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Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudiah Equiano (Norton Critical Editions) by Olaudah Equiano Publisher Comments It is accompanied by an introduction, maps, illustrations, and annotations. "Contexts" provides essential public writings on the autobiography, general and historical background, related travel and scientific literature, other eighteenth-century works by... (read more) List Price $19.90 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Words of Desmond Tutu (Newmarket Words Of...) by Desmond Tutu Publisher Comments With the winning of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, Desmond Tutu joined Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Mother Teresa as on of the great inspirational leaders of our age. Chosen and introduced by his daughter Naomi, the over 100 selections... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Calling of Katie Makanya: A Memoir of South Africa by Margaret Mccord Publisher Comments The Calling of Katie Makanya A Memoir of South Africa Her mother’s entry in the family Bible recorded "a second daughter, Katie, born on July 28, 1873 at Fort Beaufort in the Cape of Good Hope." Because it was milking time, Katie’s... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Homeward Journey: Readings in African Studies by Herbert T Neve Publisher Comments A cross-disciplinary anthology that introduces fundamental historical and contemporary topics about Africa.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.48 Used - Trade Paper
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Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village by Sarah Erdman Publisher Comments The village of Nambonkaha in the Ivory Coast is a place where electricity hasnt yet arrived, where sorcerers still conjure magic, where the tok-tok sound of women pounding corn fills the morning air like a drumbeat. As Sarah Erdman enters the social fold... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Africa House by Christina Lamb Publisher Comments The true account of an English gentleman, Major Gore-Brown, who chose to build a Utopian house of childhood fantasies by the Lake of Crocodiles in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), and find love with a young English orphan girl less than half his age... (read more) Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Nile by Aude De Beler Publisher Comments A full colour illustrated journey down the River Nile from the high plateau of Ethiopia to the Mediterranean Sea, celebrating along the way the history, the treasures and the sights.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil by John Ghazvinian Publisher Comments Although Africa has long been known to be rich in oil, extracting it hadnt seemed worth the effort and risk until recently. But with the price of Middle Eastern crude oil skyrocketing and advancing technology making reserves easier to tap, the region has... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa's Renaissance (W.E.B. Du Bois Institute) by Charlayne Hunter-Gault Publisher Comments Hunter gault attempts to answer the question, "What is Africa to Me?"as she explores the transforamtion of post-apartheid South Africa and the continent as a whole as it struggles towards democracy and towards a more stable position within global... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil by John Ghazvinian Publisher Comments "Perceptive…Untapped drills home the point ... that a thoughtful strategy to lift the neglected bottom billion must compete against the global oil giants going about their business -- and the one billion people in countries at the top, and the four... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $4.48 Used - Trade Paper
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Let Freedom Reign: The Words of Nelson Mandela by Henry Russel Synopsis This collection marks the 20th anniversary of Nelson Mandelas release from prison and analyzes the linguistic features, content and context of Mandelas speeches.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa by Adam Roberts Publisher Comments Equatorial Guinea is a tiny country roughly the size of the state of Maryland. Humid, jungle covered, and rife with unpleasant diseases, natives call it Devil Island. Its president in 2004, Obiang Nguema, had been accused of cannibalism, belief in... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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California Series on Social Choice and Political Economy #8: Essays on the Political Economy of Rural Africa by Robert H Bates Publisher Comments The essays in this volume represent a dialogue between theory and data. The theory is drawn from a branch of contemporary political economy which can also be labeled the collective-choice school. The data are drawn from Africa. The book extends the... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Power Lines: Two Years in South Africa's Borders by Jason Carter Publisher Comments Insightful and sincere, Power Lines chronicles Jason Carter's experiences in South Africa: a country divided into two cultures by barriers he was determined to transverse. A land of tension and segregation, relatively unchanged since Nelson Mandela's... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey by Fergal Keane Publisher Comments ? Season of Blood was awarded Britain?s prestigious Orwell Prize for the best political book of 1995 ? Fergal Keane is the recipient of the 1995 Amnesty International Award for Best International Television Documentary. In 1994 he was named Sony Reporter... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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No God But God: Egypt and the Triumph of Islam by Geneive Abdo Publisher Comments Western media has consistently focused on the extremes of Islam, overlooking a quiet yet pervasive moderate religious movement that is currently transforming the nation of Egypt. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, No God But God opens up previously... (read more) List Price $21.25 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Shades of Difference: Mac Maharaj and the Struggle for South Africa by Patraigh Omalley Publisher Comments The inside story of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement is told through the experiences of one of its unsung heroes: freedom fighter Mac Maharaj.... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $1.98 Used - Hardcover
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Language of the Land by James Stephenson Publisher Comments At the age of twenty-two, James Stephenson arranged to spend a year living among the Hadzabe, the last hunters and gatherers still living a traditional life in Africa. He wanted to live their life, hunting what they hunted, eating what they ate... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Part of My Soul Went with Him by Winnie Mandela Publisher Comments Winnie Mandela, one of South Africa's most visible and articulate apartheid foes, spent many years as a "banned" person in her own country. She lived under virtual house arrest and was forbidden to address public gatherings or meet with more than one... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Economic Change and Political Liberalization in Sub-Saharan Africa by Jennifer A Widner Synopsis This is useful work which develops interesting ideas, derived from a neoclassical approach to political economy, within the context of the political events of the Africa of the early 1990's. -- African Affairs. Contributors are Robert H. Bates, Barbara... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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