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North Africa has been a vital crossroads throughout history, serving as a connection between Africa, Asia, and... more

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In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast... more

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  King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

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  • Posted:Oct-12-2009

  • Great Book On Colonialisn. A Must Read!
  • Almost all of us have forgotten that what we are taught in school is very censored and sterilized. The heroes are chosen not for what they did but for what our leaders would like us to see and...
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  • Posted:Jul-17-2009

  • Liberal bias ruined this for me
  • When I began reading this, I detected a leftist bias and lack of scholarship. I checked the authors bio when I got fed up with his slant and assumptions and I wasn't surprised to see that he is a...
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  • Posted:Sep-17-2005

  • less then perfect
  • The importance of this book is in illuminating a less known saga from the colonial past of Belgium and of Europeans in Africa in general. I learned some new things about these unfortunate events....
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A pulse-pounding real-life chase for an ancient masterpiece of immeasurable value . . . Sotheby's. New York City.... more

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  The Lost Chalice: The Epic Hunt for a Priceless Masterpiece

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  • Posted:Jul-24-2009

  • Interesting detailed account of past and current intl antiquities market
  • Though this book is ostensibly the tale of one ancient Greek chalice, it presents a broad look at the looting and sale of ancient artifacts. In following a small painted kylix around the world, we...
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  • A tangled web spun over 35 years fascinatingly unraveled in 300 pages!
  • I thouroughly enjoyed THE LOST CHALICE by Vernon Silver. Never heard of Euphronios or his vases before, but now I know all about him!
    
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Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life-and death-in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding... more

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  Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (California Series in...

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  • Posted:Sep-23-2008

  • This book should change you
  • How are we all responsible for each other? This book will bring that connection quite clear.
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  • Posted:Mar-22-2008

  • Admire Paul Farmer, but not necessarily his book; read Kidder instead
  • Paul Farmer has long been famous, I take it, within the medical community as a brave lifesaver in some of the world's most destitute places. He's lived in Haiti for 20-some years, tending to the...
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  • Posted:Jan-15-2005

  • Great doctor, bad book. A moral clarity - the Structural Violence of Abortion.
  • Pathologies of power describes a world in which the United States (except for Harvard) can do no right and Cuba can do no wrong. Even Cuba's early HIV policy of isolating it's HIV positive citizens...
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A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one... more

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  The Wretched of the Earth

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  • Posted:Aug-16-2009

  • Do you want to be free? Read Fanon's Wretched of the Earth.
  • Native Americans, Indians, that is, should be required to know this book. Modern post-colonial Africa is not a desirable goal, but it was shaped partly by Fanon. I'm sure that modern Africa was...
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  • Posted:Jun-08-2009

  • Frantz Fanon was buried by history
  • About twenty years ago, I read this trash-book, here in Brazil.Frantz Fanon (1925-61) was a french( Martinique-born), black and anticolonialist intellectual.This book, The Wretched of the Earth, is...
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  • Posted:Aug-23-2003

  • Lessons from an era gone about our own dangerous future
  • Fanon lays bare the day to day interactions of the oppressed and the oppressor,
    reveiling the tragic symptoms and by-products of colonialism, such as the
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The Forest People -- Colin M. Turnbull's best-selling, classic work -- describes the author's experiences while... more

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  The Forest People (Touchstone Book)

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  • Enchanting
  • Welcome to the magical world of the forest Pygmies.
    An almost seemingly fictitious land filled with peaceful, contented people. Well written. Not technical.
    
    During the mid 1950's...
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  • Posted:Nov-01-2005

  • Anthropologists get punked
  • I can only agree with the "common humanity" sentiments expressed- especially that feature of humans leading them to take the piss out of newcomers.
    Turbull utterly uncritically accepts what he...
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  • Posted:Oct-14-2003

  • A good story with a few flaws
  • I really liked this book. I had to read it for class, but i would recomend it to anyone. It was quick and easy to read. It was a good and sympathetic portrayal of these hunter gatherer peoples and...
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.In April 1994, the Rwandan government called upon... more

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  We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

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  • Posted:Sep-23-2009

  • Ominous Title, Important Subject, Excellent Book
  • You will have a remarkably better understanding of the Rwandan genocide after you read this book. Gourevitch has done humanity a great service with this fine piece of investigative journalism....
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  • Posted:May-09-2008

  • Average, loses momentum
  • I purchased and read this book last year, as I have studied the subject on this one quite extensively.
    This book gets off to a good start, but loses interest as the book progresses.
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Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and... more

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  Black Skin, White Masks

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  • Posted:May-31-2009

  • It's up to you
  • I am not going to summarize or highlight this book. I say this because it is important that you read this book on your own terms and interpret Fanon's theories in your way and time. If you are even...
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For the first time in the United States comes the tragic and profoundly important story of the legendary Canadian... more

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  Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

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  • Posted:May-07-2009

  • Should have been better
  • This is a tragic story that needed to be told. Unfortunately, Dallaire should have used a ghost writer or someone like Mark Bowden to tell it. This reads just like a diary and is so burdened with...
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  • Posted:Apr-24-2009

  • Great book
  • This is one of the best books I have read in a long time. I think Dallaire's writing style is under-rated and perhaps un-appreciated. The bulk of the account of his time in Rwanda is written in a...
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  • Posted:Jul-16-2007

  • An important book that could have used a good editor.
  • I agree with some of the negative comments about this book. It's an important book, but a good editor should have pared away a fair amount of the "today I had a meeting with..." and other items...
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Fifty years ago, as Europe's colonial powers withdrew, Africa moved with enormous hope and fervor toward democracy... more

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  The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence

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  • Posted:Sep-12-2009

  • Incredible book - very well written and informative
  • I lived in Angola for over a year and was able to travel the continent. Would have been better to have read this book prior to being there. Incredibly useful book. Should be required reading for...
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  • Posted:Jul-03-2009

  • Explains nothing.
  • The blurb from Publishers Weekly on the back of the book has it right: this is but a digest of Africa's woes - it describes everything and explains nothing. I was hoping for an explanation of why...
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  • Posted:Mar-06-2009

  • Coups, Crises & Catastrophes?
  • The 3 Cs dominate reportage on Africa, and that's mostly what we find here. This long book reflects an internalist view: Africans, especially leaders, are to blame for Africa's problems; external...
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White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 more

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  Scramble for Africa...

