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Squatters & the Roots of Mau-Mau 1905-1963 (Eastern African Studies) by Tabitha Kanogo Publisher Comments "The most comprehensive history available of an extremely important group.... Kanogo's extensive research and balanced writing are worthy of high praise". -- American Historical... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list No Place Left to Bury the Dead: Denial, Despair and Hope in the African AIDS Pandemic by Nicole Itano Publisher Comments In this haunting investigation, acclaimed journalist Itano eats, sleeps, and lives with women in Africa who suffer daily from the raging epidemic of AIDS. This work not only puts a human face on the impact of the disease, but also increases global... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) 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 Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Saidiya Hartman Publisher Comments In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast. She retraces the history of the Atlantic slave trade from the fifteenth to the twentieth century and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Or, Gustavus Vassa, the African (Modern Library Classics) by Olaudah Equiano Publisher Comments Edited and with Notes by Shelly Eversley Introduction by Robert Reid-Pharr In this truly astonishing eighteenth-century memoir, Olaudah Equiano recounts his remarkable life story, which begins when he is kidnapped in Africa as a boy and sold into slavery... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $7.50 (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 Award-winning correspondent for ABC World News and Nightline Jim Wooten is a seasoned newsman who has covered tragedy the world over. Now he tells the story of Nkosi Johnson, an eleven-year-old South African boy born with AIDS into poverty in a... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Far in the Waste Sudan: On Assignment in Africa by Nicholas Coghlan Publisher Comments The first Canadian diplomat to be posted in Khartoum offers an insider?s view of war-torn Sudan at a turning point in its history.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $23.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide by Robert Lyons Publisher Comments In 1994, an interim government in Rwanda orchestrated one of the world's worst mass crimes: a 100-day extermination campaign that took half a million lives. At the time, Rwanda's genocide went largely unnoticed by the outside world. Today there is... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price $27.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 author’s two-and-a-half year adventure in Equatorial Guinea, and his efforts to get this... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The White Masai by Corinne Hofmann Publisher Comments This page-turning tale puts an African spin on "Not Without My Daughter" when a woman abandons her business, family, and own country to follow a Masai warrior. 8-page color photo insert.... (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   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 $7.25 (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 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 $14.95 (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 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 A Rasta's Pilgrimage: Ethiopian Faces and Places by Neville Garrick Synopsis This book presents a compelling view of Ethiopia's ancient civilization from a Rastafarian perspective. To Rastas, Ethiopia is a spiritual sanctuary -- a dreamscape that transcends physical geography. It is the homeland of Ras Tafari -- Haile Selassie I,... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Shaping Tradition: Civil Society, Community and Development in Colonial Northern Ghana, 1899-1957 (African Social Studies Series, Volume 14) by Jeff D. Grischow Synopsis This historical study of development in Northern Ghana provides a fascinating new analysis of the colonial attempt to preserve African peasant communities in the face of economic transformation between 1899 and 1957.... (read more) List Price $90.00 Your price $59.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Politics in Nigeria 2ND Edition by Oladimeji Aborisade Book News Annotation An introductory overview of contemporary Nigerian politics. The latest edition includes updated information on environmental, health, and human rights issues. New coverage focuses on heightened tension related to efforts to introduce Muslim law into... (read more) Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Desmond Tutu: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies) by Steven D. Gish Publisher Comments History will remember Desmond Tutu, who has been called South Africa's Martin Luther King, Jr., as a great leader in the struggle against apartheid. In this new biography, which includes original quotations from the author's interviews with Tutu, readers... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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