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Don't Let's Go To the Dogs Tonight : an African Childhood (01 Edition)
by Alexandra Fuller  
Powells.com 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...
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Shadow of Sun (01 Edition)
by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Publisher Comments Compiled from four decades of reporting, this is celebrated journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski's most complete portrait of the Africa that he has made of the focus of his great career. Kapuscinski does more than record the political and social upheavals...
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Hanging by a Thread: Cotton, Globalization, and Poverty in Africa (Ohio Ris Global)
by William G Moseley Publisher Comments The textile industry was one of the first manufacturing activities to become organized globally, as mechanized production in Europe used cotton from the various colonies. Africa, the least developed of the world’s major regions, is now increasingly...
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Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa
by Hans Silvester Publisher Comments An unprecedented series of images showing the Omo people's imaginative body decoration and embellishments. The scene of tribal conflicts and guerrilla incursions, Ethiopia's Omo Valley is also home to fascinating rites and traditions that have survived...
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Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil
by John Ghazvinian Publisher Comments Although Africa has long been known to be rich in oil, extracting it hadn’t seemed worth the effort and risk until recently. But with the price of Middle Eastern crude oil skyrocketing and advancing technology making reserves easier to tap, the...
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Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone
by Martin Dugard Publisher Comments With the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David...
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A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa
by Howard W. French Publisher Comments In A Continent for the Taking Howard W. French, a veteran correspondent for The New York Times, gives a compelling firsthand account of some of Africa’s most devastating recent history–from the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, to Charles Taylor...
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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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The Wretched of the Earth (New Translation)
by Frantz Fanon Publisher Comments A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a...
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Zara's Tales: Perilous Escapades in Equatorial Africa
by Peter H Beard Review “Beard’s memoir, dedicated to his daughter, Zara, has the delicious suspense of a tale told to a child — one who knows the teller escaped to tell his story . . . There are moments of quiet beauty . . . and wild days . . . Composed with...
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Black Skin, White Masks (67 Edition)
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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There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children
by Melissa Fay Greene
Powells.com Staff Pick Millions of children are left without parents in Ethiopia as the result of AIDS. A skilled and graceful exploration of this crisis, Greene's moving account of one woman's actions shows the tremendous impact one person can make. Haregewoin is a genuine...
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African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms
by John Chernoff Publisher Comments "We have in this book a Rosetta stone for mediating, or translating, African musical behavior and aesthetics."—Andrew Tracey, African Music "John Miller Chernoff, who spent 10 years studying African drumming, has a flair for descriptive writing...
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The Life and African Explorations of David Livingstone
by David Livingstone Publisher Comments Missionary and explorer David Livingstone traveled 11,000 miles of African territory. This book is his account of his lifelong African journeys and adventures, exciting exploits that tell a story of unsurpassed courage and determination....
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Africana: The Concise Desk Reference
by Kwame Anthon Appiah Publisher Comments Drawn from the acclaimed landmark in reference publishing, this incomparable one-volume encyclopedia of the black world is now within reach of every family, student, and educator. It brings the entire Pan-African experience into sharp focus, with entries...
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Living Apart
by Ian Berry Synopsis In the post-war period the South African government gradually developed a policy that was meant to retain for ever the rights and privileges of a white minority: apartheid. Racial prejudices and tensions may create difficulties in many societies, but...
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The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence
by Martin Meredith
Synopsis An epic biography of postcolonial Africa illuminates its current devastating problems. What happened to this vast continent, so rich in resources and history, to bring it so close to destitution and despair in the span of two generations?...
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Sizwe's Test: A Young Man's Journey Through Africa's AIDS Epidemic
by Jonny Steinberg Publisher Comments At the age of twenty-nine, Sizwe Magadla is among the most handsome, well-educated, and richest of the men in his poverty-stricken village. Dr. Hermann Reuter, a son of old South West African stock, wants to show the world that if you provide decent...
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New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa's Renaissance (W.E.B. Du Bois Institute)
by Charlayne Hunter-Gault Publisher Comments For twenty years an acclaimed correspondent on PBS's The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and the winner of two Emmys and two Peabody Awards (the latter two for her coverage of Africa), Charlayne Hunter-Gault was until recently the Johannesburg Bureau Chief for...
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Africa in History Rev & Expanded Edition
by Basil Davidson Publisher Comments Prior to the original publication of Africa in History, the history and development of Africa had been measured by the European concept of "civilization," applying a Eurocentric approach to African art and literature. Basil Davidson's landmark work...
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