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  • Posted:Apr-24-2009

  • Excellent; reading it for the third time...
  • This really is a great book. No matter where you are in the book, you can go back to the title page of each chapter and get the exact dates that the chapter is covering.
    
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  • Deceiving
  • If you believe Britain made what Africa is today than this is the book for you. Pakenham portrays the scramble for Africa as a two-player game between Britain and France, with little attention...
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This classic, bestselling study of the !Kung San, foragers of the Dobe area of the Kalahari Desert describes a... more

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  The Dobe Ju/'Hoansi (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology) (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)

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  • An Anthropological Staple
  • In "The Dobe Ju/'Hoansi", anthropologist Richard Lee has created an anthropological classic case study. Writing directly about the people of the Kalahari region, he gives us isights into the...
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The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth... more

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  A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 (New York Review Books Classics)

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  • A Solid History of the Franco-Algerian Conflict
  • Alistair Horne's book "A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962" is an exhaustively detailed account of the Algerian war for independence against France in the mid-twentieth century. Horne brings...
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  • Thoroughly Researched But Hopelessly Biased
  • Alistair Horne does a marvelous job of research in this tale of the Algerian War. His command of names and events is, in my opinion, without parallel on this subject. Where he comes up short...
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  • Posted:Dec-04-2007

  • Comparing Apples to Oranges
  • The claims by the author and other reviewers that this book is revelant to todays happenings in Iraq and elsewhere appears to be a shameless attempt by the publishers to squeeze more earnings out...
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In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first... more

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  The Shadow of the Sun

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  • Highly Disturbing Portrait of Sub-Sahara Africa
  • The journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski provides three broad types of reporting in THE SHADOW OF THE SUN. In general, these examine civil and social dysfunction in sub-Sahara Africa, the mentality of...
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  • Too long in the mid-day Sun
  • Ryszard Kapuscinski has vast experience in Africa from Rwanda and Tanzania in the East to Nigeria and Liberia in the West. He travelled the unbeaten paths and stayed away from the Hotels, Embassy...
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  • Not the best
  • I think I have read all the books writen by Kapuscinski and this particular one is weak. It seems that the author just took some of the notes that he wrote during his visits to Africa and...
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The acclaimed New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down is "a shocking account of modern warfare . . . gripping and... more

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  Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

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  • Bowden Demonstrates Masterful Writing
  • Bowden has written a masterful account of the Black Hawk Down tragedy which became a famous Tony Scott movie. The scene is grim: Mogadishu under the warlords with an inept, incompetent United...
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  • BlackHawk Down was a great book. The reason i thInk this is because it was writen in a way that it put you in the action, it made me feel like i was there in the middle of a war.
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  • Black Hawk Down: A story of Modern War
  • I thought that Black Hawk Down was a good book. It was kind of boring at the beginning, but after about 70 pages into the book it really picks up. There was alot of action in it. It also made you...
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The famously taciturn South African president reveals much of himself in Long Walk to Freedom. A good deal of this... more

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  Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela : With Connections (HRW library)

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  • Long Read to Freedom
  • One of the most compelling stories of our age. A political prisoner for over half his adult life changes the world and becomes president. Mandela (the man) gets five stars, no question. In my mind,...
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  • Good Guy, Bad Book
  • Ya, sure Mandela is a great person, a personification of a accumulation of moral and ethical supremeness, but lets face it, this book sucks. I had to read this for a high school english class, and...
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  • The Struggle of One Man Can Change a Nation
  • Long Walk to Freedom is an experience to be remembered. Although the book is an autobiography, the details are exquisite. It is apparent that Mandela wrote this book not to boast over a life of...
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After a lifetime?s close observation of the continent, one of the world?s finest Africa correspondents has penned a... more

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  Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles

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  • Sweeping coverage of Africa with an eye to history
  • This extraordinary 500+ page book is a tremendous work of journalism by the Africa specialist for The Economist, the newsmagazine. Dowden's adult life began as a teacher in Uganda, and we relive...
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  • Poorly edited, Raises Questions but no answers
  • I agree with previous reviewer--this book is full of grammatical and other errors, which detracts from its message. It also only covers sub-Saharan Africa. The Fate of Africa: from the Hopes of...
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This is a revision of Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali,? a best seller for 30 years.? Retold by griots, the guardians of... more

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  The Birds of East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi (Princeton Field Guides)

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  • Field Guide
  • I purchased this book for an upcoming birding trip to Africa. The plates are very well done and it will be very helpful as a birding field guide. From a personal standpoint, I like to have a book...
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  • Good for identifying birds, but not learning about them
  • For identifying birds, this is probably THE book for East African birds. It has pictures of both male and female, juvenile and mature specimens of each species. Moreover, it is very comprehensive...
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  • Birds of East Africa (Princeton FieldGuides)
  • For the SECOND time Amazon sent me the incorrect addition of this book!! What is advertised vs what was shipped is unacceptable!! They shipped an old copyright instead of the newest!! I'm very...
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