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

By Pat Shipman

Jan Smuts: Unafraid of greatness

By Richard Steyn

Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation

By Susan Williams

Pirates

By Ross Kemp

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun (TPB)

Alexandria: City of Memory

By Michael Haag

Livingstone

By Tim Jeal

David Livingstone: Mission and Empire

By Dr Andrew C. Ross

David Livingstone: Man, Myth and Legacy

By Sarah Worden

Moi: The Making of an African Statesman

By Andrew Morton

Almost Human

By Lee Berger

Native nostalgia

By Jacob Dlamini

In Black and White: The Jake White Story

By White, JAKe, Ray, Craig

Tell Freedom

By Peter Abrahams

Obote: A Political Biography

By kenneth ingham

Out of Africa

By Isak Dinesen

A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream

By Mark Gevisser

Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh

By Joyce Tyldesley

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

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

By Philip Bowcock

Battlefront Namibia AWS 244 (Heinemann African Writers Series)

By John Ya Otto, Ole Gjerstad, Michael Mercer

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

By Christopher Fyfe

Mafeking Diary

By Sol T. Plaatje, John Comaroff, Brian Willan

The Imperial War Museum Book of the Desert War

By Adrian D. Gilbert

The Flying Scotsman: The Eric Liddell Story

By Sally Magnusson

Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949

By Lessing, Doris

Legionnaire: An Englishman in the French Foreign Legion

By Murray, Simon

No Picnic on Mount Kenya

By Benuzzi, Felice