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Africa Is Not a Countryby Margy Burns Knight, Mark Melnicove, Anne Sibley O'BrienISBN 0761316477 (0-7613-1647-7)
Softcover, Lerner Pub Group
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Book Details:- Format: Paperback
- Publication Date: 1/1/2002
- Pages: 48
- Reading Level: Age 6 and Up
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African Material Cultureby Mary Jo Arnoldi, Kris L. Hardin, Christraud M. GearyISBN 0253210372 (0-253-21037-2)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'African Material Culture'Book summary:"This volume has much to recommend it -- providing fascinating and stimulating insights into many arenas of material culture, many of which still remain only superficially explored in the archaeological literature." -- Archaeological Review
"... a vivid introduction to the topic.... A glimpse into the unique and changing identities in an ever-changing world." -- Come-All-Ye
Fourteen interdisciplinary essays open new perspectives for understanding African societies and cultures through the contextualized study of objects, treating everything from the production of material objects to the meaning of sticks, masquerades, household tools, clothing, and the television set in the contemporary repertoire of African material culture.
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Aman: The Story of a Somali Girl As Told to Virginia Lee Barnes and Janice Boddyby Virginia Lee BarnesISBN 0679762094 (0-679-76209-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Battle Of Mogadishu: Firsthand Accounts From The Men Of Task Force Rangerby Matthew Eversmann, Dan SchillingISBN 0345459660 (0-345-45966-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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- The Battle of Mogadishu: Firsthand Accounts from the Men of Task Force Ranger: ISBN 0345466683 (0-345-46668-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - The Battle Of Mogadishu: Firsthand Accounts From The Men Of Task Force Ranger: ISBN 0345459652 (0-345-45965-2)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books - The Battle Of Mogadishu: Firsthand Accounts From The Men Of Task Force Ranger: ISBN 0345459660 (0-345-45966-0)
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- The Battle of Mogadishu: Firsthand Accounts from the Men of Task Force Ranger: ISBN 0345466683 (0-345-46668-3)
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern Warby Mark BowdenISBN 0140288503 (0-14-028850-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War'Book summary:Ninety-nine elite American soldiers are trapped in the middle of a hostile city. As night falls, they are surrounded by thousands of enemy gunmen. Their wounded are bleeding to death. Their ammunition and supplies are dwindling. This is the story of how they got there -- and how they fought their way out.
This is the story of war.
Black Hawk Down drops you into a crowded marketplace in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia with the U.S. Special Forces and puts you in the middle of the most intense firelight American soldiers have fought since the Vietnam war.
Late in the afternoon of Sunday, October 3, 1993, the soldiers of Task Form Ranger was send on a mission to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take them about an hour. Instead, they were pinned down through a long and terrible night, locked in a desperate struggle to kill or be killed.
When the unit was finally rescued the following morning, eighteen American soldiers were dead and dozens more badly injured. The Somali toll was far worse; more than five hundred felled and over a thousand wounded. Award-winning literary journalist Mark Bowden's dramatic narrative captures this harrowing ordeal through the eyes of the young men who fought that day. He draws on his extensive interviews of participants from both sides -- as well as classified combat video and radio transcripts -- to bring their stories to life.
Authoritative, gripping, and insightful, Black Hawk Down is a riveting look at the terror and exhilaration of combat destined to become a classic of war reporting. [via]
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- Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War: ISBN 0451203933 (0-451-20393-3)
Softcover, Signet - Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War: ISBN 0451205146 (0-451-20514-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Black Hawk Down: ISBN 0871137380 (0-87113-738-0)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr - Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War: ISBN 0140288503 (0-14-028850-3)
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- Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War: ISBN 0451203933 (0-451-20393-3)
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The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women And Islamby Ayaan Hirsi AliISBN 0743288335 (0-7432-8833-5)
Hardcover, Free Pr
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Born in Somalia and raised Muslim, but outraged by her religion's hostility toward women, Hirsi Ali escaped an arranged marriage to a distant relative and fled to the Netherlands. There, she learned Dutch, worked as an interpreter in abortion clinics and shelters for battered women, earned a college degree, and started a career in politics as a Dutch parliamentarian. In November 2004, the violent murder on an Amsterdam street of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, with whom Hirsi Ali had written a film about women and Islam called Submission, changed her life. Threatened by the same group that slew van Gogh, Hirsi Ali now has round-the-clock protection, but has not allowed these circumstances to compromise her fierce criticism of the treatment of Muslim women, of Islamic governments' attempts to silence any questioning of their traditions, and of Western governments' blind tolerance of practices such as genital mutilation and forced marriages of female minors occurring in their countries.
