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Goodbye Bafana

By Gregory, James

An Attempt

By R. H. Lewis

The Fear: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe

By Godwin, Peter

Lion in the bedroom

By Pat Cavendish O'Neill

A Cure for Serpents: Italian Doctor in North Africa

By Duke of Pirajno, The Duke of Pirajno, K. Naylor

A Winter on the Nile

By Anthony Sattin

The Woman Who Would be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

By Kara Cooney

The Unknown Tutankhamun

By Marianne Eaton-Krauss (independent scholar)

Pharaoh Triumphant. The Life and Times of Ramesses II

By Kenneth Kitchen

The Flame Trees Of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood

By Elspeth Huxley

Beyond No Mean Soldier: The Explosive Recollections of a Former Special Forces Operator

By Peter McAleese

Out In The Midday Sun

By Elspeth Huxley

Sword of the Prophet

By Fergus Nicoll

My Country Wept: One Man's Incredible Story of Finding Faith, Hope and Forgiveness in the Burundian Civil War

By Jessica Komanapalli

No Country for a Woman: The Adventurous Life of Lady Dorothy Mills, Explorer and Writer

By JANE. DISMORE

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood

By Robyn Scott

In Search of Sheba: A John Murray Journey

By Barbara Toy

Small by Small: A Nigerian Doctor's Story

By IKE. ANYA

The First Communist in Fort Jameson: Recollections of Africa and Other Places 1955–2018

By Watt, Mr Nigel

Abraham Hanibal

By Dieudonne Gnammankou

More Than Just a Game: Football V Apartheid

By Charles P. Korr, Marvin Close

The Kenya Pioneers

By Trzebinski, Errol

A Fork in the Road: A Memoir

By Brink, Andre

Memoirs of the Boer War

By Jan Christiaan Smuts