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1	Nervous Conditions more books like this by Tsitsi Dangarembga Tsitsi Dangarembga add to wishlist This stunning first novel, set in colonial Rhodesia during the 1960s, centers on the coming of age of a teenage girl, Tambu, and her relationship with her British-educated cousin Nyasha. Tambu, who yearns to be free of the constraints of her rural village, especially the circumscribed lives of the women, thinks her dreams have come true when her ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.70!
2	Men of Men more books like this by Wilbur Smith add to wishlist A thriller set in the age of empire, battle and conquest, about a man whose dream begins in the danger and drudgery of the diamond pits and ends on the rich grasslands of Matabeleland, but not before a king and proud warrior nation have paid the price of history. From the author of THE SEVENTH SCROLL. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.06! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Angels Weep more books like this by Wilbur Smith add to wishlist An adventurer and his missionary sister establish a legacy that will dominate part of a continent for decades to come, and a soldier meets his destiny in a battle that will forever scar two opposing races, in this novel set in southern Africa. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.83! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Leopard Hunts in Darkness more books like this by Wilbur Smith add to wishlist Craig Mellow, acclaimed author but unhappy exile, seizes the chance to return to Zimbabwe when he is given a spying mission for the World Bank. Accompanied by a beautiful photographer, he finds himself caught up in a dangerous political web. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa more books like this by Peter Godwin add to wishlist In 1964, when Peter Godwin was five, he experienced the end of white rule in Africa through the death of his neighbor, murdered by guerillas. This is the story of his growing-up years in chaotic Zimbabwe. The son of a country doctor and an engineer, he became a soldier fighting in a civil war, then a journalist who returned home to cover the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Ear, the eye and the arm more books like this by Nancy Farmer add to wishlist This futuristic tale, which is set in Zimbabwe in the year 2194, centers on Tendai (age 13), Rita (age 11), and Kuda (age 4), the children of the very strict General Matsika. One day, tired of living within the confines of their father's rules, they sneak out of the house, and are promptly, kidnapped. Determined to get them back home, General ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa more books like this by Peter Godwin add to wishlist A brilliant memoir about a son's return to Africa to uncover the secrets of his family and his home. Bearing witness to Zimbabwe's dramatic spiral downwards, Godwin discovers why Africa was his father's sanctuary from another identity and why his family chose to stay amidst the chaos. see all copies from $2.57! new only from $4.37! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter more books like this by J Nozipo Maraire add to wishlist An epistolary novel, from the middle-aged Shiri in Zimbabwe to her daughter Zenzele at Harvard. Shiri grew up in the countryside, where life was hard work, traditional, and where amenities were few. She became a nurse, married a lawyer, and now lives in a large house with servants, travels to other countries, and sends her children to private ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Falcon Flies more books like this by Smith add to wishlist Set on a trader on the South Atlantic, on the fever-ridden shores of the Indian Ocean and in the Eden of the unexplored interior of Africa this wide-sweeping novel describes the Ballantyne family's first conquest of the untamed land of Africa. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.65! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Alfred and Emily more books like this by Doris May Lessing add to wishlist Nobel Laureate Lessing offers a moving meditation on parents and children, war and memory, and she explores the lives of her parents, two individuals irrevocably damaged by the Great War, in this work that combines fiction and memoir. Photos throughout. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	Flight of the Falcon more books like this by Wilbur Smith add to wishlist He is the rover, the lawless trader. She is the healer, bringing the word of God to the exotic tribes of Africa. Robyn Ballantyne and Mungo St. John will battle with all the fury of two natural enemies. They will love with all the desperation of a woman and a man unable to evade the commands of fate. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $80.20! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Grass Is Singing more books like this by Doris May Lessing add to wishlist Mary Turner, a white woman married to a white farmer in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), is both afraid of and attracted to Moses, a black farmhand. Issues of prejudice, and what was known as "the colour bar", provide the backdrop for this novel of a woman's gradual disintegration and violent death. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Girl Who Married a Lion and Other Tales from Africa more books like this by Alexander McCall Smith add to wishlist Alexander McCall Smith was born in what is now Zimbabwe and grew up hearing stories that so enchanted him, he passed them along to his own children. He now shares them in this jewel of a book. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Rainbow's End: A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm more books like this by Lauren St John add to wishlist Set against the backdrop of the Rhodesian civil war, St. John's memoir of growing up on a farm and game preserve in the 1970s deftly conjures up the smells and sounds of the African bush and the era's climate of unashamed racism and feverish patriotism. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| 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	An Elegy for Easterly: Stories more books like this by Petina Gappah add to wishlist In her spirited debut collection, author Gappah portrays the resilience and inventiveness of the Zimbabwean people who struggle with issues common to people everywhere: failed promises, unfulfilled dreams, and the yearning for something to anchor them to life. see all copies from $10.05! new only from $11.50! \| SVS
17 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
18 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
19 view cover	Blind Eye: The Terrifying True Story of a Doctor Who Got Away with Murder more books like this by Prof. James Brewer Stewart add to wishlist Shows how an apparently respectable young doctor murdered patients and poisoned co-workers while being consistently protected by an oblivious and dangerously secretive medical establishment. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.96! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Martha Quest more books like this by Doris Lessing add to wishlist The first in Lessings' Children of Violence series, MARTHA QUEST introduces Martha at age 15, chafing at the restraints of her bourgeois home and domineering mother. As soon as she is able, Martha leaves her rural home for the city, where she joins a political left-wing group, has her first sexual experience, and meets and marries her husband. In ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Where Are You Going Manyoni? more books like this by Catherine Stock add to wishlist Can you find Manyoni as she walks past the baobab tree, across the fever tree pan, and over the krantz above the dam? And can you spot the wild animals--an illustrated glossary will help you discover each one. The musical words and spectacular watercolor paintings help youngsters share Manyoni's morning walk. see all copies from $4.82! new only from $10.76! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Butterfly Burning more books like this by Yvonne Vera add to wishlist A celebrated Zimbabwean writer sets this tale in the late 1940s, in the black township of Makokoba. Fumbatha and Phephelaphi fall in love, but when she wants more for herself than he does, their passion for each other is threatened. see all copies from $4.98! new only from $4.98! \| first editions \| SVS
23	Spirits in Stone: The New Face of African Art more books like this by Robert Holmes (Photographer), Laura Ponter, Anthony Ponter add to wishlist see all copies from $2.60! new only from $49.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	House of Stone: The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe more books like this by Christina Lamb add to wishlist Through the parallel accounts of two people in Zimbabwe--one a poor black maid, one a rich white farmer--British journalist Lamb tells the compelling story of a country ravaged first by colonial settlers and now by brutal civil war. Based on interviews with Aqui and Nigel over many years, including 12 undercover trips since 2002, Lamb recounts the ... see all copies from $2.35! new only from $8.79! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Four Gated City more books like this by Doris May Lessing add to wishlist The fifth book in the "Children of Violence" series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa through to old age in a post-nuclear Britain. The other books are "Martha Quest", "A Proper Marriage", "A Ripple from the Storm" and "Landlocked". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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