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Title: Mandela, Mobutu, and Me: A Newswoman's African Journey by Lynne Duke ISBN: 0-385-50398-9 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 21 January, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This book is phenomenal!
Comment: Mandela, Mobutu, And Me is a phenomenal book. Lynne Dukes is an excellent journalist. I regret that I missed her at the Harlem Book Fair this past July because I would have personally told her how much this book has meant to me. The book made me laugh and cry and helped me catch up on some important history on Africa. I find myself referring back to the book quite frequently especially when I hear a report on any of the countries discussed in the book including South Africa, Congo-Zaire, Angola and Rwanda. This book offers an incredible wealth of knowledge and a fresh prospective on these countries as well as important events that have occurred in recent times. It also discusses Africa leaders whom we all should have some knowledge of and America's "only when we can profit" policy toward Africa. I was especially impressed with Dukes candid thoughts on Africa as African-American woman. I thought there were very few African-American women like myself who still have a love and connection to Africa in spite of all the negative reports we hear about Africa. This book has allowed me travel to a place that I have yet to visit but is so much a part of who I am today. Thank you Mrs. Dukes for making this journey possible.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating Eyewitness Account of Africa in the 90's
Comment: Lynne Duke has written an engaging account of her first-hand observations in Africa during the years she served there as a Washington Post foreign correspondent. Her discussion of the evolution of South Africa and the personalities of Nelson and Winnie Mandela are probably the most fascinating parts of the book, and her work is also deeply touching and informative when it describes the impact of revolutions and war in central Africa (the Congo, Rwanda and Uganda). The book is detailed enough to suit the African scholar, but also accessible and personal enough to engage and inform non-scholastic readers. While detailed and well-documented, it goes beyond dry facts to bring home the rich African culture and the dramatic, sometimes shocking and heartbreaking realities of life on a war-torn continent.
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Title: A Love No Less : Two Centuries of African American Love Letters by Pamela Newkirk ISBN: 0385503792 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 20 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Somebody's Someone: A Memoir by Regina Louise ISBN: 0446529109 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 12 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Always Wear Joy : My Mother Bold and Beautiful by Susan Fales-Hill ISBN: 0060523565 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: We Won't Budge: An African Exile in the World by Manthia Diawara ISBN: 0465017096 Publisher: BasicCivitas Books Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Troubled Heart of Africa: A History of the Congo by Robert Edgerton ISBN: 0312304862 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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