Hirsi Ali relates her experiences as a Muslim woman so that oppressed Muslim women can take heart and seek their own liberation. Drawing on her love of reason and the Enlightenment philosophers on whose principles democracy was founded, she presents her firsthand knowledge of the Islamic worldview and advises Westerners how best to address the great divide that currently exists between the West and Islamic nations and between Muslim immigrants and their adopted countries.
An international bestseller -- with updated information for American readers and two new essays added for this edition -- The Caged Virgin is a compelling, courageous, eye-opening work. [via]
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The Color of Homeby Mary Hoffman, Karin LittlewoodISBN 0803728417 (0-8037-2841-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Deliver Us from Evil: Peacekeepers, Warlords and a World of Endless Conflictby William ShawcrossISBN 0743200284 (0-7432-0028-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deliver Us from Evil: Peacekeepers, Warlords and a World of Endless Conflict'Book summary:Foreign-affairs journalist William Shawcross travels around the world--Bosnia, Baghdad, and elsewhere--to paint a messy portrait of the post-cold-war world. Deliver Us from Evil is very much an on-the-ground book, full of reportage and descriptions of world leaders such as UN chief Kofi Annan. It includes a strong point of view: the dewy-eyed, do-gooder mentality that drives so much contemporary international relations is, as far as Shawcross is concerned, deeply wrongheaded. Peacekeeping missions often find that there's no peace to keep, and expectations of what they can accomplish soar far too high. "Today 'humanitarianism' often rules. It becomes a sop to international concern, and then it can be dangerous," writes Shawcross. Coupled with a world of instant media, where CNN broadcasts live from the killing fields, humanitarianism fuels a strong desire to have immediate reconciliation between warring factions. But it's a delusional goal, says Shawcross, pointing to the American Civil War and how long (even after Appomattox) it took North and South to reconcile fully. There's no reason to think other torn nations will respond more quickly. Peacekeeping missions often promise a heaven on earth they cannot deliver. "In a more religious time it was only God whom we asked to deliver us from evil," concludes Shawcross. "Now we call upon our own man-made institutions for such deliverance. That is sometimes to ask for miracles." --John J. Miller [via]
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Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomadby Waris Dirie, Cathleen MillerISBN 0688172377 (0-688-17237-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad'Book summary:By age 6, Waris Dirie was herding her family's sheep and goats, fending off hyenas and wild dogs as the family carved a path through Africa. She was just twice that age when she ran off into the vast furnace of the Somali desert to escape an arranged marriage to a much older man. Traveling for days without food and water, she made her way to Mogadishu and later to London as a servant to her uncle, the Somalian ambassador. There she wrestled with culture shock and got her first taste of the modeling life that eventually brought her into the public eye. Dirie is resilient, having survived drought, hunger, and the ritual female genital mutilation that marks a step toward womanhood among some traditional Moslems but, argue critics, steals or ruins many girls' lives. "As we traveled throughout Somalia," says Dirie, "we met families and I played with their daughters. When we visited them again, the girls were missing. No one spoke the truth about their absence or even spoke of them at all." As a special ambassador to the United Nations, Dirie has spoken out loudly on this subject and championed environmental causes, too. How much of her sometimes breathless story is gospel truth and how much embellished is hard to say. Like Dirie herself, though, the combination is intriguing, powerful, and unique. --Francesca Coltrera [via]
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East Africaby Konemann StaffISBN 3829053924 (3-8290-5392-4)
Hardcover, Konemann
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Falcon Brigade: Combat and Command in Somalia and Haitiby Lawrence E. CasperISBN 1555879454 (1-55587-945-4)
Hardcover, Lynne Rienner Pub
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First Footsteps in East Africa or an Exploration of Hararby Richard F. BurtonISBN 140680097X (1-4068-0097-X)
Softcover, Echo Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'First Footsteps in East Africa or an Exploration of Harar'Book summary:One of the great adventure classics. Victorian scholar-adventurers first-hand epic account of daring 1854 expedition to a forbidden East African capital city. A treasury of detailed information on Muslim beliefs, manners and morals; plus pleasures and perils of the desert. A wealth of geographic, ethnographic and linguistic data. [via]
