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Ethiopia: An Heretical Revolution

By La Librairie Francois Maspero

Kenyan Communities in the Age of Imperialism: The Central Region in the Late Nineteenth Century

By Charles H. Ambler

Uganda Since Independence: A Story of Unfulfilled Hopes

By Phares Mutibwa

Moi: The Making of an African Statesman

By Andrew Morton

Mau-mau from within: Analysis of Kenya's Peasant Revolt

By Donald L. Barnett, Karari Njama

Decolonization and Independence in Kenya, 1940-1993

By B. A. Ogot, W. R. Ochieng

The Mottled Lizard

By Elspeth Huxley

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

Man and Development

By Julius K. Nyerere

Education, Society and Development: New Perspectives from Kenya

By David Court, Dharam P. Ghai

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

By P. Desplat, Terje Ostebo

Somalia: The Missed Opportunities

By Mohamed Sahnoun

Class and revolution in Ethiopia

By Markakis, John

Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

By David Graeber

One Day I Will Write About This Place

By Binyavanga Wainaina

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

By Lucette Lagnado

The White Masai

By Corinne Hofmann, Peter Millar

Africa: A Modern History

By Guy Arnold

Famine that Kills: Darfur, Sudan

By Alex de Waal (Director, Director, Justice Africa, London)

Tribe: The Hidden History of the Mountains of the Moon

By Tom Stacey

I Didn't Do It For You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation

By Michela Wrong

Darfur: A New History of a Long War

By Julie Flint, Alex De Waal