| 1. |  | A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Price: $9.60
Customer Review:
Here it is a book about adventure and action, emotion and death. The memoirs of a boy soldier. The war in South Africa took its toll on thousands of people, emotionally and physically. Poverty plagues Ishmael Beah in Along Way Gone.
Along Way Gone should be read by adults only. The book uses... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone
from PublicAffairs
Price: $18.91
Customer Review:
Having read a handful or more of memoirs by former CIA operative or employees, I've learned that many of them can be quite dull or else poorly written. But Devlin's book is far and away the best CIA memoir I've read. It focuses primarily on his tenure in the Congo, a tumultuous time. But the book is... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
from Harvard University Press
Price: $12.21
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| 4. |  | Blood Diamonds: Tracing The Deadly Path Of The World's Most Precious Stones
from Basic Books
Price: $11.92
Customer Review:
This book is a must for anyone interested in West Africa and how illegal diamond trading has shaped its history. Due to geologic conditions, Illegal diamonds (or Blood Diamonds as they are known in the vernacular) are the primary economy of this area. Diamond mining, the search for diamond sources,... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 5. | ![]() | Another Day of Life
from Harcourt
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Another Day of Life
These are in fact memories of the author's days having been spent in Angola as this African country , the size of Portugal and former West Germany combined , was on the eve of proclaiming independence in 1975 from its colonial master , Portugal ; Mr Kapuscinski was one... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | The Wreck of the Medusa: The Most Famous Sea Disaster of the Nineteenth Century
from Atlantic Monthly Press
Price: $16.50
Customer Review:
I first became interested with the Medusa in an Art history class and began researching it on my own. I saw in an issue of ARTNEWS that this book came out and I immediately found it on amazon.
I like how the test is displayed. First Miles talks about the "main characters", and how they became... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
from Random House Trade Paperbacks
Price: $10.17
Customer Review:
Clea Koff is a forensic anthropologist who worked with teams in Rwanda, Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo uncovering mass graves, determining individual identities and cause of death. This books seems to be a journal that was eventually turned into a book (the writing is informal). Koff explains how she... more info | 3.0 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Price: $11.20
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One lesson of this book is that the pain of history doesn't go away easily. It isn't erased through generations of being American rather than African, and it certainly isn't resolved by just going back to Africa. I read this book before my own trip to Ghana, to get a travelogue sense of what to... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs, and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa
from PublicAffairs
Price: $11.03
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I will not recite the many details already cited by the publishers and reviewers. What should give this book its second life (its first was not bad) is this ongoing saga STILL unfolding... Simon Mann recently turned over to EG authorities and promptly set to the dreaded Black Beach Prison (How many... more info | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | A History of Nigeria
from Cambridge University Press
Price: $16.49
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