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African History: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /This Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented, both in Africa and be...
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Alice on the Run: One Child's Journey Through the Rwandan Civil War
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The true odyssey of a young child, Alice Cyuzuzo, as she traverses the roads of Zaire to seek refuge from the civil war that has struck her native ...
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Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /In his 1903 hit "Congo Love Song," James Weldon Johnson recounts a sweet if seemingly generic romance between two young Africans. While the song'...
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From Red Earth: A Rwandan Story of Healing and Forgiveness
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A Hundred Days of Carnage, Twenty-Five Years of Rebirth In the space of a hundred days, a million Tutsi in Rwanda were slaughtered by their Hutu n...
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Introduction To African Civilizations
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Timely, relevant, and illuminating, this essential book by respected cultural historian, teacher, and author John G. Jackson sheds long overdue l...
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Ponds of Kalambayi: A Peace Corps Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Lovers of fine travel and adventure writing will savor Mike Tidwell's richly acclaimed narrative of his days as a Peace Corps volunteer. His task...
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Postcards from Congo: A Graphic History
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Democratic Republic of Congo, the second-largest country in Africa by area, has had a fractured and bloody history, variously undone by decades...
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Congo Style: From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Congo Style presents a postcolonial approach to discussing the visual culture of two now-notorious regimes: King Leopold II's Congo Colony and the ...
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Religion, Colonization and Decolonization in Congo, 1885-1960/Religion, Colonisation Et Décolonisation Au Congo, 1885-1960
PaperbackOriginal price $59.00 - Original price $59.00Original price $59.00$76.99$76.99 - $76.99Current price $76.99| /Religion in today's Democratic Republic of Congo has many faces: from the overflowing seminaries, the Marian shrines of the Catholic Church, the Is...
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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A tremendous, intrepid history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa's Congo, with first-hand accounts of the continent's worst conflict in...
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The Great African War: Congo and Regional Geopolitics, 1996-2006
HardcoverOriginal price $74.00 - Original price $74.00Original price $74.00$81.99$81.99 - $81.99Current price $81.99| /This book examines a decade-long period of instability, violence and state decay in Central Africa from 1996, when the war started, to 2006, when...
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The Rebels' Hour
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Lieve Joris has long been considered “one of the best journalists in the world” (Libération, France) and in The Rebels’ Hour she illuminates the ...
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Rwanda: With Gorilla Tracking in the Drc
PaperbackOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Now into its eighth edition and written by Philip Briggs, the world's leading author of African guidebooks, Bradt's Rwanda has been the go-to guide...
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White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US. In 1958 in...
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Bantu Africa: 3500 BCE to Present
PaperbackOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Combining history, archaeology, anthropology, and linguistics, Bantu Africa: 3500 BCE to Present, synthesizes current scholarship on one of the m...
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel." — Christian Science Monitor “As Hochschild’s brilliant book demonstrates...
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The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Although the genocide of 1994 catapulted Rwanda onto the international stage, English-language historical accounts of the Great Lakes region of E...
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Samarkand: Recipes and Stories from Central Asia and the Caucasus
HardcoverOriginal price $36.99Original price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Over hundreds of years, various ethnic groups have passed through Samarkand, sharing and influencing each other's cuisine and leaving their culinar...
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To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /In 1859, at age fourteen, Florence Sz sz stood before a room full of men and waited to be auctioned to the highest bidder. But slavery and submissi...
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Surviving the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /In An Uncompromising Generation, Michael Wildt follows the journey of a strikingly homogenous group of young academics--who came from the educated,...
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When Things Get Dark: A Mongolian Winter's Tale
HardcoverOriginal price $40.99Original price $40.99 - Original price $40.99Original price $40.99Current price $37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /At 23, Matt Davis moved to a remote Mongolian town to teach English.What he found when he arrived was a town--and a country--undergoing wholesale c...
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A Thousand Hills to Heaven: Love, Hope, and a Restaurant in Rwanda
HardcoverOriginal price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /One couple's inspiring memoir of healing a Rwandan village, raising a family near the old killing fields, and building a restaurant named Heaven. N...
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A Voice from the Congo: Comprising Stories, Anecdotes, and Descriptive Notes
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A Voice from the Congo is British adventurer Herbert Ward's equally sensational follow-up to his earlier Five Years with the Congo Cannibals. It is...
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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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