History, Africa
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Tracing Ma’di Roots and Connections
by Hicks Ambira
This is an educational book about the Ma'di, from Africa. The book is of interest to any person of Ma’di descent or anyone interested in African history. The Ma'di were traced from where they originated; where they lived and traveled; how the...
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Family, Entrepreneurship and Service
Count Hassanali R. Dedhar of Eldoret by Jenny Jina and Altaf Jina
Family, Entrepreneurship, and Service: Count Hassanali R. Dedhar of Eldoret is the biography of Count Hassanali R. Dedhar (1900–1978), an entrepreneur in Eldoret, Kenya. After migrating from Zanzibar to Eldoret in search of a better life and...
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Milestones in the History of Islam in Eritrea
by Ismael Ibrahim Mukhtar
Milestones in the History of Islam in Eritrea is an attempt to explore the key markers of the Eritrean Islamic history. The book surveys the impacts of the early Muslim migrants, the rise of the Dahlak Sultanate, the aftereffects of the advances...
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Angels in Swollen Crises
Stepmother by Chol-wdwuok
In November of 1991, with the Nile in flood, a breakaway faction of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) led by Riek Machar killed approximately 2,000 Dinka civilians in the southern Sudanese state of Jonglei in what would become known as...
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Apartheid
by Una D. Bruhns
On Challenging Journeys We Find Out Who We Are Apartheid is a powerful memoir of Una's Personal and political struggles growing up in the peaceful community of Vrededorp, Johannesburg, South Africa. By age nine, the political arena in South...
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A Path of Spears
by John C. Cairns
JOHN CAIRNS was one of the few Canadians to serve in the British Administrative Service of the United Nations Trust Territory of Tanganyika, then under British mandate. This novel of East Africa at a time of transition reflects his experience as...
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Under the Acacia Tree
by CES Family of Friends
This book holds the inspiring story of friendship and collaboration between two groups of people - in Kenya and in Canada. They saw how many bright young people in Kenya were denied a chance for an education due to family poverty - and did...
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If It Had Not Been So...
by Thabiso Songo-Ncube
IF IT HAD NOT BEEN SO, HOW WOULD IT HAVE BEEN? In this book I talk about the life and experiences that shaped my character from adolescent age to adulthood. There are tragedies that I faced and there were happy times too. The experiences I went...
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Walking Them Home
A Soldier’s Journey in Postwar Rwanda by Derrick Nearing
In July of 1994, Leading Seaman Derrick Nearing, a military medic, is urgently deployed to Rwanda, a country he has never heard of, sent on a mission halfway around the world that will colour the rest of his life. In the previous months, Rwanda...
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Hopeful
A Story of African Childhood Dreams and the Relentless love and sacrifice of Poor Parents to give their children an Education. by Asa Ahimbisibwe
Hopeful describes the real life stories of children who were born in a rural poor village in an African country-Uganda. One of them, overcomes the challenges of poverty and cultural barriers with the help of his uneducated parents, who decided to...
