Africa
Indispensable fiction and nonfiction titles from around the globe selected for your world literature classroom
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
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2171601978-006173033-7Growing up amid famine and poverty in rural Malawi, wind was one of the few abundant resources available. Inventive 14-year-old William Kamkwamba saw its energy as a way to power his dreams. Learn MoreRegular Price: $15.99
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Cry, the Beloved Country
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6834801978-074326217-0The compassionate story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom. Learn MoreRegular Price: $17.00
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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2885501978-037453126-3The survivor of a dirty war in starkest Africa recounts his transition from 12-year-old orphan to killing machine. Beah emerged from Sierra Leone's malignant civil conflict and eventually graduated from college in the United States. Learn MoreRegular Price: $14.00
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Things Fall Apart
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8748701978-038547454-2A classic story of a Nigerian man and the conditions which bring to an end the tradition and strength of spirit he had so treasured. Learn MoreRegular Price: $13.00
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Unbowed
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2918801978-030727520-2Hugely charismatic, humble, and possessed of preternatural luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya. Learn MoreRegular Price: $17.00
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What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng
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2644901978-030738590-1Based closely on true experiences of the Lost Boys of Sudan, who fled their war-ravaged country to come to the United States in the mid-1980s. Learn MoreRegular Price: $16.95
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