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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

Operation Solomon: The Daring Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews

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

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

Mau Mau and Nationhood: Arms, Authority and Narration

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

Being Maasai: Ethnicity and Identity in East Africa

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

Mombasa, the Swahili, and the Making of the Mijikenda

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

Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya and Africa

By Bruce Berman (Author), John Lonsdale

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

By Elena Vezzadini

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

By Caroline Elkins

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

By Stephen Rockel

Qut of Africa and Shadows on the Grass (englischsprachig)

By Blixen Karen, Blixen, Karen

The Happy Valley

Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-Living Poet

By Edward Wilson-Lee

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

By Mark Leopold

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

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

Contesting Catholics: Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda

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

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

By Edemariam, Aida

The Falashas: The Forgotten Jews of Ethiopia

By David Kessler

The White Masai

By Corinne Hofmann, Peter Millar