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Mon Afrique
by Pascal Maitre
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An Intimate View of the Diverse Cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa In a convergence of brilliant color and compelling visual narrative, this new collection of photographs by Pascal Maitre reveals an Africa unfamiliar to most Westerners. He portrays a wide... ( read more)
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Classical Readings in African Library De
by Basil Amaeshi
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Beginning with a bibliographic essay, the work retraces the literature of public library development in East and West Africa. Included are the historical contributions and writings of Harold Lancour, F.A. Sharr, and John Harris, three men that helped to... ( read more)
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Mandela: The Authorized Biography
by Anthony Sampson
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The life of Nelson Mandela is one of the most extraordinary epics of the twentieth century. An almost-forgotten prisoner on Robben Island twenty years ago, apparently doomed to a helpless existence as a victim of apartheid, he not only survived but... ( read more)
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Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology
by Cheikh Anta Diop
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Challenging societal beliefs, this volume rethinks African and world history from an Afrocentric perspective.... ( read more)
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European Imperialism & the Partition of Africa
by E F Penrose
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Seeks to explain the European partition of Africa between 1880-1900.... ( read more)
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Behind Closed Doors: Women's Oral Narratives in Tunis
by Monia Hejaiej
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Tunis has a long history of city life reaching back to ancient times. The Arabic language is firmly rooted among it inhabitants and most embrace the morals and culture of Islam. Behind Closed Doors presents forty-seven tales told by three Beldi women... ( read more)
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Clarendon Lectures in English Literature #1996: Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: Towards a Critical Theory of the Arts and the State in Africa
by Ngugi Wa Thiongo
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The author, one of Africa's leading writers, explores the relationship between art and political power in society, taking as its starting point the experience of writers in contemporary Africa, where writers are often seen as enemies of the post-colonial... ( read more)
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Peacekeeping and Peace Enforcement in Africa: Methods of Conflict Prevention
by Robert Rotberg
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Edited by World Peace Foundation president Robert I. Rotberg, the chapters in this volume focus on preventing outbreaks of civil war and other vicious internal conflicts in Africa. The contributors review the sorry state of African conflict prevention... ( read more)
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Travels in West Africa
by Mary H Kingsley
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A sheltered Victorian spinster trades her mundane middle-class existence in the 1890s for an incredible expedition in the Congo. Recounted with an infectious good humor, the journey draws her into the diverse customs and beliefs of the area, its natural... ( read more)
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The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS
by Helen Epstein
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In her unsparing and illuminating account of the effects of AIDS in Africa, Epstein describes how health experts, governments, and ordinary Africans have struggled to understand the rapid and devastating spread of the disease as well as new medical and... ( read more)
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A View from a Tall Hill: Robert Ruark in Africa
by Terry Wieland
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Robert Ruark was the most influential safari writer of the latter 20th century. He was a nationally renowned columnist and author, who inspired both hunters who traveled to Africa and those who could only dream about it. This is a biography of Ruark... ( read more)
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Vanishing Africa: A Photographer's Journey
by Gianni Giansanti
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A dead branch of the Rift Valley, worn hills and plains beaten by the relentless sun, this is the region that spreads around the valley of the Omo River. The wild and remote southern region of Ethiopia only appeared on maps little over a century ago when... ( read more)
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Avenues of Participation: Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics)
by Diane Singerman
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Focusing on the political life of the sha'b (or popular classes) in Cairo, Diane Singerman shows how men and women develop creative and effective strategies to accomplish shared goals, despite the dominant forces ranged against them.... ( read more)
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Slave: My True Story
by Mende Nazer and Damien Lewis
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A shocking true story of contemporary slavery: a young girl, snatched from her tribal village in Africa, survives enslavement in Sudan and London before making a courageous escape to freedom.
Mende Nazer lost her childhood at age twelve, when she was... ( read more)
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Chameleon Days: An American Boyhood in Ethiopia
by Tim Bascom
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At the age of three, in 1964, Tim Bascom is thrust into a world of eucalyptus trees and stampeding baboons when his family moves from the Midwest to Ethiopia. Unflinchingly observant, young Tim reveals his missionary parents' struggles in a sometimes... ( read more)
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Postcolonial Subjectivities (Postcolonial Encounters)
by Richard P. Werbner
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This book crosses the frontier of critical theory by illuminating the contradictory predicaments Africans confront at the turn of the 21st century. The essays recognize postcolonies troubled by state decline and increasing exploitation, dispossession and... ( read more)
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The Lake Regions of Central Africa
by Richard F. Burton
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An engrossing record of explorations of central Africa's lake regions. Acute observations on village life, native character, religion and government.... ( read more)
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Anatomy of a Miracle: The End of Apartheid and the Birth of the New South Africa
by Patti Waldmeir
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The peaceful birth of black majority rule in South Africa was a transcendent moment. Many South Africans believe this negotiated revolution to be a miracle: at the very least it was a feat of political magic. One false step along the way could have... ( read more)
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Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology Among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania
by Liisa H. Malkki
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In this study of Hutu refugees from Burundi, driven into exile in Tanzania after their 1972 insurrection against the dominant Tutsi was brutally quashed, Liisa Malkki shows how experiences of dispossession and violence are remembered and turned into... ( read more)
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The roots of ethnicity :the origins of the Acholi of Uganda before 1800
by Ronald R Atkinson
Book News Annotation
Atkinson (history, U. of South Carolina) argues that although
colonial rule and its aftermath have played a major role in shaping
ethnicity in Africa, many sociohistorical developments can be traced
to a past long before the colonial period. He... ( read more)
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