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The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success

By Dugard, Martin

Social and Political Structures in the Pre-Colonial Period (Ethnic Groups of the Senegambia Region)

By Patience Sonko-Godwin

The Concept of Human Rights in Africa (Codesria Book Series)

By Shivji, Issa G.

First Footsteps to East Africa

By Burton

A History of Africa

Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa

By Paul E. Lovejoy (York University, Toronto)

African Kingdoms

By Lucy P. Mair

Lost Cities of Africa

By Basil Davidson

The Last Expedition: Stanley's Fatal Journey Through the Congo

By Daniel Liebowitz, Charlie Pearson

Wanderings in West Africa

By Sir Richard Francis Burton

White Malice: The CIA and the Neocolonisation of Africa

By Susan Williams

Africa Since 1875: A Modern History

By Robin H. Hallett

Africa: A Biography of the Continent

By Reader, John, John Reader

The Intellectual Traditions of Pre-Colonial Africa

By Constance Hilliard

Conversations With Myself

By Nelson Mandela

Burundi on the Brink, 1993-95: A UN Special Envoy Reflects on Preventive Diplomacy

By Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah (Executive Secretary, Global Coalition for Africa), Olusegun Obasanjo

Ethiopia since the Derg: A Decade of Democratic Pretension and Performance

By Siegfried Pausewang, Kjetil Tronvoll, Lovise Aalen

Cleopatra

By Stacy Schiff

White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves: The Forgotten Story of North Africa's European Slaves

By Milton, Giles

Who Paid The Piper?: The CIA And The Cultural Cold War

By Frances Stonor Saunders

Politics in Africa: A New Introduction

By Nana Poku, Anna Mdee

African Europeans: An Untold History

By Olivette Otele

Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance

By Jake Subryan Richards (London School of Economics and Political Science.), Victoria Avery

Africans: The History of a Continent

By John Iliffe (University of Cambridge)

The Scramble for Africa

By Pakenham, Thomas, Thomas., Thomas Pakenham

The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages

By Francois-Xavier Fauvelle, Troy Tice

Cultural Atlas of Africa

By Jocelyn Murray

Infernal Traffic: Excavation of a Liberated African Graveyard in Rupert's Valley, St Helena

By Andrew Pearson, Ben Jeffs, Annsofie Witkin, Helen MacQuarrie

Freedom Next Time

By John Pilger

The State of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence

By Martin Meredith