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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...

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Africa's Odious Debts

How Foreign Loans and Capital Flight Bled a Continent

African Arguments

Léonce Ndikumana and James Boyce Zed Books

In Africa's Odious Debts, Boyce and Ndikumana reveal the shocking fact that, contrary to the popular perception of Africa being a drain on the financial...

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Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	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...

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...

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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 : $13.00 Buy	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...

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 Black Diaspora Five Centuries of the Black Experience Outside Africa Ronald Segal Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

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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 : $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...

Hardcover : $30.00 Buy	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

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...

Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	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...

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...

Hardcover : $27.95 Buy	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...

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...

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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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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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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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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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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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 : $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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