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Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
by John Carlin  Publisher Comments A thrilling, inspiring account of one of the greatest charm offensives in history — Nelson Mandela's decade-long campaign to unite his country, beginning in his jail cell and ending with a rugby tournament. In 1985, Nelson Mandela, then in...
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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...
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Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
by Elleke Boehmer Publisher Comments Explores the different ways Nelson Mandela's life has been interpreted and his importance as an exemplary modern day hero. 15 b/w illus....
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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, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz?” —Janis Joplin A journalist’s intrepid endeavor to sell his used car abroad results in a high-spirited and revealing look at West Africa. “Look, there’s my car,”...
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Libya: From Colony to Independence
by Ronald Bruce St John Synopsis In the past half-century, Libya's history has been dominated by the figure of Mu'ammar al-Qaddafi, the leader whom Nelson Mandela dubbed one of the revolutionary icons of our time. 'Libya' details the struggles of the state from Greek settlements in the...
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Rainbow's End: A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm
by Lauren St John Publisher Comments This is a story about a paradise lost. . . . About an African dream that began with a murder . . . In 1978, in the final, bloodiest phase of the Rhodesian civil war, eleven-year-old Lauren St John moves with her family to Rainbow's End, a wild, beautiful...
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A History of Modern Sudan
by Robert O. Collins Publisher Comments Sudan's modern history has been consumed by revolution and civil war. The country attracted international attention in the 1990s as a breeding ground of Islamist terrorism and recently tensions between the prosperous centre and the periphery, between...
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The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda
by Scott Straus
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