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1	Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela more books like this by Nelson Mandela add to wishlist Since his release from prison in 1990, Nelson Mandela has emerged as the world's most potent moral leader since Gandhi. As president of the ANC and head of the anti-apartheid movement, he has been instrumental in moving South Africa toward black-majority rule. Throughout the world he is revered as a vital force in the fight for human rights and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 more books like this by John Thornton, Edmund Burke, III (Editor), Philip D Curtin (Editor) add to wishlist This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World. African institutions, political events, and economic structures shaped Africa's voluntary involvement in the ... see all copies from $10.04! new only from $16.20! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman more books like this by Marjorie Shostak (Photographer) add to wishlist Through a series of interviews that span several decades, this title follows a Kung woman named Nisa through childhood, puberty, sexual awakening, marriage, and motherhood, as she learns much about life in Africa's Kalahari Desert. see all copies from $3.62! new only from $20.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa more books like this by Antjie Krog, Charlayne Hunter-Gault (Foreword by) add to wishlist This study of South Africa's Truth & Reconciliation Commission is by an Afrikaans poet. It examines the unique effort to deal with the horrors of apartheid through a process of public truth telling and national healing. The TRC is being looked at as an option that other nations can follow in assigning responsibility for crimes against humanity. see all copies from $3.76! new only from $9.59! \| SVS
5	A History of South Africa: Third Edition more books like this by Leonard L Thompson add to wishlist A leading scholar of South Africa provides a fresh and penetrating exploration of that country's history, from the earliest known human inhabitation of the region to the present, focusing primarily on the experiences of its black inhabitants. For this third edition, Leonard Thompson adds two new chapters that describe the transfer of power and the ... see all copies from $5.24! new only from $10.35! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation more books like this by John Carlin add to wishlist Carlin pens this thrilling, inspiring account of one of the greatest charm offensives in history--Nelson Mandela's decade-long campaign to unite his country, beginning in his jail cell and ending with a rugby tournament. see all copies from $3.74! new only from $4.95! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa more books like this by Martin Meredith add to wishlist Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors chanced first upon the worlds richest deposits of diamonds, and then upon its richest deposits of gold. What followed was a titanic struggle between ... see all copies from $2.58! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
8	No Future Without Forgiveness more books like this by Professor Desmond Tutu add to wishlist Desmond Tutu, who has worked rigorously on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, has put together his hard-earned thoughts on the nature of forgiveness and reconciliation in this story of South Africa's post-apartheid healing. Without any saccharine formulas, his tempered work maintains humanistic ideals for moving forward. see all copies from $2.16! new only from $7.21! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Washing of the Spears: A History of the Rise of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and Its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879 more books like this by Donald R Morris add to wishlist Donald Morris delivers an account of the rise of the Zulu nation in southern Africa, and its fall under Cetshwayo in the Zulu war of 1879. For more than a century after the European landing at Cape Town in the 17th century, the Boers had advanced unopposed into the vast interior of Africa. It was not until 1824 that Europeans came face to face ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $27.47! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Boer War more books like this by Thomas Pakenham add to wishlist The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 gave the British, as Kipling said, no end of a lesson'. The public expected it to be over by Christmas, but it proved to be the longest (two and three-quarter years), the costliest (over 200 million), the bloodiest (at least 22,000 British, 25,000 Boer and 12,000 African lives) and the most ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.32! \| first editions
11 view cover	The Old Way: A Story of the First People more books like this by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas add to wishlist One of the world's most influential anthropologists reevaluates her long and illustrious career by returning to her roots--and the roots of life as revealed in human evolution. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	White Supremacy: A Comparative Study of American and South African History more books like this by George M Fredrickson add to wishlist In this first comparative history of race relations in the United States and South Africa, George M. Fredrickson uncovers parallels and differences in the origin and expression of white supremacy in the two countries. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	They Came Before Columbus more books like this by Ivan Van Sertima add to wishlist With the skill of a novelist, Ivan Van Sertima reveals to readers compelling, dramatic, and superbly detailed documentation of the presence and legacy of Black Africans in ancient America. It is the marriage of twin crafts--the artist's and the scholar's--in a book that makes it possible to see clearly the unmistakable face and handprint of Black ... see all copies from $8.18! new only from $29.