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Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller Publisher Comments In Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness Alexandra Fuller braids a multilayered narrative around the perfectly lit, Happy Valley-era Africa of her mother's childhood; the boiled cabbage grimness of her father's English childhood; and the darker... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover 
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One Day I Will Write about This Place: A Memoir by Binyavanga Wainaina Publisher Comments “A Kenyan Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man . . . suffused by a love affair with language.”—Publishers Weekly, Top Ten Books of 2011 In this vivid and compelling memoir, Binyavanga Wainaina tumbles through his middle-class... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by Bryan Mealer and William Kamkwamba Publisher Comments William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger, and a place where hope and opportunity were hard to find. But William had read about windmills in a book... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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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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Africa House by Christina Lamb Publisher Comments The true account of an English gentleman, Major Gore-Brown, who chose to build a Utopian house of childhood fantasies by the Lake of Crocodiles in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), and find love with a young English orphan girl less than half his age... (read more) Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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American-Southern African Relations: Bibliographic Essays by Mohamed A El Khawas Review This small volume will contribute to both the graduate student's search for information and the undergraduate's general knowledge of formerly Portuguese Africa and currently white-dominated Africa. It should be added to all college libraries where there... (read more) List Price $65.95 Your price: $7.48 Used - Hardcover
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Bay of Tigers: An African Odyssey by Pedro Rosa Mendes Publisher Comments In 1997, Pedro Rosa Mendes traveled across Africa--6,000 miles from the west to the east coast, from Angola to Mozambique. He interviewed relief workers and corrupt local officials, widows and orphans, soldiers and survivors, piecing together a rich... (read more) List Price $31.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Lost World of the Kalahari (Harvest/HBJ Book) by Lauren Van Der Post Publisher Comments An account of the authors grueling, but ultimately successful, journey in 1957, through Africas remote, primitive Kalahari Desert, in search of the legendary Bushmen, the hunters who pray to the great hunters in the sky.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A History of Namibia (Columbia/Hurst) by Marion Wallace Publisher Comments John Kinahan, an experienced archaeologist, begins with the absorbing story of Namibia's early human activity and concludes with the arrival of German colonialism in the nineteenth century. Subsequent chapters by Marion Wallace, African curator for the... (read more) Your price: $40.00 New - Hardcover
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Warrior Chiefs of South Africa by Ian J Knight Publisher Comments Meet Shaka of the Zulu, Maqoma of the Xhosa, Mzililkazi of the Matabele, Moshoeshoe of the Basotho.... (read more) Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Ending Autocracy, Enabling Democracy: The Tribulations of Southern Africa, 1960-2000 by Robert I. Rotberg Publisher Comments In this comprehensive narrative of the political and economic evolution of Africa, Robert I. Rotberg explains the critical events, players and policies from the period of decolonization to present times in the continents tumultuous shift toward democracy.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $22.14 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Masked Raiders: Irish Banditry in Southern Africa, 1880-1899 by Charles Van Onselen Publisher Comments For two decades before a railway system linked southern Africa's principal cities in the mid-1890s, the world's richest supplies of diamonds and gold were transported by coach and horses to distant ports for export. For Irish soldiers based at Fort... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana by Julie Livingston Publisher Comments In the rush to development in Botswana, and Africa more generally, changes in work, diet, and medical care have resulted in escalating experiences of chronic illness, debilitating disease, and accident. Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $17.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Africa South of the Sahara a Geographi by Robert Stock Synopsis Africa south of the Sahara is a region in transition. The optimism of the early post-independence years has long since faded, replaced by a pervasive sense of crisis that typically includes slow and often negative economic growth, a crushing debt burden,... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Chaya Four One! by Hugh Chare Publisher Comments It is 1969 and James Martin, with a newly won degree in mining engineering, sets out to take up employment in Zambia, independent for just five years after British rule. He takes the boat from Southampton to Capetown then motors upcountry through South... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Story of an African Famine: Gender & Famine in Twentieth Century Malawi by Megan Vaughan Publisher Comments This account of the 1949 famine in colonial Malawi employs a wide variety of historical sources, ranging from Colonial Office documentation to the songs of women who lived through the tragedy. The analysis of the causes and development of the famine... (read more) Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Next Liberation Struggle: Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy in South Africa by John S Saul Publisher Comments The end of apartheid in South Africa has been widely viewed as the end of an era of African history. The Next Liberation Struggle is an indispensible guide to understanding how the resources of that era can be used to contribute to real liberation for... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana (African Systems of Thought) by Julie Livingston Publisher Comments In the rush to development in Botswana, and Africa more generally, changes in work, diet, and medical care have resulted in escalating experiences of chronic illness, debilitating disease, and accident. Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ila-Speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia, 2 Volumes by Edwin W Smith Your price: $70.00 Used - Leather
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Namibia under South African Rule: Mobility & Containment, 1915-1946 by Patricia Hayes Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-321) and index.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.98 Used - Trade Paper
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