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  • "Cut from the Same Cloth"

    A Collection of Smith Family Stories 1841 - 2006

    by C.A. Hawkins ...
    Cynthias parents migrated, during the 1940s, moving from Texas to California, shortly after World War II. She was born in 1948, growing up in Berkeley, California. She came from a close-knit, hardworking family. She grew up hearing stories of family members and of times long ago in the lumber mill towns located in East Texas. She writes about the little known, experiences of her relatives who ... Read more

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    How I Gave Up Drinking and Lived

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    Imagine not drinking a bottle of wine before making a pass; not moving in like a starving cat when someone is at the bar; not apologising for something you don't remember doing. Once upon a time, Tania Glyde couldn't imagine living any other way. She wondered whether she had a problem, but so many people drank more and as a clock-watching 6pm-er who hardly ever threw up in public, by general ... Read more

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  • Selected Speeches and Writings of Nelson Mandela: The End of Apartheid in South Africa

    by Lenny Flank ...
    For 30 years, the African National Congress, led by Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela, was the core of opposition to the white supremacist apartheid regime in South Africa. After organizing strikes and founding the armed military wing of the ANC, Mandela spent 27 years in jail before emerging as a worldwide symbol of human freedom. ... Read more

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  • Aman

    The Story of a Somali Girl

    This is the extraordinary first-person account of a young woman's coming of age in Somalia and her struggles against the obligations and strictures of family and society. By the time she is nine, Aman has undergone a ritual circumcision ceremony; at eleven, her innocent romance with a white boy leads to a murder; at thirteen she is given away in an arranged marriage to a stranger. Aman eventually ... Read more

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  • Congo Mercs

    by Ronald Ledwell ...
    Series series Congo Mercs
    The events that capitulated the Congo into prominence in 1960 were many: Congo’s recent independence from Belgium, Congo’s immense mineral wealth, the lack of leadership which plunged the country into civil war, and the harsh treatment by the Belgians of the native population for the proceeding 100 years. The first democratically elected Prime Minister was deposed in a coup shortly after his ... Read more

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  • Becoming Abigail

    A Novella

    by Chris Abani ...
    A breathtaking novella from the award-winning author of Song for Night and GraceLand.—A New York Times Editors' Choice"Moody, lyrical prose reminiscent of Toni Morrison's Beloved . . . Though the fictional Abigail exists only on the pages of Abani's novella, her character will seize the imagination of everyone who reads her story." — Essence Magazine" Becoming Abigail, a spare yet voluptuous tale ... Read more

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  • Crime and Punishment in Upper Canada

    A Researcher's Guide

    by Janice Nickerson ...
    Series Book 5 - Genealogist's Reference Shelf
    Crime and Punishment in Upper Canada provides genealogists and social historians with context and tools to understand the criminal justice system and locate sources on criminal activity and its consequences for the Upper Canada period (17911841) of Ontarios history.Illustrative examples further aid researchers in this era of the provinces past, which is notoriously difficult to investigate due to ... Read more

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  • States and Power in Africa

    Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control - Second Edition

    by Jeffrey Herbst, Jeffrey Herbst ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the interaction of power and space is dramatically different from what occurred in Europe. In States and Power in Africa, Jeffrey Herbst places the African state-building process in a truly comparative perspective. Herbst's bold contention—that the conditions ... Read more

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  • The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa

    by Rene Lemarchand ...
    Series series National and Ethnic Conflict in the 21st Century
    Endowed with natural resources, majestic bodies of fresh water, and a relatively mild climate, the Great Lakes region of Central Africa has also been the site of some of the world's bloodiest atrocities. In Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo-Kinshasa, decades of colonial subjugation—most infamously under Belgium's Leopold II—were followed by decades of civil warfare that spilled into neighboring ... Read more

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  • The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars

    Old Wars and New Wars [Expanded 3rd Edition]

    by Douglas Johnson, Dr Douglas H Johnson ...
    Series Book 38 - African Issues
    Expanded third edition of this key text on the complex underlying conditions of the civil war from the 1960s to the present day, including a new chapter on the current wars in Sudan's new south and South Sudan.Sudan's post-independence history has been dominated by political and civil strife. Most commentators have attributed the country's recurring civil war either to an age-old racial divide ... Read more

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  • Citizenship between Empire and Nation

    Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960

    by Frederick Cooper ...
    A groundbreaking history of the last days of the French empire in AfricaAs the French public debates its present diversity and its colonial past, few remember that between 1946 and 1960 the inhabitants of French colonies possessed the rights of French citizens. Moreover, they did not have to conform to the French civil code that regulated marriage and inheritance. One could, in principle, be a ... Read more

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  • Student Comrade Prisoner Spy

    A memoir

    by Bridget Hilton-Barber ...
    When Bridget Hilton-Barber got on a train to Grahamstown in 1982 to study journalism at Rhodes University, she had no idea of the brutal drama that would unfold.A rebellious young woman, she became politically involved in anti-apartheid organisations and was caught up in the massive resistance and repression sweeping the Eastern Cape at the time. She ended up spending three months in detention ... Read more

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