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Africa: Gift Books Issue
AfricaFocus Bulletin
Nov 27, 2008 (081127)
(Reposted from sources cited below)
Editor's Note
Looking for gifts that are not too expensive, but still attractive,
enjoyable, and perhaps even educational as well? Take a look at the
15 books below and click on the links below each book for more
information - or to view all the images, just go directly to
http://www.africafocus.org/books/gifts08a.php
This selection includes, at modest prices from under $10 to $49,
- striking books of photographs, such as Okwui Enwezor's Snap
Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography and
Abdi Roble's The Somali Diaspora
- art collections such as Africa Remix and Angaza Afrika
- Gerhard Kubik's Africa and the Blues, and
- children's books such as Babu's Song (under $8, for children
5 to 8) and Africa is Not a Country (under $10, for children 9-12,
perfect for nieces and nephews you want to make sure don't grow up
to be like Sarah Palin!)
Through these links you can order from Amazon in the United States,
Canada, or UK, or from Powell's Books. And if none of those are
convenient for you, there are also links to other distributors and
directly to publishers at
http://www.africafocus.org/books/booksearch.php
Go to the bottom of the page for links to other sections of the
AfricaFocus Bookshop, for a wide range of selections. And if you
are ordering from Amazon or Powell's in any case, remember that if
you do it in a visit coming through AfricaFocus Bookshop,
AfricaFocus receives a small referral fee from Amazon or Powell's,
at no extra expense to you.
I'll be adding additional pages with more gift suggestions in
coming days and weeks, so keep checking back for your last-minute
gifts as well. And if there are books (or music cds) you want to
suggest as good choices, just send me the details at
africafocus@igc.org, and I'll try to add them in promptly. And, of
course, if you want to suggest to a friend or relative a gift you
would like to receive, do refer them to the AfricaFocus Bookshop.
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Gift Books 2008
Photographs and More
(1) Snap Judgments:
New Positions in Contemporary African
Photography
Colin Richard, Okwui Enwezor
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?3865212247
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(2) Malick Sidibe: Photographs
Manthia Diawara, Gunilla Knape, Andre Magnin
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?3882439734
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(3) The Somali Diaspora
Abdi Roble, Doug Rutledge
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?0816654573
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(4) No Easy Victories:
African Liberation and American Activists
over a Half Century, 1950-2000
William Minter, Gail Hovey, and Charles Cobb, Jr.
Read excerpts & order at 15% discount at
http://www.noeasyvictories.org.
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(5) Curse of the Black Gold:
50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta
Michael Watts, Ed Kashi
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1576874265
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(6) In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
Schomburg Center For Research,
Howard Dodson, Sylviane A. Diouf
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?0792273850
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(7) Africa
Lelia Salgado, Mia Couto, Sebastião Salgado
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?3822856215
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(8) Child Soldiers
Leora Kahn, Luis Moreno-Ocampo
http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?1576874559
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Art
Music
Children's Books
Also on AfricaFocus Bookshop
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