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  I Didn't Do It For You

  How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation

  by Michela Wrong

  Scarred by decades of conflict and occupation, the craggy African nation of Eritrea has weathered the world's longest-running guerrilla war. The dogged determination that secured victory against Ethiopia, its giant neighbor, is woven into the national psyche, the product of cynical foreign interventions. Fascist Italy wanted Eritrea as the springboard for a new, racially pure Roman empire; Britain sold off its... (more)
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  Black Mamba Boy

  by Nadifa Mohamed

  Yemen, 1935. Jama is a “market boy,” a half-feral child scavenging with his friends in the dusty streets of a great seaport. For Jama, life is a thrilling carnival, at least when he can fill his belly. When his mother—alternately raging and loving—dies young, she leaves him only an amulet stuffed with one hundred rupees. Jama decides to spend her life’s meager savings on a search for his never-seen father; the... (more)
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  Ciao Asmara: A Classic Account of Contemporary Africa

  by Justin Hill

  A novelist’s deeply affecting account of working as a teacher in the war–torn African state of Eritrea—shortlisted for Britain’s prestigious Thomas Cook Award.
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  Surrender or starve : travels in Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia, and Ethiopia

  by Robert D. Kaplan

  Robert D. Kaplan is one of our leading international journalists, someone who can explain the most complicated and volatile regions and show why they’re 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 America’s ongoing war on terrorism. Reporting from Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Eritrea, Kaplan examines the... (more)
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  Against All Odds: A Chronicle of the Eritrean Revolution With a New Afterword on the Postwar Transiton

  by Dan Connell

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  Borders and Borderlands as Resources in the Horn of Africa (Eastern Africa Series)

  by Dereje Feyissa, Markus Virgil Hoehne

  State borders are more than barriers. They structure social, economic and political spaces and as such provide opportunities as well as obstacles for the communities straddling both sides of the border. This book deals with the conduits and opportunities of state borders in the Horn of Africa, and investigates how the people living there exploit state borders through various strategies. Using a micro level... (more)
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  Djibouti

  by Elmore Leonard

  Dara Barr, documentary filmmaker, is at the top of her game. She's covered Bosnian women, Neo-Nazis and post-Katrina New Orleans (for which she won an Oscar), but now she's looking for an even bigger challenge. So she and her right-hand-man - a 6-foot-six, 72-year-old, African-American name Xavier - head to Djibouti on the Horn of Africa to tackle modern-day pirates. Once they start filming though, they find a... (more)
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  The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families

  by Cindy Trumbore, Susan L. Roth

  For a long time, the people of Hargigo, a village in the tiny African country of Eritrea, were living without enough food for themselves and their animals. The families were hungry, and their goats and sheep were hungry too. Then along came a scientist, Dr. Gordon Sato, who helped change their lives for the better. And it all started with some special trees. These are the trees, Mangrove trees, That were... (more)
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  Asmara: Africa's Secret Modernist City

  by Edward Denison

  An excellent overview of Asmara's colonial past, the ambitious building program of its Italian occupants, and its present condition.
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  Without Troops & Tanks: The Emergency Relief Desk and the Cross Border Operation into Eritrea and Tigray

  by Mark R. Duffield

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  Eccentric Graces: Eritrea and Ethiopia Through the Eyes of a Traveler

  by Julia Stewart

  Prologue: This is a travel narrative about Eritrea, a tiny sun-drenched country along the Red Sea, and Ethiopia, its giant southern neighbor and former colonial overlord. Among the oldest civilizations on earth, these two African countries can boast over 2,000 years of recorded history. Eritrean and Ethiopian histories interlock, yet still maintain distinctive features. Eritrea's past revolves around... (more)
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  Cutting for Stone

  by Abraham Verghese

  A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel—an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.
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  The Consequences of Love

  by Sulaiman S. M. Y. Addonia

  A Romeo and Juliet story set against the strict Muslim laws of Saudi Arabia, Sulaiman Addonia’s astonishing debut novel is a sensuous and intensely wrought story of a young immigrant and a girl behind a veil who defy law and risk their lives to be together. Under a relentless summer sun, women dressed like long dark shadows and men decked out in light cotton robes roam the streets of Jeddah. While most of Naser’s... (more)