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The Rwandan Genocide: Historical Background and Jurisprudence
In this book, Segun Jegede provides an absorbing account of the pre-genocide history of Rwanda, including the often-overlooked elements that make the Rwandan genocide one of the worst human tragedies of our me. As an insider and key player in the prosecution of the masterminds of the genocide, the author takes us through the jurisprudence of the international tribunals, focusing mainly on the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. This is the first book on international criminal law to deal exhaustively with the jurisprudence of the international tribunals relating to the prosecution of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Through the cases, in an engaging and candid style, the Author reveals several groundbreaking decisions of the Rwandan Tribunal, such as the pronouncement of rape as genocide and the conviction of a woman for rape as a crime against humanity.
Adam By Adam: The Autobiography of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
An intimate portrait of one of the most influential, controversial, and complex Black politicians of our time details his childhood in early twentieth-century Harlem, his education at an all-white college, his years spent preaching the gospel, and his rise to political fame.
Food for the Soul: Recipes and Stories from the Congregation of Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church
The Abyssinian Baptist Church is the second oldest African American church in the United States and celebrated its two hundredth anniversary in 2008. Abyssinian has members from Kenya, Jamaica, the United States, Ireland, Brazil, the Cameroon, Uganda, Ghana, the Bahamas, Cuba, Honduras, Panama, England, Egypt, South Africa, Grenada, Trinidad, Holland, Japan, and Nigeria.
From Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church, one of the most esteemed centers of African American spirituality in the country, comes Food for the Soul–a compilation of more than one hundred recipes, and the many stories behind them shared by its congregation. Since its founding in 1808, Abyssinian has been a major social and religious voice of black Americans. The oldest African American church in New York State, it is a cultural melting-pot ministry with members from throughout the African diaspora–and a history of cooking reflecting that diversity.
Yet beyond the great recipes for dishes such as Bahamian Seafood Cobbler, Soulful Chicken Stir-Fry, Whipping Cream Biscuits, and Mama Georgia’s Sweet Potato Pie lies a rich and textured account of how the church incorporates the creation and enjoyment of food and the care of the physical body into its love for and devotion to God and humankind. Brimming with updated, healthy renditions of favorite old dishes, Food for the Soul is also illustrated throughout with beautiful photographs.
Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone
Sensuous Knowledge is a collection of thought-provoking essays that explore questions central to how we see ourselves, our history, and our world.
What does it mean to be oppressed?
What does it mean to be liberated?
Why do women choose to follow authority even when they can be autonomous?
What is the cost of compromising one’s true self?
What narratives particularly subjugate women and people of African heritage?
What kind of narrative can heal and empower?
As she considers these questions, Salami offers fresh insights on key cultural issues that impact women’s lives, including power, beauty, and knowledge. She also examines larger subjects, such as Afrofuturism, radical Black feminism, and gender politics, all with a historical outlook that is also future oriented. Combining a storyteller’s narrative playfulness and a social critic’s intellectual rigor, Salami draws upon a range of traditions and ideologies, feminist theory, popular culture―including insights from Ms. Lauryn Hill, Beyoncé, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, and others―science, philosophy, African myths and origin stories, and her own bold personal narrative to establish a language for change and self-liberation.
Chasing the Flame: One Man’s Fight to Save the World
“The best way to understand today’s messy world is to read about the inspiring life and diplomatic genius of Sergio Vieira de Mello.” –Walter Isaacson
Before his death in 2003 in Iraq’s first major suicide bomb attack, Sergio Vieira de Mello–a humanitarian and peacemaker with the United Nations–placed himself at the center of the most significant geopolitical crises of the last half-century. He cut deals with the murderous Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, forcibly confronted genocidal killers from Rwanda, and used his intellect and charisma to try to tame militant extremists in Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Known as a “cross between James Bond and Bobby Kennedy,” Vieira de Mello managed to save lives in the world’s most dangerous places, while also pressing the world’s most powerful countries to join him in grappling with such urgent dilemmas as: When should killers be engaged, and when should they be shunned? When is military force justified? How can outsiders play a role in healing broken people and broken places? He did not have the luxury of merely posing these questions; Vieira de Mello had to find answers, apply them, and live with the consequences.
