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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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Pan-Arabism Before Nasser: Egyptian Power Politics and the Palestine Question (Studies in Middle Eastern History)
by Michael Doran Publisher Comments This book aims to alter profoundly the accepted version of the history of post-World War II Egyptian foreign policy. To this end, Doran convincingly demonstrates the absence of any true pan-Arab front from the very beginning of the Arab League...
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Limits to Change: Transforming a Divided Society (South Africa)
by Hein Marais Publisher Comments The sense of hope generated by South Africa’s unprecedented democratic transition is already giving way to the grimmer realities of how little has changed for the mass of the population. Whether it be jobs, income inequality, housing, or access to...
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Exterminate All the Brutes: One Man's Odyssey Into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide
by Sven Lindqvist Publisher Comments A brilliant and unsettling intellectual history of Europe's genocidal colonization of Africa. "Exterminate All the Brutes" is a searching examination of Europe's dark history in Africa and the origins of genocide. Using Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness...
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Biko
by Donald Woods Publisher Comments Subjected to 22 hours of interrogation, torture and beating by South African police on September 6, 1977, Steve Biko died six days later. Donald Woods, Biko's close friend and a leading white South African newspaper editor, exposed the murder helping to...
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Re-Creating Ourselves: African Women and Critical Transformations
by Mol Ogundipe Leslie Synopsis A selection of writings in which the author has critically and creatively pondered issues of gender, politics, and social transformation for at least three decades...
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A Strategic Vision for Africa: The Kampala Movement
by Francis Deng Synopsis Increasingly marginalized since the end of the Cold War, the continent of Africa is struggling to identify both the root causes and possible solutions to the maladies that continue to plague it. The problems read like a laundry list of misrule in the...
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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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Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy #55: The African Nexus: Black American Perspectives on the European Partitioning of Africa, 1880-1920
by Sylvia M Jacobs Review Jacobs focuses on the response of American black intellectuals to the European dismemberment of Africa....this book offers some useful suggestions on the role of public opinion in shaping foreign policy and on the place of intellectuals in `nation...
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Inside Apartheid's Prisons: Letters of Hope and Struggle
by Raymond Suttner Publisher Comments Alan Paton Award runner-up for non-fiction, 2002. "Raymond Suttner is one of a small number of white comrades who played a substantial role in bringing apartheid to an end. His book should be read by all who are interested in South Africa."-Walter...
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Mamphela Ramphele: Challenging Apartheid in South Africa (Women Changing the World)
by Judith Harlan Publisher Comments Now there is a series designed especially to introduce young people to women whose heroic lives have helped to shape our world. Informative, inspiring, and engaging, the series tells of extraordinary achievements women have made throughout the world and...
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Return to Paradise (Harvest Book)
by Breyten Breytenbach Publisher Comments Breyten Breytenbach is one of South Africa's foremost but for years he has had a complex and painful relationship with his home country. In 1973, after thirteen years in exile, he was permitted a three-month visit there. A Season in Paradise, the first...
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Homeward Journey: Readings in African Studies
by Herbert T Neve Publisher Comments A cross-disciplinary anthology that introduces fundamental historical and contemporary topics about Africa....
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North Africa: Regional Tensions and Strategic Concerns; Revised and Updated Version
by Richard B Parker Publisher Comments North Africa, comprising Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, and Libya, is of particular strategic and economics importance to both the United States and the Soviet Union. Richard B. Parker provides an informed perspective on the problems facing the region with...
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Part of My Soul Went with Him
by Winnie Mandela Synopsis Winnie Mandela, one of South Africa's most visible and articulate apartheid foes, spent many years as a "banned" person in her own country. She lived under virtual house arrest and was forbidden to address public gatherings or meet with more than one...
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Power Lines: Two Years on South Africa's Borders
by Jason Carter Publisher Comments A land of tension and segregation, relatively unchanged since Nelson Mandela’s release from prison nearly a decade ago, South Africa is a country fraught with deep racial divides. While white citizens enjoy lifestyles similar to Westerners, black...
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My Traitors Heart a South African Exile
by Rian Malan Synopsis The first book by a South African who has worked as a journalist in both his native country and the United States. It offers a black and Afrikaaner view of South Africa, expressed through the medium of a reporter's anguished conscience....
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An introduction to African history
by Mattias Ogutu Publisher Comments Skilled migration has been increasing from South Africa since the end of apartheid, is likely to continue doing so, and is not being matched with an equal number of skilled immigrants. This is a contentious and important policy topic, and the subject of...
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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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Finding a Social Voice: The Church and Marxism in Africa
by Joseph C Mckenna Publisher Comments From the late 1960s until the mid-1980s, the influence of Marxist ideas expanded in sub-Saharan Africa. The Catholic Church saw this influence as likely to affect the accomplishment of its mission, and its pastoral efforts accordingly sought to deal with...
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