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Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom
by Nelson Mandela
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My Friend the Mercenary
by James Brabazon
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In February 2002, British journalist James Brabazon set out to travel with guerrilla forces into Liberia to show the world what was happening in that war-torn country. To protect him, he hired Nick du Toit, a former South African Defence Force soldier... (read more)

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Conversations with Myself
by Nelson Mandela
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Nelson Mandela: The Authorized Comic Book
by Nelson Mandela Found
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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)

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Tutu: Authorized
by Allister Sparks
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They Fight Like Soldiers, They Di: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers
by Romeo Dallaire
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
by Philip Gourevitch
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Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide
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A History of Egypt: From Earliest Times to the Present
by Jason Thompson
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A Thousand Sisters: My Journey Into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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