African Historical Biographies

Shades of Difference: Mac Maharaj and the Struggle for South Africa

By Padraig O'Malley

Fledgling

By Bourne-Taylor, Hannah

Journey Through a Small Planet (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Emanuel Litvinoff, Patrick Wright

The Passionate Imperialists: the true story of Sir Frederick Lugard, anti-slaver, adventurer and founder of Nigeria, and Flora Shaw, renowned journalist for 'The Times'

By O'Grady, Rory

Churchill's Bodyguard

By Hickman, Tom

Breakout: Profiles in African Rhythm

By Stewart

Am I an African?: The Political Memoirs of H.M.Basner

By Basner, Miriam, Lodge, Tom

At the Desert's Edge: Oral Histories from the Sahel

By Cross, Nigel, Barker, Rhiannon

Let Me Create a Paradise, God Said to Himself: A Journey of Conscience from Johannesburg to Jerusalem

By Goodman, Hirsh

A Semite: A Memoir of Algeria

By Guenoun, Denis, Butler, Judith, Smock, Ann, WILLIAM

The Punishment of Gaza

By Gideon Levy

Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab (Makers of the Muslim World)

By Crawford, Michael

Hannibal's War

By John Peddie

The Last Lion Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932

By William Manchester, Manchester, WILLIAM

Left to Tell: One Woman's Story of Surviving the Rwandan Genocide

By Ilibagiza, Immaculée, Erwin, Steve

My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams: A South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and Himself

By Malan, Rian

Genocide: My Stolen Rwanda: Surviving the Rwandan Genocide

By Révérien Rurangwa

Wingate and the Chindits: Redressing the Balance

By Rooney, David

IMPERIAL VANITIES: The Adventures of the Baker Brothers and Gordon of Khartoum

By Thompson, Brian

Tales from the Dark Continent: Images of British Colonial Africa in the Twentieth Century

By Allen, Charles, Fry, Helen P.

The Murder Of Tutankhamen: A 3000-year-old Murder Mystery

By Brier, Bob

A Marriage of Inconvenience: Persecution of Ruth and Seretse Khama

By Dutfield, Michael

To My Children's Children

By Magona, Sindiwe

The Pale Abyssinian: The Life of James Bruce, African Explorer and Adventurer

By Bredin, Miles

Trevor Huddleston: A Life

By Denniston, Robin

One Step Behind Mandela: The Story of Rory Steyn, Nelson Mandela's Chief Bodyguard

By Steyn, Rory, Patta, Debora, Mandela, Nelson

Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust

By Ilibagiza, Immaculée, Erwin, Steve

British Victory in Egypt, 1801: The End of Napoleon's Conquest

By Mackesy, Dr Piers, Piers

The African Dream: the Diaries of the Revolutionary War in the Congo (Harvill Panther)

By Guevara, Che

The Desert Fathers: Translations from the Latin (Vintage Spiritual Classics)

By Waddell, Helen, Pennington, Basil