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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 $22.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone by Martin Dugard Publisher Comments With the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by Dean King Synopsis - A crucial, forgotten chapter of American history--immortalized in a survivor's firsthand account that became one of the bestselling books in 19th-century America and influenced Abraham Lincoln's, thoughts on slavery--is brilliantly retold for a new... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane Publisher Comments Written with courage and conviction, Mark Mathbane's reveals the extraordinary memoir of growing up in a world under apartheid. B&W photo insert.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond by Don Cheadle Publisher Comments Shocked and enraged by the ongoing genocide in Darfur, Cheadle teamed up with leading activist Prendergast to focus the world's attention on the suffering and violence there and offer six strategies readers themselves can implement to help make a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch Powells.com Staff Pick I just finished rereading We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families because after reading Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning I thought that the atrocities committed in Rwanda might make more sense to me. There are eerie... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list In Our Village: Kambi YA Simba Through the Eyes of Its Youth by Students At Awet Sec Publisher Comments The Tanzanian village of Kambi ya Simba, near the famed Serengeti, couldn't be poorer. In this extraordinary book, village youth capture the richness of life there in photographs and essays.... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccan by Vincent Crapanzano Publisher Comments Tuhami is an illiterate Moroccan tilemaker who believes himself married to a camel-footed she-demon. A master of magic and a superb story-teller, Tuhami lives in a dank, windowless hovel near the kiln where he works. Nightly he suffers visitations from... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Whatever Happened to the Egyptians?: Changes in Egyptian Society from 1950 to the Present by Galal Amin Publisher Comments This delightful and informative book examines the underlying causes of some of the more disturbing social, political, economic, and cultural phenomena that characterize Egyptian society in the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey by Fergal Keane Publisher Comments An award-winning journalist goes beyond the headlines to reveal the real story of Rwanda's devastating genocide. Fergal Keane recounts how ordinary people were caught in a nightmare of manipulation and massacre an encounter with unimaginable evil... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.95 (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   A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 (New York Review Books Classics) by Alistair Horne Publisher Comments The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de Gaulle to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil. More than a million Muslim Algerians died... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild Publisher Comments In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller Powells.com Staff Pick In her 2001 debut, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller recalled in vivid, often excruciating detail coming of age in Rhodesia as a long civil war raged in neighboring Mozambique and her own country slid down the violent path toward an... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela Publisher Comments These are riveting memoirs of one of the great moral and political figures of our time, an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari Publisher Comments "I am the translator who has taken journalists into dangerous Darfur. It is my intention now to take you there in this book, if you have the courage to come with me." The young life of Daoud Hari-his friends call him David — has been one of... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail (Oprah's Book Club) by Malika Oufkir Publisher Comments The adopted daughter of the king of Morocco, whose father was arrested and executed for a 1972 attempt to assassinate the king, tells the story of how she, her mother, and her five siblings endured years of imprisonment in a desert penal colony. This... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History #15: African Perspectives on Colonialism by A Adu Boahen Publisher Comments "Contradict(s) the extraordinary myth that Africa 'has no history.' Boahen is one of the pioneers in the school of African historiography." -- Times Literary... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experiences with Development and Decadence in Deepest Africa by Robert Klitgaard Publisher Comments Selected as one of the six best nonfiction books of 1990 by the editors f the New York Times Book Review, this is a compelling and entertaining account of the author’s two-and-a-half year adventure in Equatorial Guinea, and his efforts to get this... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sizwe's Test: A Young Man's Journey Through Africa's AIDS Epidemic by Jonny Steinberg Publisher Comments At the age of twenty-nine, Sizwe Magadla is among the most handsome, well-educated, and richest of the men in his poverty-stricken village. Dr. Hermann Reuter, a son of old South West African stock, wants to show the world that if you provide decent... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Dear Exile: The Story of a Friendship Separated (for a Year) by an Ocean (Vintage Departures) by Hilary Liftin Publisher Comments A funny and moving story told through the letters of two women nurturing a friendship as they are separated by distance, experience, and time. <BR>Close friends and former college roommates, Hilary Liftin and Kate Montgomery promised to write when... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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