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The Fate of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /The definitive story of African nations after they emerged from colonialism — from Mugabe's doomed kleptocracy to Mandela's inspiring defeat of a...
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The Antelope's Strategy: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /One hot May morning in 2003, a crowd of Hutus who had participated in the genocidal killings of April 1994 in Rwanda filed out of prison and into...
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Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /For the first time in the United States comes the tragic and profoundly important story of the legendary Canadian general who "watched as the dev...
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Congo: The Epic History of a People
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From the beginnings of the slave trade through colonization, the struggle for independence, Mobutu's brutal three decades of rule, and the civil ...
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. ...
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A Modern History of the Somali: Nation and State in the Horn of Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /This latest edition of A Modern History of the Somali brings I. M. Lewis's definitive history up to date and shows the amazing continuity of Soma...
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The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People's History
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /The people of the Congo have suffered from a particularly brutal colonial rule, American interference after independence, decades of robbery at t...
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Kilimanjaro: A Photographic Journey to the Roof of Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A SPECTACULAR COLLECTION OF IMAGES AND WORDS THAT OFFER A DETAILED GLIMPSE INTO THE UNIQUE BEAUTY AND RHYTHM OF AFRICA'S NATURAL WONDER. Mount Kili...
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To Catch a Dictator: The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /What does it take to make a dictator answer for his crimes? Hissène Habré, the former despot of Chad, had terrorized, tortured, and killed on a h...
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Spies in the Congo: America's Atomic Mission in World War II
HardcoverOriginal price $41.00Original price $41.00 - Original price $41.00Original price $41.00Current price $39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In the 1940s, the brightest minds of the United States and Nazi Germany raced to West Africa with a single mission: to secure the essential ingredi...
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Only in Africa: A Travelogue Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $19.63 - Original price $19.63Original price $19.63$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /An alarming flight on a plane that suffers engine failure, a perilous climb up a snow-capped volcano, a close encounter with a lion and a fearsome ...
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Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do Not Disturb upends the narrative that Rwanda sol...
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Congo's Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa
HardcoverOriginal price $79.95 - Original price $79.95Original price $79.95$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /Dance music plays a central role in the cultural, social, religious, and family lives of the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Among ...
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award. An unfli...
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Life on the Congo
PaperbackOriginal price $11.72 - Original price $11.72Original price $11.72$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Life on the Congo, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by repu...
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The Rwanda Poems: Voices and Visions from the Genocide
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The only book of poetry to date devoted to the Rwanda genocide and published in this country, this is a work of nonfictional poetry, a cousin in ge...
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In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, wh...
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The Fall of the Congo Arabs
HardcoverOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /A first-person account of the two-year-long combined European military campaign in central Africa aimed at removing the Arab Muslim slave-trading e...
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African History & Hoodoo: Connect to The Ancient Spirit of Africa and Explore The Timeline, Culture, Roots, Spells, & More From The World's Rich
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Explore The World of African History, Mythology & Hoodoo Journey through centuries of fascinating figures, kingdoms and events that have shaped...
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U Rwanda Mu Gihirahiro: Twubakire Amahoro Arambye Ku Masomo Y' Amateka
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /U RWANDA MU GIHIRAHIROTWUBAKIRE AMAHORO ARAMBYE KU MASOMO Y'AMATEKA.Igitabo cyateguwe na Institut Seth Sendashonga) Mu kwibuka imyaka 25 Seth Senda...
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The War That Doesn't Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Why violence in the Congo has continued despite decades of international intervention Well into its third decade, the military conflict in the Dem...
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Nomadic Connectivity: An Ethnography of Walad Djifir Navigating Insecurities in Central Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $89.99 - Original price $89.99Original price $89.99$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /A focus on the everyday has produced this ethnography, which hopes to give a nuanced voice to an extended family of semi-sedentary nomads, living a...
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Rwanda Travel Guide 2023-2024: Trekking with Gorillas: From Serene Landscapes to Vibrant Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $11.99 - Original price $11.99Original price $11.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Embark on a Transformative Journey to Rwanda: Your Ultimate Travel SolutionAre you yearning for an unforgettable adventure that takes you beyond th...
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The Uncanny
PaperbackOriginal price $60.00Original price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00Current price $50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /The Uncanny is a personal visual exploration of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Belgian photographer Léonard Pongo. Collaborating with friends...
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