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  Another Day of Life

  by Ryszard Kapuściński

  Ryszard Kapuscinski is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's preeminent journalists, demonstrating an almost mystical ability to discover the odd or overlooked and incorporating these sometimes surreal details into narratives that go beyond mere reportage and enter the realm of literature. Another Day of Life is Kapuscinski's dramatic account of the three months he spent in Angola at the... (more)
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  The Book of Chameleons

  by José Eduardo Agualusa

  This unusual novel about the landscape of memory and its inconsistencies follows Felix Ventura as he trades in a curious commodity—he sells people different pasts. He can create entirely new pasts full of better memories and complete with new lineage or augment existing pasts as needed. Narrated by an exceptionally articulate and rather friendly lizard that lives on Felix’s living-room wall, this richly detailed... (more)
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  African Writers Series

  Mayombe

  by Pepetela

  Pepetela's novel is a fascinating study of the tensions produced by racism, tribalism, and sexual morals.
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  South of Nowhere

  by António Lobo Antunes

  Original title: "Os cus de Judas". In English, it has also been translated as "The Land at the End of the World".A novel about colonial ambition and depravity in Africa, and about a man's perverse and relentless seduction of a woman. One night in a bar in Lisbon in the early 1970s, a veteran of hostilities between Portugal and Angolan liberation movements who has spent some time in a mental asylum is... (more)
• Reader's Digest Natural Wonders Of The WorldReader's Digest Association

  

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  Reader's Digest Natural Wonders Of The World

  by Reader's Digest Association

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  Bay of Tigers

  A Journey Through War-Torn Angola

  by Pedro Rosa Mendes

  An extraordinary account of Pedro Rosa Mendes's journey across Africa in 1997 - 6000 miles from the west to the east coast, from Angola to Mozambique - on trains with no windows, no doors, no seats, on wrecks of trucks and buses, on boats and motorcycles. In war-torn Angola, a country where the landmines outnumber the people, Mendes finds long lines of villagers waiting for shock treatment to neutralize the... (more)
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  Contra el viento (Spanish Edition)

  by Ángeles Caso

  Gandora del Premio Planeta en Novela 2009. La novela es un reconocimiento a las mujeres invisibles del siglo XXI. La niña Sao, nacida para trabajar, como todas en su aldea, decide construirse una vida mejor en Europa. Tras aprender a levantarse una y otra vez encontrara una amistad nueva con una mujer espanola que se ahoga en sus inseguridades. Sao le devolvera las ganas de vivir y juntas construiran un... (more)
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  Bonsoir les choses d'ici-bas

  by Antonio Lobo Antunes

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  The Ovahimba Years - Les années Ovahimba

  Ma vie avec les Ovahimba

  by Rina Sherman,With Pierre-Albert Ruquier

  Elle a un jour posé ses armes d'universitaire au sein de leur maison et son destin est désormais scellé au leur. Rina-Kandavi, son prénom Ovahimba, en a fait des films simples et beaux, et nous offre avec sept années de sa vie avec les Ovahimbas, ses difficultés, ses joies, ses peines, ses doutes, ses certitudes…Le texte s'articule autour du voyage entre Windhoek, la capitale de la Namibie, et Etanga, soit... (more)
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  Portugal: Século XX: Book 3

  O anjo branco

  by José Rodrigues dos Santos

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  Rain

  by Leigh K. Cunningham

  By turn dark and amusing, Rain delivers an emotionally charged revelation about love, loss, guilt, self-discovery and redemption. The enduring question of family bonds, escapable or not, divides, conquers, and triumphs.
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  O signo do fogo

  by Boaventura Cardoso

  Text: Portugese
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  E se amanhã o medo

  by Ondjaki

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  Equador

  by Miguel Sousa Tavares

  It is Lisbon in the year 1905 and our hero, Luis Bernardo Valenca, a 37-year-old bachelor and owner of a small shipping business, is revelling in the luxury of Lisbon's high society. Intellectually curious, he writes about politics in his spare time, believing that Portugal's vast empire is having a civilising effect on the far-off lands it has colonised. But his life is turned upside down when King Dom Carlos... (more)
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  Dances with Devils: A Journalist's Search for Truth

  by Jacques Pauw

  For more than a decade, Jacques Pauw has traversed his native continent in pursuit of warlords and drug traffickers, child soldiers and charlatans, adventure and anarchy. What he found was a rich array of personalities and a panoply of stories, ranging from the profoundly tragic to the intensely personal. Pauw's stories range from South Africa to Rwanda, from Sierra Leone and the Sudan to Mozambique. Readers... (more)
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  Civil War Is Not a Stupid Thing: Accounting for Violence in Developing Countries

  by Christopher Cramer

  Why is there so much violence in the developing countries? What does it have to do with economic development? What does it have to do with globalisation? In addressing these and other questions, Christopher Cramer takes a broad comparative approach, from recent wars, insurgencies and violence in Angola, Brazil, and Iraq to the American Civil War, showing how wars have been paid for throughout history. He also... (more)
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  Sacred hope: Poems

  by Agostinho Neto

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  My Father's Wives

  by José Eduardo Agualusa

  In "My Father's Wives", reality and fiction run side by side, the former feeding into the latter. However, in the territories Jose Eduardo Agualusa crosses, fiction plays a part in reality too. The four characters in the novel which the author is writing as he travels accompany him from Luanda, the capital of Angola, to Benguela and Namibe. They cross the Namibian sands and their ghost towns, reaching Cape Town in... (more)
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  Cpntribuição para o Pensamento Histórico e Sociológico Angolano

  by Cornélio Caley

• Historia Geral Das Guerras Angolanas 1680. 3 VolumesAntonio De Oliveira de Cadornega

  

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  Historia Geral Das Guerras Angolanas 1680. 3 Volumes

  by Antonio De Oliveira de Cadornega