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The Fate of Africa : From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair : a History of Fifty Years of Independence
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. The value of Meredith’s towering history of modern Africa rests not so much in its incisive analysis, or its original insights; it is the sheer readability of the project, combined with a notable lack of pedantry, that makes it one of the decade’s most important works on Africa. Spanning the […]
Slave: A True Account of Modern Slavery
FROM THE PUBLISHER Mende Nazer lost her childhood. It all began one horrific night in 1993, when Arab raiders swept through her Nuba village on horseback. The raiders set fire to the village huts. They murdered the adults by slitting their throats with knives. They rounded up thirty-one young children. Mende was twelve. A slave […]