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Knowledge is Power!AFRICAN CONNECTIONS respectfully directs your attention to the following books, news articles, features and web pages...
In the coming weeks, this listing will be greatly expanded to reflect significant resources relevant to our principal areas of focus: The Environment, Health, Communications, Education, Youth and Sustainable Development.
Let us know what you are reading. Use the link at the bottom of this page to email us your current reading list(s)...
News Items and Feature Stories:  
- IMF praises Kenya's economic recovery, by Justin Ondari and Oliver Mathenge, The Daily Nation - October 2, 2008
  - Be afraid, ANC palace coup comes at a big price, by Gitau Warigi, The Daily Nation - September 27, 2008
  - Hookworm Infection Linked to Anemia Among Pregnant Women in Africa, by Donald G. McNeil, Jr., The New York Times - September 22, 2008
Books:  
- The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, by Barack Obama
Publisher: Vintage
  - What is the What: the autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng: a novel, by Dave Eggers
Publisher: Vintage
  - Letter to My Daughter, by Maya Angelou
Publisher: William Morrow
  - The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence, by Martin Meredith
Publisher: PublicAffairs
  - The African American Odyssey, Combined Volume (4th Edition), by Darlene Clark Hine, William C. Hine, and Stanley Harrold
Publisher: Prentice Hall
  - A Question of Manhood: A Reader in U.S. Black Men's History and Masculinity, Vol. 2: The 19th Century: From Emancipation to Jim Crow, by Darlene Clark Hine (Editor) and Earnestine Jenkins (Editor)
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