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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

No Ordinary Pilot: One young man's extraordinary exploits in World War II

By Suzanne Campbell-Jones

The Happy Valley

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

By Alexandra Fuller

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

By Halima Bashir

Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-Living Poet

By Edward Wilson-Lee

Idi Amin: The Story of Africa's Icon of Evil

By Mark Leopold

Fault Lines: Journeys into the New South Africa

By David Goodman, Paul Weinberg

Voleurs de Reves (Les)

By Bachir Hadjadj

The Herectic: A Study In The Life Of John William Colenso 1814-1883

South Africa: The First Man, the Last Nation

By R. W. Johnson

Exploring the World: Two centuries of remarkable adventurers and their journeys

By Alexander Maitland

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

By Mike Wood

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

By Mike Wood

Rebel Englishwoman: The Remarkable Life of Emily Hobhouse

By Elsabe Brits

Long Walk To Freedom: 'Essential reading' Barack Obama

By Nelson Mandela

The Illustrated Long Walk To Freedom

By Nelson Mandela

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

By Stephen McGown

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

By Edemariam, Aida

Abba Eban: A Biography

By Asaf Siniver

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

By Paul Crooks

Chasing Chaos: My Decade in and Out of Humanitarian Aid

By Alexander, Jessica

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

By Asaad Alsaleh, Peter Sluglett

Shah Abbas: The King Who Refashioned Iran

By Sholeh Quinn

South Africa Weird and Wonderful

By Rob Marsh

Plain Tales from Robben Island

By Jan K. Coetzee

Churchill & Smuts: From Enemies to Lifelong Friends

By Richard Steyn

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

By J. Procter, B. Benwell