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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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Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood by Robyn Scott Publisher Comments An exquisitely rendered portrait of an African childhood from an astonishing new talent When Robyn Scott 's parents decide to uproot their young family from New Zealand and move to a converted cowshed in rural Botswana, life for six-year-old Robyn... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon Publisher Comments Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern revolutionary theory as The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks. He has had a profound... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe, and Power in the Heart of Africa by Bill Berkeley Publisher Comments Since 1983 journalist Bill Berkeley has traveled through Africa's most troubled lands-Rwanda, Liberia, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, and Zaire-seeking out the tyrants and military leaders who orchestrate seemingly intractable wars. Shattering the myth... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Africa : a Biography of the Continent (97 Edition) by John Reader Publisher Comments "Awe-inspiring . . . a masterly synthesis." --The New York Times Book Review "Deeply penetrating, intensely thought-provoking and thoroughly informed . . . one of the most important general surveys of Africa that has been produced in the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wretched of the Earth (New Translation) by Frantz Fanon Publisher Comments From one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history comes this brilliant analysis of the psychology of colonized peoples and their path to liberation--now available in a new translation with... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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History of Africa 2nd Edition by Kevin Shillington Publisher Comments Now fully revised and updated, this classic text offers an illustrated and critical narrative introduction to the history of Africa from earliest times to the present. Beginning with the evolution of mankind itself, the book traces the history of Africa... (read more) List Price $39.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski Publisher Comments In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone by Martin Dugard Publisher Comments With the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Africa Unchained: The Blueprint for Africa's Future by George B N Ayittey Publisher Comments Why haven't the poorest Africans been able to prosper in the twenty-first century? Celebrated economist George Ayittey thinks the answer is obvious: economic freedom was denied to them, first by foreign colonial powers and now by indigenous leaders with... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Exterminate All the Brutes : One Man's Odyssey Into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide (96 Edition) by Sven Lindqvist Publisher Comments A brilliant and unsettling intellectual history of Europe's genocidal colonization of Africa. "Exterminate All the Brutes" is a searching examination of Europe's dark history in Africa and the origins of genocide. Using Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence by Martin Meredith Synopsis An epic biography of postcolonial Africa illuminates its current devastating problems. What happened to this vast continent, so rich in resources and history, to bring it so close to destitution and despair in the span of two generations?... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Magema Fuze: The Making of a Kholwa Intellectual by Hlonipha Mokoena Book News Annotation In this study of authorship and audience creation in South Africa, Mokoena (anthropology, Columbia U.) explores the writings of Magema Fuze. She describes how Fuze entered into journalistic dialogue with his audience through the pages of Zulu... (read more) List Price $59.50 Your price: $32.16 New - Trade Paper
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Unearthing Ancient Egypt: Fifty Years of the Czech Archaeological Exploration in Egypt by Miroslav And Hana Benesovsk Verner Synopsis The first half-century of existence of the Czech Institute of Egyptology is described in this volume. The Institute started in Nubia, taking part in the rescue expeditions of the UNESCO campaign saving the monuments of Nubia endangered by the rising... (read more) List Price $70.75 Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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Africa (09 Edition) by Richard Dowden Publisher Comments After a lifetimes close observation of the continent, one of the worlds finest Africa correspondents has penned a landmark book on life and death in modern Africa. It takes a guide as observant, experienced, and patient as Richard Dowden to reveal its... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan, and Rwanda: A Journalist Reports from the Battlefields of Africa by Scott Peterson Synopsis Filled with the dust, sweat, and powerful detail of real life, "Me Against My Brother" graphically illustrates how preventive action and a better understanding of Africa--especially by the U.S.--could have averted much suffering. 16-page color insert.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Culture and Customs of Mali (Culture and Customs of Africa Culture and Customs of Africa) by Dorothea Elisabeth Schulz Publisher Comments Rated among the world's ten poorest nations, Mali has a glorious past and a less-certain present. Culture and Customs of Mali touches on the first as background for understanding the second, exploring multiple facets of contemporary social life and... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $33.50 New - Hardcover
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The Great War in Africa, 1914-1918 by Byron Farwell Synopsis [Farwell] has conceived his history as an adventure story, which he tells with brilliant narrative skill.As [Farwell] so artfully reconstructs it, the African front comprised a series of conflicts full of schemes and maneuvers and heroics and disasters... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Zanzibar Chest by Aiden Hartley Publisher Comments Hartley, a frontline reporter who covered the atrocities of 1990s Africa, embarks on a journey to unlock the mysteries and secrets of his own family's 150-year-colonial legacy in Africa, and delivers a beautiful, sometimes harrowing memoir of intrepid... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - 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 prize-winning King Leopold's Ghost comes a taut, thrilling account of the first grass-roots human rights campaign, which freed hundreds of thousands of slaves around the world. In 1787, twelve men gathered in a London printing shop... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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