong behavior could get you eaten, Allison has survived face-to-face encounters with big cats, angry ­elephants... (read more)
 
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Ethiopia

There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children
by Melissa Faye Greene

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Millions of children are left without parents in Ethiopia as the result of AIDS. A skilled and graceful exploration of this crisis, Greene's moving account of one woman's actions shows the tremendous impact one person can make. Haregewoin is a genuine... (read more)
 
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As a child Aminatta Forna witnessed the upheavals of postcolonial Africa, danger, flight, the bitterness of exile in Britain, and the terrible consequences of her dissident father's stand against tyranny. Mohamed Forna was a man of unimpeachable... (read more)
 
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”I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco...” So begins Fatima Mernissi in this exotic and rich narrative of a childhood behind the iron gates of a domestic harem. In Dreams of Trespass, Mernissi weaves her own memories with the dreams... (read more)
 
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South Africa

Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
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The Classic Story of Life in Apartheid South Africa Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage... (read more)
 
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Congo

King Leopold's Ghost (98 Edition)
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In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber... (read more)
 
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Central African Republic

To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa
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In 1859, at age fourteen, Florence Szász stood before a room full of men and waited to be auctioned to the highest bidder. But slavery and submission were not to be her destiny: Sam Baker, a wealthy English gentleman and eminent adventurer, was... (read more)
 
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Tunisia

Behind Closed Doors: Women's Oral Narratives in Tunis
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Tunis has a long history of city life reaching back to ancient times. The Arabic language is firmly rooted among it inhabitants and most embrace the morals and culture of Islam. Behind Closed Doors presents forty-seven tales told by three Beldi women... (read more)
 
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Algeria

A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 (New York Review Books Classics)
by Alistair Horne

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The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de Gaulle to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil. More than a million Muslim Algerians died... (read more)
 
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