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by Alan Moorehead  Publisher Comments Chapter 1 The Blue Nile‘ Egypt is an acquired country, the gift of the river.'--Herodotus. The Blue Nile pours very quietly and uneventfully out of Lake Tana in the northern highlands of Ethiopia. There is no waterfall or cataract, no definite... (read more)  List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by David Lamb Publisher Comments The Africans is an extraordinary combination of analysis and adventure. Part travelogue, part contemporary history, it is a portrait of a continent that sometimes seems hell-bent on destroying itself, and of people who are as courageous as they are long... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bryan Mealer Publisher Comments A foreign correspondent’s gripping account of his experiences in Congo, told through the long scope of the country’s dark and brutal history. After covering a brutal war that claimed four million lives, journalist Bryan Mealer takes readers... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Adam Hochschild 
Publisher Comments From the author of the prize-winning King Leopold's Ghost comes a taut, thrilling account of the first grass-roots human rights campaign, which freed hundreds of thousands of slaves around the world. In 1787, twelve men gathered in a London printing shop... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Earl Conteh Morgan Book News Annotation Traces the contradictions of the historical legacy of Sierra Leone and the excesses of the independent nation-state to unravel the sequences of dependency that culminated in political instability, socio-economic decline, and civil war. Contributors... (read more) Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Henry Louis Gates Publisher Comments The Companion Volume to the PBS Television Series Wonders of the African World is an exuberant, visually stunning journey across Africa and through the history of its glorious but forgotten civilizations. Traveling by camel, by dhow, by Land Cruiser, and... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $10.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ludo De Witte Publisher Comments Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Republic of the Congo and a pioneer of African unity, was at the centre of the country's popular defiance towards the relentless exploitation of its Belgian coloniser. Within months of independence being... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Scott D. Taylor Publisher Comments Zambia stands out in Africa as one of the continent's most peaceful countries. In its early years as an independent state, Zambia became a regional bulwark against imperialism and colonial domination and South African apartheid. Today, it stands out as... (read more) Your price $50.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Martha Holmes Publisher Comments "Nile" reveals the true story of this great river. Beginning with an intriguing exploration of the world of ancient Egypt, we take a modern journey upstream as the river splits into its two main arms, the White Nile and Blue Nile. Along the way, we... (read more) Your price $19.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Gloria T Emeagwali Synopsis In this scholarly compilation, Third World researchers argue that IMF/World Bank structural adjustment policies have wreaked havoc especially among... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Fatima Marnissi Publisher Comments ”I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco...” So begins Fatima Mernissi in this exotic and rich narrative of a childhood behind the iron gates of a domestic harem. In Dreams of Trespass, Mernissi weaves her own memories with the dreams... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kate Parkin Publisher Comments Named one of "Time" magazine's 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century, Nelson Mandela has dedicated his life to fighting racism, segregation, oppression, and exploitation. Drawing on 60 original interviews, this authorized biography includes an... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $24.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Rosamond H Carr Synopsis Carr's thrilling memoir is a testament to her life in Rwanda--a love affair with a country and a people that has spanned half a century. Following 1994's Hutu-Tutsi genocide, the author turned her plantation into a shelter for the lost and orphaned... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nelson Mandela Publisher Comments These are riveting memoirs of one of the great moral and political figures of our time, an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gregory Starrett Publisher Comments "A sound contribution to our knowledge of the uses of tradition and modernity by states, of the social life of Islamic texts, and of the historical roles of schooling in social change."--John Bowen, author of "Muslims through... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Giles Milton Publisher Comments The true story of white European slaves in eighteenth century Algiers, Tunis, and Morocco. In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and fifty-one of his comrades were captured at sea by the Barbary corsairs. Their captors —... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Fergal Keane Synopsis This is a collection of Fergal Keane's works, which includes the "Letter to Daniel" and a similar despatch he wrote to his now deceased father. The book also features articles written for "The Spectator", "The Guardian" and "BBC Worldwide" magazine.... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Carol Rittner Publisher Comments In 1994, genocide put Rwanda on the map for most of the world. It also exposed one of the most shameful scandals of the Rwandan churches--the complicity of the Christian churches in the genocide. Genocide in Rwanda: Complicity of the Churches provides a... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jonny Steinberg Publisher Comments At the age of twenty-nine, Sizwe Magadla is among the most handsome, well-educated, and richest of the men in his poverty-stricken village. Dr. Hermann Reuter, a son of old South West African stock, wants to show the world that if you provide decent... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean Marc Durou Synopsis A gifted photographer's arresting color pictures bring to life the majestic mountains, lush oases, great shifting sands, and fascinating peoples that make up the incredible landscapes of the famous Sahara. "The desert cannot be described; it must be... (read more) List Price $49.50 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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