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The Lions Diary

By Jeremy Guscott, Nick Cain

An Evil Cradling

By Brian Keenan

DONT LETS GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT : AFRICAN CHILDHOOD

By Alexandra Fuller

Trevor Huddleston: Turbulent priest

By Piers McGrandle

Cleopatra

By Stacy Schiff

The Broken String: The Last Words of an Extinct People

By Neil Bennun

Bandit Mentality: Hunting Insurgents in the Rhodesian Bush War, a Memoir

By Lindsay O'Brien

Shadows of a Forgotten Past: To the Edge with the Rhodesian SAS and Selous Scouts

By Paul French

Battling Injustice: 16 Women Nobel Peace Laureates

By Supriya Vani

Great Boys: An African Childhood

By Tanure Ojaide

Ahmadu Bello: Sardauna of Sokoto

By John N Paden, John N. Paden

Killing Zone

By Harry McCallion

Brief Authority: A Memoir of Colonial Administration in Tanganyika

By Charles Innes Meek, Innes Meek

The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram: A Compelling Story of Courage and Endurance in the Second World War

By David M. Guss

Too Late to Turn Back: Barbara and Graham Greene in Liberia

By Barbara Greene, Paul Theroux

Poetry of L.S. Senghor

By Mezu, Sebastian Okechukwu

Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country

By Slovo, Gillian

Angola: Promises and Lies

By Maier, Karl

For Women and the Nation: FUNMILAYO RANSOME-KUTI OF NIGERIA

By Johnson-Odim, Cheryl, Mba, Nina Emma

Death of Dignity: Angola's Civil War

By Brittain, Victoria

Ignatius Sancho: An African Man of Letters

By King, Reyahn, Sandhu, Sukhdev, Girdham, Jane, Walvin, James, National Portrait Gallery, Phillips, Caryl

Allison Akene Ayida: Nigeria's Quintessential Public Servant

By Kayode, Femi, Otobo, Dafe

Se'kou Toure'

By Milne, June

My Friend the Mercenary

By James Brabazon

The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power

By Rotberg, Robert I.

Samora Machel: A Biography (Great African Lives)

By Christie, Iain

Out of the Black Shadows: The Amazing Transformation of Stephen Lungu

By Lungu, Stephen

Where We Have Hope

By Andrew Meldrum

God's Needle: How Lily Gaynor Brought Hope And Healing To The Land Of The Witchdoctors

By Gaynor, Lily, Butterworth, John

The Assassination of Lumumba

By de Witte, Ludo