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  • Liberia: America's Footprint in Africa

    Making the Cultural, Social, and Political Connections

    by Jesse N. Mongrue ...
    The history of Liberia and the United States are closely tied together, but few people have taken the necessary steps to understand the complicated relationship between the two countries.Liberia: Americas Footprint in Africa traces the history of an African nation whose fate is closely tied to an uprising of slaves that began on the island that is now Haiti.The violence there caused people in the ... Read more

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  • What’S Working in Africa?

    Examining the Role of Civil Society, Good Governance, and Democratic Reform

    by Jesse Mongrue ...
    Can anything good come from Africa? For far too long, the worlds second largest continent has been perceived as one of the poorest places on the eartha place overwhelmed with mismanagement, corruption, famine, and civil wars. For the rest of the world, the continent and its post-colonial pedigree have little to offer in the global economy. However, while there may be challenges, significant ... Read more

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    From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart—a long-awaited memoir of coming of age in a fragile new nation, and its destruction in a tragic civil warFor more than forty years, Chinua Achebe maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Decades in the making, There Was a ... Read more

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  • The Fate of Africa

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  • The Confessions of Nat Turner

    Enriched edition. Rebellion, Struggle, and Hope: A Tale of Brutality and Resistance in American Literature

    by Nat Turner, Penelope Hightower ...
    In "The Confessions of Nat Turner," the eponymous protagonist recounts the harrowing journey that culminated in the 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia. Written in a deeply confessional style, the text oscillates between a stark realism and poignant introspection, capturing the psychological turmoil of enslaved individuals and their struggle for dignity and autonomy. The narrative stands as both a ... Read more

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  • The Strength of Bone

    by Lucie Wilk ...
    An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013: Top 100/Editors' PickA gorgeous debut.”-JOSEPH BOYDEN, author of Through Black Spruce and The OrendaAt the hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, Bryce is learning to predict the worst. Racing heart: infection, probably malaria. He’ll send Iris for saline. Shortness of breath? TB. Another patient rolled to the ward. And the round swellings, the rashes with dimpled centres, ... Read more

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  • What Fanon Said

    A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought

    by Lewis R. Gordon, Drucilla Cornell ...
    Series series Just Ideas
    Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus supposedly unreason, is black. Challenging academic adherence to this notion, Lewis R. Gordon offers a portrait of Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon as an exemplar of “living thought” against forms of reason marked by colonialism and racism. Working from his own translations of the ... Read more

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  • The Tragedy of Victory

    On-the-spot Account of the Nigeria-Biafra War in the Atlantic Theatre

    by Godwin Alabi-Isama ...
    The Tragedy of Victory: On-the-Spot Account of the Nigeria-Biafra War in the Atlantic Theatre is a chronological narrative of the war that lasted from July 6, 1967 to January 15, 1970. With about 500 photographs and maps and facts, told with accuracy, the well-organised and efficient Third Marine Commandos, earlier commanded by Col. Benjamin Adekunle (with Lt. Col. G. Alabi-Isama, as the Chief of ... Read more

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  • The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars

    Old Wars and New Wars [Expanded 3rd Edition]

    by Douglas Johnson, Dr Douglas H Johnson ...
    Series Book 38 - African Issues
    Expanded third edition of this key text on the complex underlying conditions of the civil war from the 1960s to the present day, including a new chapter on the current wars in Sudan's new south and South Sudan.Sudan's post-independence history has been dominated by political and civil strife. Most commentators have attributed the country's recurring civil war either to an age-old racial divide ... Read more

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  • Beyond No Mean Soldier

    The Explosive Recollections of a Former Special Forces Operator

    by Peter McAleese ...
    The SAS veteran, mercenary and author of No Mean Soldier looks back on a life of combat in this revised and expanded edition of his classic memoir.Peter McAleese's No Mean Soldier set the bar for the modern military memoir. This completely revised and expanded edition sees a philosophical McAleese revisiting his time with Britain's Parachute Regiment, the SAS, Rhodesia's SAS and the South African ... Read more

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  • Integration and Fragmentation of the Sudan: an African Renaissance

    by Mawut Achiecque Mach Guarak ...
    The most comprehensive, profound, and accurate book ever written in the history of modern Sudan, Integration and Fragmentation of the Sudan: An African Renaissance, is an encyclopedia of ancient and modern history as well as the politics of Sudan. It is a library of data that discusses Sudan from its economic, political, and social standpoint since the Arab discovery and use of the term Bilad es ... Read more

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  • Gender and Decolonization in the Congo

    The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba

    by K. Bouwer ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Patrice Lumumba s legacy continues to fire the imagination of politicians, activists, and artists. But women have been missing from accounts of the Congo s decolonization. What new ideals of masculinity and femininity were generated in this struggle? Were masculinist biases re-inscribed in later depictions of the martyred nationalist? Through analysis of Lumumba s writings and speeches, the life ... Read more

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