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From a Crooked Ribby Nuruddin FarahISBN 0143037269 (0-14-303726-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From a Crooked Rib'Book summary:Published for the first time in the U. S.-internationally celebrated writer Nuruddin Farah-s first novel
Written with complete conviction from a woman-s point of view, Nuruddin Farah-s spare, shocking first novel savagely attacks the traditional values of his people yet is also a haunting celebration of the unbroken human spirit. Ebla, an orphan of eighteen, runs away from her nomadic encampment in rural Somalia when she discovers that her grandfather has promised her in marriage to an older man. But even after her escape to Mogadishu, she finds herself as powerless and dependent on men as she was out in the bush. As she is propelled through servitude, marriage, poverty, and violence, Ebla has to fight to retain her identity in a world where women are -sold like cattle.- BACKCOVER: -Nuruddin Farah, the most important African novelist to emerge in the past twenty-five years, is also one of the most sophisticated voices in modern fiction.-
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Future Earthsby Mike Resnick, Gardner R. Dozois, Michael D. ResnickISBN 0886775442 (0-88677-544-2)
Softcover, Daw Books
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The Future of the Pastby Alexander StilleISBN 0312420943 (0-312-42094-3)
Softcover, Picador USA
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Giftsby Nuruddin FarahISBN 1559704845 (1-55970-484-5)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gifts'Book summary:Though he has lived in exile for the last 20 years, Nuruddin Farah's eye never strays far from his native Somalia. In Maps and Secrets, the first and third volumes in his Blood in the Sun trilogy, he explored the devastating effects of tribal hatred and civil war on his society; the middle volume, Gifts, however, is of a different stripe altogether. Though also set in Somalia, it is a sunnier, more optimistic novel, and a love story, to boot. The protagonist is Duniya, a nurse at a maternity hospital in Mogadishu. Once widowed and once divorced, she has experienced the injustices heaped upon women in her culture--as a young girl Duniya was given by her father to an elderly man to be his wife; after his death she remarried, only to have her child taken from her by her alcoholic husband's family when they divorced. Free at last, she has no intentions of getting entangled again--until she meets Bosaaso, an American-educated economist who has returned to Somalia to help his country during its economic crisis:
Duniya thought that marriage was a place she had been to twice already, but love was a palace she hadn't had the opportunity to set foot in before now. If what she and Bosaaso were doing was the beginning of a long courtship that might eventually lead to such a many-roomed mansion of love, so be it. So far she had only seen glimpses of it, in a rear-view mirror, in the eyes of a driver who wasn't a taxi driver.
But love is not all Nuruddin has on his mind. He constantly reexamines the theme of gifts, from the personal gifting of one's body or heart to the impersonal "aid" bestowed by wealthy nations upon the poorer ones. But Gifts is hardly a political tract, for it consistently eschews the general in favor of the particular. In tracing Duniya's budding relationship with Bosaaso, Nuruddin not only tells the love story of two individuals but also etches a remarkable portrait of women in Somalia. The relationship between Duniya and Bosaaso is sweet, funny, and tender, but it is in her ties to her women friends and daughters that the book shines. As she learns to swim and drive, to stand up to her overbearing former in-laws and to trust her heart, it is within the context of an extended web of friends and family. Maps and Secrets expose the uglier aspects of war-torn Somalia; Gifts, on the other hand, offers its hidden strengths. --Alix Wilber [via] 
The Ice beneath Youby Christian BaumanISBN 0743227840 (0-7432-2784-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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In the Company of Heroesby Steven Hartov, Michael J. Durant, M. BowdenISBN 0451210603 (0-451-21060-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Independence in the Prosecution of Offences in the Canadian Forces: Military Policing and Prosecutorial Discretionby James W. O'ReillyISBN 0660170809 (0-660-17080-9)
Softcover, Canadian Government Pub Centre
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Infidelby Ayaan Hirsi AliISBN 0743289684 (0-7432-8968-4)
