The Enough Moment: Fighting to End Africa's Worst Human Rights Crimes

7 best books like The Enough Moment: Fighting to End Africa's Worst Human Rights Crimes (John Prendergast): The Autobiography of Malcolm X, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, Twelve Years a Slave, Long Walk To Freedom, Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna, Famine Crimes: Politics and the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa, First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Author

Malcolm X

Alternate cover for ISBN 9780345350688

Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum to Muslim minister....

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

Author	Barack Obama
ISBN	0307237699

The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics—a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America's place in the world, refreshingly candid about his family life and his time in the Senate, Obama here sets...

Twelve Years a Slave

Author

Solomon Northup

Twelve Years a Slave, sub-title: Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana, is a memoir by Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. It is a slave narrative of a black...

Long Walk To Freedom

Author	Nelson Mandela
ISBN	0349116024

From his birth in a village on the banks of the Mbashe River in the Transkei to his politicisation and development as a freedom fighter, this first volume of Nelson Mandela's classic autobiography charts the early years of his life, which culminated in his prison sentence in 1962. Emotive, compelling...

Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna

Author	Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton
ISBN	0792272978

Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton gives American kids a firsthand look at growing up in Kenya as a member of a tribe of nomads whose livelihood centers on the raising and grazing of cattle. Readers share Lekuton's first encounter with a lion, the epitome of bravery in the warrior tradition. They follow his mischievous...

Famine Crimes: Politics and the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa

Author	Alex de Waal
ISBN	0253211581

"A powerful critique of the international humanitarian agencies dominating famine relief in Africa." --Foreign Affairs

"This is unquestionably an important book by a writer whose accomplishments as a researcher, critic and activist on famine and on human rights in Africa are widely respect."...

First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army

Author	Peter Eichstaedt
ISBN	1556527993

“Richard Opio has neither the look of a cold-blooded killer nor the heart of one. Yet as his mother and father lay on the ground with their hands tied, Richard used the blunt end of an ax to crush their skulls.  He was ordered to do this by a unit commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army, a rebel group that...