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Civil Wars in Africa: Roots and Resolution

By Taisier M. Ali, Robert O. Matthews

The Nile: A Journey Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present

By Toby Wilkinson (University of Cambridge UK)

When The Walking Defeats You: One Man's Journey as Joseph Kony's Bodyguard

By Ledio Cakaj, Romeo Dallaire

Kau: The Kenya African Union

By John Spencer

A History of Modern Uganda

By Richard J. Reid (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)

Living with Bad Surroundings: War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda

By Sverker Finnstroem

The Lord's Resistance Army: Myth and Reality

By Tim Allen, Koen Vlassenroot

The Ugandan Morality Crusade: The Brutal Campaign Against Homosexuality and Pornography Under Yoweri Museveni

By Deborah Kintu

Political Power in Pre-colonial Buganda: Economy, Society and Warfare in the 19th Century

By Richard Reid

Colonial Buganda and the End of Empire: Political Thought and Historical Imagination in Africa

By Jonathon L. Earle (Centre College, Danville, Kentucky)

The Ugandan Churches and the Political Centre: Cooperation, Co-option and Confrontation

By Paddy Musana, Angus Crichton, Caroline Howell

The Eritrean Struggle for Independence: Domination, Resistance, Nationalism, 1941-1993

By Ruth Iyob (University of Missouri, St Louis)

Revolution in Zanzibar: An American's Cold War Tale

By Donald Petterson

The Flags Changed at Midnight: Towards the Independence of Tanganyika

By Michael Longford

Mountain Farmers: Moral Economies of Land and Agricultural Development in Arusha and Meru

By Thomas Spear (Author)

Capricorn: David Stirling's Africa Campaign

By Richard Hughes

War in Pre-Colonial Eastern Africa: The Patterns and Meanings of State-Level Conflict in the 19th Century

By Richard Reid

Man and Development

By Julius K. Nyerere

No Man's Land: An Investigative Journey Through Kenya and Tanzania

By George Monbiot

Religion and Politics in East Africa: The Period Since Independence

By Holger Bernt Hansen, Michael Twaddle, Twaddle Michael

Lost Lions of Judah: Haile Selassie's Mongrel Foreign Legion 1935-41

By Christopher Othen

A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It

By Stephen Kinzer

Uganda: Landmarks in Rebuilding a Nation

A Modern History of Tanganyika

By John Iliffe

Rwanda and Genocide in the Twentieth Century

By Alain Destexhe

White Mischief

By Fox James

Freedom and Development-Uhuru na Maendeleo: A Selection from the Writings and Speeches, 1968-73

By Julius K. Nyerere

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

By Lucette Lagnado

Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

By David Graeber

One Day I Will Write About This Place

By Binyavanga Wainaina