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Tales from a Muzungu (Peace Corps Writers, 2014) relates a Peace Corps Volunteer's experiences living and working inUganda. Mixing keen observation, s…
Mariana Candido's book An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World. Benguela and its Hinterland (Cambridge University Press, 2013) is a powerful an…
Patrice Lumumba was a leader of the independence struggle, as well as the country's first democratically elected prime minister, in what is today the …
Elizabeth Schmidt's Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror (Cambridge University Press, 2013) depicts the foreign poli…
In her imaginative and scrupulous book, Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa (Ohio Unive…
Olufemi Taiwo's unremittingly honest and daring book, Africa Must be Modern: A Manifesto (Indiana University Press, 2014), confronts the reluctance, i…
Thomas Sankara, often called the African Che Guevara, was president of Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in Africa, until his assassination d…
"Diamonds are forever" or "Blood diamonds"--the one a pithy marketing slogan showing how diamonds encapsulate enduring love and commitment and the oth…