New Arrivals
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The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood
by Helene Cooper  Publisher Comments Helene Cooper is "Congo," a descendant of two Liberian dynasties -- traced back to the first ship of freemen that set sail from New York in 1820 to found Monrovia. Helene grew up at Sugar Beach, a twenty-two-room mansion by the sea. Her childhood was...
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Golden Legends: Images of Abyssinia, Samuel Johnson to Bob Marley
by W B Carnochan Publisher Comments From the eighteenth century to the present, travellers, explorers, journalists, imaginative writers like Samuel Johnson, and legendary reggae musician Bob Marley have shared a fascination with Abyssinia. So did even earlier writers and mapmakers, who...
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Beaufort West
by Mikhael Subotzky Publisher Comments At the halfway point along South Africa's great highway-the N1, running from Cape Town to Johannesburg-lies the small town of Beaufort West. With a prison in the middle of town on an island in the highway, it's a surreal road stop that offers everything...
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Kenya: A Country in the Making, 1880-1940
by Nigel Pavitt Publisher Comments Extraordinary photographs, along with extensive captions, document the transition from a barely explored paradise to a modern nation. This stunning collection of 720 photographs, many of them drawn from family archives and scrapbooks and all carefully...
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Desmond Tutu: Rabble-Rouser for Peace: The Authorized Biography
by John Allen Publisher Comments Written by a distinguished journalist and longtime associate of Desmond Tutu, this definitive biography captures the flavor and details of Tutu’s life while shedding light on the struggles and triumphs of modern society. Drawing on personal...
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The End of the Game: The Last Word from Paradise
by Peter Beard Synopsis Researched, photographed, and compiled over 20 years, Beard's "End of the Game" tells the tale of the enterprisers, explorers, missionaries, and big-game hunters who changed the face of Africa in the 20th century....
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Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
by Martin Meredith Publisher Comments Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors chanced upon the world’s richest deposits of...
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Living Africa
by Steve Bloom Publisher Comments A remarkable, intimate, one-of-a-kind visual document of the people, places, and wildlife of Africa today. In his new book, Steve Bloom expresses, as no photographer has ever done, the essence and the diversity of this gigantic continent. From the...
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Kenya Cowboy: A Police Officer's Account of the Mau Mau Emergency
by Peter Hewitt Publisher Comments Previous to the social unrest that began in December 2007, which has blighted its apparent democracy, Kenya was hailed as a mature and stable post-colonial independent state. However, after 40 years of rigged elections, underlying problems have finally...
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The Kevin Woods Story: In the Shadows of Mugabe's Gallows
by Kevin Woods Synopsis "He who tells the truth is not well liked" -- Bambara of Mali proverb...
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California Series in Public Anthropology #19: Transforming Cape Town
by Catherine Besteman Publisher Comments This study provides a window into the lives of ordinary South Africans more than ten years after the end of apartheid, with the promises of the democracy movement remaining largely unfulfilled. Catherine Besteman explores the emotional and personal...
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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 Bashir’s story stands out. Tears of the Desert is the first memoir ever written by a woman caught up in the war in...
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