Mauritania

Books in this genre are set in or about Mauritania.

The Desert and the Drum
Guantánamo Diary: Restored Edition
The Actual True Story of Ahmed and Zarga
A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa
Deep in the Sahara
Sahara
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Angels of Mauritania a...
 
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Mohamed Bouya Bamba
Islam's Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora
Travels in Mauritania
Eve out of Her Ruins
The Shadow of the Sun
To the Moon and Timbuktu: A Trek Through the Heart of Africa
Birds of Nabaa: A Mauritanian Tale
Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
Canada in Africa - 300 Years of Aid and Exploitation
Chasing the Devil by Tim ButcherThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeA Long Way Gone by Ishmael BeahHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichiePurple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
West Africa
201 books — 87 voters
Blood River by Tim ButcherDark Star Safari by Paul TherouxSo Many Africas by Jill KandelKilimanjaro and Beyond by Barry FinlayJourney Without Maps by Graham Greene
Adventure Travel & Exploration In Africa
121 books — 114 voters

Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El SaadawiAya by Marguerite AbouetNervous Conditions by Tsitsi DangarembgaSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb SalihThe Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
Tour d'Afrique
71 books — 21 voters
Mr. Impossible by Loretta ChaseAs You Desire by Connie BrockwayThe Other Guy's Bride by Connie BrockwayA Spear of Summer Grass by Deanna RaybournMr. Impossible by Loretta Chase
Historical Romance Set in Africa
52 books — 21 voters


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Michael Medved
Saudi Arabia outlawed slave owning only in 1962. The Islamic Republic of Mauritania finally moved toward abolition in 1981, but the practice continued unabated, even after a 2003 law that made slave ownership punishable with jail or a fine. As recently as December 2004, the BBC cited Boubakar Messaoud of Mauritania’s SOS Slaves organization: ‘A Mauritanian slave, whose parents and grandparents before him were slaves, doesn’t need chains. He has been brought up as a domesticated animal.
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