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Original Essays | November 5, 2009

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    A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

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    Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa

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    The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

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    King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

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    The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold

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    Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood

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    The Shadow of the Sun

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    One Day the Soldiers Came: Voices of Children in War (P.S.)

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    The Wretched of the Earth (New Translation)

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    In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale (Vintage Departures)

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    Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

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    The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood

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    Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton

    Sara Wheeler / Random House Trade
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    Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya

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    A History of Sub-Saharan Africa

    Robert O Collins / Cambridge University Press
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    Where We Have Hope: A Memoir of Zimbabwe

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    Diamond: A Journey to the Heart of an Obsession

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    The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World (New Press People's Histories)

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    It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower

    Michela Wrong / Harper
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    God Sleeps in Rwanda: A Journey of Transformation

    Joseph Sebarenzi / Atria Books
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    China Safari: On the Trail of Beijing's Expansion in Africa

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    The Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair; A History of Fifty Years of Independence

    Martin Meredith / PublicAffairs
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    A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa

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    The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa

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    A Traveller's History of Egypt (Traveller's History)

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