East Africa Books


World War I: The African Front: An Imperial War on the Dark Continent Best Price: $23.10 The definitive history of World War I's forgotten front: Britain versus Germany in East Africa...	Darfur: A New History of a Long War (African Arguments) Best Price: $11.33 People professionally concerned with genocide prevention and Darfur recommended this short but...	Reunion in Barsaloi Best Price: $14.80 Well I read the White Masai with the intention to be as open minded as possible and to try to...	Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda's Children Best Price: $3.99 This book is a must for understanding what is going on in Africa with the horror of "child...	In The Company Of Heroes Best Price: $4.02 I recently purchased this book, and I wish there were words enough to relay just how great it...



Emma's War Best Price: $4.99 Nearly a score of years after the events so intimately revealed in this book, the war in the...	Slave: My True Story Best Price: $6.94 This is one of the best books I have read in a long time. I would recommend it to anyone who...	Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey Best Price: $13.94 Long before Senator Barack Obama was heralded as a man whose balance between African and...	The Man-Eaters of Tsavo Best Price: $8.63 A fascinating snapshot in a small hiccup in the giant that was the British Empire. ...	The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur Best Price: $8.56 This is only the second book to make me furious and wanting to go out and take action. To allow...



Tales of the African Frontier Best Price: $18.70 John Hunter was a notable African White Hunter living in Kenya until the Mau Mau (c. 1960). He...	Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide, Revised and Updated Edition Best Price: $14.55 Very precise, very clear book. And necessary for anyone who wants to try to understand something...	Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur Best Price: $16.50 Like the single white eyelash that graces her row of dark lashes–seen by her people as...	Lords and Lemurs: Mad Scientists, Kings With Spears, and the Survival of Diversity in Madagascar Best Price: $5.99 During my years as a resident of Madagascar I had the great opportunity to meet and spend time...	The Man-Eaters Of Tsavo And Other East African Adventures Best Price: $7.99 I purchased this book after watching the movie "The Ghost and the Darkness". The book...

Uganda (Oxfam Country Profiles Series) Best Price: $8.95 Well written, organized, easy to read, brief, and engaging overview of Uganda: the geography,...	A History of Modern Sudan Best Price: $14.85 Sudan's modern history has been consumed by revolution and civil war. The country attracted...	The Battle of Mogadishu: Firsthand Accounts from the Men of Task Force Ranger Best Price: $3.90 His book was excellantly written from the viewpoint of a soldier caught up in a political...	I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation Best Price: $4.98 What a book! Shall I call it a novel? For me it read like a suspensful novel rather than an...	Lost Boy No More: A True Story Of Survival And Salvation Best Price: $7.50 The story of the Lost Boys from Southern Sudan is beyond what most humans could conceive as...

Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization (California World History Library) Best Price: $21.97 This book boldly unsettles the idea of globalization as a recent phenomenon--and one driven...	The African and Middle Eastern World, 600-1500 (The Medieval and Early Modern World) Best Price: $31.50 The history of the African and Middle Eastern world is, to a large extent, the story of a...	The Rough Guide to Tanzania, Edition Two (Rough Guide Travel Guides) Best Price: $19.98 I recently visited Kenya and Tanzania and purchased Rough Guides for each country. The Rough...	Humanitarianism Under Fire: The US and UN Intervention in Somalia Best Price: $17.96 The international humanitarian intervention in Somalia was one of the most challenging...	Kenya: Identity of A Nation Best Price: $11.22 This book is about Kenya as a country and as a nation. It is also a work of comparative analysis...

