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Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen

By Linda M. Heywood

Forgotten Saints: History, Power, and Politics in the Making of Modern Morocco

By Sahar Bazzaz

Tribe: The Hidden History of the Mountains of the Moon

By Tom Stacey

I Didn't Do It For You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation

By Michela Wrong

The Barefoot Emperor: An Ethiopian Tragedy

By Philip Marsden

Of Lions and Dung Beetles: A Man in the Middle of Colonial Administration in Kenya

By Terence Gavaghan

Paths Without Glory: Richard Francis Burton in Africa

By James L. Newman

Are We Not Also Men?: The Samkange Family and African Politics in Zimbabwe, 1920-64

By T O Ranger

Biafra Story

By Frederick Forsyth

Part of My Soul

By Mandela, Winnie, Benjamin, Anne, Benson, Mary, Winnie Mandela

After the Party: Corruption, the ANC and South Africa's Uncertain Future

By Andrew Feinstein

Qut of Africa and Shadows on the Grass (englischsprachig)

By Blixen Karen, Blixen, Karen

Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country

By Gillian Slovo

No Ordinary Pilot: One young man's extraordinary exploits in World War II

By Suzanne Campbell-Jones

The Happy Valley

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

By Alexandra Fuller

Tears of the Desert: One woman's true story of surviving the horrors of Darfur

By Halima Bashir

Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-Living Poet

By Edward Wilson-Lee

Idi Amin: The Story of Africa's Icon of Evil

By Mark Leopold

Fault Lines: Journeys into the New South Africa

By David Goodman, Paul Weinberg

Voleurs de Reves (Les)

By Bachir Hadjadj

The Herectic: A Study In The Life Of John William Colenso 1814-1883

Francois Mitterrand: A Study in Political Leadership

By Alistair Cole (Cardiff University, UK.)

Long Walk to Freedom

By Nelson Mandela

A Just Defiance: The Bombmakers, the Insurgents and a Legendary Treason Trial

By Harris, Peter

One Day I Will Write About This Place

By Binyavanga Wainaina

Mungo Park: Surgeon and West African Explorer

By Mark Duffill

Mansa Musa and the Empire of Mali

By P James Oliver

An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind 'Hotel Rwanda'

By Paul Rusesabagina, Tom Zoellner

When A Crocodile Eats the Sun

By Peter Godwin