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  • Beyond Despair

    The Rwanda Genocide against the Tutsi through the Eyes of Children

    de Hélène Dumas ...
    Traducido por Catherine Porter ...
    Series series Thinking from Elsewhere
    Winner, Prix Pierre LafueWinner, Prix lycéen du livre d’histoire des Rendez-vous de l’histoire de BloisIn the archives of the main institution in charge of the history and memory of the genocide in Rwanda, several bundles of fragile little school notebooks contain, in the silence of accumulated dust, the stories of around a hundred surviving children. Written in 2006 at the initiative of a Rwandan ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

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  • We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

    Stories from Rwanda

    de Philip Gourevitch ...
    We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity.This remarkable debut book from Philip Gourevitch chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • Congo

    The Epic History of a People

    de David Van Reybrouck ...
    "A magnificent, epic look at the history of the region. . . . A monumental contribution to the annals of Congo scholarship" ( Christian Science Monitor).The International BestsellerFrom the beginnings of the slave trade through colonization, the struggle for independence, Mobutu's brutal three decades of rule, and the civil war that has raged from 1996 to the present day, Congo: The Epic History ... Leer más

    $18.79 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Africa's World War : Congo, The Rwandan Genocide, And The Making Of A Continental Catastrophe

    de Gerard Prunier ...
    The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly episode laid the groundwork for a sweeping and disastrous upheaval. Prunier vividly describes the grisly aftermath of the ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Order of Genocide

    Race, Power, and War in Rwanda

    de Scott Straus ...
    Winner of the Award for Excellence in Government and Political Science (AAP)The Rwandan genocide has become a touchstone for debates about the causes of mass violence and the responsibilities of the international community. Yet a number of key questions about this tragedy remain unanswered: How did the violence spread from community to community and so rapidly engulf the nation? Why did ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa

    From Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction

    de Robin Philpot ...
    Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali declared to author Robin Philpot that "the Rwandan Genocide was 100 percent American responsiblity." Yet a more official narrative would have it that horrible Hutu génocidaires planned and executed a satanic scheme to eliminate nearly one million Tutsis after the Rwandan presidential plane crashed in the heart of dark Africa on April 6, 1994. Where ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Killing Neighbors

    Webs of Violence in Rwanda

    de Lee Ann Fujii ...
    Killing Neighbors is a fine contribution to the literature on the Rwandan genocide and offers a different kind of explanation for what occurred that accommodates the differentiation in actions among Hutu at the local level. This micro-sociological approach is welcome as community level understandings of the political can be quite different from centralized narratives. It is difficult to imagine a ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Thomas Sankara

    A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa

    de Brian J. Peterson ...
    Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa offers the first complete biography in English of the dynamic revolutionary leader from Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara. Coming to power in 1983, Sankara set his sights on combating social injustice, poverty, and corruption in his country, fighting for women's rights, direct forms of democracy, economic sovereignty, and environmental justice.Drawing ... Leer más

    $26.69 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Congo from Leopold to Kabila

    A People's History

    de Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja ...
    The people of the Congo have suffered from a particularly brutal colonial rule, American interference after independence, decades of robbery at the hands of the dictator Mobutu and periodic warfare which continues even now in the East of the country. But, as this insightful political history makes clear, the Congolese people have not taken these multiple oppressions lying down and have fought over ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Offshore

    Tax Havens and the Rule of Global Crime

    de Alain Deneault ...
    Offshore reveals how the vast network of unregulated financial centers—from Luxemburg to the Cayman islands to the tiny Pacific haven of Nauru— amount to a nether realm of drug and arms trade profits, enormous private accounts, and multinational corporate financial holdings. Delving into the scandals, the financial structure, and the history of this hidden side of globalization, sociologist Alain ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness

    de Wole Soyinka ...
    Series series W.E.B. Du Bois Institute
    When Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka's The Open Sore of a Continent appeared in 1996, it received rave reviews in the national media. Now comes Soyinka's powerful sequel to that fearless and passionate book, The Burden of Memory. Where Open Sore offered a critique of African nationhood and a searing indictment of the Nigerian military and its repression of human and civil rights, The Burden of Memory ... Leer más

    $22.79 USD

  • The Tears of a Man Flow Inward

    Growing Up in the Civil War in Burundi

    de Pacifique Irankunda ...
    A prizewinning young author tells the moving story of growing up during Burundi’s ethnic civil war in this powerful memoir hailed as “a jewel of a book” (Margaret MacMillan).“There’s nothing like a great love song, and Pacifique Irankunda sings a beautiful one here to his homeland and to all those who choose love even in the bleakest of times.”—Imbolo Mbue, author of Behold the Dreamers and How ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

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