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The Journey Is the Destination : The Journals of Dan Eldonby Dan Eldon, Kathy EldonISBN 0811815862 (0-8118-1586-2)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Journey Is the Destination : The Journals of Dan Eldon'Book summary:Dan Eldon, who was only 22 when he was chased down and killed by an angry mob in Somalia, was one of the youngest photographic stringers in Africa. But his journalistic work, which had appeared in Time and Newsweek, showed only a small part of his talent. Eldon excelled as an artist in his collages, which combined his photographs of Africa with paint, pastiche, pop culture images, advertising, and official documents. The Journey Is the Destination collects pages from the 17 scrapbooks that held his art. Chronicling his work from age 14 through his death at 22, this volume is startling not only in the intensity and thoughtfulness of the pages, but also in the fact that someone so young could have this kind of artistic depth and insight. [via]
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A Leaf in the Wind: Travels in Africaby Peter HudsonISBN 0802710980 (0-8027-1098-0)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Linksby Nuruddin FarahISBN 1573222658 (1-57322-265-8)
Hardcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Links'Book summary:[via]Gripping, provocative, and revelatory, Links is a novel that will stand as a classic of modern world literature. Jeebleh is returning to Mogadiscio, Somalia, for the first time in twenty years. But this is not a nostalgia triphis last residence there was a jail cell. And who could feel nostalgic for a city like this? U.S. troops have come and gone, and the decimated city is ruled by clan warlords and patrolled by qaat-chewing gangs who shoot civilians to relieve their adolescent boredom. Diverted in his pilgrimage to visit his mothers grave, Jeebleh is asked to investigate the abduction of the young daughter of one of his closest friends family. But he learns quickly that any act in this city, particularly an act of justice, is much more complicated than he might have imagined.
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Mapsby Nuruddin FarahISBN 1559704853 (1-55970-485-3)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maps'Book summary:This first novel in Nuruddin Farah's Blood in the Sun trilogy tells the story of Askar, a man coming of age in the turmoil of modern Africa. With his father a victim of the bloody Ethiopian civil war and his mother dying the day of his birth, Askar is taken in and raised by a woman named Misra amid the scandal, gossip, and ritual of a small African village. As an adolescent, Askar goes to live in Somalia's capital, where he strives to find himself just as Somalia struggles for national identity.[via]More editions of Maps:
- Maps: ISBN 0140296433 (0-14-029643-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Maps: ISBN 0330287109 (0-330-28710-9)
Softcover, Pan Books - Maps: ISBN 0394755480 (0-394-75548-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Maps: ISBN 0394563255 (0-394-56325-5)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books - Maps: ISBN 1559704853 (1-55970-485-3)
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- Maps: ISBN 0140296433 (0-14-029643-3)
Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan, and Rwandaby Scott PetersonISBN 0415930634 (0-415-93063-4)
Softcover, Routledge
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A Modern History of the Somali: Nation and State in the Horn of Africaby I. M. LewisISBN 082141495X (0-8214-1495-X)
Softcover, Ohio University Press
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Networks of Dissolution: Mogadishuby Anna SimonsISBN 0813325811 (0-8133-2581-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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One Bowl of Porridge: Memoirs of Somaliaby Joan BaezISBN 0936784121 (0-936784-12-1)
Softcover, John Daniel & Co
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Prophet's Camel Bellby LaurenceISBN 0771047061 (0-7710-4706-1)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prophet's Camel Bell'Book summary:Margaret Laurence is best known for her extraordinary series of novels celebrating the fictional community of Manawaka, Manitoba. Earlier in her career, though, she lived for two years in the very different world of the Haud desert of Somaliland (now Somalia), where she explored the oral narratives of the Somalis, who at the time had no written language, and studied African culture. Her time in West Africa provided the impetus for her non-fiction account of that experience, The Prophet's Camel Bell; her first novel, This Side Jordan; her first collection of short stories, The Tomorrow-Tamer; a study of Nigerian novelists and dramatists, Long Drums and Cannons; and A Tree For Poverty: Somali Poetry and Prose, which she edited and translated.
