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Noah talks with Douglas Farah, West Africa correspondent for the Washington Post, who is in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, to bring us up to date on politics there. Last month after a presidential election, Ivory Coast's military ruler Robert Guei was forced to flee the country amid protests by supporters of Socialist Laurent Gbagbo. Guei was accused of rigging election results. Gbagbo took over. But next month, Ivory Coast is scheduled to hold parliamentary elections. The country's former Prime Minister Alassane Ouattara), who wanted to challenge Gbagbo's victory, has been cleared to run for parliament.

In her 40 years of public service she worked for civil rights, helped write the guidelines that are now established in the Sexual Harrassment Act, worked for reform in South Africa and has argued before the Supreme Court. She has been the Commissioner on Human Rights in New York, the first woman appointed to head the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a law professor. Holmes Norton is the subject of the new biography Fire in My Soul, written by a long-time friend, Joan Steinau Lester.

A little more than two years ago, wildlife biologist Mike Fay made an extraordinary 2,000-mile research walk across Africa's Congo Basin, documenting the region's wildlife. But that was hardly the end of his adventures. As NPR's Alex Chadwick reports, Fay has just barely escaped with his life from an encounter with an elephant.

The leader of the Senegalese trio Daara J says hip-hop was a familiar sound in the group's native country long before it became popular in America.

He's the author of a biography of World War II correspondent Ernie Pyle, who was beloved by the public, and G.I.s and generals alike. He witnessed the great American campaigns of the war -- North Africa, Sicily, Italy, D-Day, Normandy, the liberation of Paris, and Okinawa. Eleanor Roosevelt said, "I would not miss that column any day if I could possibly help it." Pyle was killed in Okinawa just three weeks short of the war's end. Tobin's book is Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II. Tobin's newest book is To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight.

Citing the need to identify fraudulent passports, the European airliner says it wants South Africans to pass a test on a language spoken by only 13% of the country's travelers.

Author and historian Robert Satloff discusses his book Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands. Satloff recounts the stories of Arabs who protected or aided Jews in North Africa during World War II.

Philanthropist and investor George Soros is the chairman of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Institute. His new book is The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of The War on Terror. Soros, whose worth has been estimated at over $7 billion, has directed his philanthropic efforts toward defeating George W. Bush in 2004, overthrowing communism in Eastern Europe, helping black students attend university in apartheid South Africa and repealing drug prohibition laws internationally.

Journalist Adam Roberts of The Economist talks about his new book, The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa. Roberts tells the story of a group of mercenaries and merchants who hatched a plan to topple the dictatorship of Equatorial Guinea in order to reap the profits from the country's oil resources.

World War II veteran and author Norman Mailer, who died Saturday at 84, is remembered for his many enduring works. One shows Mailer in an unusually unguarded moment after hearing a roar while running on a dark road in Africa.