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Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder Staff Pick Tracy Kidder's incredibly moving and vivid new book follows and accompanies Deo, a survivor of the genocide in Burundi, through his remarkable journey to America and back home again. Kidder makes the abstract achingly personal and showcases a genuine... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover 
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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: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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) Your price: $25.99 New - Hardcover
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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World by Lucette Lagnado Publisher Comments In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Gamal Abdel Nasser's rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business on the elegant... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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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 $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - 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 haven't 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?" "Yes, all the time." "Cool." I... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Unbowed: A Memoir (Vintage) by Wangari Maathai Publisher Comments In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people’s environmental movement... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Facing Mount Kenya: The Tribal Life of the Gikuyu by Jomo Kenyatta Publisher Comments 'Facing Mount Kenya' is a central document of the highest distinction in anthropological literature, an invaluable key to the structure of African society and the nature of the African mind. 'Facing Mount Kenya' is not only a formal study of life and... (read more) List Price $14.75 Your price: $6.95 Used - Mass Market
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A Rainbow in the Night: The Tumultuous Birth of South Africa by Dominique Lapierre Publisher Comments In 1652 a small group of Dutch farmers landed on the southernmost tip of Africa. Sent by the powerful Dutch India Company, their mission was simply to grow vegetables and supply ships rounding the cape. The colonists, however, were convinced by their... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Emperor by Ryszard Kapuscinski Publisher Comments Haile Selassie, King of Kings, Elect of God, Lion of Judah, His Most Puissant Majesty and Distinguished Highness the Emperor of Ethiopia, reigned from 1930 until he was overthrown by the army in 1974. While the fighting still raged, Ryszard Kapuscinski... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - 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 haven't 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?" "Yes, all the time." "Cool." I... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Where We Have Hope: A Memoir of Zimbabwe by Andrew Meldrum Publisher Comments Where We Have Hope is the gripping memoir of a young American journalist. In 1980, Andrew Meldrum arrived in a Zimbabwe flush with new independence, and he fell in love with the country and its optimism. But over the twenty years he lived there, Meldrum... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Understanding Contemporary Africa by April A. (edt) Gordon Book News Annotation The textbook for general African studies courses and discipline-based courses is updated again to keep up with changing events and conditions in Africa. Geography, history, politics, economics, international relations, urbanization, AIDS, the... (read more) Your price: $32.75 New - Trade Paper
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Crude Existence: Environment and the Politics of Oil in Northern Angola (Global, Area, and International Archive) by Kristin Reed Synopsis After decades of civil war and instability, the African country of Angola is experiencing a spectacular economic boom thanks to its most valuable natural resource: oil. But oil extraction--both on- and offshore--is a toxic remedy for the country's... (read more) Your price: $42.25 New - Trade Paper
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The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon Publisher Comments Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern revolutionary theory as The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks. He has had a profound... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa by Peter Godwin Publisher Comments Hailed by reviewers as powerful,haunting and a tour de force of personal journalism,When A Crocodile Eats the Sun is the unforgettable story of one man's struggle to discover his past and come to terms with his present. Award winning author and... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins Publisher Comments “An extraordinary act of historical recovery.”—The New Yorker As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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No Future Without Forgiveness by Desmond Tutu Publisher Comments The establishment of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a pioneering international event. Never had any country sought to move forward from despotism to democracy both by exposing the atrocities committed in the past and achieving... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation by John Carlin Publisher Comments Soon to be a major motion picture from Academy Award(r)--winning director Clint Eastwood, starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman. After being released from prison and winning South Africa's first free election, Nelson Mandela presided over a country... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $11.95 Sale - Info Not Available
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