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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 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: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Soccer War (90 Edition) by Ryszard Kapuscinski Staff Pick Ryszard Kapuscinski is one of the greatest journalists alive and one of the greatest writers, too. The titles don't always fit together easily, but what Kapuscinski does is far more than just journalism. His writing has been part of what he calls the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 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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The Other by Ryszard Kapuscinski Publisher Comments In this distillation of reflections accumulated from a lifetime of travel, Ryszard Kapuscinski takes a fresh look at the Western idea of the Other. Looking at this concept through the lens of his own encounters in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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 widely acclaimed King Leopold's Ghost comes the taut, gripping account of one of the most brilliantly organized social justice campaigns in history — the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire. In early 1787, twelve... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 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 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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Man's Burden : Africa and the Curse of the Nation State (92 Edition) by Basil Davidson Publisher Comments An absorbing, highly acclaimed examination of Africa's transition from colonialism to revolution to the social turmoil of today.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Wine to Water: A Bartender's Quest to Bring Clean Water to the World by Doc Hendley Publisher Comments The captivating story of an ordinary bartender who's changing the world through clean water. Doc Hendley never set out to be a hero. In 2004, Hendley-a small- town bartender- launched a series of wine-tasting events to raise funds for clean-water... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Dying Colonialism by Frantz Fanon Synopsis An incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria changed centuries-old cultural patterns and embraced certain ancient cultural practices long derided by their colonialist oppressors as primitive, in order... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture by Kwame Anthon Appiah Publisher Comments The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles. The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights. The boats of Haitian refugees being turned away from the Land of Opportunity. These are among the... (read more) List Price $32.25 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon Publisher Comments Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. Fanon's masterwork is now available in a new translation that updates... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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28: Stories of AIDS in Africa by Stephanie Nolen Publisher Comments “This is a formidable book of record…from the tiny virus, via twenty-eight individual human stories, to an entire continent. The stories will tear you apart before putting you back together, fully armed and ready to go to war with a virus more... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa by Howard W French Publisher Comments In A Continent for the Taking Howard W. French, a veteran correspondent for The New York Times, gives a compelling firsthand account of some of Africas most devastating recent history–from the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, to Charles Taylors arrival in... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Serengeti: The Eternal Beginning by Boyd Norton Publisher Comments Award-winning author-photographer Boyd Norton draws upon his extensive experiences and photographs of the Serengeti ecosystem, including the Serengeti National Park, Kenya's Masai Mara, and Ngorongoro Crater. Using thrilling firsthand accounts and... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir by Wael Ghonim Publisher Comments [“People, we became 300…” fb post] In Egypt during the summer of 2010, a Facebook page managed by Wael Ghonim became the unlikely gathering place for a nascent protest movement. Just six months later, speaking with the voices of its... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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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: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Remembering Africa (Studies in African Literature,) by Elisabeth Mudimbe-boyi Publisher Comments With penetrating honesty, the authors explore the diverse politics and poetics - and the limits - of remembering and imagining a past definitively altered, by rereading classic and contemporary texts, reflecting on the politics of museum exhibits and... (read more) List Price $103.75 Your price: $35.98 New - Hardcover
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African Studies #108: Africans: The History of a Continent by John Iliffe Publisher Comments In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the AIDS epidemic, John Iliffe refocuses its history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have been pioneers struggling against disease and nature... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price: $17.95 Used - Trade Paper
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