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The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest
by Aminatta Forna  Publisher Comments As a child Aminatta Forna witnessed the upheavals of postcolonial Africa, danger, flight, the bitterness of exile in Britain, and the terrible consequences of her dissident father's stand against tyranny. Mohamed Forna was a man of unimpeachable...
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In Our Village: Kambi YA Simba Through the Eyes of Its Youth
by Students At Awet Sec Synopsis 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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Of Beetles & Angels: A Boy's Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard
by Mawi Asgedom Synopsis 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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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...
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Miriam's Song: A Memoir
by Miriam Mathabane Publisher Comments The powerful memoir of a young black woman coming of age in South Africa amid the violence of apartheid, beautifully written by her brother, the bestselling author of Kaffir Boy. Mark Mathabane first came to prominence with the publication of Kaffir...
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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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Letters from Africa, 1914-1931
by Isak Dinesen Publisher Comments "Here is a rich new biographical perspective on the brilliant storyteller whose sophisticated romantic fiction . . . made her an international success and perpetual candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. . . . [These letters] contain the raw...
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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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Life of Olaudah Equiano
by Olaudah Equiano Synopsis This is the autobiography of an African slave and the story of his experiences. It was first published in 1789....
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Maverick State: Libya & the New World Order
by Book News Annotation A specialist in North-South relations with particular reference to Africa, Guy queries why the leader of Libya's reputation as the prime bogeyman of the West (currently perhaps second behind Saddam Hussein) is so out of proportion to anything he has...
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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 Africas anti-apartheid movement, told through the experiences of one of its unsung heroes, with an introduction by Nelson Mandela A South African of Indian descent, Mac Maharaj was a potent force in the Communist Party and...
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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 Synopsis Shortlisted for the Alan Paton Award for Nonfiction Writing in South Africa....
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Nelson Mandela: The Man and the Movement
by Mary Benson Publisher Comments Nelson Mandela became a legend in his own lifetime. The son of a chief, he qualified as a lawyer, then was one of the leaders of the African National Congress whose long, heroic struggle against the infamous system of apartheid is vividly described in...
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Bay of Tigers: An African Odyssey
by Pedro Rosa Mendes Publisher Comments In 1997, Pedro Rosa Mendes traveled across Africa--6,000 miles from the west to the east coast, from Angola to Mozambique--on trains with no windows, no doors, no seats, on wrecks of trucks and buses, on boats and motorcycles. In war-torn Angola, a...
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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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Binding Cultures: Black Women Writers in Africa and the Diaspora
by Gay Wilentz Synopsis This study examines the cultural bonds between African and African-American women as illustrated in the writings of contemporary authors of the United States and West Africa....
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Research Report #126: Repressive State and Resurgent Media Under Nigeria's Military Dictatorship, 1988-98
by Ayo Olukotun Publisher Comments This study documents a crucial dimension of the resistance of Nigerian civil society to a repressive and monumentally corrupt military state in the late 1980s and 1990s in Nigeria. Employing a neo-Gramscian theoretical framework, the study relates how a...
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Harem Years: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist, 1879-1924
by Huda Shaarawi Publisher Comments In this rare first-hand account of the private world of a Cairo harem during the years before Egypt declared independence in 1922, Shaarawi recalls her childhood and early adult life in the seclusion of an upper-class Egyptian household, including her...
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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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