For The Prophet's Camel Bell, Laurence drew on diary nearly a decade after she had returned to Canada. Coming out of her study of African colonialism, the work emphasizes political and personal independence, cultural inheritance, racial equality, women's liberation, and the need to promote burgeoning national literatures, including that of Canada. It is also an astonishingly intimate memoir that complements Laurence's posthumously published Dance on the Earth. In the course of mapping out the literary geography of Somalia in The Prophet's Camel Bell, Laurence found a clearer sense of what she wanted to accomplish as a Canadian writing about Canada. This book is a fresh and forthright work of imagination and observation, and it is still a pleasure to read. --Jeffrey Canton [via]
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A Rumor of Warby Philip CaputoISBN 0345331222 (0-345-33122-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Rumor of War'Book summary:The extraordinary betseller that provides a close-up look unlike any other, at the American experience in Vietnam. Powerful, vivid, compassionate, and heartbreaking, here is a very personal and yet universal grunt's-eye-view of the hopeless brutality and the ultimate, and seemingly endless horror where men and governments sacrificed their morality and the souls of their nation. [via]
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Sardinesby Nuruddin FarahISBN 155597161X (1-55597-161-X)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Secretsby Nuruddin FarahISBN 1559704276 (1-55970-427-6)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Secrets'Book summary:In Secrets, Somalian author Nuruddin Farah has conjured a densely woven tale of betrayal, hidden agendas, and tangled relationships that is both a deeply personal story in and of itself and emblematic of the greater problems that continue to tear his country apart today. As a boy, young Kalaman used to creep into the bed of his childhood playmate, Sholoongo, and the two would engage in secret games of sexual discovery. A quarter of a century later, Kalaman is a businessman in Mogadishu on the eve of Somalia's civil war when Sholoongo arrives unexpectedly from America, bringing with her the reminder of an old, half-forgotten promise.
The secrets start early in Farah's novel: As a child, Kalaman questions even the origins of his own name, wondering if his unusual appellation in a world of Mohammeds and Abdous is an indication that he is not, after all, his father's child. Then there is the question of why his mother seems to dislike Sholoongo, whom his grandfather, Nonno, describes as "a duugan, that is to say, a baby to be buried." If Kalaman's origins are slightly murky, Sholoongo's are mired in mystery. One version has her abandoned by her mother and raised by lions. Whatever the truth of the girl's history, it is generally agreed by most people in Kalaman's village that she is probably a witch, and therefore trouble. Certainly Kalaman's mother, Damac, mistrusts her, believing her to have "animal powers" and designs on her son. Farah reveals all this in a tantalizing introductory chapter before fast-forwarding 25 years to Mogadishu in the early 1990s, one week before the official outbreak of civil war; Kalaman, now a successful young businessman, comes home to find the long-lost Sholoongo waiting for him in his apartment. Kalaman's first reaction to his old playmate's reappearance is fear: "There was no way of knowing what her visit might bring forth, what mysteries it might unravel, what manner of disastrous debates it might generate.... In other words, there was no telling how much havoc Sholoongo would cause." As it turns out, a great deal.
From here on out, Farah caroms between past and present, alternating chapters narrated by Kalaman, Damac, Sholoongo, and Nonno as he inexorably unravels a skein of lies, secrets, and corruption. As Kalaman learns the truth about himself and his family, that family's destruction mirrors Somalia's hellish descent into sectarian violence and long-simmering tribal hatreds. Politics, passion, sorcery, and myth are just a few of the threads Nuruddin Farah spins into mesmerizing whole cloth in this remarkable, award-winning novel out of Africa. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Sharkman Sixby Owen WestISBN 0743205421 (0-7432-0542-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sharkman Six'Book summary:A gripping debut novel of modern war written by a former Marine captain who has experienced it all firsthand. Marine Lieutenant Gavin Kelly is in a no-win situation. His grandfather expects him to undo his father's cowardice in Vietnam. His best friend, arguably a better Marine than Kelly, lusts after the glory he believes Kelly will see as a leader of the U.S military's Operation Restore Hope in Somalia. To make things worse, Kelly's new assignment leaves no room for him to showcase his killer military instincts, the same instincts that earned him a medal in Desert Storm. When one of Kelly's men, trigger-happy and honour-hungry, kills a Somali bodyguard minutes after the Marines land in Mogadishu, none of Kelly's military training prepares him for the maelstrom to follow. With the international press corps determined to uncover the 'murder,' the State Department desperate to place blame, and the Marines held to crippling rules of engagement, Kelly must somehow reconcile his military responsibility with his personal ethics even as Somali gangsters run amok in the night. [via]
Somalia: A Country Studyby Library of Congress Federal Research Division, 0820012963ISBN 0844407755 (0-8444-0775-5)
Hardcover, Claitors Pub Div
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Somalia Cover-Up: A Commissioner's Journalby Peter DesbaratsISBN 0771026846 (0-7710-2684-6)
Hardcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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Somalia in Word and Imageby Katheryne LoughranISBN 0253203767 (0-253-20376-7)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Somalia on $5 a Day: A Soldier's Storyby Marty StantonISBN 0891418229 (0-89141-822-9)
Softcover, Presidio Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Somalia on $5 a Day: A Soldier's Story'Book summary:Stantons battalion was the first army unit in Somalia in 1992 and it did one hell of a job accomplishing a difficult mission where there wasnt a template. I had the pleasure of tagging along with his unit and saw first-hand how its leaders dealt with and solved problems. . . . A first-rate book and a must read. All professional soldier-leaders should carry Stantons book in their rucksacks.
