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War & the Politics of Identity in Ethiopia: The Making of Enemies & Allies in the Horn of Africa (Eastern Africa) by Kjetil Tronvoll Publisher Comments Images of war, narratives of suffering and notions of ethnicity are intrinsically linked to Western perceptions of Africa. Filtered through a mostly international media the information of African wars is confined to narrow categories of explanation... (read more) List Price $80.00 Your price: $53.60 New - 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 $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Season of Rains: Africa in the World by Stephen Ellis Publisher Comments Africa is playing a more important role in world affairs than ever before. Yet the most common images of Africa in the American mind are ones of poverty, starvation, and violent conflict. But while these problems are real, that does not mean that... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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The Bushman Way of Tracking God: The Original Spirituality of the Kalahari People by Bradford Keeney Publisher Comments The Kalahari Bushmen are the keepers of the world’s oldest living culture. In spite of colossal challenges and never-ending crises, they have survived for over 60,000 years with joy and peace—yet their spiritual teachings, the source of... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Black Nile: One Man's Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World's Longest River by Dan Morrison Publisher Comments A spectacular modern-day adventure along the Nile River from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea With news of tenuous peace in Sudan, foreign correspondent Dan Morrison bought a plank-board boat, summoned a childhood friend who'd never been off... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Africans by David Lamb Publisher Comments During the four years he spent in black Africa as the bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, David Lamb traveled through almost every country south of the Sahara, logging more than 300,000 miles. He talked to presidents and guerrilla leaders, university... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.95 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 to seek out the tyrants and military leaders who orchestrate these nations' seemingly intractable wars. Shattering once and for all the myth that ancient tribal hatreds... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Our New Husbands Are Here: Households, Gender, and Politics in a West African State from the Slave Trade to Colonial Rule (New African Histories) by Emily Lynn Osborn Publisher Comments In Our New Husbands Are Here, Emily Lynn Osborn investigates a central puzzle of power and politics in West African history: Why do women figure frequently in the political narratives of the precolonial period, and then vanish altogether with... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $22.08 New - Trade Paper
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Hold on to Your Veil, Fatima!: And Other Snapshots of Life by Sanna Negus Publisher Comments What happened to a former Miss Egypt when she took to wearing the veil under her pilot's cap? Who are the young people posting videos of policemen torturing crime suspects? Where do Coptic Christians celebrate the Holy Family's journey to Egypt? Why is... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Africa Afrique Noire: Permanences Et Ruptures by Coquery Vidrovitch Publisher Comments This masterful synthesis explains how Africa has come to be a land torn by incessant conflict among its impoverished peoples and countries, a continent living through the gravest social revolution of its history, experiencing the world's fastest... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $3.25 Used - Trade Paper
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For the City Yet to Come: Changing African Life in Four Cities by A M Simone Publisher Comments Among government officials, urban planners, and development workers, Africa’s burgeoning metropolises are frequently understood as failed cities, unable to provide even basic services. Whatever resourcefulness does exist is regarded as only... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Missing Millions: Why and How Africa is Underdeveloped by Kinfe Abraham Synopsis One of the most important political historians of Africa writes eloquently and in great detail on the reasons for the current underdevelopment of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 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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RE: Viewing Egypt: Image and Echo by Xavier And Gamal Al-ghitani. Trans. By Humphrey Davies Roy Synopsis A unique and surprising photographic presentation that invites us to look and think again about what we are seeing... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $23.42 New - Hardcover
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Anatomy of Violence: Understanding the Systems of Conflict and Violence in Africa by Belachew Gebrewold Book News Annotation Gebrewold (Helmut Schmidt U./U. of the Federal Armed Forces, Germany) analyzes the causes and consequences of conflict within the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, and Sudan and discusses the correlation between the conflicts and violence of one... (read more) List Price $114.95 Your price: $66.97 New - Hardcover
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The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS by Helen Epstein Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 The Invisible Cure is an account of Africa's AIDS epidemic from the inside--a revelatory dispatch from the intersection of village life, government intervention, and international aid. Helen Epstein left her... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Mandela, Tambo, and the African National Congress: The Struggle Against Apartheid, 1948-1990, a Documentary Survey by Sheridan Johns Publisher Comments This timely documentary history provides a unique analysis of contemporary South African politics, covering the forty-two-year period between the ruling National Party's electoral victory of 1948 and the subsequent institution of apartheid, to the recent... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Africa in World Politics: Post-Cold War Challenges by John W Harbeson Publisher Comments African states have been on the periphery of world politics since independence, and they will likely continue to be marginalized as Cold War tensions disappear and economic and political ties to the industrialized world weaken. This book explores Africas... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Elites, Coercion and Collective Goods: A Rational Choice Explanation of Variations in Violence in East Africa (Uganda, Tanzania and Zanzibar) by Stefan Blum Book News Annotation Despite considerable similarities in geography, ethnic composition, income levels, and colonial regime, independence in Uganda was accompanied by large-scale violence, while independent Tanzania experienced relative peace and stability. This volume... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $36.85 New - Trade Paper
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Tsodilo Hills: Copper Bracelet of the Kalahari by Alec Campbell Et Al Publisher Comments For 100,000 years, inhabitants of Botswana's Tsodilo Hills region left behind a record of their gathering wild foods, hunting, fishing, mining, rock painting, cattle herding, and metalworking, as well as of their participation in a coast-to-coast trade... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $26.77 New - Trade Paper
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