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Designing West Africa: Prelude to 21st Century Calamity
by Peter Schwab
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Africa continues to be headline news, and this book makes a provocative statement about the cause of the current situation.... ( read more)
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The Making of an Islamic Political Leader: Conversations with Hasan Al-Turabi
by Mohamed E Hamdi
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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)
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The Eye of the Moon
by Shelley Davidow
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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)
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Warrior Chiefs of South Africa
by Ian J Knight
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Meet Shaka of the Zulu, Maqoma of the Xhosa, Mzililkazi of the Matabele, Moshoeshoe of the Basotho.... ( read more)
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Medicine and Society #10: Imperial Bedlam
by Jonathan Sadowsky
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The colonial government of southern Nigeria began to use asylums to confine the allegedly insane in 1906. These asylums were administered by the British but confined Africans. Yet, as even many in the government recognized, insanity is a condition that... ( read more)
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Telecommunications in Africa (Global Communications Series)
by Eli M Noam
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Telecommunications is becoming an essential infrastructure in the global economy. The electronic flow of information around the world favors those nations that have invested in the technology to participate in this global commerce. Bringing together... ( read more)
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Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan and Rwanda
by Scott Peterson
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"Peterson melds his eyewitness accounts with considerable research. His reporting is fresh with colorful observation.it makes for powerful reading."-Mark Bowden, author of "Black Hawk Down"<BR> As a foreign correspondent, Scott Peterson witnessed... ( read more)
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National Army Museum Book of the Boer Wa
by Lord Carver
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A military history of what was Britain's first modern war, written with original sources. Published in cooperation with the National Army Museum, it quotes extensively from the Museum's unpublished archive of diaries, letters, and documents. The text is... ( read more)
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Geldof in Africa
by Bob Geldof
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Stunningly illustrated with his own photographs and essays, Geldof in Africa paints a unique picture of this extraordinary land. “Africa is not the Dark Continent as so often described by writers from the gloomy northern skies of Europe. Not the... ( read more)
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Life Under Nyerere
by Godfrey Mwakikagile
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The author, who lived and grew up under Nyerere's leadership, remembers how life was in those days in his home country of Tanganyika, later Tanzania. It is more than just a sentimental journey into the past. It is also an assessment of Nyerere's... ( read more)
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Held at a Distance: My Rediscovery of Ethiopia
by Rebecca G Haile
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Still a child, Haile and her family left Ethiopia for the US in 1976,
two years after the army deposed Emperor Haile Selassie. She returned
in the spring of 2001, and recounts her observations, experiences,
feeling, and memories. She includes a... ( read more)
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Ending Autocracy, Enabling Democracy: The Tribulations of Southern Africa: 1960-2000
by Robert I Rotberg
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In this comprehensive narrative of the political and economic evolution of Africa, Robert I. Rotberg explains the critical events, players and policies in the continent's tumultuous shift toward democracy. The book reviews the process of decolonization... ( read more)
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Worlds of Power: Religious Thought and Political Practice in Africa (Series in Contemporary History and World Affairs)
by Stephen Ellis
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With Christian revivals (including Evangelicals in the White House), Islamic radicalism and the revitalisation of traditional religions it is clear that the world is not heading towards a community of secular states. Nowhere are religious thought and... ( read more)
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Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the Soul of the ANC
by William Merv Gumede
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Revealing the political and personal tensions behind the scenes, Gumede explains the forces that have created one of the world's most powerful and enigmatic leaders.... ( read more)
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There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children
by Melissa Fay Greene
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Millions of children are left without parents in Ethiopia as the result of AIDS. A skilled and graceful exploration of this crisis, Greene's moving account of one woman's actions shows the tremendous impact one person can make. Haregewoin is a genuine... ( read more)
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Closing the Circle: Democratization and Development in Africa
by Richard Sandbrook
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We all know that many African countries face political tyranny, failed capitalist development, and violent domestic conflict. What is less clear is what relationship may exist between effective democratic institutions and the solution of the last two... ( read more)
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Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak
by Jean Hatzfeld
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A veteran foreign correspondent reports on the results of his interviews with nine Hutus who helped to kill 50,000 out of their 59,000 Tutsi neighbors. This testimony of the Rwanda horror reconsiders the foundation of human morality and ethics.... ( read more)
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My Heart Will Cross This Ocean: My Story, My Son, Amadou
by Kadiatou Diallo
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Descended from West African kings and healers, raised in the turbulence of Guinea in the 1960s, Kadiatou Diallo was married off at the age of thirteen and bore her first child when she was sixteen. Twenty-three years later, that child—a gentle... ( read more)
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The Assassin: A Story of Race and Rage in the Land of Apartheid
by Henk Van Woerden
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The untold and heartbreaking account of the man who killed South Africa's architect of apartheid, one of the most dramatic political assassinations in modern history. If ever one individual could be said to have embodied the tragedy of apartheid, Dimitri... ( read more)
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Mandela: A Critical Life
by Tom Lodge
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This new and highly revealing biography draws on a range of original sources, it presents a host of fresh insights about the shaping of Mandela's personality and public persona, from his childhood days and early activism, through his long years of... ( read more)
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