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Resources
Conflict in Africa
NONFICTION
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Un Largo Camino: Memorias de un Niño Soldado
Ishmael Beah
966.404 BE SPA
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Africa's Armies: From Honor to Infamy
Robert B. Edgerton
355.033067 ED
- Ambushed: A War Reporter's Life on the Line
Ian Stewart
070.4333092 S8497S
- The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War
Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva
303.60968 MA
- Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones
Greg Campbell
966.404 CA
- Conspiracy to Murder: The Rwanda Genocide
Linda Malvern
967.5710431 ME
- Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide
Gérard Prunier
962.7 PR
- Darfur: A Short History of a Long War
Julie Flint
962.7043 FL
- Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide
M. W. Daly
962.4043 DA
- The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur
Brian Steidle
962.4043 ST
- The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest
Aminatta Forna
966.404092 F727F
- Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Alexandra Fuller
968.9104092 F9652F
- Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda
Michael Barnett
967.57104 BA
- Genocide: Rwanda and Burundi
Edward L. Nyankanzi
967.57104 NY
- The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe, and Power in the Heart of Africa
Bill Berkeley
305.896 BE
- Harvest of Hope: Stories of Life-Changing Gifts
Kay Marshall Strom
261.832 ST
- Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone
C. Magbaily Fyle
966.4003 FY
- Hotel Rwanda: Bringing the True Story of an African Hero to Film
Terry George, editor
791.4372 HO
- How de Body?: One Man's Terrifying Journey through an African War
Teun Voeten
966.404 VO
- In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars
Kevin Sites
070.4333 SI
- Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide
Robert Lyons
967.5710431 LY
- Justice on the Grass: Three Rwandan Journalists, Their Trial for War Crimes, and a Nation's Quest for Redemption
Dina Temple-Raston
967.5710431 TE
- Left to Tell: Discovering God amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
Immaculée Ilibagiza
282.092 I28I
- Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak
Jean Hatzfeld
967.5710431 HA
- Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan, and Rwanda
Scott Peterson
960.329 PE
- Minefields in Their Hearts: The Mental Health of Children in War and Communal Violence
Roberta J. Apfel and Bennett Simon, editors
305.23 MI
- Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
Peter Godwin
968.9104 GO
- Negative Ethnicity: From Bias to Genocide
Koigi wa Wamwere
305.8 KO
- The New Africa: Dispatches from a Changing Continent
Robert M. Press
967.032 PR
- Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond
Don Cheadle
962.7043 CH
- An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography
Paul Rusesabagina
967.5710431 R951R
- Peacekeeping in Africa [computer file]: ECOMOG in Liberia
Karl P. Magyar and Earl Conteh-Morgan, editors
341.584096662 21
- A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide
Linda Melvern
967.57104 ME
- Religion and African Civil Wars
Niels Kastfelt, editor
201.72 RE
- Rwanda Means the Universe: A Native's Memoir of Blood and Bloodlines
Louise Mushikiwabo
967.5710431 MU
- Rwanda's Genocide: The Politics of Global Justice
Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu
345.6757102 MO
- Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
Roméo Dallaire
967.5710431 D144D
- The Shallow Graves of Rwanda
Shaharyar M. Khan
967.57104 KH
- The Skull Beneath the Skin: Africa after the Cold War
Mark Huband.
960.32 HU
- Surviving the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire
Marie Baeatrice Umutesi
305.906914 U53U
- This Voice in My Heart: A Genocide Survivor's Story of Escape, Faith, and Forgiveness
Gilbert Tuhabonye
967.57204 TU
- The Turbulent Decade: Confronting the Refugee Crises of the 1990s
Sadako Ogata
362.8709049 OG
- U.S. National Debate Topic 2007-2008: Health Care in Sub-Saharan Africa
Forrest Cole, editor
362.10967 UN
- War of Words: Memoir of a South African Journalist
Benjamin Pogrund
070.92 PO
- We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
Philip Gourevitch
364.1510967 GO
- When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
Peter Godwin
968.9105109 G591G
FICTION
- Ancestor Stones
Aminatta Forna
FIC FOR
- Beasts of No Nation
Uzodinma Iweala
FIC IWE
- Blood Diamonds
Jon Land
FIC LAN
- Deogratias, a Tale of Rwanda
Jean-Philippe Stassen
GN DEO
- God Is Dead
Ron Currie, Jr.
FIC CUR
FILMS AND RECORDED BOOKS
YOUTH BOOKS
- Central and East Africa: 1880 to the Present
Daniel E. Harmon
J 967.03 HA
- Crisis in Rwanda
Charles Freeman
J 967.571 FR
- Cry Softly, Thule Nene
Shirley Bojé
J FIC BOJ OFY
- Diamonds in the Shadow
Caroline B. Cooney
Y FIC COO
- The Lost Boys of Natinga
Judy Walgren.
J 305.23 WA
- Making it Home: Real-Life Stories from Children Forced to Flee
Beverley Naidoo
J 305.230 MA
- One Day We Had to Run! : Refugee Children Tell Their Stories in Words and Paintings
Sybella Wilkes
J 362.87 WI
- Refugee Boy
Benjamin Zephaniah
Y FIC ZEP
- When the Horses Ride By: Children in the Times of War/ Poems
Eloise Greenfield
J 811.54 GR
Visit our previous Mayor's Book Club resource guides online:
Spring 2007: Around The Bloc by Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Spring 2006: The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
Spring 2005: Writing Austin's Lives by Metro Austin Residents
Spring 2004: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Spring 2003: Holes by Louis Sachar
Spring 2002: Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
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