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Adebajo, Adekeye UN Peacekeeping in Africa: From the Suez Crisis to the Sudan Conflicts Lynne Rienner Publishers 2011 paperback. . Underlining / Highlighing throughout. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. Book #or1162049. ISBN #1588267822 / 9781588267825. (filed under: Africa ) *
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Badkhen, Anna Walking With Abel: Journeys With The Nomads of the African Savannah Riverhead Books 2015 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1169133. ISBN #1594632480 / 9781594632488. (filed under: Africa ) *
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Budgor, Mindy Warrior Princess: My Quest To Become The First Female Maasai Warrior Skirt! 2013 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1020991. ISBN #0762786035 / 9780762786039. (filed under: Africa ) *
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Budgor, Mindy Warrior Princess: My Quest To Become The First Female Maasai Warrior Skirt! 2013 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1020991. ISBN #0762786035 / 9780762786039. (filed under: Africa ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Only the combination of cultural curiosity, passion, fearlessness and a set of Jewish parents breathing fire down her neck could lead a sane human being to buy a one-way ticket to Nairobi and face probable death in an effort to become the world s first female Maasai warrior. Warrior Princess is the funny and inspirational memoir of Mindy Budgor, a young entrepreneur tired of having a job to have a job, who decides to make changes in her life. While waiting for her Business School applications to go through, she decides to volunteer in Africa, building schools and hospitals in the Maasai Mara. While living and working with the Maasai, Mindy talks to the chief and asks him why there are no women warriors. The chief responds simply and derisively: because women are not strong enough or brave enough. Mindy immediately realizes her calling and thus begins her amazing adventure to become the first female Maasai warrior. As a result of this training and advocacy, the Maasai in Loita, Kenya are leading the charge to change tribal law to allow women to become Maasai warriors. Mindy as a tribe member is ready to return to stand with her fellow warriors against whatever opposition they might face be it lions, or elephants, or Western influence.
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Carr, Rosamond Halsey; Halsey, Ann Howard Land Of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda 1999 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1120102. ISBN #0670887803 / 9780670887804. (filed under: Africa ) *
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Carr, Rosamond Halsey; Halsey, Ann Howard Land Of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda 1999 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1120102. ISBN #0670887803 / 9780670887804. (filed under: Africa ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A latter-day Out of Africa recalls its author's fifty years in the continent's most beautiful and most tormented nation When Rosamond Halsey Carr first arrived in Africa, she didn't realize she would spend the rest of her life there. As a young fashion illustrator living in New York City in the 1940s, she seemed the least likely candidate for such a life of adventure. But marriage to a hunter-explorer took her to what was then the Belgian Congo, and divorce left her determined to stay on, in neighboring Rwanda, as the manager of a flower plantation. In the ensuing half century she witnessed the decline and fall of colonialism, the wars for independence, the loss of her friend Dian Fossey and the relentless clashes of the Hutus and Tutsis. And, finally, 1994's horrific genocide--of which she provides a personal, first-hand account that is unparalleled and underscores her continued devotion to the country by her decision to care for more than one hundred of its orphaned children. Land of a Thousand Hills unfolds against the backdrop of Rwanda's history from the royal Tutsi dynasty to the present, a landscape whose magic is aptly evoked. It is the epic story of a woman alone in an exotic land, struggling to survive untold hardships only to emerge with an extraordinary love for her adopted country and its people.
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Cohen, David People Who Have Stolen from Me Picador 2005 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1163179. ISBN #0312424531 / 9780312424534. (filed under: Africa ) *
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Collins, Douglas Tear For Somalia hardcover. soiling and wear no jacket. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1131744v1. (filed under: Africa ) *
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Deng, Benson; Deng, Alephonsion; Ajak, Benjamin; Bernstein, Judy A. They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The True Story of Three Boys from Sudan Public Affairs 2005 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1161942. ISBN #1586483889 / 9781586483883. (keywords: REFUGEES HISTORY CIVIL WAR SUDANESE AFRICAN CHILDHOOD) (filed under: Africa ) *
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Deng, Benson; Deng, Alephonsion; Ajak, Benjamin; Bernstein, Judy A. They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The True Story of Three Boys from Sudan Public Affairs 2005 paperback. Signed by Author. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1161930. ISBN #1586483889 / 9781586483883. (keywords: REFUGEES HISTORY CIVIL WAR SUDANESE AFRICAN CHILDHOOD) (filed under: Africa ) *
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Devlin, Larry Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone PublicAffairs 2007 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1082774. ISBN #1586484052 / 9781586484057. (filed under: Africa ) *
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Devlin, Larry Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone PublicAffairs 2007 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1082774. ISBN #1586484052 / 9781586484057. (filed under: Africa ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Larry Devlin arrived as the new chief of station for the CIA in the Congo five days after the country had declared its independence, the army had mutinied, and governmental authority had collapsed. As he crossed the Congo River in an almost empty ferry boat, all he could see were lines of people trying to travel the other way out of the Congo. Within his first two weeks he found himself on the wrong end of a revolver as militiamen played Russian-roulette, Congo style, with him. During his first year, the charismatic and reckless political leader, Patrice Lumumba, was murdered and Devlin was widely thought to have been entrusted with he was and to have carried out he didn't the assassination. Then he saved the life of Joseph Desire Mobutu, who carried out the military coup that presaged his own rise to political power. Devlin found himself at the heart of Africa, fighting for the future of perhaps the most strategically influential country on the continent, its borders shared with eight other nations. He met every significant political figure, from presidents to mercenaries, as he took the Cold War to one of the world's hottest zones. This is a classic political memoir from a master spy who lived in wildly dramatic times.
