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  • Why Comrades Go to War: Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa's Deadliest Conflict by Roessler, Philip
    Philip Roessler

    Why Comrades Go to War: Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa's Deadliest Conflict

    In October 1996, a motley crew of ageing Marxists and unemployed youth coalesced to revolt against Mobutu Seso Seko, president of Zaire/Congo since 1965. The rebels of the AFDL marched over 1500km in seven months to crush the dictatorship, heralding liberation as a second...
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  • A Short History of Modern Angola by Birmingham, David
    David Birmingham

    A Short History of Modern Angola

    This history by celebrated Africanist David Birmingham begins in 1820 with the Portuguese attempt to create a third, African, empire after the virtual loss of Asia and America. In the nineteenth century the most valuable resource extracted from Angola was agricultural labor, first as...
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  • The Pygmies Were Our Compass: Bantu and Batwa in the History of West Central Africa, Early Times to C. 1900 C.E. by Klieman, Kairn A.
    Kairn A. Klieman

    The Pygmies Were Our Compass: Bantu and Batwa in the History of West Central Africa, Early Times to C. 1900 C.E.

    Covering more than 2,000 years this important region's history, this book is a groundbreaking contribution to the knowledge of pre-colonial Africa. Covering more than 2,000 years this important region's history, this book is a groundbreaking contribution to the knowledge of pre-colonial Africa. It is...
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  • Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer and the African Adventure That Took the Victorian World by Storm by Reel, Monte
    Monte Reel

    Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World by Storm

    In 1856, Paul Du Chaillu ventured into the African jungle in search of a mythic beast, the gorilla. After wild encounters with vicious cannibals, deadly snakes, and tribal kings, Du Chaillu emerged with 20 preserved gorilla skins--two of which were stuffed and brought on...
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  • Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure by Jeal, Tim
    Tim Jeal

    Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure

    From the best-selling author of Stanley, a riveting account of the explorers who risked everything in their search for the source of the Nile Nothing obsessed explorers of the mid-nineteenth century more than the quest to discover the source of the White Nile. It...
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  • Paths in the Rainforests: Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa by Vansina, Jan M.
    Jan M. Vansina

    Paths in the Rainforests: Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa

    Vansina's scope is breathtaking: he reconstructs the history of the forest lands that cover all or part of southern Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, the Congo, Zaire, the Central African Republic, and Cabinda in Angola, discussing the original settlement of the forest by the western...
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  • Ismailïa: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade Organized by Ismail, Khedive of by Baker, Samuel White
    Samuel White Baker

    Ismail?: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade Organized by Ismail, Khedive of

    Sir Samuel White Baker (1821-1893) was a traveller and explorer. This two-volume work of 1874 is his account of a military expedition under Ismail Pasha (Ismail the Magnificent, 1830-1895), Khedive of Egypt, to suppress the slave-trade of central Africa between 1869 and 1873. Having...
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  • With C. T. Studd In Congo Forests by Grubb, Norman P.
    Norman P. Grubb

    With C. T. Studd In Congo Forests

    ""With C. T. Studd In Congo Forests"" is a book written by Norman P. Grubb about the life and adventures of Charles Thomas Studd, a British missionary who dedicated his life to spreading the Christian faith in the Congo forests. The book provides a...
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  • Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley by Berns, Marla C.
    Marla C. Berns

    Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley

    Winner of the Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award from the Arts Council of the African Studies AssociationThe Benue River Valley is the source of some of the most abstract, dramatic, and inventive sculpture in sub-Saharan Africa. A vast region, the Valley extends from the...
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  • Porcupine in a Python's Throat: The Ambazonia Story in West Central Africa by Achankeng, Fonkem
    Fonkem Achankeng

    Porcupine in a Python's Throat: The Ambazonia Story in West Central Africa

    Through narrating the politics and everyday life in ex-British Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia), Porcupine in a Python's Throatmakes an invaluable contribution to understanding the choices and constraints facing both Southern Cameroons' (Ambazonia) people, and the people of Republique du Cameroun. The volume illustrates how the...
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  • The Case For Biafra Restoration by Ukwuoma, Obi
    Obi Ukwuoma

    The Case For Biafra Restoration

    The massacre of Igbos/Biafrans across the Northern Nigeria started way back in 1945 in Jos, where more than 150 Igbos/Biafrans were brutally slaughtered for no reason. That is about thirty-one years after the fraudulent amalgamation of Islamic north and Christian south by the British....
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  • Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon by Mougoué, Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta
    Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué

    Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon

    Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon illuminates how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first decade of independence in Cameroon, a west-central African country. Drawing upon history, political science, gender studies, and feminist epistemologies, the book...
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  • Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by Du Bois, W. E. B.
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil

