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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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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One Day I Will Write about This Place: A Memoir
by Binyavanga Wainaina
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“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)

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Wonders of the African World
by Henry Louis Gates
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Rainbow in the Night
by Dominique Lapierre
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Nelson Mandela: The Authorized Comic Book
by Nelson Mandela Found
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Out of Egypt: A Memoir
by Andre Aciman
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Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide
by M W Daly
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The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World
by Jay Bahadur
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Conversations with Myself
by Nelson Mandela
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The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa
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Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak
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Through the Eyes of the Gods: An Aerial Vision of Africa
by Bobby Haas
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