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The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt

By Toby Wilkinson

Prospero and Caliban: The Psychology of Colonization

By Octave Mannoni

Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580

By Roger Crowley

An Ethiopian Odyssey

By Annette Allen

ALL OF THESE PEOPLE: A Memoir

By Keane

Disciples of All Nations: Pillars of World Christianity

By Lamin O. Sanneh (D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity and Professor of History, D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity and Professor of History, Yale University)

Mimi and Toutou Go Forth: The Bizzare Battle of Lake Tanganyika

By Giles Foden

The King Incorporated: Leopold The Second And The Congo

By Neal Ascherson

Kaunda and Southern Africa

By Stephen Chan (SOAS, University of London, UK)

Exporting Empire: Africa, Colonial Officials and the Construction of the British Imperial State, C.1900-39

By Christopher Prior

The African Experience

By Roland Oliver

Personal Rule in Black Africa: Prince, Autocrat, Prophet, Tyrant

By Robert H. Jackson, Carl G. Rosberg

Africa: Land of the Sun

By John Reader, Michael Lewis

Whitefella Jump Up: The Shortest Way to Nationhood

By Germaine Greer

Societies of Southern Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries: v. 20

The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa's Wealth

By Tom Burgis

The Dying Sahara: US Imperialism and Terror in Africa

By Jeremy Keenan

L' Affaire Boisson: Un proconsul de Vichy en Afrique

By LES INDES SAVANTES

L'Afrique du Nord en marche: Algérie, Tunisie, Maroc, 1880-1952

By Julien, Charles-André

The Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa: Cote d'Ivoire, 1880-1995

By Thomas J. Bassett (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 2: The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier

By John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff

The African Garrison State: Human Rights & Political Development in Eritrea REVISED AND UPDATED

By Kjetil Tronvoll, Daniel R. Mekonnen

Famine That Kills: Darfur, Sudan, 1984-85

By Alex De Waal

Living with Africa

Facing the Storm: Portraits of Black Lives in Rural South Africa

By Tim Keegan

Between the Crown and Swastika: The Impact of the Radical Right on the Afrikaner National Movement in the Fascist Era

By Patrick J. Furlong

Transforming Settlement in Southern Africa

By Chris de Wet (Professor of Anthropology, Rhodes University, South Africa), Roddy Fox

Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950

By Helen Tilley

Colonialism in Africa: Volume 1

By L. H. Gann

Africa Shoots Back: Alternative Perspectives in Sub-Saharan Francophone African Film

By Melissa Thackway