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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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Barcott, Rye It Happened On The Way To War: A Marine's Path To Peace Bloomsbury 2012 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or993091. ISBN #1608194310 / 9781608194315. (filed under: Africa ) *
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Barcott, Rye It Happened On The Way To War: A Marine's Path To Peace Bloomsbury 2012 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or993091. ISBN #1608194310 / 9781608194315. (filed under: Africa ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In 2000, Rye Barcott was a student on an ROTC scholarship when he first visited the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. He wanted to understand the ethnic violence he expected to face in uniform. Once there, Barcott befriended a widowed nurse and a community organizer, and together they built Carolina for Kibera CFK , an NGO that breaks cycles of violence and develops young leaders in one of Africa's largest slums. Barcott continued his work with CFK while leading Marines in Iraq, Bosnia, and the Horn of Africa. He waged peace while fighting war, and struggled to compartmentalize the experiences and resist darker forces. It Happened on the Way to War is a true story about the powerful melding of military and humanitarian service. It's a story of what America's role in the world could be. Praise for It Happened on the Way to War : "Riveting. A beautifully written memoir that reads like a novel and reveals fundamental truths about good, evil, and our common humanity."-Ishmael Beah, author of A Long Way Gone "A tremendous story of the power of friendship, love, and the transforming grace of God." -Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Novel Peace Prize laureate
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BEAH(Subject); Beah, Ishmael A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Sarah Crichton Books 2007 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1152107. ISBN #0374105235 / 9780374105235. (filed under: Africa ) *
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BEAH(Subject); Beah, Ishmael A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Sarah Crichton Books 2007 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1152107. ISBN #0374105235 / 9780374105235. (filed under: Africa ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary 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 smile a little. "You should tell us about it sometime." "Yes, sometime." This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived. In A Long Way Gone , Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty. div
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Beah, Ishmael Long Way Gone: Memoirs Of a Boy Soldier 2007 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1108744. ISBN #0374105235 / 9780374105235. (filed under: Africa ) *
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Beah, Ishmael Long Way Gone: Memoirs Of a Boy Soldier 2007 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1108744. ISBN #0374105235 / 9780374105235. (filed under: Africa ) *
stock image, actual book may vary 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 smile a little. "You should tell us about it sometime." "Yes, sometime." This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived. In A Long Way Gone , Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty. div
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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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Carlin, John Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation Penguin Press HC, The 2008 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1001689. ISBN #1594201749 / 9781594201745. (filed under: Africa ) *
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Carlin, John Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation Penguin Press HC, The 2008 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1001689. ISBN #1594201749 / 9781594201745. (filed under: Africa ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In 1985, Nelson Mandela, then in prison for twenty-three years, set about winning over the fiercest proponents of apartheid, from his jailers to the head of South Africa s military. First he earned his freedom and then he won the presidency in the nation s first free election in 1994. But he knew that South Africa was still dangerously divided by almost fifty years of apartheid. If he couldn t unite his country in a visceral, emotional way and fast it would collapse into chaos. He would need all the charisma and strategic acumen he had honed during half a century of activism, and he d need a cause all South Africans could share. Mandela picked one of the more farfetched causes imaginable the national rugby team, the Springboks, who would host the sport s World Cup in 1995. Against the giants of the sport, the Springboks chances of victory were remote. But their chances of capturing the hearts of most South Africans seemed remoter still, as they had long been the embodiment of white supremacist rule. During apartheid, the all-white Springboks and their fans had belted out racist fight songs, and blacks would come to Springbok matches to cheer for whatever team was playing against them. Yet Mandela believed that the Springboks could embody and engage the new South Africa. And the Springboks themselves embraced the scheme. Soon South African TV would carry images of the team singing Nkosi Sikelele Afrika, the longtime anthem of black resistance to apartheid. As their surprising string of victories lengthened, their home-field advantage grew exponentially. South Africans of every color and political stripe found themselves falling for the team. When the Springboks took to the field for the championship match against New Zealand s heavily favored squad, Mandela sat in his presidential box wearing a Springbok jersey while sixty-two-thousand fans, mostly white, chanted Nelson Nelson Millions more gathered around their TV sets, whether in dusty black townships or leafy white suburbs, to urge their team toward victory. The Springboks won a nail-biter that day, defying the oddsmakers and capping Mandela s miraculous ten-year-long effort to bring forty-three million South Africans together in an enduring bond. John Carlin, a former South Africa bureau chief for the London Independent , offers a singular portrait of the greatest statesman of our time in action, blending the volatile cocktail of race, sport, and politics to intoxicating effect. He draws on extensive interviews with Mandela, Desmond Tutu, and dozens of other South Africans caught up in Mandela s momentous campaign, and the Springboks unlikely triumph. As he makes stirringly clear, their championship transcended the mere thrill of victory to erase ancient hatreds and make a nation whole.
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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. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1131744. (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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