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“dante paradiso”

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  • The Embassy

    A Story of War and Diplomacy

    by Dante Paradiso ...
    A harrowing look into the struggle of liberating a nation from dictatorship.In a distant war, in a city under siege, U.S. Ambassador John W. Blaney faced a terrible choice: abandon the mission, or risk the lives of his team to give diplomacy one last chance. In 2003, Liberia was one of the most dangerous and isolated countries in the world. President Charles Taylor, a feared warlord, presided over ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    On-the-spot Account of the Nigeria-Biafra War in the Atlantic Theatre

    by Godwin Alabi-Isama ...
    The Tragedy of Victory: On-the-Spot Account of the Nigeria-Biafra War in the Atlantic Theatre is a chronological narrative of the war that lasted from July 6, 1967 to January 15, 1970. With about 500 photographs and maps and facts, told with accuracy, the well-organised and efficient Third Marine Commandos, earlier commanded by Col. Benjamin Adekunle (with Lt. Col. G. Alabi-Isama, as the Chief of ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • American Warlord

    A True Story

    by Johnny Dwyer ...
    The incredible true story of Chucky Taylor, the only American ever convicted of torture.Chucky Taylor was an average American teenager, until he got a call from his father, a man who would become the infamous dictator of Liberia. Arriving in West Africa and reunited with his father, Chucky soon found himself leading a murderous militia group tasked with carrying out the president’s vendettas. ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Boko Haram

    Inside Nigeria's Unholy War

    by Mike Smith ...
    An insurgency in Nigeria by the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has left thousands dead, shaken Africa's biggest country and worried the world. Yet it remains a mysterious – almost unknowable – organisation. ˜ rough exhaustive on-the-ground reporting, Mike Smith takes readers inside the con° ict and provides the ÿ rst in-depth account of the violence and unrest. He traces Boko Haram from its ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Republic of Therapy

    Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS

    by Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Arjun Appadurai, Jean L. Comaroff, Judith Farquhar ...
    Series series Body, Commodity, Text
    The Republic of Therapy tells the story of the global response to the HIV epidemic from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa. Drawing on his experiences as a physician and anthropologist in Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire, Vinh-Kim Nguyen focuses on the period between 1994, when effective antiretroviral treatments for HIV were discovered, and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • A Swamp Full of Dollars

    Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria's Oil Frontier

    by Michael Peel ...
    The largest U.S. trading partner in sub-Saharan Africa, petroleum-rich Nigeria exports half its daily oil production to the United States. Like many African nations with natural resources coveted by the world's superpowers, the country has been shaped by foreign investment and intervention, conflicts among hundreds of ethnic and religious groups, and greed. Polio has boomed along with petroleum, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Living the Hiplife

    Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music

    by Jesse Weaver Shipley ...
    Hiplife is a popular music genre in Ghana that mixes hip-hop beatmaking and rap with highlife music, proverbial speech, and Akan storytelling. In the 1990s, young Ghanaian musicians were drawn to hip-hop's dual ethos of black masculine empowerment and capitalist success. They made their underground sound mainstream by infusing carefree bravado with traditional respectful oratory and familiar ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Ghana Reader

    History, Culture, Politics

    Edited by Kwasi Konadu, Clifford C. Campbell ...
    Series series The World Readers
    Covering 500 years of Ghana's history, The Ghana Reader provides a multitude of historical, political, and cultural perspectives on this iconic African nation. Whether discussing the Asante kingdom and the Gold Coast's importance to European commerce and transatlantic slaving, Ghana's brief period under British colonial rule, or the emergence of its modern democracy, the volume's eighty selections ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Liberia: America's Footprint in Africa

    Making the Cultural, Social, and Political Connections

    by Jesse N. Mongrue ...
    The history of Liberia and the United States are closely tied together, but few people have taken the necessary steps to understand the complicated relationship between the two countries.Liberia: Americas Footprint in Africa traces the history of an African nation whose fate is closely tied to an uprising of slaves that began on the island that is now Haiti.The violence there caused people in the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Final Solution to Black People's Problems

    The Call to the Hebrews, #2

    by Mawuli ...
    Series Book 2 - The Call to the Hebrews
    Attention! The secrets about the black race is finally out. You are about to read information about the origins of many black people that will astonish you. You are going to read information on black history you have never heard before. The information you will read on these pages will change your perspective of your heritage as a black person forever. For the first time, you will read Untold ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Monrovia Modern

    Urban Form and Political Imagination in Liberia

    by Danny Hoffman ...
    In Monrovia Modern Danny Hoffman uses the ruins of four iconic modernist buildings in Monrovia, Liberia, as a way to explore the relationship between the built environment and political imagination. Hoffman shows how the E. J. Roye tower and the Hotel Africa luxury resort, as well as the unfinished Ministry of Defense and Liberia Broadcasting System buildings, transformed during the urban warfare ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Legendary Uli Women of Nigeria

    Their Life Stories in Signs, Symbols, and Motifs

    by Ambassador (Dr.) Robin Renee Sanders ...
    Dr. Robin Renee Sanders, having lived in Africa for several years, was always struck by the ancestral, socio-historical and educational aspects of certain African cultural practices, especially languages, artifacts, and sign and symbol systems from the Ovahimba in Namibia and Pygmies in Congo, to the Horom, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, and Fulani of Nigeria. Her experiences on the Continent made her ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD