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Amistad:
A Long Road to Freedom
by Walter Dean Myers
Follow the events of the captives on the Amistad,
a slave ship that left Havana, Cuba, in 1839. The ships
intended destination was Puerto Principe, but a series
of events landed the ship and its captives on the shores
of the United States where an unforgettable trial followed.
The revolt was led by Sengbeh Pieh, a slave from Sierra
Leone.
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In
Sierra Leone
by Michael Jackson
Review from Library Journal: Anthropologist,
poet and novelist Jackson returned to Sierra Leone in
2002, after some 30 years’ absence, at a time
when the West African country was emerging from a violent
11-year civil war. In the 1970s, Jackson had lived among
Sierra Leone’s Kuranko people, conducting ethnographic
fieldwork.. read
full review
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Blood
Diamonds
by: Greg Campbell
Review from Library Journal: Freelance journalist
Campbell here writes about the cost of diamonds not
in dollars to the consumer but in blood, torture, and
death for the unfortunate residents of contested mining
areas in Sierra Leone. He explains that "conflict diamonds,"
or "blood diamonds," which account for only three to
four percent of all diamonds sold, are mined in war
zones, smuggled out of the country, and sold to legitimate
companies, financing ruinous civil wars and the plots
of international terrorists, including the al Qaeda
network... read
full review
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The
Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest
by Aminatta Forna
Review from Publishers Weekly: Forna saw her
father for the last time on July 30, 1974; she was 10
years old. In this harrowing memoir-cum-detective story,
journalist Forna searches for the truth about her father's
execution in Sierra Leone after his treason conviction
for allegedly attempting a coup upon the government
in which he had once been a cabinet minister. ..
read full review
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The
Krio of Sierra Leone: An Interpretive History
(Paperback)
by Akintola J. G. Wyse
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Tamba
and the Chief: A Temne Legend (Legends
of the World) (Paperback) by Melinda Lilly, Charles
Reasoner (Illustrator)
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An
African Victorian Feminist: The Life and Times of Adelaide
Smith Casely Hayford, 1868-1960 (Paperback)
by Adelaide M. Cromwell
First Sentence:
Adelaide Smith Casely Hayford (1868-1960) was a special
person, belonging to a special category of a special
class of people - the Creole elite of Freetown, Sierra
Leone. Read
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Moses,
Citizen & Me (Paperback)
by Delia Jarrett Macauley
When Julia flies in to war-scarred Sierra Leone from London, she is apprehensive about seeing her uncle Moses for the first time in twenty years. But nothing could have prepared her for her encounter with her eight-year-old cousin, Citizen, a former child soldier, and for the shocking truth of what he has done. ..
Review from Ali Smith, Booker-shortlisted novelist wrote in The Guardianthe Guardian:
'a considered and multi-layered novel, remarkable for its slow measured pulse, its calm analysis ...'
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Faces
of Africa (Hardcover)
by Angela Fisher, Carol Beckwith
From Publishers Weekly: This striking
coffee table study offers rare visages of Africa—that
vast continent most often examined only through news
reports of insurrection, plague and famine. Rather than
view African cultures as an indistinguishable whole,
seasoned photographers Beckwith and Fisher carefully
focus on the varied life journeys and rituals of the
peoples they have encountered over three decades of
travel in 36 countries. Read
full review..
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Mara-Serengeti:
A Photographer's Paradise (Hardcover)
by Jonathan Scott, Angela Scott, Caroline Taggart
Review from Booklist: Beautiful pictures
connect two new books celebrating the wildlife of Africa.
Coppard has moved beyond the savannas in Kenya to travel
the deserts of Namibia, the rain forests of the Congo
basin, the Okavango Delta in Botswana, and the kopjes
of South Africa. Four chapters cover the basic ecology
of Africa, beginning with a succinct overview of the
geology and landscapes found there. Read
full Review..
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Through
the Eyes of the Gods : An Aerial Vision of Africa (Hardcover)
by Bobby Haas
Book Description: This remarkable
vision of Africa from the air invites the reader to
view this large and varied continent as if an invited
guest on a private plane, with a dialogue between the
photographer and the viewer. Read
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The
Art of Travel (Hardcover)
by Alain de Botton
Review from Library Journal: An experienced
traveler and the author of five books, including How
Proust Can Change Your Life, De Botton here offers nine
essays concerning the art of travel. Divided into five
sections "Departure," "Motives,"
"Landscape," "Art," and "Return"
the essays start with one of the author's travel experiences,
meander through artists or writers related to it, and
then intertwine the two. Read
full review..
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Solo
Traveler: Tales and Tips for Great Trips, 1st Edition
by Lea Lane
From Publishers Weekly: The difference
between a tourist and a traveler, contends globetrotting
journalist Lane, is that a tourist seeks only comfort
while a traveler seeks discovery. Travelling, she claims,
is best experienced alone. Read
full review...
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