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Battling Injustice: 16 Women Nobel Peace Laureates

By Supriya Vani

Mandela: The Life of Nelson Mandela

By Rod Green

The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur

By Daoud Hari

Che: A Memoir by Fidel Castro

By Fidel Castro, David Deutschmann, Jesus Montane

The passion for reason

An Ethiopian Odyssey

By Annette Allen

You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir

By Soyinka, Wole

Where We Have Hope

By Andrew Meldrum

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

The Lions Diary

By Jeremy Guscott, Nick Cain

Poetry of L.S. Senghor

By Mezu, Sebastian Okechukwu

The Assassination of Lumumba

By de Witte, Ludo

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

By Gaynor, Lily, Butterworth, John

My Friend the Mercenary

By James Brabazon

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

By Lungu, Stephen

Samora Machel: A Biography (Great African Lives)

By Christie, Iain

The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power

By Rotberg, Robert I.

Brief Authority: A Memoir of Colonial Administration in Tanganyika

By Charles Innes Meek, Innes Meek

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

ALL OF THESE PEOPLE: A Memoir

By Keane

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