DAVID H. HACKWORTH
Author of About Face and Hazardous Duty
A country torn by seemingly endless war, a people tormented and victimized by relentless banditry-into this land of warlords came the soldiers of the armys elite 10th Mountain Division. They were strangers in a strange land sent to restore hope to this cauldron of misery and despair. The Pentagon deemed it a hostile fire zone thereby earning each soldier a monthly bonus of $150 Somalia on $5.00 a day. Major Stanton and the infantrymen of Task Force 2-87 found themselves in unfamiliar surroundings, trying to accomplish a vague and constantly changing mission where knowing the good guys from the bad guys was nearly impossible. When the focus of Restore Hope changed from limited famine relief to nation building, the men found themselves in armed clashes with Somali warlords. In this exciting and often humorous memoir, Stanton relates the mounting frustrations experienced by the U.S. soldiers, futility that culminated in the infamous chaos on the streets of Mogadishu. [via]More editions of Somalia on $5 a Day: A Soldier's Story:
Somalia on Five Dollars a Day: A Soldier's Storyby Martin StantonISBN 0891417419 (0-89141-741-9)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books
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Surrender or Starve: Travels in Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Eritreaby Robert D. KaplanISBN 1400034523 (1-4000-3452-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Surrender or Starve: Travels in Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Eritrea'Book summary:Robert D. Kaplan is one of our leading international journalists, someone who can explain the most complicated and volatile regions and show why theyre relevant to our world. In Surrender or Starve, Kaplan illuminates the fault lines in the Horn of Africa, which is emerging as a crucial region for Americas ongoing war on terrorism.
Reporting from Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Eritrea, Kaplan examines the factors behind the famine that ravaged the region in the 1980s, exploring the ethnic, religious, and class conflicts that are crucial for understanding the region today. He offers a new foreword and afterword that show how the nations have developed since the famine, and why this region will only grow more important to the United States. Wielding his trademark ability to blend on-the-ground reporting and cogent analysis, Robert D. Kaplan introduces us to a fascinating part of the world, one that it would behoove all of us to know more about. [via]More editions of Surrender or Starve: Travels in Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Eritrea:
Surrender or Starve: The Wars Behind the Famineby Robert D. KaplanISBN 0813307546 (0-8133-0754-6)
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Under African Skiesby Charles R. LarsonISBN 0374525501 (0-374-52550-1)
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What Is the Whatby Dave EggersISBN 1932416641 (1-932416-64-1)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Is the What'Book summary:In a heartrending and astonishing novel, Eggers illuminates the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the United States. We follow his life as he's driven from his home as a boy and walks, with thousands of orphans, to Ethiopia, where he finds safety for a time. Valentino's travels, truly Biblical in scope, bring him in contact with government soldiers, janjaweed-like militias, liberation rebels, hyenas and lions, disease and starvation and a string of unexpected romances. Ultimately, Valentino finds safety in Kenya and, just after the millennium, is finally resettled in the United States, from where this novel is narrated. In this book, written with expansive humanity and surprising humor, we come to understand the nature of the conflicts in Sudan, the refugee experience in America, the dreams of the Dinka people, and the challenge one indomitable man faces in a world collapsing around him.[via]More editions of What Is the What:
The Zanzibar Chest: a Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Landsby Aidan HartleyISBN 1594480117 (1-59448-011-7)
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Geologie De La Formation Ferrifere Precambrienne Et Du Complexe Granulitique Encaissant De Buur (Sud De La Somalie): Implications Sur L'evolution Crustale Du Socle De Buurby Centre armoricain d'etude structurale des socles, A. HaiderISBN 2905532300 (2-905532-30-0)
Hardcover, Editions du C.A.E.S.S., Universite de Rennes I
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De Maagdenkooiby Ayaan Hirsi AliISBN 9045702126 (90-457-0212-6)
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