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Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood by Fatima Marnissi Publisher Comments ”I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco...” So begins Fatima Mernissi in this exotic and rich narrative of a childhood behind the iron gates of a domestic harem. In Dreams of Trespass, Mernissi weaves her own memories with the dreams... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela 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... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch Staff Pick "I urge everyone to read this book. The cover shows a picture of serenity, a scene from the beach of Lake Kivu in Rwanda. The landscape is devoid of human beings and an empty chair sits on the sand. The title in red stands out starkly from this backdrop.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wonders of the African World by Henry Louis Gates Publisher Comments The Companion Volume to the PBS Television Series Wonders of the African World is an exuberant, visually stunning journey across Africa and through the history of its glorious but forgotten civilizations. Traveling by camel, by dhow, by Land Cruiser, and... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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The World's Most Dangerous Place: Inside the Outlaw State of Somalia by James Fergusson Publisher Comments Although the war in Afghanistan is now in its endgame, the West’s struggle to eliminate the threat from Al Qaeda is far from over. A decade after 9/11, the war on terror has entered a new phase and, it would seem, a new territory. In early 2010, Al... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Wildflower: An Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Death in Africa by Mark Seal Publisher Comments Wildflower is a compelling work of narrative nonfiction in which the shocking death of a dedicated environmentalist becomes a broader story of a beautiful, breathtaking country in peril. In January 2006, Joan Root, a sixty-nine-year-old naturalist, Oscar-... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wretched of the Earth (New Translation) by Frantz Fanon Publisher Comments From one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history comes this brilliant analysis of the psychology of colonized peoples and their path to liberation--now available in a new translation with... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Notes From the Hyena's Belly by Nega Mezlekia Publisher Comments Winner of the Governor General's Award A Library Journal Best Book of 2001 Part autobiography and part social history, Notes from the Hyena's Belly offers an unforgettable portrait of Ethiopia, and of Africa, during the 1970s and '80s, an era of civil... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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A History of Modern Africa: 1800 to the Present (Blackwell Concise History of the Modern World) by Richard J Reid Publisher Comments Updated and revised to reflect recent historic events and scholarly debates, this second edition of A History of Modern Africa recounts the full breadth of Africa's political, economic, and social history over the past two centuries. Author Richard Reid... (read more) List Price $41.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Romeo Dallaire Publisher Comments For the first time in the United States comes the tragic and profoundly important story of the legendary Canadian general who "watched as the devil took control of paradise on earth and fed on the blood of the people we were supposed to protect." When... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad by Waris Dirie Publisher Comments Waris Dirie ran away from her oppressive life in the African desert when she was barely in her teens, illiterate and impoverished, with nothing to her name but a tattered shawl. She traveled alone across the dangerous Somali desert to Mogadishu—... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Egypt: A Short History by Robert Tignor Publisher Comments "From Hyksos chariots to Egypt's latest venture in the desert, Egypt: A Short History is vintage Robert Tignor: concise, straightforward, and comprehensive. He manages to introduce primers on the sects of Islam, the trajectory of the Ottoman Empire, and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Of Beetles & Angels: A Boy's Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard by Mawi Asgedom Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mandela: The Authorized Biography by Anthony Sampson Publisher Comments The life of Nelson Mandela is one of the most extraordinary epics of the twentieth century. An almost-forgotten prisoner on Robben Island twenty years ago, apparently doomed to a helpless existence as a victim of apartheid, he not only survived but... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 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... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier by Alexandra Fuller Publisher Comments When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a "tough bugger." Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of him... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari Publisher Comments "I am the translator who has taken journalists into dangerous Darfur. It is my intention now to take you there in this book, if you have the courage to come with me." The young life of Daoud Hari-his friends call him David has been one of... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Global Visions, Local Landscapes: A Political Ecology of Conservation, Conflict, and Control in Northern Madagascar (Globalization and the Environment) by Lisa L. Gezon Synopsis Gezon argues that local events continuously redefine and challenge global processes of land use and land degradation. Her ethnographic study of Antankarana-identifying rice farmers and cattle herders in northern Madagascar weaves together an analysis of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Biko by Donald Woods Publisher Comments Subjected to 22 hours of interrogation, torture and beating by South African police on September 6, 1977, Steve Biko died six days later. Donald Woods, Biko's close friend and a leading white South African newspaper editor, exposed the murder helping to... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Mass Market
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They Fight Like Soldiers, They Di: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers by Romeo Dallaire Publisher Comments As the leader of the ill-fated United Nations peacekeeping force in Rwanda, Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire came face-to-face with the horrifying reality of child soldiers during the genocide of 1994. Since then the incidence of child... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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