Africa
The vibrant stories and vital perspectives of Africa's changemakers, thought leaders, and cultural icons illuminate the continent's complex history, diverse societies, and ongoing transformation. Through memoirs, analysis, and cultural commentary, these works explore everything from political struggles and economic challenges to athletic excellence and personal journeys that have shaped modern Africa.
Africa Book Summaries
Running with the Kenyans
Passion, Adventure, and the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth
Sports
Travel
Memoir
Capitalist Nigger
The Road to Success: A Spider-Web Doctrine
Africa
Race
Nigeria
Chasing Chaos
My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid
Memoir
Travel
Africa
A Broken People's Playlist
Short Stories
Africa
Nigeria
The Looting Machine
Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
Africa
History
Politics
Becoming Nigerian
A Guide
Africa
Nigeria
African Literature
Nelson Mandela
A Biography
Biography
Africa
History
This Strange Eventful History
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Africa
The Next Africa
An Emerging Continent Becomes a Global Powerhouse
Africa
Economics
Business
The Boer War
History
Africa
South Africa
Aid on the Edge of Chaos
Rethinking International Cooperation in a Complex World
International Development
Economics
Africa
White Malice
The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
History
Africa
Politics
In Sorcery's Shadow
A Memoir of Apprenticeship among the Songhay of Niger
Anthropology
Africa
Niger
The Tyranny of Experts
Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
Economics
Politics
History
Wine to Water
A Bartender's Quest to Bring Clean Water to the World
Memoir
Africa
Biography
Yemen
Dancing on the Heads of Snakes
History
Politics
Cultural
Aman
The Story of a Somali Girl
Biography
Africa
Somalia
Long Walk to Freedom - Volume 2
1962 - 1994
Biography
History
Africa
The Bone Woman
A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
Anthropology
History
Africa
The Ends of the Earth
From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy
Travel
History
Politics
Now I Am Known
Memoir
Biography
Adoption
Tears of the Desert
A Memoir of Survival in Darfur
Africa
Memoir
Biography
In the Country of Others
Historical Fiction
France
Africa
The Nigerwife
Mystery
Thriller
Africa
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
History
Africa
Books About Books
The Pirates of Somalia
Inside Their Hidden World
Africa
History
Somalia
Good Morning, Mr. Mandela
Biography
Africa
Memoir
Call Me American
A Memoir
Memoir
Africa
Book Club
The Smell of Apples
South Africa
Africa
Historical Fiction
Facing the Lion
Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna
Africa
Memoir
Biography
You Must Set Forth at Dawn
Africa
Memoir
Nigeria
The Great Boer War
History
Africa
War
Arabesque
A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon
Cookbooks
Cooking
Food
El sueño del celta
Historical Fiction
Ireland
Africa
The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty
Mystery
Travel
Book Club
Ethiopia
Recipes and traditions from the horn of Africa
Cookbooks
Food
Cooking
The Promise
Historical Fiction
Africa
South Africa
Bankrupting the Third World
Spanish Literature
Poverty
Africa
The Lioness of Morocco
Historical Fiction
Africa
Romance
Surrender or Starve
Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea
Africa
History
Travel
The Desert and the Sea
977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
Memoir
Africa
Biography
Song of the Nightingale
One Woman's True Story of Faith & Persecution in Eritrea
Biography
Africa
Christian
Rootless
Romance
Contemporary
Literary Fiction
Les Soleils des indépendances
Africa
France
African Literature
Déogratias
Graphic Novels
Comics
Historical Fiction
Small Worlds
Contemporary
Literary Fiction
Romance
The Zorg
A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
History
Africa
Crime
Radical Inclusion
Seven Steps to Help You Create a More Just Workplace, Home, and World
Social Justice
Self Help
Leadership
Cursed Daughters
Fantasy
Contemporary
Literary Fiction
The Forest People
Anthropology
Africa
Ethnography
