African Historical Biographies

An Evil Cradling

By Brian Keenan

DONT LETS GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT : AFRICAN CHILDHOOD

By Alexandra Fuller

Trevor Huddleston: Turbulent priest

By Piers McGrandle

Cleopatra

By Stacy Schiff

Of This Our Country: Essays from some of Nigeria’s greatest writers, including Ayobami Adebayo, Inua Ellams, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Helon Habila, Chigozie Obioma, Bolu Babalola and more

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

Eyes in the Night: An Untold Zulu Story

By Mathiane, Nomavenda

Tales From the Dark Continent: Images of British Colonial Africa in the Twentieth Century

By Charles Allen, Helen Fry, Anthony Kirk-Greene

Red: My Autobiography

By Neville, Gary

Nefertiti and Cleopatra: Queen-Monarchs of Ancient Egypt

By Julia Samson, H.S. SMITH

Ulendo: Claude's African Journey into War and Passion

By Malcolm Alexander, Archbishop Desmond Tutu

A Man of Good Hope: One Man's Extraordinary Journey from Mogadishu to Tin Can Town

By Steinberg, Jonny

Livingstone's Tribe: A Journey From Zanzibar to the Cape

By Taylor, Stephen

Stanley

By McLynn, Frank

South Africa: The First Man, the Last Nation

By Johnson, R W

Portrait of a People: A Personal Photographic Record of the South African Liberation Struggle

By Weinberg, Eli

Leaving Before the Rains Come

By Fuller, Alexandra

Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity

By Macias, Monica

Joe Appiah: The Autobiography of an African Patriot

By Appiah, Enid

A Certain Amount of Madness: The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara (Black Critique)

By Murrey, Amber

Lumumba: Africa's Lost Leader (Life & Times)

By Leo Zeilig

Great Uncle Fred's War: An Illustrated Diary, 1917-20

By Fred Mills, Mills, Fred, Pryor, Alan, Woods, Jennifer

Reunion in Barsaloi

By Hofmann, Corinne, Millar, Peter

65 Years of Friendship: A Memoir of My Friendship With Nelson Mandela

By George Bizos

Your Obedient Servant: Tales of a Uganda Forester

By Leggat, George, Beaton, Arnold, Lang Brown, James, Osmaston, Henry

Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen: An Ordinary Family's Extraordinary Tale of Love, Loss, and Survival in Congo

By Lisa J Shannon

Soweto 16 June 1976

By Brink, Elsabe, Malungane, Gandhi

Veil: Secret Wars of the C.I.A., 1981-87

By Woodward, Bob