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History of the Sudan From the Coming 5TH Edition by P M Holt Publisher Comments Here is a new edition of well-known introductory history of the Sudan, which takes events of this troubled region up to 1998. This extended coverage considers the last years of Jaafar Nimeiri's government to his fall from power in 1985; the subsequent... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Africa in World Politics 3RD Edition by John W Harbeson Publisher Comments Africa in World Politics addresses the effects of major currents in Africa and global politics upon each other and the ramifications of these interrelationships for contemporary theories of international and comparative politics. This third edition... (read more) List Price $31.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Africa House by Christina Lamb Publisher Comments The true account of an English gentleman, Major Gore-Brown, who chose to build a Utopian house of childhood fantasies by the Lake of Crocodiles in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), and find love with a young English orphan girl less than half his age... (read more) Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list We Are the Poors: Community Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa by Ashwin Desai Publisher Comments "One is transported from barricade to courtroom to communal cooking-pot to dance-floor. You get to see the struggle from the inside out ... All I know who have read it, feel in fighting form after putting it down." —Natal Mercury "An exceptionally... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Pillars in Ethiopian Hist (Pillars in Ethiopian History) by Joseph E Harris Publisher Comments This volume explores the mysteries, myths, and legends surrounding Ethiopia. The book includes four of the author's lectures on the Queen of Sheba, the origin of Ethiopian Christianity, medieval relations, and the Prester John legend.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list (D)Urban Vortex by Bill Freund Synopsis Durban is a remarkable place in which to test propositions about the significance of the city and the significance of change. New urban literature tends to divide very sharply between the problems faced by cities with major resources at the center and... (read more) Your price $35.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo by Charles Pearson Synopsis Henry Morton Stanley undertook the greatest African expedition of the 19th century to rescue Emin Pasha, last lieutenant of the martyred General Gordon and governor of the southern Sudan. Instead of ten months, the trip took three years and cost the... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Power Lines: Two Years on South Africa's Borders by Jason Carter Publisher Comments A land of tension and segregation, relatively unchanged since Nelson Mandela’s release from prison nearly a decade ago, South Africa is a country fraught with deep racial divides. While white citizens enjoy lifestyles similar to Westerners, black... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Africa's Elusive Quest for Development by Mathurin Houngnikpo Publisher Comments Matt Houngnikpo examines how domestic conflict, economic stagnation, political instability, poverty, and underdevelopment have plagued Africa for decades. He argues that a reversal of the political, economic, and social plight of Africa lies in better... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $49.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Finding a Social Voice: The Church and Marxism in Africa by Joseph C Mckenna Publisher Comments From the late 1960s until the mid-1980s, the influence of Marxist ideas expanded in sub-Saharan Africa. The Catholic Church saw this influence as likely to affect the accomplishment of its mission, and its pastoral efforts accordingly sought to deal with... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $4.00 (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   I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation by Michela Wrong Publisher Comments Scarred by decades of conflict and occupation, the craggy African nation of Eritrea has weathered the world's longest-running guerrilla war. The dogged determination that secured victory against Ethiopia, its giant neighbor, is woven into the national... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Country Unmasked: Inside South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission by Alex Boraine Publisher Comments As Apartheid ended, South Africans felt it was necessary to put the past behind them and turn the page of history--but first they needed to read that heart-breaking, gut-wrenching page. To that end they formed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Afrocentrism: Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homes by Stephen Howe Publisher Comments For centuries, racist, colonial, and Eurocentric bias has blocked or distorted knowledge of Africans, their histories and cultures, resulting in a counter mythology claiming the innate superiority of African-descended peoples. In this provocative study... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil by John Ghazvinian Publisher Comments Although Africa has long been known to be rich in oil, extracting it hadn’t seemed worth the effort and risk until recently. But with the price of Middle Eastern crude oil skyrocketing and advancing technology making reserves easier to tap, the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Perspectives on Southern Africa #38: Guns and Rain by David Lan Publisher Comments "This book makes us understand an historical event of world importance, the liberation of Zimbabwe, from the point of view of ordinary people...It is not only a specific study of great brilliance but also a model which shows how anthropology can... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list No God But God: Egypt and the Triumph of Islam by Geneive Abdo Publisher Comments Western media has consistently focused on the extremes of Islam, overlooking a quiet yet pervasive moderate religious movement that is currently transforming the nation of Egypt. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, No God But God opens up previously... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Family Identity & the State in the Bamako Kafu, c. 1800-c.1900 by B Marie Perinbam Publisher Comments This groundbreaking book explores the history and the cultural context of family claims to power in the Bamako kafu, or state (located in contemporary Mali in West Africa), primarily during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Perinbam argues that... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $9.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt: An African Memoir by Toyin Falola Publisher Comments "Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and full of the most wonderful pieces of poetry and ordinary information. It is a matter of some interest, that the only... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Romeo Dallaire Publisher Comments For the first time in the United States comes the tragic and profoundly important story of the legendary Canadian general who "watched as the devil took control of paradise on earth and fed on the blood of the people we were supposed to protect." When... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bibliographies and Indexes in American Literature, #13: The Emergence of Modern South Africa: State, Capital, and the Incorporation of Organized Labor on the South African Gold Fields, 1902-1939 by David Yudelman Publisher Comments The Emergence of Modern South Africa views economic conflict, specifically the interaction of the state, big business, and labor, as the central issue in the development of South Africa. Yudelman focuses on the labor-management conflict in the country's... (read more) List Price $105.00 Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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