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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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How I Found Livingstone (Great Adventures) by Henry Morto Stanley Publisher Comments This volume recounts Henry Stanley's search for David Livingstone, a missionary-explorer lost in Africa during the Victorian era. In 1870, the New York Herald sent journalist Stanley to track down the English missionary. In these pages the great explorer... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Rebels' Hour by Lieve Joris Synopsis Renowned journalist Joris illuminates the dark heart of contemporary Congo through the prism of one lonely and complicated rebel leader who becomes a high ranking general in the Congolese army.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa (Eastern African Studies) by Henri Medard Publisher Comments Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa looks at the perceptions of one of the main themes of African history: slavery. There was no single form of slavery, and the line between enslaved and nonslave labor was fine. This book challenges the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild Publisher Comments From the author of the widely acclaimed King Leopold's Ghost comes the taut, gripping account of one of the most brilliantly organized social justice campaigns in history — the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire. In early 1787, twelve... (read more) List Price $16.95 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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A Country Unmasked: Inside South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission by Alex Boraine Publisher Comments As Apartheid ended, South Africans felt it was necessary to put the past behind them and turn the page of history--but first they needed to read that heart-breaking, gut-wrenching page. To that end they formed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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 $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mugabe: Teacher, Revolutionary, Tyrant by Andrew Norman Publisher Comments A former guerrilla leader who headed the resistance movement against white minority rule, Robert Mugabe was swept to power in Zimbabwe in 1980 on a tide of national euphoria with promises of peace, prosperity, and racial harmony. He then proceeded to... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mandela!: Struggle & Triumph by David Turnley Publisher Comments Nelson Mandela, an icon of the international struggle for freedom and equality, whose importance rivals that of Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi, turns ninety in July 2008. Mandela spent twenty-seven years in prison for his opposition to the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $13.50 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 $28.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Trickster Travels the Search for Leo Africanus by Natalie Zemon Davis Publisher Comments A] fascinating tale of a man forced . . . to live between incompatible worlds. Highly recommended. --Library Journal Al-Hasan al-Wazzan--born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco--became famous as the great Renaissance writer Leo... (read more) Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Women's Spiritual Leadership in Africa: Tempered Radicals and Critical Servant Leaders by Faith Wambura Ngunjiri Synopsis Inspiring portraits of contemporary African women leaders.... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $37.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Southern Africa: The Hot "Cold War" by Vladimir Gennadyevich Shubin Publisher Comments This book analyses the causes of armed conflicts in Southern Africa during the Cold War. It examines the influence of the various external forces in the region during this period and their relationship to local movements and governments. The book focuses... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Long Way Gone Uk 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.You should tell... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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My Battle of Algiers: A Memoir by Ted Morgan Publisher Comments In My Battle of Algiers, an eminent historian and biographer recounts his own experiences in the savage Algerian War, an event all too reminiscent of America's present difficulties in Iraq. Ted Morgan recalls a war that we would do well not to forget.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Blue Nile by Alan Moorehead Publisher Comments Chapter 1 The Blue Nile‘ Egypt is an acquired country, the gift of the river.'--Herodotus. The Blue Nile pours very quietly and uneventfully out of Lake Tana in the northern highlands of Ethiopia. There is no waterfall or cataract, no definite... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Nelson Mandela: A Life in Photographs by David Elliot Cohen Publisher Comments A celebration of freedom and the man who fought so valiantly for it: NELSON MANDELA Almost 20 years ago, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela—brutally imprisoned in South Africa for his struggle against apartheid—was finally released. This beautiful... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.95 Sale - Hardcover
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No Bread for Mandela: Memoirs of Ahmed Kathrada, Prisoner No. 468/64 by A M Kathrada Synopsis Originally published: Memoirs. Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2004.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $12.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Dark Child: The Autobiography of an African Boy by Camara Laye Publisher Comments The Dark Child is a distinct and graceful memoir of Camara Laye's youth in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea. Long regarded Africa's preeminent Francophone novelist, Laye (1928-80) herein marvels over his mother's supernatural powers, his father's... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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