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  • Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror (New Approaches to African History)

    • ASIN: 0521709032
    • ISBN: 0521709032
    • Brand: Brand: Cambridge University Press
    • Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

    Foreign Intervention in Africa chronicles the foreign political and military interventions in Africa during the periods of decolonization (1956-1975) and the Cold War (1945-1991), as well as during the periods of state collapse (1991-2001) and the "global war on terror" (2001-2010). In the first two periods, the most significant intervention was ex... [Read More]

  • City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp

    • ASIN: 1250118735
    • ISBN: 1250118735
    • Brand: Picador USA
    • Manufacturer: Picador

    Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace PrizeNamed a Best of Book of the Year by The Economist and Foreign AffairsLos Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistThe Dadaab refugee camp is many things: to the charity workers, it’s a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, a “nursery for terrorists”; to the Western media, a dangerous no-go area. Bu... [Read More]

  • The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa

    • ASIN: 0805042598
    • ISBN: 0805042598
    • Brand: Henry Holt and Co
    • Manufacturer: Square Fish

    For more than a thousand years, from A.D. 500 to 1700, the medieval kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay grew rich on the gold, salt, and slave trade that stretched across Africa. Scraping away hundreds of years of ignorance, prejudice, and mythology, award-winnnig authors Patricia and Fredrick McKissack reveal the glory of these forgotten empires ... [Read More]

  • Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters: The Early Years

    • UPC: 046442127356
    • ASIN: 0618127356
    • ISBN: 0618127356
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    AFRICA IN MY BLOOD is an extraordinary self-portrait, in letters and commentary, of Jane Goodall's early years, from childhood to the landmark publication of IN THE SHADOW OF MAN. It reveals this remarkable woman more vividly and clearly than anything that has been published before, by her or about her. We see Goodall grow from a schoolgirl into th... [Read More]

  • Guns and Rain: Guerrillas & Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe

    • ASIN: 0520055896
    • ISBN: 9780520055896
    • Manufacturer: University of California Press

    Almost every anti-colonial struggle this century has been led by an army of guerrillas. No such struggle has succeeded without a very high degree of cooperation between guerrillas and the local peasantry. But what does "cooperation" between peasants and guerrillas really consist of? What effect does it have on the way they view the world for which ... [Read More]

  • Hezbollah: A Short History - Updated Edition (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics)

    • ASIN: 0691160813
    • ISBN: 9780691160818
    • Brand: Princeton University Press
    • Manufacturer: Princeton University Press

    With Hezbollah's entry into the Lebanese government in 2009 and recent forceful intervention in the Syrian civil war, the potent Shi‘i political and military organization continues to play an enormous role in the Middle East. Policymakers in the United States and Israel usually denounce it as a dangerous terrorist group and refuse to engage with ... [Read More]

  • When the Moors Ruled in Europe

    • ASIN: B00SKTJ5QS

  • Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa (CBC Massey Lecture)

    • ASIN: 0887847536
    • ISBN: 0887847536
    • Brand: Brand: House of Anansi Press
    • Manufacturer: House of Anansi Press

    In 2000, the United Nations laid out a series of eight goals meant to guide humankind in the new century. Called the Millennium Development Goals, these targets are to be met by 2015 and are to lay the foundation for a prosperous future. In Race Against Time, Stephen Lewis advances real solutions to help societies across the globe achieve the Mille... [Read More]

  • Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War

    • ASIN: 0226669653
    • ISBN: 0226669653
    • Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press

    Since the end of the cold war, Africa has seen a dramatic rise in new political and religious phenomena, including an eviscerated privatized state, neoliberal NGOs, Pentecostalism, a resurgence in accusations of witchcraft, a culture of scamming and fraud, and, in some countries, a nearly universal wish to emigrate. Drawing on fieldwork in Togo, Ch... [Read More]

  • Well: Healing Our Beautiful, Broken World from a Hospital in West Africa

    • ASIN: 1455553190
    • ISBN: 1455553190
    • Brand: FaithWords/Hachette Book Group
    • Manufacturer: FaithWords

    Sarah Thebarge ponders the intersection of faith and medicine in this insightful narrative of her medical mission trip to Togo, West Africa.Sarah Thebarge, a Yale-trained physician assistant, nearly died of breast cancer at age twenty-seven, but that did not end her deeply felt spiritual calling to medical missions in Africa. Risking her own healt... [Read More]

  • African Soccerscapes: How a Continent Changed the World's Game (Africa in World History)

