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There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

By Chinua Achebe

Sol Plaatje: Selected Writings

By Sol T. Plaatje

Picturing Algeria

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

The unlikely secret agent

By Ronnie Kasrils

The Broken String: The Last Words of an Extinct People

By Neil Bennun

The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter

By Albie Sachs, Desmond Tutu

Mandela

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

Footprints in the African Sand: My Life and Times

By Dr Michael Cassidy

Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa

By Godwin, Peter

An African Life: Tales of a Colonial Officer

By M.C. Atkinson

Gandhi Before India

By Ramachandra Guha

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

By Ruth First, Gillian Slovo

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

By Asfa-Wossen Asserate, Peter Lewis

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

By Bahru Zewde

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

By Jeff Guy

It's Our Turn to Eat

By Michela Wrong

Vinnicombe's Trek

By R.N. Currey

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

By Tim Jeal

My Kenya Days

By Thesiger, Wilfred

Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa

By Robert Harms

The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper, 1894-1985

By Charles van Onselen

A Living Man from Africa: Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa Chief and Missionary, and the Making of Nineteenth Century South Africa

By Roger S. Levine

The Pyramid Builder: Cheops, the Pharaoh Behind the Great Pyramid

By Christine El-Mahdy

A World with a Human Face: A Voice from Africa

By Njongonkulu Ndungane

Biko: A Life

By Xolela Mangcu, Nelson Mandela

Cleopatra

By Hughes Hallett

East African Doctors: A History of the Modern Profession

By John Iliffe (University of Cambridge)

The World

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

Exp Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

By Alexandra Fuller

A Stone's Throw: Diaries, 1912-84

By Genestra Hamilton