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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
$21.99 Add to cartA “meticulously researched and comprehensive” (Financial Times) history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa’s Congo
At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of western Europ- Author: Stearns, Jason K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1541706064
- Language: English
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A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa
$20.00 Add to cartIn A Continent for the Taking Howard W. French, a veteran correspondent for The New York Times, gives a compelling firsthand account of some of Africa’s most devastating recent history-from the fall o… [more below]
- Author: French, Howard W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 12 2005
- ISBN10: 1400030277
- Language: English
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A Popular History of IDI Amin’s Uganda
$35.00 Add to cartHow Africa’s most notorious tyrant made his oppressive regime seem both necessary and patriotic
Idi Amin ruled Uganda between 1971 and 1979, inflicting tremendous violence on the people of the count- Author: Peterson, Derek R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 0300278381
- Language: English
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The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
$20.00 Add to cartThe New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller–about the U.S.-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader… [more below]
- Author: Reid, Stuart A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1984899147
- Language: English
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Congo: The Epic History of a People
$24.00 Add to cartFrom the beginnings of the slave trade through colonization, the struggle for independence, Mobutu’s brutal three decades of rule, and the civil war that has raged from 1996 to the present day, Congo:
- Author: Van Reybrouck, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: February 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0062200127
- Language: English
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In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
$20.00 Read moreThe Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stan
- Author: Daughton, J. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050357
- Language: English
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The Antelope’s Strategy
$20.00 Add to cartOne 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 the sunshine, singing hallelujahs, their freedom grant
- Author: Hatzfeld, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0312429371
- Language: English
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Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
$21.99 Add to cartFor the first time in the United States comes the tragic and profoundly important story of the legendary Canadian general who “watched as the devil took control of paradise on earth and fed on the blo… [more below]
- Author: Dallaire, Roméo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0786715103
- Language: English
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Precolonial Black Africa
$16.95 Add to cartThis comparison of the political and social systems of Europe and black Africa from antiquity to the formation of modern states demonstrates the black contribution to the development of Western civili… [more below]
- Author: Diop, Cheikh Anta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01 1988
- ISBN10: 1556520883
- Language: English
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White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
$24.99 Add to cartA revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US.
In 1958 in Accra, Ghana, the Hands Off Africa conference brough- Author: Williams, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1541768302
- Language: English
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King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
$19.99 Add to cart“An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel.” — Christian Science Monitor
“As Hochschild’s brilliant book demonstrates, the great Congo scandal prefigured our own times .- Author: Hochschild, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 03, 2020
- ISBN10: 0358212502
- Language: English
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The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
$35.00 Read moreThe New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller–about the U.S.-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader… [more below]
- Author: Reid, Stuart A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1524748811
- Language: English
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
$20.00 Add to cartWe 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.
An unforgettable firsthand account of a people’s respo- Series: Bestselling Backlist
- Author: Gourevitch, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 04, 1999
- ISBN10: 0312243359
- Language: English