Toni Morrison Box Set: The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved
This beautifully designed slipcase will make the perfect holiday and perennial gift.
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, Beloved transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. This spellbinding novel tells the story of Sethe, a former slave who escapes to Ohio, but eighteen years later is still not free.
In The New York Times bestselling novel, The Bluest Eye, Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty and yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes, that she believes will allow her to finally fit in. Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife.
With Song of Solomon, Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as she follows Milkman Dead from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, introducing an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world.
Mighty Be Our Powers
As a young woman, Leymah Gbowee was broken by the Liberian civil war, a brutal conflict that destroyed her country and claimed the lives of countless relatives and friends. Propelled by her realization that it is women and girls who suffer most during conflicts, she found the courage to turn her bitterness into action.
She helped organize and then lead the Liberian Mass Action for Peace, which brought together Christian and Muslim women in a nonviolent movement that engaged in public protest, confronted Liberia’s ruthless president and rebel warlords, and even held a sex strike.
With an army of women, Gbowee helped lead her nation to peace-and became an international leader who changed history, won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work, and fiercely advocates for girls’ empowerment and leadership. Mighty Be Our Powers is the gripping chronicle of a journey from hopelessness to liberation that will touch all who dream of a better world.
Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone
African American Officers in Liberia: A Pestiferous Rotation, 1910–1942
African American Officers in Liberia tells the story of seventeen African American officers who trained, reorganized, and commanded the Liberian Frontier Force from 1910 to 1942. In this West African country founded by freed black American slaves, African American officers performed their duties as instruments of imperialism for a country that was, at best, ambivalent about having them serve under arms at home and abroad.
The United States extended its newfound imperial reach and policy of “Dollar Diplomacy” to Liberia, a country it considered a U.S. protectorate. Brian G. Shellum explores U.S. foreign policy toward Liberia and the African American diaspora, while detailing the African American military experience in the first half of the twentieth century. Shellum brings to life the story of the African American officers who carried out a dangerous mission in Liberia for an American government that did not treat them as equal citizens in their homeland, and he provides recognition for their critical role in preserving the independence of Liberia.
Violent Order: Understanding Rebel Governance through Liberia’s Civil War
Rebel groups exhibit significant variation in their treatment of civilians, with profound humanitarian consequences. This book proposes a new theory of rebel behavior and cohesion based on the internal dynamics of rebel groups. Rebel groups are more likely to protect civilians and remain unified when rebel leaders can offer cash payments and credible future rewards to their top commanders. The leader’s ability to offer incentives that allow local security to prevail depends on partnerships with external actors, such as diaspora communities and foreign governments. This book formalizes this theory and tests the implications through an in-depth look at the rebel groups involved in Liberia’s civil war. The book also analyzes a micro-level dataset of crop area during Liberia’s war, derived through remote sensing, and an original cross-national dataset of rebel groups.
Dear Black Boy
Dear Black Boy highlights some of the common situations, issues, and occurrences within the African American male experience that we do not discuss enough. It is through various forms of storytelling that we grow, learn, and reach a level of liberation. As the characters within this book reach a sense of freedom, hopefully you are liberated and will get a glimpse of our truth. Be free.
Dear Black Boy
Dear Black Boy is a letter of encouragement to all of the black boys around the world who feel like sports are all they have. It is a reminder that they are more than athletes, more than a jersey number, more than a great crossover or a forty-yard dash, that the biggest game that they’ll ever play is the game of life, and there are people rooting for them off of the courts and fields, not as athletes, but as future leaders of the world. The same things that make these strong beautiful black boys great on whatever playing surface they choose are the same things that will propel them forward in life: mental toughness, dedication, passion, determination, and effort are all things that carry over into the game of life. With the right preparation, every Black Boy can win.
Americanah
As teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are leaving the country if they can. Ifemelu—beautiful, self-assured—departs for America to study. She suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships and friendships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze—the quiet, thoughtful son of a professor—had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London.
Years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a writer of an eye-opening blog about race in America. But when Ifemelu returns to Nigeria, and she and Obinze reignite their shared passion—for their homeland and for each other—they will face the toughest decisions of their lives.
Leader by Choice: 7 Decisions That Spark Your Purpose, Passion, and Perseverance
Andre, a proud graduate of the prestigious School of Hard Knocks, Andres draws on personal setbacks, failures, and tragedies to show the power of self-leadership.
Leader by Choice (paid link) delivers an inspirational message filled with practical leadership lessons which is helping people to live with more Purpose, Passion, and Perseverance. He spends the rest of his time trying to apply what he’s learned about leadership and personal development with his most important clients- his wife and kids. Learn more at www.AndresValdes.com
I May Not Know What I’m Talking About But I’m Gonna Say It Anyway
“I May Not Know What I’m Talking About But I’m Gonna Say it Anyway” (paid link) is a book of opinions nothing more, nothing less. Mostly about relationships, the text delves into man/woman issues where from time to time a suggestion or two is thrown in along the way, that I think could help; but again maybe not that’s why the title of the books is what it is.
S.A.G. Reading Time
What happens when you fall? You scrape your knee or elbow right? You don’t end up in the past, trapped in some sort of time travel game? You best friend doesn’t fade away infinity war style? You don’t find yourself falling for a pirate instead? You don’t become best friends with Marie Antoinette? You don’t almost get executed by Cleopatra? No? How strange. Maybe the book I picked up was just really, really weird, because I tripped and ended up falling into the book I was reading. Try not to be a klutz like me. Try not to fall into your book. It will bring you so much heartache, you won’t even be able to breathe. It will make you feel like a queen and then rip your heart out and set it on fire. Enjoy reading this one though. I doubt you’ll fall into it, but you never know…
Things Fall Apart
“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Things Fall Apart (paid link) is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe’s critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa’s cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man’s futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political and religious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order.
With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.
Bassie: My Journey of Hope
Basetsana Kumalo (née Makgalemele) (paid link) shot to fame as a fresh-faced Miss South Africa in 1994 and soon became the face of South Africa’s new democracy. As the first black presenter of the glamorous lifestyle TV show Top Billing, she travelled the world and interviewed superstars like Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jackson, Jon Bon Jovi, Will Smith, the Bee Gees, Gloria Estefan and Luther Vandross. After a successful career in television, Bassie’s drive and ambition took her into the world of business.
The street savvy that her entrepreneurial mother gave her stood her in good stead as she built a media empire. When she married the handsome businessman Romeo Kumalo in a fairytale wedding, they became South Africa’s sweethearts and ‘it’ couple. Bassie – My Journey of Hope recounts the stories of Bassie’s life as a celebrity, including her relationships with mentors like Nelson Mandela, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and Graça Machel. She also shares the secrets of her success and all the lessons she’s learnt along the way, and opens up about the pressures of her high-profile marriage to Romeo, their heartbreaking struggle to have a family, and how they made sure that their loving and respectful union has lasted two decades. Bassie also talks frankly about the domestic abuse she suffered at the hands of boxer Dingaan Thobela and the legal battles she had to fight to protect her name and her brand over the years. She gives her account of the stalker who harassed her for decades, and the non-existent ‘sex-tape’ allegation that rocked her family and career, leading to painful experiences of cyber-bullying. It is an intimate, inspiring and entertaining account of a remarkable life.
The Fortunes of Africa: A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor
A sweeping history the fortune seekers, adventurers, despots, and thieves who have ruthlessly endeavored to extract gold, diamonds, and other treasures from Africa and its people.
Africa has been coveted for its rich natural resources ever since the era of the Pharaohs. In past centuries, it was the lure of gold, ivory, and slaves that drew merchant-adventurers and conquerors from afar. In modern times, the focus of attention is on oil, diamonds, and other rare earth minerals.
In this vast and vivid panorama of history, Martin Meredith follows the fortunes of Africa (paid link) over a period of 5,000 years. With compelling narrative, he traces the rise and fall of ancient kingdoms and empires; the spread of Christianity and Islam; the enduring quest for gold and other riches; the exploits of explorers and missionaries; and the impact of European colonization. He examines, too, the fate of modern African states and concludes with a glimpse of their future.
His cast of characters includes religious leaders, mining magnates, warlords, dictators, and many other legendary figures-among them Mansa Musa, ruler of the medieval Mali empire, said to be the richest man the world has ever known.
