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Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800-1904) by Julia A. Clancy-Smith Publisher Comments Julia Clancy-Smith's unprecedented study brings us a remarkable view of North African history from the perspective of the North Africans themselves. Focusing on the religious beliefs and political actions of Muslim elites and their followers in Algeria... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $31.02 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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Homeland: An Extraordinary Story of Hope and Survival by George Obama Publisher Comments President Obama's Kenyan half-brother describes his hard-knocks life in Africa, during which he embraced alcohol and petty crime until finally hitting the road to recovery, in a memoir where the author also gives a frank assessment of Kenyan political... (read more) Your price: $16.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt by Nina Burleigh Publisher Comments Two hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric Europeans had dared to traverse the unmapped territory of the modern-day Middle East. But in 1798, more than 150 French engineers, artists, doctors, and scientists—even a poet and a... (read more) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Mandela: The Authorized Biography by Anthony Sampson Publisher Comments Nelson Mandela, who emerged from twenty-six years of political imprisonment to lead South Africa out of apartheid and into democracy, is perhaps the world's most admired leader, a man whose life has been led with exemplary courage and inspired conviction.... (read more) Your price: $15.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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In and out of Morocco: Smuggling and Migration in a Frontier Boomtown by David A. McMurray Publisher Comments Every summer for almost forty years, tens of thousands of Moroccan emigrants from as far away as Norway and Germany have descended on the duty-free smugglers' cove/migrant frontier boomtown of Nador, Morocco. David McMurray investigates the local effects... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $19.97 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood by Helene Cooper Publisher Comments Helene Cooper is Congo, a descendant of two Liberian dynasties--traced back to the first ship of freemen that set sail from New York in 1820 to found Monrovia. Helene grew up at Sugar Beach, a twenty-two-room mansion by the sea. Her childhood was filled... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier by Alexandra Fuller Publisher Comments The best-selling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight details her unique friendship with a banana farmer, one of her parents' neighbors in Zambia, a white African, veteran of the Rhodesian war, and born-again Christian, and their mutual odyssey... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Managing Ethnic Conflict in Africa: Pressures and Incentives for Cooperation by Donald S. Rothchild Publisher Comments Ethnic conflict in Africa is reaching critical levels. Governments are being toppled. National economies are collapsing. And the potential for civil unrest--even violent encounters--throughout the continent threatens to engulf not only Africa, but much... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $17.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Remembering the Present: Painting and Popular History in Zaire by Johannes Fabian Publisher Comments This book combines ethnography with the study of art to present a fascinating new vision of African history. It contains the paintings of a single artist depicting Zaire's history, along with a series of ethnographic essays discussing local history, its... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $26.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction by Ian Shaw Publisher Comments The ancient Egyptians are an enduring source of fascination--mummies and pyramids, curses and rituals have captured our imaginations for generations. We all have a mental picture of ancient Egypt, but is it the right one? How much do we really know about... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $8.28 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Multicultural Counseling in a Divided and Traumatized Society: The Meaning of Childhood and Adolescence in South Africa by Joyce Hickson Publisher Comments This book is developed from the framework of locating childhood and adolescence within the wider context of South African society. The merging world-view and identity of South African children are described. A portion of the book describes the... (read more) List Price $115.00 Your price: $102.06 Google eBooks - Electronic
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What Is Africa's Problem? by Yoweri Museveni Publisher Comments Recent seismic shifts in Congo and Rwanda have exposed the continued volatility of the state of affairs in central Africa. As African states have shaken off their postcolonial despots, new leaders with sweeping ideas about a pan-African alliance have... (read more) List Price $25.50 Your price: $22.63 Google eBooks - Electronic
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch Publisher Comments An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. This remarkable debut book chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government called on everyone... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey by Mary L. Dudziak Publisher Comments The story of Thurgood Marshall's journey to Africa in 1969 to help Kenyan independence leaders write their constitution is told in an intriguing work that recounts how his involvement with Kenya's foundation affirmed his belief in progress by legal means.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $21.23 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East by Juan Cole Publisher Comments In this& vivid and timely history, Juan Cole& tells the story of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt.& Revealing the young general's reasons for leading the expedition against Egypt in 1798 and& showcasing his fascinating views of the Orient, Cole& delves into... (read more) Your price: $9.99 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 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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Global Visions, Local Landscapes: A Political Ecology of Conservation, Conflict, and Control in Northern Madagascar by Lisa L. Gezon Publisher Comments In her new book, Gezon argues that local events continuously redefine and challenge global processes of land use and land degradation. She challenges analytical distinctions between separate 'local' and 'global' spaces, rather proposing that the global... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $25.94 Google eBooks - Electronic
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A Portrait of Egypt: A Journey through the World of Militant Islam by Mary Anne Weaver Publisher Comments A foreign correspondent for The New Yorker magazine presents a detailed account of contemporary Egyptian politics and culture that predicts a takeover by the country's Islamic militants, profoundly affecting the Arab world in the process. Reprint.... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Forced to Grow by Sindiwe Magona Publisher Comments This is the story of an ambitious, determined woman--deserted by her husband at age 23 with three children under 6--who made it out of the black ghetto of Guguletu, put herself through high school and college, then grad school at Columbia, and obtained a... (read more) List Price $10.36 Your price: $9.19 Google eBooks - Electronic
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