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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah Publisher Comments 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) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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One Day I Will Write about This Place: A Memoir by Binyavanga Wainaina Publisher Comments “A Kenyan Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man . . . suffused by a love affair with language.”—Publishers Weekly, Top Ten Books of 2011 In this vivid and compelling memoir, Binyavanga Wainaina tumbles through his middle-class... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Wonders of the African World by Henry Louis Gates Publisher Comments The Companion Volume to the PBS Television Series Wonders of the African World is an exuberant, visually stunning journey across Africa and through the history of its glorious but forgotten civilizations. Traveling by camel, by dhow, by Land Cruiser, and... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $7.75 Sale - Hardcover
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Rainbow in the Night by Dominique Lapierre Publisher Comments In 1652 a small group of Dutch farmers landed on the southernmost tip of Africa. Sent by the powerful Dutch India Company, their mission was simply to grow vegetables and supply ships rounding the cape. The colonists, however, were convinced by their... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Nelson Mandela: The Authorized Comic Book by Nelson Mandela Found Publisher Comments Nelson Mandela's memoir, Long Road to Freedom, electrified the world in 1994 with the story of a solitary man who, despite unbelievable hardships, brought down one of the most-despised regimes in the world. Fifteen years after the publication of that... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Out of Egypt: A Memoir by Andre Aciman Publisher Comments This richly colored memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in cosmopolitan Alexandria to its defeated exodus three generations later. In elegant and witty prose, André Aciman introduces us to the marvelous... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide by M W Daly Publisher Comments Darfur is a region set apart: huge, remote, and poverty stricken. Its people are today locked in conflict, terrorized by the lawless Arab militia known as janjawid, which has created what the United Nations has called ‘the world's worst... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World by Jay Bahadur Staff Pick With continued civil and political unrest and a recent, unusually severe drought forcing food shortages and pandemic starvation, Somalia is a country with a complex history and an uncertain future. That makes Jay Bahadur's account of the infamous pirates... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory by Andre Aciman Publisher Comments In these fourteen essays Andre Aciman, one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, dissects the experience of loss, moving from his forced departure from Alexandria as a teenager, though his brief stay in Europe and finally to the home he's made... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller Publisher Comments In Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness Alexandra Fuller braids a multilayered narrative around the perfectly lit, Happy Valley-era Africa of her mother's childhood; the boiled cabbage grimness of her father's English childhood; and the darker... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Conversations with Myself by Nelson Mandela Publisher Comments Foreword by President Barack Obama Nelson Mandela is one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of recording thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has opened his personal archive, which offers unprecedented... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Egypt: A Short History by Robert L Tignor Publisher Comments "From Hyksos chariots to Egypt's latest venture in the desert, Egypt: A Short History is vintage Robert Tignor: concise, straightforward, and comprehensive. He manages to introduce primers on the sects of Islam, the trajectory of the Ottoman Empire, and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A History of Egypt: From Earliest Times to the Present by Jason Thompson Publisher Comments In A History of Egypt, Jason Thompson has written the first one-volume work to encompass all 5,000 years of Egyptian history, highlighting the surprisingly strong connections between the ancient land of the Pharaohs and the modern-day Arab nation. ... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A School for My Village: A Promise to the Orphans of Nyaka by Twesigye Jackson Kaguri Publisher Comments The extraordinary story of one man's gift to orphaned children in need of hope Can one person really make a difference in the world? Twesigye Jackson Kaguri overcame tremendous odds as he followed his dream to build a school for AIDS orphans in his... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad by Waris Dirie Publisher Comments Waris Dirie ran away from her oppressive life in the African desert when she was barely in her teens, illiterate and impoverished, with nothing to her name but a tattered shawl. She traveled alone across the dangerous Somali desert to Mogadishu—... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Conversations with Myself by Nelson Mandela Publisher Comments Nelson Mandela is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has bestowed his entire extant personal papers... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa by Helen Epstein Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 The Invisible Cure is an account of Africa's AIDS epidemic from the inside--a revelatory dispatch from the intersection of village life, government intervention, and international aid. Helen Epstein left her job in... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak by Jean Hatzfeld Publisher Comments During the spring of 1994, in a tiny country called Rwanda, some 800,000 people were hacked to death, one by one, by their neighbors in a gruesome civil war. Several years later, journalist Jean Hatzfeld traveled to Rwanda to interview ten participants... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Through the Eyes of the Gods: An Aerial Vision of Africa by Bobby Haas Publisher Comments This remarkable vision of Africa from the air invites the reader to view this large and varied continent as if an invited guest on a private plane, with a dialogue between the photographer and the viewer. Aerial photography enables the viewer to... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $24.98 Sale - Hardcover
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