Prosecuting International Crimes: Recollections and Reflections
The book reflects the long association of the author with the process of international criminal justice (paid link), particularly as Chief Prosecutor, touching on his mandate as such, identifying the challenges in the prosecution of international crimes, and the measures and strategies fashioned to meet those challenges. It covers as well an assessment of the legacy of the UNICTR and a glimpse into the future of international criminal justice. The book highlights recommended practices in the administration of international criminal justice which should be of value to practitioners and decision makers in advancing the cause of justice and accountability and in combating impunity.
Becoming
Becoming (paid link) is the memoir of former United States first lady Michelle Obama published in 2018. Described by the author as a deeply personal experience, the book talks about her roots and how she found her voice, as well as her time in the White House, her public health campaign, and her role as a mother.
The State of Africa
The State of Africa (paid link) in-depth investigation into the history of Africa since European decolonisation. Meredith examines the many challenges much of Africa has faced including civil conflict and lawlessness, government corruption and dictatorships. Africa is described as a continent where “bad-news stories (famine, genocide, corruption) massively outweigh the good.
Love Prevails: One Couple’s Story of Faith and Survival in the Rwandan Genocide
This personal narrative tells the story of two survivors of the Rwandan genocide of 1994 who managed to escape to what is now famous as the Hotel Rwanda. At once a love story and a harrowing inside look at the terrible events, their story of survival is also a story of faith–an effort to find God in the midst of horror–and of their subsequent struggles to find meaning, healing, and reconciliation (paid link).
The Substance of Things Hoped for: A Memoir of African-American Faith
The noted theologian and educator reflects on the role of faith in his own life. In this compelling memoir, Proctor chronicles his family’s journey from his grandmother’s slavery, through the monumental victories of the NAACP, to his own involvement in the King Oasis, and through subsequent presidential eras to show the common thread in the lives of millions of African Americans: pure, enduring faith.
Journey for Justice
Journey for Justice (paid link) combines autobiography with law and political memoirs to provide a fascinating account of growing up in rural Gambia and of the author’s recollections of, involvement in, and reflections on some of the major social, legal, and political issues in the Gambia during his tenure of public office in that country. This is valuable reading for all those with a serious interest in the history, politics, governance, and development of law and legal institutions in the Gambia, and indeed beyond.
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
This compelling and inspiring book, now in a deluxe paperback edition, shows how one person can work wonders. In Mountains Beyond Mountains, Pulitzer Prize—winning author Tracy Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who loves the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it.
In medical school, Paul Farmer found his life’s calling: to cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. Kidder’s magnificent account takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia as Farmer changes minds and practices through his dedication to the philosophy that “the only real nation is humanity.” At the heart of this book is the example of a life based on hope and on an understanding of the truth of the Haitian proverb “Beyond mountains there are mountains”–as you solve one problem, another problem presents itself, and so you go on and try to solve that one too.
Dreams of my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Elected the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, Obama was offered a book contract, but the intellectual journey he planned to recount became instead this poignant, probing memoir of an unusual life. Born in 1961 to a white American woman and a black Kenyan student, Obama was reared in Hawaii by his mother and her parents, his father having left for further study and a return home to Africa. So Obama’s not-unhappy youth is nevertheless a lonely voyage to racial identity, tensions in school, struggling with black literature? with one month-long visit when he was 10 from his commanding father. After college, Obama became a community organizer in Chicago. He slowly found place and purpose among folks of similar hue but different memory, winning enough small victories to commit himself to the work? he’s now a civil rights lawyer there. Before going to law school, he finally visited Kenya; with his father dead, he still confronted obligation and loss, and found wellsprings of love and attachment. Obama leaves some lingering questions?his mother is virtually absent? but still has written a resonant book.
Equal Justice Under Law
This wise and affecting memoir is the inside story of the great efforts leading up to the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 (paid link) and the fight to implement it-and its implications for affirmative action and black poverty today.
