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West With the Night
by Beryl Markham
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First published in 1942, this is the autobiography of a remarkable aviator and racehorse trainer, based largely in Kenya. Reissue.... ( read more)
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The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood
by Helene Cooper
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Helene Cooper is "Congo," a descendant of two Liberian dynasties -- traced back to the first ship of freemen that set sail from New York in 1820 to found Monrovia. Helene grew up at Sugar Beach, a twenty-two-room mansion by the sea. Her childhood was... ( read more)
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
by Adam Hochschild
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In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber... ( read more)
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In Our Village: Kambi YA Simba Through the Eyes of Its Youth
by Students At Awet Sec
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The Tanzanian village of Kambi ya Simba, near the famed Serengeti, couldn't be poorer. In this extraordinary book, village youth capture the richness of life there in photographs and essays.... ( read more)
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The Wretched of the Earth
by Frantz Fanon
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Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern revolutionary theory as The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks. He has had a profound... ( read more)
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A House in Fez: Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco
by Suzanna Clarke
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The Medina -- the Old City -- of Fez is the best-preserved, medieval walled city in the world. Inside this vibrant Moroccan community, internet cafes and mobile phones coexist with a maze of donkey-trod alleyways, thousand-year-old sewer systems, and... ( read more)
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Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-Torn Village
by James Maskalyk
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An inspiring story of one doctor's struggle in a war-torn village in the heart of Sudan In 2007, James Maskalyk, newly recruited by Doctors Without Borders, set out for the contested border town of Abyei, Sudan. An emergency physician drawn to the... ( read more)
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Infidel
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of The Caged Virgin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening... ( read more)
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The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold
by Frank T Kryza
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In the first decades of the nineteenth century, no place burned more brightly in the imagination of European geographers– – and fortune hunters– – than the lost city of Timbuktu. Africa's legendary City of Gold, not visited by... ( read more)
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The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
by Daoud Hari
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"I am the translator who has taken journalists into dangerous Darfur. It is my intention now to take you there in this book, if you have the courage to come with me."
The young life of Daoud Hari-his friends call him David — has been one of... ( read more)
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Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing by Rob (edt) Spillman Reviewed by Paul Charles Griffin The Brooklyn Rail...
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Review-a-Day | May 10, 2009
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This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Reviewed by Erin Aubry Kaplan Ms....
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Review-a-Day | May 5, 2009
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Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe by Gerard Prunier Reviewed by Andrew Rice The Nation On...
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