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The Translator
Doubleday Canada 2009; US$ 19.95"If God must break your leg He will at least teach you to limp ? so it is said in Africa. This book is my poor limping ? a modest account that cannot tell every story that deserves telling. I have seen and heard many things in Darfur that have broken my heart. I bring the stories to you because I know most people want others to have good lives and,... more...
Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400-1948
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 74.00A history of the politics of South Africa's people from the time of their early settlements in the elevated heartlands to the dawn of apartheid. more...
My Nigeria
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 25.99His nineteenth-century cousin, paddled ashore by slaves, twisted the arms of tribal chiefs to sign away their territorial rights in the oil-rich Niger Delta. Sixty years later, his grandfather helped craft Nigeria?s constitution and negotiate its independence, the first of its kind in Africa. Four decades later, Peter Cunliffe-Jones arrived as... more...
Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon
Scarecrow Press 2010; US$ 119.99The fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon relates the turbulent history of Cameroon through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, organizations, and other aspects of Cameroon history from the earliest times to the... more...
Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass
Indiana University Press 2010; US$ 21.95Lorelle D. Semley explores the historical and political meanings of motherhood in West Africa and beyond, showing that the roles of women were far more complicated than previously thought. While in Kétu, Bénin, Semley discovered that women were treasurers, advisors, ritual specialists, and colonial... more...
War Child
St. Martin's Press 2009; US$ 15.99In 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... more...
Living in Hope and History
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007; US$ 20.99Internationally celebrated for her novels, Nadine Gordimer has devoted much of her life and fiction to the political struggles of the Third World, the New World, and her native South Africa. Living in Hope and History is an on-the-spot record of her years as a public figure--an observer of apartheid and its aftermath, a member of the ANC, and... more...
The African Poor
Cambridge University Press 1987; US$ 62.00Professor Iliffe traces the history of the poor of Sub-Saharan Africa from the thirteenth-century Ethiopia to the South African resettlement sites of the 1980s. more...
More Than Just a Game
St. Martin's Press 2010; US$ 15.99Timed perfectly for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the true story of how political prisoners under apartheid found hope and dignity through soccer In the hell that was Robben Island, inmates united courageously in an act of protest. Beginning in 1964, they requested the right to play soccer during their exercise periods. Denied repeatedly,... more...
The Antelope's Strategy
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010; US$ 16.99A powerful report on the aftereffects of the genocide in Rwanda?and on the near impossibility of reconciliation between survivors and killers In two acclaimed previous works, the noted French journalist Jean Hatzfeld offered a profound, harrowing witness to the unimaginable pain and horror in the mass killings of one group of people by another. ... more...









