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Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen

By Linda M. Heywood

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

By Sahar Bazzaz

Tribe: The Hidden History of the Mountains of the Moon

By Tom Stacey

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

By Michela Wrong

The Barefoot Emperor: An Ethiopian Tragedy

By Philip Marsden

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

By Terence Gavaghan

Paths Without Glory: Richard Francis Burton in Africa

By James L. Newman

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

By T O Ranger

Biafra Story

By Frederick Forsyth

Part of My Soul

By Mandela, Winnie, Benjamin, Anne, Benson, Mary, Winnie Mandela

After the Party: Corruption, the ANC and South Africa's Uncertain Future

By Andrew Feinstein

Qut of Africa and Shadows on the Grass (englischsprachig)

By Blixen Karen, Blixen, Karen

Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country

By Gillian Slovo

The Illustrated Long Walk To Freedom

By Nelson Mandela

Francois Mitterrand: A Study in Political Leadership

By Alistair Cole (Cardiff University, UK.)

An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind 'Hotel Rwanda'

By Paul Rusesabagina, Tom Zoellner

Mansa Musa and the Empire of Mali

By P James Oliver

Mungo Park: Surgeon and West African Explorer

By Mark Duffill

One Day I Will Write About This Place

By Binyavanga Wainaina

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

By Harris, Peter

Long Walk to Freedom

By Nelson Mandela

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

By Lucette Lagnado

Hitler: 1936-45 : Nemesis

By Ian Kershaw (University of Sheffield)

The White Masai

By Corinne Hofmann, Peter Millar

Chasing Chaos: My Decade in and Out of Humanitarian Aid

By Alexander, Jessica

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

By Paul Crooks

Abba Eban: A Biography

By Asaf Siniver

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

By Edemariam, Aida

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

By Stephen McGown

Fault Lines: Journeys into the New South Africa

By David Goodman, Paul Weinberg