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Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey by Fergal Keane Publisher Comments ? Season of Blood was awarded Britain?s prestigious Orwell Prize for the best political book of 1995 ? Fergal Keane is the recipient of the 1995 Amnesty International Award for Best International Television Documentary. In 1994 he was named Sony Reporter... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur by Halima Bashir Publisher Comments Like the single white eyelash that graces her row of dark lashes–seen by her people as a mark of good fortune–Halima Bashirs story stands out. Tears of the Desert is the first memoir ever written by a woman caught up in the war in Darfur. It... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Urbanisation in Sa Volume 2: Planning by Pieter Kok Publisher Comments In Volume 2 of this two-volume publication, Pieter Kok and Derik Gelderblom attempt to identify the appropriate planning approaches to urbanisation and their main social implications. Based on an extensive literature study, the issue of planning for... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Cry of the Kalahari by Mark Owens Publisher Comments This is the story of the Owens' travel and life in the Kalahari Desert. Here they met and studied unique animals and were confronted with danger from drought, fire, storms, and the animals they loved. This best-selling book is for both travelers and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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From the Barrel of a Gun: The United States and the War Against Zimbabwe, 1965-1980 by Gerald Horne Publisher Comments In November 1965, Ian Smith's white minority government in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) made a unilateral declaration of independence, breaking with Great Britain. With a European population of a few hundred thousand dominating an African majority of... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Rebels' Hour by Lieve Joris Publisher Comments In The Rebels’ Hour, world renowned journalist Lieve Joris illuminates the dark heart of contemporary Congo through the prism of one lonely and complicated rebel leader who becomes a high ranking general in the Congolese army. When Assani, a young... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood by Helene Cooper Publisher Comments Helene Cooper is "Congo," a descendant of two Liberian dynasties -- traced back to the first ship of freemen that set sail from New York in 1820 to found Monrovia. Helene grew up at Sugar Beach, a twenty-two-room mansion by the sea. Her childhood was... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Mandela by Martin Meredith Publisher Comments Nelson Mandela stands out as one of the most admired political figures of the twentieth century. It was his leadership and moral courage above all that helped to deliver a peaceful end to apartheid in South Africa after years of racial division and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Economic Change and Political Liberalization in Sub-Saharan Africa by Jennifer A Widner Synopsis This is useful work which develops interesting ideas, derived from a neoclassical approach to political economy, within the context of the political events of the Africa of the early 1990's. -- African Affairs. Contributors are Robert H. Bates, Barbara... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ways of Staying by Kevin Bloom Publisher Comments After the brutal, random murder of his cousin, Kevin Bloom was left with shock, grief, and anger—and one burning question: "Why stay in South Africa?" As a journalist, Kevin Bloom had witnessed and reported on the rising tide of violence in... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Genocide in Darfur: Investigating the Atrocities in the Sudan by Samuel Totten Publisher Comments In response to the ongoing mass murder of Black Sudanese groups in the Darfur region of Sudan by Sudanese government troops and Arab militias, the US government sent the Darfur Atrocities Documentation Team to various points along the Chad/Sudan in order... (read more) List Price $56.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Quotable Africa by Julia Stewart Publisher Comments When the crocodile smiles, be extra careful. -Swahili proverb The African continent has been home to spectacularly eloquent human beings: rebellious anti-colonial leaders and anti-apartheid activists, comical geniuses, pensive and philosophical authors... (read more) List Price $31.50 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Zuma: A Biography by Jeremy Gordin Publisher Comments Why should anyone write about me? I'm not an important person. I'm not a rich businessman. I'm not from a politically famous or royal family.-- Jacob Zuma to biographer Jeremy GordinBut of course Zuma has been at the epicenter of South African politics... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Diasporas Within Without Africa by Lief Manger Publisher Comments The book deals with two types of African diasporas, the first of which originated in the migration histories of the Indian Ocean and brought new groups into Africa. This is illustrated by case studies of Hadrami communities in Sudan and Zanzibar, and the... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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In and Out of Morocco: Smuggling and Migration in a Frontier Boomtown by David A Mcmurray Publisher Comments Every summer for almost forty years, tens of thousands of Moroccan emigrants from as far away as Norway and Germany have descended on the duty-free smugglers' cove/migrant frontier boomtown of Nador, Morocco. David McMurray investigates the local effects... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Common Purpose by Andrea Durbach Publisher Comments It is the twenty-second year of Nelson Mandela s imprisonment and a country is gripped with civil unrest. In the small, conservative town of Upington, in South Africa s Northern Cape, a black policeman is beaten to death and his body burned during a riot.... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Nile From the Mountains To the Mediterra by Aldo Pavan Publisher Comments Subtitled, "From The Mountains To The Mediterranean - Africa's Great River".... (read more) Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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In Sierra Leone by Michael Jackson Publisher Comments In 2002, as Sierra Leone prepared to announce the end of its brutal civil war, the distinguished anthropologist, poet, and novelist Michael Jackson returned to the country where he had intermittently lived and worked as an ethnographer since 1969. While... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fate of Africa : From the Hopes of Freedom To the Heart of Despair (05 Edition) by Martin Meredith Publisher Comments Fifty years ago, as Europe's colonial powers withdrew, Africa moved with enormous hope and fervor toward democracy and economic independence. Dozens of new states were launched amid much jubilation and the world's applause. African leaders, popularly... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Words of Desmond Tutu, Second Edition by Desmond Tutu Publisher Comments To coincide with the first authorized biography of Nobel Peace Prize-winner and anti-Apartheid activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a new updated hardcover edition of this acclaimed collection featuring over 100 inspiring and thought-provoking selections... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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