    "Between the sterner flights of logic, I have sought to set some little alightings of what may be poetry. They are tributes to Beauty, unworthy to stand alone; yet perversely, in my mind, now at the end, I know not whether I mean the...
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  • Africa: Endurance and Change South of the Sahara by Coquery-Vidrovitch, Catherine
    Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch

    Africa: Endurance and Change South of the Sahara

    This masterful synthesis explains how Africa has come to be a land torn by incessant conflict among its impoverished peoples and countries, a continent living through the gravest social revolution of its history, experiencing the world's fastest demographic growth. Weaving together four major themes--population,...
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  • The Great African War by Reyntjens, Filip
    Filip Reyntjens

    The Great African War

    This book examines a decade-long period of instability, violence and state decay in Central Africa from 1996, when the war started, to 2006, when elections formally ended the political transition in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A unique combination of circumstances explain the unravelling...
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  • Ethnicity Kills?: The Politics of War, Peace and Ethnicity in Sub-Saharan Africa by Braathen, E.
    E. Braathen

    Ethnicity Kills?: The Politics of War, Peace and Ethnicity in Sub-Saharan Africa

    The book examines, among other issues, the emergence of civil war as a result of political struggles. The construction of Africa as the 'other' has meant that factors commonly used to explain war elsewhere have been neglected in SubSaharan Africa. The political power struggle...
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  • The Rebels' Hour by Joris, Lieve
    Lieve Joris

    The Rebels' Hour

    Lieve Joris has long been considered "one of the best journalists in the world" (Lib馥acute;ration, France) and in The Rebels' Hour she illuminates the dark heart of contemporary Congo through the prism of one lonely, complicated man--a rebel leader named Assani who becomes a...
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  • Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo: Vol I by Caillié, René
    René Caillié

    Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo: Vol I

    In the early decades of the nineteenth century European interest in Africa was reaching its height. Places such as Timbuctoo, seemingly as remote as the moon, were seen as vital links in the establishment of new trade routes to the African interior. In 1822...
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  • Ugandan Society Observed by O'Connor, Kevin
    Kevin O'Connor

    Ugandan Society Observed

    Kevin O'Connor is an acclaimed newspaper columnist in Uganda. His column, "The Roving Eye", first appeared in 1994 in Sunday Vision and continues in Sunday Monitor. His philosophy is that "for the observer of human behaviour, every scene has its interest". Thoughtful, provocative and...
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  • Congo Style: From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence by Sacks, Ruth
    Ruth Sacks

    Congo Style: From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence

    Congo Style presents a postcolonial approach to discussing the visual culture of two now-notorious regimes: King Leopold II's Congo Colony and the state sites of Mobutu Sese Seko's totalitarian Za?e. Readers are brought into the living remains of sites once made up of ambitious...
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  • The Fall of the Congo Arabs by Hinde, Sidney Langford
    Sidney Langford Hinde

    The Fall of the Congo Arabs

    The Fall of the Congo Arabs is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a...
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  • Betrayal of Too Trusting a People. The UN, the UK and the Trust Territory of the Southern Cameroons by Anyangwe, Carlson
    Carlson Anyangwe

    Betrayal of Too Trusting a People. The UN, the UK and the Trust Territory of the Southern Cameroons

    There is a growing body of literature on what was originally envisioned as a free political association of the French and British Cameroons and its dramatic effects on the 'British Cameroons' community. Anyangwe's new book is an attempt to write the history of the...
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  • American Imperialist: Cruelty and Consequence in the Scramble for Africa by Mohun, Arwen P.
    Arwen P. Mohun

    American Imperialist: Cruelty and Consequence in the Scramble for Africa

    This biography of "African explorer" Richard Dorsey Mohun, written by one of his descendants, reveals how American greed and state power helped shape the new imperial order in Africa. Richard Dorsey Mohun spent his career circulating among the eastern United States, the cities and...
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  • South Sudan: A Slow Liberation by Thomas, Edward
    Edward Thomas

    South Sudan: A Slow Liberation

    In 2011, South Sudan became independent following a long war of liberation, that gradually became marked by looting, raids and massacres pitting ethnic communities against each other. In this remarkably comprehensive work, Edward Thomas provides a multi-layered examination of what is happening in the...
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  • The First Sultan of Zanzibar: Scrambling for Power and Trade in the Nineteenth-Century Indian Ocean by Nicolini, Beatrice
    Beatrice Nicolini

    The First Sultan of Zanzibar: Scrambling for Power and Trade in the Nineteenth-Century Indian Ocean

