African Historical Biographies

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

Bwana Stokesi and His African Conquests

By Nicholas Harman

Thomas Hodgkin: Letters from Africa, 1947-56

By Elizabeth Hodgkin

The Flags Changed at Midnight: Towards the Independence of Tanganyika

By Michael Longford

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

By Ledio Cakaj, Romeo Dallaire

The Book of the Pharaohs

By Pascal Vernus, Jean Yoyotte

Letters on West Africa and the Slave Trade

By Paul Erdmann Isert, Selena Axelrod Winsnes

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

By Bob Smith, Salim Amin, Michael Buerk

The Wife's Tale: A Personal History

By Aida Edemariam

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)

Mugabe and the White African

By Ben Freeth

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

Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History

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

Mission for Hammarskjold: Congo Crisis

By Rajeshwar Dayal

Libya: The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi

By Alison Pargeter

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

By Steve Kemper

Muhammad: a Prophet for Our Time

By Karen Keishin Armstrong

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

By Hollis R. Lynch

Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa

By Godwin, Peter

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

Ahmad al-Mansur: The Beginnings of Modern Morocco

By Mercedes Garcia-Arenal