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Classical Readings in African Library De by Basil Amaeshi Publisher Comments Beginning with a bibliographic essay, the work retraces the literature of public library development in East and West Africa. Included are the historical contributions and writings of Harold Lancour, F.A. Sharr, and John Harris, three men that helped to... (read more) List Price $92.00 Your price $21.78 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology by Cheikh Anta Diop Publisher Comments Translated by Yaa-Lengi Meema Ngemi Represents the late Senegalese scholar's final contribution to rethinking African and world history from an Afrocentric perspective.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Africa and the Disciplines: The Contributions of Research in Africa to the Social Sciences and Humanities by Robert H Bates Publisher Comments African Studies, contrary to some accounts, is not a separate <BR>continent in the world of American higher education. Its <BR>intellectual borders touch those of economics, literature, <BR>history, philosophy, and art; its history is... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love by Jim Wooten Publisher Comments The extraordinary story of the little South African boy whose bravery and fierce determination to make a difference despite being born with AIDS has made him the human symbol of the world's fight against the disease, told by the veteran American... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Avenues of Participation: Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics) by Diane Singerman Publisher Comments Focusing on the political life of the sha'b (or popular classes) in Cairo, Diane Singerman shows how men and women develop creative and effective strategies to accomplish shared goals, despite the dominant forces ranged against them.... (read more) Your price $24.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Lake Regions of Central Africa by Richard F. Burton Publisher Comments An engrossing record of explorations of central Africa's lake regions. Acute observations on village life, native character, religion and government.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fuelling the Empire: South Africa's Gold and the Road to War by John J. Stephens Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-317) and index.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $22.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Across Boundaries: The Journey of a South African Woman Leader by Mamphela Ramphele Publisher Comments Across Boundariesis an autobiography that captures both a unique heart and a nation's history. Because Mamphela Ramphele began her life as a shy child born into the cage of apartheid - and gradually became an activist who helped set South Africa free... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Organizing African Unity by Jon Woronoff Publisher Comments No descriptive material is available for this title.... (read more) Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mandela: The Authorized Biography by Anthony Sampson Publisher Comments Nelson Mandela, who emerged from twenty-six years of political imprisonment to lead South Africa out of apartheid and into democracy, is perhaps the world's most admired leader, a man whose life has been led with exemplary courage and inspired conviction.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Africa on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience by Mark Bixler Publisher Comments The tragic and inspiring story of four Sudanese refugees who make their way to the US to rebuild their lives.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list European Imperialism & the Partition of Africa by E F Penrose Synopsis Seeks to explain the European partition of Africa between 1880-1900.... (read more) List Price $135.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Kianfa's Congo by Hugo Daems Synopsis Recollections of a decade spent in the Congo between the 1950s and 1960s. Takes the reader deep into the Central African rural life of the Sonde Tribe.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A History of South Africa by Leonard Thompson Publisher Comments A leading scholar of South Africa provides a fresh and penetrating exploration of that country's history from the earliest known human habitation to the present, focusing primarily on the experiences of its black inhabitants. This third edition includes... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Postcolonial Subjectivities (Postcolonial Encounters) by Richard P. Werbner Publisher Comments This book crosses the frontier of critical theory by illuminating the contradictory predicaments Africans confront at the turn of the 21st century. The essays recognize postcolonies troubled by state decline and increasing exploitation, dispossession and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $13.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Anatomy of a Miracle: The End of Apartheid and the Birth of the New South Africa by Patti Waldmeir Synopsis The peaceful birth of black majority rule in South Africa was a transcendent moment. Many South Africans believe this negotiated revolution to be a miracle: at the very least it was a feat of political magic. One false step along the way could have... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $6.10 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Troubled Heart of Africa: A History of the Congo by Robert B. Edgerton Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-277) and index.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa by Adam Roberts Publisher Comments Equatorial Guinea is a tiny country roughly the size of the state of Maryland. Humid, jungle covered, and rife with unpleasant diseases, natives call it Devil Island. Its president in 2004, Obiang Nguema, had been accused of cannibalism, belief in... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $13.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Shades of Difference: Mac Maharaj and the Struggle for South Africa by Patraigh Omalley Publisher Comments The inside story of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement is told through the experiences of one of its unsung heroes: freedom fighter Mac Maharaj.... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda by Michael Barnett Publisher Comments Why was the UN a bystander during the Rwandan genocide? Do its sins of omission leave it morally responsible for the hundreds of thousands of dead? Michael Barnett, who worked at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, covered Rwanda... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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