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Released: April 15, 2011
"An intimate, welcome first-person account of a portion of South African history that remains foggy to many American readers."
Anti-apartheid political prisoner Kathrada examines his actions and the aftermath that resulted in 30 years of imprisonment.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 29, 2011
"An important examination of a social disaster that seems both politically complex and cruelly senseless."
Impressively controlled account of the devastating Congo war, which has caused more than 5 million deaths.
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Released: March 22, 2011
"The author's return to his beloved homeland transformed by violence and no longer familiar proves heart-wrenching and extremely moving."
Godwin (
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa, 2007, etc.), a white Zimbabwean journalist schooled in and relocated to England, bears brave witness to the last brutal days of Robert Mugabe's dictatorship.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 19, 2010
"A work more narrative than reflective, but Naipaul's prose remains smooth, subtle, often silvery."
In this minor but engaging work, the Nobel Prize winner (
Magic Seeds, 2004, etc.) examines the supernatural and religious beliefs he discovered in six African nations.
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Released: March 16, 2009
"A remarkably full-bodied and frank discussion of Africa's place in the world."
The director of the Royal African Society offers an ambitious, roundly informative and still intimate look at sub-Saharan Africa's turbulent road in the modern era.
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Released: Feb. 3, 2009
"Rigorous analyses plus policy prescriptions make for a readable treatise."
A leading expert on the economics of developing nations spells out his prescriptions for solving problems that haven't been fixed by democracy.
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