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 The Interesting
Narrative and Other Writings (Library of Essential Reading)
Olaudah Equiano
ISBN: 0760773505
Format: Paperback, 288pp
Pub. Date: December 2005
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books
The Interesting Narrative, published in 1789 to considerable acclaim,
has been compared to Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and reviewed by
Mary Wollstonecraft. Equiano's life and work took shape in an era of
revolution-against slavery, against injustice, against tyranny
Price: $7.95
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 Surrender or Starve:
Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea
Robert D. Kaplan / ISBN: 1400034523
Format: Paperback, 240pp
Pub. Date: November 2003
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Reporting from Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea, Kaplan examines
the factors behind the famine that ravaged the region in the 1980s,
exploring the ethnic, religious, and class conflicts that are crucial
for understanding the region today.
Price: $13.95
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 The Zanzibar Chest:
A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign LandsAiden Hartley
ISBN: 1594480117
Format: Paperback, 496pp
Pub. Date: August 2004
Publisher: Riverhead Books
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 Abiyoyo:
Based on a South African Lullaby and Folk Story
Pete Seeger / ISBN: 0689718101
Format: Paperback, 48pp
Pub. Date: January 1994
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
A boy and his father are banished because the father, a magician, has
a habit of making things vanish. But when the monster Abiyoyo appears
. . . the father makes Abiyoyo disappear, and all is forgiven
Price: $6.99
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 In the Footsteps of
Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
Michela Wrong ISBN: 0060934433
Format: Paperback, 338pp
Pub. Date: June 2002
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Edition Description: First Perennnial Edition
In a country rich with diamonds, gold, copper, uranium, oil, and
timber, the average worker was reduced to a living income of $120 a
year under the rule of Mobutu. From 1965 to 1997, his regime bled the
country of some $4 billion.
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 Dancing
Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa
Katherine A. DettwylerISBN: 088133748X
Format: Paperback, 172pp
Pub. Date: July 1994
Publisher: Waveland Press, Inc.
Price: $14.50
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 Africa Unchained:
The Blueprint for Africa's Future
George B. N. Ayittey
ISBN: 1403963592
Format: Hardcover, 483pp
Pub. Date: January 2005
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Why have the poorest Africans yet to begin the road to prosperity in
the twenty-first century? Celebrated economist George Ayittey thinks
the answer is obvious: Africa is poor because it is not free. The
freedoms Africans enjoyed in their traditional systems were snatched
from them
Price: $35.00
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 The
Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
Elspeth Joscelin
ISBN:
0141183780
Format: Paperback, 288pp
Pub. Date: April 2001
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
New editions of Elspeth Huxley's stirring account of her childhood in
Kenya and her novel of the destructive forces of colonization.
In an open cart Elspeth Huxley set off with her parents to travel to
Thika in Kenya
Price: $15.00
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 African Voices
of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame
Anne Bailey ISBN: 0807055123
Format: Hardcover, 304pp
Pub. Date: February 2005
Publisher: Beacon PressFor centuries, the story of the Atlantic
slave trade has been filtered through the eyes and records of white
Europeans. In this watershed book, historian Anne C. Bailey focuses on
memories of the trade from the African perspective. African chiefs and
other elders in an area of southeastern Ghana - once famously called
"the Old Slave Coast"
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 Ritual Process:
Structure and Anti-Structure
Victor Witter Turner ISBN: 0202011909
Format: Paperback, 213pp
Pub. Date: February 1995
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Edition Description: REPRINTPrice: $19.95
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 No God but God:
Egypt and the Triumph of Islam
Geneive Abdo ISBN: 0195157931
Format: Paperback, 240pp
Pub. Date: August 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Shrouded in mystery, the Islamic presence in the middle East evokes
longstanding Western fears of terrorism and holy war. Our media have
consistently focused on these extremes of Islam, overlooking a quiet
yet pervasive religious movement that is now transforming the nation
of Egypt
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 Season of Blood:
A Rwandan Journey
Fergal Keane / Paperback / ISBN: 0140247602
Format: Paperback, 224pp
Pub. Date: September 1997
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Edition Description: REPRINT 'This was a country of corpses and
orphans and terrible absences. This was where the spirit withered.' So
begins Fergal Keane's powerful account of the Rwandan genocide, in
which more than a million people have been killedPrice: $15.00 |
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