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Africa Unchained: The Blueprint for Africa's Future by George B N Ayittey Publisher Comments Why haven't the poorest Africans been able to prosper in the twenty-first century? Celebrated economist George Ayittey thinks the answer is obvious: economic freedom was denied to them, first by foreign colonial powers and now by indigenous leaders with... (read more) List Price $31.25 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Contributions in Women's Studies #21: The South African Society: Realities and Future Prospects by Human Sciences Resea Publisher Comments Intergroup relations is a contentious issue both inside and outside South Africa, where it has dominated political thinking for the past several decades, and affected the day-to-day lives of all the country's inhabitants. In recent years scholars have... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $6.60 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race by Judith Stone Synopsis Drawing on a wealth of research, including extensive interviews, this is the true story of Sandra Laing, a woman whose life was torn apart by prejudice in South Africa and healed by love.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Warrior Herdsmen: The Absorbing Chronicle of an Expedition to the Tribesmen of Northern Uganda by Elizabeth M Thomas Publisher Comments The Dodoth- a tall, handsome people of the northern trip of Uganda- are a tribe transition. They are proud, often cruel, warrior herdsmen whose oldest members live just as they did hundreds of years ago, but whose younger members sometimes learn to read... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list White Witch Doctor: A Surgeon's Life in Apartheid South Africa by John Hunt Publisher Comments Dr. John Hunt has written a powerful true story of life and death, hope and despair in Apartheid South Africa. It details Dr. Hunt's fight to save his beloved country during a violent time of social unrest and political upheaval.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Refugee Rights: Ethics, Advocacy, and Africa by David Hollenbach Publisher Comments Of the over 33 million refugees and internally displaced people in the world today, a disproportionate percentage are found in Africa. Most have been driven from their homes by armed strife, displacing people into settings that fail to meet standards for... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $18.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list University of Chicago Geography Research Paper #244: The Steamer Parish: The Rise and Fall of Missionary Medicine on an African Frontier by Charles M Good Publisher Comments In the mid-1800s, a group of High Anglicans formed the Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA). Inspired by Dr. David Livingstone, they felt a special calling to bring the Church, education, and medical care to rural Africans. To deliver services... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique (Perspectives on South Africa) by William Finnegan Publisher Comments Powerful, instructive, and full of humanity, this book challenges the current understanding of the war that has turned Mozambique--a naturally rich country--into the world's poorest nation. Before going to Mozambique, William Finnegan saw the war, like... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Africana: The Concise Desk Reference by Kwame Anthon Appiah Publisher Comments Drawn from the acclaimed landmark in reference publishing, this incomparable one-volume encyclopedia of the black world is now within reach of every family, student, and educator.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) 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

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   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 Island of the Blessed the Secrets of Egy by Harry Thurston Publisher Comments Canadians leading an archaeological dig in Egypt’s Western Desert are at the forefront of an amazing scientific detective story as they uncover 400,000 years of human history and examine the fragile balance between humankind and our environment... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list African Studies Series #107: Honour in African History by John Iliffe Publisher Comments In Africa today, inherited conceptions of "honor" can obstruct democracy, inspire resistance to tyranny, and motivate the defense of dignity in the face of AIDS. This account of the role of "honor" in African history from the fourteenth century to the... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rural Settlement Structure and African Development by Marilyn Silberfein Publisher Comments This book draws on the perspectives of geography and anthropology to provide a thorough examination of the role played by settlement patterns and processes in rural development in Africa. In particular, the contributors evaluate the way people arrange... (read more) List Price $79.00 Your price $10.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Casting with a Fragile Thread: A Story of Sisters and Africa by Wendy Kann Publisher Comments In this poignant, lyric memoir, a sister’s tragic death prompts a woman’s unbidden journey into her turbulent African past A comfortable suburban housewife with three children living in Connecticut, Wendy Kann thought she had put her volatile... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Of Beetles & Angels: A Boy's Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard by Mawi Asgedom Publisher Comments This acclaimed memoir tells the unforgettable story of a young boy's journey from a refugee camp in Sudan to Chicago, where his family survived on welfare. Mawi followed his father's advice to "treat people . . . as though they were angels sent from... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Advance of African Capital: The Growth of Nigerian Private Enterprise by Tom Forrest Publisher Comments The Advance of African Capital provides the most detailed and extensive account of medium- and large-scale African business yet published. Up-to-date and comprehensive, it examines the growth of private enterprise in Nigeria, giving profiles of the... (read more) List Price $47.50 Your price $5.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century by Catherine Coles Publisher Comments The Hausa are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa, with populations in Nigeria, Niger, and Ghana. Their long history of city-states and Islamic caliphates, their complex trading economies, and their cultural traditions have attracted the attention... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list South Africa: A Botched Civilization?: Racial Conflict & Identity in Selected South African Novels by Jane Davis Publisher Comments South Africa: A Botched Civilization? examines how South African novelists, both Black and white, portray the impact of racial conflict on the identities of both the oppressed and the oppressor. This book gives an in-depth analysis of several major... (read more) Your price $5.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Africa's Discovery of Europe: 1450-1850 by David Northrup Publisher Comments What did Africans think of the first Europeans they saw? Why did some Africans seek political and religious alliances with Europeans? How successful were African traders in acquiring what they wanted from Europeans in the new Atlantic trade? Africa's... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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