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Sahara
The Extraordinary History of the World's Largest Desert
Marq De Villiers with Sheila Hirtle
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In the parched and seemingly lifeless heart of the Sahara desert, earthworms find enough moisture to survive. Four major mountain ranges interrupt the flow of...
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Sardines
A Novel
Nuruddin Farah
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Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature Farah's landmark Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship trilogy is comprised by the...
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She Plays with the Darkness
A Novel
Zakes Mda
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Winner of the Sanlam Literary Award for Best Unpublished Novel
"Beautiful [and] thoughtful."—
Carolyn See,
The Washington Post
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The Smell of Apples
A Novel
Mark Behr
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Winner of the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction from the Los Angeles Times Winner of the M-Net Award Winner of The Eugene Marais Award Winner of the...
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The Stone Virgins
A Novel
Yvonne Vera
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"Vera brings to this novel her extraordinary gift of sidelong and oblique entry into the heart of things using the total environment—trees, sky, rivers, rocks, and mountains are themselves characters—to express human emotion. Her treatment of love is unusual and strikingly original, bringing out its redemptive power which triumphs over the horrors of war and human cruelty."—
Eldred D. Jones, Editor,
African Literature Today
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Sweet and Sour Milk
Nuruddin Farah
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Winner of the 1980 English-Speaking Union Literary Award The first novel in Farah's universally acclaimed Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship...
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The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget
Murder and Memory in Uganda
Andrew Rice
Picador
At its core,
The Teeth May Smile
is a keenly reported private detective story and police procedural about a son’s search for justice many years after his father’s betrayal and disappearance at the hands of Amin’s military henchmen. At the same time, Rice’s book is an ably presented drama about the workings of a Ugandan courthouse. It is also an efficient primer on Uganda’s tumultuous history and a political précis of a succession of regimes, culminating with that of the current president, the increasingly authoritarian Yoweri Museveni. And on the broadest level, it is a vivid prism for examining some of the largest themes in Africa’s history . . . Finally,
The Teeth May Smile
is a thoughtful meditation on the nature of memory, on forgiveness and reconciliation."—
Howard W. French, associate professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism,
The New York Times Book Review
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There Is No Me Without You
One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children
Melissa Fay Greene
Bloomsbury USA
"Greene ably dons the mantle of historian, recounting Ethiopian history; and that of the science writer, exploring the origins of the AIDS virus; and of the social commentator, taking to task the drug companies and Western politicians who should have done more much sooner to help avert disaster. She writes simply and declaratively but also cleverly."—
Bill Eichenberger,
The Columbus Dispatch
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They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children
The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers
Roméo Dallaire Ishmael Beah
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\u0022It is my hope that through the pages of this remarkable book, you will discover groundbreaking thoughts on building partnerships and networks to enhance...
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The Unheard
A Memoir of Deafness and Africa
Josh Swiller
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A young man’s quest to reconcile his deafness in an unforgiving world leads to a remarkable sojourn in a remote African village that pulsates with beauty and...
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The Village of Waiting
George Packer
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Now restored to print with a new Foreword by Philip Gourevitch and an Afterword by the author, this book is a frank, moving, and vivid account of contemporary life in West Africa.
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War Child
A Child Soldier's Story
Emmanuel Jal, read by Megan Lloyd Davies
St. Martin's Griffin
"Remember, this is a little kid, not even 10 years old, all alone. Hatred, by now, is the only thing that sustains him, hatred for his father, who so brutally double-crossed him, hatred for the Arabs, who he presumes are responsible for this war. There's no glamour here, no pitched battles, only unimaginable misery. Finally, after about two years in the camp, he's recruited into the SPLA, and his real troubles begin. He's beaten and tortured in every possible fashion . . . When he finally does get to kill a few Arabs, he feels no sense of triumph, just sadness. They're human, too, it seems. A couple of miracles happen . . . we know there is a happy ending; otherwise, there wouldn't be this book. Jal becomes a believing Christian and gospel singer. He sets up an organization to help lost boys, but he's . . . often tired and sad and lonely, but in
War Child
he succeeds in making this crazy war and all its ramifications utterly grounded, specific and real . . . You'll come away from this book loving Emmanuel Jal."—
Carolyn See,
The Washington Post Book World
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Ways of Dying
A Novel
Zakes Mda
Picador
"[A] marvelous picaresque . . . Mda's purpose comes through clearly: to show how many ways of dying there are in the transition to a new South Africa, whether through the brutality of white overseers and policemen or that of black gangsters . . . Reflecting the startling contrasts in such a world, tender humor and brutal violence vie with each other in Mda's pages, as do vibrant life and sudden death. The struggle between them creates an energetic and refreshing literature for a country still coming to terms with both the new and the old."—
Tony Eprile,
The New York Times Book Review
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Stories from Rwanda
Philip Gourevitch
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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...
Guardian First Book Award - Nominee - Winner
L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner - Current Interest
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The Whale Caller
A Novel
Zakes Mda
Picador
"Zakes Mda's fifth novel,
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The Whale Caller
begins as a reverie, illuminating the beauty of imperfect love and the thrill of struggling to maintain it. Yet in the end, beyond the whimsy and whales, the deeper, darker concern here is not so much the fragility of love, but the fragility of life itself when one surrenders wholly to the foolish heart."—
The Washington Post Book World
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Without a Name and Under the Tongue
Yvonne Vera
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"Vera's style is beautifully matched with the content, and magnificently promotes its central theme that language has both the power to heal and to accrete and to allow those who have once been victims to transform themselves and their future."—
Judges' Citation, Commonwealth Writers Prize, Africa Region (
Under the Tongue
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