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Putting Children First: New Frontiers in the Fight Against Child Poverty in Africa

By Keetie Roelen, CROP, Richard Morgan, Yisak Tafere, Elizabeth Ngutuku

Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

By David Harewood, David Olusoga

Hegemony and Culture: Politics and Religious Change Among the Yoruba

By David D. Laitin

White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations

By Robert Vitalis

The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter’s Memoir

By Forna, Aminatta

The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness

By Paul Gilroy

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

By Skloot, Rebecca

Foxholes and Color Lines: Desegregating the U.S. Armed Forces

By Sherie Mershon (Carnegie Mellon University), Steven Schlossman (Department Head, Carnegie Mellon University)

The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates and Race, Class and Crime in America

By Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.

The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption: Winner of the 2020 Costa Biography Award

By Lee Lawrence

Now Is Your Time!: The African-American Struggle for Freedom

By Walter Dean Myers

Twelve Years a Slave (film tie-in) (Penguin classics)

By Northup, Solomon

Own the Arena: Getting Ahead, Making a Difference, and Succeeding as the Only One

By Katrina M Adams

The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption: Winner of the 2020 Costa Biography Award

By Lee Lawrence

The Politics of Cultural Difference in Northern Cameroon

By Philip Burnham

The African City: A History

By Bill Freund (University of Natal, South Africa)

Africa Is Not A Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa

By Dipo Faloyin

Hegemony and Culture: Politics and Religious Change Among the Yoruba

By David D. Laitin

Becoming

By Michelle Obama, Obama, Michelle

The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter’s Memoir

By Forna, Aminatta

Emeka's Gift: An African Counting Story

By Onyefulu, Ifeoma, Onyefulu, Ifeoma

Luster

By Leilani, Raven

Partitioned Africans: Ethnic Relations Across Africa's International Boundaries, 1884-1984

By Asiwaju, A. I.

Black Canadians: History, Experience, Social Conditions

By Joseph Mensah

The New Is Not Yet Born: Conflict Resolution in Southern Africa

By Thomas Ohlson, Stephen John Stedman

Yours for the Union

By Baruch Hirson

Segregation and Apartheid in Twentieth Century South Africa

By William Beinart, SAUL DUBOW

Barack Obama, Post-Racialism, and the New Politics of Triangulation

By Terry Smith

Black Woman's Burden: Commodifying Black Reproduction

By N. Rousseau

Living Fanon: Global Perspectives

By F. Fanon, Kenneth A. Loparo