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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah Publisher Comments My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life. "Why did you leave Sierra Leone?" "Because there is a war." "You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?" "Yes, all the time." "Cool." I... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children by Melissa Fay Greene Publisher Comments Two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene puts a human face on the African AIDS crisis with this powerful story of one woman working to save her country's children. After losing her husband and daughter, Haregewoin Teferra, an Ethiopian... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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West with the Night by Beryl Markham Publisher Comments West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s. Beryl Markham is also the author of The Splendid Outcast: The African Stories of Beryl Markham. Growing up in East... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch Staff Pick "I urge everyone to read this book. The cover shows a picture of serenity, a scene from the beach of Lake Kivu in Rwanda. The landscape is devoid of human beings and an empty chair sits on the sand. The title in red stands out starkly from this backdrop.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Out of Egypt: A Memoir by Andre Aciman Publisher Comments Aciman has written a touching and affectionate portrait detailing the lives of his flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in Alexandria to its defeated exodus three generations later. In elegant and witty prose, Aciman introduces us to the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur by Halima Bashir Publisher Comments Like the single white eyelash that graces her row of dark lashes–seen by her people as a mark of good fortune–Halima Bashirs story stands out. Tears of the Desert is the first memoir ever written by a woman caught up in the war in Darfur. It... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover add to wish list |
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Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller Publisher Comments In Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness Alexandra Fuller braids a multilayered narrative around the perfectly lit, Happy Valley-era Africa of her mother's childhood; the boiled cabbage grimness of her father's English childhood; and the darker... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover add to wish list |
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The Other by Ryszard Kapuscinski Publisher Comments In this distillation of reflections accumulated from a lifetime of travel, Ryszard Kapuscinski takes a fresh look at the Western idea of the Other. Looking at this concept through the lens of his own encounters in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover add to wish list |
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The Wretched of the Earth (New Translation) by Frantz Fanon Publisher Comments From one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history comes this brilliant analysis of the psychology of colonized peoples and their path to liberation--now available in a new translation with... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa by Peter Godwin Publisher Comments Hailed by reviewers as powerful, haunting and a tour de force of personal journalism, When A Crocodile Eats the Sun is the unforgettable story of one man's struggle to discover his past and come to terms with his present. Award winning author and... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by Dean King Publisher Comments Everywhere hailed as a masterpiece of historical adventure, this enthralling narrative recounts the experiences of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815, captured by desert nomads, sold into slavery, and subjected... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Trickster Travels the Search for Leo Africanus by Natalie Zemon Davis Publisher Comments A] fascinating tale of a man forced . . . to live between incompatible worlds. Highly recommended. --Library Journal Al-Hasan al-Wazzan--born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco--became famous as the great Renaissance writer Leo... (read more) Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur by Halima Bashir Publisher Comments Born into the Zaghawa tribe in the Sudanese desert, Halima Bashir received a good education away from her rural surroundings (thanks to her doting, politically astute father) and at twenty-four became her villages first formal doctor. Yet not even... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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My Mercedes Is Not for Sale: From Amsterdam to Ouagadougou...an Auto-Misadventure Across the Sahara by Jeroen Van Bergeijk Publisher Comments “Oh Lord, wont you buy me a Mercedes Benz?” Janis Joplin A journalists intrepid endeavor to sell his used car abroad results in a high-spirited and revealing look at West Africa. “Look, theres my car,” I say, pointing at my... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Shades of Difference: Mac Maharaj and the Struggle for South Africa by Patraigh Omalley Publisher Comments The inside story of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement is told through the experiences of one of its unsung heroes: freedom fighter Mac Maharaj.... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $1.98 Used - Hardcover add to wish list |
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Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation by John Carlin Publisher Comments Beginning in a jail cell and ending in a rugby tournament—the true story of how the most inspiring charm offensive in history brought South Africa together. After being released from prison and winning South Africa’s first free election... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Global Visions, Local Landscapes: A Political Ecology of Conservation, Conflict, and Control in Northern Madagascar (Globalization and the Environment) by Lisa L. Gezon Synopsis Gezon argues that local events continuously redefine and challenge global processes of land use and land degradation. Her ethnographic study of Antankarana-identifying rice farmers and cattle herders in northern Madagascar weaves together an analysis of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Biko by Donald Woods Publisher Comments Subjected to 22 hours of interrogation, torture and beating by South African police on September 6, 1977, Steve Biko died six days later. Donald Woods, Biko's close friend and a leading white South African newspaper editor, exposed the murder helping to... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market add to wish list |
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Honored Dead (11 Edition) by Joseph Braude Publisher Comments The Arab Islamic world is known for religious extremism, ethnic conflicts, and, now, the overthrow of seemingly unshakable regimes—but if anything has become clear, it’s that our understanding of the region remains shrouded and incomplete... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover add to wish list |
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The Angels Have Left Us by Hugh Mccullum Synopsis The author analyzes the roots of the Rwanda tragedy, looks at the future of a shattered church in a shattered country, and poses hard questions about what the church and the ecumenical family should do in a world where poverty, oppression and hatred are... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |