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God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir
by John Bul Dau
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This is a memoir of terror, triumph and humour as Bul Dau adapts to his new life, learning along the way that differences can be bridged peacefully.--"Windsor Star" (Ontario) This earnest, heart-on-the-sleeve memoir reinforces the preciousness of all... ( read more)
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Africa
by Peter Lewis
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In the decades since independence, the countries of sub-Saharan Africa have faced three central dilemmas of development. The first has been the challenge of state building. In the wake of colonial rule, governments have encountered the problems of... ( read more)
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Islands of Intensive Agriculture in Eastern Africa (Eastern African Studies)
by Mats Widgren
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ISLANDS OF INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE are areas of local cultivation surrounded by low-density livestock herders or extensive cultivators. Along the line of the East Africa Rift Valley, and in the highlands on either side, communities of considerable... ( read more)
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Binding Cultures: Black Women Writers in Africa and the Diaspora
by Gay Wilentz
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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.... ( read more)
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Safirka: An American Envoy
by Peter Bridges
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Peter S. Bridges's service as American ambassador to Somalia capped his three decades as a career officer in the American Foreign Service. Safirka, a frank description of his experiences in Somalia and elsewhere, offers pointed assessments of American... ( read more)
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African Studies #108: Africans: The History of a Continent
by John Iliffe
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In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the AIDS epidemic, John Iliffe refocuses its history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have been pioneers struggling against disease and nature... ( read more)
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Miriam's Song
by Miriam Mathabane
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Mark Mathabane first came to prominence with the publication of Kaffir Boy, which became a New York Times bestseller. His story of growing up in South Africa was one of the most riveting accounts of life under apartheid. Mathabane's newest book, Miriam's... ( read more)
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Between Ballots and Bullets : Algeria's Transition From Authoritarianism (98 Edition)
by William B. Quandt
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In the Arab world as elsewhere, authoritarian regimes have come under pressure for change. Citing Algeria as example, political scientist William B. Quandt looks at both the erosion of the authoritarian model and the difficulties of making a transition... ( read more)
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Diary from a South African Pri
by Tshenuwani Farisani
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This is Tshenuwani Simon Farisani's harrowing account of the suffering inflicted on a single human being by the brutalities of apartheid. Farisani shows us the terror of torture, the fear of death, and the eventual victory of faith. Here is a man of God,... ( read more)
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The Sacrificed Generation
by Lesley A Sharp
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Youth, historical consciousness, and political agency in independent Francophone Africa- are the themes that frame this study about Madagascar,... ( read more)
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The Politics of Bones: Dr. Owens Wiwa and the Struggle for Nigeria's Oil
by Timothy J Hunt
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The gripping story of a people’s battle against a corrupt government and a powerful oil company. On November 10, 1995, Nigeria’s military dictatorship executed nine environmental activists. Among them was Ken Saro-Wiwa, the charismatic... ( read more)
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They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan
by Benson Deng
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A stunning literary memoir from three of Sudan's Lost Boys recounts a harrowing, horrific journey across an unforgiving landscape and mourns the culture that they left behind.... ( read more)
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Every Secret Thing My Family My Country
by Gillian Slovo
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A passionate witness to the colossal upheaval that has transformed her native South Africa, Gillian Slovo has written a memoir that is far more than a story of her own life. For she is the daughter of Joe Slovo and Ruth First, South Africa's pioneering... ( read more)
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Rivonias Children Three Families & the C
by Glenn Frankel
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Frankel, a staff writer and editor for The Washington Post, tells the story of a handful of white activists, many of them Jewish, who risked their lives to combat apartheid in South Africa during the 1960s. Their underground headquarters was in Rivonia... ( read more)
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Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile & Apartheid
by Frank B Wilderson
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"[Frank B.] Wilderson [will] become a major American writer. Mark my word."-Ishmael Reed In 1995, a South African journalist informed Frank B. Wilderson, one of only two black American members of the African National Congress (ANC), that President Nelson... ( read more)
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Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda
by Michael Barnett
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Why was the UN a bystander during the Rwandan genocide? Do its sins of omission leave it morally responsible for the hundreds of thousands of dead? Michael Barnett, who worked at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, covered Rwanda... ( read more)
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In Shadow of a Saint : a Son's Journey To Understand His Father's Legacy (01 Edition)
by Ken Wiwa
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In late 1995, the little-known Ogoni region in Nigeria became a fable for our times. Ken Saro-Wiwa, a renowned poet and environmentalist, was campaigning to protect his Ogoni people against the encroachments of Shell Oil and a brutal dictatorship. He was... ( read more)
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Environment, Power, and Injustice
by Nancy Joy Jacobs
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This book presents the socio-environmental history of black people around Kuruman, on the edge of the Kalahari in South Africa. Considering successive periods--Tswana agropastoral chiefdoms before colonial contact, the Cape frontier, British colonial... ( read more)
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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
by Adam Hochschild
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Like the author's classic "King Leopold's Ghost," this new work abounds in atmosphere, high drama, and nuanced portraits of epic antislavery crusaders, heroes, and villains in Britain.... ( read more)
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Into the House of the Ancestors: Inside the New Africa
by Karl Maier
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Experience Africa's vibrant and volatile struggle at the crossroads between tradition and modernity . . . INTO THE HOUSE OF THE ANCESTORS "Rich . . . fascinating." --The New York Times Book Review "A master of eyewitness description and of the telling... ( read more)
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