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Parting the Desert Creation of Suez Cana
by Zachary Karabell
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The building of the Suez Canal was considered the greatest engineering feat of the 19th century, but, as Zachary Karabell shows in this book, there was much more to it than just a marvel of construction. In addition, "Parting the Desert" describes an... ( read more)
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North Africa: Regional Tensions and Strategic Concerns; Revised and Updated Version
by Richard B Parker
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North Africa, comprising Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, and Libya, is of particular strategic and economics importance to both the United States and the Soviet Union. Richard B. Parker provides an informed perspective on the problems facing the region with... ( read more)
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The Politics of the New South Africa: Apartheid and After
by Heather Deegan
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For undergraduate and taught masters courses on modern South Africa as part of a politics, area studies, development studies or combined social sciences degree. This book provides an appraisal of critical moments in South Africa's history: segregation... ( read more)
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A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness
by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-176) and index.... ( read more)
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Wanderings in West Africa
by Richard Burton
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Great Victorian scholar-adventurer recounts long journey to British diplomatic post at Fernando Po, expeditions to African mainland. Invaluable descriptions of African tribal rituals concerning birth, marriage, death, fetishism, more. 1 illustration, 1... ( read more)
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Squatters & the Roots of Mau-Mau 1905-1963 (Eastern African Studies)
by Tabitha Kanogo
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"The most comprehensive history available of an extremely important group.... Kanogo's extensive research and balanced writing are worthy of high praise". -- American Historical... ( read more)
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Power Lines: Two Years in South Africa's Borders
by Jason Carter
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After college, Jason Carter, grandson of former President Jimmy
Carter, went to South Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer to help rural
teachers implement a post-apartheid curriculum. Accepted and rejected at times by both cultures, he straddled the line... ( read more)
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A History of Egypt: From the Arab Conquest to the Present
by Afaf Lutfi A Marsot
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New and updated edition of the successful A Short History of Modern Egypt.... ( read more)
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Segregation and Apartheid in Twentieth Century South Africa (Exeter Arabic and Islamic Series)
by William Beinart
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Offering a selection of significant essays contributed by prominent writers of various perspectives, "Segregation and Apartheid in 20th Century South Africa" is and unparalleled introduction to this highly contentious and absorbing subject of... ( read more)
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Rainbow's End: A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm
by Lauren St John
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Set against the backdrop of the Rhodesian civil war, St. John's memoir of growing up on a farm and game preserve in the 1970s deftly conjures up the smells and sounds of the African bush and the era's climate of unashamed racism and feverish patriotism.... ( read more)
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Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
by Saidiya Hartman
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In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast. She retraces the history of the Atlantic slave trade from the fifteenth to the twentieth century and... ( read more)
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Another Africa
by Robert Lyons and Chinua Achebe
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Two great talents have joined together to create a unique d gorgeous book that fuses photographs, poetry, and text to create a view of present-day Africa that moves beyond the stereotypes commonly held by most Westerners. There are no shots of beautiful... ( read more)
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Crisis, Adjustment and Growth in Uganda: A Study of Adaptation in an African Economy
by Arne Bigsten
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Looks at economic reform in Uganda, which has been based on the
IMF/World Bank model, as an example of the dilemmas facing a poor
economy attempting to achieve internal and external balance. Effects
of economic policy at the aggregate level are... ( read more)
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Frantz Fanon: A Spiritual Biography (Lives & Legacies)
by Patrick Ehlen
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Patrick Ehlen resurrects the tremendous personality of Fanon and presents his remarkable life with the skill of a fine novelist. The book opens on the small French Caribbean colony of Martinique at the turn of the century, and recounts the trials of an... ( read more)
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France and Islam in West Africa, 1860-1960
by Christophe Harrison
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A major contribution to the social, political and intellectual history of the French West African Federation.... ( read more)
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The Great War in Africa, 1914-1918
by Byron Farwell
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The African front comprised a series of conflicts, schemes, maneuvers, heroics, disasters, inhospitable climate and geography, and insects--as the Allies sought to conquer four German colonies.... ( read more)
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Far in the Waste Sudan: On Assignment in Africa
by Nicholas Coghlan
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The first Canadian diplomat to be posted in Khartoum offers an insider?s view of war-torn Sudan at a turning point in its history.... ( read more)
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Hustling Is Not Stealing: Stories of an African Bar Girl
by John M. Chernoff
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The prospects of a sixteen-year-old West African girl with no money, education, or experience might seem pretty depressing. But if she's got a hell of a lot of nerve and a knack for finding the funny side in even the worst situations, she just might... ( read more)
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A Rasta's Pilgrimage: Ethiopian Faces and Places
by Neville Garrick
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This book presents a compelling view of Ethiopia's ancient civilization from a Rastafarian perspective. To Rastas, Ethiopia is a spiritual sanctuary -- a dreamscape that transcends physical geography. It is the homeland of Ras Tafari -- Haile Selassie I,... ( read more)
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Three Eyes for the Journey: African Dimensions of the Jamaican Religious Experience
by Dianne M Stewart
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Studies of African-derived religious traditions have generally focused on their retention of African elements. This emphasis, says Dianne Stewart, slights the ways in which communities in the African diaspora have created and formed religious meaning. In... ( read more)
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