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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

The Lions Diary

By Jeremy Guscott, Nick Cain

The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power

By Rotberg, Robert I.

Samora Machel: A Biography (Great African Lives)

By Christie, Iain

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

By Lungu, Stephen

My Friend the Mercenary

By James Brabazon

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

By Gaynor, Lily, Butterworth, John

The Assassination of Lumumba

By de Witte, Ludo

Poetry of L.S. Senghor

By Mezu, Sebastian Okechukwu

Se'kou Toure'

By Milne, June

Allison Akene Ayida: Nigeria's Quintessential Public Servant

By Kayode, Femi, Otobo, Dafe

Ignatius Sancho: An African Man of Letters

By King, Reyahn, Sandhu, Sukhdev, Girdham, Jane, Walvin, James, National Portrait Gallery, Phillips, Caryl

Death of Dignity: Angola's Civil War

By Brittain, Victoria

For Women and the Nation: FUNMILAYO RANSOME-KUTI OF NIGERIA

By Johnson-Odim, Cheryl, Mba, Nina Emma

Angola: Promises and Lies

By Maier, Karl

Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country

By Slovo, Gillian

A Good-looking Corpse: The World of Drum - Jazz and Gangsters, Hope and Defiance in the Townships of South Africa

By Nicol, Mike

Nothing but the truth

By Turok, Ben

Yamani: The Inside Story

By Robinson, Jeffrey

Mugabe: Power, Plunder, and the Struggle for Zimbabwe's Future

By Meredith, Martin

Rabble-Rouser For Peace: The Authorised Biography of Desmond Tutu

By Allen, John

Mugabe: Teacher, Revolutionary, Tyrant

By Andrew Norman

With What Remains: A Woman's Search For Truth in the Country that Murdered Her Husband

By Bilinda, Lesley

Imperial Marriage: An Edwardian War and Peace

By Hugh Cecil, Mirabel Cecil

One Day I Will Write About This Place

By Wainaina, Binyavanga

A History of South Africa

By Welsh, Frank

Weeding the Flowerbeds

By Mkhonza, Sarah

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

By Sithole, Tendayi

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

By Denis Herbstein