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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 Great Zulu Battles 1838-1906 by Ian Knight Publisher Comments It was one of the bloodiest and most wretched periods in history, and it shaped the face of modern Africa. Now these great battles receive for the first time a much-deserved detailed depiction of day-to-day combat action. Reading like an adventure novel,... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list African Women: A General Bibliography, 1976-1985 by Davis A Bullwinkle Publisher Comments "This is the first of a planned three-volume bibliography that aims to 'bring together all the English language publications written about women in Africa during the United Nations Decade for Women.' It includes books, monographs, government reports... (read more) List Price $80.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fulbe Voices by Helen A. Regis Publisher Comments Fulbe Voices is based on everyday conversations in the West African village of Domaayo, Cameroon, where men and women struggle with the multiple cultural contradictions and social tensions emerging from their varied perspectives as farmers and... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Stanley: Dark Genius of African Exploration by Frank Mclynn Publisher Comments The celebrated African explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley was one of the most fascinating of the late-Victorian adventurers. Born into poverty and illegitimacy, he survived a series of incredible adventures at sea and in the U.S., emerging as a talented... (read more) Your price $14.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Asante Catholicism: Religious & Cultural Reproduction among the Akan of Ghana by P Obeng Publisher Comments "Asante Catholicism focuses on the interaction between post-conciliar Roman Catholicism and Asante religion of Ghana, with its implications for self-definition and cultural renewal. It begins by exploring Asante cultural history, and depicting how their... (read more) List Price $104.00 Your price $33.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir by Wole Soyinka Publisher Comments The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka now follows his modern classic AKE: THE YEARS OF CHILDHOOD with an equally important chronicle of his turbulent life as an... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Designing West Africa: Prelude to 21st Century Calamity by Peter Schwab Publisher Comments Africa continues to be headline news, and this book makes a provocative statement about the cause of the current situation.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Contemporary Photography #3: Sahel: The End of the Road by Sebastiao Salgado Publisher Comments For the first time in English comes a new edition of Salgado's acclaimed book about drought and devastation in the African Sahel. Includes eight new photographs that give voice to the multitudes of people teetering on the edge of survival.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Eye of the Moon by Shelley Davidow Publisher Comments Judith Barrington describes The Eye of the Moon as dense with fragrance, eroticism, and the poetry of recalled passion. This memoir is at once an exploration of love, identity and heartbreak against the backdrop of the changing political face of southern... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.95 (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   In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo by Michela Wrong Publisher Comments He was known as "the Leopard," and for the thirty-two years of his reign Mobutu Sese Seko, president of Zaire, showed all the cunning of his namesake, seducing Western powers, buying up the opposition, and dominating his people with a devastating... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list No Easy Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela Publisher Comments This collection of Nelson Mandela's articles, speeches, letters from underground, and transcripts from the trials in which he was accused vividly illustrates his magnetic attraction as Africa's foremost campaigner for freedom.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Perspectives on Africa by Roy Richard Grinker Publisher Comments "Perspectives on Africa "brings key works in African studies to a wide range of readers. Forty-four articles have been selected either because they have proved to be classic and influential, or because of their significance to the current development of... (read more) List Price $47.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Lessons of Struggle: South African Internal Opposition, 1960-1990 by Anthony W. Marx Publisher Comments Providing an in-depth analysis of thirty years of South African opposition, this work focuses on the development of the Black Consciousness movement founded by Steve Biko, the ANC-aligned United Democratic Front, and the burgeoning trade unions, and... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Trouble Showed the Way: Women, Men, and Trade in the Nairobi Area, 1890 - 1990 by Claire C Robertson Publisher Comments This volume is a meticulously executed and written study of women, men, and trade in the Nairobi area from 1890 to 1990.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Last Place on Earth 2 Volumes Box Set by Michael Nichols Publisher Comments The photographs in The Last Place on Earth are the best wildlife images in the world today. The groundbreaking photography in Volume I presents wildlife as if the viewer is on the scene and closeup. This is accomplished with gadgetry developed at... (read more) List Price $150.00 Your price $100.00 (Used - Set Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Kenya the Quest for Prosperity 2ND Edition by Norman Miller Publisher Comments Kenya is one of Africa’s most important and controversial nations. It has simultaneously been heralded for its political stability and economic success and criticized as a wellspring of elitism and class exploitation. Kenya remains a close ally of... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sudan: Race, Religion and Violence by Jok Madut Jok Publisher Comments Sudan is a country in turmoil, ravaged by civil war, plagued by roaming gangs of rebel and government militia, and is rarely out of the news. Despite government propaganda, tales of state-sponsored murder, genocide and humanitarian crises are rife, and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Making of an Islamic Political Leader: Conversations with Hasan Al-Turabi by Mohamed E Hamdi Publisher Comments Hasan al-Turabi of Sudan has been one of the most influential figures within political Islam over the past thirty years, having played a formative role in the successful reforms put forth by the Muslim Brotherhood and, more recently, by the Islamic... (read more) Your price $100.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Warrior Chiefs of South Africa by Ian J Knight Publisher Comments Meet Shaka of the Zulu, Maqoma of the Xhosa, Mzililkazi of the Matabele, Moshoeshoe of the Basotho.... (read more) Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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