African Historical Biographies

A Labyrinth of Kingdoms: 10,000 Miles through Islamic Africa

By Steve Kemper

Libya: The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi

By Alison Pargeter

Mission for Hammarskjold: Congo Crisis

By Rajeshwar Dayal

Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History

By N. Levtzion, J.F.P. Hopkins

Inside African Anthropology: Monica Wilson and her Interpreters

By Andrew Bank (University of the Western Cape, South Africa), Leslie J. Bank (University of Fort Hare

Mugabe and the White African

By Ben Freeth

Cleopatra: A Biography

By Duane W. Roller (Professor Emeritus of Greek and Latin, Professor Emeritus of Greek and Latin, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH)

The Wife's Tale: A Personal History

By Aida Edemariam

The Man Who Moved the World: Life and Work of Mohamed Amin

By Bob Smith, Salim Amin, Michael Buerk

Letters on West Africa and the Slave Trade

By Paul Erdmann Isert, Selena Axelrod Winsnes

The Book of the Pharaohs

By Pascal Vernus, Jean Yoyotte

When The Walking Defeats You: One Man's Journey as Joseph Kony's Bodyguard

By Ledio Cakaj, Romeo Dallaire

The Flags Changed at Midnight: Towards the Independence of Tanganyika

By Michael Longford

Thomas Hodgkin: Letters from Africa, 1947-56

By Elizabeth Hodgkin

Moi: The Making of an African Statesman

By Andrew Morton

An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth: A Critical Edition

By M. K. Gandhi, Mahadev Desai, Tridip Suhrud

In Search of the Red Slave

By Mike Parker Pearson, Karen Godden

My Life and Travels: An Anthology

By Wilfred Thesiger, Alexander Maitland

The Bolter: Idina Sackville - The woman who scandalised 1920s Society and became White Mischief's infamous seductress

By Frances Osborne

The Mottled Lizard

By Elspeth Huxley

The Global African: A Portrait of Ali A Mazrui

By Omari H Kokole

In Search of Enemies: Central Intelligence Agency Story

By John Stockwell

With His Face to the Foe: The Life and Death of Louis Napoleon, The Prince Imperial Zululand 1879

By Ian Knight

Last Guardians: Crown Service in Sudan, Northern Rhodesia and Britain

By Philip Bowcock

When The Hills Ask For Your Blood: A Personal Stor

By David Belton

Journey into Africa: The Life and Death of Keith Johnston, Scottish Cartographer and Explorer (1844-79)

Kwame Nkrumah: A Political Kingdom in the Third World

By David Rooney

Africanus Horton, 1835-83: West African Scientist and Patriot

By Christopher Fyfe

Mafeking Diary: A Black Man's View of a White Man's War

By Sol T. Plaatje, John Comaroff, Brian Willan, Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje

The Flying Scotsman: The Eric Liddell Story

By Sally Magnusson