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Long Way Gone : Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (07 Edition)
by Ishmael Beah  Publisher Comments My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life. "Why did you leave Sierra Leone?" "Because there is a war." "You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?" "Yes, all the time." "Cool." I...
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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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Unbowed : a Memoir (06 Edition)
by Wangari Maathai Publisher Comments In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people’s environmental movement...
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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
by Peter Godwin Publisher Comments Hailed by reviewers as powerful,haunting and a tour de force of personal journalism,When A Crocodile Eats the Sun is the unforgettable story of one man's struggle to discover his past and come to terms with his present. Award winning author and...
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No Future Without Forgiveness
by Desmond Tutu Publisher Comments The establishment of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a pioneering international event. Never had any country sought to move forward from despotism to democracy both by exposing the atrocities committed in the past and achieving...
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Twenty Chickens for a Saddle Signed
by Robyn Scott Publisher Comments A glorious new voice on Africa, Robyn Scott's adventures growing up in Botswana in a loving but eccentric family will be one of the season's most talked-about memoirs. Robyn Scott's story of moving at the age of seven to Botswana with her adventure...
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Long Walk To Freedom (94 Edition)
by Nelson Mandela Publisher Comments These are riveting memoirs of one of the great moral and political figures of our time, an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his...
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Pillar of Fire : America in the King Years 1963-64 (98 Edition)
by Taylor Branch Publisher Comments In the second volume of his three-part history, a monumental trilogy that began with Parting the Waters, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Taylor Branch portrays the Civil Rights Movement at its zenith, recounting...
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King Leopold's Ghost (98 Edition)
by Adam Hochschild
Publisher Comments In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber...
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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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My Battle of Algiers: A Memoir
by Ted Morgan Publisher Comments In My Battle of Algiers, an eminent historian and biographer recounts his own experiences in the savage Algerian War, an event all too reminiscent of America's present difficulties in Iraq. Ted Morgan recalls a war that we would do well not to forget. A...
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Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
by Saidiya Hartman Publisher Comments In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast, she reckons with the blank...
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Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood
by Robyn Scott Publisher Comments A glorious new voice on Africa, Robyn Scott's adventures growing up in Botswana in a loving but eccentric family will be one of the season's most talked-about memoirs. Robyn Scott's story of moving at the age of seven to Botswana with her adventure...
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All Things Must Fight to Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo
by Bryan Mealer Publisher Comments A foreign correspondent’s gripping account of his experiences in Congo, told through the long scope of the country’s dark and brutal history. After covering a brutal war that claimed four million lives, journalist Bryan Mealer takes readers...
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The Slave Ship: A Human History
by Marcus Rediker Publisher Comments The missing link in the chain of American slavery For three centuries slave ships carted millions of people from the coasts of Africa across the Atlantic to the Americas. Much is known of the slave trade and the American plantation system, but little of...
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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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A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 (New York Review Books Classics)
by Alistair Horne Publisher Comments The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de Gaulle to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil. More than a million Muslim Algerians died...
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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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Al Qaeda in Its Own Words
by Gilles Kepel Publisher Comments Despite the frequent appearances of Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri on television screens worldwide, Al Qaeda remains an elusive entity. As the world has grown increasingly familiar with the spectacle of Islamist terrorism, Al Qaedaandrsquo;s...
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Boer War (UK Edition)
by Thomas Pakenham Synopsis The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 proved to be the longest, the costliest, the bloodiest and the most humiliating campaign that Britain fought between 1815 and 1914. This history of the war is based largely on private papers of the...
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