BlackReads Collection: Celebrating Black Stories
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This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“Exceptionally well written, a true story that seems as much a thriller as the remembrances of an ambitious and brave woman. . . . This timely bo...
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African Leaders of the Twentieth Century: Biko, Selassie, Lumumba, Sankara
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /This omnibus edition brings together concise and up-to-date biographies of Steve Biko, Emperor Haile Selassie, Patrice Lumumba, and Thomas Sankar...
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Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /BEST BOOKS of 2017 SELECTION by * THE WASHINGTON POST * NEW YORK POST * The harrowing, but triumphant story of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of ...
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The Life Journey of the Fourth President of Republic of Somaliland
PaperbackOriginal price $33.00 - Original price $33.00Original price $33.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /This book is translated from "Ahmed Silanyo's" biography written in Somali by Abdirahman Yusuf Artan. It is the life journey of the Fourth Presiden...
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Behind the presidential curtain: inside Out of real Paul Kagame from his former bodyguard
PaperbackOriginal price $13.00 - Original price $13.00Original price $13.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /At age 16, in late 1991, Noble Marara joined the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) that was fighting the army of the Rwandan government. RPF was an arm...
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My 21 Years in the White House
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /My 21 Years in the White House, first published in 1960, is the fascinating account by Alonzo Fields of his service as head butler under 4 presiden...
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Louis Botha: A Man Apart
PaperbackOriginal price $21.50 - Original price $21.50Original price $21.50$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /LOUIS BOTHA, THE FIRST PRIME MINISTER of the Union of South Africa, was a brilliant Boer general who won significant victories over the British in ...
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100 Mandela Moments
PaperbackOriginal price $18.50 - Original price $18.50Original price $18.50$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Here is Nelson Mandela the statesman, the prisoner, the father, sometimes the joker, and occasionally the disciplinarian. Mandela is shown in snaps...
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Garfield Todd: The End of the Liberal Dream in Rhodesia: The authorised biography by Susan Woodhouse
PaperbackOriginal price $52.80 - Original price $52.80Original price $52.80$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /Prime minister Garfield Todd of Southern Rhodesia became known outside the country in January 1958 when his Cabinet rebelled and resigned. Within t...
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Albert Rene: The Father of Modern Seychelles, a Biography
PaperbackOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Albert Rene is a towering figure of modern Seychelle, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, east of mainland Southeast Africa and northeast of the is...
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The Five Negro Presidents: According to what White People Said They Were
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Historian Joel Augustus Rogers provides his evidence that there have been nineteenth- and twentieth-century presidents of the United States who had...
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The Five Negro Presidents: According to what White People Said They Were
PaperbackOriginal price $6.99 - Original price $6.99Original price $6.99$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /Historian Joel Augustus Rogers provides his evidence that there have been nineteenth- and twentieth-century presidents of the United States who had...
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The Black Man's President: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Equality
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president" as well as "the first who rose above the prejudice of his...
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Mandela: A Biography
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /"It provides new perspective and insights into the man and his times. . . . [Meredith] is particularly good in recounting the parallel rise and ine...
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A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
HardcoverOriginal price $37.99Original price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It is the story of Paul Kagame, a refugee who, after a generation of exile, found his wa...
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Nelson Mandela: The Man and the Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Nelson Mandela became a legend in his own lifetime. The son of a chief, he qualified as a lawyer, then was one of the leaders of the African Nation...
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Nelson Mandela
HardcoverOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /The gripping story of iconic statesmen and activist Nelson Mandela, now told in this succinct, condensed book that's perfect for a wide audience.Ne...
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Legacy of Liberation
PaperbackOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /In this gripping social history of South Africa, award-winning journalist Mark Gevisser follows the family of former South African President Thabo ...
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They Knew Lincoln
HardcoverOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Originally published in 1942 and now reprinted for the first time, They Knew Lincoln is a classic in African American history and Lincoln studies. ...
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This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /"Exceptionally well written, a true story that seems as much a thriller as the remembrances of an ambitious and brave woman. . . . This timely book...
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A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Paul Jennings was born into slavery on the plantation of James and Dolley Madison in Virginia, later becoming part of the Madison household staff a...
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Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /When Annette Gordon-Reed's groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings...
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Mandela and the General
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this thrilling graphic novel, Nelson Mandela's fight against racism is about to spiral into an all-out race war. Unless he can win over his arch...
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America, a Redemption Story: Choosing Hope, Creating Unity
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The American Dream isn’t a thing of the past, but a miracle of the present. Now more than ever it’s easy to focus on the divisions that plague ou...
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