    • ASIN: 0896802787
    • ISBN: 0896802787
    • Brand: Brand: Ohio University Press
    • Manufacturer: Ohio University Press

    A Choice Significant University Press Title for Undergraduates, 2010–11.From Accra and Algiers to Zanzibar and Zululand, Africans have wrested control of soccer from the hands of Europeans, and through the rise of different playing styles, the rituals of spectatorship, and the presence of magicians and healers, have turned soccer into a distincti... [Read More]

  • West African Christianity

    • ASIN: 0883447037
    • ISBN: 0883447037
    • Brand: Brand: Orbis Books
    • Manufacturer: Orbis Books

    Book by Sanneh, Lamin O.

  • Crusading Warfare 1097-1193 2ed (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: New Series)

    • ASIN: 0521458382
    • ISBN: 0521458382
    • Brand: Brand: Cambridge University Press
    • Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

    This is a revised edition of R. C. Smail's classic account of the military achievements of the Crusaders in the context of a 'feudal society organized for war'. A new bibliographical introduction and an updated bibliography have been provided by Christopher Marshall, while the original plates section has been replaced by a series of new subjects. I... [Read More]

  • The Fishermen: A Novel

    • ASIN: B00MEMMTD8
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

    A striking debut novel about an unforgettable childhood, by a Nigerian writer the New York Times has crowned "the heir to Chinua Achebe."Told by nine-year-old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, THE FISHERMEN is the Cain and Abel-esque story of a childhood in Nigeria, in the small town of Akure. When their father has to travel to a distant cit... [Read More]

  • Northern Europe (Incl Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Ireland, Sweden, UK) 9GB Data SIM 42 Countries Instant Connection 30 Day Plan (3000 min free within 48 Countries & Territories incl EU)

    • ASIN: B075ST6H56
    • Brand: travsim
    • Manufacturer: ThreeUK

    Travel through Northern Europe (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Aland Islands(Finland), Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, UK) and remain connected during your travels with 9GB of Data. No contracts. No activation. Immediate connection. This preloaded data SIM offers you the use of your data in over 60 countries (see below). It works ... [Read More]

  • SCREENSHOTBRAND-S11837 Mens Hipster Hip-Hop Premium Tees - Stylish Longline Fashion T-Shirt Dashiki African Bull-Black-Large

    • UPC: 880718967457
    • ASIN: B07FS2HL5M
    • Brand: SCREENSHOT
    • Size: Large

    SCREENSHOT BRAND is a New Line of Streetwear Fashion Company Launched Exclusively for E-Commerce. Our Inspiration is Based on Inner City Statements, and Cultural Movements. Even Though we are Under a Constant State of Evolution, SCREENSHOT BRAND Shares Deep Values like Originality, Quality, Attention to Details, and Exclusivity. Our Focus is to Pro... [Read More]

  • Road of Ash and Dust: Awakening of a Soul in Africa

    • ASIN: 0998206202
    • ISBN: 0998206202
    • Manufacturer: Sympathy Publishing

    - Attempting to honor his ancestors he discovered himself - A rare and thrilling narrative of The African-American Experience Unaware that hunger, sickness and deprivation were awaiting him, a young idealist leaves the United States and embarks on a spiritual journey to West Africa. Repeatedly challenged by a world beyond his understanding and thro... [Read More]

  • Best of 4K [Ultimate Edition UHD] [Blu-ray]

    • UPC: 712962781452
    • ASIN: B01KK7Z7QE
    • Manufacturer: Busch Media Group

    BEST OF 4K UHD IMPRESSIONS presents a multifarious collection of 16 brilliant REAL 4K short films in ground-breaking Ultra High Definition quality making the fullest use of your 4K UHD TV. Spectacular images by the pioneers of 4K cinematography provide an extraordinary audio-visual experience. You will be thrilled by riveting impressions of natural... [Read More]

  • The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget: Murder and Memory in Uganda

    • ASIN: 0312429738
    • ISBN: 9780312429737
    • Manufacturer: Picador

    From a new star of American journalism, a riveting murder mystery that reveals the forces roiling today's Africa From Rwanda to Sierra Leone, African countries recovering from tyranny and war are facing an impossible dilemma: to overlook past atrocities for the sake of peace or to seek catharsis through tribunals and truth commissions. Uganda chose... [Read More]

  • Out of Africa (Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books)

    • ASIN: 0679600213
    • ISBN: 9780679600213
    • Brand: Modern Library
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeIn this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from ... [Read More]

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