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Reaching Out to Africa's Orphans: A Framework for Public Action by Kalanidhi Subbarao Publisher Comments This title makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the many risks and vulnerability faced by orphans and the ameliorating role played by the actions of governments and donors.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Nelson Mandela: The Early Life of Rolihlahla Mandiba by Jean Guiloineau Publisher Comments Here is the story of a boy who was destined for something larger than his tribal village, a boy who could not contain his wonder and curiosity about the world beyond the familiar. The circumstances of Mandela's youth led him to a perpetual search for... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Coming to Terms: South Africa's Search for Truth by Martin Meredith Publisher Comments Coming to Terms is a groundbreaking consideration of a country's attempt to put a troubled history behind it and reach a new stage of development. Martin Meredith takes an unprecedented took into the key cases presented to the commission -- both those... (read more) Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list African Ceremonies 2 Volumes by Carol Beckwith Publisher Comments Overflowing with nearly 850 magnificent photos, this two-volume work explores traditional African rites and rituals, from baby namings, initiations, and weddings to harvest blessings, healing exorcisms, and funerals. 45 maps.... (read more) List Price $150.00 Your price $96.00 (Used - Slipcase) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Elspeth Huxley Publisher Comments In an open cart Elspeth Huxley set off with her parents to travel to Thika in Kenya. As pioneering settlers, they built a house of grass, ate off a damask doth spread over packing cases, and discovered -- the hard way -- the world of the African. With an... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $ (Used - ) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Skull Beneath the Skin: Africa After the Cold War by Mark Huband Publisher Comments In The Skull beneath the Skin: Africa after the Cold War journalist Mark Huband argues that foreign involvement in Africa - whether by colonialists, financial donors, armies, political reformers, or Cold War protagonists - has been the single most... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $7.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bibliographies of British Statesmen, #5: Gamal Abdel Nasser: A Bibliography by Faysal Mikdadi Publisher Comments Gamal Abdel Nasser arguably has had the greatest impact of any Middle Eastern leader of the twentieth century. His significance lies in his fostering of modern Pan-Arab thought, institutions, and policies, his transformation of Egypt from a feudal state... (read more) List Price $69.95 Your price $45.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Essential Africa by Michael Poliza Synopsis Our beautifully produced large format edition of Michael Poliza's Africa was hailed by many as one of the best books on this subject ever published. Africa is now a bestseller with worldwide distribution. Since a gigantic coffee table book weighing over... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda by Mahmood Mamdani Publisher Comments "When we captured Kigali, we thought we would face criminals in the state; instead, we faced a criminal population." So a political commissar in the Rwanda Patriotic Front reflected after the 1994 massacre of as many as one million Tutsis in Rwanda... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild Publisher Comments 'In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $14.95 (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   Black Livingstone: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo by Pagan Kennedy Publisher Comments Black Livingstone is the first book to chronicle the remarkable life of William Henry Sheppard. As a twenty-four-year-old African American missionary in 1890, Sheppard departed for what was then the Belgian Congo, accompanied by Samuel Lapsley, a white... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Unbowed: An Algerian Woman Confronts Islamic Fundamentalism (Critical Authors & Issues) by Khalida Messaoudi Publisher Comments In 1993, a handwritten envelope arrived in Khalida Messaoudi's mailbox. In it was an official communique announcing that she had been condemned to death by the Islamic Salvation Front. This letter came after a series of threats and an attempt on her life... (read more) List Price $16.50 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Life in Transition by Alex Boraine Publisher Comments Alex Boraine's life is a fascinating story of fighting injustice and turning dreams into reality. A child of the Great Depression, he rose from lowly beginnings in a working-class family to become head of the Methodist Church, an MP for the oppositional... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Remaking the Modern: Space, Relocation, & the Politics of Id by Farha Ghannam Publisher Comments An ethnography of a housing project in Cairo, which demonstrates how the modernizing efforts of the Egyptian government runs headlong into the traditional customs of the area's low-income residents. Brings new meaning to the phrase "global and local."... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Conflict Resolution in Africa by Francis M Deng Publisher Comments While dramatic changes are taking place on the international scene and among the major powers, Africa continues to suffer from a multitude of violent conflicts. The toll of these conflicts is monumental in terms of war damage to productivity, scarce... (read more) Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Muslim Societies in African History (New Approaches to African History) by David Robinson Publisher Comments Examining a series of processes (Islamization, Arabization, Africanization) and case studies from North, West and East Africa, this book gives snapshots of Muslim societies in Africa over the last millennium. In contrast to traditions which suggest that... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Contributions in Political Science #16: Double Impact: France and Africa in the Age of Imperialism by G Wesley Johnson Publisher Comments This collection of original historical essays sheds new light on the French colonial experience and the African reaction to it and breaks new ground by looking at both sides of the colonial equation. Editor G. Wesley Johnson believes that a "double... (read more) List Price $125.00 Your price $16.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Slave: My True Story by Nazar Publisher Comments Mende Nazer lost her childhood at age twelve, when she was sold into slavery. It all began one horrific night in 1993, when Arab raiders swept through her Nuba village, murdering the adults and rounding up thirty-one children, including Mende. Mende was... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rivonia's Children by Glenn Frankel Synopsis This is the story of three families: Hilda and Rusty Bernstein, longtime communists so deeply committed to the cause that even the threat of life imprisonment did not stop them; Ruth First, a fiery activist arrested and held for months without charge... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Aman: The Story of a Somali Girl by Virginia Barnes Publisher Comments This is the extraordinary first-person account of a young woman's coming of age in Somalia and her struggles against the obligations and strictures of family and society. By the time she is nine, Aman has undergone a ritual circumcision ceremony; at... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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