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Diagram Group Peoples of East Africa Facts on File 1997 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Ex-Library Copy. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1070915. ISBN #0816034842 / 9780816034840. (filed under: Africa ) *
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Diagram Group Peoples of East Africa Facts on File 1997 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Ex-Library Copy. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1070915. ISBN #0816034842 / 9780816034840. (filed under: Africa ) *
Surveys the geography and history of East Africa, describes the history, society, beliefs, and arts of the various peoples who live there, and discusses human origins, Ethiopian Christianity, cash crops and tourism in the region, and local hairstyles.
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Duignan, Peter Handbook Of American Resources For African Studies hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1137875. (filed under: Africa ) *
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Fairbridge, Dorothea Lady Anne Barnard At The Cape of Good Hope 1797-1802 Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1924 hardcover. Vintage previous owner inscription on the front endpage.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or1163190. (filed under: Africa ) *
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Falola, Toyin Mouth Sweeter Than Salt: An African Memoir 2005 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1080830. ISBN #0472031325 / 9780472031320. (filed under: Africa ) *
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Falola, Toyin Mouth Sweeter Than Salt: An African Memoir 2005 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1080830. ISBN #0472031325 / 9780472031320. (filed under: Africa ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and full of the most wonderful pieces of poetry and ordinary information. It is a matter of some interest, that the only other volume A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt reminds one of is Ake , by Wole Soyinka. What is it about these Yorubas?" -Ama Ata Aidoo "A splendid coming-of-age story so full of vivid color and emotion, the words seem to dance off the page. But this is not only Falola's memoir; it is an account of a new nation coming into being and the tensions and negotiations that invariably occur between city and country, tradition and modernity, men and women, rich and poor. A truly beautiful book." -Robin D. G. Kelley "More than a personal memoir, this book is a rich minihistory of contemporary Nigeria recorded in delicious detail by a perceptive eyewitness who grew up at the crossroads of many cultures." -Bernth Lindfors "The reader is irresistibly drawn into Falola's world. The prose is lucid. There is humor. This work is sweet. Period." -Ngugi wa Thiongo'o A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt gathers the stories and reflections of the early years of Toyin Falola, the grand historian of Africa and one of the greatest sons of Ibadan, the notable Yoruba city-state in Nigeria. Redefining the autobiographical genre altogether, Falola miraculously weaves together personal, historical, and communal stories, along with political and cultural developments in the period immediately preceding and following Nigeria's independence, to give us a unique and enduring picture of the Yoruba in the mid-twentieth century. This is truly a literary memoir, told in language rich with proverbs, poetry, song, and humor. Falola's memoir is far more than the story of one man's childhood experiences; rather, he presents us with the riches of an entire culture and community-its history, traditions, pleasures, mysteries, household arrangements, forms of power, struggles, and transformations.
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Fitzpatrick, Percy Jock of the Bushveld Ad Donker 1999 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1160995. ISBN #0868520586 / 9780868520582. (filed under: Africa ) *
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Foden, Giles The Last King of Scotland faber and faber 1998 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1171656. ISBN #0571232884 / 9780571232888. (filed under: Africa ) *
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Franke, Richard W. & Barbara H. Chasin Seeds of Famine: Ecological Destruction and the Development Dilemma in the West African Sahel Rowman & Allanheld 1980 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1160669. ISBN #0865898057 / 9780865898059. (filed under: Africa ) *
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Gbowee, Leymah Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War Beast Books 2011 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1033552. ISBN #0984295151 / 9780984295159. (filed under: Africa ) *
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Gbowee, Leymah Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War Beast Books 2011 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1033552. ISBN #0984295151 / 9780984295159. (filed under: Africa ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary WINNER OF THE 2011 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE I n a time of death and terror, Leymah Gbowee brought Liberia s women together and together they led a nation to peace. As a young woman, Leymah Gbowee was broken by the Liberian civil war, a brutal conflict that tore apart her life and claimed the lives of countless relatives and friends. Years of fighting destroyed her country and shattered Gbowee s girlhood hopes and dreams. As a young mother trapped in a nightmare of domestic abuse, she found the courage to turn her bitterness into action, propelled by her realization that it is women who suffer most during conflicts and that the power of women working together can create an unstoppable force. In 2003, the passionate and charismatic Gbowee helped organize and then led the Liberian Mass Action for Peace, a coalition of Christian and Muslim women who sat in public protest, confronting Liberia s ruthless president and rebel warlords, and even held a sex strike. With an army of women, Gbowee helped lead her nation to peace in the process emerging as an international leader who changed history. Mighty Be Our Powers is the gripping chronicle of a journey from hopelessness to empowerment that will touch all who dream of a better world.
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