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 A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy SoldierBest Price: $11.00 A Long Way Gone chronicles the life of a young teen in Sierra Leone who is fleeing the Rebels... |  Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan HolocaustBest Price: $6.81 This book was truly life changing for me. When I find myself sweating the little things in life... |  When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of AfricaBest Price: $8.46 This book moved me on so many levels. I could not put it down. Godwin's aging parents, his... |  King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial AfricaBest Price: $5.98 This book was among the best I have read this year. I had no idea as to the atrocities committed... |  Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African ChildhoodBest Price: $2.72 I certainly enjoyed this book. We will be reading this book as a choice for a book club. There... |
 They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The Story of Three Lost Boys from SudanBest Price: $7.60 My favorite little independent bookshop, Latitude 33, recommended I read this when they found... |  We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from RwandaBest Price: $5.99 I've lived in Africa near Rwanda for several years and have studied the Rwanda genocide... |  A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed ItBest Price: $14.49 I read this book in preparation for trip to Rwanda later this year. Mr. Kinzer has done... |  Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (California Series in Public Anthropology, 4)Best Price: $11.68 Paul Farmer has long been famous, I take it, within the medical community as a brave lifesaver... |  The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of DarfurBest Price: $12.25 I wasn't sure I wanted to read this book. I was dreading the horrible stories, the Rwanda-like... |
 Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch HattonBest Price: $15.73 I really enjoyed reading this book. It was thoroughly researched and beautifully written. It... |  The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of IndependenceBest Price: $11.84 A compendium of African history from the partition to present day. If you are interested in... |  A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 (New York Review Books Classics)Best Price: $8.98 I read Horne's book on Paris and loved it, so I was anxious to read more of his work. This is a... |  Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy's Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to HarvardBest Price: $3.95 Scared for your life in the midst of a civil war. Then put into a Sudanese refugee camp,... |  Mukiwa: A White Boy in AfricaBest Price: $6.95 While traveling on an overland safari, I ran out of books to read. (Although I brought plenty,... |
 Bill Bryson's African DiaryBest Price: $4.99 Bill Bryson is the funniest travel writer working today, I believe, and even when he takes on... |  The Shadow of the SunBest Price: $8.46 I could not put this book down. Poetic, persistent, compelling, a beautiful and sobering book... |  Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern WarBest Price: $2.67 Great read, action packed. Some parts make you want to cringe, others make you want to cry. I... |  Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail (Oprah's Book Club)Best Price: $2.47 I thoroughly enjoyed Stolen Lives. The ordeal Malika Oufkir and her family suffered is... |  A History of South Africa, Third EditionBest Price: $10.84 I read this book just before my month long tour of S. Africa. For what it is, which is a quick... |
 Destruction of Black Civilization : Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C to 2000 A.D.Best Price: $10.94 I just wanted to take a moment and applaud Mr. Williams for his work. I could tell there was so... |  Africa: A Biography of the ContinentBest Price: $10.00 Book was in excellent condition as promised. Packaged very well. Thank you very much! |  The Caliph's House: A Year in CasablancaBest Price: $7.24 Until fifty or so years ago, the paradigmatic "travel" book was an account of a solo... |  Darfur: A New History of a Long War (African Arguments)Best Price: $12.19 People professionally concerned with genocide prevention and Darfur recommended this short but... |  Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave RouteBest Price: $8.09 This is a story of rejection of those of us forced into slavery by force and not by choice, by... |
 Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman (Arkana)Best Price: $6.95 Patrice Some's fascinating account of his life, against the backdrop of his native culture (the... |  Japanese Designs Coloring Book (Dover Pictorial Archives)Best Price: $2.33 The Paper is high quality. The pictures are beautiful before you start coloring and the lines... |  AfricaBest Price: $44.10 Un excelente libro de un fot?grafo excepcional. El continente captado en todo su esplendor y... |  Mugabe: Power, Plunder, and the Struggle for Zimbabwe's FutureBest Price: $8.03 For anyone interested in beginning to understand the dynamics of Zimbabwe's recent electoral... |  Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and LivingstoneBest Price: $8.98 Ever since I read "The Last Voyage of Columbus," I have been a Martin Dugard fan. In... |
| Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone Best Price: $8.98 Ever since I read "The Last Voyage of Columbus," I have been a Martin Dugard fan. In... |  Dreams Of Trespass: Tales Of A Harem GirlhoodBest Price: $4.49 Ms. Mernissi states that "The frontier is in the mind of the powerful", and that... |  The Oxford History of Ancient EgyptBest Price: $12.50 I bought this book for a class in Egyptology as required course material but it is so well... |  Out of Egypt: A MemoirBest Price: $7.50 I read these memoirs with strict concentration on all features of the environment that provided... |  The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or RealityBest Price: $10.11 Don't let the title fool you. Especially if you already believe that Euro-centric history is... |
 The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in AfricaBest Price: $8.53 "As a woman living with HIV," says Beatrice Were of Uganda, "I am often asked... |  The Forest PeopleBest Price: $4.94 I am not completely finished reading the book. However, so far, I have found it entertaining... |  The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876-1912Best Price: $12.75 Pakenham succeeds in writing a comprehensive history of the scramble for Africa. His writing... |  The Rough Guide to MoroccoBest Price: $13.74 During a recent visit to Morocco, hitchhiking across the whole of the country from north to... |  Mummies Made in Egypt (Reading Rainbow Book)Best Price: $3.00 This is a very thorough, entertaining, and informative treatment of the subject of mummies. ... |
 The EmperorBest Price: $7.32 What is most astonishing in Kapuscinski's book is not the fact that it was written in a more... |  Black Skin, White MasksBest Price: $11.20 If you want to understand racial identity, you should read Fanon's approach. The most... |  Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung WomanBest Price: $6.25 After reading this text, it is very clear to me why Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman is... |  Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To TimbuktuBest Price: $5.95 Salak does a beautiful job of meshing her on-the-spot adventures with those of her mentor, Mungo... |  Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography--The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South AfricaBest Price: $1.49 I really enjoyed reading about this mans triumph to overcome the odds and to follow destiny... |
 Darfur Diaries: Stories of SurvivalBest Price: $8.15 This is unlike any other documentary type book. This is what happened around the documentary... |  Reunion in BarsaloiBest Price: $15.47 Well I read the White Masai with the intention to be as open minded as possible and to try to... |  In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's CongoBest Price: $8.61 Anyone who wants to understand the Congo should read two books, Michela Wrong's In The Footsteps... |  The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn't WorkingBest Price: $11.60 IF you want to get a great idea of the screwed up programs and screwed up governments of the... | The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn't Working Best Price: $11.60 IF you want to get a great idea of the screwed up programs and screwed up governments of the... |
 Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South AfricaBest Price: $16.97 Very few histories of this depth and detail can sustain 500+ pages and keep the reader as... |  Inside Egypt: The Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of a RevolutionBest Price: $12.46 This is the perfect volume if you are looking for one book to read before visiting Egypt, or... |  32 Battalion: The Inside Story of South Africa's Elite Fighting UnitBest Price: $12.25 Ghost History: the intricate details lost to time. This book captures the Ghost History of the... |  The Worlds of a Maasai Warrior: An AutobiographyBest Price: $15.00 Very interesting first person account of a Maasai man who becomes western educationed and gives... |  Another Day of LifeBest Price: $7.89 Kapuscinski was the only journalist in Angola during that time. He arrived there in september, I... |
 The Isis Papers: The Keys to the ColorsBest Price: $14.95 This is a great book for any one that is on a path of enlightening oneself.It is a must read. |  Sundiata an Epic of Old Mali (2nd Edition) (Longman African Writers Series)Best Price: $7.00 This is a revision of Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali, a best seller for 30 years. Retold by... |  Tales of the African FrontierBest Price: $18.78 J.A. Hunter was one of a rare breed of men who moved to Africa in the late 1800's. He made the... | ||
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