African Historical Biographies

Sol Plaatje: Selected Writings

By Sol T. Plaatje

Sol Plaatje: A life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje 1876-1932

By Brian Willan

Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa

By Robert Harms

The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper, 1894-1985

By Charles van Onselen

A Living Man from Africa: Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa Chief and Missionary, and the Making of Nineteenth Century South Africa

By Roger S. Levine

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

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

By Linda Tucker, Andrew Harvey

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

Libya: The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi

By Alison Pargeter

Ahmad al-Mansur: The Beginnings of Modern Morocco

By Mercedes Garcia-Arenal

Talk of the Devil

By Riccardo Orizio

Bwana Stokesi and His African Conquests

By Nicholas Harman

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

By Hollis R. Lynch

Muhammad: a Prophet for Our Time

By Karen Keishin Armstrong

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

By Steve Kemper

Inside African Anthropology: Monica Wilson and her Interpreters

By Andrew Bank (University of the Western Cape, South Africa), Leslie J. Bank (University of Fort Hare

The Wife's Tale: A Personal History

By Aida Edemariam

Cleopatra: A Biography

By Duane W. Roller (Professor Emeritus of Greek and Latin, Professor Emeritus of Greek and Latin, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH)

Mugabe and the White African

By Ben Freeth

The unlikely secret agent

By Ronnie Kasrils