Churches of Ethiopia: The Monastery of Narga Sellase Best Price: $59.99 Narga Sellase's monastery sits on a tiny islet in the middle of Lake Tana, the great body of...	Seychelles: Garden of Eden in the Indian Ocean, Sixth Edition (Odyssey Illustrated Guides) Best Price: $3.90 This book is one of the most helpful when planning a trip to an exotic place. The pictures tell...	Modern History Of The Somali: Revised/Fourth Edition (Eastern African Studies) Best Price: $24.95 I.M. Lewis is the recognized expert on Somali cultural anthropology. He presents detailed and...	Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide Best Price: $20.90 Robert Lyons and Scott Straus, Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices from the Rwandan Genocide...	Uganda Since Independence: A Story of Unfulfilled Hopes Best Price: $21.95 This book is good for the student who wants a quick overview of Uganda history from 1960 to...

The Ethiopians: A History (Peoples of Africa) Best Price: $31.67 This is a good book, especially when it got to the nineteenth century. My only complaint is that...	Kampala Women Getting By: Wellbeing In Time Of Aids (Eastern African Studies)	Trial Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Lord's Resistance Army (African Arguments) Best Price: $18.48 Trial Justice turned out to be a stimulating and informative read. Allen gives a thorough...	Nuer-American Passages: Globalizing Sudanese Migration (New World Diasporas) Best Price: $47.96 Traditionally a community of cattle farmers in Sudan, the Nuer are one of...	Khartoum: The Ultimate Imperial Adventure Best Price: $10.34 To understand the troubles that sprang from the deserts in the last decade, one might trace...

In Search of a Nation: Histories of Authority & Dissidence in Tanzania (Eastern African Studies) Best Price: $26.92 The double-sided nature of African nationalism-its capacity to inspire expressions of unity, and...	Somalia: Nation in Search of a State (Profiles)	Kenya: The Land, the People, and the Nation	Warrior Peoples of East Africa 1840-1900 (Men-at-Arms) Best Price: $7.95 Less well known than the Zulu of South Africa, the warriors of East Africa had just as fearsome...	Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar Best Price: $18.00 Betafo, a rural community in central Madagascar, is divided between the descendants of nobles...

From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a Southern African Frontier (Culture, Place, and Nature) Best Price: $24.51 Ecodevelopment on the Zimbabwe-Mozambique border area takes on social, political and cultural...	The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History Best Price: $14.96 Though the genocide of 1994 catapulted Rwanda onto the international stage, English-language...	Culture and Customs of Somalia (Culture and Customs of Africa) Best Price: $57.95 Having a strong interest in the culture of the African Horn I read this book on Somalia for...	Becoming Somaliland (African Issues) Best Price: $18.89 In 1991, the leaders of the Somali National Movement and elders of the northern Somali clans...	A History of the Sudan: From the Coming of Islam to the Present Day (5th Edition) Best Price: $38.00 detailed book , the author being lived in the Sudan , gave his views , vision and analysis that...

THE FIRST JIHAD: Khartoum, and the Dawn of Militant Islam Best Price: $21.26 The subject matter is interesting, and the author clearly did his research thoroughly. The...	Life under Nyerere Best Price: $8.22 The author, who lived and grew up under Nyerere's leadership, remembers how life was in those...	The Evangelization of Slaves And Catholic Origins in Eastern Africa (American Society of Missiology) Best Price: $14.98	African Merchants of the Indian Ocean: Swahili of the East African Coast Best Price: $14.50 This book should be dismissed as another poorly-constructed attempt to rob African people of the...	First Footsteps In East Africa Best Price: $16.18 excellent book for those who like to know more about Somalia

The Making of the Oromo Diaspora Best Price: $22.95 The author analyses and carefully documents the diaspora of the Oromo people from northeast...	Out of Exile (Voice of Witness) Best Price: $16.32 Millions of people have fled from conflicts and persecution in all parts of this Northeast...	Tanzania Under Colonial Rule	Emma's War: An Aid Worker, a Warlord, Radical Islam, and the Politics of Oil--A True Story of Love and Death in Sudan Best Price: $10.00 The best thing "Emma's War" by Deborah Scroggins accomplishes is to highlight the...	Butterflies & Barbarians: Swiss Missionaries and Systems of Knowledge in South-East Africa Best Price: $26.47 Swiss missionaries played a primary and little-known role in explaining Africa to the literate...

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