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117 Days: An Account of Confinement and Interrogation under the South African 90-Day Detention Law

By Ruth First, Gillian Slovo

Gandhi Before India

By Ramachandra Guha

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)

South Africa Weird and Wonderful

By Rob Marsh

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

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

By Janet Stuart

Shaka Zulu

By E.A. Ritter

Shah Abbas: The King Who Refashioned Iran

By Sholeh Quinn

Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years

By Nelson Mandela, Mandla Langa, Graca Machel

When A Crocodile Eats the Sun

By Peter Godwin

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight:: An African Childhood / Alexandra Fuller.

By Alexandra Fuller

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

By Stanley Mayes

Francois Mitterrand: A Study in Political Leadership

By Alistair Cole (Cardiff University, UK.)

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

By Paul Rusesabagina, Tom Zoellner

Hatchepsut: Female Pharaoh

By Joyce A. Tyldesley

Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall

By Spike Milligan