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New Arrivals $24.75 Trade Paper add to wishlist Darfur and the Crime of Genocide (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society) John Hagan $15.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist The Scramble for Africa: Darfur-Intervention and the USA Kevin Funk $26.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Slavery, Emancipation and Colonial Rule in South Africa (Ohio Ris Africa) Wayne Dooling $24.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Ethnic Federalism: The Ethiopian Experience in Comparative Perspective (Eastern African Studies) David Turton Travel Race to Dakar by Charlie Boorman Publisher Comments In January 2006, 230 people raced in trucks, cars, and motorbikes from Lisbon to Dakar in the 28th annual Dakar rally, the most challenging race in existence. After his celebrated trip round the world with Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman was keen for... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your Price $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper check for used copies Sale Books Nelson Mandela by Christina Scott Publisher Comments Millions of people owe their liberty to Nelson Mandela's dedication and refusal to be silenced. This spectacular biography celebrates his life with beautiful photographs and well-informed writing by the award-winning South African journalist Christina... (read more) Your Price $14.99 (Sale - Hardcover) Browse more featured Sale titles Used Books The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold by Frank T Kryza Publisher Comments 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) Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) Browse more featured Used titles Sign up to get our most recent used additions in Africa to your inbox Sierra Leone A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah Publisher Comments My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life. "Why did you leave Sierra Leone?" "Because there is a war." "You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?" "Yes, all the time." "Cool." I... (read more) Your Price $12.00 New - Trade Paper check for used and sale copies General Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone by Martin Dugard Publisher Comments With the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David... (read more) Your Price $6.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Ethiopia There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children by Melissa Fay Greene Powells.com Staff Pick Millions of children are left without parents in Ethiopia as the result of AIDS. A skilled and graceful exploration of this crisis, Greene's moving account of one woman's actions shows the tremendous impact one person can make. Haregewoin is a genuine... (read more) Your Price $10.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Somalia Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali Publisher Comments 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) Your Price $10.50 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Liberia The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood by Helene Cooper Publisher Comments 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) Your Price $25.00 New - Hardcover check for used and sale copies Zimbabwe When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa by Peter Godwin Publisher Comments Hailed by reviewers as powerful,haunting and a tour de force of personal journalism,When A Crocodile Eats the Sun is the unforgettable story of one man's struggle to discover his past and come to terms with his present. Award winning author and... (read more) Your Price $14.99 New - Trade Paper check for used and sale copies Kenya Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins Publisher Comments “An extraordinary act of historical recovery.”—The New Yorker      As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the... (read more) Your Price $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper check for used copies Congo King Leopold's Ghost (98 Edition) by Adam Hochschild Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.00 Your Price $8.00 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies South Africa Long Walk To Freedom (94 Edition) by Nelson Mandela Publisher Comments These are riveting memoirs of one of the great moral and political figures of our time, an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your Price $10.00 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies

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