A black woman who moved in the corridors of power in the middle of this century, Constance Baker Motley has been a pioneer in both black civil rights and women’s rights. As the key attorney assisting Thurgood Marshall at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, she argued a dozen cases before the Supreme Court (winning all but one), and her representation of James Meredith in his bid to enroll in the University of Mississippi made her famous. Subsequently, as Manhattan borough president and a U.S. district court judge, she has fulfilled the highest aspirations of our legal and political system.
This book, the most detailed account to date of the legal conflicts of the civil rights movement, is also an account of Motley’s struggle, as a black woman, to succeed, a record of a life lived with great courage and responsibility.
Haiti After the Earthquake
“A gripping recollection of the quake’s ruin, chaos, and despair, and the story of remarkable persistence, hope, and love in the aftermath. Once you’ve seen Haiti through Paul Farmer’s eyes, you’ll never see Haitians, or any of the world’s poorest people, quite the same way again.” ~ President Bill Clinton
Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey
A superb narrative biography of the international diplomat and racial pioneer―the basis for the acclaimed four-part PBS TV series.
Ralph Bunche was instrumental ― sometimes at great personal risk ― in finding peaceful solutions to incendiary conflicts around the world (paid link), while at the same time he was never far from the realities of racial prejudice. Bunche rose from modest circumstances to become the foremost international mediator and peacekeeper of his time, winner of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize and key drafter of the United Nations charter. Drawing on Bunche’s personal papers and on his many years as Bunche’s colleague at the UN, Brian Urquhart’s elegant biography delineates a man with a zest for life as well as unsurpassed integrity of purpose. “Brian Urquhart brings [Bunche] back to life with a splendid biography. . . . Bunche emerges here as one of the major American diplomatic figures of this century and one of the towering leaders in African American history.”―Arnold Rampersad, Princeton University At once a splendid biography of a very brave and remarkable American, a vivid account of the struggle for racial justice, and an indispensable introduction to the dilemmas of international peacekeeping.”
A More Perfect Constitution: Why the Constitution Must Be Revised: Ideas to Inspire a New Generation
A More Perfect Constitution (paid link) presents creative and dynamic proposals from one of the most visionary and fertile political minds of our time to reinvigorate our Constitution and American governance at a time when such change is urgently needed, given the growing dysfunction and unfairness of our political system .
Combining idealism and pragmatism, and with full respect for the original document, Larry Sabato’s thought-provoking ideas range from the length of the president’s term in office and the number and terms of Supreme Court justices to the vagaries of the antiquated Electoral College, and a compelling call for universal national service-all laced through with the history behind each proposal and the potential impact on the lives of ordinary people. Aware that such changes won’t happen easily, but that the original Framers fully expected the Constitution to be regularly revised, Sabato urges us to engage in the debate and discussion his ideas will surely engender. During an election year, no book is more relevant or significant than this.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. Jacobs
Is an autobiography by Harriet Ann Jacobs, a young mother and fugitive slave, (paid link) published in 1861 by L. Maria Child, who edited the book for its author. Jacobs used the peudonym Linda Brent. The book documents Jacobs’s life as a slave and how she gained freedom for herself and for her children. Jacobs contributed to the genre of slave narrative by using the techniques of sentimental novels “to address race and gender issues.” She explores the struggles and sexual abuse that female slaves faced on plantations as well as their efforts to practice motherhood and protect their children when their children might be sold away.
In the book, Jacobs addresses white Northern women who fail to comprehend the evils of slavery. She makes direct appeals to their humanity to expand their knowledge and influence their thoughts about slavery as an institution.
Road to Kilimanjaro
In 1986 my mother Ruth T. Shaffer published her memoirs “Road to Kilimanjaro” (paid link) about her life-long service in Kenya with my father Roy E. Shaffer. “Shafari” is my memoir. The hybrid title blends the well-known Swahili word for a journey, safari, with my family name, Shaffer. This memoir extends by another generation my parents’ journey of service in Africa. My own life safaris traversed a variety of continents, countries, organizations, cultures, and vocations. The vocational heart of SHAFARI is my effort to help rural communities to be more self-reliant in protecting and preserving their own health with their own means. Or, put more simply, to make medical clinicians less needed. Such improvement, I believe, is enhanced when participants enjoy the liberating experience of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, the one who promised: “life more abundantly”. My philosophy and practice are detailed in my two booklets “Beyond the Dispensary” and “Community-Balanced Development”.
