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Thomas Hodgkin: Letters from Africa, 1947-56

By Elizabeth Hodgkin

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

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

By Mike Wood

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

The Illustrated Long Walk To Freedom

By Nelson Mandela

Long Walk To Freedom: 'Essential reading' Barack Obama

By Nelson Mandela

Rebel Englishwoman: The Remarkable Life of Emily Hobhouse

By Elsabe Brits

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

By Halima Bashir

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

By Alexandra Fuller

The Happy Valley