Category: Global History and History of Miscellaneous Things

Control & Crisis in Colonial Kenya

By: Africa/Berman, Bruce

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 412455

ISBN-13: 9780852550700

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience

By: Africa/Bixler, Mark

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 248032

ISBN-13: 9780820328836

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In 2000 the United States began accepting 3,800 refugees from one of Africa's longest civil wars. They were just some of the thousands of young men, known as "Lost Boys," who had been orphaned or otherwise separated from their families in the chaos of a brutal conflict that has ravaged Sudan since 1983. "The Lost Boys of Sudan" focuses on four of these refugees. Theirs, however, is a typical story, one that repeated itself wherever the Lost Boys could be found across America.Jacob Magot, Peter Anyang, Daniel Khoch, and Marko Ayii were among 150 or so Lost Boys who were resettled in Atlanta. Li...
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Long Way from Paradise: Surviving the Rwandan Genocide

By: Africa/Chishugi, Leah

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 409501

ISBN-13: 9781844086573

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An inspirational and moving memoir from a woman who survived the Rwandan genocide and uses her experiences to become an agent of changeLeah Chishugi grew up in eastern Congo but moved at the age of 17to Kigali, the Rwandan capital, to work as a model. She married and had a son. When in 1994 she was caught up in the horrific conflict, she escaped only after being left for dead under a pile of corpses. She fled with her son to Uganda, then South Africa, where she was miraculously reunited with her husband whom she believed dead. Leah finally settled in the UK where she was granted asylum and bec...
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They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky. The True Story of Three Lost Boys From Sudan

By: Africa/Deng, Benson

Price: $4.00

Publisher: : September 2014

Seller ID: 223545

ISBN-13: 9781586483883

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Benjamin, Alepho, and Benson were raised among the Dinka tribe of Sudan. Their world was an insulated, close-knit community of grass-roofed cottages, cattle herders, and tribal councils. The lions and pythons that prowled beyond the village fences were the greatest threat they knew. All that changed the night the government-armed Murahiliin began attacking their villages. Amid the chaos, screams, conflagration, and gunfire, five-year-old Benson and seven-year-old Benjamin fled into the dark night. Two years later, Alepho, age seven, was forced to do the same. Across the Southern Sudan, over th...
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Rooms in the HOuse of Stone

By: Africa/Dorris, Michael

Price: $3.00

Publisher: : February 2015

Seller ID: 293069

ISBN-13: 9780915943708

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Wonders of the African World

By: Africa/Gates Jr., Henry Louis

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Knopf : October 1999

Seller ID: 429543

ISBN-13: 9780375402357

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Mighty Be Our Powers

By: Africa/Gbowee, Leymah

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : July 2016

Seller ID: 320863

ISBN-13: 9780984295159

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

As a young woman growing up in Africa, Leymah Gbowee was broken by a savage civil war that destroyed life as she knew it, depriving her of the education she yearned for and claiming the lives of relatives and friends. This title chronicles the violence she's faced throughout her life.
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Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa

By: Africa/Godwin, Peter

Price: $5.50

Publisher: : December 2013

Seller ID: 261658

ISBN-13: 9780060977238

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Mukiwa begins in the magnificent mountains of eastern Rhodesia in the 1960s. In the eyes of young Peter Godwin, the land is an endless source of wonder and adventure: of leopard hunting, witch doctors, lepers, and snakes. Then one day he stumbles upon the body of his neighbor, killed by African guerrillas, and this perception is changed forever. Its an unforgettable tale of innocence lost under African skies as we follow Godwin's awakening to the often savage struggle between whites and blacks, his horror when he is forced to fight in a civil war he detests, and his experiences as a journalist...
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Flame Trees of Thika

By: Africa/Huxley, Elspeth

Price: $3.00

Seller ID: 57243

ISBN-13: 9780140017151

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In an open cart Elspeth Huxley set off with her parents to travel to Thika in Kenya. As pioneering settlers, they built a house of grass, ate off a damask doth spread over packing cases, and discovered -- the hard way -- the world of the African. With an extraordinary gift for detail and a keen sense of humor, Huxley recalls her childhood on the smart farm at a time when Europeans waged their fortunes on a land that was as harsh as it was beautiful. For a young girl it was a time of adventure and freedom, and Huxley paints an unforgettable portrait of growing up among the Masai and Kikuyu peop...
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Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust

By: Africa/Ilibagiza, Immaculee

Price: $7.00

Publisher: : October 2013

Seller ID: 106709

ISBN-13: 9781401908966

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee's family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans. Incredibly, Immaculee survived the slaughter. For 91 days, she and seven other women huddled silently together in the cramped bathroom of a local pastor while hundreds of machete-wielding killers hunted for them. It was during those endless hours of unspeakable terror that Imma...
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War Child: A Child Soldier's Story

