African Historical Biographies

An African Life: Tales of a Colonial Officer

By M.C. Atkinson

Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa

By Godwin, Peter

Footprints in the African Sand: My Life and Times

By Dr Michael Cassidy

Mandela

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

The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter

By Albie Sachs, Desmond Tutu

The Broken String: The Last Words of an Extinct People

By Neil Bennun

The unlikely secret agent

By Ronnie Kasrils

This Way More Adventure: A Journey of Self-Education in Africa

By Janet Stuart

David Livingstone: Man, Myth and Legacy

By Sarah Worden

David Livingstone: Mission and Empire

By Dr Andrew C. Ross

Livingstone

By Tim Jeal

Alexandria: City of Memory

By Michael Haag

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun (TPB)

Pirates

By Ross Kemp

Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation

By Susan Williams

Jan Smuts: Unafraid of greatness

By Richard Steyn

To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa

By Pat Shipman

Discovery of the Source of the Nile

By John Hanning Speke, James Augustus Grant

Monarchs of the Nile

By Aidan Dodson

Rommel: Battles and Campaigns

By Macksey, Kenneth

A Woman of Firsts: The true story of the midwife who built a hospital and changed the world - A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week

By Ismail, Edna Adan, Holden, Wendy

A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It

By Stephen Kinzer

Livingstone

By Tim Jeal

When A Crocodile Eats the Sun

By Peter Godwin

David Livingstone

By M. Buxton

Alamein to Zem Zem

By keith douglas, Richard Skinner

Hatchepsut: Female Pharaoh

By Joyce A. Tyldesley

The Great Belzoni: The Circus Strongman Who Discovered Egypt's Ancient Treasure

By Stanley Mayes

Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years

By Nelson Mandela, Mandla Langa, Graca Machel

Reading Across Worlds: Transnational Book Groups and the Reception of Difference

By J. Procter, B. Benwell