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Children of God's Fire: A Documentary History of Black Slavery in Brazil more books like this by Robert Edgar Conrad add to wishlist This is a collection of documents covering all aspects of slavery in Brazil, from its beginnings in Portugal and Africa in the 15th century to its abolition in 1888. see all copies from $17.50! new only from $32.18! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe more books like this by Doris May Lessing add to wishlist Writing inspired by four visits to Zimbabwe, her childhood home, from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007, Doris Lessing. n the 1980s and early 1990s, Doris Lessing made several visits to her homeland, Zimbabwe, a country from which she had been banned for twenty-five years for her opposition to the government of what was then white ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.88! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Lost World of the Kalahari more books like this by Laurens Van Der Post add to wishlist An account of the author's grueling, but ultimately successful, journey in 1957, through Africa's remote, primitive Kalahari Desert, in search of the legendary Bushmen, the hunters who pray to the great hunters in the sky. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.11! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Washing of the Spears: The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation more books like this by Donald R Morris add to wishlist Filled with colorful characters, dramatic battles, and an inexorable narrative momentum, this unsurpassed history details the 60-year existence of the Zulu Nation, from its brutal formation and zenith under the military genius Shaka (1787-1828) to its dissolution under Cetshwayo in the Zulu War of 1879. 77 illustrations. 2 maps. see all copies from $3.70! new only from $9.43! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Journey to the Vanished City: The Search for a Lost Tribe of Israel more books like this by Tudor Parfitt add to wishlist This is a description of an often hazardous journey across Africa to solve the mystery of the Lemba people, who claim to be a lost Jewish tribe from a fabled city called Sena, and who sought the author's help in tracing their origins. As the story unfolds it becomes clear that this is an expedition not only through unfrequented territory, but also ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.55! \| first editions
19 view cover	Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier more books like this by Alexandra Fuller add to wishlist With the same fiercely beautiful prose that won her acclaim for "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight," Fuller describes her trip home to Zambia, where she comes away with a remarkably unbiased and unsentimental glimpse of men who have killed, mutilated, tortured and scrambled to survive during wartime, and who now live with their past. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Not Either an Experimental Doll: The Separate Worlds of Three South African Women more books like this by Professor Shula Marks (Editor), Daniel J Goulding (Photographer), Lily Patience Moya add to wishlist ..". remarkable... " -- Foreign Affairs ..". illuminates the workings of institutionalized racism through the correspondence of three South African women in the 1940s and '50s." -- Feminist Bookstore News "The history of a place and time is made vivid by the combination of the rich personal record of the letters and the theoretically framed ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.93! \| SVS
21 view cover	Brave Men's Blood: The Epic of the Zulu War, 1879 more books like this by Ian Knight add to wishlist One of the most comprehensive accounts of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War ever published, "Brave Men's Blood" is also the best illustrated. The result of years of research in Britain, South Africa, France, the USA and Australia, it includes 270 contemporary illustrations integrated with text providing a concise history of the Zulu state and the causes of ... see all copies from $3.90! new only from $21.44! \| first editions
22 view cover	For Humanity: Reflections of a War Crimes Investigator more books like this by Richard J Goldstone, Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor (Foreword by) add to wishlist These memoirs by the jurist credited with assisting the peaceful transition of power in post-apartheid South Africa also recall his work as chief prosecutor on the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia. The recurring theme throughout is the search for justice and accountability for crimes against humanity. see all copies from $16.60! new only from $73.36! \| first editions
23 view cover	The harmless people more books like this by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas add to wishlist On the basis of field trips in the 1980s, Thomas has now updated her book to show what happened to the Bushmen as the tide of industrial civilization-with its flotsam of property rights, wage labor, and alcohol-swept over them. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.56! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa more books like this by Adam Roberts add to wishlist Equatorial Guinea is a tiny country roughly the size of Maryland. Humid, jungle covered, and rife with unpleasant diseases, natives call it Devil Island. Its president in 2004, Obiang Nguema, had been accused of everything from cannibalism, belief in witchcraft, mass murder, billion-dollar corruption, and terrorism. With so little to recommend ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	A Concise History of South Africa more books like this by Professor Robert Ross add to wishlist This book provides a succinct synthesis of South African history from the introduction of agriculture about 1500 years ago up to and including the government of Nelson Mandela. Stressing economic, social, cultural and environmental matters as well as political history, it shows how South Africa has become a single country. On the one hand it lays ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.98! \| first editions

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