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters
A “tremendous,” “intrepid” history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa’s Congo, with first-hand accounts of the continent’s worst conflict in modern times.
At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal war in which millions have died. In Dancing in the Glory of Monsters (paid link), renowned political activist and researcher Jason K. Stearns has written a compelling and deeply-reported narrative of how Congo became a failed state that collapsed into a war of retaliatory massacres. Stearns brilliantly describes the key perpetrators, many of whom he met personally, and highlights the nature of the political system that brought these people to power, as well as the moral decisions with which the war confronted them. Now updated with a new introduction, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters tells the full story of Africa’s Great War.
The White Masai
At the time Corinne fell in love, the Masai were almost completely free of Western influence. No Nike tee shirts. No rock and roll. No skate boards. Only missionaries nearby who could just about keep them from starving but not from going hungry. And these indigenous people had some awareness that, two days journey away, they could dance for tourists and sell them trinkets.
So the man she sees on a Mombasa ferry one day very much represents raw, beautiful, animal masculinity and it completely overwhelms her. And that overwhelm persists against everything from confrontations with wild animals and life-threatening diseases to numbing bureaucracy and her lover’s apparently total inability to feel anything toward her but suspicion and annoyance.
Left to Tell
Immaculée Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family that she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into bloody holocaust. Immaculée’s family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans. Incredibly, Immaculée survived the slaughter. For 91 days, she and seven other women huddled silently together in the cramped bathroom of a local pastor while hundreds of machete-wielding killers hunted for them.
The triumphant story of this remarkable young woman’s journey through the darkness of genocide will inspire anyone whose life has been touched by fear, suffering and loss. Following the transformation of her life in the ten year’s since Left to Tell‘s first publication, this new edition of her bestselling memoir reflects on her spiritual transformation since those dark days.
Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa
Nothing in Keith Richburg’s long and respected journalistic career at the Washington Post prepared him for what he would encounter as the paper’s correspondent in Africa (paid link). He found a continent where brutal murder had become routine, where dictators and warlords silenced dissent with machine guns and machetes, and where starvation had become depressingly common. With a great deal of personal anguish, Richburg faced a difficult question: If this is Africa, what does it mean to be an African American?
In this provocative and unvarnished account of his three years on the continent of his ancestors, Richburg takes us on a extraordinary journey that sweeps from Somalia to South Africa, showing how he confronted the divide between his African racial heritage and his American cultural identity.
A Thousand Hills: Rwanda’s Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
A Thousand Hills: Rwanda’s Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It (paid link) is the story of Paul Kagame, a refugee who, after a generation of exile, found his way home. Learn about President Kagame, who strives to make Rwanda the first middle-income country in Africa, in a single generation. In this adventurous tale, learn about Kagame’s early fascination with Che Guevara and James Bond, his years as an intelligence agent, his training in Cuba and the United States, the way he built his secret rebel army, his bloody rebellion, and his outsized ambitions for Rwanda.
My Vision: Challenges in the Race for Excellence
This is a unique book in which His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (paid link), Vice-President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai, examines aspects of the UAE’s unique development experience. This young country is making every effort to achieve excellence and upgrade its status from a regional economic centre into an international hub. It is striving to excel in services, tourism, the knowledge economy and creative human resources in order to reach its ambitious development goals.
While addressing the people of Dubai and the UAE, Sheikh Mohammed’s wider audience also includes the Arab world. Dubai’s unique development experience sets a creative example for the Arab world to follow. The book, therefore, represents a message of optimism that if all the constituents of any given society agree to excel in all fields, different cultures and religions can coexist without the slightest problem. The proof he provides is Dubai itself.”
The Persecution of Rwandan Tutsi Before the 1990-1994 Genocide
This book shows deep persecution and injustice that was done to RWANDAN Tutsis (paid link), and is set to provide answers to the following questions: “What was the lifestyle of Tutsis before they were killed during the 1990 – 1994 genocide? How were they treated by both dictator governments, the MDR-Parmehutu of President G.Kayibanda and the MRND-Parmehutu of President J. Habyarimana from 1959 – 1994?”
