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The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East

By Marc Lynch

Democratic Transitions in the Arab World

By Ibrahim Elbadawi, Samir Makdisi (American University of Beirut)

Economic Policy Reform in Egypt

By Iliya Harik

The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How One Girl Fought to Save Herself, Her Sister and Thousands of Girls Worldwide

By Nice Leng'ete

Bantu Bureaucracy

By Lloyd A. Fallers

The Civil Rights Movement

By Jack E. Davis (University of Florida)

Political Writings

By Jean-Francois Lyotard, Bill Readings, Kevin Paul Geiman

Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics

By John Torpey

On the Freedom Side: How Five Decades of Youth Activists Have Remixed American History

By Wesley C. Hogan

Jan Smuts: Unafraid of greatness

By Richard Steyn

Transitional Justice in Troubled Societies

By Aleksandar Fatic, Klaus Bachmann, Igor Lyubashenko

The Message

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad

By Michela Wrong

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

By Wrong, Michela

Civil Rights Crossroads: Nation, Community, and the Black Freedom Struggle

By Steven F. Lawson

Tomorrow Is Another Century

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By martin-luther-king-jr

African Awakening: The Emerging Revolutions

By Sokari Ekine, Firoze Manji

African Gifts of the Spirit: Pentecostalism and the Rise of a Zimbabwean Transnational Religious Movement

By David Maxwell

Identity Economics: Social Networks and the Informal Economy in Nigeria

By Kate Meagher

Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of Congo and the Great War of Africa

By Jason Stearns

Warm Hearts, White Hopes

By John Dubbey

Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

By Nelson Mandela

African Governance Report 2013: Elections and the Management of Diversity in Africa

By United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness

By Gobodo-Madikizela, Pumla

Political Legitimacy in Middle Africa: Father, Family, Food

By Schatzberg, Michael G.

Freedom Next Time

By Pilger, John

A History of South Africa

By Welsh, Frank

Instruments of Darkness

By Wilson, Robert

The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter’s Memoir

By Forna, Aminatta