History - Africa - East
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Slow Poison: IDI Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan StateA leading public intellectual gives his authoritative and personal account of the tragic postcolonial fate of Uganda, his homeland. In 1972, when Mahmood Mamdani came home to Uganda, he found a country transformed by "an orgy of violence." Two years earlier, with support from...
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Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur"[Halima Bashir's] mesmerizing tale of against-all-odds endurance is a piercing lament--and a clear-eyed call to action."--Vogue "This memoir helps keep the Darfur tragedy open as a wound not yet healed."--Elie Wiesel, author of Night Born into the Zaghawa tribe in the Sudanese desert, Halima...
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The Discovery of the Source of the NileThe Discovery of the Source of the Nile In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of...
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The Kebra Negast (the Book of the Glory of Kings), with 15 original illustrations (Aziloth Books)The 'Kebra Nagast' (Glory of Kings) was written at least one thousand years ago, and takes its theme from much older sources, some going back to the first century AD. Written originally in the African classical language Ge'ez, the book tells the history of...
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{Code Names} Betsy and BabeIn 1971, a young American couple in their twenties, fly to Nairobi, Kenya, with their two young daughters to begin a five-year teaching contract at American-run Nairobi International School. Through a unique relationship with one of the students, the couple is approached by the...
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