Africa Books


A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Best Price: $10.00 Great read. We all need to be made aware of the atrocities that war brings, especially in the...	Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust Best Price: $8.74 Left to Tell is an amazing story of a woman's courage and spirituality. Not only did it put all...	The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur Best Price: $10.00 Daoud certainly has many one of a kind experiences to share. And it is highly important that we...	The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World Best Price: $14.51 This is a wonderful and tragic story of a Jewish family who lived in Egypt until the early...	King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa Best Price: $6.21 This is a very well written history of colonialism in Africa which I believe should be in every...



Black Skin, White Masks Best Price: $8.00 If you want to understand racial identity, you should read Fanon's approach. The most...	We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda Best Price: $4.97 We now know the basic story. Hutu extremists killed Tutsis and the world ignored them. The...	The Wretched of the Earth Best Price: $7.91 Frantz Fanon's political commentary on colonization is the perfect example of revolutionary...	Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (California Series in Public Anthropology, 4) Best Price: $10.53 Paul Farmer has long been famous, I take it, within the medical community as a brave lifesaver...	The House at Sugar Beach: A Memoir Best Price: $17.16 Helene Cooper is "Congo," a descendant of two Liberian dynasties -- traced back to the...



Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood Best Price: $2.71 I found this in audio at an audio rental store. The front intrigued me so I read the back and...	The Slave Ship: A Human History Best Price: $14.45 Unlike most historys, The Slave Ship is very readable, reads like a novel. Makes you want to...	The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography Best Price: $6.80 great book regarding the history of cryptography. The only way to truly understand anything is c...	The Stairway to Heaven: Book II of the Earth Chronicles (The Earth Chronicles) Best Price: $4.21 Semitic language scholar "places in context the tales of the pre-diluvial Enoch and the...	Expecting Miracles: True Stories of Gods Supernatural Power and How You Can Experience It Best Price: $8.22 A simply beautiful love song of a book to the Lord. God, continue to pour out your blessings on...

The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence Best Price: $12.03 I read this book 2 years ago, and it haunts me still. I've since gone on to read two other of...	They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan Best Price: $7.89 When I picked it up I didnt know it was written written by the boys themselves. This made it...	Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography--The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa Best Price: $4.50 KAFFIR BOY is a must read for anyone interested in what life was like for a young boy coming of...	God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir Best Price: $8.87 GOD GREW TIRED OF US Reviewed by Charles Shea LeMone www.allwordman.com In 1987, John Bul...	Bill Bryson's African Diary Best Price: $6.30 Loved the book, which is written with Bryson's characteristic humor. With a very detailed...

Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman Best Price: $14.00 Marjorie Shostak offers readers an interesting and insightful account of her relationship with a...	Discovering the Mysteries of Ancient America: Lost History And Legends, Unearthed And Explored Best Price: $10.30 This is a great resource for historical artifacts that don't fit the usual history of America,...	A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 (New York Review Books Classics) Best Price: $8.47 Wow!!! This almost reads like a playbook for what's currently happening in Iraq. This is highly...	Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa Best Price: $7.95 Peter Godwin displays great skill in recounting his life and coming of age in Rhodesia. His...	Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond Best Price: $6.99 Well now I know where Darfur is, not to mention Chad, Congo, Uganda, Kenya etc....this book does...

The Shadow of the Sun Best Price: $8.43 Shadow of the Sun Excellent introduction to the African continent. The author's writing is...	Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War Best Price: $2.90 This is one of the best books I've read. The reader gets a street level view of what really...	Pillar of Fire : America in the King Years 1963-65 (America in the King Years) Best Price: $6.28 With 30 other reviews for this book (so far), it would seem that everything that needs to be...	Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt Best Price: $13.47 This is a basic history of Egypt, of the life of the average people, written by B. Mertz PH.D,...	Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival Best Price: $8.61 This is unlike any other documentary type book. This is what happened around the documentary...

How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity Best Price: $11.86 Thomas C. Oden has done a great service for the church by writing "How Africa Shaped the...	Al Qaeda in Its Own Words Best Price: $18.45 Despite the frequent appearances of Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri on television screens...	Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt Best Price: $13.47 For anyone who has an interest in Egypt or ever wondered exactly who the ancient Egyptians were...	Destruction of Black Civilization : Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C to 2000 A.D. Best Price: $10.79 Never mind the naysayers about the "questionable" content of the book. What good is...	Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass Best Price: $5.48 I came to this book expecting to read one woman's personal experience of living in Africa, and...

Africa: A Biography of the Continent Best Price: $11.31 _Africa: A Biography of the Continent_ by John Reader is a very well-named book, a through and...	A History of South Africa, Third Edition Best Price: $10.85 I read this book just before my month long tour of S. Africa. For what it is, which is a quick...	Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail (Oprah's Book Club) Best Price: $4.34 This was a very touching story. As some people have mentioned it is very simply written. But I...	Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman (Arkana) Best Price: $4.49 One of the best books ever written...In fact I've read none better...It is a book I buy for...	Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa Best Price: $17.00 I have read several books (though certainly not enough) about South Africa: 'The Great Boer...

The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca Best Price: $7.34 The foreign home restoration genre takes a real turn with Tahir Shah's experiences in...	Before the Pharaohs: Egypt's Mysterious Prehistory Best Price: $11.27 How old is the Sphinx? What was the Great Pyramid designed to be? I have never heard of Nabta...	Stolen Legacy Best Price: $7.66 Having read a good deal of the reviews on this title, it is clear that most mis-understand the...	Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt Best Price: $12.95 This is a terrific book. I highly recommend it to almost anyone. All you need is an interest in...	Discoveries: Petra: Lost City of the Ancient World (Discoveries (Abrams)) Best Price: $4.53 I bought this book for my parents who will be visiting Petra this year. This is a small but...

The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors Best Price: $10.00 This is a great book for any one that is on a path of enlightening oneself.It is a must read.	The Kybalion: A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece Best Price: $8.99 This is a wonderful book. I would recommend it to anyone on the Path.	The Giza Death Star Destroyed: The Ancient War For Future Science (Giza Death Star Trilogy) Best Price: $11.29 This is another very interesting book in Farrell's Giza Death Star trilogy. Like the other...	The Rough Guide to Morocco 8 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) Best Price: $14.72 During a recent visit to Morocco, hitchhiking across the whole of the country from north to...	Out of Egypt: A Memoir Best Price: $6.95 Out of Egypt, is a very special memoir about growing up in Alexandria before the author and his...

Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton Best Price: $14.80 So this book is definitely not for everyone. There has been a lot of criticism regarding the...	Mugabe: Power, Plunder, and the Struggle for Zimbabwe's Future Best Price: $7.93 great book. i'm not really a book guy. i had to read an african book for a class so i chose...	The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS Best Price: $16.30 "As a woman living with HIV," says Beatrice Were of Uganda, "I am often asked...	The Giza Power Plant : Technologies of Ancient Egypt Best Price: $11.20 ...the assertion that the Pyramids where just not economically feasable, even with slaves, to...	The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality Best Price: $10.20 This is a must read book for anyone seeking true knowledge of the history of the African people....

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