African Historical Biographies

The Search for Cleopatra

By Michael Foss

Exp Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

By Alexandra Fuller

The World

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

East African Doctors: A History of the Modern Profession

By John Iliffe (University of Cambridge)

A Stone's Throw: Diaries, 1912-84

By Genestra Hamilton

Picturing Algeria

By Pierre Bourdieu (SSRC), Craig Calhoun, Franz Schultheis, Christine Frisinghelli

Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure

By Tim Jeal

Vinnicombe's Trek

By R.N. Currey

It's Our Turn to Eat

By Michela Wrong

View Across the River: Harriette Colenso and the Zulu Struggle against Imperialism

By Jeff Guy

Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia: The Reformist Intellectuals of the Early Twentieth Century

By Bahru Zewde

King of Kings: The Triumph and Tragedy of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia

By Asfa-Wossen Asserate, Peter Lewis

117 Days: An Account of Confinement and Interrogation under the South African 90-Day Detention Law

By Ruth First, Gillian Slovo

Gandhi Before India

By Ramachandra Guha

An African Life: Tales of a Colonial Officer

By M.C. Atkinson

Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa

By Godwin, Peter

Footprints in the African Sand: My Life and Times

By Dr Michael Cassidy

Mandela

By Tom Lodge (Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Limerick)

The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter

By Albie Sachs, Desmond Tutu

The Broken String: The Last Words of an Extinct People

By Neil Bennun

The unlikely secret agent

By Ronnie Kasrils

Ahmad al-Mansur: The Beginnings of Modern Morocco

By Mercedes Garcia-Arenal

Talk of the Devil

By Riccardo Orizio

Bwana Stokesi and His African Conquests

By Nicholas Harman

K. O. Mbadiwe: A Nigerian Political Biography, 1915-1990

By Hollis R. Lynch

Muhammad: a Prophet for Our Time

By Karen Keishin Armstrong

A Labyrinth of Kingdoms: 10,000 Miles through Islamic Africa

By Steve Kemper

Libya: The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi

By Alison Pargeter

Mission for Hammarskjold: Congo Crisis

By Rajeshwar Dayal

Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History

By N. Levtzion, J.F.P. Hopkins