books by subject
History of Eastern Africa

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

Uganda: Landmarks in Rebuilding a Nation

A Modern History of Tanganyika

Rwanda and Genocide in the Twentieth Century

White Mischief

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

Man and Development

Education, Society and Development: New Perspectives from Kenya

Muslim Ethiopia: The Christian Legacy, Identity Politics, and Islamic Reformism

Somalia: The Missed Opportunities

Class and revolution in Ethiopia

Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

One Day I Will Write About This Place

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

The White Masai

The Falashas: The Forgotten Jews of Ethiopia

The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History: Winner of the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019

Contesting Catholics: Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda

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

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

Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-Living Poet

The Happy Valley

Crisis and Decline in Bunyoro: Population & Environment in Western Uganda 1860-1955

Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa

Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda

The Rise of a Party-State in Kenya: From Harambee! to Nyayo!

Constitutional and Political History of Uganda: From 1894 to Present

Darfur: A New History of a Long War

Tribe: The Hidden History of the Mountains of the Moon