    The Indian Ocean was long one of the world's most important trade zones, controlled by Arab and Indian merchants. But in the 19th century, the British-French rivalry spilled over into the Indian Ocean. Pirates looted, adventurers sought their fortunes, and Italian spies and American...
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  • Vietnam War: Defining Moment for America - Remembrances and Reflections of an Army Intelligence Officer by Dileonardo, Joseph
    Joseph Dileonardo

    Vietnam War: Defining Moment for America - Remembrances and Reflections of an Army Intelligence Officer

    Former Army Captain, Joseph W. DiLeonardo takes us on a personal journey that spans a century. You are introduced to his family and follow their lives from Italy and the "dust bowl" of Kansas to Sunnyvale, California, where Joseph and his siblings were born...
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  • African History & Hoodoo: Connect to The Ancient Spirit of Africa and Explore The Timeline, Culture, Roots, Spells, & More From The World's Rich by Brought Alive, History
    History Brought Alive

    African History & Hoodoo: Connect to The Ancient Spirit of Africa and Explore The Timeline, Culture, Roots, Spells, & More From The World's Rich

    Explore The World of African History, Mythology & Hoodoo Journey through centuries of fascinating figures, kingdoms and events that have shaped Africa and learn all about the mystical world of HoodooIncluded in this Captivating 2 Book Collection are: African History: Explore The Amazing Timeline...
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  • Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability Volume 6 by Doherty, Jacob
    Jacob Doherty

    Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability Volume 6

    Uganda's capital, Kampala, is undergoing dramatic urban transformations as its new technocratic government seeks to clean and green the city. Waste Worlds tracks the dynamics of development and disposability unfolding amid struggles over who and what belong in the new Kampala. Garbage materializes these...
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  • The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa: Fighting Their Way Home by Kennes, Erik
    Erik Kennes

    The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa: Fighting Their Way Home

    Erik Kennes and Miles Larmer provide a history of the Katangese gendarmes and their largely undocumented role in many of the most important political and military conflicts in Central Africa. Katanga, located in today's Democratic Republic of Congo, seceded in 1960 as Congo achieved...
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  • Tropical Cowboys: Westerns, Violence, and Masculinity in Kinshasa by Gondola, Ch Didier
    Ch Didier Gondola

    Tropical Cowboys: Westerns, Violence, and Masculinity in Kinshasa

    During the 1950s and 60s in the Congo city of Kinshasa, there emerged young urban male gangs known as "Bills" or "Yankees." Modeling themselves on the images of the iconic American cowboy from Hollywood film, the "Bills" sought to negotiate lives lived under oppressive...
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  • African Geopolitics by Hugon, Philippe
    Philippe Hugon

    African Geopolitics

    For over a thousand years, foreign powers, including the Arabs, Portuguese, Spanish, British, French, and now Chinese, interfered in African affairs to pursue economic and political gains. In a similar way, African rulers exploited this foreign presence for their own ends. Foreigners came in...
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  • The fall of the Congo Arabs by Hinde, Sidney Langford
    Sidney Langford Hinde

    The fall of the Congo Arabs

    This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks...
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  • The Fall of the Congo Arabs by Hinde, Sidney Langford
    Sidney Langford Hinde

    The Fall of the Congo Arabs

    A first-person account of the two-year-long combined European military campaign in central Africa aimed at removing the Arab Muslim slave-trading empire and potential Khalifa that was developing in that region. The author, a British military veteran, served as an important commander of the European-led...
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  • Revolutionary Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Untold Story by Zeilig, Leo
    Leo Zeilig

    Revolutionary Movements in Africa: An Untold Story

    While the revolutionary leftist movements of the 1960s and '70s in Europe, the United States and Latin America have been the subject of abundant literature, similar movements that emerged in Africa have received comparatively very little attention. This book sheds new light on these...
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  • The Rwanda Poems: Voices and Visions from the Genocide by Kaufman, Andrew
    Andrew Kaufman

    The Rwanda Poems: Voices and Visions from the Genocide

    The only book of poetry to date devoted to the Rwanda genocide and published in this country, this is a work of nonfictional poetry, a cousin in genre to the nonfictional novel. It is based not only on the poet's observations and encounters during...
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  • Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers: The Duala and Their Hinterland, C.1600-C.1960 by Austen, Ralph A.
    Ralph A. Austen

    Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers

    This book is about the Duala "middlemen," who functioned as intermediaries between Europeans and their own hinterland for over three hundred years. Originally traders in ivory, slaves and palm products, they then became colonial-era cocoa planters, and finally took a leading role in anti-colonial...
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  • Grasp the Shield Firmly the Journey is Hard. A History of Luo and Bantu migrations to North Mara, (Tanzania) 1850-1950 by Siso, Zedekia Oloo
    Zedekia Oloo Siso

    Grasp the Shield Firmly the Journey is Hard. A History of Luo and Bantu migrations to North Mara, (Tanzania) 1850-1950

    This book is a compilation of oral histories about the movement of Luo and some Bantu-speaking peoples. It includes histories of many clans or ethnic groups, and how drought, warfare, disease, and competition over pastoral resources in western Kenya forced them to look for...
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  • Cameroon Political Story. Memories of an Authentic Eye Witness by Mbile, Nerius Namaso
    Nerius Namaso Mbile

    Cameroon Political Story. Memories of an Authentic Eye Witness

    The Cameroon Political Story is a long journey through the eyes and actions of the author himself. It is a mix between Mbile's memoirs, a bit of his biography and the Cameroon political story, heavily weighted in favour of that part of the Republic...
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  • Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda by Longman, Timothy
    Timothy Longman

    Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda

    Although Rwanda is among the most Christian countries in Africa, in the 1994 genocide, church buildings became the primary killing grounds. To explain why so many Christians participated in the violence, this book looks at the history of Christian engagement in Rwanda and then...
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  • An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Iron-Smelting Practices among the Pangwa and Fipa in Tanzania by Barndon, Randi
    Randi Barndon

    An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Iron-Smelting Practices among the Pangwa and Fipa in Tanzania

    Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 61This work is a comparative study of iron smelting practices among the Pangwa and Fipa peoples of Tanzania. The author discusses local concepts of metallurgy by step-by-step observations of the processes involved. Included is a description of the technology...
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  • To Catch a Dictator: The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré by Brody, Reed
    Reed Brody

    To Catch a Dictator: The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré

    What does it take to make a dictator answer for his crimes? Hissène Habré, the former despot of Chad, had terrorized, tortured, and killed on a horrific scale over eight bloody years in power--all while enjoying full American and Western support. After Habré's overthrow,...
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  • The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Reid, Stuart A.
    Stuart A. Reid

    The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination

    The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller--about the U.S.-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent Congo A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New...
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  • My Days of Sorrow and Joy in Rwanda by Kain, Betsy
    Betsy Kain

    My Days of Sorrow and Joy in Rwanda

    My Days of Sorrow and Joy in Rwanda recounts the experiences of clinical social worker Betsy Kain as she treated traumatized survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and was overwhelmed with sadness at their sufferings. But watching their recovery and helping to raise...
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  • Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad by Wrong, Michela
    Michela Wrong

    Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad

    A powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do Not Disturb upends the narrative that Rwanda sold the world after one of the deadliest genocides of the twentieth century. We think we know the story of Africa's Great...
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  • Life on the Congo by Holman Bentley, W.
    W. Holman Bentley

    Life on the Congo

    Life on the Congo, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised,...
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  • White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa by Williams, Susan
    Susan Williams

    White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa

    A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US. In 1958 in Accra, Ghana, the Hands Off Africa conference brought together the leading figures of African independence in a public show of political strength...
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  • Angola in the Black Cultural Expressions of Brazil by Kubik, Gerhard
    Gerhard Kubik

    Angola in the Black Cultural Expressions of Brazil

    The transplantation of African musical cultures to the Americas was a multi-track and multi-time process. In the past many historical studies of African diaspora music, dance and other aspects of expressive culture concentrated on events in the Americas. What happened before the American trauma...
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  • Mythos: The Prescient Kings by Todd, D. Baxter
    D. Baxter Todd

    Mythos: The Prescient Kings

    Before history became legend and legend became myth, the oral traditions of what is presently referred to as "Pre-History" were maintained for thousands of years, preserved and handed down throughout the generations since the dawn of the "Age of Man". Throughout the ages, through...
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  • Five Years with the Congo Cannibals by Ward, Herbert
    Herbert Ward

    Five Years with the Congo Cannibals

    The dramatic first-hand account of the establishment of the Congo Free State, a private colony set up under King Leopold of Belgium to stamp out the Arab slave trade in central Africa, written by a participant in the wars and adventures of the 1890s...
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  • Can't Let Go by Tshibangu, M. D. Raphael
    M. D. Raphael Tshibangu

    Can't Let Go

    Can't Let Go is much more than a tale of rags to riches or the recounting of an immigrant's trials and tribulations. It is not just another rendition of the struggles of belonging-as a newcomer in an unfamiliar land or as a stranger in...
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