African Historical Biographies

Inside African Anthropology: Monica Wilson and her Interpreters

By Andrew Bank (University of the Western Cape, South Africa), Leslie J. Bank (University of Fort Hare

Mugabe and the White African

By Ben Freeth

Cleopatra: A Biography

By Duane W. Roller (Professor Emeritus of Greek and Latin, Professor Emeritus of Greek and Latin, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH)

The Wife's Tale: A Personal History

By Aida Edemariam

The Man Who Moved the World: Life and Work of Mohamed Amin

By Bob Smith, Salim Amin, Michael Buerk

Letters on West Africa and the Slave Trade

By Paul Erdmann Isert, Selena Axelrod Winsnes

The Book of the Pharaohs

By Pascal Vernus, Jean Yoyotte

When The Walking Defeats You: One Man's Journey as Joseph Kony's Bodyguard

By Ledio Cakaj, Romeo Dallaire

The Flags Changed at Midnight: Towards the Independence of Tanganyika

By Michael Longford

Thomas Hodgkin: Letters from Africa, 1947-56

By Elizabeth Hodgkin

Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen

By Linda M. Heywood

Forgotten Saints: History, Power, and Politics in the Making of Modern Morocco

By Sahar Bazzaz

Tribe: The Hidden History of the Mountains of the Moon

By Tom Stacey

I Didn't Do It For You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation

By Michela Wrong

The Barefoot Emperor: An Ethiopian Tragedy

By Philip Marsden

Of Lions and Dung Beetles: A Man in the Middle of Colonial Administration in Kenya

By Terence Gavaghan

Paths Without Glory: Richard Francis Burton in Africa

By James L. Newman

Are We Not Also Men?: The Samkange Family and African Politics in Zimbabwe, 1920-64

By T O Ranger

Biafra Story

By Frederick Forsyth

Part of My Soul

By Mandela, Winnie, Benjamin, Anne, Benson, Mary, Winnie Mandela

After the Party: Corruption, the ANC and South Africa's Uncertain Future

By Andrew Feinstein

Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass

By Blixen Karen, Blixen, Karen

Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country

By Gillian Slovo

No Ordinary Pilot: One young man's extraordinary exploits in World War II

By Suzanne Campbell-Jones

The Happy Valley

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

By Alexandra Fuller

Tears of the Desert: One woman's true story of surviving the horrors of Darfur

By Halima Bashir

Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-Living Poet

By Edward Wilson-Lee

Idi Amin: The Story of Africa's Icon of Evil

By Mark Leopold

Fault Lines: Journeys into the New South Africa

By David Goodman, Paul Weinberg