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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller Staff Pick In her 2001 debut, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller recalled in vivid, often excruciating detail coming of age in Rhodesia as a long civil war raged in neighboring Mozambique and her own country slid down the violent path toward an... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail (Oprah's Book Club) by Malika Oufkir Publisher Comments The adopted daughter of the king of Morocco, whose father was arrested and executed for a 1972 attempt to assassinate the king, tells the story of how she, her mother, and her five siblings endured years of imprisonment in a desert penal colony. This... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid by P Gobodo Madikizela Publisher Comments A Human Being Died That Night recounts an extraordinary dialogue. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, a psychologist who grew up in a black South African township, reflects on her interviews with Eugene de Kock, the commanding officer of state-sanctioned death... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Inside Sudan Political Islam Conflict by Donald Petterson Publisher Comments Sudan, governed by an Islamic fundamentalist dictatorship, has come into conflict with the United States and other countries not because of its religious orientation but because of its record of human rights abuses and support for terrorism. The country... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Inside Apartheid's Prisons: Letters of Hope and Struggle by Raymond Suttner Publisher Comments Alan Paton Award runner-up for non-fiction, 2002. "Raymond Suttner is one of a small number of white comrades who played a substantial role in bringing apartheid to an end. His book should be read by all who are interested in South Africa."-Walter... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Africa Afrique Noire: Permanences Et Ruptures by Coquery Vidrovitch Publisher Comments This masterful synthesis explains how Africa has come to be a land torn by incessant conflict among its impoverished peoples and countries, a continent living through the gravest social revolution of its history, experiencing the world's fastest... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $3.25 Used - Trade Paper
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The Angels Have Left Us by Hugh Mccullum Synopsis The author analyzes the roots of the Rwanda tragedy, looks at the future of a shattered church in a shattered country, and poses hard questions about what the church and the ecumenical family should do in a world where poverty, oppression and hatred are... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Return to Paradise (Harvest Book) by Breyten Breytenbach Publisher Comments Breyten Breytenbach is one of South Africa's foremost but for years he has had a complex and painful relationship with his home country. In 1973, after thirteen years in exile, he was permitted a three-month visit there. A Season in Paradise, the first... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oblivion Seekers: And Other Writings by Isabelle Eberhardt Publisher Comments Stories and journal notes by an extraordinary young woman—adventurer and traveler, Arabic scholar, Sufi mystic and adept of the Djillala cult. Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) was an explorer who lived and traveled extensively throughout North... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mandela, Tambo, and the African National Congress: The Struggle Against Apartheid, 1948-1990, a Documentary Survey by Sheridan Johns Publisher Comments This timely documentary history provides a unique analysis of contemporary South African politics, covering the forty-two-year period between the ruling National Party's electoral victory of 1948 and the subsequent institution of apartheid, to the recent... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Africa in World Politics: Post-Cold War Challenges by John W Harbeson Publisher Comments African states have been on the periphery of world politics since independence, and they will likely continue to be marginalized as Cold War tensions disappear and economic and political ties to the industrialized world weaken. This book explores Africas... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Letter to Daniel :despatches from the heart by Fergal Keane Synopsis This is a collection of Fergal Keane's works, which includes the "Letter to Daniel" and a similar despatch he wrote to his now deceased father. The book also features articles written for "The Spectator", "The Guardian" and "BBC Worldwide" magazine.... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Flame Trees of Thika by Huxley Publisher Comments Autobiographical account of a childhood spent amongst the Kikuyu people of Thika in Kenya during the 1910s.... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love by Jim Wooten Publisher Comments The extraordinary story of the little South African boy whose bravery and fierce determination to make a difference despite being born with AIDS has made him the human symbol of the world's fight against the disease, told by the veteran American... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Out of Egypt: A Memoir by Andre Aciman Publisher Comments Aciman has written a touching and affectionate portrait detailing the lives of his flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in Alexandria to its defeated exodus three generations later. In elegant and witty prose, Aciman introduces us to the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My Mercedes Is Not for Sale: From Amsterdam to Ouagadougou...an Auto-Misadventure Across the Sahara by Jeroen Van Bergeijk Publisher Comments “Oh Lord, wont you buy me a Mercedes Benz?” Janis Joplin A journalists intrepid endeavor to sell his used car abroad results in a high-spirited and revealing look at West Africa. “Look, theres my car,” I say, pointing at my... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mountains of Rasselas: An Ethiopian Adventure by Thomas Pakenham Publisher Comments Rasselas is a tale of the royal princes of Abyssinia, who were condemned to live on the prison-mountain of Wehni until they died or the order of succession called them to the throne. How much of this was truth and how much legend? The author of Meetings... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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 havent 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?”... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $3.98 Used - Hardcover
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Letters from Robben Island: Ahmed Kathrada's Prison Correspondence, 1964-1989 by A M Kathrada Publisher Comments Late one night in July, 1963, a South African police unit surrounded the African National Congress headquarters in Rivonia and arrested a group of Movement leaders gathered inside. Eventually eight of them, including Nelson Mandela, who was already... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Shallow Graves of Rwanda by Shaharyar M Khan Publisher Comments This book is a unique account of the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative in Rwanda in the mid-1990s. Shaharyar M. Khan's tenure began in the immediate aftermath of the downing of President Habarimana's plane on April 6, 1994 and the massacres... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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