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Good Morning, Mr. Mandela by Zelda la Grange
epub |eng | 2014-06-16 | Author:Zelda la Grange

8 Working with World Leaders Although Madiba appeared healthy and strong, he was not. In July 2001 he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. One afternoon after having his lunch at ...
( Category: Africa June 29,2016 )
Battle of the Labyrinth
epub |eng | 2012-08-23 | Author:Rick Riordan [Riordan, Rick]

ELEVEN I SET MYSELF ON FIRE I thought we’d lost the spider until Tyson heard a faint pinging sound. We made a few turns, backtracked a few times and eventually ...
( Category: Greek & Roman June 14,2016 )
Crazy River by Grant Richard
epub |eng | 2011-10-24 | Author:Grant, Richard

THE PAPYRUS BLOCKAGE extended for about ten river miles, and it was flanked with broad marshes and swampy wetlands where the blocked river had spread its waters laterally. We drove ...
( Category: General June 9,2016 )
Radio Congo by Rawlence Ben;
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Rawlence, Ben; [ Rawlence, Ben]

15 The intelligence director’s bath Railway carriages rust in Kalemie IT IS STILL DARK. The Moba is waiting to dock at Kalemie, once the east’s major port, the end of ...
( Category: General May 26,2016 )
Gaddafi's Harem by Cojean Annick
epub, mobi |eng, fra | 2013-08-13 | Author:Cojean, Annick

2 “LIBYA,” KHADIJA, LEILA . . . AND SO MANY MORE I would like to be able to tell other stories besides Soraya’s. To mention other tragedies lived through by ...
( Category: Africa May 24,2016 )
Churchill and the Mad Mullah of Somaliland: Betrayal and Redemption 1899-1921 by Roy Irons
epub |eng | 2013-11-03 | Author:Roy Irons [Irons, Roy]

…not for my personal gratification…but as a matter reflecting on my prestige among the Somalis. I served in the Somaliland Protectorate at varying times and for considerable periods from 1901 ...
( Category: Africa May 5,2016 )
The Cost of War by A.C. Ellas
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:A.C. Ellas [Ellas, A.C.]

* * * * Exhausted, injured and pregnant, the stress of translating took its toll on Zala. She collapsed on the midnight black grass that fronted the Hall of Night. ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 4,2016 )
A Handful of Heroes, Rorke's Drift: Facts, Myths and Legends by Katie Stossel
epub |eng | 2015-06-29 | Author:Katie Stossel

The four soldiers mentioned in the two extracts above had also been detailed to defend the hospital, together with most of the patients who were fit enough to handle their ...
( Category: South Africa April 28,2016 )
The Last Hunger Season by Roger Thurow
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Roger Thurow [Thurow, Roger]

FRANCIS WANJALA MAMATI was lost amid the towering maize stalks on his shamba. “Over here,” he shouted to his wife, Mary, who was coming to join him for a day ...
( Category: Kenya April 26,2016 )
African Independence by Tukufu Zuberi
epub |eng | 2015-04-20 | Author:Tukufu Zuberi [Zuberi, Tukufu]

African Decolonization and Repression For different reasons, the Soviet Union and the United States politically encouraged the rise of nationalist movements in Asia and Africa. At first this support was ...
( Category: African-American Studies April 21,2016 )
The Ohio and Malta: The Legendary Tanker That Refused to Die by Michael Pearson
epub |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Michael Pearson

*Designed to raise a curtain of water ahead of low flying torpedo bombers to break up their attacks. Two-column formation intended but never actually achieved for passage through The Narrows. ...
( Category: State & Local April 21,2016 )
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer
epub |eng | | Author:Joshua Hammer

12 At his home in the Bella Farandja neighborhood, Abdel Kader Haidara paced the courtyard for long periods of reflection, pondering how to respond to the rebels’ seizure of Timbuktu. ...
( Category: General April 19,2016 )
Boko Haram: Inside Nigeria's Unholy War by Mike Smith
mobi |eng | 2015-01-29 | Author:Mike Smith

4 ‘That Is How Complex the Situation Is’ The president, apparently attempting to comfort the nation, would end up doing something else entirely. It was January 2012, at the end ...
( Category: African April 8,2016 )
Children of God Storybook Bible by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
epub |eng | | Author:Archbishop Desmond Tutu [Desmond Tutu ]

Dear God, help me to trust you when I am tempted. Chapter 31 Jesus Turns Water into Wine God brings joy John 2 Jesus and his disciples went to a ...
( Category: Historical April 8,2016 )
Morocco That Was by Walter Harris
epub |eng | 2012-04-05 | Author:Walter Harris [Walter Harris]

CHAPTER TWO RAISULI was now completely outlawed. He lived in the fastness of his mountains, where the Sultan’s troops could never even attempt to penetrate. Thence he spread alarm right ...
( Category: Travel April 6,2016 )

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