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Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile & Apartheid
by Frank B Wilderson
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"[Frank B.] Wilderson [will] become a major American writer. Mark my word."-Ishmael Reed In 1995, a South African journalist informed Frank B. Wilderson, one of only two black American members of the African National Congress (ANC), that President Nelson... ( read more)
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This Voice in My Heart: A Genocide Survivor's Story of Escape, Faith, and Forgiveness
by Gilbert Tuhabonye
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The sole survivor of a massacre that killed more than 100 Tutsi children and teachers presents this personal and inspiring story of how he survived genocide and ascended to world-class status as an athlete due to his enduring faith in God.... ( read more)
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The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold
by Frank T Kryza
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In the first decades of the nineteenth century, no place burned more brightly in the imagination of European geographers -- and fortune hunters -- than the lost city of Timbuktu. Africa's legendary City of Gold, not visited by Europeans since the Middle... ( read more)
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Remaking the Modern: Space, Relocation, & the Politics of Id
by Farha Ghannam
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An ethnography of a housing project in Cairo, which demonstrates how the modernizing efforts of the Egyptian government runs headlong into the traditional customs of the area's low-income residents. Brings new meaning to the phrase "global and local."... ( read more)
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The Lives of Beryl Markham
by Errol Trzevinski
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Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen's love story became the basis for the Oscar-winning film Out of Africa. Now, the author of Silence Will Speak reveals a twist in their relationship: Beryl Markham, one of the century's greatest free spirits, pursued Hatton... ( read more)
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Unbowed: A Memoir
by Wangari Maathai
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Hugely charismatic, humble, and possessed of preternatural luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai, the winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and a single mother of three, recounts her extraordinary life as a political activist, feminist, and... ( read more)
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New Approaches to African History #3: Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora
by Michael A Gomez
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The experiences of Africans in the Old World--the Mediterranean and Islamic worlds, is followed by their movement into the New, where their plight in lands claimed by Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, French and English colonial powers is analyzed from... ( read more)
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Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village
by Sarah Erdman
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A portrait of a resilient African village, ruled until recently by magic and tradition, now facing modern problems and responding, often triumphantly, to change.
When Sarah Erdman, a Peace Corps volunteer, arrived in Nambonkaha, she became the first... ( read more)
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Shake Hands With the Devil the Failure
by Romeo Dallaire
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On the tenth anniversary of the date that UN peacekeepers landed in Rwanda, Random House Canada is proud to publish the unforgettable first-hand account of the genocide by the man who led the UN mission. Digging deep into shattering memories, General... ( read more)
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Freedom: The Story of My Second Life
by Malika Oufkir
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In her new book, Oufkir reveals what it is like to return to the world after 20 years of darkness. She writes candidly of her adjustment to modern life after her family escaped from the Moroccan jail where they were imprisoned for 21 years.... ( read more)
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Do They Hear You When You Cry? (98 Edition)
by Fauziya Kassindja
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For Fauziya Kassindja, an idyllic childhood in Togo, West Africa, sheltered from the tribal practices of polygamy and genital mutilation, ended with her beloved father's sudden death. Forced into an arranged marriage at age seventeen, Fauziya... ( read more)
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Human Being Died That Night (03 Edition)
by Pumla Gobodo-madikizela
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A Human Being Died That Night recounts an extraordinary dialogue. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, a psychologist who grew up in a black South African township, reflects on her interviews with Eugene de Kock, the commanding officer of state-sanctioned death... ( read more)
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Casting with a Fragile Thread: A Story of Sisters and Africa
by Wendy Kann
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In this poignant, lyric memoir, a sister's tragic death prompts a woman's unbidden journey into her turbulent African past A comfortable suburban housewife with three children living in Connecticut, Wendy Kann thought she had put her volatile childhood... ( read more)
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The Sinai: A Physical Geography
by Ned Greenwood
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One of the world's oldest crossroads, the Sinai joins the great continental land masses of Africa and Eurasia. Its physical geography of rugged mountain peaks, desert plains, and sea coasts was formed by the collision of the two continental plates, while... ( read more)
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Of Beetles & Angels: A Boy's Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard
by Mawi Asgedom
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This acclaimed memoir tells the unforgettable story of a young boy's journey from a refugee camp in Sudan to Chicago, where his family survived on welfare. Mawi followed his father's advice to "treat people . . . as though they were angels sent from... ( read more)
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Africana: The Concise Desk Reference
by Kwame Anthon Appiah
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Drawn from the acclaimed landmark in reference publishing, this incomparable one-volume encyclopedia of the black world is now within reach of every family, student, and educator.... ( read more)
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Africa's Discovery of Europe: 1450-1850
by David Northrup
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What did Africans think of the first Europeans they saw? Why did some Africans seek political and religious alliances with Europeans? How successful were African traders in acquiring what they wanted from Europeans in the new Atlantic trade? Africa's... ( read more)
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Chameleon Days (06 Edition)
by 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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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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Mandela: The Authorized Biography
by Anthony Sampson
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Nelson Mandela, who emerged from twenty-six years of political imprisonment to lead South Africa out of apartheid and into democracy, is perhaps the world's most admired leader, a man whose life has been led with exemplary courage and inspired conviction.... ( read more)
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