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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 Economic Reforms and Modernization in Nigeria, 1945-1965 by Toyin Falola Publisher Comments Created as a result of British colonialism, Nigeria emerged as a nation-state during the mid-twentieth century. The British colonial administration, in a state of economic crisis and with huge debts to the United States, was uninterested in any rapid... (read more) List Price $49.00 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rwanda Means the Universe: A Native's Memoir of Blood and Bloodlines by Louise Mushikiwabo Publisher Comments Mushikiwabo is a Rwandan working as a translator in Washington when she learns that most of her family back home has been killed in a conspiracy meticulously planned by the state. First comes shock, then aftershock, three months of it, during which her... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fragmented Worlds, Coherent Lives: The Politics of Difference in Botswana by Pnin Motzafi Haller Publisher Comments When the author first went to Botswana in the early 1980s to study the impact of a major land reform on rural life in this impoverished African country, social theory and ethnographic practice seemed solid and convincing. A decade later, and again in... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Africa Betrayed by George B N Ayittey Publisher Comments With independence from colonial rule, Africans had hoped for liberty, prosperity and a new beginning. Instead, they have experienced have brought nothing but economic misery, famine, senseless civil wars, wanton destruction, flagrant violations of human... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Africa in History Rev & Expanded Edition by Basil Davidson Publisher Comments Prior to the original publication of "Africa in History", the history and development of Africa had been measured by the European concept of "civilization", applying a Eurocentric approach to African art and literature. Basil Davidson's landmark work... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Quest for the Secret Nile: Victorian Exploration in Equatorial Africa 1857-1900 by G H Yeoman Publisher Comments Victorian exploration in Equatorial Africa, 1857-1889.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list African Studies Series #85: Africans: The History of a Continent by John Iliffe Publisher Comments This history of Africa from the origins of mankind to the South African general election of 1994 refocuses African history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. The social, economic and political institutions of the African continent... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Exchange Is Not Robbery: More Stories of an African Bar Girl by John Chernoff Publisher Comments While living in West Africa in the 1970s, John Chernoff recorded the stories of "Hawa," a spirited and brilliant but uneducated woman whose insistence on being respected and treated fairly propelled her, ironically, into a life of marginality and luck as... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Zulus and Matabele Warrior Nations by Glen Lyndon Dodds Publisher Comments In the beginning was the glorious warrior king Shaka Zulu -- but this most celebrated fighter did not battle alone, nor did the struggle of the southern African nations end with his death. Lucid, authoritative, and enjoyable, this account chronicles the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) 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   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 Gates of Africa Death Discovery & The by Anthony Sattin Synopsis Founded in 1788 by a group of London-based gentlemen and made famous by the amazing exploits of its adventurers, the story of the world's first geographical society, The African Association, is one of passion, ambition, courage and sheer sense of... (read more) Your price $29.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Thomas Hodgkin Wandering Scholar by Michael Wolfers Publisher Comments The story of an early pioneer in the field of African Studies is featured in this illuminating biography. In the late 1940s, Thomas Hodgkin set out—through his travels and writings—to overcome the false visions of African history and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list African Families and the Crisis of Social Change by Thomas S Weisner Publisher Comments African families face serious crises today. They are under economic, demographic and political pressures of all kinds; yet, families are not mere hapless victims of global change. They are proactive, resilient agents and creators of change. This volume... (read more) List Price $31.50 Your price $5.49 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide by M W Daly Publisher Comments Darfur is a region set apart: huge, remote, and poverty stricken. Its people are today locked in conflict, terrorized by the lawless Arab militia known as janjawid, which has created what the United Nations has called ‘the world's worst... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa by Pat Shipman Publisher Comments Prepare to embark upon a breathtaking adventure, brimming with hair-raising rescues, impossible quests, danger, discovery, catastrophe, mutiny, and uncompromising love -- all the more remarkable because every word is true. Acclaimed New York Times and... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Nile by Robert O. Collins Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-244) and index.... (read more) List Price $48.00 Your price $11.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Dictionary of Afro-Latin American Civilization by Benjamin Nuñez Review There has been much need for a dictionary of this kind, and Nunez is to be commended for producing a solid one. Drawing on 14 glossaries and dictionaries, 126 books, and 20 articles, the author has carefully selected for this attractively organized... (read more) List Price $82.95 Your price $69.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mother Africa, Father Marx: Women's Writing of Mozambique, 1948-2002 by Hilary Owen Publisher Comments This book is the first work in the English language to discuss the participation of women writers in the narrative construction of Mozambican nationhood over the last half-century. Covering the rise of anti-colonial nationalism in the 1950s, the advent... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $45.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Infertility and Patriarchy by Marcia Clair Inhorn Publisher Comments The social consequences of infertility place poor urban women in Egypt at the center of a web of tumultuous relationships with spouses, in-laws, and neighbors. Although Egyptian patriarchy is based on the central role played by men in reproduction, women... (read more) List Price $18.50 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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