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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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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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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. . 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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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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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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