African Historical Biographies

The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power

By Rotberg, Robert I.

The Lions Diary

By Jeremy Guscott, Nick Cain

Too Late to Turn Back: Barbara and Graham Greene in Liberia

By Barbara Greene, Paul Theroux

The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram: A Compelling Story of Courage and Endurance in the Second World War

By David M. Guss

Brief Authority: A Memoir of Colonial Administration in Tanganyika

By Charles Innes Meek, Innes Meek

Killing Zone

By Harry McCallion

Ahmadu Bello: Sardauna of Sokoto

By John N Paden, John N. Paden

Great Boys: An African Childhood

By Tanure Ojaide

Battling Injustice: 16 Women Nobel Peace Laureates

By Supriya Vani

Shadows of a Forgotten Past: To the Edge with the Rhodesian SAS and Selous Scouts

By Paul French

Bandit Mentality: Hunting Insurgents in the Rhodesian Bush War, a Memoir

By Lindsay O'Brien

The Broken String: The Last Words of an Extinct People

By Neil Bennun

Cleopatra

By Stacy Schiff

Trevor Huddleston: Turbulent priest

By Piers McGrandle

DONT LETS GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT : AFRICAN CHILDHOOD

By Alexandra Fuller

An Evil Cradling

By Brian Keenan

Where We Have Hope

By Andrew Meldrum

You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir

By Soyinka, Wole

An Ethiopian Odyssey

By Annette Allen

The passion for reason

Emma’s War: Love, Betrayal and Death in the Sudan

By Scroggins, Deborah

The Wizard Of The Nile: The Hunt For Joseph Kony

By Matthew Green

A Burning Hunger

By L Schuster

Gandhi: The South African Experience

By Maureen Swan

Amedeo: A True Story of Love and War in Abyssinia

By Sebastian O'Kelly

It’s Our Turn to Eat

By Wrong, Michela

Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad

By Michela Wrong

There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

By Chinua Achebe

Kakungulu and the Creation of Uganda, 1868-1928

By Michael Twaddle

Warrior Chiefs of Southern Africa

By Ian Knight