Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2008. Trade Paperback. In the #1 New York Times bestseller, A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by..... More
Ohio University Press, May 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. States of Marriage shows how throughout the colonial period in French Sudan (present-day Mali) the institution of marriage played a central role in how the empire defined its colonial subjects as gendered persons with certain attendant rights and privileges. Book is in..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 1982. Trade Paperback. 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..... More
Heinemann, November 1994. Trade Paperback. This path-breaking history of the African working class in Lourenco Marques proceeds from the assumption that Mozambican labor history was less about skills, wages, or productivity than it was about racism, human dignity, and contested masculinity. African attempts to improve their lives through hard work..... More
Knopf, April 2001. Hardcover. Jacket is faded and has two small holes along the spine. More
Harvest Books, November 1978. Trade Paperback. Van der Post's incomparable knowledge of Africa illuminates this epic novel, set near the Kalahari Desert, about a boy on the verge of manhood, his experiences with the wonder and mystery of a still-primitive land, and his secret friendship with the Bushman whose life..... More
McFarland, May 2014. Trade Paperback. One of the most detailed books on the Lost Boys of Sudan since South Sudan became the world's newest nation in 2011, this is a memoir of Majok Marier, an Agar Dinka who was 7 when war came to his village in southern Sudan. During..... More
Harpercollins, October 1991. Hardcover. More
Three Rivers Press, September 2010. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Had Enough? Join activists, organizations, and celebrities to fight human rights crimes in Africa. Human rights activist John Prendergast and Oscar-nominated actor Don Cheadle bring us an empowering and hopeful new book, as they reveal the steps being taken by engaged..... More
Longman Group United Kingdom, June 1983. Trade Paperback. More
