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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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The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon Publisher Comments Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern revolutionary theory as The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks. He has had a profound... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 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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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 $12.00 Your price: $6.50 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: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706 by John Kelly Thornton Publisher Comments In 1704, Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita claimed to be possessed by St Anthony and attempted to stop the devastating civil wars in Kongo.... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Man's Burden : Africa and the Curse of the Nation State (92 Edition) by Basil Davidson Publisher Comments An absorbing, highly acclaimed examination of Africa's transition from colonialism to revolution to the social turmoil of today.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudiah Equiano (Norton Critical Editions) by Olaudah Equiano Publisher Comments It is accompanied by an introduction, maps, illustrations, and annotations. "Contexts" provides essential public writings on the autobiography, general and historical background, related travel and scientific literature, other eighteenth-century works by... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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When She Was White by Judith Stone Synopsis Drawing on a wealth of research, including extensive interviews, this is the true story of Sandra Laing, a woman whose life was torn apart by prejudice in South Africa and healed by love.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by Dean King Publisher Comments Everywhere hailed as a masterpiece of historical adventure, this enthralling narrative recounts the experiences of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815, captured by desert nomads, sold into slavery, and subjected... (read more) List Price $14.99 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 $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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White Supremacy: A Comparative Study of American and South African History by George Fredrickson Publisher Comments In this first comparative history of race relations in the United States and South Africa, George M. Fredrickson uncovers parallels and differences in the origin and expression of white supremacy in the two countries.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experiences with Development and Decadence in Deepest Africa by Robert Klitgaard Publisher Comments Selected as one of the six best nonfiction books of 1990 by the editors f the New York Times Book Review, this is a compelling and entertaining account of the authors two-and-a-half year adventure in Equatorial Guinea, and his efforts to get this small... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture by Kwame Anthon Appiah Publisher Comments The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles. The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights. The boats of Haitian refugees being turned away from the Land of Opportunity. These are among the... (read more) List Price $32.25 Your price: $9.95 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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Language of the Land by James Stephenson Publisher Comments At the age of twenty-two, James Stephenson arranged to spend a year living among the Hadzabe, the last hunters and gatherers still living a traditional life in Africa. He wanted to live their life, hunting what they hunted, eating what they ate... (read more) List Price $16.95 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: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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House At Sugar Beach (08 Edition) by Helene Cooper Publisher Comments A national bestseller in the tradition of A Long Way Gone, a haunting memoir by a world-renowned journalist of a war-torn childhood in Liberia and her return to her native country twenty years after her family’s flight, to reunite with the foster... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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