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Writings from the Sand, Volume 1: Collected Works of Isabelle Eberhardt by Isabelle Eberhardt Publisher Comments Born in 1877 in Geneva, Switzerland, Isabelle Eberhardt became a rebel at an early age. She dressed like a man so she could have access to areas forbidden to women, smoked in public, and scandalized Genevan society. Already multilingual (French, German... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Trade Paper 
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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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African Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson and the Idea of Negritude (Africa List) by Souleymane Bachir Diagne Publisher Comments Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906-2001) was a Senegalese poet and philosopher who in 1960 also became the first president of the Republic of Senegal. In African Art as Philosophy, Souleymane Bachir Diagne takes a unique approach to... (read more) Your price: $26.25 New - Hardcover
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Jungfrau and Other Short Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2007 by Mary Watson Publisher Comments The Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa's leading literary prize and is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere. Each year the winning story and shortlisted entries are collected and... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories (African Writers Series) by C L Innes Publisher Comments Capturing the diversity of African writing from across the continent, this important anthology draws together well-established authors and the best of new writers. From the harsh realities of South Africa, elegantly described by Nobel Prize winner... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fighting for Britain: African Soldiers in the Second World War by David Killingray Publisher Comments During the Second World War over half-a-million African troops served with the British Army as combatants and non-combatants in campaigns in the Horn of Africa, the Middle East, Italy and Burma - the largest single movement of African men overseas since... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Sufi City: Urban Design and Archetypes in Touba (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora) by Eric Ross Publisher Comments A book about contemporary urban design, a metaphysical worldview and a cultural process that transcends the pre-colonial/colonial/post-colonial divides.... (read more) Your price: $87.75 New - Hardcover
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Higher Education in Tanzania: A Case Study (Higher Education in Africa) by Brian Cooksey Publisher Comments The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa commissioned case studies of higher education provision in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa, as part of its effort to stimulate enlightened, equitable, and knowledge-based... (read more) Your price: $26.25 New - Trade Paper
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A Labour of Moles (Sylph Editions - Cahiers) by Ivan Vladislavic Publisher Comments "I found myself in the thick of things. I shut my eyes experimentally, opened them again. If I was dreaming, the scene should change – but no, everything was exactly as it had been before." So begins A Labour of Moles, by one of South... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $19.00 New - Trade Paper 
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Images Out of Africa: The Virginia Garner Diaries of the Africa Motion Picture Project by Virginia Garner Publisher Comments In 1938, Virginia and Ray Garner began making films in the Belgian Congo and French Cameroons. This book features Virginia Garner's diaries, which highlight the challenges of making films in Africa in the 1930s and include rich descriptions of cross... (read more) Your price: $42.50 New - Trade Paper
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The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English since 1945 by Simon Gikandi Publisher Comments The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945challenges the conventional belief that the English-language literary traditions of East Africa are restricted to the former British colonies of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. Instead... (read more) Your price: $63.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Writing African History (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora) by John Edward Philips Publisher Comments Writing African History is an essential work for anyone who wants to write, or even seriously read, African history. It will replace Daniel McCall's classic Africa in Time Perspective as the introduction to African history for the next generation and as... (read more) Your price: $31.50 New - Trade Paper 
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The Best of Gowanus: New Writing from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean by Thomas J. Hubschman Publisher Comments Short stories and essays from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.... (read more) Your price: $22.50 New - Trade Paper
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Jambula Tree and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 8th Annual Collection by Monic Arac De Nyeko Publisher Comments Presenting an absorbing array of South African tales, this remarkable collection is headed by "Jambula Tree," winner of the 8th Annual Caine Prize—Africas most prestigious literary accolade for a short story published in English. Complemented... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora #37: Ben Enwonwu: The Making of an African Modernist by Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie Publisher Comments The history of world art has long neglected the work of modern African artists and their search for forms of modernist expression as either irrelevant to the discourse of modern art or as fundamentally subservient to the established narrative of Western... (read more) Your price: $82.75 New - Hardcover
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Where to Now? Short Stories from Zimbabwe by Jane Morris Publisher Comments The collection, Where to Now? Short Stories from Zimbabwe, features sixteen Zimbabwean writers - Raisedon Baya, NoViolet Bulawayo, Diana Charsley, Mapfumo Clement Chihota, Murenga Joseph Chikowero, John Eppel, Fungai Rufaro Machirori, Barbara Mhangami... (read more) Your price: $28.25 New - Trade Paper
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New Writing from Africa 2009 by J. M. Coetzee Synopsis Whats on the minds of African writers? The South African chapter of PEN International asked this question, and this volume collects the answer they received. More than 800 pieces of new writing were submitted in response to the call for entries for the... (read more) Your price: $42.25 New - Trade Paper
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Long Time Coming. Short Writings from Zimbabwe by Jane Morris Publisher Comments Long Time Coming brings together short stories and poems from thirty-three writers that provide snapshots of this turbulent period in Zimbabwe's history. Snapshots of living in a country where basic services have crumbled: where shops have no food, taps... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Bards and Tyrants. Essays in Contemporary African Writing by Chin Ce Publisher Comments Bards and Tyrants is a collection of essays and book review presentations in literary journals and publisher forums within and outside Nigeria in the last decade by Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic, Chin Ce. In his preface to the volume Ce admits of... (read more) Your price: $36.75 New - Trade Paper
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Pastoralism and Politics in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia (Eastern Africa) by Gunther Schlee Publisher Comments Focuses on pastoralism, politics, policies and development in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. It is based on anthropological field research over a period of thirty-four years and attempts a synthesis of historical findings and political... (read more) Your price: $50.25 New - Hardcover
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