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Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	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...

Trade Paperback : $34.95 Buy	Africa's Development Impasse Rethinking the Political Economy of Transformation Stefan Andreasson Zed Books Orthodox strategies for socio-economic development have failed spectacularly in Southern Africa. Neither the developmental state nor neoliberal reform seems...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	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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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 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

A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in Kenya As part of the Allied...

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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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Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	Darfur A New History of a Long War African Arguments Julie Flint and Alex deWaal Zed Books The humanitarian tragedy in Darfur has stirred politicians, Hollywood celebrities and students to appeal for a peaceful resolution to the crisis. Beyond the...

Trade Paperback : $39.95 Buy	Elections and the Media in Post-Conflict Africa Votes and Voices for Peace? Marie-Soleil Frere Zed Books Over the past ten years, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Chad, Central African Republic, Congo Brazzaville and Rwanda all organized pluralist...

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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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Hardcover : $92.50 Buy	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...

Hardcover : $35.00 Buy	The Last Storytellers Tales from the Heart of Morocco Richard Hamilton with a foreword by Barnaby Rogerson I.B. Tauris Marrakech is the heart and lifeblood of Morocco’s ancient storytelling tradition. For nearly a thousand years, storytellers have gathered in Jemaa el Fna, the...

Trade Paperback : $32.95 Buy	Neoliberal Africa The Impact of Global Social Engineering Graham Harrison Zed Books This book looks at thirty years of Neoliberalism in Africa. Not merely an economic shock or a quick process of "structural adjustment," Neoliberalism has been...

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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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Machete Season

The Killers in Rwanda Speak

Jean Hatzfeld; Translated by Linda Coverdale; Preface by Susan Sontag 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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The Antelope's Strategy

Living in Rwanda After the Genocide

Jean Hatzfeld; Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale Picador

The third book on the Hatzfeld’s definitive study of the Rwandan genocide: the first-hand accounts of Hutus and Tutsis forced to live side-by-side and get...

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Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	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...

Trade Paperback : $32.00 Buy	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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Casting with a Fragile Thread

A Story of Sisters and Africa

Wendy Kann Picador

One Sunday morning in her suburban home in Connecticut, Wendy Kann received a phone call: her youngest sister, Lauren, had been killed on a lonely road in...

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Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	The Dying Sahara US Imperialism and Terror in Africa Jeremy Keenan Pluto Press In The Dark Sahara ( Pluto Press, 2009), Jeremy Keenan exposed the collusion between the U.S. and Algeria in fabricating false flag terrorism to justify the...

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More Than Just a Game

Soccer vs. Apartheid: The Most Important Soccer Story Ever Told

Chuck Korr and Marvin Close St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books

Timed perfectly for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the true story of how political prisoners under apartheid found hope and dignity through soccer In the...

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Trade Paperback : $29.95 Buy	Algeria Since 1989 Between Terror and Democracy Global History of the Present James D. Le Sueur Zed Books Algeria's democratic experiment is seminal in post-Cold War history. The first Muslim nation to attempt the transition from an authoritarian system to...

Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	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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