By: Africa/Jal, Emmanuel

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 380830

ISBN-13: 9780312602970

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In the mid-1980s, Emmanuel Jal was a seven year old Sudanese boy, living in a small village with his parents, aunts, uncles, and siblings. But as Sudan's civil war moved closer--with the Islamic government seizing tribal lands for water, oil, and other resources--Jal's family moved again and again, seeking peace. Then, on one terrible day, Jal was separated from his mother, and later learned she had been killed; his father Simon rose to become a powerful commander in the Christian Sudanese Liberation Army, fighting for the freedom of Sudan. Soon, Jal was conscripted into that army, one of 10,0...
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Struggle is My Life

By: Africa/Mandela, Nelson

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 407259

ISBN-13: 9780873486637

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Nelson Mandela's speeches and political writings from his days as a leader of the African National Congress Youth League in 1944 until his release from prison in 1990.
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Mandela: a Critical Life

By: Africa/Mandela/Lodge, Tom

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 380161

ISBN-13: 9780199219353

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Striking in appearance--six foot four and physically imposing--with an aristocratic bearing and incredible charm and self-assurance, Nelson Mandela is the greatest African leader in modern history, an iconic figure the world over. Now, in this new and highly revealing biography, Tom Lodge draws on a wide range of original sources to uncover a host of fresh insights about the shaping of Mandela's personality and public persona, from his childhood days and early activism, through his twenty-seven years of imprisonment, to his presidency of the new South Africa. The book follows Mandela from his ...
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Part of My Soul Went with Hom

By: Africa/Mandela/Mandela, Winnie

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : July 2013

Seller ID: 244789

ISBN-13: 9780393302905

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Winnie Mandela, one of South Africa's most visible and articulate apartheid foes, spent many years a
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Selim Aga: A Slave's Odyssey

By: Africa/McCarthy, James

Price: $5.50

Seller ID: 394487

ISBN-13: 9781905222179

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Selim Aga was eight years old when he was abducted from the Nuba Mountains of Sudan and sold into slavery and auctioned 2000 miles away in Egypt to the highest bidder. Born around 1827 Selim was killed in a war in Liberia in 1875. How then did this slave come to be lecturing to fashionable audiences in London and publishing in the Geographical Magazine? James McCarthy has pieced together the life of this remarkable man using Selim's own narrative and those of others such as Sir Richard Burton.
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Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum

By: Africa/Odede, Kennedy/Posner,

Price: $7.00

Publisher: : July 2017

Seller ID: 343285

ISBN-13: 9780062292858

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Find Me Unafraid tells the uncommon love story between two uncommon people whose collaboration sparked a successful movement to transform the lives of vulnerable girls and the urban poor. With a Foreword by Nicholas Kristof.This is the story of two young people from completely different worlds: Kennedy Odede from Kibera, the largest slum in Africa, and Jessica Posner from Denver, Colorado. Kennedy foraged for food, lived on the street, and taught himself to read with old newspapers. When an American volunteer gave him the work of Mandela, Garvey, and King, teenaged Kennedy decided he was going...
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Conquest of Morocco

By: Africa/Porch, Douglas

Price: $9.50

Seller ID: 391417

ISBN-13: 9780374128807

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Conquest of Morocco tells the story of France's last great colonial adventure. At the turn of the twentieth century, Morocco was a nation yet to emerge from the Middle Ages, ruled by local warlords and riven by religious fanaticism. But in the mad scramble for African colonies, Morocco had one great attraction for the Europeans: it was available. In 1903, France undertook to conquer the exotic and backward country. By the time World War I broke out the conquest was virtually complete.Based on extensive original research, The Conquest of Morocco is a splendid work of popular history....
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Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget: Murder and Memory in Uganda

By: Africa/Rice, Andrew

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 348735

ISBN-13: 9780805079654

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From a new star of American journalism, a riveting murder mystery that reveals the forces roiling today's AfricaFrom 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 the path of forgetting: after Idi Amin's reign was overthrown, the new government opted for amnesty for his henchmen rather than prolonged conflict. Ugandans tried to bury their history, but reminders of the truth were never far from view. A stray cl...
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Emma's War

By: Africa/Scroggins, Deborah

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : May 2011

Seller ID: 123343

ISBN-13: 9780375703775

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Tall, striking, and adventurous to a fault, young British relief worker Emma McCune came to Sudan determined to make a difference in a country decimated by the longest-running civil war in Africa. She became a near legend in the bullet-scarred, famine-ridden country, but her eventual marriage to a rebel warlord made international headlines--and spelled disastrous consequences for her ideals. Enriched by Deborah Scroggins's firsthand experience as an award-winning journalist in Sudan, this unforgettable account of Emma McCune's tragically short life also provides an up-close look at the volatil...
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Libya: From Colony to Independence

By: Africa/St. John Ronald, Bruce

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 364946

ISBN-13: 9781851685981

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Libya is a state which, for the majority of its past, has been subjected to foreign rule or influence. Falling prey to empire builders from the ancient Greeks to Mussolini's Italy, it only became formally independent in 1951. In the past half-century, Libya's history has been dominated by the figure of Mu'ammar al-Qaddafi, the controversial leader who Nelson Mandela has dubbed one of the revolutionary icons of our time. St John skillfully navigates this lengthy historical period, detailing the struggles the state has had in finding its political and economic position in the world. From the ear...
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Category: Global History and History of Miscellaneous Things