Category: African History

Fisherman's Blues: A West African Community at Sea

By: Badkhen, Anna

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Riverhead Books : March 2018

Seller ID: 506037

ISBN-13: 9781594634864

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR AND PASTE MAGAZINE An intimate account of life in a West African fishing village, tugged by currents ancient and modern, and dependent on an ocean that is being radically transformed. The sea is broken, fishermen say. The sea is empty. The genii have taken the fish elsewhere. For centuries, fishermen have launched their pirogues from the Senegalese port of Joal, where the fish used to be so plentiful a man could dip his hand into the grey-green ocean and pull one out as big as his thigh. But in an Atlantic decimated by overfishing ...
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In My Home There Is No More Sorrow

By: Bass, Rick

Price: $4.00

Publisher: McSweeney's Publishing : November 2012

Seller ID: 570452

ISBN-13: 9781936365999

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Last year Rick Bass traveled to Rwanda, roaming from the bustle of Kigali to the breathtaking volcanic preserves of the last few mountain gorillas. Now he offers an extraordinary portrait of what can be found in that country today--heartbreaking evidence of the genocide that occurred there a generation ago, dazzling natural beauty, and young people who have emerged from tragedy with a blazingly optimistic spirit and a profound artistic voice. In My Home There Is No More Sorrow is an enchanting, harrowing narrative achievement--an unforgettable exploration of history and human nature from one o...
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

By: Beah, Ishmael

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books : August 2008

Seller ID: 685999

ISBN-13: 9780374531263

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life.Why did you leave Sierra Leone?Because there is a war.You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?Yes, all the time.Cool.I smile a little.You should tell us about it sometime.Yes, sometime. This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like thr...
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Zulu Medicine and Medicine-Men

By: Bryant, A. T.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Centaur Publishers : January 1983

Seller ID: 585648

ISBN-13: 9780908379446

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart

By: Butcher, Tim

Price: $6.50

Publisher: : January 2016

Seller ID: 526222

ISBN-13: 9780802118776

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Published to rave reviews in the United Kingdom and named a Richard & Judy Book Club selection--the only work of nonfiction on the 2008 list--Blood River is the harrowing and audacious story of Tim Butcher's journey in the Congo and his retracing of renowned explorer H. M. Stanley's famous 1874 expedition in which he mapped the Congo River. When Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to Africa in 2000 he quickly became obsessed with the legendary Congo River and the idea of re-creating Stanley's legendary journey along the three-thousand-mile waterway. Despite warnings that his pla...
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Shake Hands with the Devil

By: Dallaire, Romeo

Price: $9.00

Publisher: : October 2014

Seller ID: 718023

ISBN-13: 9780786715107

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

For 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 blood of the people we were supposed to protect. When Romeo Dallaire was called on to serve as force commander of the UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda, he believed that his assignment was to help two warring parties achieve the peace they both wanted. Instead, he was exposed to the most barbarous and chaotic display of civil war and genocide in the past decade, observing in just one hundred days the ...
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History of West Africa to the Nineteenth Century

By: Davidson, Basil,Buah, F.K.,Ajayi, J.F. Ade

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Doubleday : January 2000

Seller ID: 809353

ISBN-13: 9780385069083

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, of Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself

By: Equiano, Olaudah

Price: $4.00

Publisher: : June 2013

Seller ID: 750073

ISBN-13: 9780393974942

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

It is accompanied by an introduction, maps, illustrations, and annotations. "Contexts" provides essential public writings on the autobiography, general and historical background, related travel and scientific literature, other eighteenth-century works by authors of African ancestry, and works debating the slave trade. "Criticism" includes six contemporary reviews and nine modern essays on the narrative by Paul Edwards, Charles T. Davis, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Angelo Costanzo, Catherine Obianju Acholonu, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Geraldine Murphy, Adam Potkay, and Robert J. Allison. A Chronology ...
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After Mandela

By: Foster, Douglas

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : December 2014

Seller ID: 720308

ISBN-13: 9780871404787

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A brutally honest expose, After Mandela provides a sobering portrait of a country caught between a democratic future and a political meltdown. Recent works have focused primarily on Nelson Mandela s transcendent story. But Douglas Foster, a leading South Africa authority with early, unprecedented access to President Zuma and to the next generation in the Mandela family, traces the nation s entire post-apartheid arc, from its celebrated beginnings under Madiba to Thabo Mbeki s tumultuous rule to the ferocious battle between Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. Foster tells this story not only from the point o...
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Continent for the Taking: Tragedy and Hope of Africa

By: French, Howard

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : March 2012

Seller ID: 688191

ISBN-13: 9781400030279

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In 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 of Mobutu Sese Seko, to Charles Taylor's arrival in Monrovia, to the genocide in Rwanda and the Congo that left millions dead. Blending eyewitness reportage with rich historical insight, French searches deeply into the causes of today's events, illuminating the debilitating legacy of colonization and the abiding hypocrisy and inhumanity of both Western and African political leaders. While he captur...
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China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa

By: French, Howard W.

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Vintage : February 2015

Seller ID: 804736

ISBN-13: 9780307946652

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A New York Times Notable Book Chinese immigrants of the recent past and unfolding twenty-first century are in search of the African dream. So explains indefatigable traveler Howard W. French, prize-winning investigative journalist and former New York Times bureau chief in Africa and China, in the definitive account of this seismic geopolitical development. China's burgeoning presence in Africa is already shaping, and reshaping, the future of millions of people. From Liberia to Senegal to Mozambique, in creaky trucks and by back roads, French introduces us to the characters who make up China's ...
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By: Hatzfeld, Jean

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 475441

ISBN-13: 9780374279783

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The continuation of a groundbreaking study of the Rwandan genocide, and the story of the survivor generation In Rwanda from April to June 1994, 800,000 Tutsis were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbors in the largest and swiftest genocide since World War II. In his previous books, Jean Hatzfeld has documented the lives of the killers and victims, but after twenty years he has found that the enormity of understanding doesn't stop with one generation. In Blood Papa, Hatzfeld returns to the hills and marshes of Nyamata to ask what has become of the children--those who never saw the machetes yet hav...
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The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution

By: Hessler, Peter

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Penguin Press : May 2019

Seller ID: 650423

ISBN-13: 9780525559566

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Extraordinary...Sensitive and perceptive, Mr. Hessler is a superb literary archaeologist, one who handles what he sees with a bit of wonder that he gets to watch the history of this grand city unfold, one day at a time." --Wall Street Journal From the acclaimed author of River Town and Oracle Bones, an intimate excavation of life in one of the world's oldest civilizations at a time of convulsive change Drawn by a fascination with Egypt's rich history and culture, Peter Hessler moved with his wife and twin daughters to Cairo in 2011. He wanted to le...
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

By: Hochschild, Adam

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin : October 1999

Seller ID: 756049

ISBN-13: 9780618001903

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Documents the plundering of the territory.
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Category: African History