African Historical Biographies

An African Life: Tales of a Colonial Officer

By M.C. Atkinson

Mission for Hammarskjold: Congo Crisis

By Rajeshwar Dayal

Libya: The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi

By Alison Pargeter

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

By Steve Kemper

Muhammad: a Prophet for Our Time

By Karen Keishin Armstrong

K. O. Mbadiwe: A Nigerian Political Biography, 1915-1990

By Hollis R. Lynch

Bwana Stokesi and His African Conquests

By Nicholas Harman

Talk of the Devil

By Riccardo Orizio

Ahmad al-Mansur: The Beginnings of Modern Morocco

By Mercedes Garcia-Arenal

The unlikely secret agent

By Ronnie Kasrils

The Broken String: The Last Words of an Extinct People

By Neil Bennun

The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter

By Albie Sachs, Desmond Tutu

Mandela

By Tom Lodge (Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Limerick)

Footprints in the African Sand: My Life and Times

By Dr Michael Cassidy

Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa

By Godwin, Peter

Vinnicombe's Trek

By R.N. Currey

The Search for Cleopatra

By Michael Foss

Exp Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

By Alexandra Fuller

The World

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

East African Doctors: A History of the Modern Profession

By John Iliffe (University of Cambridge)

A Stone's Throw: Diaries, 1912-84

By Genestra Hamilton

Picturing Algeria

By Pierre Bourdieu (SSRC), Craig Calhoun, Franz Schultheis, Christine Frisinghelli

Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure

By Tim Jeal

Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia: The Reformist Intellectuals of the Early Twentieth Century

By Bahru Zewde

Gandhi Before India

By Ramachandra Guha

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

By Ruth First, Gillian Slovo

King of Kings: The Triumph and Tragedy of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia

By Asfa-Wossen Asserate, Peter Lewis

Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History

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

View Across the River: Harriette Colenso and the Zulu Struggle against Imperialism

By Jeff Guy

It's Our Turn to Eat

By Michela Wrong