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Capitalism & the Transformation of Africa Reports From Equitorial Guinea by Mary Alice Waters Publisher Comments Reporting from Equatorial Guinea in central Africa, the authors focus on the social transformations unfolding, as revenues from offshore oil extraction are used to build infrastructure on which rising labor productivity, industry, and progress depend... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs, and a Ruthless Determination To Create Mayhem in an Oil-rich Corner of Africa (06 Edition) by Adam Roberts Publisher Comments Roberts investigates why in 2004, the tiny, oil-rich African nation of Equatorial Guinea became the target of a group of salty British, South African and Zimbabwean mercenaries, traveling on an American-registered ex-National Guard plane.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Another Day of Life (01 Edition) by Ryszard Kapuscinski Publisher Comments Ryszard Kapuscinski, one of the twentieth century's preeminent journalists, is renowned for his narratives of the Third World, which transcend reportage and enter the realm of literature.<P>Another Day of Life is Kapuscinski's dramatic account of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Trader Horn: A Young Man's Astounding Adventures in 19th-Century Equatorial Africa (Travelers' Tales Classics) by Alfred Aloysiu Horn Publisher Comments Down on his luck in old age, Horn recounts his wild youth as an ivory trader in central Africa, journeying into jungles, navigating treacherous rivers, freeing slaves, and meeting Cecil Rhodes, the founder of Rhodesia. This is the stuff of legends.... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe (09 Edition) by Gerard Prunier Publisher Comments The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Hardcover
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To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa by Pat Shipman Publisher Comments Prepare to embark upon a breathtaking adventure, brimming with hair-raising rescues, impossible quests, danger, discovery, catastrophe, mutiny, and uncompromising love -- all the more remarkable because every word is true. Acclaimed New York Times and... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa by Pat Shipman Publisher Comments In 1859, at age fourteen, Florence Szasz stood before a room full of men and waited to be auctioned to the highest bidder. But slavery and submission were not to be her destiny: Sam Baker, a wealthy English gentleman and eminent adventurer, was moved by... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe by Gérard Prunier Publisher Comments Examines the horrific wars and political changes that have taken place in sub-Saharan Africa upon the end of the Rwandan genocide in 1996 through a detailed guide of the events that have taken place in recent years, along with profiles of some its most... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $18.45 Google eBooks - Electronic
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To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa by Pat Shipman Publisher Comments In 1859, at age fourteen, Florence Szász stood before a room full of men and waited to be auctioned to the highest bidder. But slavery and submission were not to be her destiny: Sam Baker, a wealthy English gentleman and eminent adventurer, was... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe by Gerard Prunier Publisher Comments The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Paths Without Glory by James L. Newman Publisher Comments Few people have garnered so much enduring interest as Sir Richard Burton. A true polymath, Burton is best known today for his translations of the Kama Sutraand Arabian Nights. Yet, Africa stood at the center of his adult life. The Burton-Speke expedition... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $26.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat, and Camel by Jeffrey Tayler Publisher Comments Hailed by Bill Bryson and the New York Times Book Review as a rising star among travel writers, Jeffrey Tayler penetrates one of the most isolated, forbidding regions on earth — the Sahel. This lower expanse of the Sahara, which marks the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Another Day of Life by Ryszard Kapuściński Publisher Comments A first-hand account by a Polish journalist of the chaos, pain, and confusion of the colonial and civil war in Angola during the mid-1970s chronicles the author's discovery of a bizarre and deadly war within the war for national independence. Reprint.... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Port Cities and Intruders: The Swahili Coast, and Portugal in the Early Modern Era by M N Pearson Publisher Comments In Port Cities and Intruders, historian Michael Pearson explores the role of port cities and their orientation, relations between the coast and the interior, the place of the coast in the world economy, and the impact of the Portuguese in the early... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - 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: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Wonga Coup by Adam Roberts Publisher Comments A real life version of THE DOGS OF WAR in which a band of mercenaries plots to over throw a venal government of the newly oil-rich nation of Equatorial... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $13.27 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Paths Without Glory: Richard Francis Burton in Africa by James L Newman Publisher Comments Few people have garnered so much enduring interest as Sir Richard Burton. A true polymath, Burton is best known today for his translations of the Kama Sutra and Arabian Nights. Yet, Africa stood at the center of his adult life. The Burton-Speke... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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African Social Studies #17: The Pot-King: The Body, Material Culture and the Technologies of Power by Jean Pierre Warnier Publisher Comments The king of Mankon, in the western highlands of Cameroon, is an agricultural engineer by training, a businessman, and a prominent politician on the national stage. He partakes in the return of the kings in the forefront of an African public space. This... (read more) List Price $119.50 Your price: $70.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Jungles Preferred by Janet Miller Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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