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Re-Creating Ourselves: African Women and Critical Transformations Re-Creating Ourselves: African Women and Critical Transformations
by Mol Ogundipe Leslie

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A selection of writings in which the author has critically and creatively pondered issues of gender, politics, and social transformation for at least three decades... (read more)

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The Africans The Africans
by David Lamb

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The Africans is an extraordinary combination of analysis and adventure. Part travelogue, part contemporary history, it is a portrait of a continent that sometimes seems hell-bent on destroying itself, and of people who are as courageous as they are long... (read more)

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A Strategic Vision for Africa: The Kampala Movement A Strategic Vision for Africa: The Kampala Movement
by Francis Deng

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Increasingly marginalized since the end of the Cold War, the continent of Africa is struggling to identify both the root causes and possible solutions to the maladies that continue to plague it. In the early 1990's, a group of African leaders and... (read more)

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Assassin Assassin
by Henk Van Woerden

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On September 6, 1966, Dimitri Tsafendas entered South Africa’s parliament, gripping a wickedly long knife, and stabbed Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd four times in the chest. This chilling study of the life of Tsafendas—the homeless... (read more)

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Black Livingstone: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo Black Livingstone: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo
by Pagan Kennedy

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-227) and index.... (read more)

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Challenge of African Economic Recovery & Development Challenge of African Economic Recovery & Development
by Adebayo Adedeji

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A special session of the UN General Assembly was held in Abuja, the new Nigerian capital in May 1988. This volume reproduces the major papers, lines of discussion and conclusions of the conference.... (read more)

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Gods of Noonday: A White Girl's African Life Gods of Noonday: A White Girl's African Life
by Elaine Neil Orr

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-308).... (read more)

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Understanding Africa a Political Economy Understanding Africa a Political Economy
by Richard A Fredland

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Africa is a fascinating, complex, and infuriating place. This valuable work covers a broad range of topics aiming to make Africa comprehensible to the general reader. Richard A. Fredland based this book on his extensive travels and research in many... (read more)

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African Cities and Towns Before the European Conquest African Cities and Towns Before the European Conquest
by Richard W Hull

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This richly illustrated book traces the precolonial development of African towns, cities, and architecture south of the Sahara. At once it dispels the stereotypical view of Africans living in simple, primitive, look-alike agglomerations, scattered about... (read more)

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The Wizard of the Nile: The Hunt for Africas Most Wanted (Biography & Memoir) The Wizard of the Nile: The Hunt for Africas Most Wanted (Biography & Memoir)
by Matthew Green

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The civil war in Uganda has bled on for over two decades, spilling over into Sudan and the Congo and drawing only occasional interest from the West. The rebel insurgency in the north is led by the wizard of the Nile, Joseph Kony, whose Lord's Resistance... (read more)

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South from Barbary: Along the Slave Routes of the Libyan Sahara South from Barbary: Along the Slave Routes of the Libyan Sahara
by Justin Marozzi

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Justin Marozzi and his travelling companion Ned had never travelled in the desert, nor had they ridden camels before embarking on this expedition. Encouraged by a series of idiosyncratic Touareg and Tubbu guides, they learnt the full range of desert... (read more)

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Africa South of the Sahara a Geographi Africa South of the Sahara a Geographi
by Robert Stock

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Africa south of the Sahara is a region in transition. The optimism of the early post-independence years has long since faded, replaced by a pervasive sense of crisis that typically includes slow and often negative economic growth, a crushing debt burden,... (read more)

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The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe, and Power in the Heart of Africa The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe, and Power in the Heart of Africa
by Bill Berkeley

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Since 1983 journalist Bill Berkeley has traveled through Africa's most troubled lands to seek out the tyrants and military leaders who orchestrate these nations' seemingly intractable wars. Shattering once and for all the myth that ancient tribal hatreds... (read more)

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Travels in West Africa Travels in West Africa
by Mary Kingsley

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Born in 1862, Mary Kingsley was the daughter of an explorer who was freed to follow in her father's footsteps following her parents' death. She made two trips in the 1890s, and her lively and witty account, reproduced here, was an immediate bestseller... (read more)

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Inside Apartheid's Prisons: Letters of Hope and Struggle Inside Apartheid's Prisons: Letters of Hope and Struggle
by Raymond Suttner

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Alan Paton Award runner-up for non-fiction, 2002. "Raymond Suttner is one of a small number of white comrades who played a substantial role in bringing apartheid to an end. His book should be read by all who are interested in South Africa."-Walter... (read more)

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Mandela: The Authorized Portrait Mandela: The Authorized Portrait
by Kate Parkin

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Named one of "Time" magazine's 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century, Nelson Mandela has dedicated his life to fighting racism, segregation, oppression, and exploitation. Drawing on 60 original interviews, this authorized biography includes an... (read more)

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Daughters of the Nile: Photographs of Egyptian Women's Movements, 1900-1960 Daughters of the Nile: Photographs of Egyptian Women's Movements, 1900-1960
by Hind Wassef

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This book is the first to provide photographic documentation of Egyptian women's movements during the first half of the twentieth century. It is a compilation of archival photographs that includes portraits of key figures in the movements, demonstrations,... (read more)

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Taking Away the Distance: An African AIDS Orphan and His Crusade to Unite Children Orphaned by the Epidemic Taking Away the Distance: An African AIDS Orphan and His Crusade to Unite Children Orphaned by the Epidemic
by Miles Roston

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In this emotional story of hope and inspiration, an African boy, orphaned by AIDS becomes a catalyst for AIDS orphans worldwide. Living in a shantytown in Kenya, Kevin Sumba's life was one of loneliness and hardship. Yet he was determined to get an... (read more)

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I Dreamed of Africa I Dreamed of Africa
by Kuki Gallmann

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When her friend died in a car crash, Kuki Gallmann married the widower, Paulo, and the couple, Paulo's two daughters and Kuki's son by a previous marriage moved to Kenya. When Paulo and Kuki's son both died, Kuki set up a private wildlife park. This book... (read more)

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Homeward Journey: Readings in African Studies Homeward Journey: Readings in African Studies
by Herbert T Neve

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A cross-disciplinary anthology that introduces fundamental historical and contemporary topics about Africa.... (read more)

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