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Southern Sudan; an Annotated Bibliography, 2D Ed.; V.2. by Terje Tvedt Publisher Comments This volume has detailed reports produced by consultants, governments, NGOs and UN and International Aid Organizations. There is also an inventory of NGO and UN organizations working in the region and a chronology of events to put the bibliographical... (read more) List Price $211.95 Your price: $70.00 New - Hardcover 
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Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa, 18301914 by Bruce Vandervort Synopsis An eminently readable and useful treatment of the military's role in the European colonialization... an interesting, sometimes fascinating, account of conflict in Africa... --Parameters There is no comparable work. None covers as broad a topic--the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000 by James C Mccann Publisher Comments Sometime around 1500 A.D., an African farmer planted a maize seed imported from the New World. That act set in motion the remarkable saga of one of the world's most influential crops--one that would transform the future of Africa and of the Atlantic... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Manilal Ambalal Desai. the Stormy Petrel by Zarina Patel Publisher Comments Zarina Patel a historian and activist provides here a well-researched work on Manilal Desai, one of the foremost political leaders of Kenya. She provides kaleidoscopic images of Manilal Desai's life in South Gujarat and eventual migration to Kenya in... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $26.77 New - Trade Paper
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Political Alienation in Libya; Assessing Citizens' Political Attitude and Behaviour. by Mabroka Al-werfalli Book News Annotation This study on political alienation and political legitimacy in Libya is based on a survey that was conducted in the Al-Orouba quarter of the city of Benghazi in winter 2001. Al-Werfalli (political sciences, U. of Garyounis, Libya) analyzes how the... (read more) List Price $74.95 Your price: $50.22 New - Hardcover
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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: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Defeating Dictators: Fighting Tyranny in Africa and Around the World by George B N Ayittey Publisher Comments Despite billions of dollars of aid and the best efforts of the international community to improve economies and bolster democracy across Africa, violent dictatorships persist. As a result, millions have died, economies are in shambles, and whole states... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley Publisher Comments The Romans regarded her as “fatale monstrum”—a fatal omen. Pascal said the shape of her nose changed the history of the world. Shakespeare portrayed her as an icon of tragic love. But who was Cleopatra, really? Cleopatra was the last... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Crossroads in Qualitative Inquiry #7: Writing in the Sand: Autoethnography Among Indigenous Southern Africans by Keyan G. Tomaselli Publisher Comments Writing in the San/d details experiences and encounters with First People's (Bushmen) living in the Kalahari Desert (Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa) (1995-2004), and a Khoi (1984) community in the eastern Cape, South Africa.... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $37.50 New - Hardcover
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There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children by Melissa Fay Greene Publisher Comments Two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene puts a human face on the African AIDS crisis with this powerful story of one woman working to save her countrys children. After losing her husband and daughter, Haregewoin Teferra, an Ethiopian... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Exploring Ancient Egypt (Places in Time) by Ian Shaw Publisher Comments Exploring Ancient Egypt, the fifth volume in the Places in Time series, reveals the excitement of science and history as it tours archaeological discoveries from ancient Egypt. Each of twenty chapters treats a particular site, reflecting a variety of... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Africana: The Concise Desk Reference by Kwame Anthon Appiah Publisher Comments Drawn from the acclaimed landmark in reference publishing, this incomparable one-volume encyclopedia of the black world is now within reach of every family, student, and educator. It brings the entire Pan-African experience into sharp focus, with entries... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Closing the Circle: Democratization and Development in Africa by Richard Sandbrook Publisher Comments We all know that many African countries face political tyranny, failed capitalist development, and violent domestic conflict. What is less clear is what relationship may exist between effective democratic institutions and the solution of the last two... (read more) List Price $42.25 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pan-Africanism for Beginners by Sidney J Lemelle Publisher Comments One of a documentary comic book series in graphic novel format with cartoon style illustrations.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture (Columbia Studies in International and Global History) by Patrick Manning Publisher Comments Patrick Manning refuses to divide the African diaspora into the experiences of separate regions and nations. Instead, he follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia... (read more) List Price $24.50 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Desert Songs: A Woman Explorer in Egypt and Sudan by Arita Baaijens Publisher Comments Arita Baaijens gave up her job as an environmentalist nearly twenty years ago, and has been exploring the deserts of Egypt and Sudan with her small camel caravan ever since. In Desert Songs she recounts her passion for the desert, the place she loves and... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $17.48 New - Trade Paper
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British-Egyptian Relations from Suez to the Present Day (SOAS Middle East Issues) by Noel Brehony And Ayman El-desouky Publisher Comments This account of the first major forum to review relations between Britain and Egypt, held in London in 2006, demonstrates how political, economic, and cultural interaction between the countries has developed since the Suez invasion of 1956. Egyptian and... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $10.97 New - Trade Paper
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Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest #34: Historical Dictionary of Civil Wars in Africa by Guy Arnold Book News Annotation Arnold (freelance writer specializing in Africa) updates the first edition, adding 10 African civil wars to the 20 covered then, attempting to disentangle those from struggles for independence and wars of other types, and describing the conditions... (read more) List Price $115.00 Your price: $70.00 Used - Hardcover
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Africa's Discovery of Europe: 1450-1850 by David Northrup Publisher Comments What did Africans think of the first Europeans they saw? Why did some Africans seek political and religious alliances with Europeans? How successful were African traders in acquiring what they wanted from Europeans in the new Atlantic trade? Africa's... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History #15: African Perspectives on Colonialism by A Adu Boahen Publisher Comments "Contradict(s) the extraordinary myth that Africa 'has no history.' Boahen is one of the pioneers in the school of African historiography." -- Times Literary... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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