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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 $12.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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West With the Night by Beryl Markham Publisher Comments First published in 1942, this is the autobiography of a remarkable aviator and racehorse trainer, based largely in Kenya. Reissue.... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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A School for My Village: A Promise to the Orphans of Nyaka by Twesigye Jackson Kaguri Publisher Comments "An inspiring account of turning tragedy into hope for others." -President Jimmy Carter 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... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mandela: A Biography by Martin Meredith Publisher Comments "It provides new perspective and insights into the man and his times. . . . [Meredith] is particularly good in recounting the parallel rise and inevitable clash of white Afrikaner and black African nationalism in this century . ..." --The... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $10.98 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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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by Dean King Publisher Comments Everywhere hailed as a masterpiece of historical adventure, this enthralling narrative recounts the experiences of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815, captured by desert nomads, sold into slavery, and subjected... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder Staff Pick Tracy Kidder's incredibly moving and vivid new book follows and accompanies Deo, a survivor of the genocide in Burundi, through his remarkable journey to America and back home again. Kidder makes the abstract achingly personal and showcases a genuine... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Education, Decolonization and Development by Dip Kapoor Publisher Comments Education, development and decolonization provides a historical, theoretical and practical inter-disciplinary analysis of the contemporary trajectory of colonization (including internal colonization) through the linked projects of eurocentric development,... (read more) List Price $39.00 Your price: $27.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa by Peter Godwin Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation by John Carlin Publisher Comments Beginning in a jail cell and ending in a rugby tournamentandmdash;the true story of how the most inspiring charm offensive in history brought South Africa together. After being released from prison and winning South Africaandrsquo;s first free election,... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Frantz Fanon: A Portrait by Alice Cherki Publisher Comments An in-depth and personal account of the influential French psychiatrist and revolutionary writer, Frantz Fanon (1925-"1961), written by one of his few surviving contemporaries.... (read more) List Price $33.25 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Other by Ryszard Kapuscinski Publisher Comments In this distillation of reflections accumulated from a lifetime of travel, Ryszard Kapuscinski takes a fresh look at the Western idea of the Other. Looking at this concept through the lens of his own encounters in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Egypt: A View from Above by Philip Plisson Publisher Comments Egypts landscape, from sand-swept desert ruins to the brilliant water of the Red Sea to the vibrant city of Cairo, is as legendary as its mythical history. Home to hieroglyphs, pharaohs, and the Great Pyramids of Giza, Egypts rich cultural heritage truly... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $24.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe by Peter Godwin Publisher Comments Journalist Peter Godwin has covered wars. As a soldier, he's fought them. But nothing prepared him for the surreal mix of desperation and hope he encountered when he returned to Zimbabwe, his broken homeland. Godwin arrived as Robert Mugabe, the country... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa by Jason Stearns Publisher Comments At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal and unstaunchable war in which millions have died. And yet, despite its epic proportions, it has received... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price: $19.98 Sale - Hardcover
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God Sleeps in Rwanda: A Journey of Transformation by Joseph Sebarenzi Publisher Comments Joseph Sebarenzis parents, seven siblings, and countless other family members were among 800,000 Tutsi brutally murdered over the course of ninety days in 1994 by extremist Rwandan Hutu—an efficiency that exceeded even that of the Nazi... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The White Nile by Alan Moorehead Publisher Comments Relive all the thrills and adventure of Alan Moorehead's classic bestseller "The White Nile" -- the daring exploration of the Nile River in the second half of the nineteenth century, which was at that time the most mysterious and impenetrable region on... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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 $15.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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