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Letters from Egypt: A Journey on the Nile, 1849-1850

By Nightingale, Florence

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The Pale Abyssinian: The Life of James Bruce, African Explorer and Adventurer

By Bredin, Miles

Journey Through a Small Planet (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Emanuel Litvinoff, Patrick Wright

The Passionate Imperialists: the true story of Sir Frederick Lugard, anti-slaver, adventurer and founder of Nigeria, and Flora Shaw, renowned journalist for 'The Times'

By O'Grady, Rory

Churchill's Bodyguard

By Hickman, Tom

Breakout: Profiles in African Rhythm

By Stewart

Am I an African?: The Political Memoirs of H.M.Basner

By Basner, Miriam, Lodge, Tom

At the Desert's Edge: Oral Histories from the Sahel

By Cross, Nigel, Barker, Rhiannon

Let Me Create a Paradise, God Said to Himself: A Journey of Conscience from Johannesburg to Jerusalem

By Goodman, Hirsh

A Semite: A Memoir of Algeria

By Guenoun, Denis, Butler, Judith, Smock, Ann, WILLIAM

The Punishment of Gaza

By Gideon Levy

Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab (Makers of the Muslim World)

By Crawford, Michael

Hannibal's War

By John Peddie

The Last Lion Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932

By William Manchester, Manchester, WILLIAM

Left to Tell: One Woman's Story of Surviving the Rwandan Genocide

By Ilibagiza, Immaculée, Erwin, Steve

My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams: A South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and Himself

By Malan, Rian

Genocide: My Stolen Rwanda: Surviving the Rwandan Genocide

By Révérien Rurangwa

Wingate and the Chindits: Redressing the Balance

By Rooney, David

IMPERIAL VANITIES: The Adventures of the Baker Brothers and Gordon of Khartoum

By Thompson, Brian

Tales from the Dark Continent: Images of British Colonial Africa in the Twentieth Century

By Allen, Charles, Fry, Helen P.

The Murder Of Tutankhamen: A 3000-year-old Murder Mystery

By Brier, Bob

A Marriage of Inconvenience: Persecution of Ruth and Seretse Khama

By Dutfield, Michael

The Historical Jesus For Dummies

By Murphy PhD, Catherine M.

White Lies: Canon John Collins and the Secret War Against Apartheid

By Denis Herbstein

Steve Biko: Decolonial Meditations of Black Consciousness (Critical Africana Studies)

By Sithole, Tendayi

Weeding the Flowerbeds

By Mkhonza, Sarah

Child Soldier

By China Keitetsi

Private Tucker's Boer War Diary

By Frederick Tucker, Pamela Todd, David Fordham

The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis (W.E.B. Dubois Institute)

By Soyinda, Wole

The Unlikely Secret Agent

By Kasrils, Ronnie