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The House at Sugar Beach : In Search of a Lost African Childhood by Helene Cooper

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  • ISBN-13: 9780743266253
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  • Pub. Date: July 2009

Helene Cooper is "Congo," a descendant of two Liberian dynasties traced back to the first ship of freemen that set sail from New York in 1820 to found Monrovia. Helene grew ...  More

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This Child Will Be Great : Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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  • ISBN-13: 9780061353475
  • Sales Rank: 12,422
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In January 2006, after the Republic of Liberia had been racked by fourteen years of brutal civil conflict, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf—Africa's "Iron Lady"—was sworn in as ...  More

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Unbowed : A Memoir by Wangari Maathai

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  • Pub. Date: September 2007

In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt ...  More

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When She Was White : The True Story of a Family Divided by Race by Judith Stone

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  • ISBN-13: 9781401309374
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Do They Hear You When You Cry by Fauziya Kassindja, Layli Miller Bashir

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  • ISBN-13: 9780385319942
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  • Pub. Date: January 1999

For Fauziya Kassindja, an idyllic childhood in Togo, West Africa, sheltered from the tribal practices of polygamy and genital mutilation, ended with her beloved father's ...  More

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  • ISBN-13: 9780743579520
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  • Pub. Date: September 2008

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    Aman : The Story of a Somali Girl by Virginia Lee Barnes (As Told to) , Janice Boddy (With) , Virginia Lee Barnes (With) , Janice Boddy (As Told to)

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    • ISBN-13: 9780679762096
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    • Pub. Date: August 1995

    An extraordinary first-person account of a young woman's coming of age in Somalia during the 1950s and 1960s, Aman is an astonishing history, engagingly--and necessarily-- ...  More

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    Alek : From the Streets of the Sudan to the Runways of Milan and New York by Alek Wek

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    • ISBN-13: 9780061568053
    • Pub. Date: November 2007

    Since the day she was scouted by a modeling agent while shopping at a London street fair when she was just nineteen, Alek Wek's life has been nothing short of a fantasy. When ...  More

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    AndIquest : Nos Oyen Cuando Lloramos? by Fauziya Kassindja, Layli Miller Bashir, Jordi Gimenez Samanes (Translator)

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    • ISBN-13: 9788401327544
    • Pub. Date: September 1999

    Esta es la odisea de una joven africana por escapar a la brutal práctica de la mutilación genital femenina, aún una de las tradiciones mas antentatorias ...  More

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