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The Happy Valley

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

By Suzanne Campbell-Jones

Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country

By Gillian Slovo

Qut of Africa and Shadows on the Grass (englischsprachig)

By Blixen Karen, Blixen, Karen

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

By Andrew Feinstein

Part of My Soul

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

Biafra Story

By Frederick Forsyth

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

By T O Ranger

Paths Without Glory: Richard Francis Burton in Africa

By James L. Newman

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

By Terence Gavaghan

The Barefoot Emperor: An Ethiopian Tragedy

By Philip Marsden

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

By Michela Wrong

Tribe: The Hidden History of the Mountains of the Moon

By Tom Stacey

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

By Sahar Bazzaz

Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen

By Linda M. Heywood

Thomas Hodgkin: Letters from Africa, 1947-56

By Elizabeth Hodgkin

The Flags Changed at Midnight: Towards the Independence of Tanganyika

By Michael Longford

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

By Ledio Cakaj, Romeo Dallaire

The Book of the Pharaohs

By Pascal Vernus, Jean Yoyotte

Letters on West Africa and the Slave Trade

By Paul Erdmann Isert, Selena Axelrod Winsnes

Saving the White Lions: One Woman's Battle for Africa's Most Sacred Animal

By Linda Tucker, Andrew Harvey

The Pyramid Builder: Cheops, the Pharaoh Behind the Great Pyramid

By Christine El-Mahdy

A World with a Human Face: A Voice from Africa

By Njongonkulu Ndungane

Biko: A Life

By Xolela Mangcu, Nelson Mandela

Cleopatra

By Hughes Hallett

My Kenya Days

By Thesiger, Wilfred

Finding Home: A memoir

By Sir Michael McWilliam

A Stone's Throw: Diaries, 1912-84

By Genestra Hamilton

East African Doctors: A History of the Modern Profession

By John Iliffe (University of Cambridge)

The World

By Simon Sebag Montefiore