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West with the Night
by Beryl Markham
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A new edition of a great, underappreciated classic of our time Beryl Markhams West with the Night is a true classic, a book that deserves the same acclaim and readership as the work of her contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Antoine de Saint-Exup&... (read more)

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Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
by Leymah Gbowee
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WINNER OF THE 2011 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE In a time of death and terror, Leymah Gbowee brought Liberia’s women together—and together they led a nation to peace. As a young woman, Leymah Gbowee was broken by the Liberian... (read more)

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My Traitor's Heart : a South African Exile Returns To Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience (90 Edition)
by Rian Malan
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Sufferings in Africa: Captain Riley's Narrative: An Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce ...
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Out of Egypt: A Memoir
by Andre Aciman
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Diamonds, Gold, and War: the British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa (08 Edition)
by Martin Meredith
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The Calling of Katie Makanya: A Memoir of South Africa
by Margaret Mccord
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The Shadow of the Sun
by Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness
by Alexandra Fuller
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The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
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Sundiata an Epic of Old Mali
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Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil
by John Ghazvinian
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
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Rainbow's End: A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm
by Lauren St John
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Infidel
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Ali's memoir Infidel reveals an extraordinary woman who survived a harrowing early life, fled to the Netherlands to escape an arranged marriage, and was elected to that country's Parliament before death threats landed her under 24-hour guard. Not every... (read more)

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Out of Egypt: A Memoir
by Andre Aciman
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False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
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