books by subject
History of Eastern Africa

Darfur: A New History of a Long War

Africa: A Modern History

Tribe: The Hidden History of the Mountains of the Moon

Famine that Kills: Darfur, Sudan

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

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

A Song of Longing: AN ETHIOPIAN JOURNEY

The Barefoot Emperor: An Ethiopian Tragedy

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

Operation Solomon: The Daring Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews

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

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

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

Kenya: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2011

Mau Mau and Nationhood: Arms, Authority and Narration

Being Maasai: Ethnicity and Identity in East Africa

Mombasa, the Swahili, and the Making of the Mijikenda

Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya and Africa

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

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

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

Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass

The Happy Valley

Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-Living Poet

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

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

Contesting Catholics: Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda

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

The Falashas: The Forgotten Jews of Ethiopia
