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Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail (Oprah's Book Club)
by Malika Oufkir  Publisher Comments A gripping memoir that reads like a political thriller – the story of Malika Oufkir's turbulent and remarkable life. Born in 1953, Malika Oufkir was the eldest daughter of General Oufkir, the King of Morocco's closest aide. Adopted by the king at the...
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The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis
by Wole Soyinka Publisher Comments On November 10, 1995, the Nigerian military government under General Sani Abacha executed dissident writer Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight other activists, and the international community reacted with outrage. From the Geneva based International...
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Passage to Egypt: The Life of Lucie Duff Gordon
by Katherine Frank Book News Annotation Gordon was a member of Victorian London's literary circle including Dickens, Thackery, and Tennyson when she was forced by ill health to travel to the dry climate of Egypt. There she embraced the culture and people of Egypt and used her experiences to...
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Freedom by a hair's breadth :Tsimihety in Madagascar
by Peter J Wilson Publisher Comments How a group of people in Madagascar resisted oppression and maintained their political and cultural freedom...
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Us Relations With South Africa Volume 1
by Y Gm Lulat Book News Annotation Lulat (African American Studies, SUNY at Buffalo) provides a detailed and deeply informed, comprehensive two-volume (see also following entry) annotated bibliography of books and monographs, journal articles, government documents, documents of...
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War of Words: Memoirs of a South African Journalist
by Benjamin Pogrund Synopsis This chronicle of South Africa's leading newspaper during 30 years of apartheid by one of the country's most distinguished journalists is also a riveting memoir and commentary on freedom of the press....
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Why Are They Weeping?: South Africans under Apartheid
by David C Turnley Book News Annotation One hundred vivid color photographs, shot by photojournalist Turnley, present a difficult and beautiful country, split and at war with itself. The text is by Alan Cowell, former New York Times bureau chief in Johannesburg. Annotation c. Book News...
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Flame Trees of Thika Memories of an Afri
by Elspeth Josc Huxley Publisher Comments In an open cart Elspeth Huxley set off with her parents to travel to Thika in Kenya. As pioneering settlers, they built a house of grass, ate off a damask doth spread over packing cases, and discovered -- the hard way -- the world of the African. With an...
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Socioeconomic Stress Health & Child Nutr
by Leon A Bijlmakers Publisher Comments The exact implications of implementing structural adjustment in the social sector in Africa have been hotly disputed and have polarized researchers. Using an empirically-grounded longitudinal study of urban and rural households in Zimbabwe, this report...
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Nationalism & Development in Africa: Selected Essays
by James Smoot Coleman Publisher Comments James Smoot Coleman was the leading theorist of his time in African political studies. His work fused liberal-democratic idealism and scientific realism. These essays represent the evolution of his thought from deep insight into African nationalism to a...
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Hemmed in: Responses to Africa's Economic Decline
by Thomas M Callaghy Publisher Comments Provides a critical examination of African and international responses to Africa's economic decline of the last two decades, especially the links between economics and politics....
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Diwan Revisited: Literacy, State Formation & the Rise of Kanuri Domination (AD 1200-1600)
by Augustin Holl Publisher Comments Revealed to Western culture in the 1850s by the German explorer H. Barth, the Diwan, or genealogy, is a remarkable collection of facts, deeds, and descriptions of the sultans of Kanem-Bornu, one of the most advanced civilizations in West Africa. The...
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Politics of Reform in Ghana 1982 1991
by Jeffrey Herst Publisher Comments Economic reform was the most pressing question for African and other Third World countries during the 1980s, and it will continue to dominate their public policy agendas during the coming decade. In this first full-length examination of the political...
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Ranking and resistance :a precolonial Cameroonian polity in regional perspective
by Richard G Dillon Publisher Comments Based upon extended anthropological fieldwork and ethnohistorical reconstruction, this is a study of the precolonical political system of an acephalous society in West Africa. The Meta' are a sedentary farming people living in what is now the Republic of...
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An African Answer: The Key to Global Productivity
by Edgar J Ridley Synopsis Explores symbolism and mythology in African societies and their relationship to African managerial effectiveness....
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The Muse of Modernity: Essays on Culture as Development in Africa
by Philip G Altbach Synopsis Culture plays a central role in the well-being of any society. This is especially true in postcolonial Africa, where rich traditional cultures collide with complex modern realities. Cultural development and the integration of culture into contemporary...
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Education in a Future South Africa: Policy Issues for Transformation
by Elaine Unterhalter Synopsis Explores some of the key problems posed by the transformation process in education while simultaneously highlighting the choices open to democratic movements....
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Mozambique Un Peacekeeping in Action 199
by Richard Synge Publisher Comments By the time it ended in 1992, Mozambique's 15-year civil war had exacted a terrible price. Economically paralyzed, the vast, drought-stricken country was rich only in enmity, landmines, and AK-47s. Into this misery was thrust a multifaceted UN mission...
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Enchanting Darkness: The American Vision of Africa in the Twentieth Century
by Dennis Hickey Book News Annotation The authors analyze the way truisms and stereotypes have perpetuated negative and naive images of Africa and its people, and probe the reasons behind the persistence of these views--even among the supposedly well-educated. Considering popular and...
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Recolonization and Resistance: Southern Africa in the 1990s
by John S Saul Publisher Comments A penetrating analysis of the struggle for in South Africa in its latest and hopefully final...
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