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
Chasing Chaos
My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid
Memoir
Travel
Africa
The Afrikaners
Biography of a People
History
Africa
South Africa
The Next Africa
An Emerging Continent Becomes a Global Powerhouse
Africa
Economics
Business
Becoming Nigerian
A Guide
Africa
Nigeria
African Literature
A Broken People's Playlist
Short Stories
Africa
Nigeria
Nelson Mandela
A Biography
Biography
Africa
History
Aid on the Edge of Chaos
Rethinking International Cooperation in a Complex World
International Development
Economics
Africa
Oil on Water
Africa
Nigeria
African Literature
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
The Tyranny of Experts
Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
Economics
Politics
History
This Strange Eventful History
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Africa
Aman
The Story of a Somali Girl
Biography
Africa
Somalia
The Looting Machine
Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
Africa
History
Politics
In Sorcery's Shadow
A Memoir of Apprenticeship among the Songhay of Niger
Anthropology
Africa
Niger
Long Walk to Freedom - Volume 2
1962 - 1994
Biography
History
Africa
The Boer War
History
Africa
South Africa
White Malice
The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
History
Africa
Politics
Tears of the Desert
A Memoir of Survival in Darfur
Africa
Memoir
Biography
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
History
Africa
Books About Books
Good Morning, Mr. Mandela
Biography
Africa
Memoir
Now I Am Known
Memoir
Biography
Adoption
The Pirates of Somalia
Inside Their Hidden World
Africa
History
Somalia
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
The Smell of Apples
South Africa
Africa
Historical Fiction
You Must Set Forth at Dawn
Africa
Memoir
Nigeria
The Nigerwife
Mystery
Thriller
Africa
In the Country of Others
Historical Fiction
France
Africa
Facing the Lion
Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna
Africa
Memoir
Biography
The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty
Mystery
Travel
Book Club
Ethiopia
Recipes and traditions from the horn of Africa
Cookbooks
Food
Cooking
Arabesque
A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon
Cookbooks
Cooking
Food
The Great Boer War
History
Africa
War
El sueño del celta
Historical Fiction
Ireland
Africa
Call Me American
A Memoir
Memoir
Africa
Book Club
Bankrupting the Third World
Spanish Literature
Poverty
Africa
The Desert and the Sea
977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
Memoir
Africa
Biography
Surrender or Starve
Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea
Africa
History
Travel
The Lioness of Morocco
Historical Fiction
Africa
Romance
Song of the Nightingale
One Woman's True Story of Faith & Persecution in Eritrea
Biography
Africa
Christian
Déogratias
Graphic Novels
Comics
Historical Fiction
Rootless
Romance
Contemporary
Literary Fiction
The Promise
Historical Fiction
Africa
South Africa
