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We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

Stories From Rwanda

Philip Gourevitch Picador

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. In April 1994, the Rwandan government called upon everyone in the Hutu majority to kill...

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How de Body?

One Man's Terrifying Journey through an African War

Teun Voeten Thomas Dunne Books

In 1998, acclaimed photojournalist Teun Voeten headed to Sierra Leone for what he thought would be a standard assignment on the child soldiers there. But the...

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The Black Diaspora

Five Centuries of the Black Experience Outside Africa

Ronald Segal Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

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African Exodus

The Origins of Modern Humanity

Christopher Stringer and Robin McKie A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book

A Choice Outstanding Academic Book A Library Journal Best Sci-Tech Book A New York Times Notable Book Once in a generation a book such as African Exodus...

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The Assassin

A Story of Race and Rage in the Land of Apartheid

Henk Van Woerden Picador

On September 6, 1966, Dimitri Tsafendas entered South Africa’s parliament, gripping a wickedly long knife, and stabbed Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd...

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Rhodes

Race for Africa

Antony Thomas St. Martin's Press

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The Last Empire

De Beers, Diamonds, and the World

Stefan Kanfer Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

With a scholar's precision and a novelist's eye, Stefan Kanfer tells the inside story of De Beers Consolidated Mines - from the nineteenth century diamond rush...

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The Troubled Heart of Africa

A History of the Congo

Robert B. Edgerton St. Martin's Press

Written over a century ago, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness continues to dominate our vision of the Congo, unlikely as it might seem that a late-Victorian...

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Imperial Reckoning

The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya

Caroline Elkins Holt Paperbacks

“An extraordinary act of historical recovery.”—The New Yorker As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World...

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In the Land of Magic Soldiers

A Story of White and Black in West Africa

Daniel Bergner Picador

An Los Angeles Times Best Book 2003 In Sierra Leone, rampaging soldiers have made a custom of hacking off the hands of their victims, then letting them live...

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People Who Have Stolen from Me

Rough Justice in the New South Africa

David Cohen Picador

Brothers-in-law Harry and Jack run a Johannesburg furniture business that is being robbed repeatedly. The investigation of the crime reveals that the...

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The Heartless Stone

A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire

Tom Zoellner Picador

An American Library Association Notable Book When he proposed to his girlfriend, Tom Zoellner gave what is expected of every American man--a diamond...

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Machete Season

The Killers in Rwanda Speak

Jean Hatzfeld Picador

During the spring of 1994, in a tiny country called Rwanda, some 800,000 people were hacked to death, one by one, by their neighbors in a gruesome civil war....

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Egypt's Belle Epoque

Cairo and the Age of the Hedonists

Trevor Mostyn Tauris Parke Paperbacks

Egypt’s belle époque was a period of incredible extravagance during which the Khedive Ismail’s Cairo became the mirror image, both architecturally and...

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The Great Belzoni

The Circus Strongman Who Discovered Egypt's Ancient Treasures, Second Edition

Stanley Mayes Tauris Parke Paperbacks

The truly extraordinary life story of Giovanni Belzoni – engineer, barber, monk, actor and circus strongman (where he earned his title, ‘The Great Belzoni’),...

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Lose Your Mother

A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

Saidiya Hartman Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following...

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The Invisible Cure

Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa

Helen Epstein Picador

A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 The Invisible Cure is an account of Africa's AIDS epidemic from the inside--a revelatory dispatch from the...

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The Antelope's Strategy

Living in Rwanda After the Genocide

Jean Hatzfeld; Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale Farrar, Straus and Giroux

A powerful report on the aftereffects of the genocide in Rwanda—and on the near impossibility of reconciliation between survivors and killers In two...

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Africa in Global Politics in the Twenty-First Century

A Pan-African Perspective

Olayiwola Abegunrin Palgrave Macmillan

In this twenty-first century, Africa has become an important source of the United States’ energy imports and the world's natural resources. It has also become...

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The Governance of Water and Sanitation in Africa

Achieving Sustainable Development through Partnerships

International Library of African Studies #27

Tim Gray and Amy Stewart Tauris Academic Studies

The politics of water have taken centre stage in global concerns about sustainable development. The Governance of Water and Sanitation in Africa investigates a...

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The Route to Power in Nigeria

A Dynamic Engagement Option for Current and Aspiring Leaders

M.J. Balogun Palgrave Macmillan

Proceeding from a longitudinal analysis of Nigeria’s governorship history, The Route to Power in Nigeria shows how personalities have for the most part...

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Designing West Africa

Prelude to 21st Century Calamity

Peter Schwab Palgrave Macmillan

A noted authority makes a provocative argument that the fate of the African continent was decided in its first decade of independence

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Black Death

AIDS in Africa

Susan Hunter Palgrave Macmillan

To the surprise of many, George W. Bush pledged $10 billion to combat AIDS in developing nations. Noted specialist Susan Hunter tells the untold story of AIDS...

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The Gates of Africa

Death, Discovery, and the Search for Timbuktu

Anthony Sattin St. Martin's Press

London, 1788: a group of British gentlemen---geographers, scholars, politicians, humanitarians, and traders---decide it is time to solve the mysteries of...

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