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Homeward Journey: Readings in African Studies by Herbert T Neve Publisher Comments A cross-disciplinary anthology that introduces fundamental historical and contemporary topics about Africa.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $1.74 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list North Africa: Regional Tensions and Strategic Concerns; Revised and Updated Version by Richard B Parker Publisher Comments North Africa, comprising Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, and Libya, is of particular strategic and economics importance to both the United States and the Soviet Union. Richard B. Parker provides an informed perspective on the problems facing the region with... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price $4.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Africa & Africans in the Making of T 2ND Edition by John Thornton Publisher Comments Focusing especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World, this book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the 15th through the 18th centuries. Author John Thornton examines the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Power Lines: Two Years in South Africa's Borders by Jason Carter Powells.com Staff Pick After college, Jason Carter, grandson of former President Jimmy Carter, went to South Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer to help rural teachers implement a post-apartheid curriculum. Accepted and rejected at times by both cultures, he straddled the line... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A History of Egypt: From the Arab Conquest to the Present by Afaf Lutfi A Marsot Publisher Comments New and updated edition of the successful A Short History of Modern Egypt.... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Comprehending and Mastering African Conflicts: The Search for Sustainable Peace and Good Governance by Adebayo Adedeji Publisher Comments The book examines the complex and diverse roots of conflicts in Angola, Burundi and Rwanda, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Somalia and Somaliland, and offers historical and comparative reflections. It explores possible ways of anticipating, containing and... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price $18.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rainbow's End: A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm by Lauren St John Publisher Comments Set against the backdrop of the Rhodesian civil war, St. John's memoir of growing up on a farm and game preserve in the 1970s deftly conjures up the smells and sounds of the African bush and the era's climate of unashamed racism and feverish patriotism.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Another Africa by Robert Lyons and Chinua Achebe Publisher Comments Two great talents have joined together to create a unique d gorgeous book that fuses photographs, poetry, and text to create a view of present-day Africa that moves beyond the stereotypes commonly held by most Westerners. There are no shots of beautiful... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Frantz Fanon: A Spiritual Biography (Lives & Legacies) by Patrick Ehlen Publisher Comments Patrick Ehlen resurrects the tremendous personality of Fanon and presents his remarkable life with the skill of a fine novelist. The book opens on the small French Caribbean colony of Martinique at the turn of the century, and recounts the trials of an... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Great War in Africa, 1914-1918 by Byron Farwell Publisher Comments The African front comprised a series of conflicts, schemes, maneuvers, heroics, disasters, inhospitable climate and geography, and insects--as the Allies sought to conquer four German colonies.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $10.95 (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   Parting the Desert Creation of Suez Cana by Zachary Karabell Synopsis The building of the Suez Canal was considered the greatest engineering feat of the 19th century, but, as Zachary Karabell shows in this book, there was much more to it than just a marvel of construction. In addition, "Parting the Desert" describes an... (read more) Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list This House Has Fallen: Nigeria in Crisis by Karl Maier Publisher Comments To understand Africa, one must understand Nigeria, and few Americans understand Nigeria better than Karl Maier. This House Has Fallen is a bracing and disturbing report on the state of Africa's most populous, potentially richest, and most dangerously... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $8.96 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Political Topographies of the African State: Territorial Authority and Institutional Choice (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) by Catherine Boone Publisher Comments Catherine Boone examines political regionalism in Africa and how it affects forms of government, and prospects for democracy and development. Boone's study is set within the context of larger theories of political development in agrarian societies. It... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $22.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Poison and Medicine: Ethnicity, Power, and Violence in a Nigerian City, 1966 to 1986 (Social History of Africa,) by Douglas A Anthony Publisher Comments Ethnicity can be brought to destructive or constructive ends, depending on who mobilizes it and how it is wielded. There is abundant evidence in Africa and elsewhere of the tragically divisive influence of ethnicized politics. The constructive... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Segregation and Apartheid in Twentieth Century South Africa (Exeter Arabic and Islamic Series) by William Beinart Publisher Comments Offering a selection of significant essays contributed by prominent writers of various perspectives, "Segregation and Apartheid in 20th Century South Africa" is and unparalleled introduction to this highly contentious and absorbing subject of... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory by Andre Aciman Synopsis Celebrated as one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, Andre Aciman has written a witty, surprising series of linked essays that ponder the experience of loss--moving from his forced departure from Alexandria as a teenager, through his brief... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Capacity Building for a Reforming African Power Sector (African Energy Policy Research Series) by Mengistu Teferra Publisher Comments Under the aegis of the African Energy Policy Research Network (AFREPREN) Capacity Building Theme Group, a regional study and four country studies (Zimbabwe, Mauritius, Ethiopia, and South Africa) addressed the capacity building question in the African... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Crisis, Adjustment and Growth in Uganda: A Study of Adaptation in an African Economy by Arne Bigsten Book News Annotation Looks at economic reform in Uganda, which has been based on the IMF/World Bank model, as an example of the dilemmas facing a poor economy attempting to achieve internal and external balance. Effects of economic policy at the aggregate level are... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list France and Islam in West Africa, 1860-1960 by Christophe Harrison Publisher Comments A major contribution to the social, political and intellectual history of the French West African Federation.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $37.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience by Mark Bixler Synopsis The tragic and inspiring story of four Sudanese refugees who make their way to the US to rebuild their lives.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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