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King Leopold’s Ghost

Year: 2002 | Published by: Pax

When US historian Adam Hochschild published his award winning account of the brutal plunder of the Congo it raised a …

Disgrace

Year: 1999 | Published by: Secker and Warburg

This Booker Prize winning novel set in post-apartheid South Africa, is about redemption, the shift in political power and the …

Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight

Year: 2002 | Published by: MacMillan

Alexander Fuller’s much-talked-about memoir records her childhood in war-torn Africa, with a focus on the difficult relationships between settlers and …

Do They Hear You When You Cry

Year: 1999 | Published by: Bantam

The 17-year-old Fauziya Kassindja made headlines in 1996 when she was the first female to be granted asylum in the …

The Bottom Billion

Year: 2007 | Published by: Oxford University Press

In this latest book, former World Bank economist Paul Collier has identified fifty eight stagnating countries where nearly one billion …

Country of My Skull

Year: 1998 | Published by: Random House

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in South Africa oversaw three committees dealing with human rights violations, reparations and amnesty …

The Grass is Singing

Year: 1950 | Published by: Thomas Y. Crowell Company

This is Lessing’s first novel and tells the story of Dick and Mary Turner, ‘white’ farmers in a remote part …

In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu’s Congo

Year: 2000 | Published by: Fourth Estate London

This thrilling book recounts the extravagant tyranny of Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) for …

The Famished Road

Year: 1991 | Published by: Anchor Books

Ben Okri’s Booker prize-winning novel draws on the Nigerian belief in “spirit children” who die and are continuously reborn.

Burger’s Daughter

Year: 1979 | Published by: Viking Press

Set in South Africa during the apartheid regime, this novel is about the beginning of a young white woman’s political …

A Fine Balance

Year: 1995

Critics have lauded this book as one of the greatest novels of the late 20th century. Set in Bombay (now …

Maru

Year: 1971

“Maru” is set in a remote village in Botswana in the 1960s. The novel is an examination of racial prejudice …

How the world works: a teacher’s post primary resource

Year: 2010

A teacher’s guide to global justice issues for transition year.. This pack promotes awareness about the causes of global inequalities, …

Millennium Development Goals

Year: 2005

An interactive animation that outlines basic information about the Millennium Development Goals.

If the World Had 100 People

Year: 2006

An animation designed to sketch a portrait of the world in terms of population and wealth distribution. It is a …

HIV and AIDS

Year: 2011 | Published by: 80:20 Educating and Acting for a Better World

Animation presenting the basic facts around the issue of HIV and AIDS.

Poverty

Year: 2009 | Published by: 80:20 Educating and Acting for a Better World

This animation provides basic facts around the issue of poverty.

Condomise Africa

Year: 2010 | Published by: Mosten Mutale and Mark Mwanamwalye

This short film tells the story of Fred Tembo from Garden Compound (a high density poor urban settlement) in Lusaka, …

Cultures Colliding

Year: 2008

This is a short film about a group of young people from Dublin and Zambia who came together to create …