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Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda

By Susan Reynolds Whyte

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

By Jennifer A. Widner

Constitutional and Political History of Uganda: From 1894 to Present

By George W Kanyeihamba

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

By Shane Doyle

Women, Work & Domestic Virtue in Uganda, 1900-2003

By Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo, Marjorie Keniston McIntosh

Darfur: A New History of a Long War

By Julie Flint, Alex De Waal

Africa: A Modern History

By Guy Arnold

Tribe: The Hidden History of the Mountains of the Moon

By Tom Stacey

Famine that Kills: Darfur, Sudan

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

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

By Michela Wrong

Foundations of an African Civilisation: Aksum and the northern Horn, 1000 BC - AD 1300

By David W. Phillipson

A Song of Longing: AN ETHIOPIAN JOURNEY

By Kay Shelemay

The Barefoot Emperor: An Ethiopian Tragedy

By Philip Marsden

Imagining Ethiopia: Struggles for History and Identity in the Horn of Africa

By John Sorenson

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

By Elena Vezzadini

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

By Edemariam, Aida

Contesting Catholics: Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda

By Jonathon L. Earle (Royalty Account), J.J. Carney

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

Qut of Africa and Shadows on the Grass (englischsprachig)

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

Mau Mau and Nationhood: Arms, Authority and Narration

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

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

By Daniel Branch (University of Warwick)

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

By Terence Gavaghan

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

By Gavin Kitching

Kenya: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2011

By Daniel Branch

Mombasa, the Swahili, and the Making of the Mijikenda

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