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Dare to disappoint

growing up in Turkey
Personal identity and national politics combine in this memoir of the author's struggle to find herself in a rapidly changing Turkey of the 1980s and '90s.

Aya

2012
A graphic novel about the daily life of a Aya, a nineteen-year-old girl living in Yopougon on Africa's Ivory Coast in 1978, her two best friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling relatives and neighbors.

Africa unchained

the blueprint for Africa's future
2005
Argues that in order for Africa to prosper, it must revert back to its centuries-old traditions of free enterprise, free markets, and free trade, urging Africa to improve and build upon its own indigenous institutions rather than following the economic models of foreign powers.

The Zanzibar chest

a story of life, love, and death in foreign lands
2003
African native and frontline reporter Aidan Hartley chronicles the experiences of his ancestors who emigrated from Britain to Sub-Saharan Africa during the mid-nineteenth century, and contrasts them with his own adventures on the continent.

A continent for the taking

the tragedy and hope of Africa
2005
Howard French takes us inside Nigeria, Liberia, Mali, and the Congo, examining the legacy of colonization in the lives of contemporary Africans.

Nigeria

1996
Provides insight into the land and peoples of Nigeria with an emphasis on the country's economic development.

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