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Taking Sides Clashing Views on Afri 2 Edition by William G. Moseley Publisher Comments   Taking Sides Takes on a Wide Range of Issues The 2006 Taking Sides Student Collection brings together the arguments of leading social and behavioral scientists, educators, and contemporary commentators, forming 18 to 20 debates, or issues, that... (read more) List Price $39.50 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Strangers and Traders: Yoruba Migrants, Markets, and the State in Northern Ghana by J S Eades Synopsis A detailed account of chain migration and its implications for economic... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The political economy of South Africa :from minerals-energy complex to industrialisation by Ben Fine Publisher Comments The acclaim with which democratization in South Africa has been greeted has been tempered by the recognition that there are at the same time continuing and even deepening economic inequalities. This is more disturbing given the extreme economic disparity... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Patrice Lumumba: Africa's Lost Leader (Life×) by Leo Zeilig Publisher Comments Patrice Emery Lumumba (1925-61) is perhaps the most famous leader of African independence. After his murder in 1961 he became an icon of anti-imperialist struggle. His picture was brandished on demonstrations in the 1960s across the world along with Che... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Miriam's Song: A Memoir by Miriam Mathabane Publisher Comments The powerful memoir of a young black woman coming of age in South Africa amid the violence of apartheid, beautifully written by her brother, the bestselling author of Kaffir Boy. Mark Mathabane first came to prominence with the publication of Kaffir... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Memoirs by Ahmed Kathrada Publisher Comments A fascinating book about a modest man who experienced a momentous life with a forward by Nelson Mandela.... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Africa by Peter Lewis Publisher Comments In the decades since independence, the countries of sub-Saharan Africa have faced three central dilemmas of development. The first has been the challenge of state building. In the wake of colonial rule, governments have encountered the problems of... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $21.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Binding Cultures: Black Women Writers in Africa and the Diaspora by Gay Wilentz Publisher Comments This study examines the cultural bonds between African and African-American women as illustrated in the writings of contemporary authors of the United States and West Africa.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $3.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Politics of Bones: Dr. Owens Wiwa and the Struggle for Nigeria's Oil by Timothy J Hunt Publisher Comments The gripping story of a people's battle against a corrupt government and a powerful oil company. <BR>On November 10, 1995, Nigeria's military dictatorship executed nine environmental activists. Among them was Ken Saro-Wiwa, the charismatic... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $15.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The New Religions of Africa (Modern Sociology) by Benne Jules Rosette Publisher Comments This volume is an important and original collection of firsthand field reports and essays on contemporary African cults and churches. Using comprehensive ethnographic information, this volume focuses on the importance of religion as an agent and symbol... (read more) List Price $79.95 Your price $20.00 (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   Season in Paradise (Harvest Book) by Breyten Breytenbach Publisher Comments Breytenbach's first visit to South Africa, after thirteen years in exile, is more than just a dazzling travelogue. He is searching for a "paradise" that coincides with the geography, mysticism, and mythologies of Africa, but in reality his homeland is an... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Common Purpose by Andrea Durbach Publisher Comments The details surrounding the case lead us to question our own prejudices and assumptions: the fact that al twenty-five were involved in the riot that led to the death of the policeman, does that make all twenty-five guilty? Those some of the accused... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Egypt Vs. Greece and the American Academy by Molefi Kete Asante Publisher Comments Debating the development of civilization in Egypt and Greece, this collection of essays explores European misconceptions of African history. Featuring contributions from some of the top scholars in African American studies, this book analyzes the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cairo by Andre Raymond Publisher Comments It stands as the definitive work on Cairo, unparalleled in scope, depth, and detail.... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list African & Africa-related Nobel Prize Win by Uju Nkwocha Afulezi Book News Annotation Acknowledging that this book emulates President Kennedy's "profiles in courage," U.N. Afulezi (City U. of New York) and his coauthor honor those who "did Africa proud." Following reprints of 17 accounts of the history of the Nobel award and Nobel... (read more) Your price $11.85 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo by Michela Wrong Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-327) and index.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Islands of Intensive Agriculture in Eastern Africa (Eastern African Studies) by Mats Widgren Publisher Comments ISLANDS OF INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE are areas of local cultivation surrounded by low-density livestock herders or extensive cultivators. Along the line of the East Africa Rift Valley, and in the highlands on either side, communities of considerable... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Safirka: An American Envoy by Peter Bridges Publisher Comments Peter S. Bridges's service as American ambassador to Somalia capped his three decades as a career officer in the American Foreign Service. Safirka, a frank description of his experiences in Somalia and elsewhere, offers pointed assessments of American... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival (Women Writing Africa) by Fadumo Korn Publisher Comments This powerful memoir portrays the life-altering transformation of a feisty nomad girl who undergoes genital excision. Crippled with rheumatism as a result of the cutting, Fadumo Korn, who once freely roamed the deserts of her native Somalia, is sent to... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rivonias Children Three Families & the C by Glenn Frankel Publisher Comments Frankel, a staff writer and editor for The Washington Post, tells the story of a handful of white activists, many of them Jewish, who risked their lives to combat apartheid in South Africa during the 1960s. Their underground headquarters was in Rivonia... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $7.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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