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Politics and Violence in Burundi: The Language of Truth in an Emerging State

By Aidan Russell (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva)

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

By Mark Leopold

Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-Living Poet

By Edward Wilson-Lee

The Happy Valley

Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass

By Blixen Karen, Blixen, Karen

Carriers of Culture: Labor on the Road in Nineteenth-Century East Africa

By Stephen Rockel

Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya

By Caroline Elkins

Lost Nationalism: Revolution, Memory and Anti-colonial Resistance in Sudan

By Elena Vezzadini

Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya and Africa

By Bruce Berman (Author), John Lonsdale

Mombasa, the Swahili, and the Making of the Mijikenda

By Justin Willis (Assistant Director, Assistant Director, British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi)

Being Maasai: Ethnicity and Identity in East Africa

By Thomas Spear (Author), Richard Waller (Customer)

Mau Mau and Nationhood: Arms, Authority and Narration

By E.S.Atieno Odhiambo (Author), John Lonsdale

Kenya: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2011

By Daniel Branch

Class and Economic Change in Kenya: The Making of an African Petite Bourgeoisie, 1905-70

By Gavin Kitching

Of Lions and Dung Beetles: A Man in the Middle of Colonial Administration in Kenya

By Terence Gavaghan

Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya: Counterinsurgency, Civil War, and Decolonization

By Daniel Branch (University of Warwick)

Operation Solomon: The Daring Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews

By Stephen Spector (Professor of English, Professor of English, SUNY Stony Brook)

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

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

Peasant Intellectuals: Anthropology and History in Tanzania

By Steven Feierman (Professor of History, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA)

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

By Richard Reid

Capricorn: David Stirling's Africa Campaign

By Richard Hughes

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

By Thomas Spear (Author)

The Flags Changed at Midnight: Towards the Independence of Tanganyika

By Michael Longford

Revolution in Zanzibar: An American's Cold War Tale

By Donald Petterson

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

By Ruth Iyob (University of Missouri, St Louis)

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

By Paddy Musana, Angus Crichton, Caroline Howell

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

By Ledio Cakaj, Romeo Dallaire

A History of Modern Uganda

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

Kau: The Kenya African Union

By John Spencer

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

By Sverker Finnstroem