Cultural Region/Central Africa
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Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
$19.99 Read moreA powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do Not Disturb upends the narrative that Rwanda sold the world after one of the deadliest genocides of t… [more below]
- Author: Wrong, Michela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1541703219
- Language: English
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Introduction to African Civilizations
$17.95 Add to cartTimely, relevant, and illuminating, this essential book by respected cultural historian, teacher, and author John G. Jackson sheds long overdue light on standard Eurocentric and distorting approaches … [more below]
- Author: Jackson, John G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0806521899
- Language: English
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Chimp & the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest
$15.99 Add to cartThe real story of AIDS–how it originated with a virus in a chimpanzee, jumped to one human, and then infected more than 60 million people–is very different from what most of us think we know. Recent
- Author: Quammen, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0393350843
- Language: English
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The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa
$19.99 Add to cartThe path to progress in Africa lies in the surprising and innovative solutions Africans are finding for themselves.
“A hopeful narrative about a continent on the rise.” —New York Times Book ReviewDay… [more below]
- Author: Olopade, Dayo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0544483995
- Language: English
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The White Nile
$19.99 Add to cart“A truly great work–massive, monumental. . . . A wonderful story of heroism, a superb feat of research. . . . The best book of its kind.” —Baltimore Sun
Relive all the thrills and adventure of Alan M
- Author: Moorehead, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0060956399
- Language: English
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Heart of Darkness
$5.99 Add to cartThe Heart of Darkness is a powerful examination of the savage nature of western imperialism in the late 1890s. With stunning relevance to the politics and tribulations of today’s society, Joseph Conra
- Series: Mint Editions (Nautical Narratives)
- Author: Conrad, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1513263196
- Language: English
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Africa’s World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe
$23.99 Add to cartThe Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars i… [more below]
- Author: Prunier, Gerard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0199754209
- Language: English
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Kilimanjaro: A Photographic Journey to the Roof of Africa
$30.00 Add to cartA SPECTACULAR COLLECTION OF IMAGES AND WORDS THAT OFFER A DETAILED GLIMPSE INTO THE UNIQUE BEAUTY AND RHYTHM OF AFRICA’S NATURAL WONDER. Mount Kilimanjaro is the African continent’s highest mountain a… [more below]
- Author: Schulz, Hiltrud
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1623718287
- 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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Postcards from Congo: A Graphic History
$19.95 Read moreThe Democratic Republic of Congo, the second-largest country in Africa by area, has had a fractured and bloody history, variously undone by decades of colonialism, civil war, corruption, and totalitar… [more below]
- Author: Trueman, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1551528959
- 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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Endangered
$12.99 Add to cartFrom National Book Award Finalist Eliot Schrefer comes the compelling tale of a girl who must save a group of bonobos — and herself — from a violent coup.
Congo is a dangerous place, even for people … [more below]
- Series: Ape Quartet
- Author: Schrefer, Eliot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 07 2014
- ISBN10: 0545165776
- Language: English
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
$14.95 Add to cartIn his scathing The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen produced a landmark study of affluent American society that exposes, with brilliant ruthlessness, the habits of production and waste t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Veblen, Thorstein
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552584
- Language: English
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Ruined (TCG Edition)
$16.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
“A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage’s beautiful, hideous and unpretentiously important play is] a shattering, intimate journey into faraway news reports
- Author: Nottage, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 1, 2009
- ISBN10: 155936355X
- 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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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
$31.00 Read moreThe revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award.
An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses- Author: Kara, Siddharth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1250284309
- 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
