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Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa by Antjie Krog Publisher Comments Ever since Nelson Mandela dramatically walked out of prison in 1990 after twenty-seven years behind bars, South Africa has been undergoing a radical transformation. In one of the most miraculous events of the century, the oppressive system of apartheid... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid by P Gobodo Madikizela Publisher Comments A Human Being Died That Night recounts an extraordinary dialogue. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, a psychologist who grew up in a black South African township, reflects on her interviews with Eugene de Kock, the commanding officer of state-sanctioned death... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list In Our Village: Kambi YA Simba Through the Eyes of Its Youth by Students At Awet Sec Publisher Comments The Tanzanian village of Kambi ya Simba, near the famed Serengeti, couldn't be poorer. In this extraordinary book, village youth capture the richness of life there in photographs and essays.... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Behind Closed Doors: Women's Oral Narratives in Tunis by Monia Hejaiej Publisher Comments Tunis has a long history of city life reaching back to ancient times. The Arabic language is firmly rooted among it inhabitants and most embrace the morals and culture of Islam. Behind Closed Doors presents forty-seven tales told by three Beldi women... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier by Alexandra Fuller Powells.com Staff Pick In Scribbling the Cat, Fuller forsakes the oblique approach of her bestselling debut, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, and tackles the Rhodesian War head-on. Visiting her parents in Zambia, she meets a veteran of the all-white Rhodesian Light Infantry... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands by Aidan Hartley Publisher Comments An epic narrative combining the literary reportage of Ryzard Kapuscinski with a historical love story reminiscent of Michael Ondaatje?s The English Patient In his final days, rising from a bed made of mountain cedar, lashed with thongs of rawhide... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Justice on the Grass: Three Rwandan Journalists, Their Trial for War Crimes, and a Nation's Quest for Redemption by Dina Temple-Raston Publisher Comments The 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which more than 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu were massacred in just 100 days, was an unparalleled modern-day slaughter. How does a nation pick up the pieces after the killing has stopped? In a gripping narrative that... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $13.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mandela: The Authorized Portrait 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 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 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 $15.95 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   Rainbow People of God: The Making of a Peaceful Revolution by Desmond Tutu Publisher Comments "The Rainbow People Of God traces South Africa's glorious victory over apartheid in the writings and speeches of one its central figures, Archbishop Desmond Tutu. From the graveside of Steven Biko to the triumphant inauguration of Nelson Mandela as... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Government and Politics in Africa by William Tordoff Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-310) and index.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Essential Histories #56: The Zulu War 1879 by Ian Knight Publisher Comments The Zulu War of 1879 remains one of the best known British colonial wars and included two battles whose names reverberate through history. At Isandlwana the Zulus inflicted a crushing defeat on the British; the gallant British defence at Rorke's Drift... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch Publisher Comments An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity, this remarkable book chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy by George James Publisher Comments An attempt to show that the true authors of Greek Philosophy were not the Greeks, but the peoples of... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Exterminate All the Brutes: One Man's Odyssey Into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide by Sven Lindqvist Publisher Comments A brilliant and unsettling intellectual history of Europe's genocidal colonization of Africa. "Exterminate All the Brutes" is a searching examination of Europe's dark history in Africa and the origins of genocide. Using Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Africans 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 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 The Shackled Continent: Power, Corruption, and African Lives by Robert Guest Publisher Comments Why is Africa so poor? Why are so many of its nations at war? Why is AIDS devastating Africa like nowhere else? And why do African entrepreneurs find it so hard to borrow money? In this provocative and thoughtful book, Guest argues that the continent... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Emperor by Ryszard Kapuscinski Publisher Comments Haile Selassie, King of Kings, Elect of God, Lion of Judah, His Most Puissant Majesty and Distinguished Highness the Emperor of Ethiopia, reigned from 1930 until he was overthrown by the army in 1974. While the fighting still raged, Ryszard Kapuscinski... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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