African Historical Biographies

One Day I Will Write About This Place

By Wainaina, Binyavanga

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

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

By Steinberg, Jonny

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

Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity

By Macias, Monica

Leaving Before the Rains Come

By Fuller, Alexandra

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

By Weinberg, Eli

South Africa: The First Man, the Last Nation

By Johnson, R W

Stanley

By McLynn, Frank

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

By Taylor, Stephen

Red: My Autobiography

By Neville, Gary

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

Saving the White Lions: One Woman's Battle for Africa's Most Sacred Animal

By Linda Tucker, Andrew Harvey

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