Nonfiction - Black Reads
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I Write What I Like: Selected Writings / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." Like all of Steve Biko's writings, those words testify to th...
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Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy
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 Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy, eighteen scholars of Africa and its diaspora reflect on the similarities and differences between...
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Modern Algeria, Second Edition: The Origins and Development of a Nation / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Praise for the first edition:"[E]ssential reading for Maghreb specialists as well as for anyone interested in issues of nation-building and polit...
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Geopolitics and Governance in North Africa: Local Challenges, Global Implications
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /North Africa was once on the geopolitical periphery of Middle East dynamics, but it has increasingly come to shape regional trends. In addition to ...
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In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Known as "the Leopard," the president of Zaire for thirty-two years, Mobutu Sese Seko, showed all the cunning of his namesake -- seducing Western p...
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The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Nobel Laureate in Literature Wole Soyinka considers all of Africa--indeed, all the world--as he poses this question: once repression stops, is reco...
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African Institutions: Challenges to Political, Social, and Economic Foundations of Africa's Development
PaperbackOriginal price $49.00 - Original price $49.00Original price $49.00$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /Written by the leading scholar on Africa, this comprehensive text examines three key issue areas in Africa: politics, society, and economy. Featuri...
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A Tale of Two Africas: Nigeria and South Africa as Contrasting Visions
PaperbackOriginal price $31.50 - Original price $31.50Original price $31.50$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Nigeria and South Africa provide the socioeconomic and political contrasts in the African condition. Some of these contrasts can be demonstrated in...
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The Oxford Handbook of the African Sahel
HardcoverOriginal price $175.00 - Original price $175.00Original price $175.00$200.99$200.99 - $200.99Current price $200.99| /Long on the margins of both scholarly and policy concerns, the countries of the West African Sahel have recently attracted world attention, primari...
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The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian Politics
PaperbackOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$69.99$69.99 - $69.99Current price $69.99| /The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian Politics offers a comprehensive analysis of Nigeria's very rich history and ever changing politics to its readers. ...
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South Sudan's Fateful Struggle: Building Peace in a State of War
HardcoverOriginal price $83.00 - Original price $83.00Original price $83.00$99.99$99.99 - $99.99Current price $99.99| /The Comprehensive Peace Agreement marked the end of Sudan's second civil war between the North and South. But in creating an autonomous southern re...
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Rural Democracy: Elections and Development in Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $41.99 - Original price $41.99Original price $41.99$54.99$54.99 - $54.99Current price $54.99| /How have African rulers responded to the introduction of democratic electoral competition? Despite the broadly negative picture painted by the prev...
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African Politics: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Africa is a continent of 54 countries and over a billion people. However, despite the rich diversity of the African experience, it is striking th...
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