Category - Biography & Autobiography
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Kwame Nkrumah: The Father of African Nationalism
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /The first African statesman to achieve world recognition was Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), who became president of the new Republic of Ghana in 1960...
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Desmond Tutu: A Biography
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /History will remember Desmond Tutu, who has been called South Africa's Martin Luther King, Jr., as a great leader in the struggle against aparthe...
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Gratitude in Low Voices: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /“A candid, inspiring memoir of cultural and historical importance” from an Eritrean-Ethiopian War refugee (Michael Bloomberg). Dawit Gebremichael...
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The Man-Eaters of Tsavo
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A classic tale of adventure and terror in the African jungle. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781592281879 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Rowman &...
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A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /An acutely nuanced and original study of a state-sanctioned mass murderer, A Human Being Died That Night explores what it means to be human—both ...
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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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Love, Africa: A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /From Jeffrey Gettleman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist, comes a passionate, revealing story about finding love and finding a ...
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A worthy heir to Isak Dinesen and Beryl Markham, Alexandra Fuller shares visceral memories of her childhood in Africa...
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River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The harrowing story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time and its complicated legacy--from the New York ...
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Mini Saga in South Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Hilary's desire to explore South Africa and experience African culture, while helping to improve the lives of children, was inspired at school in E...
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A Swamp the Size of Belgium
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /South Sudan became independent in 2011, but the hope for a peaceful future was short-lived. By 2013, the world's youngest nation was engulfed in a ...
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You Came With the Birds - Bringing You, My Child, Into This World of Many Cultures.
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /You Came With the BirdsBringing You, My Child, Into This World of Many Cultures.When birds begin to knock at their window, Yana and Nyaniso know th...
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Wild Spirit: Freedom, Love, and Adventure in Africa on a Motorcycle
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /From the author of Desert Snow comes another brilliantly written, page-turning adventure, told with characteristic honesty, modesty and wit.Join He...
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Deep North: Stories of Somali Resettlement in Vermont
PaperbackOriginal price $14.00 - Original price $14.00Original price $14.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /What is it like to leave your home, friends and family and start a new life in a foreign country? How does one survive war in Africa and make a new...
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Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /As thrilling as any novel, as taut and exciting as any adventure story, Peter Hathaway Capstick’s Death in the Long Grass takes us deep into the ...
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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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Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understan...
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Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight meets Mean Girls in this funny, insightful fish-out-of-water memoir about a young girl coming of age half in a...
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The Sultan's Spymaster: Peera Dewjee of Zanzibar
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Sultan's Spymaster tells the story of Peera Dewjee, an Ismaili merchant who crossed from India to Zanzibar as a boy. Later he became Sultan Bar...
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Where Antelope Roam: And Other Stories Out of Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $13.99 - Original price $13.99Original price $13.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The short stories in this book are all connected to Jon Arensen's experiences in East Africa. They are deeply personal and are narrated in the firs...
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The Red Pelican: Life on Africa's Last Frontier
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Dick Lyth graduated from Oxford University in 1939 at the age of 21 and went to southern Sudan. With the start of WWII he signed up with the Sudan ...
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Stanley: Dark Genius of African Exploration
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /'Meticulously and grippingly told.' Evening StandardHenry Morton Stanley took his life and reputation into his own hands when he decided to explore...
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Kimpa Vita: The Life and Legacy of the Influential Christian Prophet in the Kingdom of Kongo
PaperbackOriginal price $11.14 - Original price $11.14Original price $11.14$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /*Includes pictures*Includes excerpts of contemporary accounts*Includes a bibliography for further readingAfrica may have given rise to the first hu...
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The Boy from Boadua: One African's Journey of Hunger and Sacrifice in Pursuit of a Dream
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Patrick Asare was born and raised by illiterate parents in the remote Ghanaian village of Boadua. His family was so large and impoverished that not...
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