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Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller Publisher Comments In Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness Alexandra Fuller braids a multilayered narrative around the perfectly lit, Happy Valley-era Africa of her mother's childhood; the boiled cabbage grimness of her father's English childhood; and the darker... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover 
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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: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood by Robyn Scott Publisher Comments An exquisitely rendered portrait of an African childhood from an astonishing new talent When Robyn Scott 's parents decide to uproot their young family from New Zealand and move to a converted cowshed in rural Botswana, life for six-year-old Robyn... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail (Oprah's Book Club) by Malika Oufkir Publisher Comments The adopted daughter of the king of Morocco, whose father was arrested and executed for a 1972 attempt to assassinate the king, tells the story of how she, her mother, and her five siblings endured years of imprisonment in a desert penal colony. This... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah Publisher Comments The first-person account of a 26-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy.... (read more) Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Amilcar Cabral: Revolutionary Leadership and People's War by Patrick Chabal Synopsis This book, first published in 1983 by Cambridge University Press and now issued for the first time in paperback with a new preface, tells the story of Amilcar Cabral who, as head of PAIGC, Guinea-Bissau's nationalist movement, became one of Africa's... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 (New York Review Books Classics) by Alistair Horne Publisher Comments The NYRB Classics series is designedly and determinedly exploratory and eclectic, a mix of fiction and non-fiction from different eras and times and of various sorts. The series includes nineteenth century novels and experimental novels, reportage and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Another Day of Life (01 Edition) by Ryszard Kapuscinski Publisher Comments Ryszard Kapuscinski, one of the twentieth century's preeminent journalists, is renowned for his narratives of the Third World, which transcend reportage and enter the realm of literature.<P>Another Day of Life is Kapuscinski's dramatic account of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller 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... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid by P Gobodo Madikizela Publisher Comments A Human Being Died That Night recounts an extraordinary dialogue. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, a psychologist who grew up in a black South African township, reflects on her interviews with Eugene de Kock, the commanding officer of state-sanctioned death... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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West with the Night by Beryl Markham Publisher Comments West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s. Beryl Markham is also the author of The Splendid Outcast: The African Stories of Beryl Markham. Growing up in East... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Discoveries: Alexandria, Jewel of Egypt (02 Edition) by Empereur Publisher Comments Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Reunion in Barsaloi by Corinne Hofmann Publisher Comments In a sequel to her international bestseller The White Masai, Corinne Hofmann continues her personal account of a white European woman in love with a Masai tribesman in remote Kenya. Fourteen years after fleeing with her baby daughter, Corinne returned to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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No man's land :a personal journey into Africa by John Heminway Publisher Comments One of America's most distinguished travel writers and the PBS-TV host of hisown program presents a fascinating look at the world of white Africans today.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa 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... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The White Masai by Corinne Hofmann Publisher Comments This page-turning tale puts an African spin on "Not Without My Daughter" when a woman abandons her business, family, and own country to follow a Masai warrior. 8-page color photo insert.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder Staff Pick Tracy Kidder's incredibly moving and vivid new book follows and accompanies Deo, a survivor of the genocide in Burundi, through his remarkable journey to America and back home again. Kidder makes the abstract achingly personal and showcases a genuine... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest by Aminatta Forna Publisher Comments Aminatta Forna's intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an idyllic childhood that became the stuff of nightmare. As a child she witnessed the upheavals of postcolonial Africa, danger, flight, the bitterness of exile in Britain... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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28: Stories of AIDS in Africa by Stephanie Nolen Publisher Comments “This is a formidable book of record…from the tiny virus, via twenty-eight individual human stories, to an entire continent. The stories will tear you apart before putting you back together, fully armed and ready to go to war with a virus more... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 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 $17.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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