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Black Skin, White Masks
by Frantz Fanon  Publisher Comments A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace when it was...
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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...
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Of Beetles & Angels: A Boy's Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard
by Mawi Asgedom Publisher Comments This acclaimed memoir tells the unforgettable story of a young boy's journey from a refugee camp in Sudan to Chicago, where his family survived on welfare. Mawi followed his father's advice to "treat people . . . as though they were angels sent from...
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My Traitor's Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience
by Rian Malan Publisher Comments A classic of literary nonfiction, My Traitor's Heart has been acclaimed as a masterpiece by readers around the world. Rian Malan is an Afrikaner, scion of a centuries-old clan and relative of the architect of apartheid, who fled South Africa after coming...
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African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe
by Doris Lessing Publisher Comments A highly personal story of the eminent British writer returning to her African roots that is brilliant . . . and captures the contradictions of a young country.--New York Times Book...
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Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
by Fatima Marnissi Publisher Comments ”I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco...” So begins Fatima Mernissi in this exotic and rich narrative of a childhood behind the iron gates of a domestic harem. In Dreams of Trespass, Mernissi weaves her own memories with the dreams...
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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...
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African Nights: True Stories from the Author of I Dreamed of Africa
by Kuki Gallmann Publisher Comments Lyrical, beautifully written tales of life in Africa Africa evokes a deep sense of mystery. It is a place that retains what most of the world has lost: space, roots, traditions, awesome beauty, true wilderness, rare animals, and extraordinary people. In...
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The Blue Nile
by Alan Moorehead Publisher Comments Chapter 1 The Blue Nile‘ Egypt is an acquired country, the gift of the river.'--Herodotus. The Blue Nile pours very quietly and uneventfully out of Lake Tana in the northern highlands of Ethiopia. There is no waterfall or cataract, no definite...
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Understanding Africa a Political Economy
by Richard A Fredland Publisher Comments Africa is a fascinating, complex, and infuriating place. This valuable work covers a broad range of topics aiming to make Africa comprehensible to the general reader. Richard A. Fredland based this book on his extensive travels and research in many...
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Dear Exile: The Story of a Friendship Separated (for a Year) by an Ocean (Vintage Departures)
by Hilary Liftin 
Publisher Comments A funny and moving story told through the letters of two women nurturing a friendship as they are separated by distance, experience, and time. <BR>Close friends and former college roommates, Hilary Liftin and Kate Montgomery promised to write when...
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The Africans
by David Lamb Publisher Comments The Africans is an extraordinary combination of analysis and adventure. Part travelogue, part contemporary history, it is a portrait of a continent that sometimes seems hell-bent on destroying itself, and of people who are as courageous as they are long...
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Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa
by Antjie Krog Publisher Comments Ever since Nelson Mandela dramatically walked out of prison in 1990 after twenty-seven years behind bars, South Africa has been undergoing a radical transformation. In one of the most miraculous events of the century, the oppressive system of apartheid...
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Rainbow People of God: The Making of a Peaceful Revolution
by Desmond Tutu Publisher Comments "The Rainbow People Of God traces South Africa's glorious victory over apartheid in the writings and speeches of one its central figures, Archbishop Desmond Tutu. From the graveside of Steven Biko to the triumphant inauguration of Nelson Mandela as...
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In Our Village: Kambi YA Simba Through the Eyes of Its Youth
by Students At Awet Sec Publisher Comments The Tanzanian village of Kambi ya Simba, near the famed Serengeti, couldn't be poorer. In this extraordinary book, village youth capture the richness of life there in photographs and essays....
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Letter to Daniel :despatches from the heart
by Fergal Keane Synopsis This is a collection of Fergal Keane's works, which includes the "Letter to Daniel" and a similar despatch he wrote to his now deceased father. The book also features articles written for "The Spectator", "The Guardian" and "BBC Worldwide" magazine....
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Anatomy of a Miracle: The End of Apartheid and the Birth of the New South Africa
by Patti Waldmeir Synopsis The peaceful birth of black majority rule in South Africa was a transcendent moment. Many South Africans believe this negotiated revolution to be a miracle: at the very least it was a feat of political magic. One false step along the way could have...
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Shades of Difference: Mac Maharaj and the Struggle for South Africa
by Patraigh Omalley Publisher Comments The inside story of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement is told through the experiences of one of its unsung heroes: freedom fighter Mac Maharaj....
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Season in Paradise (Harvest Book)
by Breyten Breytenbach Publisher Comments Breytenbach's first visit to South Africa, after thirteen years in exile, is more than just a dazzling travelogue. He is searching for a "paradise" that coincides with the geography, mysticism, and mythologies of Africa, but in reality his homeland is an...
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A Common Purpose
by Andrea Durbach Publisher Comments The details surrounding the case lead us to question our own prejudices and assumptions: the fact that al twenty-five were involved in the riot that led to the death of the policeman, does that make all twenty-five guilty? Those some of the accused...
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