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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller Staff Pick In her 2001 debut, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller recalled in vivid, often excruciating detail coming of age in Rhodesia as a long civil war raged in neighboring Mozambique and her own country slid down the violent path toward an... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild Publisher Comments In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail (Oprah's Book Club) by Malika Oufkir Publisher Comments The adopted daughter of the king of Morocco, whose father was arrested and executed for a 1972 attempt to assassinate the king, tells the story of how she, her mother, and her five siblings endured years of imprisonment in a desert penal colony. This... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood by Robyn Scott Publisher Comments An exquisitely rendered portrait of an African childhood from an astonishing new talent When Robyn Scott 's parents decide to uproot their young family from New Zealand and move to a converted cowshed in rural Botswana, life for six-year-old Robyn... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Warrior Peoples of East Africa 1840-1900 by C.J. Peers Publisher Comments Less well known than the Zulu of South Africa, the warriors of East Africa had just as fearsome a reputation. This fascinating study, illustrated with rare early drawings and meticulous colour plates, covers six of most prominent tribes. The prowess of... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $12.38 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (P.S.) by 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. But William had read about windmills, and he dreamed of building one that would bring to his small... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Modern Africa : a Social and Political History (3RD 94 Edition) by Basil Davidson Publisher Comments Basil Davidson's famous book -- now updated in a welcome Third Edition -- reviews the social and political history of Africa in the twentieth century. It takes the reader from the colonial era through the liberation movements to independence and beyond... (read more) List Price $63.20 Your price: $51.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Strength in What Remains (Random House Reader's Circle) by Tracy Kidder Publisher Comments In Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder gives us the story of one man’s inspiring American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him, providing brilliant testament to the power of second chances. Deo arrives in the United States from... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 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: $7.50 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-Rwanda, Liberia, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, and Zaire-seeking out the tyrants and military leaders who orchestrate seemingly intractable wars. Shattering the myth... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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100 Years of Struggle: Mandela's ANC by Heidi Holland About the Author Heidi Holland is an accomplished author and journalist, based in Johannesburg who published African Magic with Penguin Books in 2001. She co-edited From Jo’burg to Jozi in 2002.... (read more) Your price: $23.50 New - Trade Paper
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah Publisher Comments My new friends have begun to suspect I havent told them the full story of my life. “Why did you leave Sierra Leone?” “Because there is a war.” “You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?”... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $3.98 Used - Hardcover
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Africa : a Biography of the Continent (97 Edition) by John Reader Publisher Comments "Awe-inspiring . . . a masterly synthesis." --The New York Times Book Review "Deeply penetrating, intensely thought-provoking and thoroughly informed . . . one of the most important general surveys of Africa that has been produced in the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela Publisher Comments These are riveting memoirs of one of the great moral and political figures of our time, an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Slave: My True Story by Mende Nazer Publisher Comments Mende Nazer lost her childhood at age twelve, when she was sold into slavery. It all began one horrific night in 1993, when Arab raiders swept through her Nuba village, murdering the adults and rounding up thirty-one children, including Mende. Mende was... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440-1870 by Hugh Thomas Publisher Comments After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, he describes and analyzes the rise of one of the largest... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War by Greg Marinovich Publisher Comments A gripping story of four remarkable young men—photographers, friends and rivals—who band together for protection in the final, violent days of white rule in South Africa.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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History of Africa 2nd Edition by Kevin Shillington Publisher Comments Now fully revised and updated, this classic text offers an illustrated and critical narrative introduction to the history of Africa from earliest times to the present. Beginning with the evolution of mankind itself, the book traces the history of Africa... (read more) List Price $39.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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