books by subject
African Historical Biographies

Thomas Hodgkin: Letters from Africa, 1947-56

Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen

Forgotten Saints: History, Power, and Politics in the Making of Modern Morocco

Tribe: The Hidden History of the Mountains of the Moon

I Didn't Do It For You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation

The Barefoot Emperor: An Ethiopian Tragedy

Of Lions and Dung Beetles: A Man in the Middle of Colonial Administration in Kenya

Paths Without Glory: Richard Francis Burton in Africa

Are We Not Also Men?: The Samkange Family and African Politics in Zimbabwe, 1920-64

Biafra Story

Part of My Soul

A Soldier's Story: Neville 'Timber' Wood's War, from Dunkirk to D-Day

Mungo Park: Surgeon and West African Explorer

One Day I Will Write About This Place

A Just Defiance: The Bombmakers, the Insurgents and a Legendary Treason Trial

Long Walk to Freedom

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

Hitler: 1936-45 : Nemesis

The White Masai

Chasing Chaos: My Decade in and Out of Humanitarian Aid

A Tree Without Roots: The Guide to Tracing British, African and Asian Caribbean Ancestry

Abba Eban: A Biography

The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History: Winner of the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019

Six Years a Hostage: The Extraordinary Story of the Longest-Held Al Qaeda Captive in the World

The Illustrated Long Walk To Freedom

Long Walk To Freedom: 'Essential reading' Barack Obama

Rebel Englishwoman: The Remarkable Life of Emily Hobhouse

Tears of the Desert: One woman's true story of surviving the horrors of Darfur

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
