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Voices of the Arab Spring: Personal Stories from the Arab Revolutions

By Asaad Alsaleh, Peter Sluglett

Don't Bother to Unpack: Sudan 1959-1964

By Lowe, Dorothy Isabel

Reading Across Worlds: Transnational Book Groups and the Reception of Difference

By J. Procter, B. Benwell

David Livingstone

By M. Buxton

Alamein to Zem Zem

By keith douglas, Richard Skinner

Hatchepsut: Female Pharaoh

By Joyce A. Tyldesley

When A Crocodile Eats the Sun

By Peter Godwin

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight:: An African Childhood / Alexandra Fuller.

By Alexandra Fuller

The Great Belzoni: The Circus Strongman Who Discovered Egypt's Ancient Treasure

By Stanley Mayes

Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years

By Nelson Mandela, Mandla Langa, Graca Machel

Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall

By Spike Milligan

The Book of the Pharaohs

By Pascal Vernus, Jean Yoyotte

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

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