Africa
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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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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
by Philip Gourevitch
Powells.com Staff Pick I just finished rereading We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families because after reading Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning I thought that the atrocities committed in Rwanda might make more sense to me. There are eerie...
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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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Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier
by Alexandra Fuller
Powells.com Staff Pick In Scribbling the Cat, Fuller forsakes the oblique approach of her bestselling debut, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, and tackles the Rhodesian War head-on. Visiting her parents in Zambia, she meets a veteran of the all-white Rhodesian Light Infantry...
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The Soccer War
by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Powells.com Staff Pick Ryszard Kapuscinski is one of the greatest journalists alive and one of the greatest writers, too. The titles don't always fit together easily, but what Kapuscinski does is far more than just journalism. His writing has been part of what he calls the...
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There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country'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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Scribbling the Cat : Travels With an African Soldier (04 Edition)
by Alexandra Fuller
Powells.com Staff Pick In Scribbling the Cat, Fuller forsakes the oblique approach of her bestselling debut, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, and tackles the Rhodesian War head-on. Visiting her parents in Zambia, she meets a veteran of the all-white Rhodesian Light Infantry...
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Power Lines: Two Years in South Africa's Borders
by Jason Carter
Powells.com Staff Pick After college, Jason Carter, grandson of former President Jimmy Carter, went to South Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer to help rural teachers implement a post-apartheid curriculum. Accepted and rejected at times by both cultures, he straddled the line...
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