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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

Rommel: Battles and Campaigns

By Macksey, Kenneth

Monarchs of the Nile

By Aidan Dodson

Discovery of the Source of the Nile

By John Hanning Speke, James Augustus Grant

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

My Life and Travels: An Anthology

By Wilfred Thesiger, Alexander Maitland

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

Moi: The Making of an African Statesman

By Andrew Morton

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

By Ian Knight

In Search of Enemies: Central Intelligence Agency Story

By John Stockwell

The Global African: A Portrait of Ali A Mazrui

By Omari H Kokole

The Mottled Lizard

By Elspeth Huxley

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

By Frances Osborne

David Livingstone: Man, Myth and Legacy

By Sarah Worden

No Picnic on Mount Kenya

By Benuzzi, Felice

Catch That Tiger: Churchill's Secret Order That Launched the Most Astounding and Dangerous Mission of World War II

By Noel Botham, Bruce Montague

Born Wild: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Passion for Lions and for Africa.

By Tony Fitzjohn

Livingstone

By Tim Jeal

Alexandria: City of Memory

By Michael Haag